eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Action1 vice president of vulnerability and threat research Mike Walters noted in a blog post that while CVE-2023-38148 seems particularly threatening due to its low attack complexity and since it requires no privileges or user interaction, it can only target systems in the same network segment as the attacker.

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Engineering Security Defenses Risk Cybersecurity 109

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2022

Pentesting involves vulnerability exploitation and post-exploitation actions – the idea is to conduct a real attack, like cybercriminals would do, except with an explicit authorization from the company in order to identify weaknesses and improve security defenses. Detecting Cobalt Strike Attacks.

Energy and Utilities 131

Energy and Utilities DNS Penetration Testing Ransomware 131

Security Boulevard

JUNE 23, 2022

39% see malware and ransomware as their biggest risk. 68% of IT and security professionals plan to use zero trust for device security; 42% actually do. AI-based attacks: Bot-based attacks are getting better at mimicking user activity, more easily breaching the low-security defenses of many IoT devices.

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IoT Social Engineering Firmware Risk 98

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 19, 2024

Frequent Ransomware Target QNAP Discloses 3 Vulnerabilities Type of vulnerability: Improper authentication, injection vulnerability, SQL injection (SQLi). Ransomware gangs, notably Deadbolt, Checkmate, and Qlocker, actively targeted QNAP vulnerabilities in the past. The critical vulnerability, CVE-2024-21899 with a CVSS score of 9.8,

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Authentication VPN Software DDOS 119

eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Other major flaws appeared in the NGINX Ingress Controller for Kubernetes, Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server, and Apache ActiveMQ — and the latter two have already been targeted in ransomware attacks. 3 to report that the vulnerability is being actively exploited, which Rapid7 said includes ransomware attacks.

Software 112

Software Education Ransomware Firmware 112

Krebs on Security

JULY 8, 2019

The crooks behind an affiliate program that paid cybercriminals to install the destructive and wildly successful GandCrab ransomware strain announced on May 31, 2019 they were terminating the program after allegedly having earned more than $2 billion in extortion payouts from victims. Image: Malwarebytes. The GandCrab identity on Exploit[.]in

Ransomware 258

Ransomware Accountability Cybercrime Passwords 258

McAfee

JUNE 14, 2021

The attackers may be state-sponsored groups with extensive resources launching novel forms of ransomware. Disseminate — share the results and adjust your security defenses accordingly. When you disseminate a threat insight, it triggers different responses from various members of your security team.

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Security Defenses Media Government Ransomware 56

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 10, 2023

Additionally, dashboards share data about threat names, any relevant reference URLs, tags, adversary and malware families, and attack IDs. Pricing All OTX products and features, including the AlienVault Open Threat Exchange and OTX Endpoint Security, are free to use on their own.

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Internet Internet Cybersecurity Malware 96

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 12, 2023

effort to secure critical infrastructure. Malware at Scale: Using these platforms to create a backdoor on data center equipment gives threat actors “a foothold to compromise systems at a massive scale – in the data center itself and for the business networks that access these servers.

Authentication 98

Authentication Spyware DDOS Cybersecurity 98

Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The dissemination phase consists of active processing and dissemination of the processed data for the purpose of communicating the actionable intelligence for the purpose of ensuring that an organizations defense is actively aware of the threats facing its infrastructure and security defense mechanisms.

Cybercrime 88

Cybercrime Cyber Attacks Security Defenses Cyber threats 88

McAfee

APRIL 21, 2021

Most of us don’t have responsibility for airports, but thinking about airport security can teach us lessons about how we consider, design and execute IT security in our enterprise. Scan attachments for malware. Security gates and handbaggage check. Facial recognition comparing security gate and plane gate with ticket.

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Retail Technology Risk DDOS 96

McAfee

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Today, enterprises tend to use multiple layers of security defenses, ranging from perimeter defense on network entry points to host based security solutions deployed at the end user’s machines to counter the ever-increasing threats. Executive Summary. Stealing Credentials from LSASS Process Memory.

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Authentication Accountability Encryption Passwords 104