Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2021

Threat actors breached the servers of US Census Bureau on January 11, 2020, exploiting an unpatched Citrix ADC zero-day vulnerability, OIG revealed. The report states that the servers did not provide access to 2020 decennial census networks, this means that the attacker did not interfere with the results of the census.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Data breaches stole numerous headlines this year, including the notable Capital One breach that exposed more than 100 million customers’ accounts. According to SiteLock researchers and cybersecurity experts, the threat landscape will only continue to grow in 2020 and will likely bring even more new challenges with it.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Here are the top Twitter accounts to follow for the latest commentary, research, and much-needed humor in the ever-evolving information security space. Lots of accounts including Bezos, Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Mr Beast, and a ton more getting hacked for a bitcoin scheme. Eugene Kaspersky | @e_kaspersky.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 31, 2019

All the encryption , firewalls , cryptography, SCADA systems , and other IT security measures would be useless if that were to occur. Some of the countermeasures that can be considered are CCTV, alarms, firewalls, exterior lighting, fences, and locks. The next implementation method is to develop countermeasures to avoid loss of assets.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2020

HP released a security advisory that includes details for three critical and high severity vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2020-6925, CVE-2020-6926, and CVE-2020-6927, that impact the HP Device Manager. Base Score CVE-2020-6925 Weak Cipher All versions of HP Device Manager 7.0

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2024

The attackers exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in Zyxel firewalls used by many critical infrastructure operators in Denmark. On April 25, 2023, Zyxel disclosed a critical vulnerability (CVSS score 9.8), tracked as CVE-2023-28771 , in a number of their firewalls. According to the report, 11 companies were immediately compromised.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

A nurse cares for a patient in the intensive care unit at Regional Medical Center on May 21, 2020 in San Jose, California. If hard-coded cryptographic keys are used, it is almost certain that malicious users will gain access through the account in question,” according to the alert. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2021

x (released in 2020) utilized to connect to SMA 100 series appliances and SonicWall firewalls Secure Mobile Access (SMA) version 10.x x (released in 2020) utilized to connect to SMA 100 series appliances and SonicWall firewalls Secure Mobile Access (SMA) version 10.x

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Security Through Education

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Build a Human Firewall. Securing your work environment requires you to create what is referred to among security professionals as a human firewall. A human firewall is made up of the defenses the target presents to the attacker during a request for information. Use company-approved/vetted devices and applications.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2020

The Danish security researcher Ollypwn has published a proof-of-concept (PoC) denial of service exploit for the CVE-2020-0609 and CVE-2020-0610 vulnerabilities in the Remote Desktop Gateway (RD Gateway) component on Windows Server (2012, 2012 R2, 2016, and 2019) devices. ” reads the advisories published by Microsoft.

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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. Surebet247 user?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2023

The vendor also fixed a medium-severity reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability tracked as CVE-2020-36692. The company recommends customers replace the appliances with Sophos Firewall. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to execute JavaScript code in the victim’s browser.

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McAfee

DECEMBER 23, 2019

In the largest hack of the year , a former AWS employee exploited a misconfigured Web Application Firewall (WAF) to steal the Social Security numbers, bank account numbers, and other sensitive information of more than 100 million Capital One customers and credit card applicants. Key Actions to Take in 2020 .

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2020

.” Below the disclosure timeline: March 23, 2020 – Wordfence Threat Intelligence discovers and analyzes vulnerabilities. March 24, 2020 – Initial contact with the plugin’s developer team. Firewall rule released for Wordfence Premium users. March 26, 2020 – Patched version of plugin released.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

SonarQube apps are installed on web servers and are directly connected to systems and source code repositories, such as BitBucket, GitHub, or GitLab accounts, or Azure DevOps. In August 2020, unknown attackers leaked internal data from two organizations using a public lifecycle repository tool.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Highly placed sources say that the incident took place in December 2020 when the threat actors took control of Stormshield Network Security(SNS) and Network Security Industrial Firewall Products that was meant to be accessed by customers and partners to raise and manage support tickets.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 20, 2021

2020 was a challenging year for the world. This was especially true across Europe where the consequences of hacked vulnerabilities had become all too clear as 2020 came to a close. Sign up for a partner account of Data Protection on Demand. Data Firewall. Tue, 07/20/2021 - 09:40. Data security. Data Breach. Encryption.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Labor Department’s inspector general said this week that roughly $100 million in fraudulent unemployment insurance claims were paid in 2020 to criminals who are already in jail. A new report (PDF) from the Labor Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) found that from March through October of 2020, some $3.5

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 19, 2021

Census Bureau was the target of a cyberattack in January 2020, but hackers were unsuccessful in maintaining access to the system, according to a watchdog report released this week. The Associated Press says the cyberattack did not involve the 2020 census data. Government agencies continue to be hot targets for cybercriminals.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 13, 2023

Real-life examples of depth of defense Network Perimeter: Organizations often deploy firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and network monitoring tools at the network perimeter to prevent unauthorized access. Google reported that enabling 2FA on user accounts helped prevent 100% of automated bot attacks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 31, 2022

Some studies suggest that between 2020 and 2021 there was a 50% increase in overall attacks on corporate networks, and a 40% increase in cyber attacks globally. Additionally, there are powerful protections offered by software such as the company firewall and other software. . Opportunities for business email compromise.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2020

. “Between May 29 and May 31, 2020, the Wordfence Firewall blocked over 130 million attacks intended to harvest database credentials from 1.3 “The peak of this attack campaign occurred on May 30, 2020. million sites by downloading their configuration files.” ” reads the post published by WordFence.

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2020

“On April 27, 2020, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team discovered a Cross-Site Request Forgery(CSRF) vulnerability in Ninja Forms , a WordPress plugin with over 1 million installations.” April 27, 2020 19:24 UTC – We provide full disclosure to the plugin’s developer as per their Responsible Security Disclosure Policy.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 23, 2021

CISA found that the attacker(s) had access to the enterprise’s network for nearly a year, between March 2020 and February 2021. The attacker(s) authenticated to the VPN appliance through several user accounts that did not have multi-factor authentication (MFA) enabled and were able to masquerade as legitimate teleworking employees.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

The FBI is warning companies about the use of out-of-date Windows 7 systems, desktop sharing software TeamViewer, and weak account passwords. The FBI alert also warns of the risk of using Windows 7 operating system that has reached end-of-life on January 14, 2020. “The attempt on Friday was thwarted. Windows 10).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2021

If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Vermont Medical Center). The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 295 appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Cisco Security Manager provides a comprehensive management solution for CISCO devices, including intrusion prevention systems and firewall. cisco #RCE #unauth — frycos (@frycos) November 11, 2020. According to a tweet published by the researcher, he reported the flaws to the vendor 120 days ago, on July 13.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

According to the advisory, the threat actors have been observed exploiting Zerologon ( CVE-2020-1472 ) in Microsoft’s Netlogon Remote Protocol in phishing attempts. PortStarter A back door script written in Go that provides functionality for modifying firewall settings and opening ports to pre-configured command and control (C2) servers.[

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2023

The Prometei botnet was first observed by Cisco Talos experts on July 2020. Russia only accounted for 0.31 “A firewall rule named “Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (HTTP)” is executed through the “netsh” command to add “C:Windowssqhost.exe” to the allowed programs list.” ” reads the report published by Talos.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 13, 2021

Other incidents include: The European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E) said in March 2020 it had “found evidence of a successful cyber intrusion into its office network.”. There is a common misconception that a robust firewall is enough to prevent unauthorized access to corporate networks.

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Doctor Chaos

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

When employees aren’t protected by office firewalls, they are at the mercy of whatever defenses their Internet and devices have. INTERPOL reported a shocking rise in cyberattacks in 2020 that researchers connected with the COVID-19 pandemic. You don’t even need to create an account to explore it.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 7, 2022

Department of Justice (DOJ) says the GRU’s hackers built Cyclops Blink by exploiting previously undocumented security weaknesses in firewalls and routers made by both ASUS and WatchGuard Technologies. billion euros in 2020 alone. A statement from the U.S. ” HYDRA. In a statement on the Hydra takedown , the U.S.

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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 request will bypass the password requirement and log in with only the username of an existing account.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2021

Cisco Secure Firewall integrations. Cisco Secure Firewall has several new partner integrations. CyberArk reduces VPN risk with MFA enforcement on any VPN client that supports RADIUS; including Cisco Secure Firewall. HashiCorp (Terraform) provides infrastructure automation and now supports Secure Firewall ASA.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2020

Two high severity vulnerabilities found in the Page Builder WordPress can be exploited by attackers to create new admin accounts and deliver malicious code taking over the compromised websites. May 4, 2020 – Initial discovery and analysis of vulnerabilities. May 5, 2020 – A sufficient patch is released. 2.10.16.

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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. For example, if a new firewall rule is created that allows open traffic (0.0.0.0/0),

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2021

Fugue’s new State of Cloud Security 2020 report reveals that misconfigured cloud-based databases continue to pose a severe security risk to organizations. Most of the incidents are caused by unauthorized access to instance or databases (52%), while object storage breaches account for 32% of the incidents.

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