Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The security researcher Eaton Zveare has exploited a vulnerability in Toyota’s Global Supplier Preparation Information Management System (GSPIMS) to achieve system admin access to Toyota’s global supplier management network. made it easy to find accounts that had elevated access to the system.

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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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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. Each of the three ransomware gangs encrypted whatever systems they could get their hands on; and each left its own ransom demand.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2021

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group is extending its operations and started targeting the IT supply chain on new targets.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 22, 2022

The RUSdot mailer, the email spamming tool made and sold by the administrator of RSOCKS. a public web site that allows users to purchase access to the botnet), which allowed the customer to pay to rent access to a pool of proxies for a specified daily, weekly, or monthly time period. According to a statement by the U.S.

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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 17, 2023

Cybercriminals use it as a launching pad to block access to business-critical systems by encrypting data in files, databases, or entire computer systems, until the victim pays a ransom. It gives administrators a choice of alerting and/or blocking file access before ransomware can take hold of your endpoints/servers.

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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

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

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

AUGUST 9, 2021

Once compromised the device, threat actors employed it in a botnet used in attacks aimed at Linux systems, including Synology NAS. The Taiwanese company urges its customers to enable multi-factor authentication where available, enable auto block and account protection, and to use string administrative credentials, .

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2021

The module has full access to all the firmware, hardware, software, and operating system installed on the server. . The persistence achieved by tampering this module allows the malware to survive to the re-installation of the operating system. ” reads the report published by the expers. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

CERT-UA observed the campaign in April 2023, the malicious e-mails with the subject “Windows Update” were crafted to appear as sent by system administrators of departments of multiple government bodies. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 21, 2022

SSCP from (ISC)2 is a mid-level certification designed for IT administrators, managers, directors, and network security professionals responsible for the hands-on operational security of their organization’s critical assets. “The certification debate rages on,” said AsTech CTO Jason Kent. The Top Cybersecurity Certifications.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

It’s also suitable for those who plan to develop a specialised career as a Microsoft Azure administrator or security engineer. . Potential job roles include IT support executive, IT support manager, system administrator, Azure administrator, security operations analyst, and identity and access admin manager. .

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

The City of Dallas revealed that the Royal ransomware gang that hit the city system in May used a stolen account. In May 2023, a ransomware attack hit the IT systems at the City of Dallas , Texas. To prevent the threat from spreading within the network, the City shut down the impacted IT systems. ” reads the report.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

The investigation into the incident revealed that operators at the plant were using out-of-date Windows 7 systems and poor account passwords, and the desktop sharing software TeamViewer was used by the attackers to breach the network of the plant. Identify and suspend access of users exhibiting unusual activity. Windows 10).

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

It continues: “Prior to deploying the ransomware, Snatch threat actors were observed spending up to three months on a victim’s system. “The command requires Windows system administrators,” Truniger’s ads explained. “Experience in backup, increase privileges, mikicatz, network.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 5, 2021

Initial estimates were that Russia sent its probes only into a few dozen of the 18,000 government and private networks they gained access to when they inserted code into network management software made by a Texas company named SolarWinds. “This tells us the actor had access to SolarWinds’ environment much earlier than this year.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

. “To inject malformed packets that the Wireshark application may attempt to parse, the attacker may need access to the trusted, internal network where the targeted system resides. This access requirement may reduce the likelihood of a successful exploit.”. Pierluigi Paganini. Securi ty Affairs – Wireshark, DoS).

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The pathway is also suitable for those who plan to develop a specialised career as a Microsoft Azure administrator or security engineer. Potential job roles include IT support executive, IT support manager, system administrator, Azure administrator, security operations analyst, and identity and access admin manager.

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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. GLIBC keeps common code in one place, thus making it easier for multiple programs to connect to the company network and to the Internet.

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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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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 23, 2021

Leading-edge cybersecurity systems in service today apply machine learning in some amazing ways to help large enterprises identify and instantly respond to cyber threats. Day in and day out their core security struggle boils down to making it harder for intruders to attain and manipulate remote access.

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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 types of fixed vulnerabilities include remote access and code execution, elevation of privilege, denial of service, and cross-site request forgeries.

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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. “Looking at network telemetry, we were able to confirm that we saw victims talking back to it on various ports.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2021

It guides system administrators and developers of National Security Systems on how to deploy Kubernetes with example configurations for the recommended hardening measures and mitigations. Use strong authentication and authorization to limit user and administrator access as well as to limit the attack surface.

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Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 9, 2017

This week’s post, entitled “ Stick with security: Control access to data sensibly ,” details key security measures businesses can take to limit unauthorized access to data in their possession. Additionally, a clean desk policy minimizes the risk that data may be accessed by an unauthorized person after hours.

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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

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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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 3, 2022

Its function is to record events in a log for a system administrator to review and act upon. Modern software is built on pillars of open-source components, and package repositories offer an easy access to the wealth of pre-built code that makes development faster. However, not all of that code is safe to use. Implementing SBOM.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

What the Common Vulnerability Scoring System is, how to use it, limitations and alternatives, and key changes in CVSS v4.0 The CVSS is a globally recognised framework that allows for a universal, standard scoring system for software vulnerabilities. will be adopted. will be adopted. What is the CVSS? In both CVSS v3.X X and v4.0,

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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.” System administrators need to be aware that adversaries can exploit edge devices to place backdoors that persist even after updates and / or reboots.”

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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

MAY 21, 2023

Unfortunately, as system administrators seek ways to control access to these platforms, users may seek out alternative ways to gain access.” “Threat actors have been keen to exploit the popularity of these tools, promising unrestrictive access. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

An exploit could allow the attacker to run arbitrary commands with SYSTEM user privileges.” The issue could be exploited by a malware or ill-intentioned logged-in user to gain system administrator rights and carry out malicious activities. when running on a Microsoft Windows end-user system. and later prior to 33.0.5,

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2022

The group hacked mobile telephone networks around the globe and used specialized tools to access calling records and text messages from telecommunications companies. 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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