Hot for Security

MARCH 29, 2021

The leaked data contained no highly sensitive information such as passwords, credit card numbers or Social Security numbers. River City Media (RCM) is a US-based email marketing company that made headlines in March 2017 after exposing 1.4 billion individual records online due to an improperly configured backup.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2022

Change all passwords to ICS/SCADA devices and systems on a consistent schedule, especially all default passwords, to device-unique strong passwords to mitigate password brute force attacks and to give defender monitoring systems opportunities to detect common attacks.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

After identifying a critical Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) server, the cyber actors gained credentials to access the underlying Structured Query Language (SQL) database [ T1078 ] and utilized SQL commands to dump the credentials [ T1555 ], which contained both cleartext and hashed passwords for user and administrative accounts.”

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Telecommunications Authentication Passwords Accountability 95

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 Details after contacting on jabber: truniger@xmpp[.]jp.”

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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. For example, encryption keys, administrator passwords, and other critical information are stored in the Azure Key Vault in FIPS 140-2 Level 2-validated hardware security modules (HSMs).

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In 2017, close to a quarter of infected website files were backdoor files, and today, these attacks are becoming harder to detect. For instance, maintain strong, unique passwords, and use a CAPTCHA — a small test that distinguishes humans from robots — to protect login forms and other forms on your website.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 4, 2022

Before leakware came doxware, which was popular in 2016 and 2017. These practices will prevent leakware attacks, but they can also help enterprises avoid other common cybersecurity issues, such as distributed denial of service (DDoS), man in the middle (MitM), SQL, and password hacks. Prioritize employee cybersecurity training.

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SiteLock

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Back in 2017, a ransomware outbreak paralyzed several organizations in Russia and Ukraine, with cases also occurring in Turkey, Germany, Bulgaria and Japan. Once Bad Rabbit has infected a computer, it attempts to spread across the network by using lists of simple username and password combinations (e.g., Perform regular backups.

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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. You are often required to provide your email address, date of birth, first and last name, and a password. Now think about the type of data you enter when you create a new account on a website. How do databases get compromised?

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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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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

In this process authorities seized numerous backup hard drives [containing] a large portion of Orcus Technologies business, and practices,” Rezvesz wrote. 2017 analysis of the RAT. These are, of course, on top of the obviously ominous features such as password retrieval and key logging that are normally seen in Remote Access Trojans.”.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2020

In early 2017, he created accounts on several other Russian-speaking forums, including on the infamous exploit[.]in, On October 1, 2017, Fxmsp published his first ad for the sale of access to corporate networks. Then, he carries out brute-force attacks on the victim’s server to guess the RDP password. Proxy seller.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Ransomware frequently contains extraction capabilities that can steal critical information like usernames and passwords, so stopping ransomware is serious business. Offline Backups. While virtual backups are great, if you’re not storing data backups offline, you’re at risk of losing that data. Ransomware Types.

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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. Mitigations. Source: IC3.gov.

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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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Daniel Miessler

DECEMBER 24, 2022

The initial blog was on August 25th, saying there was a breach, but it wasn’t so bad because they had no access to customer data or password vaults: Two weeks ago, we detected some unusual activity within portions of the LastPass development environment. And specifically, asking me whether I used LastPass or any other password manager.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 12, 2021

However, the Huawei Mate 10 Pro, stopped being updated just 28 months after its release in 2017. Once you’ve saved everything you want to keep on an external backup, like your computer or the cloud, perform a factory reset by following the guidelines of your phone’s manufacturer.

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Errata Security

AUGUST 4, 2019

These are the things I worry about: backup before you go update before you go correctly locking your devices with full disk encryption correctly configuring WiFi Bluetooth devices Mobile phone vs. Stingrays USB Backup Traveling means a higher chance of losing your device. Therefore, I need a strong login password.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The Archiveus Trojan from 2006 was the first one to use RSA cipher, but it was reminiscent of a proof of concept and used a static 30-digit decryption password that was shortly cracked. The WannaCry and NotPetya outbreaks in May and June 2017, respectively, were the most devastating in history. None of these early threats went pro.

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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. In total, we found nine auxiliary modules performing different malicious activities such as file gathering, keylogging, taking screenshots, recording the microphone and stealing passwords.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

As the user enters their email address and password credentials to create a new account, they undergo multiple redirects which finally land them on a YouTube video. Parrot TDS is the fake update malware campaign, active since 2017, that works by injecting malicious JavaScript code into poorly secured content management systems CMS (i.e.

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IT Security Guru

OCTOBER 3, 2022

For two months during 2017, the American credit bureau Equifax was subject to a massive data theft, where information relating to millions of customers was stolen. Travelex reportedly paid around $2.3M Data was pulled out of the network over a long period of time so that no large data movements could be detected.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The Global State of Information Security Survey 2017 suggests that companies should look into deploying threat detection tools and processes (including monitoring and analyzing security intelligence information), conducting vulnerability and threat assessments, penetration tests and security information, and event management (SIEM) tools.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Let me share a broad overview of my key points (most of which you'll have seen me comment on before), then I'd love your comments: Data breach vectors: There's malicious hacking which people most frequently think of, but there's also the growing prevalence of exposed DBs and backups.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 21, 2022

In 2017, Formbook’s panel source was leaked, and subsequently, the threat actor behind Xloader moved to a different business model. Steal stored passwords. With the arrival of Xloader, the malware authors also stopped selling the panel’s code together with the malware executable. Capture keystrokes. Take screenshots. Execute commands.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The attackers use the reverse shell to deploy a Bash stealer that collects data such as system information, browsing history, saved passwords, cryptocurrency wallet files and credentials for cloud services (AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Azure). Instead, it tried to exploit the CVE-2017-0199 vulnerability.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

According to statistics from the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report , complaints to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have been rising since 2017. Often, a scammer will simply target the people in a company and fool them into giving up their personal details, account passwords, and other sensitive information and gain access that way.

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Social Engineering Energy and Utilities Phishing Scams 118

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

It’s also useful to familiarize yourself with an FTP program – like the free FileZilla – so you can quickly take care of little issues like this when they arise and aren’t scrambling to find passwords. The easiest way to do this, is to simply use a backup of your site and revert to the most recent version. There’s the culprit!

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Elie

MARCH 10, 2018

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. The final post discusses Gooligan various monetization schemas and its takedown. Oren Koriat.

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Elie

MARCH 10, 2018

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. final post. discusses Gooligan various monetization schemas and its takedown. This series of posts is modeled after the talk I gave with.

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SecureList

JANUARY 13, 2022

We found they generally stick to CVE-2017-0199, using it again and again before trying something else. We assess that the BlueNoroff group’s interest in cryptocurrency theft started with the SnatchCrypto campaign that has been running since at least 2017. Malware infection. Archive file and its contents. Infection chain #2.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2022

After entering an email address and picking a password, you are prompted to confirm your email address by clicking a link sent to that address. Perhaps in light of that 2017 megabreach, many readers will be rightfully concerned about being forced to provide so much sensitive information to a relatively unknown private company.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

used the password 225948. Constella finds the same password tied to webmaster@stairwell.ru (225948) was used by the email address 3k@xakep.ru , which Intel 471 says was registered to more than a dozen NeroWolfe accounts across just as many Russian cybercrime forums between 2011 and 2015. . and admin@stairwell.ru

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 2, 2019

Cryptocurrency retreat will make ransomware less profitable: The gold rush for bitcoin and similar currencies went hand-in-hand with a plague of ransomware: Bitcoin’s peak at close to $20,000 in value in 2017 coincided with a 400% increase in ransomware attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Cryptographic keys can be random numbers, products of large prime numbers, points on an ellipse, or a password generated by a user. Weak passwords and short key lengths often allow quick results for brute force attacks that attempt to methodically guess the key to decrypt the data.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Tape vendors have been promoting themselves as a solution to the ransomware problem because of their ability to provide air-gapped data backup, but trying to recover terabytes of data from a tape drive can be a little like, well, running into red tape. Q: Can you air gap a disk backup system? Tape vs. Disk: The Ransomware Issues.

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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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