Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2024

The threat group focuses on entities in countries in the South China Sea, experts noticed TTP overlap with operations attributed to APT41. The group utilized various variants of the Gh0st RAT , commonly associated with Chinese actors. Upon receiving a request, it executes the encoded JavaScript code using the Microsoft.JScript library.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 15, 2022

The vulnerability has been exploited by the Sandworm threat group – which was the subject of another urgent threat alert this week – and allows a remote attacker with unprivileged credentials “to access the system with a privileged management session via exposed management access.”. Update passwords regularly.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2023

ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang hacked the hotel chain Motel One FBI warns of dual ransomware attacks Progress Software fixed two critical severity flaws in WS_FTP Server Child abuse site taken down, organized child exploitation crime suspected – exclusive A still unpatched zero-day RCE impacts more than 3.5M

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2023

Most internet-exposed Cacti servers exposed to hacking French CNIL fined Tiktok $5.4 Most internet-exposed Cacti servers exposed to hacking French CNIL fined Tiktok $5.4

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2023

Twitter confirmed that a security incident publicly exposed Circle tweets FBI seized other domains used by the shadow eBook library Z-Library WordPress Advanced Custom Fields plugin XSS exposes +2M sites to attacks Fortinet fixed two severe issues in FortiADC and FortiOS Pro-Russia group NoName took down multiple France sites, including the French (..)

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Researchers from ESET uncovered the activity of a new APT group, tracked as XDSpy, that has been active since at least 2011. The APT group, recently discovered by ESET, targeted government and private companies in Belarus, Moldova, Russia, Serbia, and Ukraine, including militaries and Ministries of Foreign Affairs.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Rhysida ransomware group claimed responsibility for the recent cyberattack on the British Library that has caused a major IT outage. The Rhysida ransomware gang added the British Library to the list of victims on its Tor leak site. It is one of the largest libraries in the world. ” reads the announcement.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 7, 2018

Investigators allege Handschumacher was part of a group of at least nine individuals scattered across multiple states who for the past two years have drained bank accounts via an increasingly common scheme involving mobile phone “SIM swaps.” A WORRIED MOM. GRAND PLANS.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The executable is a backdoor that accesses the Linux API and invokes syscalls using the statically linked dietlibc library. They discovered that a Ukrainian hacker group compromised a specific web page on their web site then used it to distribute the malware. ” reads the announcement published by the maintainers.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The Libssh library is affected by a severe flaw that could be exploited by attackers to completely bypass authentication and take over a vulnerable server. released in 2014, The issue tracked as CVE-2018-10933 was discovered by Peter Winter-Smith from NCC Group, it ties a coding error in Libssh. “ libssh versions 0.6

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 15, 2024

Employ robust password management techniques, two-factor authentication (2FA), and regular backups of essential data. April 9, 2024 Critical Windows Command Injection Vulnerability in Rust Standard Library Type of vulnerability: Command injection. In addition to securing internal assets, you also need to ensure SaaS data is protected.

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Spyware is a highly secretive malware that gathers sensitive information, like usernames, passwords, credit card numbers and other personal data, and transmits it back to the attacker without the victim knowing. One of the best-known zero-day vulnerabilities is Log4Shell , a flaw in the widely-used Apache Log4j logging library.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Researchers from Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) and Project Zero uncovered the weakness, which is connected to unauthorized access to freed memory, possibly allowing attackers to corrupt or change sensitive data. Arm also published two additional vulnerabilities, CVE-2023-33200 and CVE-2023-34970. published on August 28, 2023.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2023

Iran-linked APT group tracked TA453 has been linked to a new malware campaign targeting both Windows and macOS systems. At the provided URL, a password-encrypted.rar file named “Abraham Accords & MENA.rar” was hosted. TA453 in May 2023 started using LNK infection chains instead of Microsoft Word documents with macros.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2019

Victims of the PyLocky Ransomware can use a tool released by security researcher Mike Bautista at Cisco Talos group to decrypt their files for free. The good news is that security researcher Mike Bautista at Cisco Talos group released a decryption tool that allows them to decrypt their files for free.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2021

Emotet is a modular malware, its operators could develop new Dynamic Link Libraries to update its capabilities. The C2 infrastructure allowed operators to manage infected systems that were involved in malware distributions and in the provisioning of malicious services to criminal groups.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Financial information. Malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents. In other news…. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. million) Phil i ppines COVID-19 track and trace app leaks citizens’ data (unknown) Contractor mistakenly removed data from Hong Kong’s Queen Mary Hospital (442) Cloud Clusters Inc.

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CILIP

MARCH 20, 2020

How do you update your profile, contact details and password? To change your profile, contact details and password, you will need to log in as a member. On the blue navigation bar select My Profile and then select Edit to change your contact email, address, phone number, employer details and password. To add yourself to a group?s

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 26, 2021

According to coordinated reports published by FireEye and Pulse Secure in May, two hacking groups have exploited the zero-day vulnerability in Pulse Secure VPN equipment to break into the networks of US defense contractors and government organizations worldwide. ” reads the MAR. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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IT Governance

MAY 7, 2024

At least 191 Australian organisations affected by ZircoDATA ransomware attack The ransomware group BlackBasta listed Australia-based ZircoDATA as a victim in February, allegedly exfiltrating 395 GB of data. Also this week, a group of US newspapers sued OpenAI and Microsoft for misusing their reporters’ writing to train their AI systems.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

This might mean password-protecting files or setting up access controls. You wouldn’t, for instance, keep the customer account details, such as their username and password, in the same files as their other personal data. These details should be stored in relevant databases and made accessible only to those who need it.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2019

Closure JavaScript Library introduced XSS issue in Google Search and potentially other services. Group-IB report: JS-sniffers infected 2440 websites around the world. OceanLotus APT group leverages a steganography-based loader to deliver backdoors. Xwo Malware scans the Internet for Exposed Services, Default Passwords.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2019

The macro code inside the 2017 document is password protected, just like the last suspicious document we analyzed to investigate a possible Ukraine elections interference by Russian groups. Russian groups were used to use it in recon-phases to steal information from victim machine and to implant new payloads.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2021

To see if any of your online accounts were exposed in previous security breaches, use our personal data leak checker with a library of 15+ billion breached records. With that said, exposed configuration files can serve as quick infiltration shortcuts for ransomware groups that could take a company’s servers and data hostage.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2019

The list of functionalities implemented by the spyware includes: Track device location Get nearby cell tower info Retrieve accounts and associated passwords. Monokle has likely been used to spy on individuals in the Caucasus regions and individuals interested in the Ahrar al-Sham militant group in Syria.

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The Security Ledger

JULY 26, 2018

In this Spotlight Podcast, sponsored by Trusted Computing Group*, Dennis Mattoon of Microsoft Research gives us the low-down on DICE: the Device Identifier Composition Engine Architectures, which provides a means of solving a range of security and identity problems on low cost, low power IoT endpoints. Among them: establishing strong device.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Guido Vranken returns to The Hacker Mind to discuss his CryptoFuzz tool on GitHub, as well as his experience fuzzing and finding vulnerabilities in cryptographic libraries and also within cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum. So what if you accidentally forget the password? That means it falls to you to protect your cryptocurrency.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

For instance, major vulnerability was discovered lurking in the GNU C Library, or GLIBC, an open source component that runs deep inside of Linux operating systems used widely in enterprise settings. Virsec, meanwhile, is among a small group of innovators that have set out to tackle memory exposures more directly. Manipulating runtime.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 14, 2023

And happy birthday, International Db2 User Group (IDUG) ! It allows to authenticate without API key or password, but based on well-defined other criteria like a specific compute resource (virtual machine, Kubernetes cluster and namespace). If you are interested in other roles such as architect, SRE, etc.,

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2019

This DLL contains a name in the Chinese language with the following target message for Portugal: “ Your group of Portuguese suckers”. During the static analysis, we identified some functions such as HideFromDebugger and IsDebuggerPresent, and even the library SBIEDLL.DLL which aims to detect if the program is running in a virtual environment.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Log on to your Mac by entering your device password. Check your login items in System Preferences > Users & Groups and remove any suspicious or unknown applications from the list. Using Finder Go to ~/Library/Caches (same as in the first step). Hold the Shift button and select Continue in Safe Mode.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 7, 2023

They look for possible vulnerabilities such as input validation errors, improper coding practices, and known susceptible libraries in the codebase. It examines the dependencies and libraries used in a project by scanning code sources, including Git repositories and package manifests.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 3, 2018

million users, including password hashes (MD5 and SHA-1, both salted), names, dates of birth, email addresses, phone numbers, and other data” was compromised, he said. They re-enlisted typewriters from closets, and wrote by hand receipts and lists of library book patrons and landfill fees at some of the 73 different buildings.”.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 10, 2022

Meanwhile, a third hospital group – in Dordogne – narrowly avoided falling victim, after an IT supplier detected ransomware on the organisation’s servers. The French advocacy group, representing 10,000 people, claimed that Amazon’s advertising system isn’t based on “free consent”.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2019

Security experts at FireEye observed Chinese APT41 APT group targeting a web server at a U.S.-based Experts at FireEye observed Chinese APT41 APT group targeting a web server at a U.S.-based The arsenal of the group includes backdoors , credential stealers, keyloggers, and rootkits. based research university. chm ) files.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Ransomware Revenue Down As More Victims Refuse to Pay Energy giant Schneider Electric hit by Cactus ransomware attack Hundreds Of Network Operators’ Credentials Found Circulating In Dark Web Fla.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2021

In order to target Telegram, the malware creates the archive “telegram.applescript” for the “keepcoder.Telegram” folder which is located in the Group Containers folder (“~/Library/Group Containers/6N38VWS5BX.ru.keepcoder.Telegram”). This differs from the practice on iOS. ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro.

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