Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2024

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) and Mandiant reported a surge in the number of actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in 2023. In 2023, Google (TAG) and Mandiant discovered 29 out of 97 vulnerabilities exploited in the wild. ” reads the report published by Google TAG. ” continues the report.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. A ransomware attack is about as bad as a cyber attack can get. Jump to: What is ransomware? How ransomware works. Preventing ransomware. Ransomware attacks and costs.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2022

The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang claims to have breached the European gas pipeline Creos Luxembourg S.A. The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang claims to have hacked the European gas pipeline Creos Luxembourg S.A. The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group claims to have stolen more than 150 GB from the company, a total of 180.000 files.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2022

BlackCat (aka ALPHV) Ransomware gang introduced an advanced search by stolen victim’s passwords, and confidential documents. Resecurity (USA), a Los Angeles-based cybersecurity company protecting Fortune 500 companies, has detected a significant increase in the value of ransom demand requests by the notorious Blackcat ransomware gang.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2023

“To combat these threats [ransomware, wiper], security vendors tend to use their own mini-filter drivers to monitor the system’s I/O activity. For example, a process that opens many existing files and writes to them will be classified as ransomware/wiper, depending on the data written.” ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2022

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) uncovered a new initial access broker, named Exotic Lily, that is closely affiliated with the Conti ransomware gang. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) researchers linked a new initial access broker, named Exotic Lily, to the Conti ransomware operation.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Iran Crisis Russia-Aligned TAG-70 Targets European Government and Military Mail Servers in New Espionage Campaign U.S.

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KnowBe4

MARCH 24, 2022

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) describes a cybercriminal group it calls “EXOTIC LILY” that acts as an initial access broker for numerous financially motivated threat actors, including FIN12 and the Conti ransomware gang.

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2019

Experts at PaloAlto Networks spotted a new Shade ransomware campaigns targeting news countries, including in the U.S. Researchers observed a new wave of Shade ransomware attacks against targets in several countries, including the US and Japan. The ransomware also drops on the Desktop 10 text files, named README1.txt

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Enter the tagged VLAN and the largest debate surrounding VLANs: Is it better to work with a tagged or an untagged VLAN setup? Tagged VLANs are best for larger organizations that need stricter traffic and security controls over more complex, higher volume, and different types of network traffic. Also read: What is a VLAN?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2024

Admin of the BreachForums hacking forum sentenced to 20 years supervised release Russia-linked Midnight Blizzard APT hacked Microsoft corporate emails VF Corp December data breach impacts 35 million customers China-linked APT UNC3886 exploits VMware zero-day since 2021 Ransomware attacks break records in 2023: the number of victims rose by 128% U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 8, 2021

“This can be hugely damaging in the event of ransomware attacks, where high privileges can enable the attackers to stop or destroy backups and other security tools,” Breen said. “There are no workarounds for these vulnerabilities, patching as soon as possible is highly recommended.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2023

US CISA has added Veritas Backup Exec flaws, which were exploited in ransomware attacks, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The CVE-2023-26083 flaw in the Arm Mali GPU driver is chained with other issues to install commercial spyware, as reported by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) in a recent report.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2023

The flaw was exploited by the Play ransomware group in a recent attack against the Cloud services provider Rackspace. The ransomware attack took place on December 2, 2022, threat actors exploited a previously unknown security exploit , dubbed OWASSRF by Crowdstrike , to gain initial access to the Rackspace Hosted Microsoft Exchange.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The vulnerability allows attackers to craft documents that won’t get tagged with Microsoft’s “Mark of the Web,” despite being downloaded from untrusted sites. The bug already seeing exploitation is CVE-2022-44698 , which allows attackers to bypass the Windows SmartScreen security feature.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

. “Based on the simplicity by which this vulnerability can be exploited, we believe it’s only a matter of time before it is adopted into the playbooks of other threat actors, including ransomware groups and their affiliates.” “Microsoft’s public bulletin doesn’t say exactly what type of file (images? .

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2022

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

North Korea-linked APT group posed as Samsung recruiters is a spear-phishing campaign that targeted South Korean security companies that sell anti-malware solutions, Google TAG researchers reported. Google TAG researchers reported that the same group, tracked as Zinc ,” also targeted security researchers in past campaigns.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

“Patrick works at HP Wolf Security where they analyzed the Magniber Ransomware and wrote a detailed analysis of its working. In order to prevent unauthorized actions, files downloaded from the internet in Windows are tagged with a MotW flag. ” reads the report published by 0patch.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2023

Abandoned Eval PHP WordPress plugin abused to backdoor websites CISA adds MinIO, PaperCut, and Chrome bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog At least 2 critical infrastructure orgs breached by North Korea-linked hackers behind 3CX attack American Bar Association (ABA) suffered a data breach,1.4

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2023

Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for March 2023 addressed 74 vulnerabilities, including a Windows zero-day exploited in ransomware attacks. This second flaw has been exploited by attackers to bypass the Windows SmartScreen and deploy the Magniber ransomware. ” states Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2021

She previously hosted even TrickBot "red" group tag payload on her own website -> see URLhaus [link] [link] pic.twitter.com/qG977wjgLN — Vitali Kremez (@VK_Intel) June 4, 2021. Once infected a system, the ransomware informed victims that their files were encrypted demanded the payment of a Bitcoin ransom to decrypt them.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Regarding that flaw, Microsoft observed, “An attacker can craft a malicious file that would evade Mark of the Web (MOTW) defenses, resulting in a limited loss of integrity and availability of security features such as Protected View in Microsoft Office, which rely on MOTW tagging.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2022

Bumblebee has been active since March 2022 when it was spotted by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), experts noticed that cybercriminal groups that were previously using the BazaLoader and IcedID as part of their malware campaigns switched to the Bumblebee loader. ” reads the analysis published by Cybereason.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Bad actors are increasingly using a technique called HTML smuggling to deliver ransomware and other malicious code in email campaigns aimed at financial services firms and other organizations, according to Microsoft researchers. See also: How to Prevent Ransomware Attacks. What Is HTML Smuggling? Trickbot Attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Ransomware gangs exploited a recently patched vulnerability in JetBrains’ TeamCity server, while Exim mail servers grappled with multiple zero-days, including remote control execution (RCE) issues. Among the issues in the last week, Android and Arm faced actively exploited vulnerabilities in GPU drivers.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2022

SecurityAffairs awarded as Best European Personal Cybersecurity Blog 2022 Crooks are using RIG Exploit Kit to push Dridex instead of Raccoon stealer Flagstar Bank discloses a data breach that impacted 1.5 Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In March, researchers from Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) reported that North Korea-linked hackers are targeting security researchers via social media. The group is considered responsible for the massive WannaCry ransomware attack, a string of SWIFT attacks in 2016, and the Sony Pictures hack. Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 17, 2023

That’s where VLAN tagging — the practice of adding metadata labels, known as VLAN IDs, to information packets on the network — can help. These informative tags help classify different types of information packets across the network, making it clear which VLAN each packet belongs to and how they should operate accordingly.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2023

Russia-linked APT Gamaredon starts stealing data from victims between 30 and 50 minutes after the initial compromise The source code of the BlackLotus UEFI Bootkit was leaked on GitHub US CISA warns of Rockwell Automation ControlLogix flaws Indexing Over 15 Million WordPress Websites with PWNPress New AVrecon botnet remained under the radar for two (..)

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2021

Microsoft, like Google TAG, observed a cyber espionage campaign aimed at vulnerability researchers that attributed to North Korea-linked Zinc APT group. ” This week, Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) also warned of North Korea-linked hackers targeting security researchers through social media.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2022

Anonymous leaked 15 GB of data allegedly stolen from the Russian Orthodox Church UK Police charges two teenagers for their alleged role in the Lapsus$ extortion group Beastmode Mirai botnet now includes exploits for Totolink routers Ukraine intelligence leaks names of 620 alleged Russian FSB agents Critical CVE-2022-1162 flaw in GitLab allowed threat (..)

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Many large enterprises struggle to stay on top of serious cyber threats like ransomware. Not only do these systems garner heavy price tags, it can be challenging to find and retain highly trained specialists that know how to work with them. Further reading: Best Ransomware Removal and Recovery Services.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Security researchers also reported that the TrickBot botnet was used to spread other threats, such as Ryuk ransomware. link] We suspect the bot is used as another means (on top of #BazarBackdoor ) to identify #Ryuk ransomware targets via network/domain parsing part of #CobaltStrike Ryuk — Vitali Kremez (@VK_Intel) November 19, 2020.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

By infecting routers, they can perform man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks—via HTTP hijacking and DNS spoofing—to compromise endpoints and deploy ransomware or cause safety incidents in OT facilities. state researchers at Microsoft Security Threat Intelligence Center and Section 52 at Azure Defender for IoT. “By ” continues the post.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 1, 2023

This works by allowing the IoT device to present a QR code or a Near Field Communication (NFC) tag, which the user can scan with their device to establish a secure Wi-Fi connection. Back up important data , as there is no better defense against ransomware. Segment parts of your network that are more sensitive than others.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Now it may have an even more important role to play: preventing ransomware attacks. Rampant Ransomware Attacks. Ransomware attacks have been surging in 2021, with the highest-profile one the Colonial Pipeline attack that nearly shut down the U.S. Many ransomware attacks seem brutal, cruel, and deceptive.

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