Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2021

FIN7 is a Russian criminal group that has been active since mid-2015, it focuses on restaurants, gambling, and hospitality industries in the US to harvest financial information that was used in attacks or sold in cybercrime marketplaces. Once gained access to the target network, the threat actors could then drop malware and ransomware. .

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The activity of the Lazarus APT group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks. This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2020

Users and system administrators are recommended to apply the latest security patches as soon as possible to prevent attackers exploiting them. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2020

National Security Agency (NSA) is warning that Russia-linked APT group tracked Sandworm Team has been exploiting a critical vulnerability (CVE-2019-10149) in the Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) software since at least August 2019. . Using a previous version of Exim leaves a system vulnerable to exploitation. ” concludes NSA.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

The FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Department of Defense (DoD) released information on a RAT variant, dubbed TAIDOOR, used by China-linked hackers in cyber espionage campaigns targeting governments, corporations, and think tanks. Keep operating system patches up-to-date. v1 , U.S. .

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

And the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added 15 more vulnerabilities to its list of actively exploited vulnerabilities. CVE-2015-1635 : An RCE vulnerability in specific versions of Windows (e.g., CVE-2015-1635 : An RCE vulnerability in specific versions of Windows (e.g., 7 SP1, 8, 8.1) 7 SP1, 8, 8.1)

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2020

The recent CurveBall vulnerability shook the Info-Sec community worldwide: a major vulnerability reported directly by the US National Security Agency. Even cryptographically signed files and emails are exposed to spoofing and tampering , violating the core parts of the threat models most of the company use to secure their businesses.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 23, 2019

But the energy sector also underpins our emergency and response systems, our hospitals and healthcare, our schools, our businesses, and virtually everything we do as a society. Disruptions to Ukraine’s power system in 2015 and 2016 were attributed to a cyberattack and led to power outages affecting hundreds of thousands of people.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2020

“They exhibit extensive knowledge of systems administration and common network security misconfigurations, perform thorough reconnaissance, and adapt to what they discover in a compromised network.” ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Alexey is a Russian-speaking cyber vigilante that decided to fix the MikroTik routers and he claims to be e system administrator. The bad aspect of the story is that even if security patches have been available for months, ISPs and owners of the home routers still have installed them. Pierluigi Paganini. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2020

Attackers are already attempting to exploit the recently fixed bug in F5 Networks BIG-IP product, security experts warn. System administrators need to upgrade to fixed versions ASAP. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. A proof-of-concept exploit is now publicly available.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Summarizing, crooks extended the list of targets passing from Arm and MIPS-powered devices to Intel systems. . System administrators need to employ security best practices with the systems they manage.” ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Oracle has just released a security update to prevent 2.3 The flaw was discovered by the Brazilian researcher Mauricio Corrêa, founder of Brazilian security company XLabs. Since its launch, RPCBIND has been receiving updates that cover several failures, including security. This, however, is the most serious finding so far.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

In July 2016, KrebsOnSecurity published a story identifying a Toronto man as the author of the Orcus RAT , a software product that’s been marketed on underground forums and used in countless malware attacks since its creation in 2015. This week, Canadian authorities criminally charged him with orchestrating an international malware scheme.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Security researchers from discovered a new malware associated with the Stealth Falcon cyber espionage group that abuses the Windows BITS service to stealthy exfiltrate data. The Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) service is a built-in component of the Microsoft Windows operating system. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2019

Then the attackers used the stolen information to target into customer systems. “Teams of hackers connected to the Chinese Ministry of State Security had penetrated HPE’s cloud computing service and used it as a launchpad to attack customers, plundering reams of corporate and government secrets for years in what U.S.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2019

Webmin is an open-source web-based interface for system administration for Linux and Unix. The issue was first discovered by security researcher Özkan Mustafa Akku? Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. The expert decided to not report the flaw to the Webmin development team.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2020

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published a Malware Analysis Report (MAR) that includes technical details about a new strain of malware, tracked as BLINDINGCAN, that was attributed to North Korea. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. In April, the U.S.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

“These shortcomings were emblematic of a culture that evolved over years that too often prioritized creativity and collaboration at the expense of security,” according to the report. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. .” states the report. ” reported The Washington Post. .

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Earlier this year Sysdig and Aqua Security researchers started observing cyber attacks targeting Kubernets and Docker instances aimed at mining Monero cryptocurrency. Experts pointed out that a Docker Engine is not properly secured could be exposed to remote attack through Docker Engine API. Security Affairs – Docker APIs, hacking).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Security experts discovered a new peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet dubbed Roboto that is targeting Linux servers running unpatched Webmin installs. The Roboto botnet spreads by compromising systems by exploiting the Webmin RCE vulnerability tracked as CVE-2019-15107 to drop its downloader module on Linux servers running vulnerable installs.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

Canadian police last week raided the residence of a Toronto software developer behind “ Orcus RAT ,” a product that’s been marketed on underground forums and used in countless malware attacks since its creation in 2015. Tips from international private cyber security firms triggered the investigation.”. 2017 analysis of the RAT.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Security agencies belonging to Five Eyes (United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) have released a joint report that details some popular hacking tools. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Security Affairs – Five Eyes, hacking ).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Google announced it will close the consumer version of Google+ before than originally planned due to the discovery of a new security flaw. “A list of impacted users in those domains is being sent to system administrators, and we will reach out again if any additional impacted users or issues are discovered.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

” reads the security advisory published for the CVE-2018-16057 flaw. “To inject malformed packets that the Wireshark application may attempt to parse, the attacker may need access to the trusted, internal network where the targeted system resides. Administrators are advised to monitor affected systems.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Hostwinds owner Peter Holden was the subject of a 2015 KrebsOnSecurity story titled, “ Like Cutting Off a Limb to Save the Body ,” which described how he’d initially built a lucrative business catering mainly to spammers, only to later have a change of heart and aggressively work to keep spammers off of his network.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2018

.” Cisco advisory reveals that the vulnerability could be exploited remotely by leveraging the operating system remote management tools. The vulnerability could be exploited by a malware or ill-intentioned logged-in user to gain system administrator rights and carry out malicious activities. and later prior to 33.0.5,

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

Hladyr is suspected to be a system administrator for the group. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. appeared first on Security Affairs. In January 2018 foreign authorities also arrested Fedir Hladyr in Dresden, Germany, he is currently detained in Seattle pending trial.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Cisco has released a new round of security patches to address potentially serious WebExec Webex flaw first addressed one month ago. Cisco advisory reveals that the vulnerability could be also exploited remotely by leveraging the operating system remote management tools. when running on a Microsoft Windows end-user system. .

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Disclosure timeline: 13th September 2019: We submitted the issue to product-security@apple.com 18th September 2019: Apple asked us the resend the screen shots 10th October 2019: Apple told us that they were planning to address this issue in a future update 30th October 2019: Apple released version 12.10.2 Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2019

The security breach was discovered by an analyst at Lockheed Martin that immediately informed the organization. ” Cyber security experts believe the attack was carried out by the China-linked APT group LuckyMouse (aka Emissary Panda , APT27 and Threat Group 3390, and Bronze Union). .” “ reports Radio-Canada.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Researchers at firmware security firm Eclypsium discovered multiple vulnerabilities referred as USBAnywhere that could be exploited to potentially allow an attacker to take over the baseboard management controller (BMC) for three different models of Supermicro server boards: the X9, X10, and X11. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

Hladyr is suspected to be a system administrator for the group. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. appeared first on Security Affairs. In January 2018 foreign authorities also arrested Fedir Hladyr in Dresden, Germany, he is currently detained in Seattle pending trial.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 2, 2018

Hladyr is suspected to be a system administrator for the group. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. The post Three members of FIN7 (Carbanak) gang charged with stealing 15 million credit cards appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Yakubets is considered the leader of the gang behind the Bugat malware and botnet , the cybercrime group known as Evil Corp, while Turashev allegedly was tasked with other functions, including system administration, management of the internal control panel, and oversight of botnet operations. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2019

This report is meant for incident response or Linux forensics purpose, TO HELP admin & IR folks ”, with this the very beginning sentence starts the new analysis of one of the most talented reverser of the worldwide extended security community, the head of MalwareMustDie team, Mr. unixfreaxjp. Non-Technical-Premise. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Texas Record

AUGUST 23, 2018

Whether it’s creating and securing electronic records or establishing a process to capture records from social media sites, records managers often find themselves working closely with their Information Technology (IT) Departments. Our programmers invite me to meetings involving any new system with a data retention consideration.

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