Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2021

“The attack begins with a PowerShell command to retrieve a file named win_r.zip from another compromised server’s Outlook Web Access logon path (/owa/auth).” ” The attack used a PowerShell command to retrieve a file named win_r.zip from another compromised server’s Outlook Web Access logon path (/owa/auth). .

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2023

After gaining access to SMB shares, threat actors encrypt all files and leave a ransom note demanding payment in exchange for the decryption key. Preliminary investigations indicate that Checkmate attacks via SMB services exposed to the internet and employs a dictionary attack to break accounts with weak passwords.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Upon executing the fake installers, they execute the following pieces of malware on the victim’s system: A password stealer called RedLine Stealer. An AutoIt-based backdoor used to establish a remote access via a stealth Microsoft Remote Desktop session by forwarding the RDP port through an SSH tunnel. For example: viber-25164.exe,

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

To access the internal MySQL database, the malware reads credentials from Linknat VOS2009 and VOS3000 configuration files. “Interestingly, the password from the configuration file is stored encrypted. The CDRThief can start from any location on the disk, using any file name. run/callservice.pid'.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2019

A rogue MySQL server could be used to steal files from clients due to a design flaw in the popular an open source relational database management system (RDBMS). The LOAD DATA statement can load a file located on the server, and if the LOCAL keyword is used in the request, on the client host. ” reads the official documentation.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2019

Experts observed the STOP ransomware installing the Azorult password-stealing Trojan to steal account credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, and more. The STOP ransomware made the headlines because it is installing password-stealing Trojans on the victims’ machines. ” reads a blog post published by Bleepingcomputer.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

“Cisco Talos has recently discovered a new campaign distributing a malicious remote access trojan (RAT) family we’re calling “ObliqueRAT.” The malicious documents trick victims into inserting a password contained in the message to view their contents. ” reads the analysis published by the exp erts.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2018

Thousands of account credentials associated with the popular file storage service Mega have been published online, The former NSA hacker Patrick Wardle, co-founder at Digita Security , discovered in June a text file containing over 15,500 usernames, passwords, and files names.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2021

. “And if that same site visitor clicks the “direct download link” provided on this page, they receive a.zip archive file with a filename that exactly matches the search query terms used in the initial search, which itself contains another file named in precisely the same way.” ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2019

First of all, let me say that the work done has been super difficult (at least to me) since it required a huge amount of computational power and very high-speed internet access because of the humongous collected data. One of the first questions I wanted to answer was: “ What are the most used passwords ? “.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

To access the internal MySQL database, the malware reads credentials from Linknat VOS2009 and VOS3000 configuration files. “Interestingly, the password from the configuration file is stored encrypted. The CDRThief can start from any location on the disk, using any file name. run/callservice.pid'.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Things got worse for Medibank after a second database was leaked , containing a file named “abortions”. A fourth file was then leaked, labelled “psychos”, which contained hundreds of claims from policyholders who have undergone mental health treatment. By doing this, you mitigate the risk of password compromise.

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Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2020

The database for Xiaoxintong, which serves more than 200 million elderly people in China, contains sensitive information such as GPS locations, mobile numbers, addresses, hashed passwords and more. Person audio example: Person health example: Person tracks example: Oil amount monthly report example: Who had access? What’s the impact?

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2019

If the host is successfully reached, the script renames a file named “kernel.dll”, obviously not the real one, in “uninstall.exe”, another misleading name. These parameters are needed to self-decrypt the “uninstall.exe” file which is again another SFX archive. exe” file. This new script performs a ping to “www[.cloudflare[.com”

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Lenny Zeltser

MARCH 2, 2019

For example, for VMware you’d extract the files into a dedicated folder, then launch the file named “MSEdge – Win10.vmx” ” The password Microsoft assigned to this virtual machine is “Passw0rd! Accessing a USB key from within the VM is a reasonable option.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2019

The code execution implements a romantic Drop and Execute code by dropping a Windows PE file from: http[://mail.hajj.zeem.sa/wp-admin/edu/educrety.exe Analysis of Dropped PE File. According to VT history detection the same hash has been seen with at least three different names: educrety.exe , prestezza.exe and cardsharper.exe.

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2020

Upon enabling the macros, a.DLL file named “U.tmp” is downloaded and saved to a temporary folder. Valak malware uses a malicious JavaScript file with a random name that changes each time it is executed. When the DLL is executed it drops and launches using a WinExec API call. ” concludes the post.

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OneHub

AUGUST 17, 2021

Online storage platforms provide secure cloud servers that keep your data safe while making it more accessible to employees. Your staff can access files on-site or remotely using any device. . Granular control over roles and permissions allows you to tailor access to your company’s unique needs. Collaborative tools.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

The Outlaw Botnet uses brute force and SSH exploit (exploit Shellshock Flaw and Drupalgeddon2 vulnerability ) to achieve remote access to the target systems, including server and IoT devices. The Access Logs include requests coming from different source IP addresses with a delay of about 30 seconds from each other. Technical Analysis.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2019

As observed, the output shows us two AWS-hosted addresses that contain two malicious files, namely: hxxps[:]//fucktheworld.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws[.]com/0.zip zip file is a DLL with additional code loaded by PE File P-19-2.dll By fixing this detail, we can validate that malware actually can read the file.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2019

The origin of the infection chain is a simple LNK file, a technique originally adopted by state sponsored and advanced actors, designed to download and run a powershell file named “rdp.ps1” from a remote location through the command: C:WindowsSystem32WindowsPowerShellv1.0powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Windo 1 $wm=[Text.Encoding]::UTF8.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

A March 2020 software update of the SolarWinds Orion management platform gave malicious actors unhindered access to key government and enterprise networks. APT accessed SolarWinds; injects Sunspot malware. With access to DSInternals, the malware could query the AD servers and steal data, passwords, and keys.

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Lenny Zeltser

JULY 6, 2017

To obtain an Internet-accessible system where you’ll install Algo VPN server software, you can create a “droplet” on DigitalOcean running Ubuntu 16.04 When prompted, supply the p12 password that the Algo installer displayed at the end of the installation. ” Creating a DigitalOcean Virtual Private Server.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 8, 2021

CyberNews researchers discovered a Desktop Services Store (DS_STORE) file left on a publicly accessible web server that belongs to Microsoft Vancouver. Security researchers – us at CyberNews included – routinely use search engines that index publicly accessible Internet of Things (IoT) devices and web servers for threat intelligence.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 26, 2011

This left Dropbox users’ files susceptible to unauthorized access ( e.g. , governmental demands for data, hacking attacks, rogue insiders). The complaint states that Dropbox’s access to unencrypted file content allows the company to save server space as well as bandwidth costs associated with multiple uploads of the same file.

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Enterprise Software Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

This screen will only require two input fields - one for email and one for password. This page will only be accessible to users with an Administrator role, but we will cover that later in the tutorial. Similar to the event page, this feature will only be accessible to Administrators. Next, we can create the Login screen.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The intruders gained access to the network by logging into a TeamViewer account running on a device with a domain admin logged on. The ransomware operators then executed a tiny Python script (6kb) to encrypt all virtual disks and VM settings files of the virtual machines hosted on the server. ” reads the Sophos analysis.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2021

A suspected ScreenConnect setup MSI appeared to have been delivered in a zipped file named “Special discount program.zip”, suggesting that it arrived in a spear-phishing email.” In the case of two tools – SharpChisel and Password Dumper – identical versions were used in this campaign to those that were documented by Trend.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2022

The malware used the infectFunctionLilinDvr function to receive the IP address to scan, it first attempts to access the device behind that IP. The experts noticed that the Lillin scanner, unlike the BotenaGo malware, contains 11 pairs of user-password credentials in its code. When the server response contains the string HTTP/1.1

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

Collection #1 is a set of email addresses and passwords totalling 2,692,818,238 rows. In total, there are 1,160,253,228 unique combinations of email addresses and passwords. This is when treating the password as case sensitive but the email address as not case sensitive. There are 21,222,975 unique passwords. It'll be 99.x%

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2020

This file is responsible for downloading two files from online Clouds, such as AWS, Microsoft, SAPO, and more recently Google, creating, thus, persistence on the machines to execute the threat every time machine starts. In detail, an EXE file was downloaded, which when executed, injects into memory the second DLL inside the 0.zip

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The steps 7 and 8 from Figure 2, the malware obtains some details from the infected machine and report them to the C2 server, including the version of the Operating System (OS), architecture, the name of the installed antivirus and EDRs, computer name, and the victim’s geolocation. br uolhost.]com.]br Window overlay process.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 9, 2023

Acunetix is offered as an annual subscription based upon the number of websites or web applications scanned and length of the contract.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

.” The researchers discovered an Arbitrary File Write vulnerability, an attacker can exploit the issue to control the msPKIAccountCredentials LDAP attribute and add a malicious Roaming Token entry where the identifier string contains directory traversal characters. ” concludes the report.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

That remaining 6% of content in the "dark web" consists of resources accessible by "hidden" services, namely Tor. Instead, Tor hidden services can be very familiar environments: This is merely Facebook accessed via their Tor service and they've had that up for years now. (My after the onion address.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 3, 2021

"It is standard practice for passwords to be hashed. If the alleged breach has taken place as described, your passwords have not been revealed." If your password is "maga2020!" " This is misleading and ignores the simplicity of hash cracking. " (or similar), it has been revealed. Coincidence?

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