Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2022

China-linked threat actors exploited the zero-day flaw CVE-2022-1040 in Sophos Firewall weeks before it was fixed by the security vendor. The vulnerability was exploited by the Chinese attackers to drop a webshell into the target systems weeks before it was fixed by the security vendor. and impacts Sophos Firewall versions 18.5

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2022

“It uses several methods of obfuscation for its strings to hinder analysis and hide itself from other botnets. ” reads the analysis published by Fortinet. Below is the list of supported commands: “Based on the analysis of FortiGuard Labs, Enemybot is Keksec’s latest tool for performing DDoS attacks.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2023

One of these apps is a content management system (CMS) that powers Bing.com and allowed us to not only modify search results, but also launch high-impact XSS attacks on Bing users.” ” reads the post published by security firm Wiz. ” continues the analysis. Below is the disclosure timeline: Jan.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2023

” reads the analysis published by Akamai. ” continues the analysis. Threat actors likely compromised the websites by exploiting known vulnerabilities in popular CMS (such as Magento, WooCommerce, WordPress, Shopify, etc.) or in vulnerable third-party services and components used by the website.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In November 2022, researchers from security firm Sucuri reported to have tracked a surge in WordPress malware redirecting website visitors to fake Q&A sites via ois[.]is. The hacked website traffic is redirected to low-quality websites running the Question2Answer CMS. ” reads the analysis published by Sucuri.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. According to OPB, the district didn’t provide details, but said that “our student credentials may have been compromised as part of a security incident”.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2022

Active domains behind the malicious online stores at the time of analysis (21-03-2022). The content of the malicious websites – clones of the official stores – are based on a static Content Management System (CMS) and a PHP API that communicates with a MySQL cluster in the background. appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2022

Magecart threat actors have switched most of their operations server-side to avoid detection of security firms. The researchers explained that they have generally seen less skimming attacks during the past several months, perhaps because they were more focused on the Magento CMS. ” concludes the analysis.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2021

” reads the analysis published by researchers Gabor Szappanos and Andrew Brandt from Sophos. In its latest attempts to evade detection by endpoint security tools, Gootloader has moved as much of its infection infrastructure to a “fileless” methodology as possible.” ” continues the analysis. “This.js

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2019

Security experts at Zscaler discovered that threat actors are using hidden “well-known” directories of HTTPS sites to store and deliver malicious payloads. of the popular CMS that are affected by a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) flaw that resides in the comment section of WordPress that is enabled by defaul t. “The hidden /.well-known/

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2019

Security experts discovered hosted on GitHub the skimmer scripts used by Magecart cybercrime gang to compromised Magento installations worldwide. Security firms have monitored the activities of a dozen Magecart groups at least since 2015. ” reads the analysis published by MalwareBytes. Data was exfiltrated to: jquerylol[.]ru

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2020

WP Time Capsule and InfiniteWP WordPress plugins are affected by security flaws that could be exploited to take over websites running the popular CMS. Experts at security firm WebArx have ethically disclosed vulnerabilities in WP Time Capsule and InfiniteWP plugins, both were patched earlier this month by the developer Revmakx.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2022

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned organizations about “potential critical threats” following the recent cyberattacks that hit Ukraine. The October CMS vulnerability was added by CISA this week to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2020

” reads the analysis published by Malwarebytes. ” continues the analysis. The experts from Malwarebytes speculate that the website was hacked because it was running an outdated version of Magento e-commerce CMS. com when visiting the checkout page at tupperware [. ] ” concludes Malwarebytes. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 9, 2018

Experts from security firm Wordfence discovered a Botnet of 20,000 WordPress Sites Infecting other WordPress installs. Experts from security firm Wordfence uncovered a botnet composed of over 20,000 WordPress sites that is being used to compromise other websites running on the popular CMS and recruit them. .

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Once completely wiped the database of a website running the popular CMS, it will trigger the restart of the installation process. ” reads the analysis published by Packstack. ” reads the analysis published by Packstack. Then the attacker can create an administrator account associated with the installation process.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2019

And our analysis shows that this is a fully functional, covert and RAT program targeting both Windows and Linux platforms, and the samples share some key characters being used by Lazarus Group.” ” reads the analysis published by Qihoo 360 Netlab. com /cms/ wp -content/uploads/2015/12/. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2019

The Magecart continues to target websites worldwide, it infected over 17,000 domains by targeting improperly secured Amazon S3 buckets. . The Magecart gang made the headlines again, according to a new report published by RiskIQ , it has infected over 17,000 domains by targeting improperly secured Amazon S3 buckets. .

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2020

Security experts from Wordfence discovered two security vulnerabilities in the WP Database Reset WordPress plugin that can van be used to take over the vulnerable websites. ” reads the analysis published by Wordfence. ” reads the analysis published by Wordfence. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2019

Security experts at Wordfence security firms discovered WordPress Sites compromised via Zero-Day vulnerabilities in Total Donations Plugin. ” reads the security advisory published by Wordfence. “It ” continues the analysis. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Threat actors in the wild are exploiting the recently patched CVE-2019-6340 flaw in the Drupal CMS to deliver cryptocurrency miners and other payloads. Last week, Drupal core team released security updates that address a “highly critical” remote code execution vulnerability. reads the security advisory published by Drupal.

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IT Governance

JULY 1, 2020

The first half of 2020 ended on a familiarly bad note, with 92 security incidents accounting for at least 7,021,195,399 breached records. Duluth student alerted school district about security breach (unknown). University of Missouri Health Care discloses 2019 security incident (unknown). hack (350,000).

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2019

According to security experts at RiskIQ, the Magecart Group 12 is behind a large-scale operation against OpenCart online stores. Security firms have monitored the activities of a dozen Magecart groups at least since 2015. ” reads the analysis published by RiskIQ. ” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Since the beginning of the year, security firms observed a new intense ransomware campaign spreading the Shade ransomware. Between January and February, a new, intense, ransomware campaign has been observed by many security firms. Technical analysis. Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab analyzed some recent samples spreading during the last week.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 14, 2010

Prior to 2009, HHS divided civil enforcement responsibility for HIPAA between OCR, which enforced the HIPAA Privacy Rule, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”), which enforced the HIPAA Security Rule.

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eDiscovery Daily

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Think business first when it comes to AI adoption The many sessions on AI hit on the topics of accuracy, ability to explain outcomes, data security and change management. Dondi West, Assistant General Counsel at GSK, said he likes to be brought in at the start of a date security improvement program and wants to be collaborative with IT.

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eDiscovery Daily

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Think business first when it comes to AI adoption The many sessions on AI hit on the topics of accuracy, ability to explain outcomes, data security and change management. Dondi West, Assistant General Counsel at GSK, said he likes to be brought in at the start of a date security improvement program and wants to be collaborative with IT.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Using its own unique tools for underground forums and cardshops monitoring, research and analysis Group-IB Threat Intelligence team has discovered that compromised payment records predominantly related to TOP 10 Turkish banks were uploaded in four parts to Joker’s Stash – one of the most popular underground cardshops.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2019

Every family of JS Sniffers has unique characteristics and requires a detailed analysis,”– says Dmitry Volkov. The post Payment data of thousands of customers of UK and US online stores could have been compromised appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – payment data, cybercrime ).

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

ARMA defines information as “Data that has been given value through analysis, interpretation, or compilation in a meaningful form” (ARMA 2016, p 28). DAM is defined as “a content management system (CMS) that centrally stores and manages all digital files produced by an enterprise. Information and Content Explosion.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Security experts from cybersecurity firm Sansec reported that nearly 2,000 Magento online stores have been hacked over the past few days as part of the largest ever Magecart-style campaign. ” read the analysis published by the researchers. ” concludes the analysis. Pierluigi Paganini.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 11, 2023

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Researchers from the German cyber security company Aplite discovered 3,806 servers from 111 countries accessible on the Internet. Data breached: more than 59 million data records.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2019

Group-IB , an international company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks, has issued a new comprehensive report on the analysis of JavaScript-sniffers – a type of malware designed to steal customer payment data from online stores. 2440 infected ecommerce websites with a total of around 1.5 How JS-sniffers attack. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

Group-IB security researchers provide evidence linking three campaigns with the use of various JS-sniffer families. The post Group with numerous faces: chronicle of UltraRank’s deceptive JS-sniffer campaigns appeared first on Security Affairs. The malware was downloaded from the host toplevelstatic[.]com. Pierluigi Paganini.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

“Commissioned by organizers to predict worst-case scenarios for the Munich games, [Georg] Sieber came up with a range of possibilities, from explosions to plane crashes, for which security teams should be prepared. Mobile devices allow users to access content from anywhere, which presents security and privacy risks. DT Capabilities.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 19, 2023

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Welcome to this week’s round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. We’re also introducing two new categories this week: ‘AI’ and ‘Key dates’. GB Goa Natural Gas Pvt.Ltd.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The popular security expert Larry W. Drupalgeddon2 is a “highly critical” vulnerability that affects Drupal 7 and 8 core, it could be exploited by an attacker to run arbitrary code on the CMS core component and take over a website just by accessing an URL. . ” reads the analysis published by Cashdollar.

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