CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Problems arise for businesses when they base their access management programs entirely around passwords, however. Such programs overlook the burden that passwords can cause to users as well as to IT and security teams. Passwords: An unsustainable business cost. Users have too many passwords to remember on their own.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2020

The malicious updates employed in the Zerologon attacks are able to bypass the user account control (UAC) security feature in Windows and abuse the Windows Script Host tool (wscript.exe) to execute malicious scripts. We’re seeing more activity leveraging the CVE-2020-1472 exploit (ZeroLogon). states Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

“The campaign uses timely lures relevant to remote work, like password updates, conferencing info, helpdesk tickets, etc.” pic.twitter.com/YpUVEfmlUH — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) November 16, 2020. — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) November 16, 2020.

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2021

Microsoft Security Intelligence researchers uncovered a malware campaign that is spreading a remote access trojan (RAT) tracked as STRRAT. pic.twitter.com/mGow2sJupN — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) May 19, 2021. STRRAT RAT was first spotted in June 2020 by G DATA who documented its features.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Over the past year, Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has observed an evolution of the tools, techniques, and procedures employed by Iranian nation-state actors. Learn more from this blog summarizing these trends, as presented at #CyberWarCon : [link] — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) November 16, 2021.

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VPN Social Engineering Accountability Media 97

Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2022

com Running PowerShell scripts directly from a GitHub gist created by an account associated with DSIRF. Researchers from threat intelligence firm RiskIQ, using passive DNS data related to Knotweed attacks, linked the C2 infrastructure used by the malware since February 2020 to DSIRF. or later to detect the related indicators.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 4, 2021

percent of all malware detected on networks of WatchGuard Technologies customers in the second quarter came over encrypted connections, raising the security risk for the 80 percent of such organizations that lack processes for decrypting and scanning HTTPS traffic for threats. A surprising 91.5 Two Malware Families Dominate.

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