Krebs on Security

APRIL 9, 2024

Microsoft today released updates to address 147 security holes in Windows, Office , Azure ,NET Framework , Visual Studio , SQL Server , DNS Server , Windows Defender , Bitlocker , and Windows Secure Boot. Yes, you read that right. “As far as I can tell, it’s the largest Patch Tuesday release from Microsoft of all time.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Check your social media accounts for active sessions and log out of any you don’t recognize. DNS Spoofing DNS (Domain Name System) is like the internet’s phone book, translating domain names into IP addresses. Shoulder-Surfing Sometimes, the simplest scams are the most effective.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

A growing threat: malvertising's new tactics Malvertising, or malicious advertising, involves cybercriminals embedding malware or phishing traps in online ads. Hackers are exploiting employees' trust in their workplace tools and portals by mimicking official-looking ads that lead to phishing pages.

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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

JANUARY 18, 2022

Trend Micro researchers spotted an elusive threat actor, called Earth Lusca, that targets organizations worldwide via spear-phishing and watering hole attacks. . The first cluster was set up using rented virtual private servers (VPS), it was employed in watering hole and spear-phishing attacks.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The Roaming Mantis SMS phishing campaign is now targeting Android and iPhone users in Europe with malicious apps and phishing pages. The latest wave of attacks aimed at spreading phishing links via SMS messages (SMiShing), most of the victims were users in Russia, Japan, India, Bangladesh, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Iran, and Vietnam.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 22, 2023

Securing SMB Success: The Indispensable Role of Protective DNS Cyber attacks pose as much risk to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) as they do to large organizations — if not more. Implementing a Domain Name Service (DNS) security solution is the most efficient way to protect your business against a wide variety of attacks.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 1, 2019

Related: Why not train employees as phishing cops? NormShield found that all of the 2020 presidential hopefuls, thus far, are making sure their campaigns are current on software patching, as well as Domain Name System (DNS) security; and several are doing much more. Phishing campaigns directed at election officials.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 22, 2024

These targets are approached in spear phishing attacks. Once a relationship has been established, the target will receive a phishing link or a document containing such a link. To gain trust, Coldriver uses social media and professional marketing systems to build a profile of its target.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Phishing Threats Are Increasing in Scale and Sophistication Phishing remains one of the most dangerous and widespread cybersecurity threats. Phishing is now the most common initial attack vector, overtaking stolen or compromised credentials. Phishing attacks are becoming more difficult to detect. billion USD globally.

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Hacker's King

OCTOBER 12, 2024

OSINT allows hackers to leverage data from the internet, social media, databases, and other open channels to uncover potential vulnerabilities. The information gathered can include anything from email addresses, domain names, and IP addresses to social media profiles and leaked data found on the dark web. Why Use Maltego?

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Security teams should also focus on CVE-2021-24078 , a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Windows DNS Server, Liske said. As with SIGRed, which was disclosed last year, attackers can exploit the RCE vulnerability remotely by getting a vulnerable DNS server to query for a domain it has not seen before (e.g.,

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 29, 2021

Social engineering can manifest itself across a wide range of cybersecurity attacks: Phishing Smishing Vishing Whaling Pharming Baiting Pretexting Scareware Deepfakes. Phishing is a broad category of social engineering attacks that specifically target most businesses’ primary mode of communication: email.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

In March, a voice phishing scam targeting GoDaddy support employees allowed attackers to assume control over at least a half-dozen domain names, including transaction brokering site escrow.com. “This gave the actor the ability to change DNS records and in turn, take control of a number of internal email accounts.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Six years later, a review of the social media postings from this group shows they are prospering, while rather poorly hiding their activities behind a software development firm in Lahore that has secretly enabled an entire generation of spammers and scammers. Also we are running business since 2006.” ZERO OPERATIONAL SECURITY.

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NopSec

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Do you feel confident that everyone in your organization could identify a phishing email that contained ransomware? In today’s post, we share information with the goal that it will help everyone in your organization protect themselves from phishing attacks.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 30, 2024

The internet is a vast landscape filled with potential threats, from phishing sites to malware. It reduces distractions such as social media browsing and irrelevant videos, creating a more productive and professional work environment. Why is content filtering so essential? The update also introduces expanded capabilities.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 9, 2021

Financial services firms are fighting multiple threats, as evidenced by the top five security threats that respondents anticipate in the next 12 months: Internet of Things attacks (22%) Cloud vulnerabilities and misconfigurations (19%) Attacks to manipulate data and statistics (17%) DNS and DDoS attacks (15%) Phishing (13%) .

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2019

State-sponsored hackers launched spear-phishing attackes using weaponized documents. Upon reboot, the VBScript performs an HTTP GET request to fetch an encrypted stage from a dynamic DNS domain. The bait documents reveal malicious activity from at least September 2019, to November 25, 2019. ” continues the analysis.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Penetration testing can also involve common hacking techniques such as social engineering , phishing attacks , dropped USB drive attacks, etc. However, all it takes is one bad click on a phishing campaign, and suddenly attackers will be looking at an organization from the inside.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The multinational media conglomerate Thomson Reuters left a database with sensitive customer and corporate data exposed online. Thomson Reuters, a multinational media conglomerate, left an open database with sensitive customer and corporate data, including third-party server passwords in plaintext format. Media giant with $6.35

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Pen Test Partners

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Disk level encryption is no longer permitted for protection unless it is a form of removeable media (e.g., Section 5 Scanning of removable media used in the Cardholder Data Environment (CDE) is now required. IDS/IPS solutions must detect and alert on any covert malware communications being used such as DNS tunnelling.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Public Interest Registry (PIR), the non-profit best known for overseeing the.org top-level domain, launched a centralized resource to help stomp out domain name system (DNS) abuse Wednesday morning. The post Org behind.org launches DNS Abuse Institute appeared first on SC Media. The group will host its first forum on March 16.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 19, 2022

Taking down malicious domains, fake social media accounts and malicious content is time-consuming, costly and often only delays attackers rather than stopping them. Security teams today are challenged with quickly identifying and disrupting an increasing number of external threats, including ransomware, phishing, fraud and spoofing.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

SmokeLoader (aka Smoke) is a modular malware that has been known since 2011, distributed via phishing emails and drive-by downloads. The malware is known to be sold on online forums, and distributed via phishing emails. The original file is an NSIS installer that tries to install PUA: Lightening Media Player. SmokeLoader.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

DNS changer Malicious actors may use IoT devices to target users who connect to them. A 2022 campaign known as Roaming Mantis, or Shaoye, spread an Android app whose capabilities included modifying DNS settings on Wi-Fi routers through the administration interface. The practice has not become widespread due to relative inefficiency.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

Bloom’s recommendation came to Biderman via Trevor Sykes, then chief technology officer for Ashley Madison parent firm Avid Life Media (ALM). A review of passive DNS records from DomainTools indicates that in 2013 pictrace[.]com The following is an email from Sykes to Biderman dated Nov.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

In the past, a ransomware attack typically originated in a phishing email where the victim unwittingly opened an infected document or clicked a link that executed actions to immediately encrypt the environment and demand a ransom. Or they might move the data out slowly through protocols such as DNS.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2019

Phishing is one of the oldest methods of cyberattacks. Types of Phishing Attacks. There are different types of phishing attacks and each is deceiving and manipulative in its own unique way. The most common type is phishing is carried out through fraudulent email receptionist. Another targeted phishing practice is Whaling.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2019

Like most APTs, Silence uses phishing emails to infect their victims. Ivoke was detected by Group-IB’s Threat Intelligence team in May 2019, when Silence sent out phishing emails purporting to be from a bank’s client with a request to block a card. Within the sound of Silence. New tools and techniques uncovered.

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SecureList

AUGUST 30, 2023

The attackers were able to embed malicious code into the libffmpeg media processing library to download a payload from their servers. However, when we started hunting for more samples, we found phishing documents that ultimately dropped EarlyRat. dll, which was loaded into the infected 3CXDesktopApp.exe process.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 13, 2024

While getting into “a land war in Asia” and “going in with a Sicilian when death is on the line” are classic blunders according to cult movie lore, there are classic blunders in cybersecurity we strive to avoid being victimized by - getting phished and falling prey to ransomware or business email compromise are a few that probably top the list.

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SecureList

JUNE 7, 2023

Roaming Mantis implements new DNS changer We continue to track the activities of Roaming Mantis (aka Shaoye), a well-established threat actor targeting countries in Asia. Android malware, used by Roaming Mantis, and discovered a DNS changer function that was implemented to target specific Wi-Fi routers used mainly in South Korea.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The attackers obtain initial access to a system by sending a spear-phishing email to the victim containing a Dropbox download link. Moreover, underground forums often feature ads offering to post a malicious link on a popular website or selling tools to generate phishing pages automatically. cents per record).

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

We have been tracking Roaming Mantis since 2018, and published five blog posts about this campaign: Roaming Mantis uses DNS hijacking to infect Android smartphones. Roaming Mantis dabbles in mining and phishing multilingually. Link from smishing message redirects to Wroba or phishing page. Roaming Mantis, part III.

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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. While it’s not clear how the threat actor tricked the victims into executing the Trojanized app, we suspect they sent a spear-phishing email or contacted them via social media.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Attackers often use botnets to send out spam or phishing campaigns to carry out distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Phishing and Social Engineering. More targeted efforts at specific users or organizations are known as spear phishing. How to Defend Against Phishing. Examples of Phishing Malware Attacks.

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