McAfee

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

In this blog I want to show you how you can operationalize the data linked to this alert in MVISION Insights together with your investigation and protection capabilities to better protect your organization against this threat. You can also use your Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) or SIEM solution to search for the presence of IOCs.

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DoublePulsar

JULY 25, 2023

It became clear this was being exploited in the wild a few days ago, after the Norwegian government disclosed 12 of their ministries were hacked using this MobileIron zero day , and they had to tell Ivanti about the issue. In this blog we take a look at MobileIrony, aka CVE-2023–35078. Ivanti customers should patch this zero day now.

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Heimadal Security

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Nobelium is a Russian-backed advanced persistent threat (APT) organization that achieved attention towards the end of 2020 after breaching SolarWinds’ software development supply chain to obtain access to espionage targets, and it continues to deploy creative approaches in its search for new victims. What Happened?

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SecureWorld News

MAY 13, 2022

The incident is allegedly connected to a cybercrime group known for harassment, whose members impersonate police officers and government officials to gather personal information on their victims. LEIA "provides federated search capabilities," which includes classified sensitive data pertaining to the DEA.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2023

“In October 2022, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) disrupted a campaign from HOODOO, a Chinese government-backed attacker also known as APT41, that targeted a Taiwanese media organization by sending phishing emails that contained links to a passwordprotected file hosted in Drive.”

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 24, 2019

The data leak was initially found by Bob Diachenko of SecurityDiscovery.com on Shodan, an IoT-centric search engine. This raises the question of how charities and non-profits with limited resources can afford to safely manage millions of sensitive files,” wrote Diachenko in a blog detailing his findings.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

The government says Urban went by the aliases “ Sosa ” and “ King Bob ,” among others. 12 blog post , the attackers used their access to Mailchimp employee accounts to steal data from 214 customers involved in cryptocurrency and finance. On July 28 and again on Aug. According to an Aug.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2019

It is not clear how long data were left exposed online, according to the Shodan search engine, the server had been publicly open since at least November 30, 2018. The post Unprotected server of Oklahoma Department of Securities exposes millions of government files appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2023

Russia-linked APT group Sandworm is behind destructive cyberattacks against Ukrainian state networks, the Ukrainian Government Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) warns. The attackers used a BAT script dubbed RoarBat that recursively searches for files with specific extensions (.doc,docx,rtf,txt,xls,xlsx,ppt,pptx,vsd,vsdx,pdf,png,jpeg,jpg,zip,rar,7z,mp4,sql

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2022

Once vetted and accepted, threat hunters will go into these message boards and communities and search for anything connected to your business, for example: •Corporate login credentials. Think of the Cybersixgill Portal as a complex search engine that can reach the deepest depths of the Underground.

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Elie

DECEMBER 12, 2019

is a landmark European ruling that governs the delisting of personal information from search results. Each delisting decision requires careful consideration of the balance between respecting user privacy and ensuring open access to information via Google Search. This blog post details our. Right to be Forgotten” (RTBF).

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2022

Searching on Shodan.io for the affected VMware applications we can find organizations in the healthcare and education industries, and state government potentially vulnerable. sections “The Underdogs – Best Personal (non-commercial) Security Blog” and “The Tech Whizz – Best Technical Blog”). To nominate, please visit:?.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Every time you send a mobile payment, search for airline flight prices, or book a restaurant reservation - you are using an API. In this blog, we will explain the unique data security challenges for Telcos and three ways how both Thales and Red Hat can help them protect against future API attacks.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

A technician from the Guardian got a search capability working while I was there, and I spent some time with it. Question: when you’re given the capability to search through a database of NSA secrets, what’s the first thing you look for? I’m sure that a bunch of major governments have a complete copy of everything Greenwald has.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Pushwoosh’s software also was found in apps for “a wide array of international companies, influential nonprofits and government agencies from global consumer goods company Unilever and the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) to the politically powerful U.S. regulatory filings present it as a U.S. “Pushwoosh Inc.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 9, 2021

As a consequence, there is a good chance that many small business, corporate, and government victims of the attack are currently unaware that they have fallen victim. In a blog post , Microsoft said that it believed a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group called “Hafnium” were behind the attacks. Who is behind the attacks?

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2023

As outlined in a recently unsealed search warrant in the Southern District of Florida, the FBI has taken control of various websites operated by the group. “During this investigation, law enforcement gained visibility into the Blackcat Ransomware Group’s network,” reads an unsealed search warrant.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 29, 2024

This blog will briefly overview the most essential developments shaping the legislative and compliance environment. Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs), such as Facebook, Booking, and LinkedIn, and search engines like Google Search, will face stricter requirements for transparency, risk assessment, and content moderation.

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Adam Shostack

JUNE 25, 2018

The Supreme Court ruled that the government generally can’t access historical cell-site location records without a warrant. SCOTUS Blog links to court documents. United States ” by Orin Kerr, who is very well respected authority on the law of search and seizure. The decision in Carpenter v.

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 18, 2019

The leak itself was discovered by a researcher from the cybersecurity firm UpGuard, who detected it in early December on the IoT-centric search engine Shodan. Also included were email archives spanning 17 years, thousands of social security numbers, and passwords for remote access to agency computers.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Government entities are also prone to attack. Threat hunting involves actively searching for adversaries before an attack is carried out. Cyberattacks will continue to be a concern for businesses, governments and individuals. The post Threating hunting: Your best defense against unknown threats appeared first on Webroot Blog.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 10, 2022

We live in a digital world in which we engage with significant social, government, retail, business and entertainment services now delivered without any direct human service management. This information has such value that it has become the currency for service providers such as search engines and social media providers.

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Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2023

Gmail users, the feature allows them to search for their email addresses on the dark web. “For example, if your Social Security number was found on the dark web, we might suggest you report it as stolen to the government or take steps to protect your credit.” Google is going to offer dark web monitoring to all U.S.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The government says Snatch used a customized ransomware variant notable for rebooting Microsoft Windows devices into Safe Mode — enabling the ransomware to circumvent detection by antivirus or endpoint protection — and then encrypting files when few services are running.

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Elie

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The "Right To Be Forgotten" (RTBF) is the landmark European ruling that governs the delisting of personal information from search results. Each delisting decision requires careful consideration in order to strike the right balance between respecting user privacy and ensuring open access to information via Google Search.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 21, 2021

After the Capitol riots following the US election, those responsible were slowly arrested over a period of weeks of searching and identifying. We’ve covered facial recognition on the blog many times. Most concerns tend to focus on the potential for abuse from repressive Governments and law enforcement overreach. What’s happened?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2022

Microsoft spotted a new destructive malware operation targeting government, non-profit, and IT entities in Ukraine. Microsoft spotted a destructive attack that targeted government, non-profit, and IT entities in Ukraine with a wiper disguised as ransomware. MSTIC will update this blog as we have additional information to share.”

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

Microsoft this week issued an advisory about three vulnerabilities referred to collectively as ProxyShell days after security researchers at a federal government cybersecurity agency warned that cybercriminals were actively trying to exploit them. A scan by search engine Shodan published Aug. Ransomware and ProxyShell.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 29, 2024

This blog will briefly overview the most essential developments shaping the legislative and compliance environment. Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs), such as Facebook, Booking, and LinkedIn, and search engines like Google Search, will face stricter requirements for transparency, risk assessment, and content moderation.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 10, 2021

They're totally free and they have a really cool anonymity API that ensures no useful information about the password being searched for is ever exposed. link] - @troyhunt think this one is an interesting read, maybe worthy of a blog post. Now, maybe the password you're searching for is one of those 621. Home Assistant is free.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 4, 2023

In a previous blog post , we looked at the federal government’s recent release of the Securing The Software Supply Chain series, in particular, p art one: guidance for developers. In this blog post, we’ll take a deeper look at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) guidance for software development.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2019

A white hat hacker discovered how to break Tchap, a new secure messaging app launched by the French government for officials and politicians. It aims at replacing popular instant messaging services like Telegram and WhatsApp for government people. So I did a Google search “email @ elysee.fr ”” wrote the expert in a blog post.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2023

As outlined in a recently unsealed search warrant in the Southern District of Florida, the FBI has taken control of various websites operated by the group. “During this investigation, law enforcement gained visibility into the Blackcat Ransomware Group’s network,” reads an unsealed search warrant.

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Centraleyes

MARCH 18, 2024

Govern is the newest of the NIST core functions: identify, protect, detect, respond, recover, and govern. Govern takes the center of the wheel now, as it informs how an organization will implement the other five functions. Users can browse and export sections of the Core by utilizing specific search phrases.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

On September 12, 2023 we published two blogs urging our readers to urgently patch two Apple issues which were added to the catalog of known exploited vulnerabilities by the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and to apply an update for Chrome that included one critical security fix for an actively exploited vulnerability.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 19, 2023

In the first two blogs in this series, we discussed properly setting up IAM and avoiding direct internet access to AWS resources. In this blog, we’ll tackle encrypting AWS in transit and at rest. For those unfamiliar with this designation, it refers to rigorous testing to meet government approved security standards.

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Elie

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Big data weaponization and malware-based espionage are usually associated with governments; however, they don’t own a monopoly on such activities. Players search for fish (bad players) and they use malware to spy on and rip off infected players at the (online) poker table. Also, online poker uses big data to profile user behavior.

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