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Chinese Hackers Stole an NSA Windows Exploit in 2014

Schneier on Security

Here’s the timeline : The timeline basically seems to be, according to Check Point: 2013: NSA’s Equation Group developed a set of exploits including one called EpMe that elevates one’s privileges on a vulnerable Windows system to system-administrator level, granting full control.

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MY TAKE: Memory hacking arises as a go-to tactic to carry out deep, persistent incursions

The Last Watchdog

That’s Gartner’s estimate of global spending on cybersecurity in 2017 and 2018. Memory hacking is being carried out across paths that have been left comparatively wide open to threat actors who are happy to take full advantage of the rather fragile framework of processes that execute deep inside the kernel of computer operating systems.

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Meet the Administrators of the RSOCKS Proxy Botnet

Krebs on Security

Cybersecurity firm Constella Intelligence shows that in 2017, someone using the email address istanx@gmail.com registered at the Russian freelancer job site fl.ru Kloster says he’s worked in many large companies in Omsk as a system administrator, web developer and photographer.

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Adconion Execs Plead Guilty in Federal Anti-Spam Case

Krebs on Security

For many years, Dye was a system administrator for Optinrealbig , a Colorado company that relentlessly pimped all manner of junk email, from mortgage leads and adult-related services to counterfeit products and Viagra.

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Feds Allege Adconion Employees Hijacked IP Addresses for Spamming

Krebs on Security

All four men have pleaded not guilty to the charges, which stem from a grand jury indictment handed down in June 2017. For many years, Dye was a system administrator for Optinrealbig , a Colorado company that relentlessly pimped all manner of junk email, from mortgage leads and adult-related services to counterfeit products and Viagra.

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Tricky Phish Angles for Persistence, Not Passwords

Krebs on Security

Second, this attack is not exactly new: In 2017, for instance, phishers used a similar technique to plunder accounts at Google’s Gmail service. Furthermore, even if an organization requires multi-factor authentication at sign-in, recall that this phish’s login process takes place on Microsoft’s own Web site.

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Feds Warn About Critical Infrastructure Ransomware Attacks, Vulnerabilities

eSecurity Planet

CVE-2017-9791 : A vulnerability in Apache Struts 2, subsequent to the Equifax breach via a Java-based framework to create web applications, that creates opportunities for remote code executions (RCE) attacks caused by using untrusted inputs in the ActionMessage class during development. CVE-2017-0144 : Similar to CVE-2017-0145.