The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Hackers may use a keylogger to capture sensitive information, including payment details and login credentials of victims, or they may leverage a screen grabber to capture internet activity. A firewall can be effective in stopping the spread of worms through network endpoints. NotPetya shook the entire world in June 2017.

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Cisco Security

APRIL 29, 2021

The data center also served as the gateway to the internet. All infrastructure within the enterprise was trusted and everything outside including the internet and DMZ was labeled as untrusted, so firewalls and other proper security devices were deployed at these boundaries mainly at the data center in order to protect the organization.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2019

A survey of local media reports by Recorded Future tallied 38 ransomware attacks against cities in 2017, rising to 53 attacks in 2018. However, the operational imperatives in today’s world of internet-centric commerce often boil down to survival math, especially for SMBs. This column originally appeared on Avast Blog.).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 26, 2022

As described in our previous blog, the malware initiates a total of 33 exploit functions targeting different routers and IoT devices by calling the function “scannerInitExploits” (see figure 2). Maintain minimal exposure to the Internet on Linux servers and IoT devices and use a properly configured firewall.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The malware maps each function with a string that represents a potential targeted system — such as a signature, which we’ll explain later in this blog (see figure 3). CVE-2017-6077. CVE-2017-18368. CVE-2017-6334. 4000898: AV EXPLOIT Netgear DGN2200 ping.cgi – Possible Command Injection ( CVE-2017-6077 ).

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 8, 2020

This is a blog post about disclosure, specifically the difficulty with doing it in a responsible fashion as the reporter whilst also ensuring the impacted organisation behaves responsibly themselves. All sensitive private and financial information are stored on a secured server and protected by the best firewall to prevent intrusions.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 10, 2021

We’ve seen similar vulnerabilities exploited before in breaches like the 2017 Equifax data breach.”. In a similar tweet, security firm GreyNoise reported that it “is currently seeing 2 unique IP’s scanning the internet for the new Apache Log4j RCE vulnerability…”. Anybody using Apache Struts is likely vulnerable.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 4, 2019

Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Baltimore metropolitan area alone had more than 61,000 people working in computer and mathematical occupations as of May 2017, almost all in IT-related fields. According to the U.S. This made it the nation’s eighth-largest technology hub. Attila and Prevailion founders are intelligence community veterans.

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

These credentials are used in a credential stuffing or password spraying attack against the victim’s remote services, such as webmail or other internet reachable mail services. The earliest and longest lasting intrusion by this threat we observed, was at a company in the semiconductors industry in Europe and started early Q4 2017.

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NopSec

APRIL 26, 2017

According to the The Register’s article , last week we started assisting to the widespread exploitation of The Shadow Brokers ’ leaked Windows exploits, compromising thousands of vulnerable hosts over the Internet. This widespread exploitation prompted me to release this blog post that I have been mulling for a while.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

According to security firm Gemini Advisory, the Fin7 hacker group stole data on more than five million credit and debit cards that had been used at HBC credit card terminals beginning in May 2017. Evolving threats. vSkimmer malware, a successor to Dexter, dates back to 2013.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Javali trojan is active since November 2017 and targets users of financial and banking organizations geolocated in Brazil and Mexico. After opening the URL distributed on the email body, a ZIP file is then downloaded from the Internet. Background of Latin American Trojans. The next diagram demonstrates how Javali trojan banker works.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

SiteLock was founded in 2008 with one mission: to protect every website on the internet. A web application firewall (WAF). Over 15 percent of malware attacks in Q4 2017 sought to exploit visitors for these resources. Q: Who is SiteLock? Q: What is website security? Q: I thought my hosting provider protects my site.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 28, 2023

For example, an IP tried AndroxGh0st Scanning Traffic against the Registration server, blocked by Palo Alto Networks firewall. In addition to the SPAN, we requested that Palo Alto send NetFlow from their Firewalls to CTB. You can find the code and guide at this GitHub repository and the guide in this blog post.

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Digital Shadows

AUGUST 17, 2021

Going back a bit, it was also the top attack vector in 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, and well, hopefully, you get the picture. Check Out Some Tools Short of wearing a biohazard suit and staying entirely off the internet or never touching a computer again, there are some excellent ways to remain safe from phishing.

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