Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Exploring the Risks: Unveiling 9 Potential Techniques Hackers Employ to Exploit Public Wi-Fi and Compromise Your Sensitive Data We’ve all used public Wi-Fi: it’s convenient, saves our data, and speeds up browsing. Once connected, they can monitor and capture users’ data or launch attacks on their devices.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 24, 2022

PowerShell is one of the most common tools used by hackers in “living off the land” attacks, when malicious actors use an organization’s own tools against itself. How Attackers Use PowerShell. Of course, it’s not the only attack possible. Some PowerShell attacks are pretty hard to detect.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2023

The Lancefly APT group is using a custom powerful backdoor called Merdoor in attacks against organizations in South and Southeast Asia. Symantec researchers reported that the Lancefly APT group is using a custom-written backdoor in attacks targeting organizations in South and Southeast Asia, as part of a long-running campaign.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Once installed on a system, info stealers often aim to remain undetected for as long as possible. Many info stealers are additionally equipped with remote control capabilities, allowing the attacker to manage the malware and extract data remotely. They may use various tactics to evade antivirus and other security measures.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

A common thread runs through the cyber attacks that continue to defeat the best layered defenses money can buy. In fact, memory attacks have quietly emerged as a powerful and versatile new class of hacking technique that threat actors in the vanguard are utilizing to subvert conventional IT security systems.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 19, 2022

Cyber attackers continue to up their game. The new attack method, reported by Sophos researchers yesterday, is already growing in use. The “cookie-stealing cybercrime spectrum” is broad, the researchers wrote, ranging from “entry-level criminals” to advanced adversaries, using various techniques.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2023

Welcome to our review of security incidents for 2022, in which we take a closer look at the information gathered in our monthly lists of data breaches and cyber attacks. Although that’s a positive development in terms of organisations’ fight against cyber crime and their ability to prevent data breaches, we must remain cautious.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Welcome to our third quarterly review of security incidents for 2022, in which we take a closer look at the information gathered in our monthly list of data breaches and cyber attacks. In Q2 2022, we found 172 cyber attacks, which represents 60% of the publicly disclosed incidents that we detected.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2021

Over the years, the number of attacks against ICS/SCADA systems used by industrial organizations worldwide has rapidly increased. Many security firms highlighted the risks related to attacks targeting OT networks used in utilities. Mandiant launched a spear-phishing attack to gain a foothold in the target enterprise network.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 10, 2019

However, the flip side is that we’ve also created fresh attack vectors at a rapid rate – exposures that are not being adequately addressed. What’s more, the attackers reportedly were able to use Wipro as a jumping off point to infiltrate the networks of at least a dozen of Wipro’s customers.

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IT Governance

JUNE 15, 2022

The key to preventing attacks is to understand how they happen. Cyber Essentials is a UK government scheme that outlines five key controls, including patch management, that can prevent up to 80% of cyber attacks. Phishing is the most cost-effective and low-tech way to compromise sensitive data. Poor patch management.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2020

The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election. Most of APT28s’ campaigns leveraged spear-phishing and malware-based attacks. “A number of complementary detection techniques effectively identify Drovorub malware activity. ” reads the joint report.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2020

New blog: The threat actor BISMUTH, which has been running increasingly complex targeted attacks, deployed coin miners in campaigns from July to August 2020. The experts warn that nation-state actors are adopting TTPs associated with cybercrime gangs to make it hard the attack attribution. ” Microsoft said.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 8, 2022

When organizations implement Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance ( DMARC ), they expect to tighten email security and protect against spoofing and other spam email attacks. This technique adds to email security by allowing a domain to add a digital signature and asymmetric cryptography to authorized emails.

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Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2021

Group-IB supported INTERPOL in its Operation Lyrebird that allowed to identify a threat actor presumably responsible for multiple attacks. Almost each of the scripts contained in the phishing kit had its creator’s nickname, Dr HeX, and contact email address.

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IT Governance

JULY 13, 2018

Proofpoint’s The Human Factor 2018 Report revealed that over the past year, cyber criminals have continued to increase their use of social engineering, building up the number of attacks that rely on human interaction. Social engineering is at the core of many of today’s attacks, seeking to exploit the curiosity of unsuspecting users.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2023

The researchers pointed out that this is the first time the Soul malware framework is attributed to a known cluster of malicious activity, although it was previously used in attacks targeting the defense, healthcare, and ICT sectors in Southeast Asia. ” reads the analysis published by the experts.

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IT Governance

MAY 10, 2024

Are there any more common misconceptions to Cyber Essentials you’d like to debunk? Plus, keep in mind that the most common threats tend to exploit basic security weaknesses – not rely on sophisticated techniques. Something as simple as applying the latest software patches eliminates the risk of these types of attacks.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

According to Cisco’s 2022 Cybersecurity Almanac , the amount of money organisations spend recovering from cyber attacks is expected to increase by 75% in the five-year period from 2021 to 2025, reaching as much as $10.5 Meanwhile, global spending to prevent cyber attacks is predicted to increase by the same percentage during that period.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

DNS security protects the domain name system (DNS) from attackers seeking to reroute traffic to malicious sites. This article will provide an overview of DNS Security, common attacks, and how to use DNS security to prevent DNS attacks and manipulation.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

. “During the COVID-19 pandemic, the adversaries behind NetWalker clearly stated that hospitals will not be targeted; whether they keep to their word remains to be seen.” The affiliates used to deliver the threat via brute-forcing attacks on RDP servers or exploiting known vulnerabilities in VPN servers and firewalls.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 7, 2023

It remains to be seen if Kali Purple will do for defensive open source security tools what Kali Linux has done for open source pentesting, but the addition of more than 100 open source tools for SIEM , incident response , intrusion detection and more should raise the profile of those defensive tools.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 23, 2022

During these tests, simulated attacks are executed to identify gaps and vulnerabilities in the IT environment. Penetration testing can use different techniques, tools, and methods. Planning the penetration test allows the tester to be more precise when determining what type of data they gather to plan an effective attack strategy.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

It remains the most public incident demonstrating the cyber security risks of NFTs, and although this alone didn’t make people come to their senses, the discourse has evolved throughout the year, with the value of many NFTs cratering. You can see more incidents from January in our list of data breaches and cyber attacks.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

. “During the COVID-19 pandemic, the adversaries behind NetWalker clearly stated that hospitals will not be targeted; whether they keep to their word remains to be seen.” The affiliates used to deliver the threat via brute-forcing attacks on RDP servers or exploiting known vulnerabilities in VPN servers and firewalls.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 1, 2023

This counters a common spoofing technique where the attacker changes the “From” field displayed in the header to impersonate a trustworthy sender. BEC phishing emails and other malicious emails will fail DMARC and prevent unauthorized senders from sending or spoofing emails that attempt to impersonate another organization.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 26, 2023

Confidential computing is a technology and technique that encrypts and stores an organization’s most sensitive data in a secure portion of a computer’s processor — known as the Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) — while it’s processed and in use. Most other encryption approaches protect data at rest and data in transit only.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2019

Ave Maria Malware – Phishing attempts spreading in the last days of the past year against an Italian organization operating in the Oil&Gas sector. The Cybaze -Yoroi ZLab researchers analyzed phishing attempts spreading in the last days of the past year against an Italian organization operating in the Oil&Gas sector.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 31, 2023

A pentest report should also outline the vulnerability scans and simulated cybersecurity attacks the pentester used to probe for weaknesses in an organization’s overall security stack or specific systems, such as websites, applications, networks, and cloud infrastructure. This section can be very long as it will contain many details.

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Elie

MAY 30, 2018

This blog post survey the attacks techniques that target AI (artificial intelligence) systems and how to protect against them. At a high level, attacks against classifiers can be broken down into three types: Adversarial inputs. Data poisoning attacks. competitor content or as part of revenge attacks). first post.

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Elie

MAY 30, 2018

This blog post survey the attacks techniques that target AI (artificial intelligence) systems and how to protect against them. At a high level, attacks against classifiers can be broken down into three types: Adversarial inputs. Data poisoning attacks. competitor content or as part of revenge attacks). first post.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 6, 2021

The primary task for WAFs is to protect specific applications from web-based attacks at the application layer. With a quality pre-configured set of rules managed by AWS, networks are safe from the most common web application and API attacks. 5 star rating with 187 reviews on Gartner Peer Insights. Fortinet FortiWeb.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 23, 2022

A company that discovers that an advanced persistent threat (APT) attack is underway tends to be the exception. Attackers design APTs to be subtle, persistent, and to remain undetected for as long as possible. And they tend to succeed at remaining undetected. APT Attacks to Gain Access. What Are APTs? APT Examples.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 17, 2018

I'm going to talk more about Nodestack's behaviour in a moment, but let me clear about this - spam and thread-hijacking in this fashion is all too common: Check out [link] The secure eSign solution by Barracuda Networks. I have a vehement dislike of spam. — SignNow (@signnow) September 6, 2017. It's the same deal - targeted spam.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

We each need to consider how these trends may affect our organizations and allocate our budgets and resources accordingly: AI will turbo-charge cybersecurity and cyberthreats: Artificial intelligence (AI) will boost both attackers and defenders while causing governance issues and learning pains.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Protection against sophisticated malware and zero-day attacks. Anti- phishing , anti-fraud and anti-spam features. Email phishing filter. As the number of devices grew steadily and then rapidly towards the turn of the century, AV solutions emerged as the most common type of endpoint security. A network firewall.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Threat actors are continually looking for better ways to target organizations, here are the top five attack vectors to look out for in 2022. Malicious actors are continually looking for better ways to carry out successful cyber attacks. Phishing scams remain such a widely used attack vector because of their efficiency.

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