Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The experts reported that the ATP group has been using this malware at least since 2016 to siphon millions of dollars from ATMs of small and midsize banks in Asia and Africa. Require and verify message authentication codes on issuer financial request response messages. ” reads the analysis published by HaxRob.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Last weekend brought me to WordCamp Fayetteville 2016 in beautiful, green Arkansas. Keeping Content Marketing Authentic with Brandee Spears Segraves. Fayetteville has been holding WordCamps for the Northwest Arkansas WordPress community since 2010, making it one of the more mature North American WordCamps.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 22, 2025

Typically, the attacker collects authentic media samples of their target, including still images, videos, and audio clips, to train the deep learning model. The more training data used, the more authentic the deepfake appears.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2019

The report notes that concerns about the security of these channels is hardly theoretical: In 2010, intruders hijacked ACRE’s election results Web page, and in 2016, cyber thieves successfully breached several county employee email accounts in a spear-phishing attack. Public confidence is at stake, even if the vote itself is secure.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Microsoft has released out-of-band security updates to address authentication issues affecting Windows Server. Microsoft has released out-of-band updates to fix authentication failures related to Kerberos delegation scenarios impacting Domain Controllers (DC) running Windows Server.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2021

The patches released today fix security problems in Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 , 2016 and 2019. The software giant typically releases security updates on the second Tuesday of each month, but it occasionally deviates from that schedule when addressing active attacks that target newly identified and serious vulnerabilities in its products.

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 23, 2019

The quiz uses real-world phishing campaigns, including the Russian hack that gained access to the email account of John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign manager. “We The best protection against phishing is two-factor authentication.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 10, 2019

.” In December 2016, KrebsOnSecurity heard from a woman who had her Gmail, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn accounts hijacked after a group of individuals led by Forza taunted her on Twitter as they took over her phone account. “@forzathegod had the audacity to even tweet me to say I was about to be hacked.”

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Krebs on Security

MAY 14, 2019

“This vulnerability is pre-authentication and requires no user interaction,” Pope said. CVE-2019-0708 does not affect Microsoft’s latest operating systems — Windows 10 , Windows 8.1 , Windows 8 , Windows Server 2019 , Windows Server 2016 , Windows Server 2012 R2 , or Windows Server 2012.

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Election security best practices suggest 2-Factor authentication for sensitive email accounts. The possibility of election interference is hot-button issue after it was determined by the state department that Russia interfered with the 2016 election. Propublica’s findings include eleven offices protected by only a login and password.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2021

In January 2016, Ferizi pleaded guilty to providing material support to a terrorist group and to unauthorized access. 2015 by criminals who social engineered PayPal employees over the phone into changing my password and bypassing multi-factor authentication. The Pentagon Crew forum founded by Ferizi. He admitted to hacking a U.S.-based

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

. “To make sure that your Exchange organization is better protected against the latest threats (for example Emotet, TrickBot or WannaCry to name a few) we recommend disabling SMBv1 if it’s enabled on your Exchange (2013/2016/2019) server.” It also provides an authenticated inter-process communication mechanism.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 17, 2020

Central Intelligence Agency produced in the wake of a mammoth data breach in 2016 that led to Wikileaks publishing thousands of classified documents stolen from the agency’s offensive cyber operations division. ” -CIA’s Wikileaks Task Force. So ends a key section of a report the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

“Universal Admin,” is crimeware platform that first surfaced in 2016. Perhaps the biggest selling point for U-Admin is a module that helps phishers intercept multi-factor authentication codes. Qbot) — to harvest one-time codes needed for multi-factor authentication. ” U-Admin, a.k.a.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Among the chief concerns for enterprises this month is CVE-2020-16875 , which involves a critical flaw in the email software Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 and 2019. “We have seen the previously patched Exchange bug CVE-2020-0688 used in the wild, and that requires authentication. . We’ll likely see this one in the wild soon.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

But as he began digging deeper, Guilmette came to the conclusion that the spammers were exploiting an obscure — albeit widespread — weakness among hosting companies, cloud providers and domain registrars that was first publicly detailed in 2016. EARLY WARNING SIGNS.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

VFEmail’s Twitter account responded that “external facing systems, of differing OS’s and remote authentication, in multiple data centers are down.” Strangely, not all VMs shared the same authentication, but all were destroyed. The first signs of the attack came on the morning of Feb. Just attack and destroy.”

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Among those is CVE-2022-22005 , a weakness in Microsoft’s Sharepoint Server versions 2013-2019 that could be exploited by any authenticated user. “However, given the number of stolen credentials readily available on underground markets, getting authenticated could be trivial. .

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 14, 2019

Take authentication, for example. Threat actors are taking great advantage of the lag in upgrading authentication. Tel Aviv-based security vendor Silverfort is playing in this space, and has found good success pioneering a new approach for securing authentication in the perimeterless world.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

” Microsoft notes that prior to its Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Update 14 (CU14), a security feature called Extended Protection for Authentication (EPA), which provides NTLM credential relay protections, was not enabled by default.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Last year, I wrote about authentication guidance for the modern era and I talked about many of the aforementioned requirements. pic.twitter.com/vjN3wJZUoi — passwordistoostrong (@PWTooStrong) July 18, 2016. Some have strict complexity rules. Some have low max lengths. Some won't let you paste a password. It's all over the place.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Microsoft pointed out that the flaw can be exploited only by an authenticated attacker. Microsoft addressed the flaw with the release of Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for November 2021 , the vulnerability impacts on-premises Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2019. “We read the announcement published by Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2019

“Recently I came across a blog from the ZDI, in which they detail a way to let Exchange authenticate to attackers using NTLM over HTTP. Mollema demonstrated that it’s possible to transfer automatic Windows authentication by connecting a machine on the network to a machine under the control of the attacker.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 13, 2021

Tenable researchers claim hackers are exploiting a security flaw termed authentication-bypass vulnerability that is impact routers and internet of things (IoT) devices. Mirai is a kind of malware that turns connected devices into remotely controlled devices called Bots.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 18, 2021

Joker’s Stash routinely teased big breaches days or weeks in advance of selling payment card records stolen from those companies, and periodically linked to this site and other media outlets as proof of his shop’s prowess and authenticity. The phony sites all traced back to the owners of a Pakistani web site design firm.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The flaw being exploited in the wild already — CVE-2021-1732 — affects Windows 10, Server 2016 and later editions. A domain controller is a server that responds to security authentication requests in a Windows environment, and a compromised domain controller can give attackers the keys to the kingdom inside a corporate network.

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2021

Security researcher Gilles Lionel (aka Topotam ) has discovered a vulnerability in the Windows operating system that allows an attacker to force remote Windows machines to authenticate and share their password hashes with him. “PoC tool to coerce Windows hosts to authenticate to other machines via MS-EFSRPC EfsRpcOpenFileRaw function.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 1, 2024

Redefining Security: The Power of Passwordless Authentication josh.pearson@t… Tue, 07/02/2024 - 07:01 In the face of rapidly evolving cyber threats, the traditional method of securing sensitive information through passwords has become alarmingly vulnerable. As we know, passwords are the weakest link in an enterprise's security landscape.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2020

The Mirai botnet was first discovered in August 2016 by the MalwareMustDie researcher Mirai source code , two months later its source code was leaked online. Since 2016, security experts have discovered numerous variants of the Mirai botnet such as Masuta , Okiru , Satori , Mukashi , SORA , and Tsunami.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

billion in 2016, for instance. There are simple steps consumers can take today, for free, to lower their overall risk of a cyber attack, including using multi-factor authentication for their accounts and using strong passwords. A lot of water has flowed under the bridge since then. billion in 2017; Avast acquired AVG for $1.3

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 13, 2020

About a fifth of all tweets about the 2016 presidential election were published by bots, according to one estimate, as were about a third of all tweets about that year's Brexit vote. The best analyses indicate that they did not affect the 2016 US presidential election. The next group to try this won't be so honorable.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 1, 2022

In customer guidance released Thursday, Microsoft said it is investigating two reported zero-day flaws affecting Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 2, 2024

Redefining Security: The Power of Passwordless Authentication josh.pearson@t… Tue, 07/02/2024 - 07:01 In the face of rapidly evolving cyber threats, the traditional method of securing sensitive information through passwords has become alarmingly vulnerable. As we know, passwords are the weakest link in an enterprise's security landscape.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Knowledge of a the validation key allows an authenticated user with a mailbox to pass arbitrary objects to be deserialized by the web application, which runs as SYSTEM.” A remote, authenticated attacker could exploit the CVE-2020-0688 vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges on a server and take full control.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 29, 2021

The PetitPotam PoC takes the form of a manipulator-in-the-middle (MitM) attack against Microsoft’s NTLM authentication system. The targeted computer is forced to initiate an authentication procedure and share its authentication details via NTLM. The authentication process does not require the plaintext password.

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Security Affairs

JULY 26, 2021

A few days ago, security researcher Gilles Lionel (aka Topotam ) has discovered a vulnerability in the Windows operating system that allows an attacker to force remote Windows machines to authenticate and share their password hashes with him. Lionel also published a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code on GitHub. are most exposed.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2020

Knowledge of a the validation key allows an authenticated user with a mailbox to pass arbitrary objects to be deserialized by the web application, which runs as SYSTEM.” A remote, authenticated attacker could exploit the CVE-2020-0688 vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges on a server and take full control.

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