Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

I want a "secure by default" internet with all the things encrypted all the time such that people can move freely between networks without ever needing to care about who manages them or what they're doing with them. Now let's try the mobile app: What's the encryption story there? We still have a way to go!

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

NCC Group and Fox-IT observed this threat actor during various incident response engagements performed between October 2019 until April 2020. Credential theft and password spraying to Cobalt Strike. This adversary starts with obtaining usernames and passwords of their victim from previous breaches. Initial access (TA0001).

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Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

VPNs encrypt the traffic between you and some endpoint on the internet, which is where your VPN is based. If your VPN includes all DNS requests and traffic then you could be hiding significantly from your ISP. How bad is it to be a public figure (blog/YouTube) in 2020? This is true. The Government. So, probably not a win.

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SecureList

AUGUST 30, 2023

A DLL with this name was used in recent deployments of a backdoor that we dubbed Gopuram , which we had been tracking since 2020. In April 2020, we uncovered a significant shift in targeting and infection vector. When we reviewed our telemetry on the campaign, we found a DLL on one of the computers, named guard64.dll,

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

In June, more than six months after DarkHalo had gone dark, we observed the DNS hijacking of multiple government zones of a CIS member state that allowed the attacker to redirect traffic from government mail servers to computers under their control – probably achieved by obtaining credentials to the control panel of the victims’ registrar.

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SecureList

JANUARY 13, 2022

The archive contained a document file such as Word, Excel or PDF file that was password protected alongside another file disguised as a text file containing the document’s password. After sending a beacon to the C2 server, the malware collects general system information, sending it after AES encryption. PROCESS_ID. #.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

A March 2020 software update of the SolarWinds Orion management platform gave malicious actors unhindered access to key government and enterprise networks. With access to DSInternals, the malware could query the AD servers and steal data, passwords, and keys. Read Also: The IoT Cybersecurity Act of 2020: Implications for Devices.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 9, 2023

We have identified attacks from the group starting in 2020, meaning that they have remained under the radar for at least three years. Malwarebytes has identified multiple operations, first dated in 2020. Notes about activity before the war OP#1 - Late 2020 The first operation we know of happened in December 2020.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Normally account take overs are due to insecure passwords or recovery options, this is definitely something different. — Dave Kennedy (@HackingDave) July 15, 2020. link] pic.twitter.com/cVIyB44o6q — Eugene Kaspersky (@e_kaspersky) June 22, 2020. — Parisa Tabriz (@laparisa) January 26, 2020. Ingenious!

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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

MARCH 10, 2021

The least common of SQL injection attacks, the out-of-band method relies on the database server to make DNS or HTTP requests delivering data to an attacker. . . . With the big news of supply chain compromises in 2020 , many are looking to NIST and other industry-standard security checklists to harden operating systems and applications. .

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

In fact, there were 50% more attack attempts per week on corporate networks globally in 2021 than in 2020. DNS filtering. The next technology you need to prevent cyberattacks is a DNS filter. But first, a little bit about what DNS (domain name system) is. The DNS server, in turn, tells the computer where to go.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

logins, passwords, etc.), In some cases, the emails were delivered with Microsoft Office documents (Word, Excel) or password-protected archives with the documents attached. The loaded payload (stager) includes another binary containing encrypted resource modules. The data is encrypted with the RC4 algorithm.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Recent research by Positive Technologies looked at the cyber threat landscape during Q2 2021 and found that ransomware attacks reached “stratospheric” levels, accounting for 69% of all malware attacks, a huge jump from 39% in Q2 2020. Free Kaspersky Password Manager Premium. DNS filtering. Dark web monitoring.

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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. Examples of Botnet Malware Attacks.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 3, 2023

However, searching passive DNS records at DomainTools.com for thedomainsvault[.]com In January 2019, Houzz acknowledged that a data breach exposed account information on an undisclosed number of customers, including user IDs, one-way encrypted passwords, IP addresses, city and ZIP codes, as well as Facebook information.

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Fox IT

JUNE 23, 2020

WastedLocker is a new ransomware locker we’ve detected being used since May 2020. We believe it has been in development for a number of months prior to this and was started in conjunction with a number of other changes we have seen originate from the Evil Corp group in 2020. WastedLocker. WastedLocker Ransomware.

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SecureList

MAY 23, 2023

We started monitoring the group in mid-2020 and have observed a constant level of activity that indicates a capable and stealthy actor. This tool was used in 2020. Code snippet used to generate the BOT_ID The resulting BOT_ID is used also to initialize the DES key and IV, which are then used to encrypt communication with the C2.

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SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

While investigating attacks on the defense industry in mid-2020, we were able to observe the complete life-cycle of an attack, uncovering more technical details and links to the group’s other campaigns. Ransomware encrypting virtual hard disks. Ecipekac: sophisticated multi-layered loader discovered in A41APT campaign.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

Be it advanced locks, encryption barriers, or deleted and unknown content, the UFED (Universal Forensic Extraction Device) can extract physical and logical data. Other significant Xplico features include multithreading, SQLite or MySQL integration, no data entry limits, and can execute reserve DNS lookup from DNS pack.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Downloaded modules are encrypted, and can be decrypted with the Python script below. Threat actors can decrypt these files and dump the usernames, password hashes, computer names, groups, and other data. Web sessions and user passwords saved in the browser are available in hVNC sessions. This module is a password stealer module.

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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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SecureList

JUNE 15, 2022

Complex attacks almost invariably feature several phases, such as reconnaissance, initial access to the infrastructure, gaining access to target systems and/or privileges, and the actual malicious acts (data theft, destruction or encryption, etc.). For example, use of data from stealer logs or password mining. Screenshot translation.

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NopSec

MARCH 6, 2020

NetBIOS was eventually superseded by Dynamic DNS, and performance further increased with changes to the protocol in SMB v2.0 However, on a domain controller you can hit the ground running in your assessment and dump the user accounts, groups, group memberships, and in some instances password policy information. Command: $./smbmap.py

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1962 — Allan Scherr — MIT sets up the first computer passwords, for student privacy and time limits. Student Allan Scherr makes a punch card to trick the computer into printing off all passwords and uses them to log in as other people after his time runs out. She connects him to any phone number he requests for free.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The infection vector of NullMixer is based on a ‘User Execution’ (MITRE Technique: T1204) malicious link that requires the end user to click on and download a password-protected ZIP/RAR archive with a malicious file that is extracted and executed manually. The user extracts the archived file with the password.

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