Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2025

The campaign has been active since at least 2019, it targets Japanese technology and national security, evolving methods to steal advanced tech and intelligence. Between 2019 and 2024, the MirrorFace group launched three cyber campaigns targeting Japanese think tanks, government, academia, and key industries.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 21, 2021

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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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 2, 2021

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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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

Enforce MFA on all VPN connections [ D3-MFA ]. Ensure that you have dedicated management systems [ D3-PH ] and accounts for system administrators. Disable unused or unnecessary network services, ports, protocols, and devices [ D3-ACH ] [ D3-ITF ] [ D3-OTF ]. Protect these accounts with strict network policies [ D3-UAP ].

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

To better understand the nuts and bolts of a ransomware attack, we spoke to Ski Kacaroski, a systems administrator who, in 2019, helped pulled his school district out of a ransomware nightmare that encrypted crucial data, locked up vital systems, and even threatened employee pay. That’s just one week in late 2019.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

A few days later, IT systems started malfunctioning with ransom messages following. The system administrator did not configure standard security controls when installing the server in question. Meanwhile, the suspect server was connected to the CDOT domain with an administrator account and the internet.

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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. com/vpn-service/$(f1)/crunchyroll-vpn. Product affected.

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