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Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

Krebs on Security

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. Image: SentinelOne.com. ” he observed.

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Google warned 12K+ users targeted by state-sponsored hackers

Security Affairs

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) revealed that it has detected and blocked attacks carried out by nation-state actors on 12,000 of its users in the third quarter of this year. “TAG tracks more than 270 targeted or government-backed groups from more than 50 countries. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Threat actors found a way to bypass mitigation F5 BIG-IP CVE-2020-5902 flaw

Security Affairs

The BIG-IP product is an application delivery controller (ADC), it is used by government agencies and major business, including banks, services providers and IT giants like Facebook, Microsoft and Oracle. ” Threat actors exploited the CVE-2020-5902 flaw to obtain passwords, create web shells, and infect systems with various malware.

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IoT Cybersecurity: 5 Major Vulnerabilities and How to Tackle Them

Security Affairs

Simple or reused passwords are still a problem. While the cybersecurity industry has presented options for every netizen, the recommendation to use original and complex passwords continues to be disregarded. Instead, people come up with passwords that are comfortable. IoT devices are exposed to cybersecurity vulnerabilities.

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US CISA warns of attacks exploiting CVE-2020-5902 flaw in F5 BIG-IP

Security Affairs

The BIG-IP product is an application delivery controller (ADC), it is used by government agencies and major business, including banks, services providers and IT giants like Facebook, Microsoft and Oracle. Threat actors exploited the CVE-2020-5902 flaw to obtain passwords, create web shells, and infect systems with various malware.

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Analyzing the APT34’s Jason project

Security Affairs

Username and password list can be selected (included in the distributed ZIP file) and threads number should be provided in order to optimize the attack balance. User@first]@@[user@first]123) and a folder named PasswordPatterswhich includes building blocks for password guessing. Michael Lortz. WebService.dll assemply version.

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Google issued 40,000 alerts of State-Sponsored attacks in 2019

Security Affairs

“We have a long-standing policy to send you a warning if we detect that your account is a target of government-backed phishing or malware attempts. . “We have a long-standing policy to send you a warning if we detect that your account is a target of government-backed phishing or malware attempts.

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