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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.

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Mar 06- Mar 12 Ukraine – Russia the silent cyber conflict

Security Affairs

March 12 – Russian Internet watchdog Roskomnadzor is going to ban Instagram. Russian Internet watchdog Roskomnadzor is going to ban Instagram in Russia to prevent the spreading of info related to the Ukraine invasion. Threat actors are spreading password-stealing malware disguised as a security tool to target Ukraine’s IT Army.

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IoT Cybersecurity: 5 Major Vulnerabilities and How to Tackle Them

Security Affairs

The number of sensors and smart devices connected to the internet is exponentially rising, which are the 5 Major Vulnerabilities for IoT devices. Unfortunately, at that moment, there were over 300,000 of those cameras connected to the internet. Simple or reused passwords are still a problem. Poor credentials.

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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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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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Ransomware Protection in 2021

eSecurity Planet

The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. Ransomware frequently contains extraction capabilities that can steal critical information like usernames and passwords, so stopping ransomware is serious business. Jump to: What is ransomware?

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Managed IT Service Providers (MSPs): A Fast Way to Secure IT

eSecurity Planet

Corporations, nonprofit organizations, utilities, and all manners of government agencies use managed service providers. Managed service providers, also known as MSPs, offer organizations of all sizes a way to gain fractional expertise and capabilities unrelated to their core activities without the need for a huge upfront investment.

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