Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

“Fast forwarded to October 11, 2019, our Anglerfish honeypot captured another suspicious ELF sample, and it turned out to be the Downloader of the previous suspicious ELF sample.” Webmin is an open-source web-based interface for system administration for Linux and Unix.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

It could be compromised directly or by hacking the account of someone with access to the website management. Cybercriminals also used to hack into servers of organizations to use them as relay servers to throw investigators off the scent and make it harder to trace the main C&C center.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Here are the top Twitter accounts to follow for the latest commentary, research, and much-needed humor in the ever-evolving information security space. Shah provides her expertise in hacking, software development, and kernel development and advocates for open source initiatives. — Jason Haddix (@Jhaddix) July 27, 2019.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

Is hacking a crime? Bryan McAninch (Aph3x) talks about his organization, Hacking Is Not A Crime , and the ethical line it draws on various hacking activities. I used to hack the phone company quite a bit. I was like living in our systems for years and I want to get in some trouble for that.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

The campaign, dubbed PerSwaysion due to the extensive abuse of Microsoft Sway, has been active since at least mid-2019 and was attributed to Vietnamese speaking developers and Nigerian operators. ?ybercriminals New round of phishing attempts leveraging current victim’s account usually takes less than 24 hours. Gone in 24 Hours.

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

This tool was used as part of an ongoing campaign that we named “ TunnelSnake “ The rootkit was detected on the targeted machines as early as November 2019; and another tool we found, showing significant code overlaps with the rootkit, suggests that the developers had been active since at least 2018. Black Kingdom ransomware.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

If any potentially hazardous characters must be allowed as input, be sure that you implement additional controls like output encoding, secure task specific APIs, and accounting to use that data throughout the application. Implement password hashing on a trusted system. Hackers can use these credentials to get access to all accounts.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2023

The Originating Malvertising Campaign According to CTI investigation on the adversary infrastructure, we were able to identify an ongoing campaign luring system administrators to install the malicious code into their machines. He is a former member of the ANeSeC CTF team, one of the firsts Italian cyber wargame teams born back in 2011.

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SecureList

JUNE 17, 2021

Black Kingdom ransomware appeared on the scene back in 2019, but we observed some activity again in 2021. Black Kingdom is not a new player: it was observed in action following other vulnerability exploitations in 2020, such as CVE-2019-11510. CVE-2019-11510. Transactions made to a Bitcoin account. Product affected.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

A group of teenagers used social engineering to breach Twitter's network and take over the accounts of a whole bunch of A-listers. The teens also took over Twitter accounts of several cryptocurrency companies regulated by the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS). How did the Twitter account takeover attack work?

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Schneier on Security

JULY 20, 2020

Twitter was hacked this week. Not a few people's Twitter accounts, but all of Twitter. Someone compromised the entire Twitter network, probably by stealing the log-in credentials of one of Twitter's system administrators. It didn't matter whether the accounts were normally accessed via a Mac or a PC.

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