The Last Watchdog

JUNE 1, 2021

It is an online scam attack quite similar to Phishing. The term Pharming is a combination of two words Phishing and Farming. It is a type of social engineering cyberattack in which the website’s traffic is manipulated to steal confidential credentials from the users. Pharming vs phishing. DNS Poisoning.

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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. and 11:00 p.m.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2019

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued a security advisory to warn organizations of DNS hijacking attacks and provided recommendations this type of attack. In response to the numerous DNS hijacking attacks the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued an alert to warn organizations of this type of attack.

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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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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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Threatpost

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

DNS, rogue employees and phishing/social engineering should be top of the list of threat areas for organizations to address.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 9, 2024

In today's digital age, phishing has evolved into a sophisticated threat capable of deceiving even the most technically savvy individuals. No longer confined to suspicious emails, phishing now encompasses voice-based attacks (vishing), text-based scams (smishing) automated with phishing kits, and deepfake technologies.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 6, 2024

Threat Intelligence Report Date: August 6, 2024 Prepared by: David Brunsdon, Threat Intelligence - Security Engineer, HYAS Dynamic DNS (DDNS) is a service that automatically updates the Domain Name System (DNS) in real-time to reflect changes in the IP addresses of a domain.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 19, 2023

A particularly nasty slice of phishing, scamming, and social engineering is responsible for DoorDash drivers losing a group total of around $950k. How to avoid phishing Block known bad websites. If you receive a phishing attempt act work, report it to your IT or security team. Don't take things at face value.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 23, 2023

Spear phishing is a more targeted and effective phishing technique that attempts to exploit specific individuals or groups within an organization. While phishing uses a broader range of tactics, such as mass emailing to random recipients, spear phishing is often well-researched and tailored to high-value targets.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 8, 2025

Social Engineering Tactics: These tactics exploit human psychology to manipulate individuals. Attackers use phishing, pretexting, and baiting to gain access or information. Defenders use this knowledge to create security awareness training programs and conduct phishing simulations.

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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. Both clusters served as a C&C server.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 9, 2024

Online ads from search engine result pages are increasingly being used to deliver malware to corporate users. ThreatDown via its EDR engine quarantines the malicious DLL immediately. Click here for more information about DNS filtering via our Nebula platform.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2022

A large-scale phishing campaign leveraging the Anubis Network is targeting Brazil and Portugal since March 2022. A large-scale phishing campaign is targeting Internet-end users in Brazil and Portugal since March 2022. Figure 1: High-level diagram of the ANUBIS phishing network and its components (2020). The Phishing template.

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Webroot

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Thanks to the disruptions to “normal” work routines that COVID-19 has brought, launching a company-wide training program to teach end users how to avoid phishing scams and online risks is a big challenge. Unfortunately, COVID-19 has also brought a major acceleration in phishing activity. Start with a baseline phishing campaign.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Hackers can target any of your employees with a fraudulent, “ spoofed ” email or several people in a specific department with a phishing campaign. DMARC is based on email authentication, and much of the responsibility rests with senders and their DNS text resource records. Email is a Critical Ransomware Attack Vector.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 22, 2024

These targets are approached in spear phishing attacks. The group uses social engineering techniques to persuade their targets to open documents or download malware. Once a relationship has been established, the target will receive a phishing link or a document containing such a link.

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SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

The attackers study their victims carefully and use the information they find to frame social engineering attacks. The group uses various malware families, including Wroba, and attack methods that include phishing, mining, smishing and DNS poisoning. The phishing kit market.

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SecureList

JUNE 3, 2021

Cybercriminals use this technique to convince victims that a message came from a trusted sender and nudge them into performing a specific action, such as clicking a phishing link, transferring money, downloading a malicious file, etc. If in reality the message was sent from a different domain, the signature will be invalid.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The cyberespionage group is behind a long series of spear-phishing attacks targeting Ukrainian entities, and organizations related to Ukrainian affairs, since October 2021. Lookout linked BoneSpy and PlainGnome to Gamaredon due to shared IP infrastructure, domain naming conventions, and the use of dynamic DNS services like ddns[.]net,

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Hacker's King

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Maltego works by using "transforms" to extract data from a range of online sources such as DNS records, whois databases, social media, and web pages. The tool is particularly useful when identifying potential targets or email addresses for phishing campaigns. Why Use Maltego? Why Use theHarvester?

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2023

The group often uses spear-phishing emails and messages (Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal) as an initial attack vector. Distribution of malicious files using the Signal messenger The messages use social engineering to trick victims into opening malicious attachments (i.e.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 29, 2023

Executive summary Credential harvesting is a technique that hackers use to gain unauthorized access to legitimate credentials using a variety of strategies, tactics, and techniques such as phishing and DNS poisoning. According to recent research , phishing assaults targeted credential harvesting in 71.5% of cases in 2020.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Over the last few days, a phishing campaign from DHL and entitled “ DHL Shipment Notification ” has been targeted users worldwide distribution the Muncy malware. Now, the malware is targeting user’s worldwide and has been spread via phishing campaigns. The phishing campaign trying to impersonate DHL. For more details, see below.

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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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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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Today, weaponized Microsoft office documents with macros, are one of the most common and more effective methods to deliver malware, because they also rely on simple social engineering tricks to lure users to enable them. . Last DNS activity was in December 2018. Figure 14 – previous DNS of C2. Technical 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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Lenny Zeltser

MAY 3, 2019

Campaign attackers have been highly effective at fooling victims into revealing their logon credentials to copycat websites (phishing). Many of the attack tactics involved elements of social engineering–persuasion tactics that take advantage of human psychology to trick victims into taking actions that have aided the adversaries.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 13, 2022

A report published by CSC today revealed a spike in fake domain registrations from entities attempting to leverage the ongoing shortages of baby formula and semiconductors to conduct phishing attacks and perpetrate fraud. The post CSC Reports Spike in Fake Baby Formula, Semiconductor Domains appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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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. You will eventually be hacked via phishing, social engineering, poisoning a site you already frequent, or some other technique. Now, let’s look at who we’re defending against if you use a VPN. This is true.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 28, 2021

With initial access to a gateway, hackers can move laterally to an on-premises server, leading them to the internal DNS and Active Directory. Also Read: How to Prevent DNS Attacks. While phishing is one of the oldest TTPs in the hacker playbook, it still works – and, thanks to social engineering , continues to evolve.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 26, 2022

Note: This OSINT analysis has been originally published at my current employer's Web site - [link] where I'm currently acting as a DNS Threat Researcher since January, 2021. . We’ve decided to take a closer look at the U.S

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Hacker's King

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Its important to recognize another potential risk: in real cyber attacks, reverse shells can also be obtained through social engineering tactics. For instance, malware distributed via phishing emails or malicious websites can initiate outgoing connections to a command server, providing hackers with reverse shell capabilities.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 7, 2023

There are multiple other attack angles to test, including: Network compromises Social engineering (e.g., phishing) Memory corruptions Wi-Fi attacks Kali is a wonderful toolbox, because it has tools for a wide range of pentests. While the list of tools can provide some hints, it can be confusing for beginners.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2022

According to Martynas Vareikis, Information Security Researcher at Cybernews, threat actors could use the email addresses exposed in the dataset to carry out phishing attacks. Media giant with $6.35 Accessible data from the public-facing Thomson Reuters database could have tipped off entities that would like their wrongdoing kept in the dark.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 26, 2022

In 2021, the main attack vector used by this threat actor was credential phishing attacks through emails, posing as Naver, the popular South Korean search engine and web portal. Spear phishing emails distribution. This is done for the purpose of social engineering. Passive DNS data. Figure 3: Decoy content.

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