Security Boulevard

JANUARY 10, 2024

So, we ( Tim and Anton , the crew behind the podcast ) wanted to post another reflections blog based on our Cloud Security Podcast by Google being almost 3 (we will be 3 years old on Feb 11, 2024, to be precise), kind of similar to this one. Much better website with content tags Finally, an obvious call to action! More video!

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Cloud Migration Government Network Security Risk 62

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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Authentication Hacking Cybersecurity Accountability 121

Security Boulevard

AUGUST 30, 2021

<a href='/blog?tag=Endpoint tag=Endpoint Protection'>Endpoint Protection</a> <a href='/blog?tag=Data tag=Data Loss Prevention'>Data Loss Prevention</a> <a href='/blog?tag=File tag=File Transfers'>File Transfers</a> <a href='/blog?tag=Advanced

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Social Engineering Cybersecurity Unstructured Data Engineering 100

The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 13, 2022

While the price tag of these violations was shocking, the compliance failure was not. The first is, how do they monitor these conversations to ensure optimal customer experience? Second, how can they promote efficient communication using the customer’s preferred channel while remaining compliant with local regulations?

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Mobile Encryption Risk 254

Malwarebytes

MARCH 18, 2022

The Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has shared their observations about a group of cybercriminals called Exotic Lily. Among these interested parties TAG found the Conti and Diavol ransomware groups. From the TAG blog we can learn that Exotic Lily was very much specialized. Initial access broker. Exotic Lily.

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Ransomware Malware Social Engineering Media 96

Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 12, 2023

SAP Security Note #3350297 , tagged with a CVSS score of 9.1, The New HotNews Note in Detail SAP Security Note #3411067 , tagged with a CVSS score of 9.1, The note lists the affected libraries and Programming Infrastructure versions and provides some hints and references on how to apply the updates.

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Passwords Technology Mobile Government 52

SC Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

In a blog post, Avanan said hackers are bypassing static link scanners by hosting their attacks on publicly-known services. According to Avanan blog, once the attacker publishes the lure, “Google provides a link with embed tags that are meant to be used on forums to render custom content. (brionv, CC BY-SA 2.0

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Phishing Social Engineering Engineering CISO 110

Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 28, 2020

That’s how [link] became [link]. Everything becomes clear(er) if I manually change the font in the browser dev tools to a serif version: The victim I was referring to in the opening of this blog post? Can you clearly see how the "i" is not an "l"? Turns out it was the third one: The answer is number 3. — Bartek ?wierczy?ski

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Phishing Password Management Passwords Internet 362

SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 19, 2021

One notorious hacking group from Iran uses particularly dirty schemes to fleece users, according to Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG). According to Google’s TAG blog, APT35 have been active since at least 2017, including attacks on the 2020 U.S. Developing advanced phishing techniques to lure victims.

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Phishing Social Engineering Authentication Government 70

Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2023

Some apps were updated by removing the malicious library, while other apps were removed from Google Play. . “Remote configuration contains the parameters for each of functionalities and it specifies how often it runs the components. It is important to highlight that the library was not developed by the authors of the apps.

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Data collection Mobile Malware Education 95

Google Security

APRIL 30, 2024

Posted by Will Harris, Chrome Security Team Chromium's sandboxed process model defends well from malicious web content, but there are limits to how well the application can protect itself from malware already on the computer. against theft. Export the event logs to your backend system.

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Passwords Malware Encryption System Administration 75

Malwarebytes

APRIL 3, 2023

Researchers at Orca Security disclosed how they found a remote code execution vulnerability in Azure Service Fabric Explorer. So they set out to try some different names to observe how the server handles non-existent and/or modified values for different variables. How can we use this in a full-fletched attack?

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Authentication Risk Cybersecurity 87

Troy Hunt

AUGUST 3, 2022

How best to punish spammers? I give this topic a lot of thought because I spend a lot of time sifting through the endless rubbish they send me. And that's when it dawned on me: the punishment should fit the crime - robbing me of my time - which means that I, in turn, need to rob them of their time.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

<a href='/blog?tag='></a> tag='></a> <a href='/blog?tag='></a> tag='></a> <a href='/blog?tag='></a> tag='></a> 2020 was a year of unprecedented challenge for anyone working in public sector cybersecurity.

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Cybersecurity Digital transformation Cyber threats Ransomware 76

ForAllSecure

MARCH 16, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll walk through the following: What is the Mayhem GitHub Action? In this blog post, we’ll walk through the following: What is the Mayhem GitHub Action? How does the Mayhem GitHub Action Work? How do I integrate the Mayhem GitHub Action? How do I contribute to the Mayhem GitHub Action?

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Passwords Accountability 52

NetSpi Technical

MARCH 11, 2024

This blog will cover how we discovered CVE-2024-21378 and weaponized it by modifying Ruler , an Outlook penetration testing tool published by SensePost. In 2023 NetSPI discovered that Microsoft Outlook was vulnerable to authenticated remote code execution (RCE) via synced form objects. You can also have multiple files written to disk.

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Authentication Penetration Testing Technology Phishing 52

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 security updates include patches for Azure , Microsoft Edge, Office , SharePoint Server , SysInternals , and the.NET framework.

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Social Engineering Ransomware Software Engineering 186

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

” Also read: Ransomware Protection: How to Prevent Ransomware Attacks SmartScreen Zero-Day The SmartScreen zero-day, CVE-2023-24880 , is also being actively exploited but has a much lower CVSS score of 5.4. This could lead to exploitation BEFORE the email is viewed in the Preview Pane.”

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Energy and Utilities Authentication Firewall Engineering 98

Security Boulevard

MAY 24, 2021

<a href='/blog?tag=Data tag=Data Security'>Data Security</a> <a href='/blog?tag=Data tag=Data Breach'>Data Breach</a> <a href='/blog?tag=Information how much data?is Consequently, the challenge for most organizations now is: how do we share data safely and securely?

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Data breaches Risk Government Encryption 57

Security Boulevard

AUGUST 24, 2021

<a href='/blog?tag='></a> tag='></a> <a href='/blog?tag='></a> tag='></a> <a href='/blog?tag='></a> tag='></a> Protecting customer data from loss and leakage has become a top priority for enterprises over the past decade.

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Data breaches Ransomware Financial Services CISO 52

Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Microsoft Breach — How Can I See This In BloodHound? In this post, we’ll show you how to understand where similar Attack Paths may exist within your own Entra ID environments. Summary On January 25, 2024, Microsoft announced Russia’s foreign intelligence service (i.e., What Happened and What is the Attack Path?

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Risk Cybersecurity 62

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

The funding project aims to be transparent, any donors can track how that money is being used by the foundation, the Tor Project will tag any bug tickets that utilize the money of the fund with the “BugSmashFund” tag. Here’s how.” ” reads the announcement published by the Tor Project.

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Advertising Cryptocurrency Information Security 82

SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

In a blog post, Neel Mehta, Information Security lead for Google, explains how a hacker has managed to break certificate code parsing to invade email inboxes and infect users with malware. Faking legitimate code signatures: how does it work? Attackers often rely on varying behaviors between different systems to gain access.

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Malware Software Authentication Cybersecurity 59

The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Employees are the first line of defense against cybercrime and should understand how to recognize phishing emails and what to do if they suspect them. Additionally, employees should receive guidance on how to report suspicious activity and confront strangers in secure areas. Cybercriminals view employees as a path of least resistance.

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Passwords Security Awareness Data breaches Cybersecurity 214

NetSpi Technical

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The technique was first demonstrated by Outflank in the following blog post. For those who aren’t familiar, HTML Smuggling is a technique which hides a blob inside a traditional HTML page. The technique does this by embedding the malicious file within the page, usually in a base64 encoded string. So why use Wasm?

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Encryption Internet Internet Malware 121

Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This blog post was authored by Jérôme Segura. In a blog post about Magecart Group 8, we documented some of the various web properties used to serve skimmers and exfiltrate stolen data. But it wasn’t until we started digging further that we realized how much bigger it was. Q-logger origins. POST [link] HTTP/1.1

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Mobile Small Business 111

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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Unstructured Data Data privacy Healthcare Banking 83

LRQA Nettitude Labs

JUNE 5, 2023

In this blog post, I am going to be exploring one potential physical security attack chain, relaying a captured signal to open a gate using a device called the Flipper Zero. This blog post will focus on Sub-GHz and one potential abuse of capturing Sub-GHz signals. “The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.”

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Penetration Testing Firmware 52

Security Boulevard

MARCH 30, 2023

This blog post analyzes the encryption algorithms used by Xloader to decrypt the most critical parts of the code and the most important parameters of the malware’s configuration. Previous blog posts have referred to this structure as the ConfigObj, with fields that are used to store flags, encryption parameters, pointers, etc.

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Encryption Malware 57

The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In fact, ransomware-as-a-service is alive and well, educating would-be offenders on how to undertake an attack and even offering customer support. The price tag of the ransom is just one of the many costs of these attacks, and remediation can often exceed this fee many times over. But the situation isn’t hopeless.

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Ransomware Education Financial Services Phishing 124

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 31, 2022

To enter: Follow me & @GrumpyKatzNFT Like & RT Tag 3 friends. This blog is safe for work so if you wish to see her, um, very enthusiastic condemnation of the account compromise, click here. What caused this, and how can you protect your Twitter account? As to how it happened, there’s no indication just yet.

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Scams Cryptocurrency Accountability Phishing 95

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

How Can The XSS Vulnerability Be Exploited? The xss vulnerability involves how WordPress stores comments in its MySQL database. Given a previously approved comment , an attacker could create a malformed comment using approved HTML tags and tack on 64 kb of any character (perl -e ‘print “a” x 64000’). WordPress versions 3.9.3,

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Backups Firewall Malware 52

Troy Hunt

JUNE 27, 2018

Having said that, everything in this video series is equally applicable to sites like this very blog and indeed that's pretty much how I have things configured today. Having said that, everything in this video series is equally applicable to sites like this very blog and indeed that's pretty much how I have things configured today.

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Encryption Banking 162

Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Somewhere in the middle is a responsible approach, for example the sponsorship banner you see at the top of this blog. No HTML tags. How confident are you that the creator wouldn’t accept a $10k offer to hand it over only to have it then go rogue on you? That is all. No tracking. It almost seems like everyone is happy.

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DNS Risk 274

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Residential Proxies vs. Datacenter Proxies: this blog post examines the contours of each type and provides info on how to choose the perfect proxy option In the robust landscape of the digital era, our need for privacy, security, and accessibility on the internet has never been more acute.

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Internet Internet Marketing Authentication 83

Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2022

(USA) has identified an increase in activity within hacktivist groups conducted by a new group called “Cyber Spetsnaz”. Resecurity, Inc. USA) has identified an increase in activity within hacktivist groups, they’re leveraging current geopolitical tensions between the Ukraine and Russia to perform cyber-attacks.

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Government DDOS Cyber Attacks Hacking 140

Troy Hunt

MARCH 1, 2018

If I'm honest, I'm constantly surprised by the extent of how far Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) is reaching these days. As this service has grown, it's become an endless source of material from which I've drawn upon for conference talks, training and indeed many of my blog posts. This post talks about how I'm addressing that.

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Government Data breaches Passwords Authentication 187