Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2023

AvosLocker affiliates use legitimate software and open-source remote system administration tools to compromise the victims’ networks. FileZilla and Rclone for data exfiltration. Threat actors were also observed uploading and use custom webshells to enable network access [T1505.003]. Notepad++, RDP Scanner, and 7zip.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Critical vulnerabilities have been discovered across multiple systems, including Microsoft Exchange Servers, the Bricks Builder Theme for WordPress, VMware, ScreenConnect, Joomla, and Apple Shortcuts. Urgent patching and prompt updates can protect systems from unauthorized access, data breaches, and potential exploitation by threat actors.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 6, 2024

They also found a healthy pipeline of demand for talent, with 91% of the organizations surveyed indicating they anticipate hiring mainframe system administrators or mainframe application developers over the next 1 to 2 years. This council builds upon the many IBM mainframe skills programs already in place.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 17, 2023

Ransomware – Stop’em Before They Wreak Havoc madhav Thu, 05/18/2023 - 06:03 Cybercriminals have been making a run on your data with ransomware attacks over the last decade in increasing frequency. Cybercriminals hold your data hostage by encrypting it, and threaten to destroy it or publish it, unless a large ransom is paid.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2022

Experts spotted a new Unix rootkit, called Caketap, that was used to steal ATM banking data. Mandiant researchers discovered a new Unix rootkit named Caketap, which is used to steal ATM banking data, while investigating the activity of the LightBasin cybercrime group (aka UNC1945 ). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 8, 2021

The attackers exploited a vulnerability in software from Kaseya , a Miami-based company whose products help system administrators manage large networks remotely. Six years later, Kaseya’s customer portal was still exposed to the data-leaking weakness. As its name suggests, CVE-2015-2862 was issued in July 2015.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2022

The report paints a picture of ransomware gangs arriving on the scene typically after crypto miners, botnet builders, malware embedders and initial access brokers may have already profited from earlier intrusions. LockBit went in first and exfiltrated data and passwords, and then used PsExe to distribute their ransomware payload.

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

On December 3, 2018, twelve attorneys general (“AGs”) jointly filed a data breach lawsuit against Medical Informatics Engineering and its subsidiary, NoMoreClipboard LLC (collectively “the Company”), an electronic health records company, in federal district court in Indiana. million individuals from the Company’s systems. filed Dec.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Last week, the company finally released security updates to fix the CVE-2020-4006 zero-day flaw in Workspace One Access, Access Connector, Identity Manager, and Identity Manager Connector. Affected versions are: VMware Workspace One Access 20.10 (Linux) VMware Workspace One Access 20.01 (Linux) VMware Identity Manager 3.3.1

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2021

Threat actors are exploiting two flaws in the popular file-sharing server FileZen to steal sensitive data from businesses and government organizations. FileZen servers allow users to share data according to their needs, overcoming problems with file size limits, content filters, and potential loss. and V5.0.3.

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IT Governance

MARCH 2, 2020

Ordinance Survey discovers breach of employee data (1,000). South Carolina-based United Health notifies patients of 2019 data breach (36). Ashley Madison data breach victims still being hounded by sextortion scammers (unknown). San Diego school district investigating after online grading system hacked (unknown).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

MILES/CBS NEWS TEXAS The Royal ransomware group is behind the attack and threatens to publish stolen data if the City will not meet its ransom demand. Once obtained access to the City’s network, the group performed reconnaissance and information-gathering activities using legitimate third-party remote management tools.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2021

A previously unknown rootkit, dubbed iLOBleed, was used in attacks aimed at HP Enterprise servers that wiped data off the infected systems. The module has full access to all the firmware, hardware, software, and operating system installed on the server. . ” continues the report.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 12, 2018

Nick Jovanovic, VP Federal of Thales eSecurity Federal (a division of TDSI), recently spoke with Federal Tech Talk’s John Gilroy about federal agency data security and key findings from the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report, Federal Government Edition. He suggests that protecting data that is on your system should be the focus.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

Memory hacking is being carried out across paths that have been left comparatively wide open to threat actors who are happy to take full advantage of the rather fragile framework of processes that execute deep inside the kernel of computer operating systems. Virsec is a leading innovator of memory protection technologies.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

US and Japanese intelligence, law enforcement and cybersecurity agencies warn of a China-linked APT, tracked as BlackTech (aka Palmerworm, Temp.Overboard, Circuit Panda, and Radio Panda), that planted backdoor in Cisco router firmware to access multinational companies’ networks. ” reads the joint advisory.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2022

In mere seconds, a hacker remotely accessed a computer belonging to a regional Russian Ministry of Health, taking advantage of sloppy cybersecurity practices to expose its entire network. Spielerkid89, who wished to remain anonymous, did not intend to harm the organization and left its systems intact. Original post at [link].

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The types of fixed vulnerabilities include remote access and code execution, elevation of privilege, denial of service, and cross-site request forgeries. “The vulnerability is due to a system account that has a default and static password and is not under the control of the system administrator.”

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 23, 2021

Day in and day out their core security struggle boils down to making it harder for intruders to attain and manipulate remote access. And it doesn’t take enterprise-grade security systems to accomplish this. The software giant’s intent was to make it more convenient and efficient for system administrators to perform Windows upkeep.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

MAY 8, 2019

The first GDPR fine was issued in Italy by the Garante for the lack of implementation of privacy security measures following a data breach on the so-called Rousseau platform operating the websites of the Movimento 5 Stelle party. The fact of the case relating to the Rousseau platform. The lack of privacy-related security measures challenged.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 7, 2020

Late last year saw the re-emergence of a nasty phishing tactic that allows the attacker to gain full access to a user’s data stored in the cloud without actually stealing the account password. The phishing lure starts with a link that leads to the real login page for a cloud email and/or file storage service. Image: Phishlabs.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 4, 2023

Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM): Best used to effectively manage cloud resource entitlements, reduce access risks, and maintain compliance. In 2012, Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) began to emerge to monitor user access of cloud services. Supports application architectures built on containers.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 15, 2019

With a quick tap on your phone, the app sends a code to the after-school program supervisor so the car can be accessed at pickup. All these measures are considered best practices for data protection. appeared first on Data Security Blog | Thales eSecurity. To pick your daughter up from school, you call a driverless car.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 23, 2019

While the attack didn’t cause customer outages, or affect the reliability of the grid, it did induce a temporary loss of visibility to the utility’s supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system. All these measures are considered best practices for data protection. electrical grid is effectively attacked.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 29, 2022

These were all obscure open-source components that, over time, became deeply embedded in enterprise systems across the breadth of the Internet, only to have a gaping vulnerability discovered in them late in the game. Its rather mundane function is to record events in a log for a system administrator to review and act upon, later.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2021

FIN7, operating under the guise of Bastion Secure, published job offers for programmers (PHP, C++, Python), system administrators, and reverse engineers. The gang was looking for administrators to map out compromised companies’ networks and locate sensitive data, including backup. ” continues the expert.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

China-linked threat actors have breached telecommunications companies and network service providers to spy on the traffic and steal data. ” The agencies also provide a list of recommendations to mitigate and detect these attacks: Keep systems and products updated and patched as soon as possible after patches are released [ D3-SU ].

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Adam Levin

MAY 24, 2019

This issue has been fixed and, again, we have seen no evidence of improper access to or misuse of the affected passwords. Google has begun contacting system administrators whose organizations would have been affected by the glitch to encourage them to change their passwords.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

msg=30&data=';alert('xss');// 2⃣ /omni_success?cmdb_edit_path=");alert('xss');// “The first allows you to obtain the hash of the system administrator account due to excessive DBMS user privileges, which gives you access to the API without decrypting the hash value. . and 6.2.4. .

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Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2020

It supports standard protocols like VNC, RDP, and SSH and allows system administrators to remotely access and manage Windows and Linux machines. Apache Guacamole allows users within an organization to remotely access their desktops simply using a web browser post an authentication process.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2023

An adversary appears to have exploited CVE-2023-3519 in an automated fashion, placing webshells on vulnerable NetScalers to gain persistent access.” “ Using the data supplied by Fox-IT, the Dutch Institute of Vulnerability Disclosure has notified victims. ” reads the advisory published by NCC.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

For many organizations, the idea of storing data or running applications on infrastructure that they do not manage directly seems inherently insecure. According to IDC’s 2021 State of Cloud Security Report , 79 percent of surveyed companies reported a cloud data breach in the last 18 months.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. Usually, these users have no idea their systems are compromised. md , and that they were a systems administrator for sscompany[.]net.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 10, 2019

One such go-to APT technique is to remotely leverage legit administrative tools to carry out malicious activities — under cover. The fact that your data is out there, in the public or digital underground, tends to lead the victim of a breach to recognize their data and realize they were the one breached.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Forescout found that their security is terrible: In total, our researchers discovered five vulnerabilities of four different kinds: Data exposure: PDF files of shared whiteboards (e.g. 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).

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

Data inclusive on these drives include but are not limited to: User information inclusive of user names, real names, financial transactions, and further. Rezvesz maintains his software was designed for legitimate use only and for system administrators seeking more powerful, full-featured ways to remotely manage multiple PCs around the globe.

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Data Matters

MAY 17, 2018

The Georgia State Senate had recently voted 42-7 to approve SB 315, which criminalized unauthorized computer access with maximum penalties of up to one year of incarceration and a fine of $5,000. Organizations have employed bug bounty programs in an effort to encourage researchers to report security flaws in their systems.

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