BH Consulting

DECEMBER 11, 2023

These practices can lead to account compromise, or enabling unauthorised users to access sensitive data and escalate privileges. Cloud security was also a theme in Microsoft’s ‘Cybersecurity Trends in Ireland 2023’ report. Sign up here The post Security Roundup December 2023 appeared first on BH Consulting.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2023

Recently, VIPRE Security Group published their Email Security in 2023 report , where they shared insights on the development of email-based threats and how they can impact organizations. What Can We Expect in 2023? This can be done using encryption. It’s not likely to stop there. 1 There will be more remote work-based attacks.

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NopSec

JULY 28, 2023

Good news for blog content, but less so for production networks. Seriously, who is using ColdFusion in 2023? On the hardware side of the spectrum, researchers discovered that AMD Zen2 CPUs are vulnerable to a memory dump vulnerability that could result in unintended disclosure of neat things like encryption keys and passwords.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 5, 2023

Between June 2022 and May 2023, there were 190 known ransomware attacks against educational institutions, and many more that went unreported and unrecorded. We’ll spend the rest of this blog breaking down attacks on education by gangs, countries, and which gangs attack which countries the most. million in 2022.

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NetSpi Technical

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

As we were preparing our slides and tools for our DEF CON Cloud Village Talk ( What the Function: A Deep Dive into Azure Function App Security ), Thomas Elling and I stumbled onto an extension of some existing research that we disclosed on the NetSPI blog in March of 2023.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

stole at least $800,000 from at least five victims between August 2022 and March 2023. In each attack, the victims saw their email and financial accounts compromised after suffering an unauthorized SIM-swap, wherein attackers transferred each victim’s mobile phone number to a new device that they controlled. According to an Aug.

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NetSpi Technical

AUGUST 12, 2023

When deploying an Azure Function App, you’re typically prompted to select a Storage Account to use in support of the application. Access to these supporting Storage Accounts can lead to disclosure of Function App source code, command execution in the Function App, and (as we’ll show in this blog) decryption of the Function App Access Keys.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In April 2023, FortiGuard Labs researchers observed a hacking campaign targeting Cacti ( CVE-2022-46169 ) and Realtek ( CVE-2021-35394 ) vulnerabilities to spread ShellBot and Moobot malware. APT28 group deployed Python scripts on compromised EdgeRouters to collect and validate stolen webmail account credentials.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

This is my completely informal, uncertified, unreviewed and otherwise completely unofficial blog inspired by my reading of our seventh Threat Horizons Report ( full version ) that we just released ( the official blog for #1 report , my unofficial blogs for #2 , #3 , #4 , #5 , #6 , #7 and #8 ).

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Digging further into this Gitlab account, we can find some curious data points available in the JCube Group’s public code repository. The posts on the Twitter account for Mr. Kolev (@andrewkolev) are all written in Russian, and reference several now-defunct online businesses, including pluginspro[.]ru.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 20, 2023

In late March 2023, 3CX disclosed that its desktop applications for both Windows and macOS were compromised with malicious code that gave attackers the ability to download and run code on all machines where the app was installed. Microsoft Corp.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Compliance madhav Tue, 09/19/2023 - 05:17 It is essential for any business that stores, processes, and transmits payment card information to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Secure data storage is closely related to encryption and key management. The Clock is Ticking for PCI DSS 4.0 Requirement 3.2

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 13, 2023

madhav Thu, 12/14/2023 - 05:37 Ransomware is one of the most high-profile and high-value cybercrimes that organizations need to watch out for. This blog post will explore the reasons that ransomware sanctions may fall short and what actions organizations can do to protect against ransomware.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

Launched in 2008, privnote.com employs technology that encrypts each message so that even Privnote itself cannot read its contents. For example, this account at Medium has authored more than a dozen blog posts in the past year singing the praises of Tornote as a secure, self-destructing messaging service.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In a security blog about Octo Tempest Microsoft states: “Octo Tempest monetized their intrusions in 2022 by selling SIM swaps to other criminals and performing account takeovers of high-net-worth individuals to steal their cryptocurrency.” Stop malicious encryption.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2023

reads the status page of the company on April 2, 2023. “We On March 26, 2023, Western Digital identified a network security incident involving Western Digital’s systems. “We are writing to notify you about a network security incident involving your Western Digital online store account. We are working to restore service.

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Duo's Security Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

We have a lot of thoughts on passkeys – some of which we’ve shared in other posts in this passkey blog series – and today we’re going to explore how passkeys stack up against passwords from the perspective of cloud platforms. That’s why many tech companies are turning to passkeys as a more secure and convenient replacement.

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2023

The new ransomware operation has been active since March 2023, despite the threat actors use a double-extortion model, their data leak site has yet to be discovered. The new ransomware strain outstands for the use of encryption to protect the ransomware binary. This technique allows the encryptor to avoid detection.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2023

Please vote for Security Affairs ( [link] ) as the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS Vote for me in the sections where is reported Securityaffairs or my name Pierluigi Paganini Please nominate Security Affairs as your favorite blog.

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NetSpi Technical

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

As we were preparing our slides and tools for our DEF CON Cloud Village Talk ( What the Function: A Deep Dive into Azure Function App Security ), Thomas Elling and I stumbled onto an extension of some existing research that we disclosed on the NetSPI blog in March of 2023.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2023

After gaining access to SMB shares, threat actors encrypt all files and leave a ransom note demanding payment in exchange for the decryption key. The Cybernews investigation identified crypto wallet addresses associated with the CheckMate operators and found thousands of incoming transactions in the first quarter of 2023.

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2023

The American satellite broadcast provider Dish Network went offline on February 24, 2023 , the outage impacted Dish.com, Dish Anywhere app, and many other services owned by the company. The threat actors initially compromised the company’s Windows domain controllers and then encrypted the VMware ESXi servers and backups.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2023

"We detected unauthorized access to a limited amount of information in one of our non-production IT testing environments as a result of the GoAnywhere vulnerability," he says in a blog post published Tuesday. Stop malicious encryption. Use EDR or MDR to detect unusual activity before an attack occurs.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 7, 2023

These modules are custom designed to carry out malicious activities, such as injecting harmful code into remote processes, circumventing User Account Control via COM Elevation Moniker, and evading detection by Sandboxes through clever techniques like system reboots and parent process checks. Read on to learn more about this alarming threat.

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Digital Shadows

JANUARY 18, 2023

This blog focuses on ransomware activity in Q4 2022, based on primary and secondary source reporting. We’ll talk major ransomware trends and events, vulnerable sectors and regions, and what to expect in the first quarter of 2023. They cited his transfer of “dirty” Bitcoin from a ransom account to his personal account.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

alerted customers to the incident, disabling security questions and forcing them to take a mulligan on their passwords—requiring a reset of passwords for all accounts. and action required in relation to your account password with our Callaway, Odyssey, Ogio, and/or Callaway Golf Preowned sites.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 12, 2023

While reading SCCM Current Branch Unleashed and stepping through the site installation process, I found something interesting — the primary site server’s domain computer account is required to be a member of the local Administrators group on the site database server. fallback to NTLM authentication is enabled (default).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 13, 2023

Fraud, financial gain, and intellectual property theft are the primary motivators, and ‘trusted business partners’ typically account for 15-25% of the cases across all industries. As cited in TechJury , more than two out of three insider threats are caused by negligence. Nine in ten result from human error.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 31, 2023

This blog was jointly written with Alejandro Prada and Ofer Caspi. Executive summary SeroXen is a new Remote Access Trojan (RAT) that showed up in late 2022 and is becoming more popular in 2023. in March 2023, which is the most current version. This new RAT first showed up on a Twitter account, established in September 2022.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 11, 2023

How Machine Learning Can Accelerate and Improve the Accuracy of Sensitive Data Classification madhav Tue, 12/12/2023 - 05:21 Given the pace of data growth and the complexity of hybrid IT environments, the discovery and classification of sensitive data is no simple task.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. “If you have my seed phrase, you can copy and paste that into your wallet, and then you can see all my accounts. . Then on Aug. But on Nov.

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SecureList

MAY 11, 2023

Although early 2023 saw a slight decline in the number of ransomware attacks, they were more sophisticated and better targeted. A few months after last year’s blog post came out, we stumbled across a new multi-platform ransomware family, which targeted both Linux and Windows. In 2022, Kaspersky solutions detected over 74.2M

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NetSpi Executives

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The theme for 2023’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month is “Secure Our World,” focusing on ways individuals and businesses can protect against online threats. MFA is a multi-step process that requires users to enter more information than simply a password to log into an account. But the mission never ends.

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Centraleyes

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

HIPAA, or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, is a federal law, whereas HITRUST is a comprehensive control framework. ” HIPAA: An Overview HIPAA, short for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, is a pivotal U.S. HITRUST to Release CSF Version 11.0

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCIES divya Tue, 02/28/2023 - 06:31 CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCIES an evolution of money and payments CBDC, or Central Bank Digital Currency, is a trending topic in the financial industry. According to the World Bank account ownership rates vary across the world. HSM, mobile Secure Element, Smart Card).

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 30, 2021

billion networked devices by 2023. Be sure to check out the bonus tip at the end of the blog and share in the comments other ways your organization is successfully securing APIs. Once you have an accountable team, make a plan , and communicate it throughout the organization. I recommend working the list top down.

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