This article presents a case study on new applications of domain name system (DNS) tunneling we have found in the wild. These techniques expand beyond DNS tunneling only for command and control (C2) and virtual private network (VPN) purposes.
Malicious actors occasionally employ DNS tunneling as a covert communications channel, because it can bypass conventional network firewalls. This allows C2 traffic and data exfiltration that can remain hidden from some traditional detection methods.
The report shares statistics and observations from incident response practice in 2023, analyzes trends and gives cybersecurity recommendations.
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On May 10, 2024, Phylum’s automated risk detection platform alerted us to a suspicious publication on PyPI. The package was called requests-darwin-lite and appeared to be a fork of the ever-popular requests package with a few key differences, most notably the inclusion of a malicious Go binary packed into
Europol, the European Union's law enforcement agency, confirmed that its Europol Platform for Experts (EPE) portal was breached and is now investigating the incident after a threat actor claimed they stole For Official Use Only (FOUO) documents containing classified data.
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Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) devices are under attack! Two critical vulnerabilities are being exploited to deploy the notorious Mirai botnet.
Russia-Linked APT28 Strikes Poland with Malware Campaign Polish government bodies were hit by a sophisticated malware attack orchestrated by the infam
The UK Ministry of Defense said a breach at a third-party payroll system exposed as many as 272,000 armed forces personnel and veterans.
Apple's implementation of installing marketplace apps from Safari is heavily flawed and can allow a malicious marketplace to track users across websites
Our ongoing research has identified remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in F5’s Next Central Manager that can give attackers full administrative control of the device, and subsequently allow attackers to create accounts on any F5 assets managed by the Next Central Manager. These attacker-controlled accounts would not be visible from the Next Central Manager itself, enabling ongoing malicious persistence within the environment. At the time of writing, we have not seen any indication that these vulnerabilities have been exploited in the wild.
For more than six years, the Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) at Kaspersky has been publishing quarterly summaries of advanced persistent threat (APT) activity. These summaries are based on our threat intelligence research. They provide a representative snapshot of what we have published and discussed in greater detail in our private APT reports. They are designed to highlight the significant events and findings that we feel people should be aware of.