Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The RedLine malware allows operators to steal several information, including credentials, credit card data, cookies, autocomplete information stored in browsers, cryptocurrency wallets, credentials stored in VPN clients and FTP clients. The data included usernames, email addresses and plain text passwords.”

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 20, 2023

Mandiant found the earliest evidence of compromise uncovered within 3CX’s network was through the VPN using the employee’s corporate credentials, two days after the employee’s personal computer was compromised. The double supply chain compromise that led to malware being pushed out to some 3CX customers. Image: Mandiant.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

In another incident that occurred in March 2021, a ransomware attack blocked the operations at a US beverage company, while in a November 2020 attack on a US-based international food and agriculture business threat actors requested the payment of a gigantic $40 million ransom. Avoid reusing passwords for multiple accounts.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

FBI is warning private industry partners of a surge in Ragnar Locker ransomware activity following a confirmed attack from April 2020. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a flash alert (MU-000140-MW) to warn private industry partners of an increase of the Ragnar Locker ransomware activity following a confirmed attack from April 2020.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Experts observed the bot attempting to gain access to the device by using a combination of eight common usernames and 130 passwords for IoT devices over SSH and telnet on ports 23 and 2323. Ensure secure configurations for devices: Change the default password to a strong one, and block SSH from external access.

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Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Example 2: Using a VPN. A lot of people are confused about VPNs. They think it’s giving them security that it isn’t because they haven’t properly understood the tech and haven’t considered the attack scenarios. If you log in at the end website you’ve identified yourself to them, regardless of VPN.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

VPNs, RDPs) to gain initial access to the target network and maintain persistence. The group relied on compromised credentials to authenticate to internal VPN access points. The group relies on living off-the-land techniques such as native (built into the operating system) network administration tools to perform malicious operations.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

As we pointed out in our State of Malware report, published earlier this year, Malwarebytes recorded an eye-watering 607% increase in malware detections in the agriculture sector in 2020. Malwarebytes recorded a 607% increase in agriculture sector attacks in 2020. Avoid reusing passwords for multiple accounts.

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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

AUGUST 26, 2021

Threat actors are targeting Pulse Connect Secure VPN devices exploiting multiple flaws, including CVE-2021-22893 and CVE-2021-22937. CVE-2021-22893 is a buffer overflow issue in Pulse Connect Secure Collaboration Suite prior b9.1R11.4 Ivanti fixed this critical code execution issue in Pulse Connect Secure VPN early this month.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2022

In late 2020, credentials for US-based universities were found for sale on the dark web. In May 2021, over 36,000 email and password combinations for.edu email accounts were offered for sale on a publically available instant messaging platform. The seller listed approximately 2,000 unique credentials.

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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. The joint alert also states that attackers scanning also enumerated devices for the CVE-2020-12812 and CVE-2019-5591 flaws. Implement the shortest acceptable timeframe for password changes.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Officials said the group has been targeting dozens of US state, local, territorial, and tribal (SLTT) government networks since at least February 2020. Energetic Bear successfully compromised the infrastructure and as of October 1, 2020, exfiltrated data from at least two victim servers. ” reads the advisory.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 21, 2021

But a survey conducted by Google and Harris found that many people still refuse to adopt even the most essential credential security measures: just 37 percent use two-factor authentication, around a third change their passwords regularly, and a mere 15 percent use a password manager. Know how to identify a phishing attack.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2020

1/2 — NOOK (@nookBN) October 14, 2020. (2/2) — NOOK (@nookBN) October 14, 2020. ” BleepingComputer confirmed that the company was hit by a cyber attack on October 10th, 2020, and cited as a source an email sent to customers late Wednesday night that is has seen. Thank you for your patience.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2022

The ransomware operation has been active since late December 2019, this is the second time that the FBI first shares IoC related to RagnarLocker operation, the FBI first became aware of this threat in April 2020. Secure your back-ups and ensure data is not accessible for modification or deletion from the system where the data resides.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2020

Only use secure networks and avoid using public Wi-Fi networks. Consider installing and using a VPN. Use two-factor authentication with strong passwords. Recently the Netwalker ransomware operators were looking for new collaborators that can provide them with access to large enterprise networks.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2020

The campaign is worrisome due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic that caused the spike in the number of employees working from home and the increase in the use of corporate VPN and elimination of in-person verification. Restrict VPN access hours, where applicable, to mitigate access outside of allowed times.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2020

Nikulin first breached LinkedIn between March 3 and March 4, 2012, the hacker first infected an employee’s laptop with malware then used employee’s VPN to access the LinkedIn’s internal network. The Russian man stole roughly 117 million user records, including usernames, passwords, and emails. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

Most organizations use databases to store sensitive information. This includes passwords, usernames, document scans, health records, bank account and credit card details, as well as other essential data, all easily searchable and conveniently stored in one place. Can’t come up with a strong password? What were we looking at?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2020

IBM recently addressed a high-severity issue, tracked as CVE-2020-4529 , in its Maximo asset management solution that could facilitate attacks on making lateral movements within corporate networks. Sometimes employees connect to IBM Maximo directly over the Internet with weak passwords and no VPN, making an attack easier to perform.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2020

More than 15 billion username and passwords are available on cybercrime marketplaces, including over 5 billion unique credentials, states the experts. According to the company, most of the username and password combinations are available for free, and 5 billion of the above credentials are “unique.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2021

If you look at Verizon’s 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report, you can find some of the most common causes of data breaches. However, you will also be surprised to learn that most breaches result from inadequate data security measures. A security recommendation is to use a Virtual Private Network. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2021

“KELA found nearly 1 million compromised accounts pertaining to gaming clients and employees, with 50% of them offered for sale during 2020.” Threat actors obtained precious information by using info-stealer like AZORult and launched spear-phishing attacks against gaming forms. ” reads the post published by Kela.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Only use secure networks and avoid using public Wi-Fi networks. Consider installing and using a VPN. Use two-factor authentication with strong passwords. Recently the Netwalker ransomware operators were looking for new collaborators that can provide them with access to large enterprise networks.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Never use them without proper security measures such as using a VPN. A VPN removes all traces leading back to your original IP address and encrypts your connection to allow safe and private browsing. Software updates often come with releases that patch bugs and security vulnerabilities upon discovery. Avoid Public WI-Fi.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a flash alert (MU-000140-MW) to warn private industry partners of an increase of the Ragnar Locker ransomware activity following a confirmed attack from April 2020. Only use secure networks and avoid using public Wi-Fi networks. Consider installing and using a VPN.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2020

Security researchers Pierre Kim and Alexandre Torres have discovered several vulnerabilities Zyxel Cloud CNM SecuManager software that could expose users to cyber attacks. ” Experts also reported the use of predefined passwords for admin accounts. log escape sequence injection xmppCnrSender.py

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

The attackers connects to a dedicated commercially-shared VPN server using OpenVPN and then uses compromised email credentials to send out credential spam via a commercial email service provider.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Here are five significant cybersecurity vulnerabilities with IoT in 2020. A hacker managed to identify a weak spot in a security camera model. Simple or reused passwords are still a problem. Instead, people come up with passwords that are comfortable. It can be prevented through the use of an online VPN.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 28, 2021

Two years later, the group moved to using Conti, in May 2020. Below is a list of recommended mitigations from the FBI, which it issued along with an alert on Conti ransomware late last week: Regularly back up data, air gap, and password protect backup copies offline. Avoid reusing passwords for multiple accounts.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2020

US government networks are under attack, threat actors chained VPN and Windows Zerologon flaws to gain unauthorized access to elections support systems. The CVE-2020-1472 flaw is an elevation of privilege that resides in the Netlogon. ” reads the report. ” continues the alert. ” concludes the alert.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

The global impact of the Fortinet 50.000 VPN leak posted online, with many countries impacted, including Portugal. A compilation of one-line exploit tracked as CVE-2018-13379 and that could be used to steal VPN credentials from nearly 50.000 Fortinet VPN devices has posted online.

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Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

I think we can all agree that 2020 was anything but a typical year (and a poster child for Murphy’s law "anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.") There is no shortage of articles about the very bad things that all of us in the information security industry are acutely aware of.

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Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

When organizations started to embark on zero trust security back in 2020, it was in response to a dramatic and unforeseen change – the public health crisis. Securing remote user access became the first use case for adopting zero trust security principles. ZTNA) – regardless of location or protocol.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

These emails persuade employees to reveal passwords for important applications or download malicious files to their devices. Using stolen passwords is an easy way to masquerade as a genuine user and access sensitive information or infiltrate deeper into your network. IoT Devices.

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