Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Adobe released security updates for Flash Player that address two vulnerabilities, including a critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2018-15982, exploited in targeted attacks. Adobe is aware of reports that an exploit for CVE-2018-15982 exists in the wild.” ” reads the analysis published by 360 the Enterprise Security Group.

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 24, 2023

Formed in 2018 to compete in the inaugural Call for Code Global Challenge — which it won — Project OWL is a global team of entrepreneurs focused on creating radically cost-effective and easy to use aerospace technologies. This is where Project OWL comes into play: developing new technologies to help address these challenges.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 23, 2021

To fill this gap and aid in the analysis, detection, and testing of malware, sandboxing is widely used to give organizations the setting, isolation, and security tools needed to preserve the integrity of the host network. Sandbox solutions today are compared today by their set of features to aid advanced malware analysis. Automation.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2019

Threat actors are exploiting a Jenkins vulnerability (CVE-2018-1000861) disclosed in 2018 to deliver a cryptocurrency miner using the Kerberods dropper. According to SANS handler Renato Marinho, a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for CVE-2018-1000861 was released in early March. ” reads the analysis published by Marinho. .

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The Windows zero-day vulnerability tracked as CVE-2018-8453 is a privilege escalation flaw that was exploited by an APT group in attacks against entities in the Middle East. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2018-8453, affects the Win32k component of Windows handles objects in memory. Security Affairs – FruityArmor, CVE-2018-8453 ).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Experts from Kaspersky Lab reported that that the recently patched Windows kernel zero-day vulnerability ( CVE-2018-8611 ) has been exploited by several threat actors. Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday updates for December 2018 address nearly 40 flaws, including a zero-day vulnerability affecting the Windows kernel. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Kaspersky revealed that the CVE-2018-8589 Windows 0-day fixed by Microsoft Nov. 2018 Patch Tuesday has been exploited by at least one APT group in attacks in the Middle East. Kaspersky Lab described the CVE-2018-8589 flaw as a race condition in win32k!xxxMoveWindow ” reads the analysis published by Kaspersky.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2018

The North Korea-linked Dark Hotel APT group is leveraging the recently patched CVE-2018-8373 vulnerability in the VBScript engine in attacks in the wild. The analysis of the exploit code for the CVE-2018-8373 revealed it shared the obfuscation technique implemented for another exploit triggering the CVE-2018-8174 flaw.

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Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2019

Kaspersky experts discovered that Sodinokibi, aka Sodin, Ransomware currently also exploits the CVE-2018-8453 vulnerability to elevate privileges in Windows. Researchers published a technical analysis of the privilege escalation process that allows the threat to gain SYSTEM privileges. ” continues the analysis.

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Info Source

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Infosource has included these solutions in their Capture market assessment going back to 2018. Infosource Capture Software Division Infosource is the leading analyst firm for Intelligent Capture and IDP Software market analysis and consulting with more than 20 years of experience in this field.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 9, 2018

Also featured: an analysis of the recent news of the Meltdown and Spectre microprocessor flaws and the POS malware attack on retailer Forever 21. Dave DeWalt, former CEO of McAfee and FireEye, identifies the next generation of cybersecurity threats in the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2019

First detailed in September 2018, the toolkit was observed delivering malware families ranging from ransomware to backdoors, but also fingerprinting the browser profile to identify targets of interest. Security researcher Kafeine identified that Fallout is now the second exploit kit to add CVE-2018-15982.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2019

billion bad ads in 2018, including 58.8 Google introduced 31 new ads policies in 2018, aiming at protecting users from scams and other fraudulent activities (i.e. Some of the policies added by Google in 2018 include the ban of ads from for-profit bail bond providers that were abused for taking advantage of vulnerable communities.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2018

SAP released security notes for August 2018 that address dozens patches, the good news is that there aren’t critical vulnerabilities. “On 14th of August 2018, SAP Security Patch Day saw the release of 12 Security Notes. “An attacker can use [CVE-2018-2447] vulnerability with a help of specially crafted SQL queries.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Sorting Out What Kinds of Incidents Are Most Common This Year What kinds of health data breaches have been most common so far in 2018? An analysis of the official HHS breach tally reveals the latest trends, and security experts offer an analysis.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2019

Security experts at Group-IB presented at Money2020 Asia the results of an interesting analysis of hi-tech crime landscape in Asia in 2018. The number of leaked cards increased in 2018 by 56%. The total underground market value of Singaporean banks’ cards compromised in 2018 is estimated at nearly $640 000.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 11, 2019

However, a newly-minted security sub-specialty — christened Network Traffic Analysis, or NTA, by Gartner — holds some fresh promise for getting to the root of the problem. This has led us to the current environment in which security threats are multiplying even as network breaches grow costlier and more frequent.

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2019

US DHS and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) conducted a joint analysis of a traffic tunneling tool dubbed ELECTRICFISH used by North Korea-linked APT group tracked as Hidden Cobra (aka Lazarus ). According to Huss, three different samples of the same malware were uploaded to VirusTotal in August, September and October 2018.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2019

Bahrain, 08.04.2019 – Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks , and NGN International, a global system integrator, analyzed cybersecurity landscape in Gulf countries in 2018. According to Group-IB’s annual Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2018 report, on average, from June 2017 to August 2018, the details of 1.8

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The MyloBot botnet has been active since 2017 and was first detailed by cybersecurity firm Deep Instinct in 2018. MyloBot is a highly evasive Windows botnet that supports advanced anti-analysis techniques. Since November 2018, BitSight researchers started sinkholing the botnet. ” reads the report published by Bitsight.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2018

Security updates released this week for the Apache Struts 2 open source development framework addressed a critical RCE tracked as CVE-2018-11776. includes the security updates to address the CVE-2018-11776. At the moment, we are aware of two such vectors” reads the technical analysis published bb Semmle.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2019

This week experts at Chronicle published a study on signed malware registered on VirusTotal that states that most of the digital certificates used to sign malware samples found on VirusTotal in 2018 have been issued by the Certificate Authority (CA) Comodo CA (aka Sectigo ). Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – digital certificates, CA).

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

On February 7, 2018, the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) released its 2018 National Exam Program Examination Priorities (2018 Exam Priorities) and, once again, identified cybersecurity as one of its main areas of focus.

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Data Matters

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its Fall 2018 National Meeting (Fall Meeting) in San Francisco, California, from November 15 to 18, 2018. This post summarizes the highlights from this meeting. NAIC Continues its Evaluation of Insurers’ Use of Big Data.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 4, 2018

This revolution in the creation, transfer, storage and analysis of data has produced our new digital economy. I look forward not only to our own ongoing growth and success in 2018, but also to contributing to yours! Please feel free to leave me a comment below on what you’re looking forward to in 2018.

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Data Matters

AUGUST 24, 2018

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its Summer 2018 National Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, from August 4 to 7, 2018. The Task Force aims to complete the white paper by the fall of 2018. This post summarizes the highlights from this meeting.

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2024

” reads the analysis published by Infoblox. ” The experts noticed that a cluster of activities linked to a threat actor tracked as “ExploderBot” included most demonstrably damaging DNS DDoS attacks, ceased in May 2018. .”

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Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2020

Worse still, the DFS found, the vulnerability was discovered in a penetration test First American conducted on its own in December 2018. But in Wednesday’s filing, the DFS said First American was unable to determine whether records were accessed prior to Jun 2018.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2018

According to the threat intelligence firm Volexity, the CVE-2018-11776 vulnerability is already being abused in malicious attacks in the wild. Just yesterday I wrote about the availability online of the exploit code for the recently discovered Critical remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2018-11776 in Apache Struts 2.

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

On February 7, 2018, the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) of the U.S. For example, in reaffirming OCIE’s limited resources, the Exam Priorities make clear that decisions such as which firms to examine and the scope of the exams are guided by a risk-based analysis (rather than in routine cycles). cybersecurity.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

SAP today just released the September 2018 set of Security Notes that address a total of 14 flaws in its products, including a critical flaw in SAP Business Client. The September 2018 Security Patch Day includes other 13 Security Notes, three were rated High severity, 9 Medium risk, and 1 Low severity. 2.0 ( CVE-2018-2465).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2024

On compromised ASA devices, attackers utilize the host-scan-reply field to deliver shellcode, bypassing the need for CVE-2018-0101 exploitation. Additionally, Line Dancer hooks into the crash dump and AAA processes to evade forensic analysis and establish remote access VPN tunnels.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2018

The Exploit code for the recently discovered Critical remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2018-11776 in Apache Struts 2 was published on GitHub, experts fear massive attacks. The CVE-2018-11776 vulnerability affects Struts 2.3 ” reads the analysis published by Recorded Future. through 2.3.34, Struts 2.5

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2020

. “On May 12, 2020, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of Defense (DoD) released three Malware Analysis Reports (MARs) on malware variants used by the North Korean government.” May 12, 2020: Malware Analysis Report (1028834-1.v1)

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2020

In a few days back, the MalwareMustDie team’s security researcher unixfreaxjp has published a new Linux malware analysis of Fbot that has focused on the decryption of the last encryption logic used by its bot client. This article explains what we have learned about the Fbot traced back from the year of 2014.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Speaking of generous contributions, more than 100 readers have expressed their support in 2018 via PayPal donations to this site. The majority of those funds go toward paying for subscription-based services that KrebsOnSecurity relies upon for routine data gathering and analysis. Thanks for your patience.

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