Krebs on Security

MAY 12, 2022

A document published by the Obama administration in May 2016 (PDF) says the DEA’s El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC) systems in Texas are available for use by federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement, as well as the Department of Defense and intelligence community. .

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Presently, Meduza password stealer supports Windows Server 2012/2016/2019/2022 and Windows 10/11. The product has been originally emerged at XSS underground forum, and later received positive feedback on other well-established communities including Exploit.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2023

FortiGuard Labs researchers observed a worrisome level of attacks attempting to exploit an authentication bypass vulnerability in TBK DVR devices. Threat actors are attempting to exploit a five-year-old authentication bypass issue, tracked as CVE-2018-9995 (CVSS score of 9.8), in TBK DVR devices. in MVPower CCTV DVR models.

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 27, 2018

for failure to implement some basic security measures that made possible the 2016 Uber data breach. published an article on its website revealing that two external individuals had accessed the personal data of 57 million Uber riders and drivers worldwide at the end of 2016. and Uber Technologies Inc., Background. and Uber B.V.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2024

12 percent of the listed servers are running a version of Exchange Server that is no longer supported, and around 25 percent of all servers use current versions of Exchange 2016 and 2019 that lack of security patches. “Around 45,000 Microsoft Exchange servers in Germany can currently be accessed from the Internet without restrictions.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2018

million from accounts at the National Bank of Blacksburg in two separate ATM cashouts between May 2016 and January 2017. The 2016 unlimited operation against National Bank began Saturday, May 28, 2016 and continued through the following Monday. All told, the attackers managed to siphon almost $570,000 in the 2016 attack.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

. “To make sure that your Exchange organization is better protected against the latest threats (for example Emotet, TrickBot or WannaCry to name a few) we recommend disabling SMBv1 if it’s enabled on your Exchange (2013/2016/2019) server.” It also provides an authenticated inter-process communication mechanism.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2024

Apache Superset contains an insecure default initialization of a resource vulnerability that allows an attacker to authenticate and access unauthorized resources on installations that have not altered the default configured SECRET_KEY according to installation instructions. Improper Access Control Vulnerability CVE-2023-23752.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

” Microsoft notes that prior to its Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Update 14 (CU14), a security feature called Extended Protection for Authentication (EPA), which provides NTLM credential relay protections, was not enabled by default.

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2021

Security researcher Gilles Lionel (aka Topotam ) has discovered a vulnerability in the Windows operating system that allows an attacker to force remote Windows machines to authenticate and share their password hashes with him. “PoC tool to coerce Windows hosts to authenticate to other machines via MS-EFSRPC EfsRpcOpenFileRaw function.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

they impact Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019, an authenticated attacker can trigger them to elevate privileges to run PowerShell in the context of the system and gain arbitrary or remote code execution on vulnerable servers. The two flaws are: CVE-2022-41040 – Microsoft Exchange Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Microsoft pointed out that the flaw can be exploited only by an authenticated attacker. Microsoft addressed the flaw with the release of Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for November 2021 , the vulnerability impacts on-premises Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2019. “We read the announcement published by Microsoft.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 1, 2024

When either on-premise or cloud-based Active Directory domain controllers process Kerberos authentication requests, the leak causes the LSASS process to stop responding and the domain controller will unexpectedly restart. Oglio tracks vulnerability CVE-2023-48022 , rated CVSS 9.8 (out out of 10), and calls it Shadow Ray.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2019

“Recently I came across a blog from the ZDI, in which they detail a way to let Exchange authenticate to attackers using NTLM over HTTP. Mollema demonstrated that it’s possible to transfer automatic Windows authentication by connecting a machine on the network to a machine under the control of the attacker.

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Security Affairs

JULY 26, 2021

A few days ago, security researcher Gilles Lionel (aka Topotam ) has discovered a vulnerability in the Windows operating system that allows an attacker to force remote Windows machines to authenticate and share their password hashes with him. Lionel also published a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code on GitHub. are most exposed.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 10, 2020

Firsov also tweeted about competing in and winning several “capture the flag” hacking competitions, including the 2016 and 2017 CTF challenges at Positive Hack Days (PHDays), an annual security conference in Moscow. Isis’ profile on antichat. ” A Google Translate version of that advertisement is here (PDF).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 22, 2024

Evolving from NIS to NIS2 Initially adopted in 2016, the original Network and Information Security Directive (NIS) relied heavily on the discretion of individual member states and lacked accountability. Multi-factor authentication or continuous authentication solutions. They start enforcing those measures the very next day.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2019

The report notes that concerns about the security of these channels is hardly theoretical: In 2010, intruders hijacked ACRE’s election results Web page, and in 2016, cyber thieves successfully breached several county employee email accounts in a spear-phishing attack. Public confidence is at stake, even if the vote itself is secure.”

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Among those is CVE-2022-22005 , a weakness in Microsoft’s Sharepoint Server versions 2013-2019 that could be exploited by any authenticated user. “However, given the number of stolen credentials readily available on underground markets, getting authenticated could be trivial. .

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Knowledge of a the validation key allows an authenticated user with a mailbox to pass arbitrary objects to be deserialized by the web application, which runs as SYSTEM.” A remote, authenticated attacker could exploit the CVE-2020-0688 vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges on a server and take full control.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

billion in 2016, for instance. There are simple steps consumers can take today, for free, to lower their overall risk of a cyber attack, including using multi-factor authentication for their accounts and using strong passwords. A lot of water has flowed under the bridge since then. billion in 2017; Avast acquired AVG for $1.3

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2021

The patches released today fix security problems in Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 , 2016 and 2019. The software giant typically releases security updates on the second Tuesday of each month, but it occasionally deviates from that schedule when addressing active attacks that target newly identified and serious vulnerabilities in its products.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The IT giant has promptly started the investigation into the two zero-day vulnerabilities that impacts Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019. Successful exploitation of the CVE-2022-41040 can allow an authenticated attacker to remotely trigger CVE-2022-41082. . ” reads the advisory published by Microsoft.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 14, 2019

“This vulnerability is pre-authentication and requires no user interaction,” Pope said. CVE-2019-0708 does not affect Microsoft’s latest operating systems — Windows 10 , Windows 8.1 , Windows 8 , Windows Server 2019 , Windows Server 2016 , Windows Server 2012 R2 , or Windows Server 2012.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

.” Indeed, while the exploit also works against more than a dozen of Zyxel’s NAS product lines, the company only released updates for NAS products that were newer than 2016. Its advice for those still using those unsupported NAS devices? “Do not leave the product directly exposed to the internet.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 1, 2022

In customer guidance released Thursday, Microsoft said it is investigating two reported zero-day flaws affecting Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The exposed data include email addresses, password hashes, client IDs, IP addresses, and tokens for business API users, authentication tokens for connected accounts, and non-personal and internal data was compromised. Looking for 1-2 sales then thread will be deleted.” ” reads the announcement. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2020

The Mirai botnet was first discovered in August 2016 by the MalwareMustDie researcher Mirai source code , two months later its source code was leaked online. Since 2016, security experts have discovered numerous variants of the Mirai botnet such as Masuta , Okiru , Satori , Mukashi , SORA , and Tsunami.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 10, 2019

.” In December 2016, KrebsOnSecurity heard from a woman who had her Gmail, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn accounts hijacked after a group of individuals led by Forza taunted her on Twitter as they took over her phone account. “@forzathegod had the audacity to even tweet me to say I was about to be hacked.”

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

“Universal Admin,” is crimeware platform that first surfaced in 2016. Perhaps the biggest selling point for U-Admin is a module that helps phishers intercept multi-factor authentication codes. Qbot) — to harvest one-time codes needed for multi-factor authentication. ” U-Admin, a.k.a.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2019

Phishing attacks carried out by injecting malicious content in legitimate traffic are difficult to detect when attackers use an embedded browser framework or any other automated tool for authentication. Chromium Embedded Framework – CEF) or another automation platform is being used for authentication. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

A string of advances in biometric authentication systems has brought facial recognition systems, in particular, to the brink of wide commercial use. According to Allied Market Research, the facial recognition systems market is in the midst of rising at a compounded annual growth rate of 21% between 2016 to 2022. billion by 2022.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

“We are aware of limited targeted attacks in the wild using one of vulnerabilities ( CVE-2021-42321 ), which is a post-authentication vulnerability in Exchange 2016 and 2019. Microsoft pointed out that the flaw can be exploited only by an authenticated attacker. ” read the announcement published by Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2020

Knowledge of a the validation key allows an authenticated user with a mailbox to pass arbitrary objects to be deserialized by the web application, which runs as SYSTEM.” A remote, authenticated attacker could exploit the CVE-2020-0688 vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges on a server and take full control.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election. The vulnerability is a Microsoft Outlook spoofing vulnerability that can lead to an authentication bypass.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Among the chief concerns for enterprises this month is CVE-2020-16875 , which involves a critical flaw in the email software Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 and 2019. “We have seen the previously patched Exchange bug CVE-2020-0688 used in the wild, and that requires authentication. . We’ll likely see this one in the wild soon.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

VFEmail’s Twitter account responded that “external facing systems, of differing OS’s and remote authentication, in multiple data centers are down.” Strangely, not all VMs shared the same authentication, but all were destroyed. The first signs of the attack came on the morning of Feb. Just attack and destroy.”

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