Tag: Internet
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IIS Servers Hijacked via Exposed ASP.NET Machine Keys, Malicious Modules Injected in the Wild
Security researchers have uncovered a sophisticated cyberattack campaign that exploited publicly exposed ASP.NET machine keys to compromise hundreds of Internet Information Services (IIS) servers worldwide. The operation, detected in late August and early September 2025, deployed a previously undocumented malicious module dubbed >>HijackServer
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IIS Servers Hijacked via Exposed ASP.NET Machine Keys, Malicious Modules Injected in the Wild
Security researchers have uncovered a sophisticated cyberattack campaign that exploited publicly exposed ASP.NET machine keys to compromise hundreds of Internet Information Services (IIS) servers worldwide. The operation, detected in late August and early September 2025, deployed a previously undocumented malicious module dubbed >>HijackServer
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IIS Servers Hijacked via Exposed ASP.NET Machine Keys, Malicious Modules Injected in the Wild
Security researchers have uncovered a sophisticated cyberattack campaign that exploited publicly exposed ASP.NET machine keys to compromise hundreds of Internet Information Services (IIS) servers worldwide. The operation, detected in late August and early September 2025, deployed a previously undocumented malicious module dubbed >>HijackServer
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Microsoft Boosts Windows Security by Disabling File Previews for Downloads
Microsoft has rolled out a significant security enhancement to Windows File Explorer, automatically disabling the preview pane for files downloaded from the internet as part of security updates released on and after October 14, 2025. This proactive measure targets a long-standing vulnerability that attackers have exploited to harvest NTLM hashes and sensitive credentials used for…
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When “It’s Always DNS” Becomes Your Security Advantage
Every network engineer knows the refrain: “It’s always DNS.” When websites won’t load, applications fail to connect, or mysterious outages emerge, the Domain Name System”, the internet’s essential address book”, is usually involved. For years, this made DNS a source of troubleshooting frustration. But as Infoblox demonstrated in their presentations to Security Field Day, there’s…
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DTTS – Zero Trust DNS Enforcement: Policy Violation Management
In a default-deny world, where only verified sources and verified destinations are allowed, which require a successful policy-allowed DNS resolution, many modern threats are mitigated, and there’s demonstrable value in choosing this path, including being able to enforce “My network, my rules” approach to egress control. However, in this world where existing applications need to…
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Microsoft disables File Explorer preview for downloads to block attacks
Microsoft says that the File Explorer (formerly Windows Explorer) now automatically blocks previews for files downloaded from the Internet to block credential theft attacks via malicious documents. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-disables-preview-pane-for-downloads-to-block-ntlm-theft-attacks/
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BIND 9 Vulnerabilities Expose DNS Servers to Cache Poisoning and DoS
The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has disclosed three critical vulnerabilities in BIND 9, the most widely deployed DNS software globally. All three vulnerabilities were publicly disclosed on October 22, 2025, affecting DNS resolvers and potentially impacting millions of users worldwide. Organizations running affected BIND 9 versions should prioritize immediate patching to prevent exploitation. The three…
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BIND 9 Vulnerabilities Expose DNS Servers to Cache Poisoning and DoS
The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has disclosed three critical vulnerabilities in BIND 9, the most widely deployed DNS software globally. All three vulnerabilities were publicly disclosed on October 22, 2025, affecting DNS resolvers and potentially impacting millions of users worldwide. Organizations running affected BIND 9 versions should prioritize immediate patching to prevent exploitation. The three…
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Versa schafft umfassende SASE-Lösung mit der Integration von Microsoft-EntraAccess
Ab sofort steht eine automatisierte Integration von Versa-Secure-SD-WAN mit Microsoft-Entra-Internet-Access, einer Komponente der Security-Service-Edge (SSE)-Lösung von Microsoft, zur Verfügung. Damit entsteht eine vollständige, einfach zu verwaltende SASE-Lösung, die umfassende Sicherheit mit optimierter Leistung für verteilte Standorte bietet. Im Gegensatz zu vielen vorlagenbasierten Integrationen ist das anwendungsorientierte SD-WAN von Versa nun eines der wenigen SD-WAN-Angebote im…
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CAASM and EASM: Top 12 attack surface discovery and management tools
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, automation, blockchain, business, cloud, control, corporate, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, dark-web, data, data-breach, detection, dns, endpoint, exploit, framework, guide, hacking, HIPAA, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, leak, marketplace, microsoft, monitoring, network, open-source, PCI, risk, risk-assessment, service, soc, software, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityCAASM and EASM tools for attack surface discovery and management: Periodic scans of the network are no longer sufficient for maintaining a hardened attack surface. Continuous monitoring for new assets and configuration drift are critical to ensure the security of corporate resources and customer data.New assets need to be identified and incorporated into the monitoring…
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AWS Outage: Lessons Learned
What can we learn from the recent AWS outage, and how can we apply those lessons to our own infrastructure? What Happened? On October 20, 2025, AWS experienced a major disruption that rippled across the internet (and social media), affecting widely used services such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Slack, and Atlassian. The issue originated not…
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AWS Outage: Lessons Learned
What can we learn from the recent AWS outage, and how can we apply those lessons to our own infrastructure? What Happened? On October 20, 2025, AWS experienced a major disruption that rippled across the internet (and social media), affecting widely used services such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Slack, and Atlassian. The issue originated not…
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NDSS 2025 Workshop On Security And Privacy Of Next-Generation Networks (FutureG) 2025, Session 1. Panelists Papers SESSION Opening Remarks, Panel And FutureG 2025 Session 1: AI-Assisted NextG
Tags: 5G, ai, conference, detection, government, Internet, LLM, network, open-source, privacy, vulnerabilityPanelists: Ted K. Woodward, Ph.D. Technical Director for FutureG, OUSD (R&E) Phillip Porras, Program Director, Internet Security Research, SRI Donald McBride, Senior Security Researcher, Bell Laboratories, Nokia This panel aims to bring together various participants and stakeholders from government, industry, and academia to present and discuss recent innovations and explore options to enable recent 5G…
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Amazon identifies the issue that broke much of the internet, says AWS is back to normal
The outage affected websites like Coinbase and Fortnite, and disrupted services like Signal, Zoom, and Amazon’s own products, including Ring. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2025/10/21/amazon-dns-outage-breaks-much-of-the-internet/
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Amazon identifies the issue that broke much of the internet, says AWS is back to normal
The outage affected websites like Coinbase and Fortnite, and disrupted services like Signal, Zoom, and Amazon’s own products, including Ring. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2025/10/21/amazon-dns-outage-breaks-much-of-the-internet/
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Amazon identifies the issue that broke much of the internet today, but is still working to restore services
The outage affected websites like Coinbase and Fortnite, and disrupted services like Signal, Zoom, and Amazon’s own products, including Ring. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2025/10/20/amazon-dns-outage-breaks-much-of-the-internet/
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Massive AWS Outage Halt The Internet Disrupting Snapchat, Prime Video, Canva, and More
A catastrophic Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage struck on October 20, 2025, bringing down major platforms like Snapchat, Amazon Prime Video, and Canva, and revealing the internet’s dangerous dependence on a single cloud provider. Starting at 12:11 a.m. PDT (12:41 p.m. IST), a DNS resolution failure in AWS’s US-East-1 region in Northern Virginia triggered widespread…
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Amazon outage breaks much of the internet
The outage affected websites like Coinbase and Fortnite, and disrupted services like Signal, Zoom and Amazon’s own products, including Ring. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2025/10/20/amazon-dns-outage-breaks-much-of-the-internet/
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Major AWS outage across US-East region breaks half the internet
Amazon reports DNS issues hitting DynamoDB, leaving services from Roblox to McDonald’s struggling First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/amazon_aws_outage/
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What the Huge AWS Outage Reveals About the Internet
Amazon Web Services experienced DNS resolution issues on Monday morning, taking down wide swaths of the web”, and highlighting a longstanding weakness in the internet’s infrastructure. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/what-that-huge-aws-outage-reveals-about-the-internet/
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Amazon DNS outage breaks much of the internet
The outage affected websites like Coinbase and Fortnite, and disrupted services like Signal, Zoom and Amazon’s own products, including Ring. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2025/10/20/amazon-dns-outage-breaks-much-of-the-internet/
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Cybersecurity Snapshot: F5 Breach Prompts Urgent U.S. Gov’t Warning, as OpenAI Details Disrupted ChatGPT Abuses
Tags: ai, attack, awareness, backdoor, breach, business, chatgpt, china, cisa, cloud, control, corporate, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, detection, exploit, framework, fraud, governance, government, group, hacker, incident, infrastructure, Internet, iran, law, LLM, malicious, malware, mitigation, monitoring, network, openai, organized, phishing, privacy, resilience, risk, russia, scam, security-incident, service, software, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, training, update, vulnerabilityF5’s breach triggers a CISA emergency directive, as Tenable calls it “a five-alarm fire” that requires urgent action. Meanwhile, OpenAI details how attackers try to misuse ChatGPT. Plus, boards are increasing AI and cyber disclosures. And much more! Key takeaways A critical breach at cybersecurity firm F5, attributed to a nation-state, has triggered an urgent…
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TDL 007 – Cyber Warriors Digital Shadows: Insights from Canada’s Cybersecurity Leader
Tags: ai, awareness, backup, breach, browser, business, cio, ciso, communications, conference, control, corporate, country, cryptography, cyber, cybersecurity, dark-web, data, data-breach, defense, dns, email, encryption, finance, government, healthcare, identity, incident, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, jobs, law, leak, linux, malicious, mfa, mitigation, network, organized, phone, privacy, ransom, ransomware, RedTeam, resilience, risk, risk-management, router, service, startup, strategy, supply-chain, switch, tactics, technology, theft, threat, tool, training, windowsSummary In this episode of The Defender’s Log, host David Redekop interviews Sami Khoury, the Senior Official for Cybersecurity for the Government of Canada. With a career spanning 33 years at the Communication Security Establishment (CSE), Khoury shares how a coincidental job application blossomed into a lifelong passion for national security. Khoury emphasizes that modern…