Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2022

By all accounts, the most severe flaw addressed today is CVE-2022-21907, a critical, remote code execution flaw in the “ HTTP Protocol Stack.” ” Microsoft says the flaw affects Windows 10 and Windows 11 , as well as Server 2019 and Server 2022. So do yourself a favor and backup before installing any patches.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 29, 2021

You probably don’t recall creating an account on the Verifications.io Email verifiers are online services that allow marketers and salespeople to verify that the email address you used to create an account, sign up for a newsletter or make an order on their website is real and valid. platform or River City Media.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 3, 2019

Arguably even more vital is the granting of access privileges to thousands more non-human identities – the service accounts that connect modular coding components, like the microservices, software containers and APIs that make up the stretchable fabric of cloud services. Proper accounting and attribution,” he told me. “It

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 29, 2019

I had the chance at RSA 2019 to visit with Semperis CEO Mickey Bresman. They went back in, recovered the system again, but this time changed the passwords for every privileged account in the AD. But that decentralized backup strategy hadn’t accounted for one scenario: where every domain controller is wiped simultaneously. “If

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Malwarebytes

JULY 27, 2022

The Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team has warned that attackers are increasingly leveraging Internet Information Services (IIS) extensions as covert backdoors into servers. Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2019 automatically configure multiple Internet Information Services (IIS) virtual directories during the server installation.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 5, 2022

With how vastly the internet has become embedded in our day-to-day lives, cyberattacks such as ransomware can cause costly disruptions. This is after ransomware attacks rose 500% from 2019 to 2020. In 2019, the city of Atlanta was the victim of a ransomware attack. Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) . City of Atlanta.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2020

Between December 2019 and until February 2020, the experts observed a number of attacks between 70,000 and 40,000 on a daily basis. Below the recommendations provided by ESET on how to configure remote access correctly: Disable internet-facing RDP. Require strong and complex passwords for all accounts that can be logged into via RDP.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Just days later, the account announced that it was “putting an end to” the group after learning that six of its affiliates may have been arrested. RagnarLocker started in 2019 and was responsible for numerous high-profile attacks against municipalities and critical infrastructure across the world. Create offsite, offline backups.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In the digital age, having a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy is now just as crucial to organizational success as accounting, sales, marketing and other core business functions. billion to cybercriminals in 2019, according to the FBI. worldwide in 2019, according to a Ponemon Institute survey. lost more than $3.5

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The notices about the ransomware attack do not provide details as to how the breach occurred, but offer free one-year credit monitoring services and advises customers to “remain vigilant over [the] next twelve to twenty-four months, review your account statements and immediately report any suspicious activity.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2019

“In January 2019 the NCSC published an alert to highlight a large-scale global campaign to hijack Domain Name Systems (DNS).” In the first half of 2019, hackers have modified the DNS settings of over 180,000 Brazilian routers with even more complex attacks. ” reads the security advisory.

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DoublePulsar

JANUARY 4, 2020

A security vulnerability in a popular enterprise remote access product is being used to deliver ransomware into organisations , with targeted delivery to also delete backups and disable endpoint security controls. On 14th August 2019 somebody posted an exploit for the issue on my forum, OpenSecurity.global.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2021

The threat actors are actively exploiting the following vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiOS: CVE-2018-13379 ; CVE-2020-12812 ; CVE-2019-5591. In March 2021, government experts observed state sponsored hackers scanning the internet for servers vulnerable to the above flaws, the attackers were probing systems on ports 4443, 8443, and 10443.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

OCTOBER 16, 2020

For example, if your organization allows you to connect directly to your computer using RDP over the internet, then you’re essentially inviting a hacker right in through your front door to cause trouble. million instances of RDP that were open to the internet. accessing a shared drive), and other traffic through the internet (e.g.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

As a G Suite domain administrator, have you ever thought how often password cracking attempts are made on your account at Google? Are you even aware if an unauthorized attempt to access your account has taken place? In the case, hackers managed to identify the G Suite Admin account of the domain.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 10, 2021

in February of 2019 when it emerged as a brute forcer written in Golang that was discovered to be involved in a rise in attacks against e-commerce websites. Synology also recommends enabling auto block and account protection. This performs a regular, off-site backup. StealthWorker. We reported about Trojan.StealthWorker.GO

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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

According to the report, there were 408 publicly disclosed cyber incidents affecting school districts last year – 18% more than in 2019. If you account for the unknown attacks that were never reported, the true number is likely 10 to 20 times greater, Levin estimated. Rockingham County, North Carolina. It was all back up on Jan.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

620 million accounts stolen from 16 hacked websites available for sale on the dark web. Hacker deleted all data from VFEmail Servers, including backups. Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for February 2019 fixes IE Zero-Day. Russia is going to disconnect from the internet as part of a planned test. Malicious PDF Analysis.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Notably, no other intelligence was shared until 2021, which led us to speculate on a possible shift by the threat actor to more fileless/LOLBINS techniques, and the use of known/common offensive tools publicly available on the internet that allows them to blend in. We’ve barely seen Explosive RAT since 2019. PathProcess.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

A bug in Instagram exposed user accounts and phone numbers. Backup files for Lion Air and parent airlines exposed and exchanged on forums. Crooks hacked other celebrity Instagram accounts to push scams. MMD-0063-2019 – Summarize report of three years MalwareMustDie research (Sept 2016-Sept 2019).

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Spinone

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Data Security: Airtight Backup If you don’t have a robust Data Loss Protection (DLP) plan, all your security strategy will fall apart. The core of all the DLP plan is having a ransomware-proof backup that will let you restore data in case you get hit. Backup your data at least three times a day; 3.

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

NCC Group and Fox-IT observed this threat actor during various incident response engagements performed between October 2019 until April 2020. 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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Adam Levin

JANUARY 2, 2019

2019 will be the year consumers start thinking more about cyber hygiene , and the year Congress becomes more proactive in the areas of privacy and cybersecurity. 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.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 3, 2019

We met at Black Hat 2019. Once they were inside, they would turn off your antivirus software and the software responsible for online backups. Baldr malware is crafted to ransack web browsers, autocomplete saved information and pilfer saved PII, credit card account information, cookies and browsing histories, Sophos research shows.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

implement offline storage and tape-based backup. PA Unit 42 found that the average ransom paid by organisations nearly tripled over the past year, from $115,123 in 2019 to $312,493. Between 2015 and 2019, the largest-known individual ransom demand was $15 million. conduct employee phishing tests. conduct penetration testing.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The McAfee report shows that new ransomware attacks have grown some 118% in 2019. The healthcare industry has been a prime target in 2019 with dozens of hospitals falling victim to ransomware infection. The backups were also encrypted, leaving the medical practice unable to recover either data or its business.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 9, 2019

I had the chance to visit with Bresman at Black Hat 2019. By turning off the auditing agent and disabling security logging, the attacker is free to modify accounts, alter policies and create back-doors that can be used at a later stage. As such it variably gets caught in the crossfire of ransomware strikes. I’ll keep watching.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 23, 2021

LockBit ransomware was initially discovered in September 2019. IABs are financially motivated individuals or groups who provide ransomware operators with access to a silently compromised network in exchange for receiving a small fee or direct employment from ransomware operators [5] (T1078 Valid Accounts, T113 External Remote Services).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Below the list of infected apps: RTO Vehicle Information EMI Calculator & Loan Planner File Manager – Documents Smart GPS Speedometer CrickOne – Live Cricket Scores Daily Fitness – Yoga Poses FM Radio – Internet Radio My Train Info – IRCTC & PNR (not listed under developer profile) Around Me Place Finder Easy Contacts Backup Manager Ramadan (..)

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Malwarebytes

JULY 1, 2021

RpcAddPrinterDriverEx call as non-admin fails with access denied against fully patched Server 2016 and 2019 non-DC, but after dcpromo the exploit works again. As a Domain Admin they could then act almost with impunity, spreading ransomware, deleting backups and even disabling security software. Mitigation.

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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. Digging into the orchestrator Upon launching, the orchestrator spawns a suspended WmiPrvSE.exe process and injects itself into it.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 10, 2019

DarkReading Twitter account has more than 200k followers, a very solid number for the cybersecurity industry. The Security Ledger The main aspect of cybersecurity this blog focuses on is the Internet-of-Things security. Antivirus Software 2019 The primary focus of this blog is antivirus software.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 19, 2022

By pivoting on this serial number, we were able to discover several other malicious binaries from multiple different campaigns and actors, which likely indicates that this is a stolen certificate coming from the AVAST compromise back in 2019. Vidar Samples. However, the sample contains a PE file that is only around 3.3MB. dat:*wallet*.*:*2fa*.*:*backup*.*:*code*.*:*password*.*:*auth*.*:*google*.*:*utc*.*:*UTC*.*:*crypt*.*:*key*.*;50;true;movies:music:mp3;

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Spinone

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Although technically OneDrive doesn’t fall under the umbrella of online backup software it can still be used to that end. In this article, you’ll learn how to backup files to OneDrive on a computer and mobile devices. How to backup computer to OneDrive OneDrive is a flexible tool. It works on various devices and OS.

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Spinone

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Outlook account settings contain important information essential for your inbox to operate properly. Restoring this data in case of loss might take much time especially when you have multiple accounts. This article describes several ways to backup Outlook account settings in great detail. How do I backup my Outlook rules?

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 10, 2021

The software giant warned that attackers already are pouncing on one of the flaws, which ironically enough involves an easy-to-exploit bug in the software component responsible for patching Windows 10 PCs and Windows Server 2019 machines. So do yourself a favor and backup before installing any patches.

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