Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 23, 2022

Access Management is Essential for Strengthening OT Security. Attacking OT systems presents a major threat not only to business disruption, but also to national economy and security. Identity and access management can play an essential role into strengthening the security posture of critical infrastructure.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

From the very beginning of the cloud computing era, security has been the biggest concern among enterprises considering the public cloud. In addition, 95 percent of survey respondents confirmed that they are extremely to moderately concerned about public cloud security. What is cloud security?

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 8, 2021

Microsoft today released another round of security updates for Windows operating systems and supported software, including fixes for six zero-day bugs that malicious hackers already are exploiting in active attacks. June’s Patch Tuesday addresses just 49 security holes — about half the normal number of vulnerabilities lately.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2022

Initial access brokers, or IABs , are the latest specialists on the scene. I had the chance at RSA Conference 2022 to visit with John Shier, senior security advisor at Sophos, a security software and hardware company. Related: How cybercriminals leverage digital transformation.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Initial access brokers (IABs) play an increasingly central role in this cyber underworld. They search for weak points and perform the challenging, technically demanding work of breaking past an organization’s security, then offer access to the victim to the highest bidder. IABs can gain this access through many different means.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2022

Which are the cyber attacks of 2021 that had the major impact on organizations worldwide in terms of financial losses and disruption of the operations? According to Bloomberg , CNA Financial opted to pay the ransom two weeks after the security breach because it was not able to restore its operations.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 13, 2022

Investors more than doubled down in 2021, increasing investment by about 145 percent. Securing APIs. The SolarWinds attack made API supply chain security a front-page story in 2020. The Log4j vulnerability reported at the end 2021 heightened concern even more. Related: Taking API proliferation seriously.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 10, 2022

For many, 2021 was a year to forget. The cyber security landscape offered similarly familiar topics: there were huge data breaches at Facebook and LinkedIn, while the threat of ransomware reached catastrophic levels. 2021 got off to an inauspicious start when cyber security researchers reported a huge leak of Brazilian residents’ data.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 5, 2022

Well, the stats are even scarier with over 50% increase in ransomware attacks in 2021, compared to 2020. As an enterprise security team, you could restrict internet access at your egress points, but this doesn’t do much when the workforce is remote. Back up your data and secure your backups in an offline location.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2024

China-linked group UNC3886 has been exploiting vCenter Server zero-day vulnerability CVE-2023-34048 since at least late 2021. Mandiant researchers reported that China-linked APT group UNC3886 has been exploiting vCenter Server zero-day vulnerability CVE-2023-34048 since at least late 2021. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2022

VMware has yet to address the CVE-2021-22048 privilege escalation vulnerability in vCenter Server disclosed in November 2021. VMware warns customers that it has yet to address a high-severity privilege escalation vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-22048 , in the vCenter Server. SecurityAffairs – hacking, CVE-2021-22048 ).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 1, 2022

Which are the most-read cyber stories of 2021? The development team behind the Linux Mint distro has fixed a security flaw that could have allowed users to bypass the OS screensaver. The development team behind the Linux Mint distro has fixed a security flaw that could have allowed users to bypass the OS screensaver.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2022

Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical flaw (CVE-2021-20038) in SonicWall’s Secure Mobile Access (SMA) gateways addressed in December. Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-20038 , in SonicWall’s Secure Mobile Access (SMA) gateways addressed by the vendor in December.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Rarely do cybercriminal gangs that deploy ransomware gain the initial access to the target themselves. More commonly, that access is purchased from a cybercriminal broker who specializes in acquiring remote access credentials — such as usernames and passwords needed to remotely connect to the target’s network.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 28, 2022

cybersecurity agencies joined their counterparts around the globe to urge organizations to address the top 15 vulnerabilities exploited in 2021. VMware, Atlassian, Pulse Secure and Fortinet rounded out the list. See the Top Secure Email Gateways. CVE-2021-44228. CVE-2021-40539. CVE-2021-34523. “U.S.,

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 25, 2021

But sometime over the past 48 hours, the cybercriminal syndicate updated its victim shaming blog to indicate that it is now selling access to many of the organizations it has hacked. It’s also not obvious why they would advertise having hacked into companies if they plan on selling that access to extract sensitive data going forward.

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2021

Japanese researchers spotted an Olympics-themed wiper targeting Japanese users ahead of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. Tokyo Olympics could be a great opportunity for cybercriminals and malware authors, the US FBI warned p rivate US companies of cyberattacks that might attempt to disrupt the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2021

MITRE and CISA announced the release of the “2021 Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Most Important Hardware Weaknesses” list. MITRE and the DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have announced the release of the “2021 Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Most Important Hardware Weaknesses” list.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

0patch released free unofficial patches for Windows local privilege escalation zero-day ( CVE-2021-24084 ) in Windows 10, version 1809 and later. 0patch released free unofficial patches for Windows local privilege escalation zero-day (CVE-2021-24084) in Windows 10, version 1809 and later. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2021

Mint Mobile discloses a data breach, an unauthorized attacker gained access to subscribers’ account information and ported phone numbers. The data breach notification sent to the impacted subscribers reveals that an unauthorized person gained access to their data between June 8th and June 10th. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 2, 2022

On May 11, 2022, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) published its Annual Activity Report for 2021 (the “Report”). The Report provides an overview of the CNIL’s enforcement activities in 2021. In particular, the Report revealed that: The CNIL received 14,143 complaints in 2021 (+4% compared to 2020) and closed 12,522.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 20, 2022

Welcome to our review of security incidents for 2021, in which we take a closer look at the information gathered in our monthly list of data breaches and cyber attacks. IT Governance discovered 1,243 security incidents in 2021, which accounted for 5,126,930,507 breached records. How security incidents occurred.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2022

VMware addressed a heap-overflow issue (CVE-2021-22045) in Workstation, Fusion and CVE-2021-22045 products that can lead to code execution on the hypervisor. VMware released security updates to address a heap-overflow vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-22045, in its Workstation, Fusion and ESXi products.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2021

Trend Micro disclosed technical details of a patched privilege escalation issue, tracked as CVE-2021-30724 , that impacts macOS, iOS and iPadOS. Trend Micro researchers disclosed technical details of a patched privilege escalation vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-30724 , that impacts macOS, iOS, and iPadOS. and iPadOS 14.6.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2021

The wormable CVE-2021-31166 vulnerability in the HTTP Protocol Stack of the Windows IIS server also affects WinRM on Windows 10 and Server systems. The security researcher Axel Souchet has published over the weekend a proof-of-concept exploit code for the wormable flaw that impacted Windows IIS. Pierluigi Paganini.

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HID Global

APRIL 13, 2021

Windows Hello Secured: Simple Biometric Access. Tue, 04/13/2021 - 09:05.

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Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2022

The proxy server allows attackers to access the traffic and capture the target’s password and the session cookie. Once obtained the credentials and session cookies to access users’ mailboxes, threat actors launched business email compromise (BEC) campaigns against other targets. appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2022

Samba fixes a critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-44142 , that can allow remote attackers to execute code with root privileges. Samba has addressed a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-44142 , that can be exploited by remote attackers to gain code execution with root privileges on servers running vulnerable software.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 28, 2023

Flaws That Give Back-End Access to an Object Can Cause Large Breaches, Agencies Say U.S. and Australian cybersecurity agencies are warning developers to guard against access flaws, saying that failure to institute authentication checks can lead to large data breaches.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Crooks discovered how to bypass the patch for a recent Microsoft Office vulnerability (CVE-2021-40444) and are using it to distribute Formbook malware. Cybercriminals have found a way to bypass the patch for a recent Microsoft Office vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-40444 (CVSS score of 8.8).

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 15, 2024

government is warning that “smart locks” securing entry to an estimated 50,000 dwellings nationwide contain hard-coded credentials that can be used to remotely open any of the locks. The lock’s maker Chirp Systems remains unresponsive, even though it was first notified about the critical weakness in March 2021.

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The Guardian Data Protection

AUGUST 8, 2023

Watchdog apologises for security breach in which names and addresses were accessible as far back as 2021 UK politics live – latest updates The data of millions of voters was accessible to hackers in a cyber-attack by “hostile actors” discovered almost a year ago, the Electoral Commission has admitted. Continue reading.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Chipmaker AMD has addressed a vulnerability in PSP driver, tracked as CVE-2021-26333 , that could allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information from the targeted system. ” reads the security advisory. ” reads the advisory published by the security firm. SecurityAffairs – hacking, CVE-2021-26333).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2023

Researchers discovered that the Clop ransomware gang was looking for a zero-day exploit in the MOVEit Transfer since 2021. Kroll security experts discovered that the Clop ransomware gang was looking for a zero-day exploit in the MOVEit Transfer since 2021. ” reads the analysis published by the security firm.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Palo Alto Networks disclosed a critical remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-3064 , in its GlobalProtect portal and gateway interfaces. The attacker must have network access to the GlobalProtect interface to exploit this issue.” Experts pointed out that this port is often accessible over the Internet.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2021

American multinational computer technology giant Dell addresses a 12-year-old driver flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-21551 , impacting millions of computers. Hundreds of millions of Dell computers worldwide are affected by a 12-year-old vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-21551, that affects Dell DBUtil driver. The flaw affects version 2.3

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2021

Threat actors are actively scanning the Internet for VMware vCenter servers affected by a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-21985. The CVE-2021-21985 flaw is caused by the lack of input validation in the Virtual SAN ( vSAN ) Health Check plug-in, which is enabled by default in the vCenter Server.

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