Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The getresetstatus vulnerability in CyberPanel (before commit 1c0c6cb ) affects dns/views.py “getresetstatus in dns/views.py “getresetstatus in dns/views.py The vulnerability was exploited in a large-scale hacking campaign that targeted more than 22,000 CyberPanel instances. and ftp/views.py. and ftp/views.py

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2024

The China-linked threat actors Muddling Meerkat are manipulating DNS to probe networks globally since 2019. Infoblox researchers observed China-linked threat actors Muddling Meerkat using sophisticated DNS activities since 2019 to bypass traditional security measures and probe networks worldwide. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2021

A flaw in some DNS resolvers, tracked as TsuNAME, can allow attackers to launch DDoS attacks against authoritative DNS servers. domains), and the Information Science Institute at the University of Southern California has discovered a vulnerability, named TsuNAME, in some DNS resolvers. SecurityAffairs – hacking, TsuNAME).

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 9, 2021

The IE weakness — CVE-2021-26411 — affects both IE11 and newer EdgeHTML-based versions, and it allows attackers to run a file of their choice by getting you to view a hacked or malicious website in IE. “There is the outside chance this could be wormable between DNS servers,” warned Trend Micro’s Dustin Childs.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2022

Researchers uncovered a new Linux botnet, tracked as B1txor20, that exploits the Log4J vulnerability and DNS tunnel. “In short, B1txor20 is a Backdoor for the Linux platform, which uses DNS Tunnel technology to build C2 communication channels. In this way, Bot and C2 achieve communication with the help of DNS protocol.”

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Bleeping Computer

JUNE 10, 2022

The Iranian Lycaeum APT hacking group uses a new.NET-based DNS backdoor to conduct attacks on companies in the energy and telecommunication sectors. [.].

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Media coverage understandably focused on GoDaddy’s admission that it suffered three different cyberattacks over as many years at the hands of the same hacking group. But it’s worth revisiting how this group typically got in to targeted companies: By calling employees and tricking them into navigating to a phishing website.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2022

Iran-linked Lyceum APT group uses a new.NET-based DNS backdoor to target organizations in the energy and telecommunication sectors. The Iran-linked Lyceum APT group, aka Hexane or Spilrin, used a new.NET-based DNS backdoor in a campaign aimed at companies in the energy and telecommunication sectors, ZScaler researchers warn.

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Security Affairs

JULY 26, 2024

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) released BIND security updates that fixed several remotely exploitable DoS bugs in the DNS software suite. An attacker can exploit these vulnerabilities to disrupt DNS services. ISC addressed four high-severity vulnerabilities (CVSS score of 7.5) In BIND 9 versions 9.18.1 through 9.18.27, 9.19.0

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Domain name service (DNS) attacks threaten every internet connection because they can deny, intercept, and hijack connections. With the internet playing an increasing role in business, securing DNS plays a critical role in both operations and security. Everything You Need to Know.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

Large-scale spam campaigns often are conducted using newly-registered or hacked email addresses, and/or throwaway domains. Guilmette told KrebsOnSecurity he initially considered the possibility that GoDaddy had been hacked, or that thousands of the registrar’s customers perhaps had their GoDaddy usernames and passwords stolen.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2020

PT Monday evening, Escrow.com’s website looked radically different: Its homepage was replaced with a crude message in plain text: The profanity-laced message left behind by whoever briefly hijacked the DNS records for escrow.com. Running a reverse DNS lookup on this 111.90.149[.]49 Image: Escrow.com.

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Security Affairs

JULY 17, 2020

US DHS CISA urges government agencies to patch SIGRed Windows Server DNS vulnerability within 24h due to the likelihood of the issue being exploited. The SigRed flaw was discovered by Check Point researcher Sagi Tzaik and impacts Microsoft Windows DNS. reads the analysis published by CheckPoint. ” states Krebs.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2022

A vulnerability in the domain name system (DNS) component of the uClibc library impacts millions of IoT products. Nozomi Networks warns of a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-05-02, in the domain name system (DNS) component of the uClibc library which is used by a large number of IoT products. ” continues the advisory.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

An anonymous researcher initially reported that the Brave’s Tor mode was sending queries for.onion domains to public internet DNS resolvers, other experts confirmed his findings. Piping.onion requests through DNS where your ISP or DNS provider can see that you made a request for an.onion site defeats that purpose.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

ExpressVPN addressed a bug in the split tunneling feature that exposed the domains visited by the users to configured DNS servers. The expert noticed that the DNS queries were sent to the DNS server configured on the computer. Anyway, disabling the split tunneling feature will prevent the leak of the DNS requests.

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2021

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) released updates for the BIND DNS software to patch several denial-of-service (DoS) and potential RCE flaws. SecurityAffairs – hacking, BIND). The post Flaws in the BIND software expose DNS servers to attacks appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

DNS security protects the domain name system (DNS) from attackers seeking to reroute traffic to malicious sites. Since a majority of business IT traffic now accesses or passes through the internet, DNS plays an increasingly important — and vulnerable — role. in the DNS cache for more efficient delivery of information to users.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2020

A large number of French critical infrastructure firms were hacked as part of an extended malware campaign that appears to have been orchestrated by at least one attacker based in Morocco, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. com , an Arabic-language computer hacking forum. But he denied ever participating in illegal hacking activities.

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Webroot

MARCH 9, 2021

DNS (Domain Name System) is especially vulnerable. One of the most common methods of infiltration includes internet-based attacks, such as Denial of Service (DoS), Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) and DNS poisoning. However, cybercriminals can also use legal DNS traffic surveillance to their advantage.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.] us , a site unabashedly dedicated to helping people hack email and online gaming accounts. A review of passive DNS records from DomainTools indicates that in 2013 pictrace[.]com

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2023

Roaming Mantis threat actors were observed using a new variant of their mobile malware Wroba to hijack DNS settings of Wi-Fi routers. Researchers from Kaspersky observed Roaming Mantis threat actors using an updated variant of their mobile malware Wroba to compromise Wi-Fi routers and hijack DNS settings. Agent.eq (a.k.a

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) fixed six remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in the BIND DNS software. The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) this week released security patches to address six remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in BIND DNS software. SecurityAffairs – hacking, BIND DNS). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

Which brings us back to Aadhaar and some rather unpleasant headlines of late, particularly the likes of The World's Largest Biometric ID System Keeps Getting Hacked. They claim that they're hack-proof. But claiming the service is "hack-proof", that's something I definitely have an issue with. Can you prove otherwise?

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 30, 2022

Dubbed ZuoRAT, the remote access Trojan is part of a broader hacking campaign that has existed since at least the fourth quarter of 2020 and continues to operate. More details in the article.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2025

DNS records link domains like servicewrap-go[.]com ” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking,spam) All versions analyzed used the same Telegram token and chat ID. The researchers noticed that the spam domains rotate frequently to evade detection.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2025

Researchers discovered a 13,000-device MikroTik botnet exploiting DNS flaws to spoof 20,000 domains and deliver malware. Infoblox researchers discovered a botnet of 13,000 MikroTik devices that exploits DNS misconfigurations to bypass email protections, spoof approximately 20,000 domains, and deliver malware.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2020

Who is hacking the hackers? Experts from Cybereason a mysterious hackers group is targeting other hackers by spreading tainted hacking tools. Experts from security firm Cybereason warn of a mysterious group of hackers that are distributing trojanized hacking tools on an almost daily basis for the past years. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 16, 2025

US Attorney Jacqueline Romero for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania commented: “This wide-ranging hack and long-term infection of thousands of Windows-based computers, including many home computers in the United States, demonstrates the recklessness and aggressiveness of PRC state-sponsored hackers.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 31, 2024

It was DNS. It’s always DNS: Government ministry denies hackers hacked its network infrastructure. The post Russian Internet Outage: DNSSEC Oops or Ukraine Hack? appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Webroot

MARCH 29, 2021

An endpoint DNS solution could have stopped the Trojanized Orion version by refusing to resolve the domain names of the command-and-control servers, again disrupting the infection to the point that no real damage could be done. DNS security solutions are one way of addressing this risk. The “next one” will look different.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Getting the information to his own server from deep inside well-protected corporate networks posed yet another problem which was solved by using DNS exfiltration. DNS data exfiltration is a way to exchange data between two computers without any direct connection, in a way that doesn’t draw much attention.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2023

BIND is a suite of software for interacting with the Domain Name System (DNS) maintained by the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC). The ISC released security patches to address multiple high-severity denial-of-service DoS vulnerabilities in the DNS software suite. Then ‘named’ may exit due to a lack of free memory.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The OpenSSH client vulnerability (CVE-2025-26465) allows an attack to succeed regardless of the VerifyHostKeyDNS setting, without user interaction or reliance on SSHFP DNS records. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking,DoS)

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Authentication System Administration DNS Hacking 119

Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2024

The flaw affects multiple D-Link NAS devices, including models DNS-340L, DNS-320L, DNS-327L, and DNS-325. The flaw impacts the following devices: DNS-320L Version 1.11, Version 1.03.0904.2013, Version 1.01.0702.2013 DNS-325 Version 1.01 DNS-327L Version 1.09, Version 1.00.0409.2013 DNS-340L Version 1.08

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Internet Internet DNS Hacking 108

Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2025

Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for March 2025 addressed 56 vulnerabilities in Windows and Windows Components, Office and Office Components, Azure,NET and Visual Studio, Remote Desktop Services, DNS Server, and Hyper-V Server. Six vulnerabilities are rated Critical, and 50 are rated Important in severity.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The C&C domain communicates to the bot via DNS responses that contained a CNAME field with information on the domain that will provide further commands and payload to the SUNBURST backdoor. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Supply chain attack). through 2020.2.1 The vendor recommends users to upgrade to Orion Platform release 2020.2.1

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