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. The change will also be enabled for all currently supported standalone versions of Office, including versions 2021, 2019, 2016, and 2013.

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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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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The fix: System administrators are encouraged to install the Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Update 14 (CU14), which was issued in February 2024 and enabled NTLM credentials Relay Protection. Despite VMware’s three-year-old deprecation statement, unprotected systems remain at risk.

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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. companies, predominantly in the restaurant, gambling, and hospitality industries.” ” concludes DoJ.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2022

If the NAS is exposed to the Internet the dashboard will display the message “The System Administration service can be directly accessible from an external IP address via the following protocols: HTTP.”. Administrator of devices exposed to the Internet should: Disable the Port Forwarding function of the router.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

GandCrab dissolved in July 2019, and is thought to have become “ REvil ,” one of the most ruthless and rapacious Russian ransomware groups of all time. “The command requires Windows system administrators,” Truniger’s ads explained. “Experience in backup, increase privileges, mikicatz, network.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2023

The Makop criminals were recently using version 2.5.3869 of the tool, which dates back to 2019. In fact, Makop criminals are still using tools built back in 2019 and 2020 to compromise small and medium enterprises around the world. Advanced_Port_Scanner_2.5.3869.exe Everything is freeware software maintained by Voidtools.

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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.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2019

OTA -- over-the-air updates) were stored in a publicly accessible AWS S3 bucket that also lacked TLS encryption (CVE-2019-16270, CVE-2019-16274). Unauthenticated web server: a web server running Android OS on port 8080 discloses all whiteboards stored locally on the device (CVE-2019-16271). These aren't subtle vulnerabilities.

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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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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. ehakkus) August 11, 2019. AppSec_Village @defcon pic.twitter.com/VxLjqpBJPF — Özkan Mustafa Akku?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

“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.” Webmin is an open-source web-based interface for system administration for Linux and Unix.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

It was designed to make it convenient for system administrators to automate tasks and manage configurations across all Windows endpoints and servers in a company network. A privileged account provides access to sensitive systems and data bases and typically gets assigned to a system administrator or senior manager.

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IT Governance

MARCH 2, 2020

South Carolina-based United Health notifies patients of 2019 data breach (36). San Diego school district investigating after online grading system hacked (unknown). Columbus County Schools gives update after systems wiped by cyber attack (5,673). Advocate Aurora’s HR system breached in phishing campaign (unknown).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2020

Many system administrators and companies were rushing to update internet exposed machines, like web servers or gateways, worried about possible remote code execution, reviving the EternalBlue /WannaCry crisis in their mind. . The Malware Threat behind CurveBall.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In this type of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, the malicious traffic generated with the technique is greater than the once associated with the use of memcached, a service that does not require authentication but has been exposed on the internet by inexperienced system administrators. Brasília time, 1:00 p.m.

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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. 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 ” reads a blog post published by FireEye.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 15, 2019

In June 2019, Riviera Beach in FL paid $600,000 to hackers to restore its email system and public records. The potential security failure of a smart city initiative could have grave consequences. A report by US cyber-security firm Recorded Future published last May highlighted a spike in ransomware attacks targeting US cities.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

I had the chance to meet with him again at Black Hat 2019 in Las Vegas. This skills deficit has been the top worry of IT pros for several years, according to tech consultancy ESG’s annual survey of IT pros; some 53% of the organizations participating in ESG’s 2018 -2019 poll reported a “problematic shortage” of cybersecurity skills.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

31, 2019, Rezvesz said his company recently was the subject of an international search warrant executed jointly by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). “The In an “official press release” posted to pastebin.com on Mar.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

In January of 2019, Reuters published a report into Project Raven, a campaign allegedly conducted by former NSA operatives and aiming at the same types of targets as Stealth Falcon. The Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) service is a built-in component of the Microsoft Windows operating system.

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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. 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 ” reads a blog post published by FireEye.

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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. It was designed to make it convenient for system administrators to automate tasks and manage configurations across all Windows endpoints and servers in a company network.

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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. How the incident occurred.

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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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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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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

lazydocker : A simple terminal UI for both docker and docker-compose : [link] pic.twitter.com/HsK17rzg8m — Binni Shah (@binitamshah) July 1, 2019. Facebook Plans on Backdooring WhatsApp [link] — Schneier Blog (@schneierblog) August 1, 2019. — Jason Haddix (@Jhaddix) July 27, 2019. Brian Krebs | @briankrebs.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 16, 2019

Like, DevSecOps, the problems facing DevSecOps face every system administrator if we go back in the world. In Silicon Valley, we think of SREs and DevSecOps, but there’s this huge nation full of just system administrators who wanna know, “If I update it, is it gonna break? Do I need to update it?”

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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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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 16, 2019

Like, DevSecOps, the problems facing DevSecOps face every system administrator if we go back in the world. In Silicon Valley, we think of SREs and DevSecOps, but there’s this huge nation full of just system administrators who wanna know, “If I update it, is it gonna break? Do I need to update it?”

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 16, 2019

Like, DevSecOps, the problems facing DevSecOps face every system administrator if we go back in the world. In Silicon Valley, we think of SREs and DevSecOps, but there’s this huge nation full of just system administrators who wanna know, “If I update it, is it gonna break? Do I need to update it?”

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AIIM

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Radicati released updated figures early in 2019 that shows the total number of active email users has jumped to 3.9 A study by The Manifest found that 43% of businesses are expected to spend more money on email marketing in 2019. More than that, American workers will receive an average of 126 emails a day.

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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. Today, we are launching the Anycloud Backup 365 (ACB365) offering on the IBM Cloud Marketplace.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

A few days later, IT systems started malfunctioning with ransom messages following. The system administrator did not configure standard security controls when installing the server in question. Meanwhile, the suspect server was connected to the CDOT domain with an administrator account and the internet.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

The campaign, dubbed PerSwaysion due to the extensive abuse of Microsoft Sway, has been active since at least mid-2019 and was attributed to Vietnamese speaking developers and Nigerian operators. ?ybercriminals The original post is available: [link].

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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.

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