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China-linked threat actors have breached telcos and network service providers

Security Affairs

“Upon gaining an initial foothold into a telecommunications organization or network service provider, PRC state-sponsored cyber actors have identified critical users and infrastructure including systems critical to maintaining the security of authentication, authorization, and accounting.

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Brute Force attack launched by Russia APT28 using Kubernetes

CyberSecurity Insiders

It is found hacking databases through brute force attacks or password spray via TOR and VPN servers. And then is seen accessing the entire network through stolen credentials and sometimes exploiting vulnerabilities in targeting systems.

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Vulnerability Management in the time of a Pandemic

NopSec

For organizations of various sizes that means being able to quickly set up remote working systems to enable employees to work from their homes so that they can protect themselves from being infected. That in turn means answering the following questions: How many VPN terminations do I have and which routable IP addresses they are mapped to?

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Take action! Multiple Pulse Secure VPN vulnerabilities exploited in the wild

Malwarebytes

PCS provides Virtual Private Network (VPN) facilities to businesses, which use them to prevent unauthorized access to their networks and services. Most of the problems discovered by Pulse Secure and Mandiant involve three vulnerabilities that were patched in 2019 and 2020. The old vulnerabilities. Please don’t wait for the patch.

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Addressing Remote Desktop Attacks and Security

eSecurity Planet

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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New York: Cyberattack Is Twitter's Fault, Let's Increase Regulation

SecureWorld News

And they traced the cybersecurity failures to a lack of leadership and a vacant Chief Information Security Officer role: "The problems started at the top: Twitter had not had a chief information security officer (“CISO”) since December 2019, seven months before the Twitter Hack. We've discovered a catastrophic bug in your version of RSTS/E.