Universal Health Services was shutdown by ransomware on September 27th affecting more than 90,000 employees operating 26 acute care hospitals, 328 behavioral health inpatient facilities, and 42 outpatient facilities. DURING. A. PANDEMIC.
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A botnet’s greatest weakness is its reliance on domain names. Malware analysis quickly reveals these domain names so that you can work toward seizing or shutting then down and effectively cripple or disable the botnet. Regular readers know we have recently started actively blocking malicious domains via DNS. Many countries do not assist with shutting down these botnets therefore the only fix is blocking the domain.
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Google is formally banning stalkerware from Google Play effective October 1st, 2020. There are a few exceptions but “these apps cannot be used to track a person (a spouse, for example) without their knowledge or permission unless a persistent notification is displayed while the data is being transmitted.”
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Anyone using our DNS servers will start reaping the benefits of filtering malicious domains. We are enabling this feature globally on Tuesday September 15th and this service will be provided at no additional cost.
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I was pretty enthusiastic when I wrote that blog, saying you are “awesome, I regret having not gotten into it [sic] earlier.” Yet I truly did not grasp the extent of your awesomeness. I have since expanded the original project and started a larger project thanks to you.
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Cyber crime is so pervasive that no single entity can hope to map them all which makes the argument that threat feeds are not worthless but merely meant to work as a collective. It’s no surprise that intrusion prevention systems are designed to accept multiple feeds, you just need to utilize this feature and configure multiple feeds, the more the better!
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