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News in Networking: Russian Internet for North Korea, Google Finds DNS Vulnerabilities

Kentik

And Google disclosed seven vulnerabilities in DNS’ Dnsmasq software. Yet More DNS and DHCP Vulnerabilities (Google Blog). Most Companies Are Unprepared for DNS Attacks (HelpNetSecurity). Russia also made headlines for its covert efforts to steal secrets from the NSA.

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AWS Route 53 BGP Hijack: What Kentik Saw

Kentik

During a BGP route hijack, an attacker advertises IP prefixes from an ASN that is not the normal originator. During last week’s attack, the attacker was redirecting traffic that belonged to Amazon’s Route 53 DNS servers. Here we have the DNS clients sending their DNS queries to the hijacked blocks advertised by AS10297.

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The malware threat landscape: NodeStealer, DuckTail, and more

Engineering at Meta

Building custom malware to target specific internet platforms Our industry continues to detect and disrupt custom-built novel malware that targets business for advertising fraud. The stolen information then enables the threat actor to assess and then use users’ advertising accounts to run unauthorized ads.

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Cato CTRL Issues New SASE Threat Report

CATO Networks

We spotted advertisements for services for generating fake credentials and creating deep fakes. Our data indicates that only 1% of DNS traffic utilizes Secure DNS. We believe this is primarily due to DNS being a critical component of both the internet and organizational operations. Beware of where you shop.

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