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VulnRecap 2/26/24 – VMWare, Apple, ScreenConnect Face Risks

eSecurity Planet

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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Racing against a real-life ransomware attack, with Ski Kacoroski: Lock and Code S02E12

Malwarebytes

At 11:37 pm on the night of September 20, 2019, cybercriminals launched a ransomware attack against Northshore School District in Washington state. Early the next morning, Northshore systems administrator Ski Kacoroski arrived on scene. That was now at risk.

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Brute Force attack launched by Russia APT28 using Kubernetes

CyberSecurity Insiders

NSA states APT28 has been involved in this hacking campaign since 2019 and has so far targeted many of US and UK Organizations that include those involved in manufacturing, energy, defense, logistics, media, law, education and military and political sectors.

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Cisco fixes a static default credential issue in Smart Software Manager tool

Security Affairs

One of the flaws patched the IT giant is a critical issue, tracked as CVE-2020-3158 , while six vulnerabilities are rated as high-risk severity. The CVE-2020-3158 flaw is related to the presence of a system account that has a default and static password in the Smart Software Manager tool. ” reads the advisory published by Cisco.

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VRM Wishlist for 2019

NopSec

Usually, security vulnerabilities are assigned an identifier (CVE ID) and a risk score (CVSS) between one and ten. Most of the time, network and system administrators are concerned about the availability of their network and systems because of the continuous vulnerability scanning pressure.

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A Closer Look at the Snatch Data Ransom Group

Krebs on Security

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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On the Twitter Hack

Schneier on Security

Someone compromised the entire Twitter network, probably by stealing the log-in credentials of one of Twitter's system administrators. This is a national-security risk as well as a personal-security risk. More important, the risk of a similar but more politically targeted attack wouldn't be so great.

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