NopSec

MAY 22, 2019

CVE-2019-0708 – BlueKeep – Wormable RDP Vulnerability NopSec advises you to apply patches immediately. Fixes Due to the severity of CVE-2019-0708, we suggest you to apply patches immediately from Microsoft Security Guide.

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McAfee

DECEMBER 23, 2019

According to the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) 2019 Executive Opinion Survey , it’s cyberattacks. When reflecting on 2019, it’s clear why that is. Below, I’ll recap notable incidents from 2019, expand upon their commonalities, and explore a few lessons to learn as we enter a new year. What keeps executives up at night?

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2021

Government experts reported that threat actors are targeting Pulse Secure devices since June 2020 by attempting to exploit multiple know vulnerabilities, including CVE-2019-11510 , CVE-2020-8260 , CVE-2020-8243 , CVE-2021-2289. If these services are required, use strong passwords or Active Directory authentication.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2020

.” Unfortunately, most organizations often neglect the protection of RDP accesses and workers use easy-to-guess passwords and with no additional layers of authentication or protection. Between December 2019 and until February 2020, the experts observed a number of attacks between 70,000 and 40,000 on a daily basis.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

Although fixed in the October 2022 updates, Microsoft notes that the zero-day vulnerability may have been exploited as early as April 2019. April 24, 2024 Cisco Patches Firewall Vulnerabilities Actively Exploited for Espionage Type of vulnerability: Command injection vulnerability, denial of service, persistent local code execution.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 30, 2020

As of January 2019, the vast majority of Internet-accessible CoAP devices were located in China and used mobile peer-to-peer networks. Later in 2019, several security researchers reported an increase in cyber actors’ use of non-standard protocols and misconfigured IoT devices to amplify DDoS attacks.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 15, 2021

It sells a range of Internet appliances primarily directed at content control and network security, including devices providing services for network firewalls, unified threat management (UTM), virtual private networks (VPNs), and anti-spam for email. SRA 4200/1200 (EOL 2016) disconnect immediately and reset passwords. Devices at risk.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

L inear eMerge E3 smart building access systems designed by N ortek Security & Control (NSC) are affected by a severe vulnerability (CVE-2019-7256) that has yet to be fixed and attackers are actively scanning the internet for vulnerable devices. Passwords can be found in p roduct documentation and compiled lists available on the Internet.”

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Duo's Security Blog

AUGUST 16, 2021

“There are primarily three ways you can authenticate someone: with their username and password, with two-factor authentication, and with a company-supplied device that you can trace. For most stuff, you should have two of those things. For critical things, you should have all three.”.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 5, 2022

SSH authenticates the parties involved and allows them to exchange commands and output via multiple data manipulation techniques. Once the parties have played an equal role in generating the shared secret key, they must authenticate themselves. The most common means of authentication is via SSH asymmetric key pairs. 17965 views.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

CrowdStrike researchers reported that at least 13 telecommunication companies were compromised by since 2019. Crowdstrike collected evidence of the use of password-spraying attempts using extremely weak either third-party-focused passwords (i.e. ” reads the report published by Crowdstrike.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

US agencies also updated information included in a MARs report on the HOPLIGHT proxy-based backdoor trojan that was first analyzed in April 2019. If these services are required, use strong passwords or Active Directory authentication. Enforce a strong password policy and implement regular password changes.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2022

The Zeppelin ransomware first appeared on the threat landscape in November 2019 when experts from BlackBerry Cylance found a new variant of the Vega RaaS, dubbed Zeppelin. The group uses multiple attack vectors to gain access to victim networks, including RDP exploitation, SonicWall firewall vulnerabilities exploitation, and phishing attacks.

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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. This may lead to exposure of keys or passwords. This may lead to exposure of keys or passwords.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2019

The list of flaws includes OS Command Injection, Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type, Cross-site Request Forgery, Small Space of Random Values, Cross-site Scripting, Exposure of Backup file to Unauthorized Control Sphere, Improper Authentication, and Use of Hard-coded Credentials. “Prima Systems FlexAir, Versions 2.3.38

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Security Affairs

JULY 27, 2020

Another protocol exploited by threat actors in the wild is the Web Services Dynamic Discovery (WS-DD), experts observed large scale DDoS attacks in May and August 2019. Change the default username and passwords for all network devices, especially IoT devices.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

The LockBit ransomware gang has been active since September 2019, in June 2021 the group announced the LockBit 2.0 ” The FBI flash alert also includes mitigations to prevent LockBit ransomware infections: Require all accounts with password logins (e.g., Like other ransomware gangs, Lockbit 2.0

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Approachable Cyber Threats

OCTOBER 16, 2020

For example, if someone in your organization reuses their VPN password somewhere else, and there’s no multi-factor authentication setup, hackers could easily login to the VPN and have free rein over all of your organization’s information. Unfortunately, many did not while even more appeared, and there are now over 4.7

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Spinone

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Network Security: Firewall A firewall is your first line of defense or your computer network gatekeepers. Contrary to antivirus software, which requires a very small effort to set up, firewalls usually require special knowledge. A firewall detects all possible exploits in your network and shields them.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 4, 2023

The continued existence of World Password Day is a tell that something has gone badly wrong in cybersecurity. And make no mistake, password authentication is critical technology. The existence of World Password Day is a symptom of two problems. The existence of World Password Day is a symptom of two problems.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 21, 2021

The hack of Words with Friends in 2019 was high-profile, but today’s columnist, Yuval Elddad of CYE, says CISOs at all gaming companies have to take a closer look at the growing threats to online gaming platforms. In 2019, Zynga’s popular online game, Words with Friends , was hacked, resulting in the breach of 218 million user accounts.

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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. Credential theft and password spraying to Cobalt Strike. This adversary starts with obtaining usernames and passwords of their victim from previous breaches. Initial access (TA0001).

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SecureWorld News

JULY 8, 2020

When it comes to usernames and passwords, cybercriminals are swimming in a treasure trove. And those numbers are more alarming when you consider the result of this increase: 15 billion usernames and passwords circulating the dark web for cybercriminals. Code repositories can be rich with secrets and hard-coded passwords.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2019

It's been over 90 days since I reported it and @TPLINK never responded, so: arbitrary command execution on the TP-Link SR20 smart hub and router (and possibly other TP-Link device) — Matthew Garrett (@mjg59) March 28, 2019. Version 1 has no auth, version 2 requires the admin password.” ” wrote Garrett on Twitter.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 14, 2023

While the infotainment system is supposedly firewalled from steering, throttling, and braking, attached devices may not be fully secured against communication via Wi-Fi. The vulnerability is nearly six years old, and Zyxel previously issued a security advisory about the Gafgyt malware in 2019 that exploited CVE-2017-18368.

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SC Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

The massive exposures were first brought to light by ProPublica in September 2019. The vulnerabilities associated with PACS systems range from known default passwords, hardcoded credentials and lack of authentication within third-party software.”.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 18, 2021

In 2019 alone, attacks on IoT devices increased by 300%. Network security is a challenge because the proliferation of devices each with their own IP address means you can’t slap up a perimeter firewall to block all suspicious or unknown web traffic. Default passwords are bad, and you should be using strong, unique passwords.

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SecureList

JULY 19, 2023

The connection to the remote SMB server sends the user’s Net-NTLMv2 hash in a negotiation message, which the threat actor can use to either: Relay for authentication against other systems that support NTLMv2 authentication. Perform offline cracking to extract the password.

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NopSec

MARCH 16, 2020

First of all, ask yourself whether all your remote working systems and related directory services they are tapping into have adequate password length policy, password expiration,and username randomization. Also, does your Internet-exposed websites allow valid username enumeration via specific response identification?

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Spinone

DECEMBER 17, 2019

It can be your login and password to your Office 365 or G Suite or some other information. Ransomware via Brute Force Attacks Researchers at F-Secure have found that in 2019, brute force attacks became one of the most preferred means of spreading ransomware. In 81% of cases , the passwords people use are weak and easily crackable.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Before jumping into the technical details regarding each new malware detected and proper safeguards, here is a brief look at the events to date: Sep 2019. This malware infiltrated SolarWinds in September 2019 with the expert insertion of code to avoid detection. Amending firewall rules to allow sensitive, outgoing protocols.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 3, 2020

A California company that helps telemarketing firms avoid getting sued for violating a federal law that seeks to curb robocalls has leaked the phone numbers, email addresses and passwords of all its customers, as well as the mobile phone numbers and other data on people who have hired lawyers to go after telemarketers.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

RDP intrusions are typically the result of two attacker methods: brute force authentication attempts or a meddler-in-the-middle (MITM) attack. Remote desktop software’s sensitive influence over other devices means identity and access management (IAM), password security , and multi-factor authentication are critical for risk management.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Experts say the best defense is a multi-pronged network security strategy that includes a firewall, anti-malware software, network monitoring, intrusion detection and prevention (IDPS), and data protection. Always change the default passwords for any IoT devices you install before extended use. How to Defend Against a Backdoor.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

lazydocker : A simple terminal UI for both docker and docker-compose : [link] pic.twitter.com/HsK17rzg8m — Binni Shah (@binitamshah) July 1, 2019. Facebook Plans on Backdooring WhatsApp [link] — Schneier Blog (@schneierblog) August 1, 2019. — Jason Haddix (@Jhaddix) July 27, 2019. Brian Krebs | @briankrebs.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Cybercriminals don’t break into websites one by one, using their best guess to figure out your password like they do in the movies. If your computer has malware on it, it doesn’t matter how secure your website is, because criminals can just steal your password or login in to your website from your computer, pretending to be you.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2019

Security firm Imperva revealed it has suffered a data breach that affecting some customers of its Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) product. Cybersecurity firm Imperva disclosed a data breach that has exposed sensitive information for some customers of its Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) product, formerly known as Incapsula.

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