Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The group is also the author of the NotPetya ransomware that hit hundreds of companies worldwide in June 2017, causing billions worth of damage. According to WatchGuard , Cyclops Blink may have affected roughly 1% of all active WatchGuard firewall appliances. ” Cyclops Blink is sophisticated malware with a modular structure.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2022

According to WatchGuard , Cyclops Blink may have affected roughly 1% of all active WatchGuard firewall appliances. In February, US and UK cybersecurity and law enforcement agencies published a joint security advisory about the Cyclops Blink bot that has been linked to the Russian-backed Sandworm APT group.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2020

China continues to intensify the monitoring of the cyberspace applying and persecution of VPN services that could be used to bypass its censorship system known as the Great Firewall. The Great Firewall project already blocked access to more hundreds of the world’s 1,000 top websites, including Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Dropbox.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2021

The new malware implement new and improved rootkit and worm capabilities, it continues to target cloud applications by exploiting known vulnerabilities such as Oracle WebLogic ( CVE-2017-10271 ) and Apache ActiveMQ ( CVE-2016-3088 ) servers. Disable the iptables firewall so that the malware will have full access to the internet.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Regardless of how familiar you are with Information Security, you’ve probably come across the term ‘malware’ countless times. From accessing your business-critical resources and sensitive information to halting business operations and services, a malware infection can quickly become an organization’s worst nightmare come true.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This type of rootkit was developed as a proof of concept in 2006, but in 2017, researcher Joseph Connelly designed nested virtual machine rootkit CloudSkulk as part of his Masters degree work at Boise State University. configuring systems according to security guidelines and limiting services that can run on these systems. Prevention.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The last time the Great Cannon was used by the Chinese authorities was in 2017 when it was involved in DDoS attacks on the Mingjingnews.com site, a US-based Chinese media outlet. ” states a report published by Citizen Lab researchers published in 2015. . ” states a report published by Citizen Lab researchers published in 2015.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2022

The vulnerability is an unauthenticated stack-based buffer overflow that was reported by Jacob Baines , lead security researcher at Rapid7. The CVE-2021-20038 vulnerability impacts SMA 100 series appliances (including SMA 200, 210, 400, 410, and 500v) even when the web application firewall (WAF) is enabled.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

In 2017, Lovense customers complained that the app recorded users’ remote sex sessions. Lovense uses Cloudflare web application firewall (WAF) and IP proxying tools, meaning that a malicious actor would still have difficulty pinpointing the attack surface. Accessing test servers is shielded by Cloudflare firewall.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2021

Regardless of how familiar you are with Information Security, you’ve probably come across the term ‘malware’ countless times. From accessing your business-critical resources and sensitive information to halting business operations and services, a malware infection can quickly become an organization’s worst nightmare come true.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2021

The worm scans and exploits existing server based vulnerabilities like CVE-2020-14882 and CVE-2017-11610 from the victim machine. After getting downloaded in the victim system, the worm first scans for vulnerable servers from the victim system to exploit certain known web server vulnerabilities like CVE-2020-14882 and CVE-2017-11610.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2019

A survey of local media reports by Recorded Future tallied 38 ransomware attacks against cities in 2017, rising to 53 attacks in 2018. It’s imperative to keep legacy anti-malware , firewall and intrusion prevention systems updated. A top-down security mindset absolutely must be instilled and nurtured. mayors attending the U.S.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2023

Cybersecurity firm Sucuri has been tracking Balada Injector activity since 2017 but has only recently given this long-running campaign its name. Balada activity has been associated with well over 100 unique domains since 2017. What is Balada? Balada also leverages a dated but recurring User-Agent “ Mozilla/5.0 Windows NT 10.0;

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2021

THOMPSON posted about the Capital One hack on GitHub, she exploited a misconfigured web application firewall to get access to the data. On July 17, 2019, Capital One was informed of the incident by a GitHub user who saw the post. On July 19, 2019, that financial institution discovered the intrusion and informed the FBI.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2022

. “The Justice Department today announced a court-authorized operation, conducted in March 2022, to disrupt a two-tiered global botnet of thousands of infected network hardware devices under the control of a threat actor known to security researchers as Sandworm, which the U.S. ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 10, 2021

We’ve seen similar vulnerabilities exploited before in breaches like the 2017 Equifax data breach.”. As webapps running this kind of setup typically would process sensitive information, the mitigations in question should be applied immediately, which includes updating Java.”. Anybody using Apache Struts is likely vulnerable.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2022

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) launched an investigation into the case, codenamed Cepheus, in 2017 after it received information about a “suspicious RAT” from cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks and the U.S.

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2020

MATA is also able to target Linux-based diskless network devices, including such as routers, firewalls, or IoT devices. The group has been linked to several major cyber attacks, including the 2014 Sony Pictures hack , several SWIFT banking attacks since 2016, and the 2017 WannaCry ransomware infection.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2019

While an investigation is still ongoing, the Agency announced to have installed additional monitoring agents on its firewalls. Unfortunately, this was not the first time hackers broke into JPL , it has already happened back in 2009, 2011, 2014, 2016 and 2017. According to the investigators, the attack was carried out by an APT group.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2019

Cashdollar explained that the Silex malware trashes the storage of the infected devices, drops firewall rules and wipe network configurations before halting the system. Silex is not the first IoT malware with this behavior, back in 2017 BrickerBot bricked millions of devices worldwide. pic.twitter.com/Ue661ku0fy — Larry W.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

Information security products , services, and professionals have never been in higher demand, making for a world of opportunities for cybersecurity startups. Series A SenseOn 2017 London, UK 61 $26.4 Series A GitGuardian 2017 Paris, France 63 $56.0 Series A Ubiq Security 2019 San Diego, CA 25 $6.4

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SC Magazine

APRIL 14, 2021

Mondelez International, maker of such brands as Oreo, Ritz and Sour Patch Kids, is in the midst of rolling out a video-based security awareness and training program. The 2017 NotPetya supply-chain wiper attack hit $26.6 Indeed, Nikolay Betov, information security officer at Mondelez, told SC media that this event “changed everything.”

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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, He deleted all offers linked to Russia and the ban was lifted.

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BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

During October, we also unveiled our new ransomware white paper, updated from the edition we first published in 2017. With many more people now working from home because of Coronavirus restrictions, they’re potentially at greater risk from security threats. Ransomware risk is rising, but we’ve got your back.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 15, 2022

Company Product Est HQ Fortinet FortiSIEM 2000 Sunnyvale, CA LogPoint LogPoint SIEM 2001 Copenhagen, Denmark Micro Focus ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager 1976 London, UK Rapid7 Rapid7 SIEM 2000 Boston, MA Trellix SecOps and Analytics 2022 Milpitas, CA. Execute containment actions across Active Directory , IAM, EDR, and firewalls.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 4, 2019

Maryland was one of the very first states to recognize the importance of information security, not only as a critical issue for the nation, but also as a strategic industry for the state,” said Governor Larry Hogan. According to the U.S. This made it the nation’s eighth-largest technology hub.

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2019

THOMPSON posted about the Capital One hack on GitHub, she exploited a misconfigured web application firewall to get access to the data. On July 17, 2019, Capital One was informed of the incident by a GitHub user who saw the post. On July 19, 2019, that financial institution discovered the intrusion and informed the FBI.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2019

Block Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) port 3389 at the enterprise perimeter firewall. BlueKeep will also show if organizations around the world learned a lesson after the large 2017 outbreaks and improved their security posture and patching routines.”.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 14, 2021

Mondelez International, maker of such brands as Oreo, Ritz and Sour Patch Kids, is in the midst of rolling out a video-based security awareness and training program. The 2017 NotPetya supply-chain wiper attack hit $26.6 Indeed, Nikolay Betov, information security officer at Mondelez, told SC media that this event “changed everything.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The majority of the vulnerabilities can be exploited to gain initial access to the target networks, they affect systems that are directly accessible from the Internet, such as firewalls and gateways. 23) CVE-2017-6327 – The Symantec Messaging Gateway can encounter a remote code execution issue.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Alyssa Miller, business information security officer at S&P Global Ratings, told SC Media that organizations who build out their programs from scratch tend to first stumble in two areas that underpin most threat intelligence programs: asset discovery and log management.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 15, 2021

Information security leaders at these two districts shared their war stories last week at the K-12 Cybersecurity Leadership Symposium, hosted by the K12 Security Information Exchange (K12 SIX) – the first-ever ISAC specifically created with local school districts in mind.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 24, 2021

The 2017 Department of Health and Human Services Health Care Industry Cybersecurity Task Force report revealed a damning state of affairs: three out of four hospitals don’t have a designated security person and have been forced to get creative with security needs.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

In this article we will learn how to address and effectively respond to major enterprise cybersecurity threats and provide tips to mitigate IT security risk. Today, c yber security incidents lead to significant damage, alarming organizations of all types and sizes in different geographic locations.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Javali trojan is active since November 2017 and targets users of financial and banking organizations geolocated in Brazil and Mexico. exe Dbghelp.dll G DATA Personal Firewall GDFwAdmin.exe GDFwAdmin.dll G DATA Security Software AVK.exe Avk.dll COMODO Internet Security CisTray.exe Cmdres.dll NVIDIA 3D Vision Test Application Nvsttest.exe D3d8.dll

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Cisco Security

MAY 26, 2022

To accomplish this undertaking in a few weeks’ time, after the conference had a green light with the new COVID protocols, Cisco Meraki and Cisco Secure leadership gave their full support to send the necessary hardware, software licenses and staff to Singapore. About Black Hat.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The new attack, as described by the researchers, targets security devices located between the client and the server (so-called middleboxes) — firewalls, load balancers, network address translators (NAT), deep packet inspection (DPI) tools and others. ris attack. Law enforcers believe the individual is currently in Turkey.

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