RErenegat0x0·Nov 19, 2024
In Online Age Verification as Trojan Horse for the Mass Rollout of Digital IDs?Ultimate-Hosts-Blacklist
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Ultimate.Hosts.Blacklist
The Ultimate Unified Hosts file for protecting your network, computer, smartphones and Wi-Fi devices against millions of bad web sites. Protect your children and family from gaining access to bad web sites and protect your devices and pc from being infected with Malware or Ransomware.
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The Ultimate Unified Hosts file for protecting your network, computer, smartphones and Wi-Fi devices against millions of bad web sites. Protect your children and family from gaining access to bad web sites and protect your devices and pc from being infected with Malware or Ransomware.
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9 sourceshttps://github.com/Ultimate-Hosts-Blacklist/Ultimate.Hosts.B...
Don't forget about hosts.deny (but you probably need it at your router if you are behind one).
In Block Adware and Malware with /etc/hostsI found this one (just by googling, no reference): https://github.com/Ultimate-Hosts-Blacklist/Ultimate.Hosts.B...
In Show HN: I built Multy – Generate a short URL to share a list of websitesBesides uBlock Origin, you can use DNS hosts file blocking. This has the extra benefit of making sites fast and reducing your data transfers.
Corporation block lists (e.g. Facebook, Google) https://github.com/jmdugan/blocklists/tree/master/corporatio...
"Someone Who Cares" list http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
Ultimate Hosts Blacklist: 1 million blocked domains (once in a while you might need to unblock something) and also a bonus known hacking IP blocklist (prevents common hacking sources). https://github.com/mitchellkrogza/Ultimate.Hosts.Blacklist
If you have iOS device install an ad blocker app like AdBlock Fast, this plugs to practically all web sessions in the phone.
In I asked an online tracking company for all of my data (2018)Besides disabling JavaScript you can put hosts file blocklists. This is much faster.
Simple corporation block list (e.g. Facebook, Google) https://github.com/jmdugan/blocklists/tree/master/corporatio...
"Someone Who Cares" list http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
Ultimate Hosts Blacklist: 1 million blocked domains (once in a while you might need to unblock something) and also a bonus known hacking IP blocklist (prevents common hacking sources). https://github.com/mitchellkrogza/Ultimate.Hosts.Blacklist
If you have iOS device install an ad blocker app like AdBlock Fast, this plugs to practically all web sessions in the phone.
In Ask HN: What's the best setup for ad blocking and tracker blocking?That's not enough, sadly.
Besides disabling JavaScript you can put hosts file blocklists.
Simple corporation block list (e.g. Facebook, Google) https://github.com/jmdugan/blocklists/tree/master/corporatio...
"Someone Who Cares" list http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
Ultimate Hosts Blacklist: 1 million blocked domains (once in a while you might need to unblock something) and also a bonus known hacking IP blocklist. https://github.com/mitchellkrogza/Ultimate.Hosts.Blacklist
In Why is Stack Overflow trying to start audio?> The malware is still active and has a zero-detection rate in all major anti-virus systems.
Anti virus wouldn't really help in this case. I should also point out that it appears that HiddenWasp is targeting systems that are already compromised in some form.
The "achilles heel" of these sorts of CnC attacks tends to be, and is apparently so in this case, that they do need to phone home.
In this case, the IP addresses are known, and blackholing them with your firewall (try something like ufw [1], if you don't have one), or your hosts file, is enough. Using something like pi-hole you can also deploy these protections for every device on your network.
There are quite a few hosts lists maintained out in the wild [0], and tools like fail2ban to protect against brute-force attacks.
But, as usual, by far and away the safest way to protect your s
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ystem is to not run untrusted code. You probably have a package manager, going outside it tends to be less safe.
[0] For example: https://github.com/mitchellkrogza/Ultimate.Hosts.Blacklist
[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Uncomplicated_Firewall#...