Krebs on Security

MARCH 12, 2019

One interesting patch from Microsoft this week comes in response to a zero-day vulnerability ( CVE-2019-0797 ) reported by researchers at Kaspersky Lab, who discovered the bug could be (and is being) exploited to install malicious software. Staying up-to-date on Windows patches is good.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 13, 2019

“According to Microsoft, at least two of these vulnerabilities ( CVE-2019-1181 and CVE-2019-1182 ) can be considered ‘wormable’ and [can be equated] to BlueKeep,” referring to a dangerous bug patched earlier this year that Microsoft warned could be used to spread another WannaCry-like ransomware outbreak.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 10, 2019

By nearly all accounts, the chief bugaboo this month is CVE-2019-1458 , a vulnerability in a core Windows component (Win32k) that is present in Windows 7 through 10 and Windows Server 2008-2019. A reliable backup means you’re probably not losing your mind when the odd buggy patch causes problems booting the system.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Two of the bugs quashed in this month’s patch batch ( CVE-2019-1214 and CVE-2019-1215 ) involve vulnerabilities in all supported versions of Windows that have already been exploited in the wild. Just make sure you’re backing up your files, preferably following the 3-2-1 backup rule. At some level, it doesn’t matter.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 13, 2021

Allan Liska , senior security architect at Recorded Future , said while it is concerning that so many vulnerabilities around the same component were released simultaneously, two previous vulnerabilities in RPC — CVE-2019-1409 and CVE-2018-8514 — were not widely exploited.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Additionally, Microsoft released an advisory on how to minimize the risk from a DNS spoofing weakness in Windows Server 2008 through 2019. These vulnerabilities affect Microsoft Excel 2013 through 2019, Microsoft 365 32 and 64 bit versions, Microsoft Office 2019 32 and 64 bit versions, and Microsoft Excel for Mac 2019.”

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Among the chief concerns for enterprises this month is CVE-2020-16875 , which involves a critical flaw in the email software Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 and 2019. Security firm Tenable notes that this bug is reminiscent of CVE-2019-0604 , another Sharepoint problem that’s been exploited for cybercriminal gains since April 2019.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Crooks are exploiting BTC blockchain transactions to hide backup command-and-control (C2) server addresses for a cryptomining botnet. Security experts from Akamai have spotted a new botnet used for illicit cryptocurrency mining activities that are abusing Bitcoin (BTC) transactions to implement a backup mechanism for C2.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

The cybersecurity market was valued at over $149 billion in 2019 and is projected to reach over $304 billion by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 9.4% The post The Data Security and Data Backup Disconnect appeared first on Security Boulevard. from 2020 to 2027. This huge size.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

A destructive cyberattack hit the email provider VFEmail, a hacker wiped its servers in the United States, including the backup systems. An unknown attacker has launched a destructive cyber attack against the email provider VFEmail, he erased information on its server including backups, 18 years’ worth of customer emails were lost. “We

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 19, 2021

WWS Sector cyber intrusions from 2019 to early 2021 include: In August 2021, malicious cyber actors used Ghost variant ransomware against a California-based WWS facility. The ransomware affected the victim’s SCADA system and backup systems.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2019

On May 12, the administrator of OGusers explained an outage to forum members by saying a hard drive failure had erased several months’ worth of private messages, forum posts and prestige points, and that he’d restored a backup from January 2019.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The information was left exposed online on an unsecured Amazon bucket, the records were stored in two databases in a directory containing backup files mostly for Malindo Air and Thai Lion Air. The most recent backup, dated May 25, is named ‘PaymentGateway.’ researchers, contact us for more details. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 8, 2021

“This can be hugely damaging in the event of ransomware attacks, where high privileges can enable the attackers to stop or destroy backups and other security tools,” Breen said. CVE-2021-31959 affects everything from Windows 7 through Windows 10 and Server versions 2008 , 2012 , 2016 and 2019.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 9, 2023

Kaspersky is reporting a zero-click iOS exploit in the wild: Mobile device backups contain a partial copy of the filesystem, including some of the user data and service databases. The oldest traces of infection that we discovered happened in 2019. The timelines of multiple devices indicate that they may be reinfected after rebooting.

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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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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2023

US CISA has added Veritas Backup Exec flaws, which were exploited in ransomware attacks, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Unlike other ALPHV affiliates, UNC4466 doesn’t rely on stolen credentials for initial access to victim environments.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

He’d been on the job less than six months, and because of the way his predecessor architected things, the company’s data backups also were encrypted by Zeppelin. Peter is an IT manager for a technology manufacturer that got hit with a Russian ransomware strain called “ Zeppelin ” in May 2020.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Both involve weaknesses in Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP, Windows’ built-in remote administration tool) running on Windows 7 through Windows 11 systems, and on Windows Server 2008-2019 systems. But please do not neglect to backup your important files — before patching if possible.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

I met with Kim at BlackHat 2019 and had a wide ranging discussion with him. Kim: Yes, companies want assurance that they have an offline backup, yet they also want to be able to monitor what people are doing with those backups, as well. DataLocker supplies platform-independent devices that tie into a central management console.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A key concern for enterprises is another critical bug in the DNS server on Windows Server 2008 through 2019 versions that could be used to remotely install software of the attacker’s choice. A reliable backup means you’re less likely to pull your hair out when the odd buggy patch causes problems booting the system.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 9, 2021

For the second month in a row, Microsoft has patched scary flaws in the DNS servers on Windows Server 2008 through 2019 versions that could be used to remotely install software of the attacker’s choice. So do yourself a favor and backup before installing any patches.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

2, 2019, this blog reported that the company — which had chosen not to pay the ransom and instead restore everything from backups — was still struggling to bring its systems back online. On Christmas Eve 2018, cloud data hosting firm Dataresolution.net was hit with the Ryuk strain of ransomware.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 14, 2023

” The FCC tweet also provided a link to the agency’s awareness page on juice jacking , which was originally published in advance of the Thanksgiving Holiday in 2019 but was updated in 2021 and then again shortly after the FBI’s tweet was picked up by the news media. This scam is referred to as juice jacking.”

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

What makes this type of attack attractive, is the fact that there are often ways to export database contents from within an administrative control panel in a CMS by allowing the attacker to utilize database management or backup solutions within the control panel. Brute force attacks are similar to privilege escalation in results.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

The indictment against Khoroshev says he used the hacker nickname Putinkrab , and Intel 471 says this corresponds to a username that was first registered across three major Russian cybercrime forums in early 2019. A machine-translated ad for ransomware source code from Putinkrab on the Russian language cybercrime forum UFOlabs in 2019.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 13, 2021

Microsoft released updates to fix four more flaws in Exchange Server versions 2013-2019 ( CVE-2021-28480 , CVE-2021-28481 , CVE-2021-28482 , CVE-2021-28483 ). So do yourself a favor and backup before installing any patches. Interestingly, all four were reported by the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2022

” 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. By all accounts, the most severe flaw addressed today is CVE-2022-21907, a critical, remote code execution flaw in the “ HTTP Protocol Stack.”

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The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

All versions of UpdraftPlus from March 2019 onwards have contained a vulnerability caused by a missing permissions-level check, allowing untrusted users

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2020

The group confirmed that the broadcasting of France 3 will be transferred to the headquarters of France Televisions, the company also activated the backup site in response to the incident. This isn’t the first attack that targeted French media, in 2019 ransomware operators hit the M6 ??group

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

GandCrab dissolved in July 2019, and is thought to have become “ REvil ,” one of the most ruthless and rapacious Russian ransomware groups of all time. “Experience in backup, increase privileges, mikicatz, network. “The command requires Windows system administrators,” Truniger’s ads explained.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 29, 2019

I had the chance at RSA 2019 to visit with Semperis CEO Mickey Bresman. Maersk’s 150 or so domain controllers were programmed to sync their data with one another, so that, in theory, any of them could function as a backup for all the others. Semperis’s solution Semperis’s solution today fully automates the AD recovery process.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Sadly, there’s rarely discussion about the lengthy recovery, which, according to the Ransomware Task Force, can last an average of 287 days , or about the complicated matter that the biggest, claimed defense to ransomware attacks—backups—often fail. Your backups may not work. The first few hours are critical. Or so he thought. “We

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Spinone

DECEMBER 20, 2019

In this article, we’ll take a look at the biggest ransomware attacks of 2019 and the severe impact they have had. Ransomware Trends in 2019 According to Malwarebytes, a sharp increase in ransomware activity was observed in 2019. Notable Ransomware Attacks in 2019 1.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

“We’re pleased to announce the availability of a new decryptor for LockerGoga, a strain of ransomware that rose to fame in 2019 with the attack of the Norsk Hydro company.” The decryptor has the “backup files” feature, enabled by default that could be used in case there will be any problem with the decryption process.

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Webroot

AUGUST 27, 2021

Already in 2020, according to the report: 2,4000 governmental agencies, healthcare facilities and schools had been hit with ransomware $350 million had been paid out ransomware actors, a 311% increase over 2019 It was taking 287 days on average for a business to fully recover from a ransomware attack.

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SecureList

JUNE 1, 2023

Since it is impossible to inspect modern iOS devices from the inside, we created offline backups of the devices in question, inspected them using the Mobile Verification Toolkit’s mvt-ios and discovered traces of compromise. The oldest traces of infection that we discovered happened in 2019.

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