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[SANS ISC] Attackers Will Always Abuse Major Events in our Lifes

September 2, 2021 SANS Internet Storm Center, Security One comment

I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Attackers Will Always Abuse Major Events in our Lifes“: All major events in our daily life are potential sources of revenue for attackers. When elections or major sports events are organized, attackers will surf on these waves and try to make some profit or

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[SANS ISC] Quick Status of the CAA DNS Record Adoption

October 30, 2020 SANS Internet Storm Center, Security Leave a comment

I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Quick Status of the CAA DNS Record Adoption“: In 2017, we already published a guest diary about “CAA” or “Certification Authority Authorization”. I was curious about the status of this technique and the adoption level in 2020. Has it been adopted massively since

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[SANS ISC] Tracking Newly Registered Domains

December 13, 2017 OSINT, SANS Internet Storm Center, Security 2 comments

I published the following diary on isc.sans.org: “Tracking Newly Registered Domains“: Here is the next step in my series of diaries related to domain names. After tracking suspicious domains with a dashboard and proactively searching for malicious domains, let’s focus on newly registered domains. They are a huge number of

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[SANS ISC] Proactive Malicious Domain Search

November 23, 2017 OSINT, SANS Internet Storm Center, Security One comment

I published the following diary on isc.sans.org: “Proactive Malicious Domain Search“: In a previous diary, I presented a dashboard that I’m using to keep track of the DNS traffic on my networks. Tracking malicious domains is useful but what if you could, in a certain way, “predict” the upcoming domains

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[SANS ISC] Suspicious Domains Tracking Dashboard

November 16, 2017 Malware, SANS Internet Storm Center, Security One comment

I published the following diary on isc.sans.org: “Suspicious Domains Tracking Dashboard“. Domain names remain a gold mine to investigate security incidents or to prevent some malicious activity to occur on your network (example by using a DNS firewall). The ISC has also a page dedicated to domain names. But how

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DNS Hijacking With Just One Mail

January 15, 2014 ISP, Security 18 comments

This is not new but it still happens in 2014… Hijacking a website with just a small e-mail. Here are the facts. For a while, I’m hosting a friend’s website. His website is quite old and it already moved from servers to servers depending on my deployed infrastructure. A few

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