Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Hosted on the same Internet address as VIP72 for the past decade until mid-August 2021, Check2IP also advertised the ability to let customers detect “DNS leaks,” instances where configuration errors can expose the true Internet address of hidden cybercrime infrastructure and services online.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

“This gave the actor the ability to change DNS records and in turn, take control of a number of internal email accounts. In due course, the malicious actor was able to partially compromise our infrastructure, and gain access to document storage.” ” In the early morning hours of Nov.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The hackers were able to change the Domain Name System (DNS) records for the transaction brokering site escrow.com so that it pointed to an address in Malaysia that was host to just a few other domains, including the then brand-new phishing domain servicenow-godaddy[.]com.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 31, 2023

“We’re always looking at the end malware or phishing page, but what we’re finding here is that there’s this middle layer of DNS threat actors persisting for years without notice.” . “This exposes how persistent the criminal economy can be at a supply chain level,” Burton said.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

A review of the passive DNS records tied to this address shows that apart from subdomains dedicated to tornote[.]io, Tornote changed the cryptocurrency address entered into a test note to this address controlled by the phishers. Throughout 2023, Tornote was hosted with the Russian provider DDoS-Guard , at the Internet address 186.2.163[.]216.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2019

. “At this point, we believe this to be an email phishing incident in which an unauthorized third party used a third-party system to generate an email campaign to deliver what we believe to be a banking trojan,” said Dan Higgins , UR’s chief information officer.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

5, 2014 , but historic DNS records show BHproxies[.]com That Confidential job listing is interesting because its start date lines up with the creation of BHproxies[.]com. Archive.org indexed its first copy of BHProxies[.]com com on Mar. com first came online Feb.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2022

Historical DNS records from Farsight Security show angrycoders.net formerly included the subdomain “smollalex.angrycoders[.]net” The UpWork profile page for the Angry Coders programming team from Omsk, RU. Who is the “ Alexander S.”

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

guru’s registration records also are hidden, yet passive domain name system (DNS) records for both cryptor[.]biz The registration records for the website Cryptor[.]biz biz are hidden behind privacy protection services, but the site’s homepage says potential customers should register by visiting the domain crypt[.]guru

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Passive domain name system (DNS) records show that in its early days BriansClub shared a server in Lithuania along with just a handful of other domains, including secure.pinpays[.]com The BriansClub login page, as it looked from late 2019 until recently.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

The malicious scripts loaded from payselector-dot-com and billgetstatus-dot.com are obfuscated with a custom HTML function — window.atob — which scrambles the code referencing those domains names on hacked sites.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

“Using the internal router, it would be possible to poison the DNS cache of the LAN router of the infected node, enabling further attacks.” .” “It also enables the end user to probe the LAN network of the infected node,” the paper continues.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

” “We stand against DNS abuse in any form and maintain multiple systems and protocols to protect all the TLDs we operate,” the statement continued. GoDaddy says it “is committed to supporting a safer online environment and proactively addressing this issue by assessing it against our own anti-abuse mitigation system.”

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2022

A dig into the Domain Name Server (DNS) records for Coinbase-x2[.]net Those Dot-us domains all contain the registrant name Sergei Orlovets from Moscow, the email address ulaninkirill52@gmail.com , and the phone number +7.9914500893. net shows it is hosted at a service called Cryptohost[.]to.

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