Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

Security expert Marco Ramilli published the findings of a quick analysis of the webmask project standing behind the DNS attacks implemented by APT34 (aka OilRig and HelixKitten ). The group conducts operations primarily in the Middle East, targeting financial, government, energy, chemical, telecommunications and other industries.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Sandworm (aka BlackEnergy and TeleBots ) has been active since 2000, it operates under the control of Unit 74455 of the Russian GRU’s Main Center for Special Technologies (GTsST). The researchers observed C2 infrastructure relying on dynamic DNS domains masquerading as Ukrainian telecommunication service providers.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2019

Indeed we might observe a File-based command and control (a quite unusual solution) structure, a VBS launcher, a PowerShell Payload and a covert channel over DNS engine. The group conducts operations primarily in the Middle East, targeting financial, government, energy, chemical, telecommunications and other industries.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2019

reported that Hexane is targeting organizations in the oil and gas industry and telecommunication providers. A superficial analysis of the document content might conclude that this document was intended for individuals working with industrial control systems (ICS) or operational technology (OT).” Security experts at Dragos Inc.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 29, 2021

Vishing attacks are also similar to phishing and smishing, but these attacks target VoIP and telecommunications services rather than text-based mediums. Usually this is accomplished either by deploying malware that changes the target computer’s host files, or by using a technique known as DNS cache poisoning. Pretexting.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

History of MSSPs As internet service providers (ISPs) and telecommunications companies (telecoms) began offering commercial access to the internet in the late 1990s, they began to also offer firewall appliances and associated managed services. assets (endpoints, servers, IoT, routers, etc.), Outsourcing U.S. companies may trust U.S.

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Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2021

According to the DNS data analysis, this name was used to register at least two domains, which were created using the email from the phishing kit. The alleged perpetrator, who turned out to be a citizen of Morocco, was arrested in May by the Moroccan police based on the data about his cybercrimes that was provided by Group-IB.

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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. The most common objective of such attacks is cyberespionage and disruption of major telecommunications companies’ work. The telecommunications sector: Are providers ready for 5G?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

The group has targeted a variety of industries, including financial, government, energy, chemical, and telecommunications, and has largely focused its operations within the Middle East. T1094) mainly developed using DNS resolutions (which is actually one of the main characteristic of the attacker group).

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 26, 2022

Assembled by Broadcom subsidiary CA Technologies, DX NetOps offers network visibility and actionable intelligence for monitoring digital user experiences. Spun off from the telecommunications vendor JDS Uniphase in 2015, Viavi Solutions is a newer name, but it has four-plus decades of IT services experience. Catchpoint Features.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Several publicly available data sets, such as the one from John Bambenek, include DNS requests encoding the victim names. The attackers showed a deep understanding and knowledge of Office365, Azure, Exchange, Powershell and leveraged it in many creative ways to constantly monitor and extract e-mails from their true victims’ systems.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 5, 2021

We found the affected domains span across different types of organizations (including information technology, public administration, education, and finance and insurance etc.) Data ingestion through DNS logs are also helpful, but it might not capture the signals if the attacker utilizes public DNS such as Google DNS (8.8.8.8)

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Every so often, a technology comes along that seems to perfectly capture the zeitgeist : representing all that is both promising and troubling about the future. Advances in the use of polymers revolutionized everything from food packaging to electronics, telecommunication and medicine. When it comes to what can you do today?

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

As first detailed by KrebsOnSecurity in July 2016 , Orcus is the brainchild of John “Armada” Rezvesz , a Toronto resident who until recently maintained and sold the RAT under the company name Orcus Technologies. In an “official press release” posted to pastebin.com on Mar.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

SaveBreach reported SolarWinds was “using [an] unencrypted plain FTP server for their Downloads server in the age of global CDN technologies.” The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) offers the concept of a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) to address this problem. Mail DNS controls.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Every so often, a technology comes along that seems to perfectly capture the zeitgeist : representing all that is both promising and troubling about the future. Advances in the use of polymers revolutionized everything from food packaging to electronics, telecommunication and medicine. When it comes to what can you do today?

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Every so often, a technology comes along that seems to perfectly capture the zeitgeist : representing all that is both promising and troubling about the future. Advances in the use of polymers revolutionized everything from food packaging to electronics, telecommunication and medicine. When it comes to what can you do today?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2020

If so we are facing a state-sponsored group with high capabilities in developing persistence and hidden communication channels (for example over DNS) but without a deep interest in exploiting services. The group’s victims are mainly in the telecommunications, government (IT services), and oil sectors.”

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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. The victims we observed were all high-profile Tunisian organizations, such as telecommunications or aviation companies.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 20, 2024

However, passive domain name system (DNS) records from DomainTools show that between October 2023 and March 2024 radaris.com was hosted alongside all of the other Gary Norden domains at the Internet address range 38.111.228.x. A spreadsheet of those historical DNS entries for radaris.com is available here (.csv).

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