Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2021

Researchers from FireEye warn that China-linked APT groups continue to target Pulse Secure VPN devices to compromise networks. Cybersecurity researchers from FireEye warn once again that Chinese APT groups continue to target Pulse Secure VPN devices to penetrate target networks and deliver malicious web shells to steal sensitive information.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

According to cybersecurity researchers, it could be the work of an advanced threat actor. The idea is to emulate attacks from advanced adversaries and potential post-exploitation actions. You can see it as a framework used by security teams for test purposes and threat groups. A New Weapon for APTs.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

A new Chinese APT group, tracked as KilllSomeOne, appeared in the threat landscape targeting corporate organizations in Myanmar. A new Chinese APT group, tracked as KilllSomeOne, was spotted by researchers at Sophos. The advanced cyber-espionage group is targeting corporate organizations in Myanmar with DLL side-loading attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 5, 2023

Tens of thousands of new security vulnerabilities are discovered each year; the value of CISA’s KEV catalog is that it helps organizations prioritize the software and firmware flaws that threat groups are actively exploiting — and many of those exploited flaws are older ones that users have failed to apply patches for.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2020

A previously unknown threat actor, tracked as MontysThree , composed of Russian speaking members targets Russian industrial organizations. Kaspersky Lab researchers spotted a new threat actor, tracked as MontysThree , composed of Russian speaking members targets Russian industrial organizations.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2021

FBI and CISA published a joint alert to warn of advanced persistent threat (APT) groups targeting Fortinet FortiOS to access networks of multiple organizations. The threat actors are actively exploiting the following vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiOS: CVE-2018-13379 ; CVE-2020-12812 ; CVE-2019-5591.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

As The 2018 Thales Global Data Threat Report notes, “The top Big Data security issue is that sensitive data can be anywhere – and therefore everywhere – a concern expressed by 34% of global and U.S. Moreover, encryption keys must be protected and managed in a trusted manner for security and compliance with regulations. respondents.”.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The new DePriMon downloader was used by the Lambert APT group, aka Longhorn, to deploy malware. In 2017, Symantec speculated that at least 40 targets in 16 countries have been compromised by the threat actors. The second stage installs itself and loads the third stage using an encrypted, hardcoded path.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

In 2019, researchers from Dr. Web discovered a backdoor trojan in Google Play, which appeared different from other threats due to its level of sophistication for this reason Kaspersky investigated it. Experts also discovered malicious apps on the APK download site APKpure. . ” reads the analysis published by Kaspersky.

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Adapture

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Cybersecurity teams need modern cybersecurity solutions that can handle emerging threats. These newly incorporated technologies and techniques range from TLS/SSL encrypted traffic inspection to deep pack inspection. Threat Prevention Modern firewalls have improved breach prevention technologies. Can Your Company Keep Up?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

Kaspersky researchers have found a new advanced backdoor used by the Platinum advanced persistent threat (APT) group in attacks in the wild. The APT group was discovered by Microsoft in 2016, it targeted organizations in South and Southeast. This C2 encrypts data with the same key as the C&C requests.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2023

Top aviation company Safran Group left itself vulnerable to cyberattacks, likely for well over a year, underlining how vulnerable big aviation firms are to threat actors, according to research by Cybernews. If threat actors know this token, they can use it to decrypt cookies, which might contain session IDs.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 6, 2020

Similarly, ransomware attacks, as well as go-deep Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) hacks, very often start with targeted spear phishing – as the first step in implanting malware inside of a company’s IT infrastructure. Bastable added that he expects BEC attacks targeting local governments and schools to persist, as well.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2020

Researchers uncovered a new advanced variant of Turla’s ComRAT backdoor that leverages Gmail’s web interface as C2 infrastructure. Cybersecurity researchers discovered a new version of the ComRAT backdoor, also known as Agent.BTZ , which is a malware that was employed in past campaigns attributed to the Turla APT group.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 8, 2018

Cybercriminals are constantly upping their game with more sophisticated attacks, including advanced persistent threats (APTs) and attacks across more distributed environments. Designed and implemented correctly, encryption of data at rest can provide robust security with minimal impact on operational efficiency.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 23, 2022

A company that discovers that an advanced persistent threat (APT) attack is underway tends to be the exception. Attackers design APTs to be subtle, persistent, and to remain undetected for as long as possible. However, some additional security techniques can improve the odds against APTs even more.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

Encryption and the development of cryptography have been a cornerstone of IT security for decades and remain critical for data protection against evolving threats. While cryptology is thousands of years old, modern cryptography took off in the 1970s with the help of the Diffie-Hellman-Merkle and RSA encryption algorithms.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2019

The whole infection chain was originated by a LNK file, a technique used by advanced attackers and APTs too, for this reason, we decided to have a deeper look into these malicious samples revealing another infamous abuse of open-source projects. Persistence Mechanisms. Figure 9: The persistence mechanisms of the malware.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

APT accessed SolarWinds; injects Sunspot malware. APT removes build VMs malware to avoid detection. Detection of 2nd APT and additional Orion vulnerabilities published. On February 2, 2021, Reuters reported that a second advanced persistent threat ( APT ), connected to China, also exploited SolarWinds software.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Some of these include: Advanced persistent threats (APTs); Insider threats; Social engineering; and, Human error. This method of placing protections closer to the data secures sensitive information and critical infrastructure against perimeter breaches and insider threats.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Nation-state advanced persistent threat (APT) actors have used VPN device vulnerabilities for credential harvesting, remote code execution, traffic hijacking, data leaking, and to compromise the security of encrypted traffic sessions. Recognize the dangers of not being able to inspect the product independently.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 3, 2021

VPNs offer clients an encrypted access channel to remote networks through a tunneling protocol and can obfuscate the client’s IP address. With 3000 servers in 160 locations and 94 countries, ExpressVPN boasts its military-grade encryption and leak-proofing features, including a kill switch and unlimited bandwidth for clients.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2023

Networks are complex and connect to a number of critical components — software, applications, databases, and various types of endpoints — that don’t all operate the same way, making it a complicated challenge to keep threats off the network. Also read: What is Network Security?

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 20, 2022

Whether you prioritize cybersecurity or not, cybercriminals will always prioritize (their own) profit, as the attacks described in our 2021 Threat Report prove. Some of the main drivers of this accelerated growth include: •Advanced threats and risk tolerance. Tipping the scale favorably. billion by 2024, up from $12.01

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2021

China-linked APT group Cycldek is behind an advanced cyberespionage campaign targeting entities in the government and military sector in Vietnam. China-linked APT group LuckyMouse (aka Cycldek, Goblin Panda , Hellsing, APT 27, and Conimes) is targeting government and military organizations in Vietnam with spear-phishing.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

A periodic task looks for specific matched Yara rules which stands for APT and populates a specific view available HERE. Without such a kind of tool, how would you start finding specific threats ? Many of them (almost 400k) hid a PE file compressed and/or encrypted into themselves. TOP Matched Rules.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 1, 2022

While the cybersecurity world is focused on the Russian invasion of Ukraine , new research from Symantec serves as a reminder that significant threats remain elsewhere too. Symantec’s team said the threat will probably require further in-depth analyses to uncover all the details. Codebase Dates to 2009.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2020

Security researcher Marco Ramilli analyzed a new Coronavirus (COVID-19)-themed attack gathering evidence of the alleged involvement of an APT group. At home it’s hard to have advanced protection systems as we have in companies. The following VBScript is run through cscript.exe, It’s an obfuscated and xor-encrypted payload.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The classic approach of a modern firewall , robust network security , and advanced endpoint security would be reasonable. We should encrypt data at rest. In the latter case, the advanced persistent threat (APT) of the more sophisticated attacker may not be stopped by only isolating affected devices.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 23, 2021

Between malware , phishing attacks , zero-day threats, advanced persistent threats , reconnaissance and brute force attacks, hackers are looking for any and every avenue into a network. A number of solutions may be needed to protect against all of these threats. Crowdstrike logo. SentinelOne.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 28, 2021

Deploy file integrity monitoring and threat hunt regularly. Sadly, advancements in cybersecurity extend to malicious actors as much as they do to industry professionals. The result is a wealth of adversaries capable of evading detection and networks unprepared for a zero-day threat. Excessive Access by Tokens. Old way New way.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Firewalls have also greatly improved their ability to integrate threat defense and intelligence to protect against a range of threats including botnets, command and control servers, advanced persistent threats (APTs) and zero-day threats,” said Mihir Maniar, vice president of Security Business and Strategy at Juniper Networks.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

From her talk at SecTor 2022 , Paula Januszkiewicz, CEO of Cqure , returns to The Hacker Mind and explains how a lot of little configuration errors in common Windows tools and services can open the door to persistence on a system for bad actors and what sysadmins can do to mitigate these. Hence we talk alot about Advanced Persistent Threats.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Response teams also conduct an investigation into the incident, gathering evidence and studying the causes in order to determine the nature of the threat and any vulnerabilities exploited. Ransomware attacks: Ransomware is malware extortion attack that encrypts a victim’s files, demanding a ransom payment in exchange for the decryption key.

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Threatpost

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The top cybersecurity and privacy trends that biggest impact in 2018.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 11, 2022

As technologies advance, and cyber threats with them, deception has become a big part of the 21st century cybersecurity battle. Deception tools can thus be an important defense against advanced persistent threats (APTs). It can find signs of ransomware, even in encrypted files. Key Differentiators.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Automatic updates to ensure an endpoint is protected against the latest cyber threats. For enterprises—and a growing number of consumer antivirus solutions—machine learning (ML) and behavioral-based detection are increasingly important for stopping unknown threats. The platform leverages ML to predict and block advanced attacks.

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