Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

These data packets can contain malware such as a trojan, ransomware, or similar dangerous program. By scanning a range of IP addresses, they can identify potential targets that have SMB services exposed to the internet. During this lateral movement, the attacker may deploy various tools and malware to further their objectives.

Social Engineering 134

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1988 — The Morris Worm — Robert Morris creates what would be known as the first worm on the Internet. After being released in 2003, he uses WiFi to commit attacks, program malware and steal credit card information. 2003 — Operation CyberSweep — The U.S. 1998-2007 — Max Butler — Max Butler hacks U.S.

Cybercrime 135

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2020

on the CVSS scale and affects Windows Server versions 2003 to 2019. Wormable vulnerabilities have the potential to spread via malware between vulnerable computers without user interaction. The most severe issue is the 17-year-old wormable issue SigRed , tracked as CVE-2020-1350 , that allows hijacking of Microsoft Windows Server.

DNS 95

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SecureList

APRIL 11, 2023

CLFS is a log file subsystem that was first introduced in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 / Microsoft Vista and is implemented in the clfs.sys driver. Post exploitation and malware We see that the main purpose of using elevation-of-privilege exploits was to dump the contents of the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESAM registry hive. Generic Win64.Agent*

Ransomware 145

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2019

The list of flaws addressed by the tech giant doesn’t include zero-days or publicly disclosed vulnerabilities, 29 issues were rated as ‘Critical’ and affect Microsoft’s Edge and Internet Explorer web browsers, Windows, Outlook and Office. Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2008 are not affected.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2019

SI-LAB captured a piece of the FlawedAmmyy malware that leverages undetected XLM macros as an Infection Vehicle to compromise user’s devices. This technology is stored in the Workbook OLE stream in Excel 97-2003 format which makes it very difficult to detect and parse by antivirus (AV) engines. macro technology.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In our case, a link to a malicious Tor installer was posted on a popular Chinese-language YouTube channel devoted to anonymity on the internet. Visual Studio 2003 – 7.10 Upon startup, the malicious library creates a mutex with the name GlobalTBrowser that prevents two instances of the malware from running at the same time.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 12, 2021

A wormable flaw is one that can be used to create a network worm , a bit of malware that replicates itself across a network. Where vulnerable systems are accessible from the Internet, network worms can spread around the world in a matter of minutes or hours. Worms that turned. Critical issues.

Internet 71

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

DuneQuixote campaign targeting the Middle East In February, we discovered a new malware campaign targeting government entities in the Middle East that we dubbed DuneQuixote. While we have only identified two of these implants, we strongly believe that there may be more in the form of completely different malware. Agent.gen; Win32.CobaltStrike.gen.

Malware 110

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Herjavec Group

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

I was personally honored in my early career to work for Wang Laboratories and was invited to share one of my visions ‘fax over the internet’ with the company, which I invented. In 2003, he knew that firewalls were too complex for all IT staff and for understaffed companies to manage. Welcome to the information technology storm.

Digital transformation 81

Digital transformation Computers and Electronics Cyber Insurance Insurance 81

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 21, 2025

Bitdefenders consumer and business products consistently earn top rankings in independent security tests, reflecting exceptional malware detection and overall protection. It offers the GravityZone platform, a unified solution for enterprise security that includes advanced endpoint protection, EDR, XDR, and cloud workload security.

Cybersecurity 70

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 25, 2022

Astalavista Security Newsletter - 2003-2006 - Full Offline Reading Copy. Malware – Future Trends – Research Paper – Copy. Profiling the Internet Connected Infrastructure of the Individuals on the U.S The Pareto Botnet – Advanced Cross-Platform Android Malware Using Amazon AWS Spotted in the Wild – WhoisXML API Analysis.

Cybercrime 96

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NopSec

OCTOBER 10, 2014

This recent spate of malicious attacks has shown just how vulnerable our Internet-based world is. In the era of ‘Internet of Things’, minor flaws can have catastrophic consequences if vulnerabilities are not fixed in time.

Penetration Testing 40

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 27, 2021

With NGIPS, Cisco promises to stop more threats, increase malware detection rates, and provide threat insights to enable security automation. Since 2003, Splunk’s machine data analysis capabilities have made the firm an industry staple. Security information and event management (SIEM): Splunk. Splunk Enterprise Security (ES).

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Spinone

JUNE 21, 2018

In Great Britain, multiple medical organizations were infected presumably because they used Windows XP and Server 2003 that are no longer officially supported by Microsoft. Antivirus and internet security companies work hard on it, but you never know when the decryption software will become available.

Ransomware 40

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Over the past 15 years, a cybercrime anonymity service known as VIP72 has enabled countless fraudsters to mask their true location online by routing their traffic through millions of malware-infected systems. based Internet address for more than a decade — simply vanished. The domain Vip72[.]org

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 25, 2019

And, in fact, cyber ops tradecraft has advanced in sophistication in lock step with our deepening reliance on the commercial Internet. nuclear arsenal in 2003 • Breaches of computers at the Department of Commerce in 2006 • Hacking of military systems at U.S. presidential elections.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

fitness chains Town Sports leaked online Group-IB detects a series of ransomware attacks by OldGremlin HOW DO PROVIDERS IMPLEMENT INTERNET BLOCKING IN BELARUS? fitness chains Town Sports leaked online Group-IB detects a series of ransomware attacks by OldGremlin HOW DO PROVIDERS IMPLEMENT INTERNET BLOCKING IN BELARUS?

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SecureList

DECEMBER 14, 2022

For instance, according to the New York Times, in 2003, the United States made plans for a huge cyberattack to freeze billions of dollars in Saddam Hussein’s bank accounts and cripple his government before the invasion of Iraq. However, the plan was not approved because the government feared collateral damage. Key insights.

DDOS 145

DDOS Ransomware Government Energy and Utilities 145

eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

If you’ve used a computer for more than 5 minutes, you probably know a thing or two about computer viruses and malware. On the modern Internet, malware is a near-constant presence. Though often conflated with one another, malware and computer viruses aren’t necessarily the same thing. From Theory to Reality: 1948-1971.

Malware 140

Malware Ransomware Antivirus Internet 140

ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

That, of course, was not all, but it is an example of how someone -- anyone on the internet -- can take a photo or blog post or Yelp review from social media, or some other seemingly random open source item and tie it back to a crime. Which then I could configure to get on the internet, you know. That’s not always the case.

Hacking 40

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ForAllSecure

JULY 6, 2022

These are not groups of individual hackers sitting around the table late at night as it was in teh early days of malware writing. Hypponen: Alright, original sea change for monetizing malware was 2003. That's when we started seeing the cooperation between spammers and malware writers. I remember meeting Mikko in 2006.

Cybercrime 40

Cybercrime Government Ransomware Hacking 40

Schneier on Security

MAY 10, 2018

In 2012, the focus was on Chinese-made Internet routers. In 2003, someone almost slipped a very clever backdoor into Linux. Russian hackers subverted the update mechanism of a popular brand of Ukrainian accounting software to spread the NotPetya malware. We can go even farther down the rabbit hole. I could go on.

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