Krebs on Security

JANUARY 24, 2020

13, 2020, which was the date the fraudsters got around to changing the domain name system (DNS) settings for e-hawk.net. That alert was triggered by systems E-HAWK had previously built in-house that continually monitor their stable of domains for any DNS changes. Dijkxhoorn said his company first learned of the domain theft on Jan.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 23, 2024

A core part of the way these things find each other involves a Windows feature called “ DNS name devolution ,” a kind of network shorthand that makes it easier to find other computers or servers without having to specify a full, legitimate domain name for those resources. He then learned the.ad

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

Launched in 2008, privnote.com employs technology that encrypts each message so that even Privnote itself cannot read its contents. A review of the passive DNS records tied to this address shows that apart from subdomains dedicated to tornote[.]io, The real Privnote, at privnote.com. And it doesn’t send or receive messages.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The Mylobot malware includes more than 1,000 hard-coded and encrypted domain names, any one of which can be registered and used as control networks for the infected hosts. 5, 2014 , but historic DNS records show BHproxies[.]com That Confidential job listing is interesting because its start date lines up with the creation of BHproxies[.]com.

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