SC Magazine

MARCH 4, 2021

A PDNS service uses existing DNS protocols and architecture to analyze DNS queries and mitigate threats. According to NSA and CISA, the service provides defenses in various points of the network exploitation lifecycle, addressing phishing, malware distribution, command and control, domain generation algorithms, and content filtering.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

Your Web browser knows how to find a Web site name like example.com thanks to the global Domain Name System (DNS), which serves as a kind of phone book for the Internet by translating human-friendly Web site names (example.com) into numeric Internet address that are easier for computers to manage. ” SAY WHAT? 13, 2018 bomb threat hoax.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2019

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued a security advisory to warn organizations of DNS hijacking attacks and provided recommendations this type of attack. In response to the numerous DNS hijacking attacks the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued an alert to warn organizations of this type of attack.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2019

Security expert uncovered a DNS hijacking campaign targeting organizations in various industries worldwide and suspects Iranian APT groups. According to the experts, the campaign is carried out, with “moderate confidence,” by APT groups linked to the Iranian Government. ” reads the report published by FireEye.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2024

This social engineering scheme has been amplified by targeted phishing, smishing, and vishing activities, with a noticeable increase around the winter holidays. Based on available Passive DNS records, Resecurity identified over 144 domain names registered by the actors in the.com,om,site,top and.icu domain zones.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 4, 2025

In addition to the six critical security controls, SANS also offers advice for deploying AI models, recommending that organizations do it gradually and incrementally, starting with non-critical systems; that they establish a central AI governance board; and that they draft an AI incident response plan.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 7, 2024

HYAS Protect protective DNS uses advanced data analytics to proactively block cyber threats, a feature unavailable in legacy systems relying on static DNS filtering. AV-TEST , one of the cybersecurity industry’s most trusted evaluators, rates HYAS as the most effective protective DNS solution on the market. What Is HYAS Protect?

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The top-level domain for the United States — US — is home to thousands of newly-registered domains tied to a malicious link shortening service that facilitates malware and phishing scams, new research suggests. domains as among the most prevalent in phishing attacks over the past year. US phishing domains.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Suspected China-linked APT Earth Baxia targeted a government organization in Taiwan by exploiting a recently patched OSGeo GeoServer GeoTools flaw. Trend Micro researchers reported that China-linked APT group Earth Baxia has targeted a government organization in Taiwan and potentially other countries in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2025

CISA adds Aviatrix Controllers vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog ESET detailed a flaw that could allow a bypass of the Secure Boot in UEFI systems Russia-linked APT Star Blizzard targets WhatsApp accounts Prominent US law firm Wolf Haldenstein disclosed a data breach Clop Ransomware exploits Cleo File Transfer flaw: dozens (..)

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Troy Hunt

JULY 12, 2018

Even the government has been pushing to drive adoption of HTTPS for all sites, for example in this post by the National Cyber Security Centre in the UK : all websites should use HTTPS, even if they don't include private content, sign-in pages, or credit card details. DNS Hijacking.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 9, 2024

Operational resiliency necessitates intelligence, visibility, and confidence: the three foundational pillars of protective DNS (PDNS). This makes malware command-and-control, phishing attacks, DNS tunneling and a number of other attacks significantly less effective. But Wait, What Is Protective DNS?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 19, 2022

There are several types of phishing attacks, which are just one form of cybercrime. . A phishing attack takes place when a criminal pretends to be someone they’re not to trick people into giving over their personal information, such as their credit card details. Email phishing is also known as deception phishing.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

The OilRig hacker group has been around since at least 2015, since then it targeted mainly organizations in the financial and government sectors, in the United States and Middle Eastern countries. In mid-August, the state-sponsored hackers launched a highly targeted spear-phishing email to a high-ranking office in a Middle Eastern nation.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 18, 2025

Cyber threats are growing in sophistication, and adversaries are continually evolving their methods, targeting businesses, governments, and individuals with precision. This includes: Passive DNS Data : Historical records of DNS queries, enabling investigators to trace domains used in past attacks.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2021

Security experts from ESET uncovered an ongoing surveillance campaign, dubbed Operation Spalax , against Colombian government institutions and private companies. The attacks aimed at government institutions and private companies, most of them in the energy and metallurgical sectors. These files have fewer than a dozen sightings each.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The cyberespionage group continues to target members of defense companies, embassies, governments, and the military.

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Webroot

APRIL 13, 2021

Ransomware attacks generate big headlines when the targets are government entities, universities and healthcare organizations. This includes essential security measures like firewalls, endpoint protection and DNS protection. This is why security awareness training with phishing simulations are increasingly important.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2022

A sophisticated threat actor, tracked as Earth Lusca, is targeting government and private organizations worldwide as for financial purposes. Trend Micro researchers spotted an elusive threat actor, called Earth Lusca, that targets organizations worldwide via spear-phishing and watering hole attacks. .

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SecureWorld News

MAY 16, 2024

government's latest cybersecurity initiative. NSA also benefits by receiving DNS data that the CCC is able to run custom analytics over to better understand ways that nation-state actors are targeting the DIB, and then, defend against them. Businesses are constantly looking for trusted resources to help bolster their security posture.

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SecureList

AUGUST 19, 2024

The eagle goes phishing The spreading method used by BlindEagle is via phishing emails. Depending on the type of cyberoperation they conduct, it could be spear phishing (used in targeted espionage attacks) or more generalized phishing (particularly used in financial attacks).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2022

Russian government released a list containing IP addresses and domains behind DDoS attacks that hit Russian infrastructure after the invasion. While the conflict on the battlefield continues, hacktivists continue to target Russian infrastructure exposed online.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2022

Ukraine CERT (CERT-UA) warns of spear-phishing ??attacks The Government Team for Response to Computer Emergencies of Ukraine (CERT-UA) warns of spear-phishing messages conducted by UAC-0035 group (aka InvisiMole) against Ukrainian state bodies. The messages use an archive named “501_25_103.zip”,

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2022

“In line with these efforts to target allied governments, during a review of their IoCs we identified an unsuccessful attempt to compromise a large petroleum refining company within a NATO member nation on Aug. Infrastructure using fast flux DNS rotates through many IPs daily and each IP was used for a short time.

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SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

The group uses various malware families, including Wroba, and attack methods that include phishing, mining, smishing and DNS poisoning. Subsequently, DDoS attacks hit some government websites. The phishing kit market. Typically, the smishing messages contain a very short description and a URL to a landing page.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 22, 2022

Nearly 2,000 Signal users affected by Twilio phishing attack. $6 How IT teams can prevent phishing attacks with Malwarebytes DNS filtering. Attackers waited until holidays to hit US government. Attackers waited until holidays to hit US government. 6 million heist targets video game skin trading site. Stay safe!

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 22, 2024

The main targets of the Coldriver group are high-profile individuals in non-governmental organizations (NGOs), former intelligence and military officials, and NATO governments. These targets are approached in spear phishing attacks. TAG has created a YARA rule that cab help find the Spica backdoor.

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IT Security Guru

AUGUST 16, 2021

Pervasive attacks against healthcare, local government, schools and other forms of critical infrastructure are threatening our quality and safety of life every day. Governments can also mandate that more effort be made to look for alternatives prior to payment. There are things that governments should do too.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The government experts pointed out that the threat actor continues to evolve its TTPs to avoid detection. The attack chain starts with spear-phishing messages with a.RAR attachment named “12-1-125_09.01.2023.” The government experts noticed that access to the file is allowed only from IP addresses in the Ukrainian address space.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Later in May 2021, Microsoft also attributed spear-phishing campaign impersonating a US-based organization to Nobelium. DNS hijacking. Later this year, in June, our internal systems found traces of a successful DNS hijacking affecting several government zones of a CIS member state. Hijacked domains. January 13-14, 2021.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Attackers have targeted critical and vulnerable sectors such as manufacturing, financial, transportation, healthcare, government administration, energy, and more, including a couple of $50 million attacks on the likes of Acer and Quanta. Like SPF, DKIM needs a DNS record, but this record contains a public key. East Coast. DMARC Policy.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

The group has targeted a variety of industries, including financial, government, energy, chemical, and telecommunications, and has largely focused its operations within the Middle East. Indeed during the group_a, the main observed delivery techniques where about Phishing (rif.T1193) and Valid Accounts (rif.T1078).

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Cisco Security

JULY 22, 2021

High-profile cyberattacks on critical infrastructure and sectors in the global economy, such as government agencies, a major U.S. Web security: Most ransomware attacks use DNS. Cisco Secure Email blocks ransomware delivered through spam and phishing emails and identifies malicious attachments and URLs.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Russia-linked Gamaredon cyberespionage group has been targeting Ukrainian targets, including diplomats, government and military officials. Russia linked APT group tracked as Gamaredon has been targeting several Ukrainian diplomats, government and military officials, and law enforcement. ” reads the report published by Anomaly.

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Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

If your VPN includes all DNS requests and traffic then you could be hiding significantly from your ISP. The Government. If the government investigates you by only looking at your ISP, and you’ve been using your VPN 24-7, you’ll be in decent shape because it’ll just be encrypted traffic to a VPN provider.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

The OilRig hacker group is an Iran-linked APT that has been around since at least 2015, since then it targeted mainly organizations in the financial and government sectors, in the United States and Middle Eastern countries. ” reads the analysis published by Paolo Alto Network.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 1, 2023

email domain providers and many corporate and government entities. government as part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) 18-01 binding operational directive. A DMARC policy is included in a DNS record for a given domain, enabling the sender to specify if messages are protected by SPF or DKIM. How Does DMARC Work?

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