Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The bot was also targeting Linux and Mac devices and performing dictionary attacks against SSH services to guess their username and passwords. reads the Intezer’s report.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

The researchers set up a honeypot to collect data on infected IoT devices, the way threat actors infect IoT devices and what families of malware are involved. Top 10 countries from which Kaspersky traps were hit by Telnet password attacks is led by Brazil, China, and Japan. What is infecting IoT devices and how?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The bot was also targeting Linux and Mac devices performs dictionary attacks against SSH services to guess their username and passwords. ” reads the Intezer’s report. “The Linux variant has adjusted some features in order to account for the fundamental differences that exist between this operating system and Windows.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The database also included some Apple news subscribers or registrants’ passwords. We do not know if any unauthorized parties accessed it during that time, but our honeypot experiments show attackers can find and steal data from unprotected databases in just a few hours after they’re exposed.” ” wrote Diachenko.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

In October one of the honeypots of the company captured the bot, its downloader , and some bot modules. “Fast forwarded to October 11, 2019, our Anglerfish honeypot captured another suspicious ELF sample, and it turned out to be the Downloader of the previous suspicious ELF sample.”

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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

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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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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Fake Honeypots. The fake honeypots are quite similar to the fake Wi-Fi access points, but the only difference is that the honeypot is set in a more sophisticated manner. Imagine connecting to an airport’s Wi-Fi network where you saw two options with similar names and even passwords. Intercepting your data and credentials.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2018

An attacker could use IoT search engines such as ZoomEye or Shodan to scan the internet for devices having default passwords. “Hence the attacker can craft a ZoomEye / Shodan dork to implicitly get a list of the devices having default password. “CVE-2018–7900 makes the process of attacking a router even more simplified.

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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. The attacks began immediately after the US Cyber Command’s alert.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 15, 2024

Employ robust password management techniques, two-factor authentication (2FA), and regular backups of essential data. However, it’s unknown how many of them are legitimate Ivanti VPNs and how many are honeypots. In addition to securing internal assets, you also need to ensure SaaS data is protected.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

The researchers revealed that one of his honeypots was hit by this IoT malware that targets Intel machines running Linux. “Unsecured services with unpatched vulnerabilities or weak passwords are prime targets for exploitation and abuse. “This one seems to target enterprise systems.” ” Cashdollar concludes.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2018

These types of simple attacks on our honeypots are quite common, but what made this stand out was the libsdes sample.” To mitigate the threat, experts recommend that sysadmins of SSH servers, including IoT devices, change any default passwords on those systems. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2019

The analysis of the logs and traffic data coming to and from the honeypot , revealed that the attackers used a container from a public Docker Hub repository named zoolu2. I've got the account names and passwords with this botnet that is going around. shodanhq or @achillean please dm me. We can shut it down.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 14, 2023

See the Top Web Application Firewalls Honeypots Honeypots are fake resources that are designed to attract bots and gather information about their behavior. See the Top Deception Tools Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) 2FA is a proven security measure that can help protect against a wide range of cyber threats, including bot attacks.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2020

Akamai security researcher Larry Cashdollar discovered the campaign after his honeypot was hit by the malware. Once the malicious code has guessed the admin password, Stealthworker installs and deletes various components. Once the malicious code has guessed the admin password, Stealthworker installs and deletes various components.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 12, 2018

For years identity management has relied on three factors for authentication: What one knows (passwords). Because behavioral biometric data can contain confidential and personal information, and reveal sensitive insight, it can also be a high value target and represent a honeypot for attackers. What one has (tokens).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

Searching for useful information, we found that it has appeared on several honeypots since 2012, the scripts are similar in styles and in techniques implemented. We suggest to harden and update your SSH server configuring authentication with authorized keys and disabling passwords.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Antivirus Software WiFi 6 Routers Virtual Private Networks Password Managers Email Security Software Web Application Firewall Bot Management Software. Password Managers. A password manager improves internet security by helping users create diverse, secure passwords for each account they own. Antivirus Software.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

Even failing to change a router’s default passwords is a misconfiguration, and a mistake like that allows a hacker to more easily access the router’s controls and change network settings. Examples of human error include: Posting written router passwords or sending them over email or Slack.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 11, 2022

They sneak around the fringes of the enterprise, seeking a way inside, which they might accomplish by tricking a user into clicking on a malicious link, opening an infected attachment or providing credentials and passwords, or perhaps by hacking an unpatched or zero-day vulnerability. Key Differentiators.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2023

Third-Party Risk Management Product Guide Best Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) Tools Password Management Password management software is designed to securely store individual user, team, and organizational credentials in a centralized, encrypted password vault.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Policies typically will be written documents that detail the requirements that will be enforced, such as password complexity. Minimum User Access Controls Active Directory: The smallest organizations might only worry about device access, otherwise known as the login credentials (username/password).

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Footprinting and reconnaissance Scanning networks Enumeration Vulnerability analysis System hacking Sniffing Social engineering Denial-of-service Session hijacking Evading IDS, firewalls, and honeypots Hacking web servers, applications, wireless networks, mobile platforms and Internet of Things devices SQL injection Cryptography.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 23, 2022

Use strong passwords. For example, a honeypot data server can be established with an enticing name such as “Research Archive” or “Financial Records” and alerts can be generated as soon as an attacker attempts to explore the contents. Use web application firewalls to protect exposed web apps. Secure Assets.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

These controls include: Active Directory (AD): Manages users, groups, and passwords as a fundamental access control for an organization and the basis for most other security tools. For example, in addition to the existing security stack, a data center might add additional MFA, a web application firewall, and a honeypot.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

In this simple environment network security followed a simple protocol: Authenticate the user : using a computer login (username + password) Check the user’s permissions: using Active Directory or a similar Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Enable communication with authorized network resources (servers, printers, etc.)

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 4, 2023

What happens there is that those people that are spinning up, unnecessarily securing them in the right way and so attackers, particularly kind of nation state side taking advantage of things like Miss configurations, you know, poor passwords, you know, open s3, buckets, etc, etc.

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Elie

DECEMBER 2, 2017

By its second day, Mirai already accounted for half of all Internet telnet scans observed by our collective set of honeypots, as shown in the figure above. To compromise devices, the initial version of MIRAI relied exclusively on a fixed set of 64 well-known default login/password combinations commonly used by IoT devices.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2021

Victims of those breaches lost a lot of private data including passwords, and Frigg will help them secure their private data in the future. Rather, they were against “honeypot” systems set up by Norse to mimic a broad range of devices online. The matching that is shown will use email, phone and full name correlation.”

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

You had to figure out how to configure Kermit, get passwords to get on. All those exercises, the honeypot or honeynet challenges I think that's what they were called in. Hacker was more about the pursuit of knowledge. And that pursuit of knowledge because it was harder to find things that weren't search engines. Let's analyze stuff.

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