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Dead System Admin's Credentials Used for Ransomware Attack

Data Breach Today

Sophos: 'Ghost' Accounts Present a Potential Security Danger The operators of the Nefilim ransomware used the credentials of a deceased system administrator to plant their crypto-locking malware in about 100 vulnerable systems during one attack, according to Sophos.

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Automate Jamf using Okta Workflows

Jamf

Learn about how Okta automations can simplify your experience with Jamf in this presentation by Stephen Short, senior IT systems administrator at DISCO. Short will explain what Okta workflows are and how to use them, as well as provide a few examples.

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RSAC insights: Software tampering escalates as bad actors take advantage of ‘dependency confusion’

The Last Watchdog

Its function is to record events in a log for a system administrator to review and act upon. Left unpatched, Log4Shell, presents a ripe opportunity for a bad actor to carry out remote code execution attacks, Pericin told me.

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Kaseya Left Customer Portal Vulnerable to 2015 Flaw in its Own Software

Krebs on Security

The attackers exploited a vulnerability in software from Kaseya , a Miami-based company whose products help system administrators manage large networks remotely. Last week cybercriminals deployed ransomware to 1,500 organizations that provide IT security and technical support to many other companies.

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StealthWorker botnet targets Synology NAS devices to drop ransomware

Security Affairs

” At present, Synology PSIRT has seen no indication of the malware exploiting any software vulnerabilities.” The Taiwanese company urges its customers to enable multi-factor authentication where available, enable auto block and account protection, and to use string administrative credentials, .

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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

com is no longer responding, but a cached copy of it from Archive.org shows that for about four years it included in its HTML source a Google Analytics code of US-2665744 , which was also present on more than a dozen other websites. md , and that they were a systems administrator for sscompany[.]net. com, such as abuseipdb[.]com

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Caketap, a new Unix rootkit used to siphon ATM banking data

Security Affairs

In order to identify CAKETAP running on a Solaris system, administrators can check for the presence of a hook installed in the ipcl_get_next_conn hook function. The actor uses their skill and experience to take full advantage of the decreased visibility and security measures that are often present in Unix and Linux environments.