The Last Watchdog

APRIL 21, 2021

From January through March 2021, TLS concealed 45 percent of the malware Sophos analysts observed circulating on the Internet; that’s double the rate – 23 percent – seen in early 2020, Dan Schiappa, Sophos’ chief product officer, told me in a briefing. Here are the key takeaways: Surprise packages.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The experts found six vulnerabilities in B&R Automation’s SiteManager and GateManager ( CVE-2020-11641 , CVE-2020-11642 , CVE-2020-11643 , CVE-2020-11644 , CVE-2020-11645 , CVE-2020-11646 ) that could potentially disrupt operations. ” reads the advisory published by the company.

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2021

Government experts reported that threat actors are targeting Pulse Secure devices since June 2020 by attempting to exploit multiple know vulnerabilities, including CVE-2019-11510 , CVE-2020-8260 , CVE-2020-8243 , CVE-2021-2289. If these services are required, use strong passwords or Active Directory authentication.

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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

JUNE 23, 2020

The Shadowserver Foundation is a nonprofit security organization working altruistically behind the scenes to make the Internet more secure for everyone. The researchers scanned the Internet for printers that are exposing their Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) port online. and printers (or print servers).

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 25, 2021

Thanks to a couple of milestone hacks disclosed at the close of 2020 and start of 2021, they will forever be associated with putting supply-chain vulnerabilities on the map. SolarWinds subsequently disclosed to the SEC that threat actors inserted Sunburst into the Orion updates issued to customers between March and June 2020.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

These cybercriminals are known for their creativity and ability to target cloud environments, as they introduced new techniques in 2020 that hadn’t been seen before. All internet communications, including SSL and SSH, rely on private and public keys for encryption. The two others are the “Cronb” and “What Will Be” attacks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 26, 2022

Figure 4 shows the implementation of CVE-2020-10987. Figure 5 shows the implementation of CVE-2020-10173. Maintain minimal exposure to the Internet on Linux servers and IoT devices and use a properly configured firewall. 2830690: ETPRO EXPLOIT GPON Authentication Bypass Attempt (CVE-2018-10561).

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Spinone

MARCH 17, 2018

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a term used to describe the network of interconnected electronic devices with “smart” technology. billion “things” connected to the Internet , a 30% increase from 2015. billion “things” connected to the Internet , a 30% increase from 2015.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

OCTOBER 16, 2020

For example, if your organization allows you to connect directly to your computer using RDP over the internet, then you’re essentially inviting a hacker right in through your front door to cause trouble. million instances of RDP that were open to the internet. accessing a shared drive), and other traffic through the internet (e.g.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Industries with very expensive operational technology (OT) and Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as healthcare or industrial manufacturing, can be especially vulnerable. As recently as 2020, 83% of medical imaging devices ran on operating systems that no longer receive updates.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Most of the vulnerabilities listed below can be exploited to gain initial access to victim networks using products that are directly accessible from the Internet and act as gateways to internal networks.” ” reads the report. ” The report includes a description of the vulnerability and the recommended mitigations.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The string “Server: Boa/0.93.15” is mapped to the function “main_infectFunctionGponFiber,” (see figure 4) which attempts to exploit a vulnerable target, allowing the attacker to execute an OS command via a specific web request (CVE-2020-8958 as shown in figure 5). CVE-2020-8515. CVE-2020-9377. A2pvI042j1.d26m.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 30, 2020

In February 2020, UK security researchers discovered a vulnerability in free, open source, automation servers that would allow cybercriminals to amplify a Distributed Denial of Service attack by 100. As of January 2019, the vast majority of Internet-accessible CoAP devices were located in China and used mobile peer-to-peer networks.

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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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning of a notable increase in the use of LokiBot malware by threat actors since July 2020. “CISA has observed a notable increase in the use of LokiBot malware by malicious cyber actors since July 2020. Enforce multi-factor authentication.

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Security Affairs

JULY 27, 2020

In December 2018, security experts from Trend Micro discovered that some machine-to-machine (M2M) protocols can be abused to attack IoT and industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems. Configure network firewalls to block unauthorized IP addresses and disable port forwarding.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 14, 2023

Policy Secure Ivanti acquired Pulse Secure on December 1, 2020, from Siris Capital. Secure also consumes threat intelligence information from third party sources such as firewalls and IDS systems or through additional Ivanti modules and products. Security information and event management (SIEM): IBM QRadar, Splunk, etc.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Back to the bit about risks impacting data collected by IoT devices and back again to CloudPets, Context Security's piece aligned with my own story about kids' CloudPets messages being left exposed to the internet. Or are they just the same old risks we've always had with data stored on the internet?

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SecureList

JULY 19, 2023

The connection to the remote SMB server sends the user’s Net-NTLMv2 hash in a negotiation message, which the threat actor can use to either: Relay for authentication against other systems that support NTLMv2 authentication. Perform offline cracking to extract the password.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

L inear eMerge E3 smart building access systems designed by N ortek Security & Control (NSC) are affected by a severe vulnerability (CVE-2019-7256) that has yet to be fixed and attackers are actively scanning the internet for vulnerable devices. Passwords can be found in p roduct documentation and compiled lists available on the Internet.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Zyxel has released security patches to address a critical remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-9054, that affects several NAS devices. “ZyXEL NAS devices achieve authentication by using the weblogin.cgi CGI executable. Do not leave the product directly exposed to the internet. and earlier.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 11, 2021

A new report from Rapid7 examining the 2020 vulnerability landscape finds that criminal and nation-state hackers are increasingly relying on attacks that target gateways to corporate networks and finding alternative ways to exploit patched flaws. Pictured: Rapid7 headquarters in Boston.

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SC Magazine

JULY 7, 2021

CISA assigned CVE-2020-1938 to the flaw, which stems from the use of Apache JServ (AJP). flaw, which is caused by improper authentication. Further, the Redis server operates on a remote host but is not protected by password authentication. The Redis component also holds the third 9.8

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

And, as my guest will say later in this podcast, these virtual SOCs are like pen testing the internet. We can't just, you know, bust things up into small parts and say this is my world because again, internet is a pen test and we're all in this together. We do the same thing for firewalls. That's an example of AI.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Before early 2020, people had a somewhat different view of cybersecurity than they do today. Back then, much of the cybersecurity discussion might have been around strengthening passwords, updating anti-virus software, and maybe deploying the latest firewalls to protect the enterprise perimeter.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

NSCS @cse_cst @CISAgov @FBI [link] — @U.S.CyberCommand (@US_CYBERCOM) August 3, 2020. If these services are required, use strong passwords or Active Directory authentication. Enable a personal firewall on agency workstations, configured to deny unsolicited connection requests. Keep operating system patches up-to-date.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

HappyValentines @CISAgov @DHS @US_CYBERCOM — USCYBERCOM Malware Alert (@CNMF_VirusAlert) February 14, 2020. If these services are required, use strong passwords or Active Directory authentication. Enable a personal firewall on agency workstations, configured to deny unsolicited connection requests.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 21, 2021

They include a damaging bug that allows an unauthorized user to create administrative accounts on a network ( CVE-2021-20021 ) and two others that allow an already-authenticated attacker to read ( CVE-2021-20023 ) and upload ( CVE-2021-20022 ) files on the victim’s remote host. million SonicWall user groups.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 15, 2021

So from inside SolarWinds, these elite hackers were able to distribute authentic, though infectious, Orion updates. EDR has become engrained as an essential layer of protection for PCs and servers and XDR simply extends this layer to firewalls, email servers, smartphones and IoT devices. That was on Dec. It wasn’t until Dec.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

For starters, all of the computers used by plant employees were connected to the facility’s SCADA system and used the Windows 7 operating system, which reached its end of life in early 2020 and is no longer supported by Microsoft.

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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. Further, many authentication protocols will simply request the hash itself, “making it no better than a password.”. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images).

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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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Cisco Security

MARCH 16, 2021

Hiding internet activity strengthens privacy—but also makes it easier for bad actors to infiltrate the network. The European Union is concerned enough that it drafted a resolution in November 2020 to ban end-to-end encryption, prompting outcry from privacy advocates. Preventing Circumvention of Cisco Umbrella with Firewall Rules.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Network Security: Firewall A firewall is your first line of defense or your computer network gatekeepers. Contrary to antivirus software, which requires a very small effort to set up, firewalls usually require special knowledge. A firewall detects all possible exploits in your network and shields them.

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NopSec

MARCH 16, 2020

Also, does your Internet-exposed websites allow valid username enumeration via specific response identification? I include a sampla here: Vulnerabilities affecting VPN and NG firewalls such as Cisco and Palo Alto Networks, much like the Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect SSL VPN Critical Pre-authentication vulnerability – CVE-2019-1579.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2023

Authentication: Ensures that users or entities are verified and granted appropriate access based on their identity. Perhaps more comprehensive than some organizations are looking for, Qualys’ security coverage is as complete as it gets.

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