SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Attack vectors There are two main IoT infection routes: brute-forcing weak passwords and exploiting vulnerabilities in network services. A successful password cracking enables hackers to execute arbitrary commands on a device and inject malware. Unfortunately, users tend to leave these passwords unchanged.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Before we dive into the specific cybersecurity concerns, let us remind you about the attack that took place in October 2016. Simple or reused passwords are still a problem. While the cybersecurity industry has presented options for every netizen, the recommendation to use original and complex passwords continues to be disregarded.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 28, 2020

According to the Flash report, this threat is believed to have existed since 2016, with several encounters since the June 2020 incident: In July 2018, an employee of a US pharmaceutical company with business interests in China downloaded the Baiwang Tax Control Invoicing software program from baiwang.com.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 10, 2022

To further illustrate this point, one of the innovations sandbox participants showed the slide that mentioned that the VPN market alone today is larger than the entirety of all cloud security markets, defined broadly and loosely, and then rounded upwards. RSA 2016: Musings and Contemplations. Somehow that fact blew my mind!

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

In 2016, 108.5 The “S” stands for secure and is the guarantee that all communications between the browser and the website are encrypted. Typically, something you know (such as a password) and something you have (such as code that’s been texted to you.) Alternately, consider investing in a Virtual Private Network (VPN).

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

Credential theft and password spraying to Cobalt Strike. This adversary starts with obtaining usernames and passwords of their victim from previous breaches. These credentials are used in a credential stuffing or password spraying attack against the victim’s remote services, such as webmail or other internet reachable mail services.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The first half of 2019 saw a 10-fold increase in the number of password-protected objects, such as documents and archive files, being used to deliver malware. In 2017, password-protected archives accounted for only 0.08% of all malicious objects. In 2018, their number grew to 3.6%, while in H1 2019 saw an unusual rise of up to 27.8%.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

Encryption and the development of cryptography have been a cornerstone of IT security for decades and remain critical for data protection against evolving threats. While cryptology is thousands of years old, modern cryptography took off in the 1970s with the help of the Diffie-Hellman-Merkle and RSA encryption algorithms.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 3, 2022

By focusing on this context, we hope that you’ll come away with a stronger understanding about, for instance, why you should use a password manager rather than that you should use a password manager. In 2016, I bought a new smartphone that, as part of a promotion, came with an additional smart watch.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 17, 2018

In the case above, HostGator was being taken to task for storing passwords in a retrievable fashion (i.e. pic.twitter.com/ZJSDF2VMzv — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) November 23, 2016. UK Based, Free Let's Encrypt SSL, starting at just £50 a year. not as a strong cryptographic hash), and rightly so too.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

Remote desktop software’s sensitive influence over other devices means identity and access management (IAM), password security , and multi-factor authentication are critical for risk management. Between 2016 and 2018, the malware strain SamSam made brute force RDP attacks an integral part of its attacks on several public organizations.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 7, 2021

According to our data, its main vector of distribution is cracking RDP passwords. Encrypted files and a note from the attackers. For encryption, the program uses the AES symmetric algorithm with a 128-bit key in ECB mode (simple substitution mode) from the CryptoPP cryptographic library. Technical file created by BigBobRoss.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2022

IoT devices can spy on people, steal data, or bring down vast swathes of the internet, as happened in 2016 when Mirai malware infiltrated devices such as baby monitors and refrigerators and locked them into a botnet for the Dyn cyberattack. Turn off automatic connections to route each device via your VPN-secured WiFi router.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

Blocking legitimate users is part of that problem, blocking users wanting to protect their traffic with a VPN is another: This has been there for the past year now. They also blacklist vpn IP addresses. Geo-blocking is a really weak, easily circumvented control that often does more harm than good. Blocking Paste.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Trickbot (aka TrickLoader or Trickster), is a successor of the Dyre banking Trojan that was active from 2014 to 2016 and performed man-in-the-browser attacks in order to steal banking credentials. Trickbot was first discovered in October 2016. Downloaded modules are encrypted, and can be decrypted with the Python script below.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The most remarkable findings In early 2023, we discovered an ongoing attack targeting government entities in the APAC region by compromising a specific type of a secure USB drive, which provides hardware encryption. These variants go beyond Ligolo’s standard functionality and attempt to emulate VPN solutions from Cisco and Palo Alto.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The ScarCruft group (also known as APT37 or Temp.Reaper) is a nation-state sponsored APT actor we first reported in 2016. It contains a password-protected RAR archive with the password shown in the email body. The script compares the given encrypted string with a second string to get an index of matched characters.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Verodin Cybersecurity analytics 2018 Acquired by FireEye Kenna Security Risk management 2018 Acquired by Cisco PhishMe Incident response 2016 Acquired: P.E. Named after the infamous string of nation-state cyber attacks during the late 2000s, NightDragon was established in 2016 by former McAfee CEO Dave DeWalt.

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