Tuesday, June 22, 2021 By Joe St Sauver
I. Introduction When working with DNSDB or Security Information Exchange (SIE) DNS-related channels, you may occasionally see domain name labels with a very distinctive "dash-separated pattern" such as the following: 8a1c7f6a-ac5e-4898-af1e-2654d0fa8e45.probe.performance.dropbox.com. c34b98c1-02d5-4020-a6e0-c89af9a9b56e.sync.upravel.com. 0fe9da84-55ab-48fc-847e-4da8807419ee.mitdmp.whiteboxdigital.ru. bec89e42-fe87-44a0-b53d-55b8bc7b7a7a.notifications.api.brightspace.com. 9565a982-6467-4d43-94ac-a5094ad877cc.us.u.fastly-insights.com. f5489548-9f97-4a48-b22b-2f03aec465aa.edge1.pingone.com. eaf4f4b1-65fa-5480-5013-05ab140f8498.z1.dca0.com. That is, the bolded portion of each of those names all follow the pattern: Eight hexadecimal digits followed by a dash Four hexadecimal digits followed by a dash (repeated two additional times) Twelve hexadecimal digits These names are...
Read moreTuesday, June 8, 2021 By Robert Duran
Today Maltego Technologies GmbH and Farsight Security announced that Farsight DNSDB Transforms for Maltego have been updated to include DNSDB 2.0 Flexible Search capabilities and renamed DNSDB Transforms to align with Maltego's best practices. We are excited to deliver these new capabilities to threat hunters! Let's dig into what's changed and the benefits of the updated Transforms. First, a little bit history… Farsight’s flagship product, DNSDB is the world's largest database of historical DNS information...
Read moreThursday, June 3, 2021 By Ben April
This is a quick post to alert users of the Farsight DNSDB Transforms for Maltego of some upcoming changes. The most visible change in this update is a refresh of all transform UI names, the functional name for use in Machines stays the same. We moved the “[DNSDB]” to the end and adopted the updated Maltego naming best practices. There is a table below with the old and new names for reference. The other noteworthy...
Read moreWednesday, June 2, 2021 By Joe St Sauver
New 439-page report examines 341 selected 2nd-level domains drawn from wide range of categories, from social media and travel to news and retail sites
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