The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 27, 2018

They realize that each IoT device, whether it be a home router, surveillance camera, office machine, medical device, or what have you, is a fully functioning computing nodule – one that’s likely off anyone’s radar, just waiting to be exploited. By Gartner’s estimate there will be about 25 billion IoT devices in service by 2021.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2021

Security experts from ESET uncovered an ongoing surveillance campaign, dubbed Operation Spalax , against Colombian government institutions and private companies. Malware researchers from ESET uncovered an ongoing surveillance campaign, dubbed Operation Spalax , against Colombian entities exclusively.

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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

JANUARY 7, 2024

Between 2017 and 2019, the APT group mainly used DNS hijacking in its campaigns. “The stolen information is likely to be exploited for surveillance or intelligence gathering on specific groups and or individuals.” The researchers believe that the Turkey-linked APT Sea Turtle has been active since at least 2017.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 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 there isn’t an entity in Russia. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 5, 2022

A user’s traffic can be intercepted, redirected to another server, routed through another country and surveilled, and, as Muffett explained, for website operators, their DNS servers can be tampered with. “There are so many security risks up the stack,” Muffett said.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2022

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2019

Section 3 describes the “ blocked attacks ” through Yoroi DNS protection during the year, while Section 4 describe Dark-Net activities observed by our researchers. Section 2 reports observed data from the attacks surface focusing on IP addresses analysis and ASNs involved in the attacks. Download the Yoroi Cyber Security Report 2018.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2024

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2019

NCSC report warns of DNS Hijacking Attacks. Israel surveillance firm NSO group can mine data from major social media. The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Kindle Edition. Paper Copy. Once again thank you! For nearly a year, Brazilian users have been targeted with router attacks. Scraping the TOR for rare contents.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2019

DNS hijacking campaigns target Gmail, Netflix, and PayPal users. Experts spotted the iOS version of the Exodus surveillance app. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Kindle Edition. Paper Copy. Once again thank you! AeroGrow suffered a payment card data breach.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Of course, the concentration of the traffic through nodes controlled by Moscow and the deployment of technical hardware provided by the government could open the door to a massive surveillance. Currently, among the 12 organizations that oversee DNS base servers worldwide there isn’t an entity in Russia.

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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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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Ongoing surveillance and response The implementation of ThreatDown MDR services on January 18th, 2024, was a strategic move by the MSP to gain deeper insights into the attackers’ movements. Detection of malware leveraging RMM tools. Changing all administrative and local passwords three times to fortify security.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2023

Twitter confirmed that a security incident publicly exposed Circle tweets FBI seized other domains used by the shadow eBook library Z-Library WordPress Advanced Custom Fields plugin XSS exposes +2M sites to attacks Fortinet fixed two severe issues in FortiADC and FortiOS Pro-Russia group NoName took down multiple France sites, including the French (..)

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 29, 2021

Your phone traffic is routed through the tunnel, where it’s protected from surveillance, before joining the internet. Whilst lots of web pages are served over HTTPS (the secure form of HTTP) many are not, and most DNS lookups—which reveal the names of the websites you’re visiting—are vulnerable to snooping.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2019

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). Firefox finally addressed the Antivirus software TLS Errors. LooCipher: The New Infernal Ransomware. Bangladesh Cyber Heist 2.0: Silence APT goes global.

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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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Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2018

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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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Elie

DECEMBER 2, 2017

What’s remarkable about these record-breaking attacks is they were carried out via small, innocuous Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices like home routers, air-quality monitors, and personal surveillance cameras. The chart above reports the number of DNS lookups over time for some of the largest clusters. C2 domain from DNS expansion.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 18, 2024

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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.

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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.

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SecureList

JUNE 3, 2024

This RAT allows an attacker to surveil and harvest sensitive data from a target computer. However, some of the things the malware authors came up with, such as placing their Python script inside a domain TXT record on the DNS server, were ingenious.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 9, 2023

Attackers made a great and long surveillance of this victim, which extended until Jan 2023. While that was happening, Red Stinger targeted and made surveillance to officers and individuals involved in those elections. What is clear is that the principal motive of the attack was surveillance and data gathering.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

In July 2021, we reported the previously unknown Tomiris Golang backdoor , deployed against government organizations within a CIS country through DNS hijacking. We exposed similarities between DarkHalo’s SunShuttle backdoor and the Tomiris implant.

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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

JANUARY 19, 2025

CISA adds Aviatrix Controllers vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog ESET detailed a flaw that could allow a bypass of the Secure Boot in UEFI systems Russia-linked APT Star Blizzard targets WhatsApp accounts Prominent US law firm Wolf Haldenstein disclosed a data breach Clop Ransomware exploits Cleo File Transfer flaw: dozens (..)

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SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

Once the victim has started the program, it changes the DNS settings on the device so that all domains are resolved through the attackers’ servers: this prevents the victim from accessing certain antivirus sites.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 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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Adam Levin

APRIL 8, 2019

A week after it landed with a curious (and most likely spurious) thud, Zuckerberg’s announcement about a new tack on consumer privacy still has the feel of an unexpected message from some parallel universe where surveillance (commercial and/or spycraft) isn’t the new normal.

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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. surveillance and accept GDPR as a global “gold standard” of privacy protections. It offers additional privacy and security features, including screening for malicious domains and encryption.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

Although Lyceum still prefers taking advantage of DNS tunneling, it appears to have replaced the previously documented.NET payload with a new C++ backdoor and a PowerShell script that serve the same purpose. Our telemetry revealed that the threat group’s latest endeavors are focused on going after entities within one country – Tunisia.

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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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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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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

We identify 546 domains subject to geoblocking across all layers of the network stack, ranging from DNS failures to HTTP(S) response pages with a variety of status codes. We conduct network measurements on the Tranco Top 10K domains and complement our findings with a small-scale user study with a questionnaire.

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