Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2023

GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre and international partners reported that Russia-linked threat actors are using a new malware to target the Ukrainian military Government experts attribute the attack to the Russian military intelligence service the GRU. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2021

. “The Threat Hunter Team first spotted suspicious use of AdFind, a legitimate command-line Active Directory query tool, on the victim organization’s network. ” The researchers noticed the use of the legitimate AdFind command line Active Directory query tool that is often abused by ransomware operators as a reconnaissance tool.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2022

“The ransomware searches for files to encrypt on the local system by enumerating the file directories using FindFirstFileW() and FindNextFileW() API functions. It ignores the file extensions such as EXE, DLL, and SYS and excludes a list of directory and file names from the encryption process.” Source [link].

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2021

CISA released a Splunk-based dashboard for post-compromise activity in Microsoft Azure Active Directory (AD), Office 365, and MS 365 environments. “Aviary is a new dashboard that CISA and partners developed to help visualize and analyze outputs from its Sparrow detection toool released in December 2020.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The tool provides in output the data into multiple CSV files placed in a default directory. CrowdStrike experts decided to create their own tool because they face difficulties in using Azure’s administrative tools to enumerate privileges assigned to third-party resellers and partners in their tenant.

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Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2023

JumpCloud is a cloud-based directory service platform designed to manage user identities, devices, and applications in a seamless and secure manner. Software firm JumpCloud announced it was the victim of a sophisticated cyber attack carried out by a nation-state actor. “The attack vector used by the threat actor has been mitigated.”

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This includes using Active Directory over LDAPS, Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), Okta, or Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) to reduce the risk posed by the deprecated EAP. The path traversal bug allows attackers to travel outside directory boundaries and gain access to key system files.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2024

March 13, 2024 Fortra Vulnerability Could Result in Remote Code Execution Type of vulnerability: Directory traversal in Fortra’s FileCatalyst workflow, potentially leading to remote code execution. The directory traversal vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2024-25153 and has a critical rating of 9.8.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2021

Mandiant researchers explained that UNC2452 and other threat actors primarily used four techniques for lateral movements: Steal the Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) token-signing certificate and use it to forge tokens for arbitrary users (sometimes described as Golden SAML ). states the security firm. Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

They strengthen their control and avoid discovery by stealthily gathering security event logs and corrupting Active Directory data, escalating the severity of their damage. government and defense institutions for intelligence gathering. As attackers continue to develop, LotL is projected to expand further.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 12, 2018

the security posture of vendor partners). On Tuesday, security researcher @notdan tweeted about finding a series of open directories on Experian’s Web site. A directory listing that exposed a number of files on an Experian server.

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Archive-It

JANUARY 4, 2024

One of the primary sources we use for answering local history and genealogical questions is our City Directory collection. The City Directories– precursors to phonebooks– hold valuable information about the residents, businesses, and history of the city. Moreover, these editions are rare.

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2023

Then the attackers attempt to extract credentials to an Active Directory account used by the compromised device and use them for lateral movement by authenticating to other devices. Volt Typhoon targets internet-facing Fortinet FortiGuard devices to achieve initial access to targeted organizations.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The phishing messages are disguised as an e-mail with a target’s business partner. XLSM), upon executing the macro the code creates an executable in the startup directory, the Flagpro. The spear-phishing messages use a password-protected ZIP or RAR attachment and the password is included in the content of the email.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 27, 2022

Going through an M&A is highly risky business due in large part to the potential impact on the market, valuation, shareholders, business partners, etc. This includes those vulnerabilities that exist in “systems of record”, like Active Directory (AD) – used by the majority of the Global Fortune 1000 companies.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 20, 2023

“So, when the individual first signs up for phone service, this information is automatically shared by the phone provider to partner companies.” “So, when the individual first signs up for phone service, this information is automatically shared by the phone provider to partner companies.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2022

Cuba ransomware has been actively distributed through the Hancitor malware , a commodity malware that partnered with ransomware gangs to help them gain initial access to target networks. The ransomware encrypts files on the targeted systems using the “.cuba” cuba” extension.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2019

Researchers at Pen Test Partners (PTP) discovered a privilege-escalation vulnerability in Lenovo Solution Centre (LSC) tracked as CVE-2019-6177. Security experts at Pen Test Partners (PTP) discovered a privilege-escalation vulnerability in Lenovo Solution Centre (LSC) that exists since 2011. ” wrote the researchers.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Sopra Steria is in close contact with its customers and partners as well as with the competent authorities.” The Active Directory infrastructure would be affected. ” The European IT firm has 46,000 employees operating in 25 countries worldwide.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2021

The company, with the help of law enforcement agencies, CERTs and private sector partners in multiple countries, is reaching numerous victims to recover their data. PSA: If you or someone you know got hit by BlackMatter in the past couple of months, please reach out.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 19, 2023

Portnox is a private company that specializes in network access security with nearly 1,000 customers and closed a Series A fundraising with Elsewhere Partners for $22 million in 2022. To compare Portnox Cloud against competitors, see our complete list of top network access control (NAC) solutions. Who Is Portnox?

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

SSO, strong authentication, and directory are part of a full set of identity management and governance solutions. Business organization model that enables partners and business units to set up separate entities with their own delegated administration capabilities. Also read: Top 9 Active Directory Security Tools.

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CILIP

JANUARY 5, 2024

Annual Buyer's Guide 2024t Find out what buyers and providers are saying about technology, ethics, careers, start-ups, pop-up banks and more CILIP’s Annual Buyers’ Guide Directory 2024, which will be delivered with your January/February issue of Information Professional. Find out more about CILIP’s Supplier Partners and how they can help you.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

This is an ongoing response, and we are still working with our government and private sector partners to fully understand this campaign, and to develop and share timely information to mitigate the threat posed by this adversary,”.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2022

The Symantec researchers noticed the use of the legitimate AdFind command line Active Directory query tool that is often abused by ransomware operators as a reconnaissance tool. But if there is an original file smaller than 3 GB, then only small files can be decrypted.” ” continues the post. Yanluowang.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Amongst the flaws were deserialization of untrusted data RCE, directory traversal RCE, and traversal RCE. The vulnerabilities affect version v2023.2 of Access Rights Manager. SolarWinds recently fixed the vulnerabilities. The CVEs are CVE-2023-40057 , CVE-2024-23476 , CVE-2024-23477 , CVE-2024-23478 , and CVE-2024-23479.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Some time ago, me and my “business partner” @padovah4ck, were looking for possible privileged file operations exploitable via hardlinks. At some point, the directory c:programdataapplelockdown caught our attention. But what does Apple’s iPhone have to do with it?? Well, keep on reading… ( sorry no ).

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Microsoft Active Directory accounts and passwords. “This is a continuously growing trend of exposures created not by the victims but by those that they consider to be trusted partners,” Holden said. -Call recording services. DNS controls. Orvis wireless networks (public and private). Employee wireless phone services.

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Archive-It

MAY 31, 2023

by the Community Programs team Since 2017, Community Webs has partnered with public libraries and heritage organizations to diversify the historic record. Get in touch with us at commwebsinfo@archive.org to discover ways to partner to preserve local history!

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Archive-It

MAY 31, 2023

by the Community Programs team Since 2017, Community Webs has partnered with public libraries and heritage organizations to diversify the historic record. Get in touch with us at commwebsinfo@archive.org to discover ways to partner to preserve local history!

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Ultimately, we believe that the comprehensiveness and flexibility of our current capabilities, combined will set IBM Security Verify as an ideal partner for companies looking to simplify the foundation of their identity management strategy.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 18, 2021

It’s first directory, Chris Krebs, was fired by then-president Tump for saying that the 2020 election was the most secure election in history. And, finally, CISA partners with local and state governments by sharing best practices from around the country. She later returned to West Point to teach.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

. “This vulnerability allows malicious cyber actors to place web shells and conduct post-exploitation activities such as compromising administrator credentials, conducting lateral movement, and exfiltrating registry hives and Active Directory files. This in turn allowed them to access the data, despite this data being encrypted.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Even if Microsoft and its partners have brought down the TrickBot infrastructure TrickBot operators attempted to resume the operations by setting up new command and control (C&C) servers online. Following the takedown, the operators behind the TrickBot malware have implemented several improvements to make it more resilient.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Marking files found in several directories imply the disk is "top secret," and restricted from being shared to foreign intelligence partners. A couple of points. One, this isn't particularly sensitive. It's an intelligence distribution system under development. It's not raw intelligence.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 20, 2023

The basic NAC controls can be used to satisfy many compliance requirements; however, organizations will need to create their own documentation from the available reports.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 29, 2024

Mandiant discovered that the VMware Directory Service crashes just prior to the attackers’ backdoor installations enabled by RCE. The problem: Mandiant revealed possible 2021 exploitation by Chinese espionage attackers for CVE-2023-34048, an out-of-bounds weakness in protocol implementation first publicly reported in October 2023.

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