eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Urgent patching and prompt updates can protect systems from unauthorized access, data breaches, and potential exploitation by threat actors. Organizations must prioritize implementing effective security measures and conducting frequent audits. Attackers were seen attempting to disable security plug-ins.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 15, 2019

This scenario seems smart, but is it secure? There’s just one problem…these massive, radical, interconnected technology systems also raise serious privacy and security concerns. The cost of a security failure. The potential security failure of a smart city initiative could have grave consequences.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Cisco has released security updates to address 17 vulnerabilities affecting its networking and unified communications product lines. Cisco has released security patches to fix 17 vulnerabilities affecting its networking and unified communications product lines. ” reads the advisory published by Cisco. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 22, 2022

A copy of the passport for Denis Kloster, as posted to his Vkontakte page in 2019. 2019, he obtained a visa from the American Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand. Kloster says he’s worked in many large companies in Omsk as a system administrator, web developer and photographer. info , allproxy[.]info It shows that in Oct.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Microsoft today released software updates to plug security holes in its Windows operating systems and related software. Among those is CVE-2022-22005 , a weakness in Microsoft’s Sharepoint Server versions 2013-2019 that could be exploited by any authenticated user.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2021

The Ukrainian national Fedir Hladyr (35), aka “das” or “AronaXus,” was sentenced to 10 years in prison for having served as a manager and systems administrator for the financially motivated group FIN7 , aka Carbanak. ” If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2022

CrowdStrike researchers reported that at least 13 telecommunication companies were compromised by the group since 2019. In order to identify CAKETAP running on a Solaris system, administrators can check for the presence of a hook installed in the ipcl_get_next_conn hook function. ” reads the analysis published by Mandiant.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2023

Cyber security researcher Luca Mella analyzed the Makop ransomware employed in a recent intrusion. Technical details of the Makop ransomware encryption tool have been greatly deepened by the Lifars security team ( link ), so, in this article, I am going to focus on other parts of the Makop gang arsenal leveraged to conduct digital extortions.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Administratio n (CISA), Snatch was originally named Team Truniger , based on the nickname of the group’s founder and organizer — Truniger. “The command requires Windows system administrators,” Truniger’s ads explained.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 10, 2022

In 2019, AFRINIC fired a top employee after it emerged that in 2013 he quietly commandeered millions of IPs from defunct African entities or from those that were long ago acquired by other firms, and then conspired to sell an estimated $50 million worth of the IPs to marketers based outside Africa.

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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

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2019

Webmin is an open-source web-based interface for system administration for Linux and Unix. News of the day is that Webmin contained a remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-15107, for more than a year. The issue was first discovered by security researcher Özkan Mustafa Akku? ehakkus) August 11, 2019.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

In fact, memory attacks have quietly emerged as a powerful and versatile new class of hacking technique that threat actors in the vanguard are utilizing to subvert conventional IT security systems. That’s Gartner’s estimate of global spending on cybersecurity in 2017 and 2018. This is referred to as persistence.

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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. “Fast forwarded to October 11, 2019, our Anglerfish honeypot captured another suspicious ELF sample, and it turned out to be the Downloader of the previous suspicious ELF sample.”

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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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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. It was on Tuesday, October 16, 2019 at 5:00 p.m.,

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

The accused, 36-year-old John “Armada” Revesz , has maintained that Orcus is a legitimate “ R emote A dministration T ool” aimed at helping system administrators remotely manage their computers, and that he’s not responsible for how licensed customers use his product. An advertisement for Orcus RAT.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

Its author maintains Orcus is a legitimate R emote A dministration T ool that is merely being abused, but security experts say it includes multiple features more typically seen in malware known as a R emote A ccess T rojan. Tips from international private cyber security firms triggered the investigation.”.

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IT Governance

MARCH 2, 2020

At first glance, February appears to be a big improvement cyber security-wise compared to the start of the year. South Carolina-based United Health notifies patients of 2019 data breach (36). San Diego school district investigating after online grading system hacked (unknown). Cyber attacks.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

MB) [link] — Nick Carr (@ItsReallyNick) April 22, 2019. Hladyr is suspected to be a system administrator for the group. appeared first on Security Affairs. This CARBANAK work was in active development when whoopsed to VT from RU on 2017-04-19. kb3r1p.rar 879 files (15.03 MB) [link] apwmie.rar 24 files (5.93

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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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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2019

I had a revelatory discussion about this with Aviv Grafi, CEO of Votiro, at RSA 2019 in San Francisco last week. Votiro is a Tel Aviv-based security startup that is pioneering a new white-listing approach to help companies mitigate their exposure to weaponized email and document-distributed malware. Talk more soon.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

MB) [link] — Nick Carr (@ItsReallyNick) April 22, 2019. Hladyr is suspected to be a system administrator for the group. appeared first on Security Affairs. This CARBANAK work was in active development when whoopsed to VT from RU on 2017-04-19. kb3r1p.rar 879 files (15.03 MB) [link] apwmie.rar 24 files (5.93

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IT Governance

JUNE 27, 2019

On 19 March 2019, Norsk Hydro’s systems were infected with the LockerGoga ransomware. TrendMicro’s analysis into the ransomware found that it was the same system administration tool abused by the likes of SOREBRECT and Bad Rabbit. Cyber security experts and governments urge victims to never pay the ransom.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

This article looks at the remote desktop protocol, how RDP attacks work, best practices for defense, the prevalence of RDP attacks today, and how remote desktop software vendors are securing their clients. Also read : Best Internet Security Suites & Software. Table of Contents. What is the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Our investigation revealed that this remote endpoint is associated with criminal activities dating back to 2019, indicating that these hosts were likely under the control of the same technical administration. For instance: In September 2019, Cybereason found this hostname in old LockBit 2.0

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Here are the top Twitter accounts to follow for the latest commentary, research, and much-needed humor in the ever-evolving information security space. Security enthusiast and Linux evangelist Binni Shah consistently offers valuable tutorials, guides, and insights for the cybersecurity community. Binni Shah | @binitamshah.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2021

REvil’s last big victim was Kaseya , a Miami-based company whose products help system administrators manage large networks remotely. REvil is widely considered a reboot of GandCrab , a prolific ransomware gang that boasted of extorting more than $2 billion over 12 months before abruptly closing up shop in June 2019.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 16, 2019

Secure software depends on people finding vulnerabilities and deploying fixes before they are exploited in the wild. This has led to a world of security researchers and bug bounties directed at finding new vulnerabilities. When I got out of undergrad, I was a computer security officer. Brumley: Yeah, absolutely. Brumley: Yeah.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 30, 2019

A 2019 Synopsys reports 96% of code bases [caution: email wall] they scanned included open source software and up to 60% contain a known vulnerability. of them – are labeled as a security vulnerability. So far, OSS-Fuzz has found over 16,000 defects, with 3,345 of them labeled as security related (20%!).

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 16, 2019

Secure software depends on people finding vulnerabilities and deploying fixes before they are exploited in the wild. This has led to a world of security researchers and bug bounties directed at finding new vulnerabilities. When I got out of undergrad, I was a computer security officer. Brumley: Yeah, absolutely. Brumley: Yeah.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 16, 2019

Secure software depends on people finding vulnerabilities and deploying fixes before they are exploited in the wild. This has led to a world of security researchers and bug bounties directed at finding new vulnerabilities. When I got out of undergrad, I was a computer security officer. Brumley: Yeah, absolutely. Brumley: Yeah.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 30, 2019

A 2019 Synopsys reports 96% of code bases [caution: email wall] they scanned included open source software and up to 60% contain a known vulnerability. of them – are labeled as a security vulnerability. So far, OSS-Fuzz has found over 16,000 defects, with 3,345 of them labeled as security related (20%!).

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 30, 2019

A 2019 Synopsys reports 96% of code bases [caution: email wall] they scanned included open source software and up to 60% contain a known vulnerability. of them – are labeled as a security vulnerability. So far, OSS-Fuzz has found over 16,000 defects, with 3,345 of them labeled as security related (20%!).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 3, 2019

As highlighted in the 2019 Thales Data Threat Report , an increasing number of organizations across the globe are now using sensitive data on digitally transformative technologies like cloud, virtualization, big data, IoT, blockchain, etc. The second layer of the stack covers system-level protection controls. To Sum It Up.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 15, 2023

An IBM partner since 2013, Denmark-based Anycloud has been awarded Cloud Partner of the Year 2017, Technology Service Provider of the Year 2019, and Business Partner of the Year and Business Partner Excellence Award – Europe 2022. Anycloud is ISO 27001, ISAE 3000 approved, and a level 1 star member of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2023

The Originating Malvertising Campaign According to CTI investigation on the adversary infrastructure, we were able to identify an ongoing campaign luring system administrators to install the malicious code into their machines. The CrashedTech Loader The “KiffAppE2.exe”

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