Krebs on Security

JULY 14, 2020

” CVE-2020-1350 is just the latest worry for enterprise system administrators in charge of patching dangerous bugs in widely-used software. Chief among those is CVE-2020-1463 , a problem within Windows 10 and Server 2016 or later that was detailed publicly prior to this month’s Patch Tuesday.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

As first detailed by KrebsOnSecurity in July 2016 , Orcus is the brainchild of John “Armada” Rezvesz , a Toronto resident who until recently maintained and sold the RAT under the company name Orcus Technologies. An advertisement for Orcus RAT. In an “official press release” posted to pastebin.com on Mar.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The agencies offered some sound cybersecurity advice for BlackByte that applies pretty generally: Conduct regular backups and store them as air-gapped, password-protected copies offline. Further reading: Best Backup Products for Ransomware and Best Ransomware Removal and Recovery Services . BlackByte Ransomware Protection Steps.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 1, 2021

#PrintNightmare / CVE-2021-1675 – It appears patches might be effective on systems that are not domain controllers. RpcAddPrinterDriverEx call as non-admin fails with access denied against fully patched Server 2016 and 2019 non-DC, but after dcpromo the exploit works again. Mitigation.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

2011 said he was a system administrator and C++ coder. NeroWolfe seems to have abandoned all of his forum accounts sometime in 2016. In November 2016, an exploit[.]ru “Cryptolockers made a lot of noise in the press, but lazy system administrators don’t make backups after that. “P.S.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Social engineering attacks , including phishing, spam, and viruses introduced via clickable links within e-mail affected 80% of the banking institutions in 2016. I’m not exaggerating: A s ecure cloud backup solution can save hours, days, months and years of your team’s work.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

Between 2016 and 2018, the malware strain SamSam made brute force RDP attacks an integral part of its attacks on several public organizations. By exploiting weak server vulnerabilities, the Iran-based hackers were able to gain access, move laterally, encrypt IT systems, and demand ransom payment.

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