This article has been indexed from CircleID: Cyberattack Much has been said about the criticality of the small coterie of large-scale content distribution platforms and their critical role in today’s Internet. These days when one of the small set of…
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WhoisXML API Upgraded Its Web Categorization Engine
This article has been indexed from CircleID: Cyberattack Web categorization engines and related tools are built to help organizations classify websites they do business or generally interact with. WhoisXML API’s Website Categorization API and Website Categorization Lookup used to classify…
The Importance of Understanding Attacker Target Selection
This article has been indexed from CircleID: Cyberattack There’s a bit of a debate going on about whether the Kaseya attack exploited a 0-day vulnerability. While that’s an interesting question when discussing, say, patch management strategies, I think it’s less…
Hidden Botnet C&C on Legitimate Infrastructure? The Case of 000webhostapp[.]com
Note: Thanks to Dancho Danchev, WhoisXML API’s DNS Threat Researcher, for the initial investigation available here, which led to the creation of this post. Threats can come from anywhere, even from legitimate hosting infrastructure. In fact, many cybercriminals often host…
New Research Indicates Nearly 80% of Top US Energy Companies Are at Serious Risk for Cyberattacks
Read the original article: New Research Indicates Nearly 80% of Top US Energy Companies Are at Serious Risk for Cyberattacks Co-authored by CSC’s Global Director Vincent D’Angelo, Senior Global Brand Security Advisor Quinn Taggart and Global Marketing Leader Sue Watts.…
Cybersecurity, an Essential Weapon in the Cyberwarfare to Protect Our Democracy
Read the original article: Cybersecurity, an Essential Weapon in the Cyberwarfare to Protect Our Democracy We see the problems that we are facing within an increasingly digital society and economy. We cannot go backward; the only way forward is to…
A List of Potential Attack Artifacts for the Top 3 Phished Brands in 2020
Read the original article: A List of Potential Attack Artifacts for the Top 3 Phished Brands in 2020 In a recent study INKY subjected around 657 million emails in 2020 and found almost 5 million phishing campaigns, more than 590,000…
78% of Cybersecurity Professionals Expect an Increase in DNS Threats, Yet Have Reservations
Read the original article: 78% of Cybersecurity Professionals Expect an Increase in DNS Threats, Yet Have Reservations A recent survey conducted by the Neustar International Security Council confirmed the heightened interests on domain name system (DNS) security. The survey reveals…
Notes from NANOG 81
Read the original article: Notes from NANOG 81 As the pandemic continues, the network operator community continues to meet online. NANOG held its 81st meeting on February 8 and 9, and these are my notes from some of the presentations…
A Look at Recent Attacks on K-12 Distance Learning Providers Using Domain Intelligence
Read the original article: A Look at Recent Attacks on K-12 Distance Learning Providers Using Domain Intelligence As early as December of last year, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Multi-State…
How to Monitor IP Netblocks for Possible Targeted Attacks
Read the original article: How to Monitor IP Netblocks for Possible Targeted Attacks A couple of weeks back, a security researcher alerted his LinkedIn contacts about possibly ongoing targeted attacks stemming from the Iranian subnet 194[.]147[.]140[.]x. He advised cybersecurity specialists…
3 Most Scary Attacks that Leaked Personally Identifiable Information (PII) of Millions of Users
Read the original article: 3 Most Scary Attacks that Leaked Personally Identifiable Information (PII) of Millions of Users Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting Personally Identifiable Information (PII). The reason being “data is the new gold” in this digital world, and the…
Clarivate Domain Survey Reveals a 10% Increase in Cyberattacks
Read the original article: Clarivate Domain Survey Reveals a 10% Increase in Cyberattacks Impact of Domain Attacks – Almost a third (31%) of organizations have experienced a data breach involving their domains in the last 12 months. MarkMonitor Special Report:…
Blind Eagle Targeted Attack: Using Threat Intelligence Tools for IoC Analysis and Expansion
Read the original article: Blind Eagle Targeted Attack: Using Threat Intelligence Tools for IoC Analysis and Expansion Blind Eagle is a South American threat actor group believed to be behind APT-C-36 and that has been active since at least 2018.…
Dark Caracal: Undisclosed Targeted Attack IoCs Can Pose Risks
Read the original article: Dark Caracal: Undisclosed Targeted Attack IoCs Can Pose Risks Targeted attacks are known as some of the most destructive cyber attacks in that they zoom in on organizations that either provide critical services or have massive…
Protecting an Enterprise from Cyber Catastrophe
Read the original article: Protecting an Enterprise from Cyber Catastrophe We are suffering an epidemic of cyberattacks while in a viral pandemic. This post is for those who have responsibility for assuring that the IT-based services offered by their enterprise…
Authenticated Resolution and Adaptive Resolution: Security and Navigational Enhancements to the DNS
Read the original article: Authenticated Resolution and Adaptive Resolution: Security and Navigational Enhancements to the DNS The Domain Name System (DNS) has become the fundamental building block for navigating from names to resources on the internet. DNS has been employed…
Attack Surface Analysis of 3 Social Media Giants
Read the original article: Attack Surface Analysis of 3 Social Media Giants Cybercrime is first and foremost financially motivated. Cybercriminals look for lucrative targets, including social media networks with hundreds of millions of monthly active users. We put this perspective…
Attack Surface Monitoring: Two Ways to Detect Phishing Subdomains
Read the original article: Attack Surface Monitoring: Two Ways to Detect Phishing Subdomains Phishing attacks’ success can be partially attributed to threat actors’ use of branded domain names, including both legitimate and misspelled variants. It’s no wonder, therefore, that blacklisting…
Threat Intelligence Feeds in the Fight against Insurance-Themed Cyber Attacks
Read the original article: Threat Intelligence Feeds in the Fight against Insurance-Themed Cyber Attacks Threat actors are seasoned posers. They often pose as bank employees, police officers, or court officials. A coronavirus-themed campaign even had them posing as the Director-General…
The DNS Ecosystem, Its Vulnerabilities, and Threat Mitigations
Read the original article: The DNS Ecosystem, Its Vulnerabilities, and Threat Mitigations David Conrad, CTO of The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), recently presented a keynote during a webinar we collaborated on with other internet organizations. Below…
Using WHOIS History and Other Intelligence Sources for Establishing Potential Attack Surfaces
Read the original article: Using WHOIS History and Other Intelligence Sources for Establishing Potential Attack Surfaces Cyber attacks can come from practically any angle, and more often than not, it’s hard to see them coming without knowing all there is…
New CSC Research Finds Significant Lack of Redundancy for Enterprise DNS
Read the original article: New CSC Research Finds Significant Lack of Redundancy for Enterprise DNS As outlined in CSC’s recent 2020 Domain Security Report: Forbes Global 2000 Companies, cybercriminals are disrupting organizations by attacking the protocol responsible for their online…
Do Your Analytics Efforts Expose Your SQL Data Sources to Attacks?
Read the original article: Do Your Analytics Efforts Expose Your SQL Data Sources to Attacks? Structured Query Language (SQL) continues to be quite relevant today. Many organizations still use SQL database systems, and it still ranks as the top in-demand…
Verisign Expands MANRS Relationship to Strengthen Global Routing Security
Read the original article: Verisign Expands MANRS Relationship to Strengthen Global Routing Security Verisign has been involved with an initiative known as Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security, or MANRS, since its inception. MANRS, which is coordinated by the Internet…
The Impact of a Pandemic on Cyberattacks and Business Continuity Plans
Read the original article: The Impact of a Pandemic on Cyberattacks and Business Continuity Plans A new survey of security and IT leaders by csoonline.com sheds light on how organizations across industries are dealing with the COVID-19 crisis, how prepared…
U.S. Health Agency Suffers From Cyberattack, COVID-19 Disruptions by Foreign Actors Suspected
The U.S. Health and Human Services Department (HHS) is reported to have suffered from cyberattacks on its computer system believed, by those familiar with the incident, to be a disruption and disinformation campaign aimed at undermining the response to the…
How to Build an Attack Profile with WHOIS Database Download as a Starting Point
Fighting cybercrime is a never-ending battle. As threat actors continue to craft different ways to attack and scam their target victims, companies need to build their security arsenals to fight against all kinds of threats. What’s more, an effective way…
Cyberspace Solarium Commission Report
Cyberspace Solarium Commission Report Advertise on IT Security News. Read the complete article: Cyberspace Solarium Commission Report
How IP Geolocation Lookups Help Thwart Cyber Attacks
Cyber attacks can hit any organization and even derail its operation on a grand scale. Just recently, ISS World, a facility management service provider with clients in more than 70 countries worldwide, released a statement where it mentions being the…
How to Avoid IP Spoofing with a Reverse IP Address Lookup Service
IP spoofing is a cyberattack technique that entails using a device or a network to fool users into thinking the attacker is part of a legitimate entity. Often, cybercriminals use this method to access computers in a target network to…
DNS Hijacking: The Iranian Cybersecurity Threat That May Be Overlooked
The Iran geopolitical crisis will have unseen consequences on businesses worldwide. Last weekend, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an alert highlighting some of these business risks. This was followed up by a…