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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

.” Lumen’s research team said the purpose of AVrecon appears to be stealing bandwidth – without impacting end-users – in order to create a residential proxy service to help launder malicious activity and avoid attracting the same level of attention from Tor-hidden services or commercially available VPN services. com, sscompany[.]net,

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Defending Against Misconfigured MFA & PrintNightmare Vulnerabilities

eSecurity Planet

They then authenticated to the victim’s VPN to initiate a remote desktop protocol (RDP) connection to the domain controllers. Ensure inactive accounts are disabled uniformly across the Active Directory, MFA systems etc. When possible, implement multi-factor authentication on all VPN connections. Network Best Practices.

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Weekly Vulnerability Recap – Sept. 11, 2023 – Android Update Fixes 33 Vulnerabilities

eSecurity Planet

Network security is another big theme this week: Whether it’s a VPN connection or an enterprise-grade networking platform, patch management solutions typically won’t update network devices, so admins may need to keep an eye on any flaws there too. of the Atlas VPN Linux client. via port 8076. version of Superset.

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How to Improve SD-WAN Security

eSecurity Planet

This cloud-centric model offers administrators granular network management opportunities while leveraging the bandwidth and reducing the cost of service delivery. Many software-defined networking solutions (SDN) have built-in 128- and 256-bit AES encryption and IPsec-based VPN capabilities. Promptly Patching Systems.

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Advanced threat predictions for 2023

SecureList

Okta was breached through one of its service providers, Sitel, itself compromised via the insecure VPN gateway of a recently acquired company. In both cases, we described new UEFI firmware bootkits that managed to propagate malicious components from the deepest layers of the machine up to Windows’ user-land. The next WannaCry.

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