Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Malwarebytes has been tracking the group since December 2020. The CSA also mentions the gang exploiting internet-facing applications without providing details. 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.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

.” Internet of Things. Agriculture may not be the first industry you associate with cybersecurity problems, but we all need to aware of the risks created by connecting this ancient part of our food supply chain to the Internet. Malwarebytes recorded a 607% increase in agriculture sector attacks in 2020.

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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. SALOMON As an affiliate of Spamdot, Salomon used the email address ad1@safe-mail.net , and the password 19871987gr.

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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. Semen-7907 registered at Tunngle from the Internet address 31.192.175[.]63

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Use of a VPN – virtual private networks (VPN) create a secure connection to other networks over the internet. Backup and recovery – according to FEMA , 40% of small businesses never reopen after a disaster. At the most basic level, it’s critical to change default passwords on routers at home and in the workplace.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Tape vendors have been promoting themselves as a solution to the ransomware problem because of their ability to provide air-gapped data backup, but trying to recover terabytes of data from a tape drive can be a little like, well, running into red tape. Q: Can you air gap a disk backup system? Tape vs. Disk: The Ransomware Issues.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

After identifying a critical Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) server, the cyber actors gained credentials to access the underlying Structured Query Language (SQL) database [ T1078 ] and utilized SQL commands to dump the credentials [ T1555 ], which contained both cleartext and hashed passwords for user and administrative accounts.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

. “Cyber criminal threat actors exploit network vulnerabilities to exfiltrate data and encrypt systems in a sector that is increasingly reliant on smart technologies, industrial control systems, and internet-based automation systems. The good news is in the latter attack the victims restored its backups.

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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

APRIL 23, 2021

The malware moves all files stored on the device to password-protected 7zip archives and demand the payment of a $550 ransom. “The Multimedia Console, Media Streaming Add-on, and Hybrid Backup Sync apps need to be updated to the latest available version as well to further secure QNAP NAS from ransomware attacks.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 1, 2019

NormShield found that all of the 2020 presidential hopefuls, thus far, are making sure their campaigns are current on software patching, as well as Domain Name System (DNS) security; and several are doing much more. Beyond Simple Passwords : Provides detailed information on keeping strong passwords and deploying two-factor authentication.

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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. He also wrote about the other betting operators implicated in the database backups and how there appeared to be a common thread across them.

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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. If RDP is exposed on your device or cloud instance, or if connected to the internet.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Compromised Credentials Compromised identities from phishing, info stealers, keyloggers, and bad password habits provide the entry point for most ransomware attacks and data breaches. 583% increase in Kerberoasting [password hash cracking] attacks. 64% of managers and higher admit to poor password practices.

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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. In March 2021, government experts observed state sponsored hackers scanning the internet for servers vulnerable to the above flaws, the attackers were probing systems on ports 4443, 8443, and 10443.

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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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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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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. a fingerprint, facial recognition, device pin, or a cryptographic key). Prevent intrusions.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 23, 2022

We highly recommend organizations to secure internet-facing systems, including timely application of security updates and building credential hygiene,” Microsoft added. Sysrv was first discovered in December 2020. This could put the rest of the network at risk of becoming part of the Sysrv-K botnet,” according to Microsoft. “We

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. Ransomware frequently contains extraction capabilities that can steal critical information like usernames and passwords, so stopping ransomware is serious business. Offline Backups.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The number of sensors and smart devices connected to the internet is exponentially rising, which are the 5 Major Vulnerabilities for IoT devices. Here are five significant cybersecurity vulnerabilities with IoT in 2020. Unfortunately, at that moment, there were over 300,000 of those cameras connected to the internet.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Data Security: Airtight Backup If you don’t have a robust Data Loss Protection (DLP) plan, all your security strategy will fall apart. The core of all the DLP plan is having a ransomware-proof backup that will let you restore data in case you get hit. Backup your data at least three times a day; 3.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

According to statistics from the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report , complaints to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have been rising since 2017. billion in reported losses, up from 2020’s 791,790 complaints and $4.2 What Can You Do to Protect Against Internet Scammers? billion in reported losses. Individuals.

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DoublePulsar

JANUARY 4, 2020

A security vulnerability in a popular enterprise remote access product is being used to deliver ransomware into organisations , with targeted delivery to also delete backups and disable endpoint security controls. On August 22nd 2019, I realised somebody was scanning the internet for the issue, via the help of BinaryEdge.io.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The epidemic went truly mainstream with the release of CryptoLocker back in 2013, and it has since transformed into a major dark web economy spawning the likes of Sodinokibi, Ryuk, and Maze lineages that are targeting the enterprise on a huge scale in 2020. In early 2020, several cybercriminals groups followed suit. Time will tell.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 21, 2020

We know the attack started on July 19, 2020, after hackers accessed a sliver of the University's network: ". The ISO assisted the college in restoring locally managed IT services and systems from backup copies. The University had servers encrypted but restored the systems and the access from backups.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2022

In early 2020, researchers found something weird going on with Linux servers hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS). QNAPCrypt exploits a vulnerability in QNAP NAS running HBS 3 (Hybrid Backup Sync) to allow remote attackers to log in to a device. Cloud Snooper. It gets its name from QNAP, a popular vendor for selling NAS servers.

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SiteLock

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Zeppelin attacks went on a hiatus for several months but popped back onto the scene in late 2020. The deployed Zeppelin will also destroy any backups the user has created and track the IP of the victim to access their location. Create backups in different locations. Only open emails and download links from trusted sources.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

review Active Directory password policy. implement offline storage and tape-based backup. In 2020 groups were demanding as much as $30 million to unlock a victim’s files and systems. FBI Internet Crime Report 2020: Cybercrime Skyrocketed, with Email Compromise Accounting for 43% of Losses. All very sound advice.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 8, 2022

Amazon’s Braket quantum computing marketplace became publicly available in 2020 —a mere five years after IBM launched the first quantum computer on the cloud. Meanwhile, QuTech, Eurofiber, and Juniper Networks may be on their way to creating the first quantum internet. But it’s not unique.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 5, 2023

By January 2023, education had claimed over 80 percent of all global malware incidents —a staggering lead that has held since 2020. In fact, 57 percent of all ransomware incidents disclosed to the FBI involved K–12 districts at the start of the 2020/2021 school year, compared to just 28 percent the year prior.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Notably, no other intelligence was shared until 2021, which led us to speculate on a possible shift by the threat actor to more fileless/LOLBINS techniques, and the use of known/common offensive tools publicly available on the internet that allows them to blend in. SECURITY/Empire/master/data/module_source/crеdentials/Invok. IEX (New-Object.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

Remote desktop software’s sensitive influence over other devices means identity and access management (IAM), password security , and multi-factor authentication are critical for risk management. Like in the case of SolarWinds in 2020, masked threat actors aren’t afraid to linger for months during reconnaissance.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Organizations can help prevent their computers from becoming part of a botnet by installing anti-malware software, using firewalls , keeping software up-to-date, and forcing users to use strong passwords. Always change the default passwords for any IoT devices you install before extended use. with no internet. Browser Hijacker.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The line between our online and offline lives is blurring and in a highly interconnected world, societal well-being, economic prosperity, and national security are impacted by the internet. Over 500 healthcare providers suffered ransomware attacks in 2020 alone. BeCyberSmart.”.

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