Data Breach Today

APRIL 6, 2023

That's the message from British law enforcement agents, who say they're running multiple DDoS-for-hire sites as criminal honeypots.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 22, 2023

Security experts say this same tourist dynamic is a dead giveaway in virtually all computer intrusions that lead to devastating attacks like data theft and ransomware, and that more organizations should set simple virtual tripwires that sound the alarm when authorized users and devices are spotted exhibiting this behavior.

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Dark Reading

JULY 6, 2023

Six months of honeypot data finds that 19% of traffic to sensors were malicious exploit attempts, and 95% of those attempts came from just three botnets.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 28, 2021

New data suggests someone has compromised more than 21,000 Microsoft Exchange Server email systems worldwide and infected them with malware that invokes both KrebsOnSecurity and Yours Truly by name. Let’s just get this out of the way right now: It wasn’t me. krebsonsecurity[.]top top (NOT a safe domain, hence the hobbling).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

To conduct this investigation, a CyberNews researcher infiltrated an IRC botnet that we captured in one of our honeypots. Infiltrating a cybercriminal operation can provide valuable data about different types of malicious activities, including DDoS attacks , malware distribution, and more. Our honeypot setup.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The UK media outlet The Telegraph has leaked 10 TB of subscriber data after failing to properly secure one of its databases. The UK newspaper The Telegraph’, one of the UK’s largest newspapers and online media outlets, has leaked 10 TB of data after failing to properly secure one of its databases. Please reply asap.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Cybersecurity expert Marco Ramilli shared another tool of his arsenal that extracts suspicious IPs from undesired connections, his HoneyPots. In other words: HoneyPots. I run a personal HoneyPot network which stands from years and over time it harvested numerous IP addresses which could be, potentially, malicious (typically scanners).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Win the connected and autonomous car race while protecting data privacy. Employing big data analytics to gather insights to capitalize on customer behavior, understand product performance, and predict failures. More data in more places means more risks. Nevertheless, they create major privacy and data protection vulnerabilities.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The campaign stands out for the use of several novel system weakening techniques against the data store itself. One of the honeypots used by Cado was targeted by an attack originating from the IP 103[.]79[.]118[.]221 Caro Security researchers have observed a new malware campaign targeting Redis servers with a crypto miner dubbed Migo.

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Threatpost

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

A honeypot set up to sniff out data on infected IoT devices found a broad array of compromised devices – from Mikrotik routers to dishwashers.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

A cloud-based data server storing backups or security log files. For example, in addition to implementing SPA on a sheriff department’s evidence server, we can add a honeypot named “evidence server.”. The typical attack scan will miss the hidden server and lead to a focus on the honeypot. Stalling for Time.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2023

Police dismantled bulletproof hosting service provider Lolek Hosted Python URL parsing function flaw can enable command execution UK govt contractor MPD FM leaks employee passport data Power Generator in South Africa hit with DroxiDat and Cobalt Strike The Evolution of API: From Commerce to Cloud Gafgyt botnet is targeting EoL Zyxel routers Charming (..)

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

OCTOBER 10, 2022

During the development and training of their algorithms, ML systems begin to adapt and recognise patterns within its data. They can then use this training to interpret new data and form outputs based on the intended process. For example: How is the data interpreted? How can an outcome be verified as accurate?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

In the first week of September, AquaSec researchers identified at least three different attacks targeting their honeypots, the experts associated them with the cybercrime gang TeamTNT. The new variant of the “Cronb Attack” relies on new C2 infrastructure and new data exchange.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2023

Akamai’s SIRT recently discovered the new bot within HTTP and SSH honeypots, it stood out due to its large size and the lack of specific identification around its newer hashes. MB of packet capture data and pushed 20,430 HTTP requests. The name “Hinata” comes after a character from the popular anime series, Naruto.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

The popular expert Kevin Beaumont observed some of its EternalPot RDP honeypots crashing after being attacked. huh, the EternalPot RDP honeypots have all started BSOD'ing recently. They only expose port 3389. pic.twitter.com/VdiKoqAwkr — Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog) November 2, 2019.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2018

All the cybercriminals are always on the lookout to get their hands on users’ personal or financial data or they look for vulnerabilities to get access to their devices. They can setup rouge Wi-Fi networks, which gives them all the data and the access to users’ device or system. Fake Honeypots. Fake Wi-Fi Access Points.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The identified vulnerability enables Remote Code Execution (RCE) which grants the ability to takeover of the device and then use it for malicious purposes, as well as to steal sensitive data too. It’s likely this vulnerability is present in other devices from the same family.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Among the data they receive, they now know which server’s version is vulnerable to CVE-2022-0543 (As we explained earlier, the honeypot was built with this vulnerability on purpose). The researchers also provided Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) for this threa. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2022

The malware was first spotted on February 9, 2022, when 360Netlab’s honeypot system captured an unknown ELF file that was spreading by exploiting the Log4J vulnerability. Researchers from Qihoo 360’s Netlab have discovered a new backdoor used to infect Linux systems and include them in a botnet tracked as B1txor20.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

The researchers set up a honeypot to collect data on infected IoT devices, the way threat actors infect IoT devices and what families of malware are involved. The first data that emerged from the study is that threat actors continue to look at the IoT devices with increasing interest. . What is infecting IoT devices and how?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Check out the details in [link] pic.twitter.com/uMHteDKOti — Horizon3 Attack Team (@Horizon3Attack) October 30, 2023 The researchers pointed out that they analyzed the vulnerability by analyzing the data gathered from a honeypot set up by the SECUINFRA FALCON TEAM. Cisco has released updates to address the vulnerability security.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2021

A few hours ago, researchers at NetLab 360 reported that their Anglerfish and Apacket honeypots were already hit by attacks attempting to trigger the Log4Shell flaw in the Log4j library. Threat actors are already abusing Log4Shell vulnerability in the Log4j library for malicious purposes such as deploying malware.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 15, 2024

Typically, these vulnerabilities result in remote code execution or denial-of-service attacks, posing major dangers to users’ data security. Employ robust password management techniques, two-factor authentication (2FA), and regular backups of essential data.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2021

Experts found 15 flaws in Netgear JGS516PE switch, including a critical RCE Google releases Spectre PoC code exploit for Chrome browser Google fixes the third actively exploited Chrome 0-Day since January NCSC is not aware of ransomware attacks compromising UK orgs through Microsoft Exchange bugs ProxyLogon Microsoft Exchange exploit is completely (..)

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Yesterday, the popular expert Kevin Beaumont observed some of its EternalPot RDP honeypots crashing after being attacked. huh, the EternalPot RDP honeypots have all started BSOD'ing recently. They only expose port 3389. pic.twitter.com/VdiKoqAwkr — Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog) November 2, 2019. ” concludes the expert.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Using our threat intelligence systems and honeypot, the Uptycs threat research team identified different kinds of payloads dropped on the vulnerable servers. This Tsunami sample (hash: 4c97321bcd291d2ca82c68b02cde465371083dace28502b7eb3a88558d7e190c ) seen in our customer telemetry and honeypot systems used crontab as a persistence.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

“Through ongoing analysis of honeypot traffic, Talos detected an increase in attacks targeting unsecured Elasticsearch clusters. “Based on patterns in the payloads and exploit chains, Talos assesses with moderate confidence that six distinct actors are exploiting our honeypots.” ” Talos concludes.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 11, 2020

Compliance penalties, lawsuits, loss of intellectual property, theft of customer personal data, and reputational damage caused by poor cyber defenses are now top operational concerns. To demonstrate this, Trend Micro set up a honeypot, imitating an industrial factory, to see how quickly and often it would get attacked.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 10, 2018

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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 12, 2018

In this age of big data, the concept is fitting, because this kind of information is increasingly being used to identify individuals and even machines. In the following, I focus on the analytics component, how it is increasingly used across enterprises, and why it is important to protect big data. Big Data Analytics.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

“Recent infection attempts against Akamai SIRT’s custom honeypots uncovered an interesting means of obfuscating command and control (C2) infrastructure information. The experts discovered that the wallet data were being fetched by the API and used to calculate an IP address used to maintain persistence.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The popular expert Kevin Beaumont observed some of its EternalPot RDP honeypots crashing after being attacked. huh, the EternalPot RDP honeypots have all started BSOD'ing recently. They only expose port 3389. pic.twitter.com/VdiKoqAwkr — Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog) November 2, 2019.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2021

These threats may also have regulatory compliance implications for organizations that have not properly secured their SAP applications processing regulated data” Threat actors conduct sophisticated attacks aimed at mission-critical SAP applications directly targeting sensitive data and critical processes.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

In my previous post I discussed the initial prototyping of a Docker Honeypot / Sandbox called Whaler. There’s a clear correlation between the honeypot first appearing on Shodan and an immediate wave of attacks. Automated attacks can drive a large amount of data storage requirements if this isn’t managed carefully!

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IT Governance

MAY 10, 2023

Welcome to our May 2023 review of phishing attacks, in which we explore the latest email scams and the tactics that cyber criminals use to trick people into handing over personal data. According to Check Point’s data group manager, Omer Dembinsky, these scams present “two main potential problems here for enterprises”.

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