eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Often, they start their journey by stealing an initial set of credentials or somehow spoofing the application or network so they don’t have to use a password at all. Both require threat actors to steal credentials or perform some other kind of attack to gain access to the privileged account.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 8, 2019

But GandCrab far eclipsed the success of competing ransomware affiliate programs largely because its authors worked assiduously to update the malware so that it could evade antivirus and other security defenses. In 2010, the hottabych_k2 address was used to register the domain name dedserver[.]ru Vpn-service[.]us

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 4, 2024

All sites incorporated the archaic FCKeditor plug-in, which stopped receiving support in 2010. The fix: To eliminate malware infections, perform a factory reset, upgrade to the latest firmware, change all default usernames and passwords, and adjust firewall rules to block exposure to unwanted remote management services.

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