Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

In the first week of September, AquaSec researchers identified at least three different attacks targeting their honeypots, the experts associated them with the cybercrime gang TeamTNT. The new attacks suggest the hacking group is back in action. “Breaking the cryptographic encryption is considered “Mission: Impossible”.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2022

The crimeware group known as 8220 Gang expanded over the last month their Cloud Botnet to roughly 30,000 hosts globally. . The 8220 group has been active since at least 2017, the threat actors are Chinese-speaking and the names of the group come from the port number 8220 used by the miner to communicate with the C2 servers.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Once a connection is established, the malware will check the presence of a honeypot by comparing the hostname of the attacked server to the string “svr04”, which is the default hostname of Cowrie SSH honeypot. reads the Intezer’s report.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Devices that have high value, lower usage rates, or access to a specific sub-group of employees make the most of a solution that introduces additional obscurity. For example, in addition to implementing SPA on a sheriff department’s evidence server, we can add a honeypot named “evidence server.”.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Italy’s Antitrust Agency fines Apple and Google for aggressive practices of data acquisition HAEICHI-II: Interpol arrested +1,000 suspects linked to various cybercrimes IKEA hit by a cyber attack that uses stolen internal reply-chain emails Marine services provider Swire Pacific Offshore (SPO) hit by Clop ransomware Threat actors target crypto and (..)

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2021

Cybersecurity experts from NCC Group and Bad Packets security firm this week detected a wave of attacks exploiting a recently patched critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-22986 , in F5 BIG-IP and BIG-IQ networking devices. ” reads the post published by NCC Group.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Netscout observed tens of thousands of exploit attempts daily targeting it honeypots, in November attackers attempted to deliver some 225 unique malicious payloads exploiting the Hadoop YARN vulnerability. The new versions don’t implement worm-like spreading abilities, instead, threat actors leverage exploits to spread the malware.

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2023

Internet-wide sweeps seen by over 700 of our IKEv2 aware honeypot sensors, since May 26th. Another botnet that was spotted exploiting the flaw is known as Katana, which is advertised on a Telegram group called “SHINJI.APP | Katana botnet.” Exploit PoC is public, so expect an increase in attacks.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The malware was distributed by a threat group called Outlaw, it was able to target Linux and Android devices, and also Windows systems. “The group distributes the bot by exploiting a common command injection vulnerability on internet of things (IoT) devices and Linux servers. . ” reads the analysis published by TrendMicro.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2021

Magecart hackers hide captured credit card data in JPG file Microsoft releases On-premises Mitigation Tool (EOMT) tool to fix ProxyLogon issues New Mirai variant appears in the threat landscape China-linked hackers target telcos to steal 5G secrets Data Breaches Tracker monitor unsecured ElasticSearch servers online FBI warns of PYSA Ransomware attacks (..)

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Instead, a hacker group has been using a demo BlueKeep exploit released by the Metasploit team back in September to hack into unpatched Windows systems and install a cryptocurrency miner. Yesterday, the popular expert Kevin Beaumont observed some of its EternalPot RDP honeypots crashing after being attacked.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

By 2025, 115 Million vehicles will be sold with over-the-air update capabilities, almost four times as much as in 2020, and the Boston Consulting Group expect 12 million fully autonomous vehicles a year to be sold by 2035. This honeypot of information puts manufacturers at major risk from cyber attacks.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

“Through ongoing analysis of honeypot traffic, Talos detected an increase in attacks targeting unsecured Elasticsearch clusters. “Based on patterns in the payloads and exploit chains, Talos assesses with moderate confidence that six distinct actors are exploiting our honeypots.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Researchers deployed multiple instances of vulnerable systems and found that 80% of the 320 honeypots were compromised within 24 hours. Researchers from Palo Alto Networks deployed a honeypot infrastructure of 320 nodes to analyze how three actors target exposed services in public clouds. Rocke , TeamTNT ).”

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IT Governance

AUGUST 10, 2018

Cybereason’s researchers recently set up a honeypot environment with a network architecture that replicated that of “typical power substation” and waited. Only two days after the honeypot was launched, it was attacked by a black-market seller, who installed backdoors that would allow anyone to access it, even if admin passwords were changed.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 15, 2024

However, it’s unknown how many of them are legitimate Ivanti VPNs and how many are honeypots. The Lazarus Group and APT41 are suspected of using these approaches to compromise system integrity for espionage. The fix: On April 2, Ivanti provided fixes to address this problem and three other vulnerabilities.

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Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2020

Researchers Rich Warren from NCC Group told ZDNet that hackers are attempting to exploit the flaw to steal administrator passwords from the hacked devices. The attacks against Warren’s honeypots originated from five different IP addresses. [link] — USCYBERCOM Cybersecurity Alert (@CNMF_CyberAlert) July 3, 2020.

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IT Governance

MAY 10, 2023

According to Check Point’s data group manager, Omer Dembinsky, these scams present “two main potential problems here for enterprises”. As is often the case with such events, hotel prices skyrocket as demand increases, creating a honeypot that scammers can pounce on.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 13, 2021

CISA Director Jen Easterly said in a statement over the weekend that the agency has created a Joint Cyber Defense Collaboration senior leadership group to coordinate actions within the government – including the FBI and National Security Agency (NSA) – and private sector to manage the risk. Botnets Strike.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 9, 2021

The same sources who shared those figures say the victim list has grown considerably since then, with many victims compromised by multiple cybercrime groups. “What we thought was Stage 2 actually was one criminal group hijacking like 10,000 exchange servers,” said one source who’s briefed U.S.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

The Outlaw Hacking Group is back, malware researchers from Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab have uncovered a new botnet that is targeting European organizations. The Linux malware is the well-known “ Shellbot ”, it is a crimetool belonging to the arsenal of a threat actor tracked as the “Outlaw Hacking Group. ”. Introduction. Technical Analysis.

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Brandeis Records Manager

JULY 28, 2016

A colleague at another university recently polled a listserv group of records managers in Higher Ed. In academia, records management tends (not exclusively) to be grouped organizationally with library and archival units. Program Director for University Records Management, Brandeis University.

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The Security Ledger

AUGUST 20, 2018

survivalist groups. When the firm Cyberreason set up a honeypot network designed to look just like a functioning industrial control system environment, they were expecting to attract a few flies. You might also be interested in: U.S. sanctions Russian companies, individuals over cyber attacks ].

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

US CISA added critical Apache RocketMQ flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Ragnar Locker gang leaks data stolen from the Israel’s Mayanei Hayeshua hospital North Korea-linked threat actors target cybersecurity experts with a zero-day Zero-day in Cisco ASA and FTD is actively exploited in ransomware attacks Nation-state actors (..)

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 4, 2023

And it took us a month to collect that data, like a month like meanwhile, there's an ABD group running around the network causing havoc. And so you know, this is definitely one of those challenges people are facing and you know, one of the groups that we track at the moment for hacking group, they compromise.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 23, 2022

Threat groups have been tolerated in Russia, for example, in exchange for assurances that their hacking activity will be conducted in other countries. In 2022, Chinese researchers detected a decade-old backdoor introduced into the Linux operating system by an APT group associated with the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 11, 2021

Businesses also use cyber traps, also known as honeypots, to lure the attackers into revealing their plots. And what is very important: success stories of bigger groups of malefactors attract more and more wanna-be hackers. Again, prevention is better than cure. Where prevention fails, a fast cure is crucial. That's what the FBI says.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2019

First of all, let me say that it is the easiest way to spot APT groups but it’s also one of the most inaccurate and it needs a lot of manual analysis before being able to confirm the sample belongs to a specific APT. Honey Feed , a tool that extracts suspicious IPs from undesired connections, his HoneyPots.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

Network security enforces policies through the technical tools and detailed policies enable granular access controls based upon user groups, user-specific needs, time-specific restrictions, or other rules that can limit authentication and access to the network or to allow network changes. access levels (basic user, admin, etc.),

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 28, 2021

In the recent case of the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack , the Department of Justice and FBI were able to recover a majority of the crypto-payment made to the DarkSide ransomware group. Decentralized data storage that removes the need for a honeypot. However, federal officials didn’t reverse the blockchain transaction.

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Elie

DECEMBER 2, 2017

Behind the scenes, many of these turns occurred as various hacking groups fought to control and exploit IoT devices for drastically different motives. Covers the Mirai code release and how multiple hacking groups end-up reusing the code. Mirai represents a turning point for DDoS attacks: IoT botnets are the new norm.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2023

Instead of having to remember and follow specific steps to encrypt each folder or group of folders as they’re added to a disk, full disk encryption ensures even temporary files are protected against unauthorized access. Full disk encryption is most valuable for organizations that work with a lot of sensitive data that’s constantly changing.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

We will group these technical controls into: User Access Controls Asset Discovery Controls Traffic Monitoring Controls Resilience, Maintenance & Testing Controls These tools rely heavily on the effective determination of administrative controls that define and determine the policies that will be implemented through the technical controls.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

“I do know 100% that my company did not give access to the group who created the bots, but they did gain access to a client,” Hostettler said of the Telegram-based identity fraud service. In this case we let them in to honeypot them, and that’s how they got that screenshot. After much badgering, on Nov.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

Right, there's, there's a method, a countercultural method to it that isn't defined by a group dynamic. And fold up all the different groups that they were joining and that actually turned into a case called Operation Candyman where I think there's over 5000 pedophiles arrested in a in a fairly short amount of time. And I love it.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

From the post: “[Facebook’s ad model is] the honeypot which drives the economics of spambots and fake news, it’s the at-scale algorithmic enabler which attracts information warriors from competing nation states, and it’s the reason the platform has become a dopamine-driven engagement trap where time is often not well spent.

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