Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2020

Microsoft is warning of human-operated ransomware, this kind of attack against businesses is becoming popular in the cybercrime ecosystem. Human-operated ransomware is a technique usually employed in nation-state attacks that is becoming very popular in the cybercrime ecosystem. ” reads the post published by Microsoft.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

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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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 23, 2021

No organization wants to find itself having to recover from a devastating ransomware hack – or dealing with an unauthorized intruder who has usurped control of its operational systems. The Colonial Pipeline ransomware debacle and the near poisoning of the Oldsmar, Fla. Password concierge.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2022

QNAP is warning customers of ransomware attacks targeting network-attached storage (NAS) devices exposed online. Taiwanese vendor QNAP has warned customers to secure network-attached storage (NAS) exposed online from ransomware and brute-force attacks. In December a new wave of ech0raix ransomware attacks targeted QNAP NAS devices.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

and Australia in sanctioning and charging a Russian man named Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev as the leader of the infamous LockBit ransomware group. used the password 225948. 2011 said he was a system administrator and C++ coder. Last week, the United States joined the U.K. and admin@stairwell.ru The code is written in C.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2022

VNC is a desktop sharing system – you can use it to remotely access your work computer from home or any other location, or allow technical support staff to do likewise. Ideally, VNC should be used only with authenticated users, such as system administrators. About the author Jurgita Lapienyt?. Original post at [link].

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IT Governance

MARCH 2, 2020

Columbus County Schools gives update after systems wiped by cyber attack (5,673). The US Defence Information Systems Administration discloses 2019 cyber attack (unknown). ISS World shuts down its computer systems amid malware attack (unknown). Quebec teachers’ data stolen in password breach (360,000). Ransomware.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 28, 2023

Some of these attacks are challenging to detect because they look like they could be the behavior of legitimate system administrators. Type enable and the corresponding system password initially set during system installation to enter EXEC PRIVILEGED mode. The command line prompt will be changed from > to #.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 28, 2023

Some of these attacks are challenging to detect because they look like they could be the behavior of legitimate system administrators. Type enable and the corresponding system password initially set during system installation to enter EXEC PRIVILEGED mode. The command line prompt will be changed from > to #.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

Turns out it was possible for a threat actor to flood GLIBC with data , take control of it, and then use it as a launch point for stealing passwords, spying on users and attempting to usurp control of other computers. This then drops a PowerShell script into the memory of the host computer. So the collective publicly released them.

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KnowBe4

MAY 9, 2023

And this enormous security gap leaves you open to business email compromise, session hijacking, ransomware and more. Take the following example, provided by Phish Labs: [CONTINUED] Blog post with screenshot: [link] Are Your Users' Passwords. Are your users' passwords…P@ssw0rd? Join Roger A.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 6, 2021

Managed service providers (MSPs) have long relied on third-party software to manage clients’ IT infrastructure, but a massive ransomware attack launched over the weekend at customers of Kaseya will likely cause MSPs to take a harder look at the security of their IT suppliers. VSA server breached. Preparing for Criminal Enterprise.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Users are also urged to carefully inspect the default setups and passwords, especially while installing software. 8, 2023 Cisco Warns of Actively Exploited Zero-Day VPN Vulnerability Type of attack: Brute-force attack via zero-day vulnerability on credentials without MFA configuration used by ransomware gangs. version of Superset.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

Remote desktop software’s sensitive influence over other devices means identity and access management (IAM), password security , and multi-factor authentication are critical for risk management. SamSam Ransomware: Malware Specializing in RDP. A few days later, IT systems started malfunctioning with ransom messages following.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2023

The Originating Malvertising Campaign According to CTI investigation on the adversary infrastructure, we were able to identify an ongoing campaign luring system administrators to install the malicious code into their machines.

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