eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Sophos: Noted that 43% of all 2023 malware signature updates are for stealers, spyware, and keyloggers often used to steal credentials from devices. 50,000 DDoS attacks on public domain name service (DNS) resolvers. 553% increase in DNS Flood attacks from 1H 2020 to 2H 2023. 20,551 gambling industry attacks.

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Cybersecurity DDOS Penetration Testing Passwords 120

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

While SurfShark is headquartered in the Netherlands, a Nine Eyes member (potentially required to pass personal data to the government), it has a strict no-logging privacy policy for customers. DNS leak protection: ExpressVPN has secure DNS servers that your device uses when ExpressVPN is enabled.

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VPN Password Management Internet Internet 57

SecureWorld News

MARCH 29, 2024

This ends up executing sketchy code that installs viruses, ransomware, spyware, or adware behind the victim's back. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published an advisory encouraging all government agencies to leverage ad blocking solutions in their day-to-day work.

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Cybercrime Advertising Engineering Antivirus 83

SecureList

AUGUST 30, 2023

Tomiris called, they want their Turla malware back We first reported Tomiris in September 2021, following our investigation into a DNS hijack against a government organization in the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States). The attribution of tools used in a cyber-attack can sometimes be a very tricky issue.

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SecureList

JUNE 3, 2024

The code and networking IoCs (Indicators of Compromise) overlap with the Windows samples described by ESET that were used in attacks against government entities in Guyana. However, some of the things the malware authors came up with, such as placing their Python script inside a domain TXT record on the DNS server, were ingenious.

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Banking Malware Computers and Electronics Mobile 93

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It unites spyware, malware, and virus protection with a policy and reporting engine. Complies with government and industry regulations such as CIPA and HIPAA. Reporting for DNS activity by type of security threat or web content and the action taken. Inspect or tunnel HTTPS by website, category, or user ID.

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Engineering Digital transformation Internet Internet 101

SecureList

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

NullMixer is a dropper that includes more than just specific malware families; it drops a wide variety of malicious binaries to infect the machine with, such as backdoors, bankers, downloaders, spyware and many others. Satacom sends a DNS TXT-query to ‘ reosio.com ‘ and receives a response with a base64 encoded string.

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Malware Cryptocurrency Passwords Software 125

CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 13, 2022

The Congressional Research Service (CRS) that conducts surveillance on adversaries confirmed MuddyWater was being funded by the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security(MOIS) having a history of breaching governments networks across the globe and having a developmental hold in the blacklisted NSO Group that developed the dreaded Pegasus Spyware. (..)

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Hacking Spyware DNS Surveillance 110

Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

“The CRTC executed a warrant under Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) and the RCMP National Division executed a search warrant under the Criminal Code respectively,” reads a statement published last week by the Canadian government. government said was used to infect more than a half million computers worldwide. In 2014, the U.S.

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Advertising Malware Software Marketing 232

SecureList

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The targets included government, military, critical infrastructure and IT organizations in Ukraine, Romania, Poland, Jordan, Turkey, Italy and Slovakia. However, they included an additional module that constantly monitored the messenger and sent data to the spyware creator’s C2 server. org domain.

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Malware Ransomware Encryption Energy and Utilities 119

SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

This resulted in the deployment of a custom backdoor, named Sunburst, on the networks of more than 18,000 SolarWinds customers, including many large corporations and government bodies, in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. One of those Fobushell samples was identical to another we previously identified on a Zebrocy C2 server.

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Malware Government Spyware Social Engineering 144

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

A new report published by Citizen Lab revealed that the NSO Pegasus spyware was used against targets across 45 countries worldwide. A new investigation of the Citizen Lab revealed that the powerful Pegasus mobile spyware was used against targets across 45 countries around the world over the last two years. COUNTRY NEXUS.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In June, more than six months after DarkHalo had gone dark, we observed the DNS hijacking of multiple government zones of a CIS member state that allowed the attacker to redirect traffic from government mail servers to computers under their control – probably achieved by obtaining credentials to the control panel of the victims’ registrar.

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Malware Government Surveillance Spyware 145

Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

government websites in 1998 and is sentenced to 18 months in prison in 2001. Department of Defense division computers and install a backdoor on its servers, allowing him to intercept thousands of internal emails from different government organizations, including ones containing usernames and passwords for various military computers.

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Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Banking Hacking 135