Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2019

Microsoft Patches Over 90 Vulnerabilities With August 2019 Updates. Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for August 2019 address more than 90 flaws, including two new ‘ wormable ‘ issues in Windows Remote Desktop Services. The vulnerabilities are tracked as CVE-2019-1181, CVE-2019-1182, CVE-2019-1222 and CVE-2019-1226.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

GandCrab dissolved in July 2019, and is thought to have become “ REvil ,” one of the most ruthless and rapacious Russian ransomware groups of all time. was also used to register an account at the online game stalker[.]so ru, the very same account Truniger used to recruit hackers for the Snatch Ransomware group back in 2018.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 6, 2022

In this three part blog series we will explore attack paths that emerge out of Managed Identity assignments in three Azure services: Automation Accounts, Logic Apps, and Function Apps. Let’s start this series off by looking at Automation Accounts. Abusing Automation Accounts is nothing new. What are Automation Accounts?

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Spinone

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The best way to stay up-to-date with the recent trends is by reading the top cybersecurity blogs. Here’s our list of the best cybersecurity blogs to read and follow. Securing Tomorrow SecuringTomorrow is a blog by McAfee, one of the biggest security software providers. Their main focus is on cybercrime investigations.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Microsoft analyzed details of the SolarWinds attack: Microsoft and FireEye only detected the Sunburst or Solorigate malware in December, but Crowdstrike reported this month that another related piece of malware, Sunspot , was deployed in September 2019, at the time hackers breached SolarWinds’ internal network.

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McAfee

DECEMBER 23, 2019

According to the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) 2019 Executive Opinion Survey , it’s cyberattacks. When reflecting on 2019, it’s clear why that is. Below, I’ll recap notable incidents from 2019, expand upon their commonalities, and explore a few lessons to learn as we enter a new year. What keeps executives up at night?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 25, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Fortunately, despite the growth of the crypto market, crypto crime has decreased by 57% since 2019, dropping to $1.9 Strengthening cybersecurity when using trading bots is key to protecting your accounts and money from hackers. A staggering $1.9 API security.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 11, 2019

These lists are frequently used for account takeover attacks against the likes of Spotify which is the subject of this week's blog post. pic.twitter.com/SOB9hq6uTH — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) January 11, 2019. kevinmitnick pic.twitter.com/gypHgCtGRi — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) January 11, 2019. I think it's alright.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 27, 2023

On July 16, 2020 — the day after some of Twitter’s most recognizable and popular users had their accounts hacked and used to tweet out a bitcoin scam — KrebsOnSecurity observed that several social media accounts tied to O’Connor appeared to have inside knowledge of the intrusion. I haven’t done anything.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added the following five new issues to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog : CVE-2019-8526 – Apple macOS Use-After-Free Vulnerability. The issue was used to dump iCloud Keychain if the macOS version is lower than 10.14.4.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

“Upon gaining an initial foothold into a telecommunications organization or network service provider, PRC state-sponsored cyber actors have identified critical users and infrastructure including systems critical to maintaining the security of authentication, authorization, and accounting.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2021

” The intrusion came to light on Twitter when the account @und0xxed started tweeting the details. ” Other databases allegedly accessed by the intruders included one for prepaid accounts, which had far fewer details about customers. ” T-Mobile declined to comment beyond what the company said in its blog post today.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

pic.twitter.com/pN1dQ38cDr — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) September 1, 2019 Back on business as usual, there's the SIM hijacking issue with Jack Dorsey's Twitter account, more data breaches and joyously, the HIBP API being back in full swing with the 500 subscription limit issue on Azure's APIM now being overcome.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 26, 2021

But most of the coverage seems to have overlooked the far more sinister criminal charges in the indictment, which involve an underground scene wherein young men turn to extortion, sextortion, SIM swapping, death threats and physical attacks — all in a frenzied effort to seize control over social media accounts. FEMALE TARGETS.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 7, 2023

Someone leaking, stealing or selling account information can cause a sudden influx of spam emails. They send more messages when they know the account is active and possibly interested. They can use it to trace online activity , find attached accounts and uncover personal data. Check Your Bank Account. Report and Delete.

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Adam Levin

AUGUST 31, 2019

We estimate that these sites receive thousands of visitors per week,” wrote Project Zero member Ian Beer in a blog post announcing their findings. The data accessible on the compromised phones included the user’s location, their passwords, chat histories, contact lists, and full access to their Gmail accounts. .

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Here are a few trends I expect will dominate cyber security in 2019. Social networks offer a world of insights and information on almost anyone who has an account. In 2017, roughly 63% of organizations experienced an attempted ransomware attack, with 22% reporting these incidents occurred on a weekly basis. Security and Privacy Merge.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 8, 2019

In fact, according to the 2019 Thales Cloud Security Study , the average company uses 29 cloud services. Whatever you store, whatever services you are using “in the cloud”, it is your responsibility to configure them correctly and to assume responsibility and accountability if something goes wrong.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2020

In October 2019, someone hacked BriansClub , a popular stolen card bazaar that uses this author’s likeness and name in its marketing. Among the recipients was Damon McCoy , an associate professor at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering [full disclosure: NYU has been a longtime advertiser on this blog].

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 13, 2019

At the 2019 RSA Conference, Pure Storage and Thales introduced Vormetric Transparent Encryption for Efficient Storage – the IT and security industries’ first end-to-end data encryption framework that realizes storage array data reduction. Version 1.0 is currently in beta and discussions around what follows have already begun.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

And in May of this year, GoDaddy disclosed that 28,000 of its customers’ web hosting accounts were compromised following a security incident in Oct. 2019 that wasn’t discovered until April 2020. “This gave the actor the ability to change DNS records and in turn, take control of a number of internal email accounts. .

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2023

Nominate here: [link] Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, CISA) The post CISA adds Veritas Backup Exec flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2020

107 million records include personal data and basic account information such as the user ID, number of Weibo tweets, number of followers and accounts users are following, account gender, geographic location and more. The ads published by the sellers claim that the data were stolen from Weibo in mid-2019.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 26, 2023

This is the fourth blog in the series focused on PCI DSS, written by an AT&T Cybersecurity consultant. See the first blog relating to IAM and PCI DSS here. See the second blog on PCI DSS reporting details to ensure when contracting quarterly CDE tests here. PCI DSS v4.0

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Recently, Amazon announced that it will require all privileged Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts to use multi-factor authentication (MFA) , starting in mid-2024. Our regular readers will know that we feel that passwords alone are not adequate protection , especially not for your important accounts.

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Duo's Security Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

That Was Then, This is Now 2FA Usage Continues its Climb Two-factor authentication has become notably more prevalent over the last two years, with 79% of respondents reporting having used it in 2021, compared to 53% in 2019 and 28% in 2017. Email is the second most common second factor (74%), with a notable increase compared to 2019 (57%).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2023

According to the investigators, in July 2019, Dubnikov laundered more than $400,000 in Ryuk ransom proceeds. The Russian national received ransom payments from Ryuk operators and along with his co-conspirators used various financial transactions to conceal the ownership and the nature of the laundered proceeds.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 29, 2022

Google has for years accepted requests to remove certain sensitive data such as bank account or credit card numbers from search results. Briansclub updated its homepage with this information in 2019, after it got massively hacked and a copy of its customer database was shared with this author.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 8, 2021

I was pretty excited when I saw PRs coming in right after launching that last blog post. a conference series I've had a very long, close affinity with: Want to protect your accounts like @EveOnline does? Code enhancements. Framework updates. New features. It was all there! So I asked him, and he said yes.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2023

The Monopoly Market was launched in 2019 and the German authorities seized the marketplace’s infrastructure in December 2021. “A number of investigations to identify additional individuals behind dark web accounts are still ongoing. ” continues the press release.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

That same email address also is tied to two forum accounts for a user with the handle “ O.R.Z.” user account — this one on Verified[.]ru Prior to that, akafitis@gmail.com was used as the email address for the account “ Fitis ,” which was active on Exploit between September 2006 and May 2007.

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2022

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) chief Shane Huntley told Reuters was set up by a Russia-linked APT dubbed “ Cold River “ At this time it is unclear how the website has obtained the sensitive emails, Reuters pointed out that most of the messages mainly appear to have been exchanged using ProtonMail accounts.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 13, 2020

The intruder also linked to several dozen new sales threads on the dark web site Empire Market , where they advertise the sale of hundreds of millions of account details from dozens of leaked or hacked website databases that Data Viper allegedly acquired via trading with others on cybercrime forums. But on Aug.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2023

CryptBot malware is active since at least 2019, it allows operators to steal sensitive data from the Google Chrome of the infected systems. “This litigation is another step forward in holding cybercriminals accountable, by not just targeting those that operate botnets, but also those that profit from malware distribution.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2023

In December 2019, German media reported that hackers suspected to be members of the Vietnam-linked APT Ocean Lotus ( APT32 ) group breached the networks of the car manufacturers BMW and Hyundai.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

In 2019, a cybersecurity firm demonstrated security risks that could allow an attacker to disrupt engine readings and altitude on an aircraft. Government Accountability Office in 2020 about increasing risk due to connected aircraft technology developments. Risks delineated Still, there have been many other incidents since.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 19, 2019

Cloud hosting provider iNSYNQ says it is trying to recover from a ransomware attack that shut down its network and has left customers unable to access their accounting data for the past three days. based iNSYNQ specializes in providing cloud-based QuickBooks accounting software and services. A message from iNSYNQ to customers.

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