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Attacks Aimed at Disrupting the Trickbot Botnet

Krebs on Security

Over the past 10 days, someone has been launching a series of coordinated attacks designed to disrupt Trickbot , an enormous collection of more than two million malware-infected Windows PCs that are constantly being harvested for financial data and are often used as the entry point for deploying ransomware within compromised organizations.

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Will cryptocurrency mining soon saturate AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud?

The Last Watchdog

In 2014, we saw a new version of it, called CryptoWall , and basically more and more of these ransomware attacks followed until it really peaked last year, with more than $5 billion dollars lost from ransomware attacks. In 2011, total cryptocurrency value was about $10 billion. Bilogorskiy: Correct, because people share passwords.

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Using a WordPress flaw to leverage Zerologon vulnerability and attack companies’ Domain Controllers

Security Affairs

million sites, and by today, September 10, 2020, the total number of sites attacked has increased to over 2.6 Note that the entire malicious chain was automated by the threat author – “September 10, 2020, the total number of sites attacked has increased to over 2.6 Figure 10: Zerologon flaw ([link]. million, WordFence said.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 212 – News of the week

Security Affairs

Microsoft removes Password-Expiration Policy in security baseline for Windows 10. Over 23 million breached accounts were using ‘123456 as password. A ‘Cyber Event disrupted power grid operations in three US states. 10KBLAZE exploits could affect 9 out of 10 SAP installs of more than 50k customers.

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Ursnif campaign targets Italy with a new infection Chain

Security Affairs

It appeared on the threat landscape about 13 years ago and gained its popularity since 2014 when its source code was leaked online giving the opportunity to several threat actors to develop their own version. This technique to protect the document with a password continues to be a very effective method to evade detection of AVs.

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ForAllSecure Launches The Hacker Mind Podcast

ForAllSecure

Today he helps organizations hack their own products but, back in 2014, Adam was still an impressionable young cadet. Or maybe, just maybe back in 2014, West Point and other military service academies, are on to something really important. FRANK: Like a password policy problem. So what to do in your spare time.

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ForAllSecure Launches The Hacker Mind Podcast

ForAllSecure

Today he helps organizations hack their own products but, back in 2014, Adam was still an impressionable young cadet. Or maybe, just maybe back in 2014, West Point and other military service academies, are on to something really important. FRANK: Like a password policy problem. So what to do in your spare time.