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MY TAKE: How SMBs can improve security via ‘privileged access management’ (PAM) basics

The Last Watchdog

Privileged accounts assigned special logon credentials to system administrators in charge of onboarding and off boarding users, updating and fixing IT systems and carrying out other network-wide tasks. This could be because of confusing cybersecurity marketing messages, Côté says.

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Career Choice Tip: Cybercrime is Mostly Boring

Krebs on Security

The findings come in a new paper released by researchers at Cambridge University’s Cybercrime Centre , which examined the quality and types of work needed to build, maintain and defend illicit enterprises that make up a large portion of the cybercrime-as-a-service market.

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Ransomware – Stop’em Before They Wreak Havoc

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Remote Desktop Vulnerabilities: Cybercriminals can gain administrative access to an endpoint/server using a Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) service, using a brute-force method trying to guess passwords, or by using stolen credentials purchased on the Dark Web. MFA for CTE is available for the Windows platform.

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Orcus RAT Author Charged in Malware Scheme

Krebs on Security

In July 2016, KrebsOnSecurity published a story identifying a Toronto man as the author of the Orcus RAT , a software product that’s been marketed on underground forums and used in countless malware attacks since its creation in 2015. This week, Canadian authorities criminally charged him with orchestrating an international malware scheme.

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VulnRecap 2/26/24 – VMWare, Apple, ScreenConnect Face Risks

eSecurity Planet

The fix: System administrators are encouraged to install the Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Update 14 (CU14), which was issued in February 2024 and enabled NTLM credentials Relay Protection. Despite VMware’s three-year-old deprecation statement, unprotected systems remain at risk.

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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. md , and that they were a systems administrator for sscompany[.]net. co and a VPN provider called HideIPVPN[.]com.

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Canadian Police Raid ‘Orcus RAT’ Author

Krebs on Security

Canadian police last week raided the residence of a Toronto software developer behind “ Orcus RAT ,” a product that’s been marketed on underground forums and used in countless malware attacks since its creation in 2015. This makes it harder for targets to remove it from their systems.

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