Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In August 2020, security experts from FireEye uncovered a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting NATO by spreading fake news content on compromised news websites. According to FireEye, the campaign tracked as GhostWriter, has been ongoing since at least March 2017 and is aligned with Russian security interests.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

The APT group has been active since at least 2017, its campaigns involve persistent phishing and credential theft campaigns leading to intrusions and data theft. The APT primarily targets NATO countries, but experts also observed campaigns targeting the Baltics, Nordics, and Eastern Europe regions, including Ukraine.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 4, 2017

— Nadine Dorries (@NadineDorries) December 2, 2017. link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) December 2, 2017. — Nick Boles MP (@NickBoles) December 3, 2017. Seems slightly unfair to vilify @NadineDorries for what is common practice — JamesClayton (@JamesClayton5) December 3, 2017. No one else has access.

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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. About the author: Salvatore Lombardo.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2021

TA544 is a financially motivated threat actor that is active at least since 2017, it focuses on attacks on banking users, it leverages banking malware and other payloads to target organizations worldwide, mainly in Italy and Japan. Upon enabling the macro, the infection process will start.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2020

The final payload is the FormBook information-stealing Trojan, a malware that was first spotted by researchers at FireEye in October 2017. Researchers explained that FormBook is easy to use, it is offered for sale in the criminal underground since July 2017, it was offered for $29 a week up to a $299 full-package “pro” deal.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

APT42 focuses on highly targeted spear-phishing and social engineering techniques, its operations broadly fall into three categories, credential harvesting, surveillance operations, and malware deployment. They have also previously targeted human rights activists, the media sector, and interfered with the US presidential elections.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

” According to Microsoft, ransomware attacks continue to target enterprise environments through social engineering, for this reason, the adoption of best practices is the best way to protect them. ” continues Microsoft. . Disable your Remote Desktop feature whenever possible. • Use two factor authentication. •

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Experts from Sophos reported that recently discovered variants of Android spyware implement new features to avoid being removed by the users and to security firms that attempt to dismantle C2 infrastructure. APT-C-23 group is using Android spyware since at least 2017, most of the targets were in the Palestinian Territories.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

In 2017, hackers stole some personal information belonging to T-Mobile customers by exploiting a well-known vulnerability. Such kind of info could be used by hackers in social engineering attack against T-Mobile’s customer support employees with the intent of stealing the victim’s phone number.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2020

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. In our estimation, the group operates dozens of researchers and intelligence personnel to maintain the campaign globally.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2020

The crooks exploited online tools and technology along with social engineering tactics to target the victims and steal usernames, passwords, and bank accounts. From September 2015 to June 2017, Olorunyomi and an accomplice engaged in a romance fraud scheme that resulted in losses of more than $1 million.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2018

This amazing figure is the result of 2,308 publicly disclosed data breaches, anyway, it represents a drop from 6 billion data records exposed in 2,439 breaches reported for the first half of 2017. After the wild ride of 2017, we became accustomed to seeing a lot of breaches, exposing extraordinary amounts of information.

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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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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The WannaCry and NotPetya outbreaks in May and June 2017, respectively, were the most devastating in history. David Balaban is a computer security researcher with over 17 years of experience in malware analysis and antivirus software evaluation. The first viable Mac ransomware called KeRanger was spotted in the spring of 2016.

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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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Lenny Zeltser

JULY 25, 2018

Scammers use a variety of social engineering tactics when persuading victims to follow the desired course of action. In reality, the sender probably obtained the data from one of the many breaches that provide swindlers with an almost unlimited supply of personal information.

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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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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

APRIL 30, 2020

The threat actors leverage perfectly orchestrated social engineering technique by “persuading” people holding significant corporate positions to open a non-malicious PDF email attachment coming from an authentic address in their contacts. However, this is a specially crafted presentation page which abuses Sway default borderless view.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

In 2017, password-protected archives accounted for only 0.08% of all malicious objects. Cybercriminals use social engineering techniques to convince users to click on malicious links or extract archives. In 2018, their number grew to 3.6%, while in H1 2019 saw an unusual rise of up to 27.8%. Financial departments at high risk.

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Cisco Security

MARCH 4, 2021

Without knowing much about me, she was very responsive and shared trust, insights, and tips in the right direction with me that contributed to my success and towards winning the social engineering capture-the-flag contest at DEF CON. Meredith Corley | Security Communication Leader, Cisco | Twitter | ( LinkedIn ).

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2021

Most of these breaches occur with Amazon AWS Simple Cloud Storage (AWS S3) due to the widespread popularity of this system as well as the apparent simplicity of its configuration, which does not require any special knowledge of information security. Help your employees become more knowledgeable and aware of cybersecurity issues.

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Kali Linux

MARCH 28, 2023

In information security (infosec) there is the need to be on the latest version. Being a system administrator, a patch could contain a security update to stop a vulnerability. Moving to Rolling Overall, the feedback received for Kali 2.0 was positive, and it was a success. From time-to-time we have made slip ups.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Vamosi: Like a lot of us, information security wasn’t necessarily our first line of work. Fortunately I was covering security for ZDNet from day one, and eventually got pretty good at explaining infosec to others. It kind of came on my radar somewhere around 2017. Stok: I went to DEF CON in 2017.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Vamosi: Like a lot of us, information security wasn’t necessarily our first line of work. Fortunately I was covering security for ZDNet from day one, and eventually got pretty good at explaining infosec to others. It kind of came on my radar somewhere around 2017. Stok: I went to DEF CON in 2017.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Vamosi: Like a lot of us, information security wasn’t necessarily our first line of work. Fortunately I was covering security for ZDNet from day one, and eventually got pretty good at explaining infosec to others. It kind of came on my radar somewhere around 2017. Stok: I went to DEF CON in 2017.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

I've got a lot of industry certifications, but having all those paper degrees proved to be a poor equivalent to having actual hands on experience in information security. Vamosi: So what am I missing here. Here's an accomplished woman with five master's degrees and 15 years of experience in it.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

I've got a lot of industry certifications, but having all those paper degrees proved to be a poor equivalent to having actual hands on experience in information security. Vamosi: So what am I missing here. Here's an accomplished woman with five master's degrees and 15 years of experience in it.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 11, 2023

Tib3rius from White Oak Security discusses his experience as a web application security pen tester, his OSCP certification, and how he’s giving back to the community with his Twitch , Youtube , and tools he's made available on GitHub. So honestly, every single kind of web app is just a portal to information. VAMOSI: Yeah.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

And the rest, they say is this as a reporter, I was in a position to learn as I wrote about information security. Here's the crazy thing: prior to 2017 Prior to attending DEF CON 25 Stoke never tried his hand at bug bounty. And my editor turned to me and said, What do you know about computer viruses? Then you heard about this.

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