Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

“Experience in backup, increase privileges, mikicatz, network. According to Constella Intelligence , a data breach and threat actor research platform, a user named Semen7907 registered in 2017 on the Russian-language programming forum pawno[.]ru was also used to register an account at the online game stalker[.]so

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2019

industries and government agencies, the statement was also published by the CISA Director Chris Krebs via his Twitter account. The statement also highlights the risks related to account compromise that could represent the entry point in a targeted network. The attacks are targeting U.S. ” continues the statement.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 7, 2021

If you use a Google account, it may soon be mandatory to sign up to Google’s two-step verification program. As recently as 2017, a tiny amount of GMail users made use of its two-step options. With so much valuable data stuffed inside Google accounts, it’s beyond time to ensure they’re locked down properly.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The agencies offered some sound cybersecurity advice for BlackByte that applies pretty generally: Conduct regular backups and store them as air-gapped, password-protected copies offline. Review domain controllers, servers, workstations, and active directories for new or unrecognized user accounts. BlackByte Ransomware Protection Steps.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

According to Constella, this email address was used in 2010 to register an account for a Dmitry Yurievich Khoroshev from Voronezh, Russia at the hosting provider firstvds.ru. NeroWolfe seems to have abandoned all of his forum accounts sometime in 2016. DomainTools reports that stairwell.ru Image: Shutterstock.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Let me give you an example from smack bang in the middle of GDPR territory: Deezer, the French streaming media service that went into HIBP early January last year: New breach: Deezer had 229M unique email addresses breached from a 2019 backup and shared online in late 2022. Data included names, IPs, DoBs, genders and customer location.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 29, 2021

You probably don’t recall creating an account on the Verifications.io Email verifiers are online services that allow marketers and salespeople to verify that the email address you used to create an account, sign up for a newsletter or make an order on their website is real and valid. platform or River City Media.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Daniel’s Hosting became the largest Dark Web hosting provider earlier 2017 when Anonymous members breached and took down Freedom Hosting II. As per my analysis it seems someone got access to the database and deleted all accounts.” “Noteworthy, also the account “root” has been deleted.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 12, 2024

Sample zero trust navigation dashboard from Cloudflare Implement the 3-2-1 Backup Rule When applying the 3-2-1 backup rule, make sure you have three copies of your data: one primary and two backups. Keep these copies on two separate types of media: hard disks, cloud storage , and tape backups.

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Spinone

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

2017 was another year of continuous progress and achievement for Spinbackup. Google Team Drives Backup Spinbackup was the world’s first vendor to introduce backup and recovery features for Google Team Drives.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2020

What might start as an account compromise, where you think you might just lose data, can quickly become a situation where you’ve lost your whole network.” industries and government agencies, the statement was also published by the CISA Director Chris Krebs via his Twitter account. The attacks were targeting U.S.

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Spinone

JANUARY 21, 2018

With the technologies in cloud computing moving so fast, and adoption rates increasing rapidly, we can expect to see some exciting developments in 2017. Let’s have a look at what’s in store for 2017: 1.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The history of nonconsensual intimate image (NCII) abuse—as the use of explicit deepfakes without consent is often called—started near the end of 2017. To combat this type of sexual abuse there have been several initiatives: The US has proposed legislation in the form of the Deepfake Accountability Act.

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Elie

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The findings presented in this post were originally presented at Blackhat USA 2017 in a talk entitled “Tracking desktop ransomware payments end-to-end.” This undercounting is due to the fact that we only take into account the bitcoin transactions that we can directly trace back to the ransomware binaries we know of, as explained in the.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 19, 2017

This week, I started looking into a large database backup file which turned out to contain the personal data of a significant portion of the South African population. On March 14 this year, someone sent me a 27GB file called "masterdeeds.sql" which was a MySQL database backup file. This post explains everything I know.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2022

Maintain known-good offline backups for faster recovery upon a disruptive attack, and conduct hashing and integrity checks on firmware and controller configuration files to ensure validity of those backups. Only use admin accounts when required for tasks, such as installing software updates. Enforce principle of least privilege.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2021

An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.” The targeting of backups to prevent recovery following ransomware deployment. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges. ” concludes Talos.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 14, 2018

Look for social media accounts that accept private communications. It all started with this tweet: Just hijacked some big MySQL database server containing 53K credit card details with complete CVV2 happy new years to the 4 million users pic.twitter.com/pXda5DbNCz — Taylor (@0x55Taylor) December 31, 2017.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 10, 2022

Observed since: October 2017 Ransomware note: readme.txt Ransomware extension: dihlxbl Kill Chain: Being Distributed via Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome (Korean users) Sample hash: 06ea8f2b8b70b665cbecab797125733f75014052d710515c5ca2d908f3852349. Use double authentication when logging into accounts or services. Mitigations.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2020

Fxmsp included one of his Jabber accounts, in his contact information on the forum which helped Group-IB researchers to establish his presumed identity. In early 2017, he created accounts on several other Russian-speaking forums, including on the infamous exploit[.]in, Finally, he infects the backups by installing backdoors.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In the early afternoon of Friday 12 May 2017, the media broke the news of a global computer security attack carried out through a malicious code capable of encrypting data residing in information systems and demanding a ransom in cryptocurrency to restore them, the Wannacry ransomware. How did the contagion stop?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

“Upon gaining an initial foothold into a telecommunications organization or network service provider, PRC state-sponsored cyber actors have identified critical users and infrastructure including systems critical to maintaining the security of authentication, authorization, and accounting.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

However, defacements accounted for only 15% of malware incidents in Q3 2017. If your website hasn’t been defaced, you might still have malware if: Your account login information was changed without your consent. A best practice for all website owners is to keep frequent backups of your website. Monitor for Changes.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 19, 2023

Since then Portnox continued to add capabilities, launched the first cloud-native NAC in 2017, and now offers a NAC SaaS solution, Portnox Cloud. Founded in 2007, Por t nox began selling a software-based NAC solution to be used in local networks. per device per year for each additional 30 (RADIUS+) to 45 (ZTNA) days.

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Google Security

OCTOBER 27, 2021

It helps protect your phone, apps, Google Account, and passwords by giving you a central view of your device’s current configuration. Since its launch in 2017, Google Play Protect has provided the ability to detect malicious applications even when the device is offline.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 21, 2020

Furthermore, 50% encountered ransomware and other malware; 29% reported incidents of data getting exposed; 25% had accounts compromised; and 17% dealt with incidents of crypto-jacking. These protocols need to be accounted for. Your recent white paper shows it’s still at as high a level as in 2017?

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

With vulnerabilities rooted in unsuspecting users, the task of preventing these attacks means both staff training and a robust email and network security system that includes a strong backup program so you have a recent copy of your data that you can roll back to. Offline Backups. Screenshot example. Ransomware facts. Ransomware Types.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 4, 2022

Before leakware came doxware, which was popular in 2016 and 2017. Government Accountability Office (GAO) data, 13 of the 16 agencies involved in the study reported a total cost savings of $291 million from using cloud services. It's slightly different from a standard ransomware attack—encrypting a user's files is a secondary concern.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

As you can see in the chart below from Statista, data breaches rose more than tenfold between 2005 and 2017. Now think about the type of data you enter when you create a new account on a website. In 2013, Yahoo was the target of what is still the largest breach of data in history, with over 3 billion accounts getting compromised.

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Elie

MARCH 10, 2018

fake phone verified accounts. , from Check Point, at Botconf in December 2017, on the subject. tokens are the de facto standard for granting apps and devices restricted access to online accounts without sharing passwords and with a limited set of privileges. study of HTTPS interception. , and the analysis of. Oren Koriat.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 15, 2021

If you account for the unknown attacks that were never reported, the true number is likely 10 to 20 times greater, Levin estimated. Kacey Sensenich, chief technology officer at Rockingham County Schools (25 schools, 11,691 students in the 2019-2020 school year), ran up against an Emotet trojan infection in December 2017.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Attempts to run malware for stealing money from online bank accounts were stopped on the computers of 76,551 unique users. The Cuba group utilized an exploit for the CVE-2023-27532 vulnerability in Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) to extract credentials from the configuration files of this software.

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SecureList

JANUARY 13, 2022

In some cases, we saw what looked like the compromise of an existing registered company and the subsequent use of its resources such as social media accounts, messengers and email to initiate business interaction with the target. We found they generally stick to CVE-2017-0199, using it again and again before trying something else.

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

After obtaining a valid account, they use this account to access the victim’s VPN, Citrix or another remote service that allows access to the network of the victim. Information regarding these remotes services is taken from the mailbox, cloud drive, or other cloud resources accessible by the compromised account.

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Spinone

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Effective Cloud to Cloud Backups One of the most effective means of cybersecurity that often is overlooked is backups. Backups in themselves are a security mechanism. Backups also protect against intentional damage to data caused by a disgruntled employee or an attacker. This can protect against accidental damage to data.

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SecureList

MAY 19, 2023

From the WmiPrvSE.exe process, it makes a backup of the VFS file, copying mods.lrc to mods.lrs. The module that looked most interesting to us is the one that performs email exfiltration from Gmail accounts. While searching through older telemetry data, we were able to identify multiple installers that were used from 2017 to 2020.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2018

” The HERMES ransomware was first spotted in October 2017 when it was involved in a targeted attack against the Far Eastern International Bank (FEIB) in Taiwan. The ransomware destroys its encryption key and deletes shadow copies and various backup files from the disk in order to prevent victims from recovering their files.

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