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Experts spotted a backdoor that borrows code from CIA’s Hive malware

Security Affairs

One of the 360Netlab’s honeypot caught a suspicious ELF file on October 2021, the experts reported that the malware was spread by exploiting F5 zero-day exploit. xdr33 uses XTEA or AES algorithm for traffic encryption and uses SSL with Client-Certificate Authentication mode enabled to protect the traffic.

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Threat Group TeamTNT Returns with New Cloud Attacks

eSecurity Planet

A retired threat actor has returned with new attacks aimed at the cloud, containers – and encryption keys. However, the researchers are convinced the threat actor is back, as their honeypots identified TeamTNT signatures and tools in a series of three attacks during the first week of September. format(len(targets)).

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UK newspaper The Telegraph exposed a 10TB database with subscriber data

Security Affairs

The data was stored on an exposed Elasticsearch cluster, most of the data were encrypted, but personal details of at least 1,200 Telegraph subscribers and registrants were in clear test along with a a huge trove of internal server logs. “Evidence suggests the data was left unprotected for about three weeks, since September 1st.

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Weekly podcast: ICS attacks, Reddit and SIM swap arrests

IT Governance

Cybereason’s researchers recently set up a honeypot environment with a network architecture that replicated that of “typical power substation” and waited. Only two days after the honeypot was launched, it was attacked by a black-market seller, who installed backdoors that would allow anyone to access it, even if admin passwords were changed.

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Leopard Spots and Zebra Stripes: Big Data and Identity Management

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

For years identity management has relied on three factors for authentication: What one knows (passwords). In this blog post, and in one by my colleague Sandy Carielli from Entrust Datacard, we discuss big data analytics and how it is enabling the evolution of new behavior-based authentication for easier and more robust identity management.

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What is Network Security? Definition, Threats & Protections

eSecurity Planet

In this simple environment network security followed a simple protocol: Authenticate the user : using a computer login (username + password) Check the user’s permissions: using Active Directory or a similar Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Enable communication with authorized network resources (servers, printers, etc.)

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Outlaw is Back, a New Crypto-Botnet Targets European Organizations

Security Affairs

The definition of p ip means to read “ip port” file, namely the file which is downloaded by one of the two C2 with encrypted multiple SSH requests as shown by Fig. Searching for useful information, we found that it has appeared on several honeypots since 2012, the scripts are similar in styles and in techniques implemented.

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