Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Since late 2021, the subgroup has targeted networks by modifying Outlook Web Access (OWA) sign-in pages and DNS configurations. Attackers inserted rogue JavaScript to capture usernames and passwords in real-time, enhancing lateral movement within networks. This infrastructure technique is versatile, supporting operations globally.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Public Wi-Fi users are prime targets for MITM attacks because the information they send is often not encrypted, meaning it’s easy for hackers to access your data. Once they’re in, they can grab your emails, usernames, passwords, and more. They might even lock you out of your own accounts by resetting your passwords.

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2019

This year, security experts at Avast have blocked more than 4.6 The campaign uncovered by Avast aimed at silently modifying the Brazilian users’ Domain Name System (DNS) settings to redirect victims to malicious websites mimicking legitimate ones. Most recently, Netflix became a popular domain for DNS hijackers.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2021

“Recently, a new infection vector that cracks Windows machines through SMB password brute force is on the rise” reads the analysis published by AVAST. The module that implements the warm capabilities was spotted scanning the internet and performing password brute-force attacks against Windows systems with SMB port open online.

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2024

The malicious code can also perform DNS and HTTP hijacking within private IP spaces. “What makes this malware family so insidious is the ability to perform HTTP and DNS hijacking for connections to private IP addresses. Additionally, it can interact with other devices on the LAN and transfer data or deploy new agents.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2024

The flaw affects multiple D-Link NAS devices, including models DNS-340L, DNS-320L, DNS-327L, and DNS-325. An attacker can exploit the flaw to achieve command execution on the affected D-Link NAS devices, gain access to potential access to sensitive information, system configuration alteration, or denial of service.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In August, Volexity researchers reported that a China-linked APT group, tracked as StormBamboo (aka Evasive Panda , Daggerfly , and StormCloud), successfully compromised an undisclosed internet service provider (ISP) in order to poison DNS responses for target organizations. The company linked the attacks to StormBamboo APT group.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2020

Hackers compromiseD -Link and Linksys routers and change DNS settings to redirect users to bogus sites proposing a fake COVID-19 information app from the World Health Organization. In some cases, users were infected with the Oski information-stealing malware. . 234.35.230 and 94 [. 103.82.249. washington.edu imageshack.us

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Researchers discovered 11 malicious Python packages in the PyPI repository that can steal Discord access tokens, passwords, and conduct attacks. Below is the list of malicious Python packages: importantpackage / important-package pptest ipboards owlmoon DiscordSafety trrfab 10Cent10 / 10Cent11 yandex-yt yiffparty.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2021

ssh/authorized_keys file, the attacker can directly log into the remote server without password authentication. During this process, a number of DNS requests are generated.” After the public key is added to the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys Experts pointed out that Muhstik uses the TOR network for its reporting mechanism.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 12, 2021

This requires a robust connection to the Internet (Lumen and Gigamon), firewall protection (Palo Alto Networks), segmented wireless network (Commscope Ruckus) and network full packet capture & forensics and SIEM (RSA NetWitness); with Cisco providing cloud-based security and intelligence support. DNS traffic at Record Low.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2019

Lyceum was observed using password spraying and brute-force attacks to compromise email accounts of targeted individuals. “LYCEUM initially accesses an organization using account credentials obtained via password spraying or brute-force attacks. The malware uses DNS and HTTP-based communication mechanisms.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2022

TrickBot is a popular Windows banking Trojan that has been around since October 2016, its authors have continuously upgraded it by implementing new features, including powerful password-stealing capabilities. TrickBot initially partnered with Ryuk ransomware that used it for initial access in the network compromised by the botnet.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

In December 2017, the popular cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta was hacked, attackers conducted a DNS attack that allowed to steal at least 308 ETH ($266,789 at the time of the hack) as well as a large number of tokens. Once gained the access the Cloudflare account they were able to lock out any other employee of the company.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2021

The Mozi botnet was spotted by security experts from 360 Netlab, at the time of its discovered it was actively targeting Netgear, D-Link, and Huawei routers by probing for weak Telnet passwords to compromise them. ” state researchers at Microsoft Security Threat Intelligence Center and Section 52 at Azure Defender for IoT.

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Cisco Security

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Cisco Secure supports the NOC operations with DNS visibility and architecture intelligence ( Cisco Umbrella and Cisco Umbrella Investigate ) and automated malware analysis and threat intelligence ( Cisco Secure Malware Analytics (Threat Grid) , backed by Cisco Talos Intelligence and Cisco SecureX ).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2024

Between 2017 and 2019, the APT group mainly used DNS hijacking in its campaigns. The group targets government entities, Kurdish (political) groups like PKK, telecommunication, ISPs, IT-service providers (including security companies), NGO, and Media & Entertainment sectors; Over the years, the group enhanced its evasion capabilities.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

change DNS settings to hijack the traffic, perform MitM attacks). ” reads the security advisory. While analyzing the dual-band D-Link DSL-2875AL wireless router, the expert discovered that a file located at https : //[router ip address ] /romfile.cfg contains the login password of the device in plaintext. download=true.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2023

Milisic also devised a trick to block the malware using the Pi-hole to change the DNS of the command and control server, YCXRL.COM to 127.0.0.2. He also created an iptables rule to redirect all DNS to the Pi-hole as the malware/virus/whatever will use external DNS if it can’t resolve. ” continues the expert.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

” The hacking group initially compromised one of the telecommunication companies by leveraging external DNS (eDNS) servers which are part of the General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) network. Crowdstrike collected evidence of the use of password-spraying attempts using extremely weak either third-party-focused passwords (i.e.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2021

“These techniques include numerous modules that exploit implicit trust, weak passwords, and unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in popular applications, including Secure Shell (SSH), IT administration tools, a variety of cloud-based applications, and databases.” ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2019

It allows users using web browsers to set up user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. The flaw affects the procedure for changing expired passwords, the backdoor could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute malicious commands with root privileges on the machine running vulnerable Webmin. .”

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Cisco Security

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Integrating Security. As the needs of Black Hat evolved, so did the Cisco Secure Technologies in the NOC: Cisco SecureX : Extended Detection and Response actions / Automations. Cisco Umbrella : DNS visibility and security. In the Cisco Secure technology stack, within the Black Hat NOC, we use SecureX Single Sign-on.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

com , a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. A review of passive DNS records from DomainTools indicates that in 2013 pictrace[.]com I advise anyone who is using an old NR [Near Reality] password for anything remotely important should change it ASAP.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2022

The Russian government fears the consequence of data breaches suffered by its organizations or possible interference by third-party nation state actors that could exploit the ongoing attacks to carry out covet cyber attacks.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2022

An attacker can trigger the flaw by supplying carefully crafted username and/or password as base64 encoded strings inside the fields aa and ab of the login page. Leak of the sensitive data stored on the router (keys, administrative passwords, etc.)

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2022

In addition to the rootkit capability, the malware provides a backdoor for the threat actor to log in as any user on the machine with a hardcoded password, and to execute commands with the highest privileges.” ” reads the report published by Blackberry. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Pink also adopts the DNS-Over-HTTPS ( DoH ) for the distribution of configuration information that’s done either via a project hidden on GITHUB or Baidu Tieba, or via a built-in domain name hard-coded into some of the samples.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The Mozi botnet was spotted by security experts from 360 Netlab, at the time of its discovered it was actively targeting Netgear, D-Link, and Huawei routers by probing for weak Telnet passwords to compromise them. state researchers at Microsoft Security Threat Intelligence Center and Section 52 at Azure Defender for IoT. “By

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2020

. “On March 16th I have found an unprotected and thus publicly available Elasticsearch instance which appeared to be managed by a UK-based security company, according to the SSL certificate and reverse DNS records.” ” wrote Security Discovery’s researcher Bob Diachenko. Adobe, Last.

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Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2019

The issue discovered by the expert, in fact, could be used by attackers to discover if the vulnerable routers are still using default administrative passwords. Mursch discovered that about 4,000 of the vulnerable devices were still using the default admin credentials.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

APT28 is likely launching spear-phishing attacks against the employees of legitimate companies to steal their login credentials for corporate email accounts, or performing brute-force attacks to guess email account passwords. ” concludes the report. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

It allows users using web browsers to set up user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. The flaw affects the procedure for changing expired passwords, the backdoor could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute malicious commands with root privileges on the machine running vulnerable Webmin.

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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. But there’s another version of this where you start with a control question, such as: What’s more secure, typing a password into my phone, using my fingerprint, or using facial recognition? This is true.

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Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2023

An attacker could also use these vulnerabilities to access and control networked smart devices (security cameras, thermostats, smart locks), change router settings including credentials or DNS settings, or use a compromised network to launch attacks against other devices or networks.” for the RAX30 router family.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2022

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2021

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