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US govt agencies share details of the China-linked espionage malware Taidoor

Security Affairs

The CISA agency provides recommendations for system administrators and owners to enhance the level of security of their organizations: Maintain up-to-date antivirus signatures and engines. Keep operating system patches up-to-date. If these services are required, use strong passwords or Active Directory authentication.

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USBAnywhere BMC flaws expose Supermicro servers to hack

Security Affairs

A baseboard management controller (BMC) is a specialized service processor that monitors the physical state of a computer, network server or other hardware device using sensors and communicating with the system administrator through an independent connection. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Backdoored Webmin versions were available for download for over a year

Security Affairs

Webmin is an open-source web-based interface for system administration for Linux and Unix. The flaw affects the procedure for changing expired passwords, the backdoor could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute malicious commands with root privileges on the machine running vulnerable Webmin. Pierluigi Paganini.

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XMR crypto miner switches from arm IoT devices to X86/I686 Intel servers

Security Affairs

System administrators need to employ security best practices with the systems they manage.” “Unsecured services with unpatched vulnerabilities or weak passwords are prime targets for exploitation and abuse. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Feds Warn About Critical Infrastructure Ransomware Attacks, Vulnerabilities

eSecurity Planet

The agencies offered some sound cybersecurity advice for BlackByte that applies pretty generally: Conduct regular backups and store them as air-gapped, password-protected copies offline. Audit user accounts with administrative privileges and configure access controls with least privilege in mind, and use multifactor authentication.

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Critical flaw in VMware Cloud Director allows hackers to take over company infrastructure

Security Affairs

The vulnerability could potentially allow an authenticated attacker to gain access to corporate network, access to sensitive data, and control private clouds within an entire infrastructure. “An authenticated actor may be able to send malicious traffic to VMware Cloud Director which may lead to arbitrary remote code execution.

Cloud 90
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Thousands of RDM refrigeration systems exposed online are at risk

Security Affairs

Experts from Safety Detective discovered thousands of refrigeration systems made by Resource Data Management (RDM) exposed to remote attacks. An attacker can easily access the vulnerable instances because they use a known default username and password combination. In many cases, the web interface can be accessed without authentication.

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