Tag: dns hijacking

6 Attack Reports | 0 Vulnerabilities

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Network devices compromised for adversary-in-the-middle attacks

China-aligned threat actor PlushDaemon has been conducting espionage operations since 2018, targeting entities in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Cambodia, South Korea, the United States, and New Zealand. The group employs a custom backdoor called SlowStepper and uses a network implant named EdgeStepper …

adversary-in-the-middle

software update hijacking

network implant

daemoniclogistics

Published: November 19, 2025

Downloadable IOCs: 4

PlushDaemon compromises network devices for adversary-in-the-middle attacks

China-aligned threat actor PlushDaemon has been conducting espionage operations since 2018, targeting entities in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Cambodia, South Korea, the United States, and New Zealand. The group employs a custom backdoor called SlowStepper and uses a network implant named EdgeStepper …

adversary-in-the-middle

software update hijacking

network implant

daemoniclogistics

Published: November 19, 2025

Downloadable IOCs: 7

Cloudy with a Chance of Hijacking Forgotten DNS Records Enable Scam Actor

Hazy Hawk, a sophisticated threat actor, exploits abandoned cloud resources of high-profile organizations through DNS hijacking. By identifying and taking over dangling CNAME records pointing to unused cloud services, they create malicious URLs on reputable domains. These URLs lead users to scams a…

traffic distribution systems

cloud resources

affiliate marketing

push notifications

Published: May 21, 2025

Downloadable IOCs: 19

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Cybersecurity – Week 20

This intelligence update covers recent cybersecurity events. In positive developments, global authorities disrupted a major botnet, arrested a ransomware actor, and dismantled a dark web marketplace. On the negative side, a malicious NPM package was discovered hiding multi-stage malware using Unico…

omserverservice.exe

omclientservice.exe

output messenger

kurdish military

Published: May 16, 2025

Linked vulnerabilities : CVE-2025-27920 (CVSS 9.8)

Downloadable IOCs: 1

Marbled Dust leverages zero-day in Output Messenger for regional espionage

A Türkiye-affiliated espionage threat actor, Marbled Dust, has been exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Output Messenger since April 2024. The attacks target Kurdish military entities in Iraq, allowing the actor to deliver malicious files and exfiltrate data. The exploit involves a directory tra…

data exfiltration

omserverservice.exe

omserverservice.vbs

omclientservice.exe

output messenger

directory traversal

Published: May 13, 2025

Linked vulnerabilities : CVE-2025-27920 (CVSS 9.8), CVE-2025-27921 (CVSS 6.1)

Downloadable IOCs: 3

Automatically Detecting DNS Hijacking in Passive DNS

This article describes a machine learning-based pipeline for detecting DNS hijacking using passive DNS data. The system processes an average of 167 million new DNS records daily, extracting 74 features from over 169 terabytes of data. Between March and September 2024, it identified 6,729 hijacking …

machine learning

network security

threat detection

domain compromise

Published: November 5, 2024

Downloadable IOCs: 37

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