The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

million in 2023, according to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report, and over 700,000 small businesses were targeted in cybersecurity attacks in 2020, according to the Small Business Association. Cloud vendors often handle the security and backup processes automatically, so examine your technology and see if that is the case.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 22, 2024

Microsoft disclosed that it recently fell victim to a cyberattack by Nobelium, the Russian state-sponsored hacking group infamously responsible for the 2020 SolarWinds supply chain attack. The breach, detected on January 12th, allowed the hackers to access email accounts belonging to members of Microsoft's senior leadership team.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

More commonly, that access is purchased from a cybercriminal broker who specializes in acquiring remote access credentials — such as usernames and passwords needed to remotely connect to the target’s network. The username associated with that account was “ bo3dom.” com back in 2011, and sanjulianhotels[.]com

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 3, 2023

Weak passwords continued to be the most common factor at 41% of observed compromises. this data point is from 2020 , so treat this as a low boundary in 2023. Mandiant research indicates that threat actors are increasingly targeting backups to inhibit reconstitution after an attack. However, API key compromise [ A.C. — take

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Malwarebytes has been tracking the group since December 2020. But you should also realize that while it’s easy to say that you need reliable and easy to deploy backups, for example, it’s not always easy to follow that advice. Maintain offline backups of data, and regularly maintain backup and restoration.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

“Experience in backup, increase privileges, mikicatz, network. In April 2020, Truniger was banned from two of the top Russian cybercrime forums, where members from both forums confirmed that Semen7907 was one of Truniger’s known aliases. was also used to register an account at the online game stalker[.]so

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

In 2020, the United States brought charges against four men accused of building a bulletproof hosting empire that once dominated the Russian cybercrime industry and supported multiple organized cybercrime groups. bank accounts. All four pleaded guilty to conspiracy and racketeering charges.

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Spinone

MAY 8, 2020

On the world scene, 2020 has already been a challenging year for businesses across the board with COVID-19. Coupled with the current pandemic and the cybersecurity threats that have been very prevalent and growing in recent years such as ransomware, there are many different cyber risk types n 2020 that your business needs to prepare for.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

In another incident that occurred in March 2021, a ransomware attack blocked the operations at a US beverage company, while in a November 2020 attack on a US-based international food and agriculture business threat actors requested the payment of a gigantic $40 million ransom. Avoid reusing passwords for multiple accounts.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

“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. Enforce MFA on all VPN connections [ D3-MFA ].

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 23, 2021

Google noted a more than 600% spike in phishing attacks in 2020 compared to 2019 with a total of 2,145,013 phishing sites registered as of January 17, 2021, up from 1,690,000 on Jan 19, 2020. Phishing attacks account for more than 80% of reported security incidents. So did the 2020 Twitter hack. Spear Phishing.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 14, 2022

Zloader has a Domain Generating Algorithm (DGA) embedded within the malware that creates additional domains as a fallback or backup communication channel for the botnet. The primary goal of Zloader was originally financial theft, stealing account login IDs, passwords and other information to take money from people’s accounts.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The gang has been active since at least 2020, threat actors hit organizations from various industries. Below are the recommended mitigations included in the alert: Implement regular backups of all data to be stored as air gapped, password protected copies offline. Use double authentication when logging into accounts or services.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 29, 2023

They also may have gained access to images of checks provided to OHC by some members and donors beginning in 2020. Change your password. You can make a stolen password useless to thieves by changing it. Choose a strong password that you don't use for anything else. Better yet, let a password manager choose one for you.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2021

Leaked data includes names, e-mails, mobile numbers, encrypted passwords, user wallet details, order details, bank details, KYC details (PAN number, passport numbers) and deposit history. The researcher Rajshekhar Rajaharia analyzed the leaked data, it is a MongoDB database of 6GB that contains three backup files with BuyUcoin data.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

As we pointed out in our State of Malware report, published earlier this year, Malwarebytes recorded an eye-watering 607% increase in malware detections in the agriculture sector in 2020. Malwarebytes recorded a 607% increase in agriculture sector attacks in 2020. Avoid reusing passwords for multiple accounts.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2020

A series of messages published on Barnes & Noble’s Nook social media accounts state that it had suffered a system failure and is working to restore operations by restoring their server backups. 1/2 — NOOK (@nookBN) October 14, 2020. (2/2) — NOOK (@nookBN) October 14, 2020. ” states GoodReader.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 23, 2023

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has updated its #StopRansomware guide to account for the fact that ransomware actors have accelerated their tactics and techniques since the original guide was released in September of 2020. Create offsite, offline backups. Don’t get attacked twice.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In March 2020, KrebsOnSecurity alerted Swedish security giant Gunnebo Group that hackers had broken into its network and sold the access to a criminal group which specializes in deploying ransomware. Five months later, Gunnebo disclosed it had suffered a cyber attack targeting its IT systems that forced the shutdown of internal servers. .”

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2020

Threat actors attempted to exploit a zero-day (CVE-2020-12271) in the Sophos XG firewall to spread ransomware to Windows machines, the good news is that the attack was blocked by a hotfix issued by Sophos. Passwords associated with external authentication systems such as AD or LDAP are unaffected. ” continues the report.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 8, 2020

It's not a discussion we should be having in 2020, a time of unprecedented regulatory provisions designed to prevent precisely the sort of behaviour I'm going to describe in this post. They are the organisation people entrusted with their personal information and they are accountable for what happens to it after that.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2020

OGUsers is a black marketplace known for selling any kind of stolen data, including Instagram, Fortinet, Minecraft, Steam, PSN, Fortinet, Skype, and Snapchat accounts. The forum users should know everything about account hijacking since this is how OGUsers became widely known in the first place.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2020

In the meantime, if you have any further questions please drop us a direct message, call us on 01329 750 630, or visit our FAQs webpage [link] — Aerial Direct (@Aerial_Direct) March 13, 2020. To reassure you, the database did not include any passwords or financial details, such as bank account number or credit card information.”

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The incident, which began in July 2020 and remained undetected for almost three years, originated from Microsoft's attempt to share open-source code and AI models for image recognition via a GitHub repository. After being alerted by Wiz, Microsoft revoked the SAS token , effectively blocking external access to the storage account.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2021

The threat actors are actively exploiting the following vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiOS: CVE-2018-13379 ; CVE-2020-12812 ; CVE-2019-5591. The joint alert also states that attackers scanning also enumerated devices for the CVE-2020-12812 and CVE-2019-5591 flaws. Implement the shortest acceptable timeframe for password changes.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2020

” Unfortunately, most organizations often neglect the protection of RDP accesses and workers use easy-to-guess passwords and with no additional layers of authentication or protection. Between December 2019 and until February 2020, the experts observed a number of attacks between 70,000 and 40,000 on a daily basis.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2020

. “ we found that the InfiniteWP Client and WP Time Capsule plugins also contain logical issues in the code that allows you to login into an administrator account without a password.” The plugins are affected by logical issues that could allow attackers to log in as administrators without providing any password.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 9, 2021

While Mandiant opted to forgo using the program, it was only because working from backups was quicker. needled the company for paying a ransom if it was working from backups. Carmakal cleared up some nuances in the cause of the breach, previously reported as an employee’s VPN account with a password used across multiple sites.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

“On May 24, 2020, we discovered a security incident affecting some of our systems. “Our investigation to-date has identified evidence of unauthorized access to our systems from approximately April 15, 2020 until May 24, 2020. . The company already sent a data breach notification to the impacted individuals.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

SPR claims his site lost access to a significant inventory — more than 600,000 unsold stolen payment card accounts. “As a result, we lost the proxy and destination backup servers,” SPR explained. 16, 2020, several of Joker’s long-held domains began displaying notices that the sites had been seized by the U.S.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 17, 2022

Then, 2020 happened and much of that changed. While industry experts discourage paying ransoms for fear of encouraging this type of attack, many cities without reliable backup or backups that are encrypted are left with no option but to pay the ransom to get back up and running. 1 and June 4.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 13, 2021

In 2020, ransomware attacks grew by 150%, and are growing even faster in 2021 , and with costs to repair the damage they cause in the millions of dollars, many organizations are desperate for solutions. Passwords are the number one cause of ransomware attacks and other data breaches, and stolen credentials result in 85% of all cyberattacks.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 1, 2019

What this tells me is that the presidential candidates, at least, actually appear to be heeding lessons learned from the hacking John Podesta’s email account – and all of the havoc Russia was able to foment in our 2016 elections. Identify the applications, devices and accounts that you need to protect.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2022

sys “) by triggering the CVE-2020-15368 flaw to execute malicious code in the Windows kernel. Maintain known-good offline backups for faster recovery upon a disruptive attack, and conduct hashing and integrity checks on firmware and controller configuration files to ensure validity of those backups.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 22, 2022

The logs indicate LAPSUS$ had exactly zero problems buying, stealing or sweet-talking their way into employee accounts at companies they wanted to hack. On March 19, 2022, the logs and accompanying screenshots show LAPSUS$ had gained access to Atlas , a powerful internal T-Mobile tool for managing customer accounts.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 30, 2024

Centralize secrets and set storage to private: Keep API keys and passwords in a centralized, secure management system. Backup files: Regularly back-up public cloud resources. Back up data: Establish comprehensive backups for speedy recovery in the event of a security incident or data loss. million records exposed.

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Herjavec Group

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

T1070 Valid Accounts BlackMatter uses valid accounts to logon to the victim network. . Enable multifactor authentication (MFA) for all user accounts if able. . Educate users on strong passwords and the re-use of old passwords. . 01, 2020). . [4] TID Technique Description Observable Procedure. dll, user32.dll,

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