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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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Trend Identified: 4/20/2017. The SiteLock team has discovered a dangerous malware trend that not only provides website administrator level access to the bad actors involved, but exposes sensitive website credentials publicly over the internet. This article was co-authored by Product Evangelist Logan Kipp. THREAT SUMMARY. High Threat.

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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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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. Offline Backups. While virtual backups are great, if you’re not storing data backups offline, you’re at risk of losing that data. Screenshot example. Ransomware attacks and costs.

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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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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In Q3 2017, SiteLock discovered alarming cybercrime trends that will likely affect websites for months to come. That’s not all: cybercriminals attempted to compromise more websites in Q3 2017 than in the previous quarter, increasing their attempted attacks by 16 percent. In Q2 2017, backdoors accounted for 23 percent of malware files.

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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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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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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

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. 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.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Ransomware was proliferated in 2016 and 2017 and then seemed to be on the decline. Hacker asked for an undisclosed sum of money Type of ransomware is unknown at this point Some data remained inaccessible after two weeks The police department had backups of business-critical data No evidence that data was lost or stolen during the attack 2.

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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. They just sit and wait.

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SecureList

JANUARY 13, 2022

We opened the email on an offline system; if the system had been connected to the internet, there would be a real icon for a Google document loaded from a third-party tracking server that immediately notifies the attacker that the target opened the email. Instead, they can rely on regular macro-enabled documents or older exploits.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The contemporary world has witnessed the rise of the Internet and global communication, and collaboration technologies, including mobile data use and the culture of bring your own device [BYOD]. I’m not exaggerating: A s ecure cloud backup solution can save hours, days, months and years of your team’s work.

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 2, 2019

SIM-jacking or SIM swap fraud will increase: This sophisticated attack allows a hacker to steal your cell phone number and with that, any account associated with it. As the exchange rates for cyptocurrencies continue to decline, ransomware attack on investors will become less profitable.

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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. Murray Both attack chains look the same at the start, with attackers scanning the Internet for misconfigured S3 buckets , using automated S3 scanners.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In 2017, more than 300,000 WordPress websites were affected by a malicious plugin that allowed an attacker to place embedded hidden links on victim websites. with no internet. By obtaining sensitive authentication access, attackers can break into the vendor network or user account. Bots and Botnets. Browser Hijacker.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 13, 2020

As is often the case, the cost of restoring files from backups can amount to more than paying the ransom. Between the initial damage inflicted on your data, the threat of data leak to the Internet, and the loss of business as a result of damaged customer confidence, the net effect on your business can be major.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

ECC is used for email encryption, cryptocurrency digital signatures, and internet communication protocols. Encryption Tools and IT Security Fundamental protocols incorporate encryption to automatically protect data and include internet protocol security (IPSec), Kerberos, Secure Shell (SSH), and the transmission control protocol (TCP).

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 7, 2023

This article was originally written by Drew Robb on July 7, 2017 , and updated by Chad Kime on April 7, 2023. combinations Enables automated response to quickly and effectively contain threats based upon policy from moderate (move to guest network, assign to self-remediation VLAN, apply OS updates/patches, etc.)

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 10, 2021

business cont plan (how long to restore backups? We do have backups? Also Read: Beyond the Backup: Defending Against Ransomware. Deleting backups , including shadow copies. Always store viable backups offline for adequate protection and prompt restoration. incident response plan (we have a plan and it’s tested, no?),

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Spinone

JULY 8, 2020

An extremely important compliance regulation today is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)? While it has stopped doing this circa 2017, there is nothing to prevent Google from doing this again in the future with a free G Suite plan.

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McAfee

AUGUST 24, 2021

Braun Infusomat system were released in 2017. This is even more important since we are working on a software released in 2017. The backup archive can then be downloaded for later restore of the settings. Could this attack take place over the internet? These models and the corresponding software for the B.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The bot infiltrated the devices through the CVE-2017-6079 vulnerability, which allows execution of arbitrary commands. Like CVE-2017-6079, this vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands. Moreover, according to Netscout, Dvinis accounts for 75% of all attacks attributed to M?ris. ris last quarter.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This might be your boss, or somebody from HR, IT, or accounting departments. Keep in mind that locally synchronized files such as Microsoft’s OneDrive or Google Drive/Backup and Sync files will generally be encrypted as well. Well-known companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Pay Pal, etc. This rule has no way around it.

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SecureList

MAY 12, 2021

Botmasters and account resellers are tasked with providing initial access inside the victim’s network. They interact with each other through internet handles, paying for services with cryptocurrency. In this regard, darknet forum offers have not changed much compared to 2017. Access sellers.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

With many companies improving their incident response and ability to restore services through the use of backups, it is possible that the intentional breach of data is actually the more impactful side of a double extortion attack; according to research from 2022, the average cost of a data breach was USD 4.35

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

From a GUI enterprise manager to advanced logical replication, backup and recovery, and a migration toolkit, EDB is a go-to vendor for all Postgre database administrators. In 2017, Thales extended its data security posture with the acquisition of Gemalto SafeNet for $5.6 Also Read: Top Cloud Security Companies & Tools.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Attempts to run malware for stealing money from online bank accounts were stopped on the computers of 104,257 unique users. On average during the quarter, 8.72% of computers of Internet users worldwide were subjected to at least one Malware-class web attack. Web Anti-Virus recognized 289,196,912 unique URLs as malicious. Local threats.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

held a pilot of a new Internet voting system. And Lamb later found evidence that the election-related files he found were all deleted from the server on March 2, 2017. Bee: I have to put in 16 letters and digits to get into my FreshDirect account. Alex Halderman, a professor who was then with the University of Michigan.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

held a pilot of a new Internet voting system. And Lamb later found evidence that the election-related files he found were all deleted from the server on March 2, 2017. Bee: I have to put in 16 letters and digits to get into my FreshDirect account. Alex Halderman, a professor who was then with the University of Michigan.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 20, 2020

held a pilot of a new Internet voting system. And Lamb later found evidence that the election-related files he found were all deleted from the server on March 2, 2017. Bee: I have to put in 16 letters and digits to get into my FreshDirect account. Alex Halderman, a professor who was then with the University of Michigan.

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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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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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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 8, 2020

A couple of days later and without response, I sought the support of Tefo Mohapi , a journalist in South Africa I worked with on the massive Master Deeds breach in 2017. They are the organisation people entrusted with their personal information and they are accountable for what happens to it after that. And they weren't happy.

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Fox IT

MAY 4, 2021

In 2017, yet another new version was detected in the wild with a number of major modifications compared to the previous main variant: Rebranded RM loader (called RM3 ) Used exotic PE file format exclusively designed for this banking malware Modular architecture Network communication reworked New modules. Backup controllers.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 8, 2022

However, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has put the risk and incredible rate of advancement in Russian cyberattacks front and center – with much of the internet (and the world) caught in the crossfire. Offline backups. Offline Backups Ransomware is a highly profitable industry , and most APTs have realized this. Monitoring.

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