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Over 4 million people hack neighbors Wi-Fi in the UK

CyberSecurity Insiders

In a survey conducted by broadband service provider Konnect, over 4 million people were found hacking neighbors’ Wi-Fi, if there was a down or to avoid paying a fat subscription fee. So, what’s the best way to keep your Wi-Fi router safe and well protected from neighbor hacks. Change the default router password.

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OT attacks increased by over 2000 percent in 2019, IBM reports

Security Affairs

According to IBM, OT attacks increased by over 2000 percent in 2019, most of them involved the Echobot IoT malware. According to IBM X-Force, attacks targeting operational technology (OT) infrastructure increased by over 2000 p ercent in 2019 compared to 2018, and most of them involved the Echobot malware. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Why 83 Percent of Large Companies Are Vulnerable to This Basic Domain Hack

Adam Levin

Far from being jealously guarded assets with Fort Knox-level security, a new study of Forbes Global 2000 Companies suggests many domain names are imminently hackable. ” Hacking campaigns exploiting poor domain name security can be more subtle. That spells trouble if you’re the one that gets hacked. What Can Be Done?

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 433 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

Security Affairs

Over 3,000 Android Malware spotted using unsupported/unknown compression methods to avoid detection WinRAR flaw enables remote code execution of arbitrary code #OpFukushima: Anonymous group protests against the plan to dump Fukushima RADIOACTIVE wastewater into Pacific Massive phishing campaign targets users of the Zimbra Collaboration email server (..)

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Russia-linked Sandworm APT compromised 11 Ukrainian telecommunications providers

Security Affairs

Russia-linked APT group Sandworm has hacked eleven telecommunication service providers in Ukraine between since May 2023. POEMGATE is a malicious PAM module that is used by attackers to authenticate with a statically determined password and saves logins and passwords entered during authentication in a file in XOR-encoded form.

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GOOGLE FIXED THE FIFTH CHROME ZERO-DAY OF 2023

Security Affairs

Google also addressed this month the following vulnerabilities in the Chrome browser: [$TBD][ 1478889 ] High CVE-2023-5186: Use after free in Passwords. Reported by [pwn2car] on 2023-09-05 [$2000][ 1475798 ] High CVE-2023-5187: Use after free in Extensions.

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SonicWall warns of ‘imminent ransomware’ attacks on its EOL products

Security Affairs

SonicWall also provides recommendations to customers that can’t update their installs, the vendor suggests disconnecting devices immediately and reset their access passwords, and enable account multi-factor authentication, if supported. immediately Reset passwords Enable MFA. SecurityAffairs – hacking, SonicWall). 34 or 9.0.0.10

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