SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Cybercriminals are constantly crawling the web for targets, and they’ll often go after websites you might not expect, such as a vegan cooking blog. An SSL Certificate is used to establish a secure encrypted connection between a web browser and a web server. Joe’s Vegan Blog Cooks Up Comment Spam.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 15, 2022

Symbiote’s evasion techniques (Source: Blackberry Threat Vector Blog ). Symbiote also offers threat actors a backdoor to the infected Linux machine, to which they can log in as a user with the highest privilege using a hardcoded password. This enables it to hide on infected Linux machines. Symbiote: the hows and whys of its ways.

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Pen Test Partners

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Section 3 Sensitive authentication data must now be encrypted or protected if stored before authorization. Disk level encryption is no longer permitted for protection unless it is a form of removeable media (e.g., Section 8 Password strength requirements have increased, moving from a minimum of 7 to 12 alpha and numeric characters.

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Duo's Security Blog

JULY 8, 2021

Next, it would encrypt files on the victim’s system and deny access until they sent a $189 payment to a post office box in Panama. For example, a hospital in Düsseldorf, Germany became infected with ransomware that managed to encrypt its systems. Attackers often rely on unpatched vulnerabilities or purloined passwords.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 28, 2023

Now, ransomware attacks often include data exfiltration, which victimizes targeted organizations twice: Hackers might demand money to de-encrypt a company’s data and threaten to sell that data on the dark web. And they may keep the data once the ransom is paid regardless. If that sounds like the plot of a Tom Clancy novel, think again.

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

Credential theft and password spraying to Cobalt Strike. This adversary starts with obtaining usernames and passwords of their victim from previous breaches. 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.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

I can't blame this on the teddy bears themselves, rather the fact that the MongoDB holding all the collected data was left publicly facing without a password. For some reason, the Shelly on my garage door is making a DNS request for api.shelly.cloud once every second! The vulnerability is the result of weak encryption used by TP-Link.

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Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

VPNs encrypt the traffic between you and some endpoint on the internet, which is where your VPN is based. If your VPN includes all DNS requests and traffic then you could be hiding significantly from your ISP. How bad is it to be a public figure (blog/YouTube) in 2020? This is true. The Government. So, probably not a win.

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Kali Linux

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

In Secure Kali Pi (2022) , the first blog post in the Raspberry Pi series, we set up a Raspberry Pi 4 with full disk encryption. A shortcut to generating one is to simply run wpa_passphrase SSID PASSWORD where SSID is the name of the wireless network, and PASSWORD is the passphrase (aka PSK) for the network.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2019

Stealer and CryptoStealer module to steal cryptocurrency wallets and saved passwords. The malware command and control infrastructure abuses the Pastebin service to ensure resilience, in fact the malware dynamically retrieves the real C2 destination address from a pastie over an encrypted HTTPS channel. C2 retrieval. 1986[@gmail[.com”,

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The malware tries to connect to the remote host 149.154.157.104 (EDIS-IT IT) through an encrypted SSL channel, then it downloads other components and deletes itself from the filesystem. Further data, including IoCs and Yara rules, decide in the report published on the Yoroi blog. Technical Analysis. Listening proxy in execution.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Krebs wrote for The Washington Post between 1995 and 2009 before launching his current blog KrebsOnSecurity.com. Facebook Plans on Backdooring WhatsApp [link] — Schneier Blog (@schneierblog) August 1, 2019. Normally account take overs are due to insecure passwords or recovery options, this is definitely something different.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

From industry tips and best practices to the latest Malwarebytes product releases and how-tos, our Business newsletter is chock-full of the best of our business blog. DNS filtering. The next technology you need to prevent cyberattacks is a DNS filter. But first, a little bit about what DNS (domain name system) is.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

. “Based on the analysis of the available data, the entire network of Lord & Taylor and 83 Saks Fifth Avenue locations have been compromised,” the firm wrote in a blog post examining the breach. Evolving threats. Errors to avoid. Multi-factor authentication is also required for remote access.

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 28, 2022

Imagine a shift away from logging into a “network” to having security seamlessly built into the network, and multi-factor authentication and authorization continuously performed at the application level on the fly — without users typing passwords.

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SecureList

JUNE 15, 2022

Complex attacks almost invariably feature several phases, such as reconnaissance, initial access to the infrastructure, gaining access to target systems and/or privileges, and the actual malicious acts (data theft, destruction or encryption, etc.). For example, use of data from stealer logs or password mining. Screenshot translation.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

Much of what I'm going to cover in the remainder of this blog post will focus on the site at uidai.gov.in We are rapidly approaching a "secure by default" web and the green padlock is becoming the norm ( about two thirds of all browser traffic is now encrypted ). Let them paste passwords! Why do websites do this?

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SecureList

APRIL 24, 2023

Introduction We introduced Tomiris to the world in September 2021, following our investigation of a DNS-hijack against a government organization in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Tomiris (Golang implant) Backdoor Golang Described in our original blog post. Some samples contain traces of Russian language.

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Fox IT

JUNE 23, 2020

They also display attention to detail by, for example, ensuring that they obtain the passwords to disable security tools on a network prior to deploying the ransomware. WastedLocker aims to encrypt the files of the infected host. This is described in more detail in the String encryption section. WastedLocker.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 28, 2023

XDR (eXtended Detection and Response) Integrations At Black Hat USA 2023, Cisco Secure was the official Mobile Device Management, DNS (Domain Name Service) and Malware Analysis Provider. SCA detected 289 alerts including Suspected Port Abuse, Internal Port Scanner, New Unusual DNS Resolver,and Protocol Violation (Geographic).

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Anyway I was testing this suite when I happened to randomly strike two keys -- I think it was control and B -- and up popped the password manager, displaying all my test passwords in the clear. Thing was, the manager required its own password, which I had not entered; remember, I had hit only two keys. This was a software flaw.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Anyway I was testing this suite when I happened to randomly strike two keys -- I think it was control and B -- and up popped the password manager, displaying all my test passwords in the clear. Thing was, the manager required its own password, which I had not entered; remember, I had hit only two keys. This was a software flaw.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2022

This new integration supports Umbrella proxy, cloud firewall, IP, and DNS logs. They include various items like DKIM key inspections, DNS Resource Records and more. Dashlane is a password manager that now supports Duo using Duo SSO. End users can easily access Dashlane and their passwords with SSO from Duo.

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Cisco Security

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In this blog about the design, deployment and automation of the Black Hat network, we have the following sections: Designing the Black Hat Network, by Evan Basta. From our experiences at Black Hat USA 2022, we had encrypted frames enabled, blunting the attack. Much of this has been covered in previous blogs. Acknowledgments.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 13, 2022

To prevent the attack techniques noted in this blog post, disable the “Allow connection fallback to NTLM” client push installation setting, which is enabled by default in SCCM. If dynamic DNS updates are also supported, tools such as Invoke-DNSUpdate can be used to create a DNS entry for the new system that points to an arbitrary IP address.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 9, 2023

Timeline Our investigation started in September 2022, when one of our former coworkers Hossein Jazi discovered an interesting lure , that seemed to target some entities over the war context: Tweet published by @hjazi in September 2022 In fact, this is the attack that Kaspersky analyzed in its blog. The IV is the first 16 bytes of the config.

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Lenny Zeltser

MAY 3, 2019

Use a password vault, avoiding password reuse. Use encrypted chat for sensitive discussions. Minimize the use of email, if practical, in favor of closed-group, encrypted messaging tools. Encrypt your network communications and watch out for security warnings. Change default passwords for devices and apps.

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