Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

The authorities want to ensure that the access to Russian Internet resources will be maintained also under attack, to do this, Russian experts are thinking a sort of DNS managed by Moscow. Currently, among the 12 organizations that oversee DNS base servers worldwide where isn’t an entity in Russia. ” reported ZDNet.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

This week a controversial law entered into effect in Russia, it would allow the government to cut internet traffic from the global Internet. This week a controversial law entered into effect in Russia, it would allow the Russian government to disconnect the country from the global Internet.

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Internet Internet DNS Government 72

SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

.” Quad9 is a non-profit offering a free recursive DNS service that does not log user data. and Google Public DNS. The company received a finding of law from the Swiss government that it will not be treated as a telecommunications provider, exempting it from laws that would mandate data collection. are wary of U.S.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2019

Singapore Government will run its third bug bounty program. China installs a surveillance app on tourists phones while crossing in the Xinjiang. Godlua backdoor, the first malware that abuses the DNS over HTTPS (DoH). Israel blamed Russia for jamming at Israeli Ben Gurion airport. LooCipher: The New Infernal Ransomware.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

I highly recommend reading Zuboff’s New York Times Book of the Year, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for A Human Future At the New Frontier of Power as well as viewing Rifkin’s riveting speech, The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy. LW: Is this primarily aimed at enterprises, SMBs or individuals?

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2024

CISA adds Cleo Harmony, VLTrader, and LexiCom flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog German agency BSI sinkholed a botnet of 30,000 devices infected with BadBox U.S.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Pegasus spyware is a phone surveillance solution that enables customers to remotely exploit and monitor devices. The company sells its surveillance technology to governments around the world. And watchdog groups say its products are often found to be used in surveillance abuses. What can this Pegasus iOS attack do?

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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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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. This RAT allows an attacker to surveil and harvest sensitive data from a target computer.

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Banking Malware Computers and Electronics Mobile 115

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The past months have shown that the most dangerous hacks involved DNS hijacking, which helped attackers manipulate DNS records for MITM attacks. If they manage to compromise a telecommunications company, they can then also compromise its customers for surveillance or sabotage purposes. The energy sector: Hidden threats.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Targets include high-profile organizations: namely, government entities located both within those countries and abroad. We found multiple archives like this with file names of government entities linked to Myanmar. Most of the early sightings were in Myanmar, but it seems the threat actor is now much more active in the Philippines.

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SecureList

MAY 31, 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.

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Digital Shadows

DECEMBER 16, 2024

com using the command: This subsequent command embedded within the o.png script then cleared the DNS cache via the command below, likely to hide any evidence of the actors malicious activity. This obfuscation was designed to evade detection. The script was downloaded from the domain traversecityspringbreak[.]com

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Pegasus is a surveillance malware developed by the Israeli surveillance NSO Group that could infect both iPhones and Android devices, it is sold exclusively to the governments and law enforcement agencies. Our technique identified a total of 45 countries where Pegasus operators may be conducting surveillance operations.

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Spyware Mobile Surveillance DNS 108

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

CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 13, 2022

US Cyber Command’s Cyber National Mission Force has identified a new hacking group dubbed MuddyWater and tracked its operations to an Iranian intelligence funded company.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

Subsequently, DDoS attacks hit several government websites. The following day, Microsoft reported that it had found destructive malware , dubbed WhisperGate, on the systems of government bodies and agencies that work closely with the Ukrainian government. Southeast Asia and Korean Peninsula. in June 2021.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2020

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