Lenny Zeltser

JULY 6, 2017

When analyzing malware or performing other security research, it’s often useful to tunnel connections through a VPN in a public cloud. The following tutorial explains how to deploy the Algo VPN software bundle on DigitalOcean (the link includes my referral code). windows_john.ps1).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2018

“This application handles file names incorrectly when the user uploads a media file. ” The third flaw directory-traversal vulnerability tracked as CVE-2018-16594 that relates to the way the Photo Sharing Plus app handles file names. ” reads the security advisory published by Sony.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 19, 2022

According to Cyble, “The ransomware searches for files to encrypt on the local system by enumerating the file directories […] It ignores the file extensions such as EXE, DLL, and SYS and excludes a list of directory and file names from the encryption process.”. How to Protect Against Lilith Ransomware.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Crooks discovered how to bypass the patch for a recent Microsoft Office vulnerability (CVE-2021-40444) and are using it to distribute Formbook malware. The CVE-2021-40444 is a remote code execution security flaw that affected the MSHTML file format. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, CVE-2021-40444).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

” reads the post published by security firm Trellix.”The ”The vulnerability is a path traversal attack in the extract and extractall functions in the tarfile module that allow an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files by adding the “.” Initially we thought we had found a new zero-day vulnerability. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2021

Accenture security researchers published an analysis of the latest Hades campaign, which is ongoing since at least December 2020. . Experts noticed that each Hades ransomware sample uses a different extension to files that it encrypts and drops a ransom note with file name “HOW-TO-DECRYPT-[extension].txt”.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2023

Security researcher, Daniel Milisic, discovered that the T95 Android TV box he purchased on Amazon was infected with sophisticated pre-installed malware. It’s not found by any of the AV products I tried — If anyone can offer guidance on how to find these hooks into system_server please let me know here or via PM.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2020

The ransomware also drops on the Desktop 10 text files, named README1.txt txt, The README.txt files include instructions to contact the crooks via an email address in order to receive information on how to make the payments. txt through README10.txt, In fact, we stopped its distribution in the end of 2019.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

Such lapses in database security can (and often do) lead to hundreds of millions of people having their personal information exposed on the internet, allowing threat actors to use that data for a variety of malicious purposes, including phishing and other types of social engineering attacks , as well as identity theft.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 30, 2023

After all, accounts payable clerks will open virus-laden PDF files named “overdue invoice” or “past-due statement” even if they don’t recognize the sender. Our SPF and DKIM guides contain detailed information on how to properly set up the protocols. Admittedly, smaller organizations will not have leverage.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 10, 2021

Security researchers at Microsoft are again warning users about phishing scams imitating SharePoint. The messages appear to come from Microsoft SharePoint and contain a “file share” request to access “Staff Reports”, “Bonuses”, “Pricebooks” and other content that’s purportedly hosted in an Excel spreadsheet. Can you spot a scam?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

At the time of writing security experts are searching for a Lilocked sample to analyze to shed the light on its infection process. The ransomware encrypts files and appends the. lilocked extension to the file name, then it drops a ransom note named # README. Pierluigi Paganini.

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AIIM

AUGUST 26, 2021

Storing important information in a secure and compliant way. 60% [of company executives] felt that time constraints and lack of understanding of how to find information were preventing their employees from finding the information they needed.” It all boils down to: Finding the right information when you need it.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

A security expert discovered a severe Remote Code Execution vulnerability in the popular LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice. Inführ used a specially ODT file containing a white-colored hyperlink (he has used the white color to make it invisible in the document) that has an “ onmouseover ” event to execute a local python file.

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2019

The ransomware also drops on the Desktop 10 text files, named README1.txt All the important files on your disks were encrypted. The details can be found in README.txt files which you can find on any of your disks.” The details can be found in README.txt files which you can find on any of your disks.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2019

Experts at security firm Sophos discovered a new strain of ransomware dubbed MegaCortex that is targeting corporate networks. Security experts at Sophos discovered a new piece of ransomware dubbed MegaCortex that is targeting corporate networks. You will also receive a consultation on how to improve your companies cyber security.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2019

Mac security software firm Intego has spotted a new Mac malware dubbed OSX/Linker that exploits a recently disclosed macOS Gatekeeper vulnerability. Experts at Mac security software firm Intego discovered a new piece of Mac malware dubbed OSX/Linker that exploits a recently disclosed macOS Gatekeeper bypass vulnerability.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Marco Ramilli, founder and CEO at cyber security firm Yoroi has explained how to use Microsoft Powerpoint as Malware Dropper. The script downloads a file named: AZZI.exe and saves it by a new name: VRE1wEh9j0mvUATIN3AqW1HSNnyir8id.exe on a System temporary directory for running it. Edited by Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2019

The following video PoC shows how to gain full control over a targeted system by tricking the victims into opening maliciously crafted compressed archive file using WinRAR. The file associated with the fake Ariana Grande’s hit album is currently detected by a limited number of antivirus solutions. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 10, 2023

Here are our picks for the top threat intelligence feeds that security teams should consider adding to their defensive arsenal: AlienVault Open Threat Exchange: Best for community-driven threat feeds FBI InfraGard: Best for critical infrastructure security abuse.ch

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2019

This is part of a giant list of Living off the Land (LOL) techniques that attackers employ to mask their activities from runtime endpoint security monitoring tools such as AVs. File name: patent-2019-02-20T093A283A05-1.xls File name : 68131_46_20190219.doc Figure 20: Files that are part of MSI.

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Enterprise Software Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

To do so, we will create a new file named auth.service.ts , which we should import into the app.module.ts. "; } } } login-page.component.html Login {{errorMessage}} Email Password Login We need to create an AuthService which will help us decode the token, check if the user has certain role, and remove the session.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 1, 2023

How to Set Up a DMARC Record Creation of a DMARC record can be straightforward; however, it is a standard that is dependent on other email authentication standards. If not, the record will need to be manually named: Syntax: _dmarc.<domain Definitions, Pros, Cons, and More first.

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Synergis Software

AUGUST 13, 2018

The three most common document formats are known by their file name extensions: DOC, PDF, and DWG. Cloud storage vendors can provide better security at lower costs than most users, especially small firms. This ratio of 3D to 2D won’t be changing anytime in the near future. DWG is post-proprietary.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Researchers at Cymulate security firm devised a new stealthy technique to deliver malware leveraging videos embedded into weaponized Microsoft Office Documents. The technique works with Office 2016 and older versions, the researchers notified Microsoft but that the tech giant doesn’t acknowledge the technique as a security flaw.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

.” In December, eSecurity Planet detailed FireEye’s initial findings , implications for the industry, and how to mitigate similar attacks. Since then, much has been learned about the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) deployed and what steps organizations are taking to harden their network and application security.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The Akira ransomware group made news too, expanding its attacks to include Linux-based systems, and Trend Micro issued a fix for a zero-day vulnerability in its Apex One endpoint security tools. An attacker can use policies for scheduled security scans to run a pipeline in GitLab, posing as another user. severity rating. before 16.2.7

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The metadata stored on the file led the researchers to several WordPress database dumps, which contained multiple administrator usernames and email addresses, as well as the hashed password for the Microsoft Vancouver website. On December 2, public access to the DS_STORE file was finally disabled and it is no longer leaking sensitive data.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 6, 2023

For readers coming to this article in a ransomware emergency, see How to Recover From a Ransomware Attack. How Does Ransomware Work? Also read: How to Decrypt Ransomware Files – And What to Do When That Fails What Is a Double Extortion Ransomware Attack? Hive functions as RaaS and uses the double extortion method.

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Security Affairs

JULY 17, 2020

If you are a security researcher or even a passionate about how attackers implement phishing you will find yourself to look for phishing kits. In stats folder are maintained two up-to-date files: files_name it holds the frequency of the found file-names associate with kits. How to contribute.

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The Texas Record

JUNE 1, 2021

A best practice for efficient managers is to analyze hypothetical risk to know how to prevent and address the risk if it were to ever occur. It could also increase security risk, especially if the records are on an employee’s personal device. This file name helps identify the file’s shared drive location once the file is transferred.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2018

Since blogging is not my business, I do write on my personal blog to share knowledge on Cyber Security, I will describe some of the main steps that took me to own the attacker infrastructure. My entire “Cyber adventure” began with a simple email within a.ZIP file named “Nuovo Documento1.zip” Obfuscation.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2019

On April 19 2019 researchers at Chronicle, a security company owned by Google’s parent company, Alphabet, have examined the leaked tools , exfiltrated the past week on a Telegram channel, and confirmed that they are indeed the same ones used by the OilRig attackers. The panel reads those files and implements stats and actions.

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KnowBe4

MAY 31, 2023

That's right – the financial services industry, at least according to cybersecurity vendor Armorblox's 2023 Email Security Threat Report. Blog post with links: [link] [Live Demo] Ridiculously Easy Security Awareness Training and Phishing Old-school awareness training does not hack it anymore. Yup – shoe store.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

So that's where the data has come from, let me talk about how to assess your own personal exposure. I'm conscious that many people reading this won't be using a password manager of any kind in the first place and that's an absolutely pivotal part of how to deal with this incident so I'll come back to that a little later.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 3, 2021

Most organisation begin with "we take the security of your data seriously", layer on lawyer speak, talk about credit cards not being exposed and then promise to provide further updates as they come to hand. Topics should be about how to properly parent your sons.", and how to police your wives". Gab's approach.

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