Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2021

North Korea-linked APT group Kimsuky allegedly breached South Korea’s atomic research agency KAERI by exploiting a VPN vulnerability. The investigation into the intrusion revealed the involvement of 13 internet addresses including one traced to the Kimsuky APt group. ” reported the Reuters. ” reported The Record.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

2019 that wasn’t discovered until April 2020. NiceHash founder Matjaz Skorjanc said the unauthorized changes were made from an Internet address at GoDaddy, and that the attackers tried to use their access to its incoming NiceHash emails to perform password resets on various third-party services, including Slack and Github.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The CEO of a South Carolina technology firm has pleaded guilty to 20 counts of wire fraud in connection with an elaborate network of phony companies set up to obtain more than 735,000 Internet Protocol (IP) addresses from the nonprofit organization that leases the digital real estate to entities in North America. ”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Russian communications watchdog Roskomnadzor tightens control of its citizens and blocked access to six virtual private networks (VPNs), including NordVPN and ExpressVPN. Russian communications watchdog Roskomnadzor tightens the control over the Internet and blocked access to six virtual private networks (VPNs), Hola!VPN,

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Approachable Cyber Threats

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Back in June, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued an advisory that married together two of today’s major cybersecurity concerns: remote access technology and ransomware. Generally speaking, this is any technology that lets you access your organization’s IT resources while you’re away from the office. What’s the problem?”

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

As ChatGPT went viral, other chatbots powered by generative AI appeared, and these technologies were quickly adopted as assistants in diverse areas including education. As we look to 2024, we believe that the consumer threat landscape will be heavily influenced by political, cultural, and technological events and trends.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The p opular ProtonMail end-to-end encrypted email service and ProtonVPN VPN service have been blocked by the Russian government this week. This week the Russian government has blocked the ProtonMail end-to-end encrypted email service and ProtonVPN VPN service. ” states Proton Technologies.

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

New research from Sophos finds 46% of malware communicating with a remote system over the Internet is utilizing TLS encryption to conceal communications and evade detection. That is more than a 100% increase in TLS-based malware communications compared to 23% in 2020, according to Sophos telemetry analysis.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

In response, criminal and state-backed hacking groups stepped up their own exploitation of the technology as well. A recent report from Zscaler found that VPNs are still overwhelmingly popular: 93% of companies surveyed reported that they have used them in some capacity.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Nickolas Sharp was a software engineer and cloud lead at an American technology company called Ubiquiti. Prosecutors say the insider threat scheme started unfolding on December 10, 2020. an attacker connected to Company-1's AWS infrastructure using a masked IP provided by the Surfshark VPN. This happened at 2:55 a.m.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Since September 2020, researchers analyzed the ransomware operations conducted by six Iranian threat groups that were launched in waves every six to eight weeks on average. “In the early part of 2021, PHOSPHORUS actors scanned millions of IPs on the internet for Fortinet FortiOS SSL VPN that were vulnerable to CVE-2018-13379. .

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 30, 2021

Then a global pandemic came along and laid bare just how brittle company VPNs truly are. Criminal hackers recognized the golden opportunity presented by hundreds of millions employees suddenly using a company VPN to work from home and remotely connect to an array of business apps. Two sweeping trends resulted: one bad, one good.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The Iranian hacker group has been attacking corporate VPNs over the past months, they have been hacking VPN servers to plant backdoors in companies around the world targeting Pulse Secure , Fortinet , Palo Alto Networks , and Citrix VPNs. ” reads the report published by Crowdstrike. ” continues the report.

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Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Example 2: Using a VPN. A lot of people are confused about VPNs. If you log in at the end website you’ve identified yourself to them, regardless of VPN. VPNs encrypt the traffic between you and some endpoint on the internet, which is where your VPN is based. The Government. So, probably not a win.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2022

Since surfacing in late 2021, LAPSUS$ has gained access to the networks or contractors for some of the world’s largest technology companies, including Microsoft , NVIDIA , Okta and Samsung. The Twitter hackers largely pulled it off by brute force, writes Wired on the July 15, 2020 hack.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Cybersecurity researchers from Kookmin University and the Korea Internet and Security Agency (KISA) discovered an implementation vulnerability in the source code of the Rhysida ransomware. VPNs, RDPs) to gain initial access to the target network and maintain persistence. The victims of the group are “targets of opportunity.”

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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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The first attack spotted by ANSSI experts dates back to the end of 2017 and the campaign continued until 2020. “The first compromises identified by ANSSI date from the end of 2017 and continued until 2020. . “The first compromises identified by ANSSI date from the end of 2017 and continued until 2020.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The cybersecurity firm noted seven tactics the group has recently used: "Compromise of multiple technology solutions, services, and reseller companies since 2020.". Mandiant believes a misconfiguration by the threat actor meant that the VPN services running on the VPS stopped functioning after 8 hours.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Technology. Simply defined, the internet of things (IoT) is a network of Internet-connected objects able to collect and exchange data. To help avoid these online risks, it is highly recommended to use a Virtual Private Network (VPN). It’s designed to make our homes more comfortable and workplaces more efficient.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 11, 2023

The trends to adopt Internet of Things (IoT) devices, remote work , and cloud resources drastically increase the amount of communication outside of the traditional network that needs to be secured. This trend spreads out data center risk over the internet and increases the potential vectors for attack. What Is SASE?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

26 key cyber security stats for 2024 that every user should know, from rising cyber crime rates to the impact of AI technolog y. Healthcare Spending: From 2020 to 2025, the healthcare sector plans to spend $125 billion on cyber security to tackle its vulnerability. Market Growth: AI cyber security technology is projected to grow by 23.6%

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

Timetv.live is the latest Azeri news site targeted by Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks launched by Sandman threat actor, the attack took place on March 21, 2020. After reviewing the attack logs of the Denial of Service, Qurium could quickly determine that the attacker was using Fineproxy VPN service to build a botnet to flood the website.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Thu, 10/29/2020 - 05:17. As mentioned in my colleague Charles Goldberg’s blog post earlier this year, “ Stop Ransomware in its Tracks with Strong Data Security ,” ransomware attacks targeting enterprises in a variety of sectors have skyrocketed during the first half of 2020. What is the root cause? Encryption.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Isovalent Cloud security 2020 Private Illumio Cloud security 2015 Private SignalFx Monitoring 2015 Acquired: Splunk CipherCloud Cloud security 2012 Acquired: Lookout Lookout Mobile security 2011 Private. a16z Investments. PagerDuty Operations performance 2014 NYSE: PD Auth0 Identity management 2014 Acquired: Okta.

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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

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Remote Technology. The speed at which cyber attacks exploiting remote technology increased during the Covid-19 pandemic serves as a telling example of how threat actors dynamically adapt the attack vectors they use in response to changing conditions. IoT Devices. Many organizations don’t have visibility into all of their IoT devices.

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McAfee

MARCH 5, 2021

Costly Infrastructure – MPLS connections, VPN concentrators, and huge centralized network security infrastructure represent major investments with significant operational expense. A recent blog by McAfee detailed four architectural approaches based on the willingness to embrace new technologies and bring them together.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

In response, criminal and state-backed hacking groups have stepped up their own exploitation of the technology as well. A recent report from Zscaler found that VPNs are still overwhelmingly popular: 93 percent of companies surveyed reported that they have used them in some capacity.

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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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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. I don’t think any of those technologies are going away.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2022

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) publication SP 800-207 provides a similar and consistent definition for zero trust. We can generally interpret these definitions as encouragement to treat all resources as if they are fully exposed to the internet and as if all users are attacking. Defense in Depth 2000 vs 2020.

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IT Security Guru

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Operational technology (OT) used to be the specialist networks nobody in IT bothered with, or perhaps thought they didn’t need to. June 2020: Ripple20 TCP/IP vulnerabilities affect more industrial devices. July 2020: NSA and CISA warn of the OT/ICS “Perfect Storm”. What keeps OT security specialists up at night?

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McAfee

AUGUST 23, 2020

The fact is that nobody likes to talk about architecture when shopping for the latest and greatest cyber security technology, and most organizations have been content to continue fitting new security tools and capabilities into their existing traditional architectures. For starters, the user experience is greatly hampered by poor performance.

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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. Consider installing and using a VPN. ” reads the FBI’s PIN.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Japan, the host country of both the 2019 Rugby World Cup and the 2020 Summer Olympic Games, is well-aware of these previous incidents. Second, Japan announced that the government-backed National Institute of Information and Communications Technology would conduct a national scan of Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

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IT Security Guru

JUNE 30, 2021

In March 2020, many people began working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Working from home resulted in additional risk management and security challenges for employees, executive leadership, and information technology (IT) teams. A VPN provides a secure, encrypted connection over the Internet from a device to a network.

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