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Cyber Threat Landscape Study 2023: Outpost24’s honeypot findings from over 42 million attacks

Outpost24

Cyber Threat Landscape Study 2023: Outpost24’s honeypot findings from over 42 million attacks. The 2023 Cyber Threat Landscape Study provides valuable threat intelligence to help you implement the appropriate security measures against real threats. Florian Barre. Fri, 01/13/2023 - 02:53. Threat Intelligence.

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No, I Did Not Hack Your MS Exchange Server

Krebs on Security

The group looks for attacks on Exchange systems using a combination of active Internet scans and “honeypots” — systems left vulnerable to attack so that defenders can study what attackers are doing to the devices and how. “We have been testing 367 known web shell paths via scanning of Exchange servers.”

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P2PInfect, a Rusty P2P worm targets Redis Servers on Linux and Windows systems

Security Affairs

” reads the report published by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42. “The P2PInfect worm uses a P2P network to support and facilitate the transmission of malicious binaries.” ” The malware uses a PowerShell script to establish and maintain communication with the P2P network.

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Evolution of threat landscape for IoT devices – H1 2018

Security Affairs

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. The first data that emerged from the study is that threat actors continue to look at the IoT devices with increasing interest. What is infecting IoT devices and how?

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SAP systems are targeted within 72 hours after updates are released

Security Affairs

According to a joint study published by Onapsis and SAP, on-premises SAP systems are targeted by threat actors within 72 hours after security patches are released. On-premises SAP systems are targeted by threat actors within 72 hours after security patches are released, security SAP security firm Onapsis warns.

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A vulnerable honeypot exposed online can be compromised in 24 hours

Security Affairs

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.

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Podcast Episode 109: What’s The US Freedom Army? Ask Russia.

The Security Ledger

In the wake of the 2016 Presidential election, studying social media activity has gone from a niche obsession for a few social scientists to something akin to a national security priority. Cybereason joins us to talk about the cyber criminals hacking into industrial control systems. . Want to join the Freedom Army?