Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

“The vulnerability is due to a system account that has a default and static password and is not under the control of the system administrator.” ” An attacker could exploit the flaw by using this default account to connect to a vulnerable system and obtain read and write access to system data.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2021

The Ukrainian national Fedir Hladyr (35), aka “das” or “AronaXus,” was sentenced to 10 years in prison for having served as a manager and systems administrator for the financially motivated group FIN7 , aka Carbanak. SecurityAffairs – hacking, FIN7). ” reads the press release published by DoJ. ” concludes DoJ.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2022

The China-linked hacking group has been active since at least 2016, according to the CrowdStrike researchers it is using a very sophisticated toolset. CrowdStrike researchers reported that at least 13 telecommunication companies were compromised by the group since 2019. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Caketap). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2022

If the NAS is exposed to the Internet the dashboard will display the message “The System Administration service can be directly accessible from an external IP address via the following protocols: HTTP.”. Administrator of devices exposed to the Internet should: Disable the Port Forwarding function of the router.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

The accused, 36-year-old John “Armada” Revesz , has maintained that Orcus is a legitimate “ R emote A dministration T ool” aimed at helping system administrators remotely manage their computers, and that he’s not responsible for how licensed customers use his product. An advertisement for Orcus RAT.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2023

In particular, recent investigations were able to identify four of them: the ARestore escalation tool, the backdoor, and other publicly available toolkits such as Advanced_Port_Scanner and a particular popular Chinese hack tool. The Makop criminals were recently using version 2.5.3869 of the tool, which dates back to 2019.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 20, 2021

Ukrainian nationals Dmytro Fedorov, Fedir Hladyr, and Andrii Kolpakov, were members of a prolific hacking group widely known as FIN7. In 2018 three high-ranking members of a sophisticated international cybercrime group operating out of Eastern Europe were arrested and taken into custody by US authorities. The conviction.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The fix: System administrators are encouraged to install the Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Update 14 (CU14), which was issued in February 2024 and enabled NTLM credentials Relay Protection. Despite VMware’s three-year-old deprecation statement, unprotected systems remain at risk.

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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. “The command requires Windows system administrators,” Truniger’s ads explained. “Experience in backup, increase privileges, mikicatz, network.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2019

Webmin is an open-source web-based interface for system administration for Linux and Unix. News of the day is that Webmin contained a remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-15107, for more than a year. ehakkus) August 11, 2019. SecurityAffairs – Webmin, hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2020

Many system administrators and companies were rushing to update internet exposed machines, like web servers or gateways, worried about possible remote code execution, reviving the EternalBlue /WannaCry crisis in their mind. . SecurityAffairs – Curveball, hacking). The Malware Threat behind CurveBall. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Disclosure timeline: 13th September 2019: We submitted the issue to product-security@apple.com 18th September 2019: Apple asked us the resend the screen shots 10th October 2019: Apple told us that they were planning to address this issue in a future update 30th October 2019: Apple released version 12.10.2

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

31, 2019, Rezvesz said his company recently was the subject of an international search warrant executed jointly by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). “The In an “official press release” posted to pastebin.com on Mar.

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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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In this type of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, the malicious traffic generated with the technique is greater than the once associated with the use of memcached, a service that does not require authentication but has been exposed on the internet by inexperienced system administrators. Brasília time, 1:00 p.m.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

MB) [link] — Nick Carr (@ItsReallyNick) April 22, 2019. Hladyr is suspected to be a system administrator for the group. This CARBANAK work was in active development when whoopsed to VT from RU on 2017-04-19. kb3r1p.rar 879 files (15.03 MB) [link] apwmie.rar 24 files (5.93 ” reads a blog post published by FireEye.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

MB) [link] — Nick Carr (@ItsReallyNick) April 22, 2019. Hladyr is suspected to be a system administrator for the group. This CARBANAK work was in active development when whoopsed to VT from RU on 2017-04-19. kb3r1p.rar 879 files (15.03 MB) [link] apwmie.rar 24 files (5.93 ” reads a blog post published by FireEye.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

In January of 2019, Reuters published a report into Project Raven, a campaign allegedly conducted by former NSA operatives and aiming at the same types of targets as Stealth Falcon. The Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) service is a built-in component of the Microsoft Windows operating system.

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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. Change of targets.

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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

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Our investigation revealed that this remote endpoint is associated with criminal activities dating back to 2019, indicating that these hosts were likely under the control of the same technical administration. For instance: In September 2019, Cybereason found this hostname in old LockBit 2.0

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Shah provides her expertise in hacking, software development, and kernel development and advocates for open source initiatives. lazydocker : A simple terminal UI for both docker and docker-compose : [link] pic.twitter.com/HsK17rzg8m — Binni Shah (@binitamshah) July 1, 2019. — Jason Haddix (@Jhaddix) July 27, 2019.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 16, 2019

“Our vision is to check the world’s software for exploitable bugs so they can be fixed before attackers use them to hack computers.” ” Mayhem has moved on from capture the flag contests to observing and finding vulnerabilities in DoD software and is working its way to corporate systems. Ashley: Interesting.

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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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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 16, 2019

“Our vision is to check the world’s software for exploitable bugs so they can be fixed before attackers use them to hack computers.” ” Mayhem has moved on from capture the flag contests to observing and finding vulnerabilities in DoD software and is working its way to corporate systems. Ashley: Interesting.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 16, 2019

“Our vision is to check the world’s software for exploitable bugs so they can be fixed before attackers use them to hack computers.” ” Mayhem has moved on from capture the flag contests to observing and finding vulnerabilities in DoD software and is working its way to corporate systems. Ashley: Interesting.

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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 SecurityAffairs – Facebook, hacking). The original post is available: [link]. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. Product affected. Pulse Secure. March 2021. Microsoft Exchange Server.

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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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Security Boulevard

APRIL 17, 2023

The trend of shrinking certificate lifespans, or “short-lived certificates,” is one Sectigo predicted as far back as 2019. However, the burden of system administrators carrying this out five or six times a year should not be underestimated. Question Sectigo’s response What is Sectigo’s stance on Chrome’s proposal?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Email hacking is a prevalent communication security breach. For example, in 2019 attackers hacked 773 million Outlook emails. System administrators can establish file limitations, privileges, and responsibilities using a file management system. File management.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

From the report: "The Twitter Hack is a cautionary tale about the extraordinary damage that can be caused even by unsophisticated cybercriminals. The Hackers further escalated the Twitter Hack and changed the fraud scheme by tweeting payment requests directly from overtaken cryptocurrency companies’ accounts. and 10 a.m.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 20, 2020

Twitter was hacked this week. Someone compromised the entire Twitter network, probably by stealing the log-in credentials of one of Twitter's system administrators. In 2019, two people were charged with spying for the Saudi government while they were Twitter employees. Maybe this hack will serve as a wake-up call.

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