Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The exposed data exposed a disk backup of two employees’ workstations containing secrets, private keys, passwords, and over 30,000 internal Microsoft Teams messages. “The researchers shared their files using an Azure feature called SAS tokens, which allows you to share data from Azure Storage accounts.” 5, 2021 Oct.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

and Australia have published a joint advisory warning of an increased globalised threat of ransomware worldwide in 2021. Almost any sector was hit by sophisticated, high-impact ransomware attacks, including the Defense Industrial Base, Emergency Services, Food and Agriculture, Government Facilities, and Information Technology Sectors.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

.” The PIN provides a series of examples of ransomware attacks impacting food and agriculture sector businesses, such as an attack that took place in January 2021 against an identified US farm that resulted in losses of approximately $9 million due to the disruption of the farming operations. Disable hyperlinks in received emails.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2022

The AvosLocker ransomware-as-a-service emerged in the threat landscape in September 2021, since January the group expanded its targets by implementing the support for encrypting Linux systems, specifically VMware ESXi servers. Regularly back up data, password protect backup copies offline. Avoid reusing passwords for multiple accounts.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

The LockBit ransomware gang has been active since September 2019, in June 2021 the group announced the LockBit 2.0 ” The FBI flash alert also includes mitigations to prevent LockBit ransomware infections: Require all accounts with password logins (e.g., Like other ransomware gangs, Lockbit 2.0

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The IT giant also removed 1,183 Google accounts, 908 cloud projects, and 870 Google Ads accounts used by the operators. Glupteba disruption over last year: 63M Google Docs 1,183 Google Accounts, 908 Cloud Projects, and 870 Google Ads accounts. — Shane Huntley (@ShaneHuntley) December 7, 2021. .

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2021

The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) warns of a surge of LockBit 2.0 ransomware attacks against Australian organizations starting July 2021. The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) warns of an escalation in LockBit 2.0 ransomware attacks against Australian organizations in multiple industry sectors starting July 2021.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Secret Service (USSS) to provide information on BlackByte ransomware. As of November 2021, BlackByte ransomware had compromised multiple US and foreign businesses, including entities in at least three US critical infrastructure sectors (government facilities, financial, and food & agriculture).” ” reads the advisory.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Threat actors infected the iPhone of New York Times journalist Ben Hubbard with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware between June 2018 to June 2021. The device was compromised two times, in July 2020 and June 2021. “The deleted items all had timestamps greater than June 9, 2021 11:56:46 GMT and less than June 16, 2021 8:46:17 GMT.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2021

The PrintNightmare flaws (tracked as ( CVE-2021-1675 , CVE-2021-34527 , and CVE-2021-36958 ) reside in the Windows Print Spooler service, print drivers, and the Windows Point and Print feature. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2022

The malware uses TOR exit nodes as a backup C2 infrastructure. The malware was first spotted in September 2021, the experts observed Raspberry Robin targeting organizations in the technology and manufacturing industries. Around November 2021, DEV-0243 started to deploy the LockBit 2.0 exe to execute a malicious command.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Threat actors generate domains, personas, and accounts; and identify cryptocurrency services to conduct their ransomware operations. Threat actors use various exploits of common vulnerabilities, including CVE 2021-44228 , CVE-2021-20038 , and CVE-2022-24990. They communicate with victims via Proton Mail email accounts.

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Security Affairs

JULY 3, 2022

The malware uses TOR exit nodes as a backup C2 infrastructure. The malware was first spotted in September 2021, the experts observed Raspberry Robin targeting organizations in the technology and manufacturing industries. The malicious code uses Windows Installer to reach out to QNAP-associated domains and download a malicious DLL.

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2021

. “I am writing to inform you that Bose Corporation, located at The Mountain Road, Framingham, MA 01701, experienced a sophisticated cyber-incident that resulted in the deployment of malware/ransomware across Bose’s environment. systems on March 7, 2021.” Changed access keys for all service accounts.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 28, 2022

Microsoft in November fended off a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in its Azure cloud that officials said was the largest ever recorded, the latest in a wave of record attacks that washed over the IT industry in the second half of 2021. As in the first six months, most attacks were short-lived.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The three vulnerabilities used in ProxyShell attacks are: CVE-2021-34473 – Pre-auth Path Confusion leads to ACL Bypass (Patched in April by KB5001779 ) CVE-2021-34523 – Elevation of Privilege on Exchange PowerShell Backend (Patched in April by KB5001779 ) CVE-2021-31207 – Post-auth Arbitrary-File-Write leads to RCE (Patched in May by KB5003435 ).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Bug bounty hacker earned $5,000 reporting a Stored XSS flaw in iCloud.com Experts warn of threat actors abusing Google Alerts to deliver unwanted programs FBI warns of the consequences of telephony denial-of-service (TDoS) attacks An attacker was able to siphon audio feeds from multiple Clubhouse rooms Georgetown County has yet to recover from a sophisticated (..)

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

“Upon gaining an initial foothold into a telecommunications organization or network service provider, PRC state-sponsored cyber actors have identified critical users and infrastructure including systems critical to maintaining the security of authentication, authorization, and accounting.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2022

Spiniolas speculates that Apple is aware of the flaw since August 10, 2021, but the IT giant has yet to address it. The only way to recover the removed data will be to restore a working backup. Restoring a device and signing back into the iCloud account linked to the HomeKit device will again trigger the bug.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2021

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. Regularly back up data, air gap, and password protect backup copies offline. Implement network segmentation.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2022

“Raspberry Robin is Red Canary’s name for a cluster of activity we first observed in September 2021 involving a worm that is often installed via USB drive.” The malware uses TOR exit nodes as a backup C2 infrastructure. ” reads the advisory published by Red Canary. exe to execute a malicious command.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

. “Although FBI and CISA do not currently have any specific threat reporting indicating a cyberattack will occur over the upcoming Labor Day holiday, malicious cyber actors have launched serious ransomware attacks during other holidays and weekends in 2021.” Securing and monitoring Remote Desktop Protocol endpoints.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2022

The malware uses TOR exit nodes as a backup C2 infrastructure. The malware was first spotted in September 2021, the experts observed it targeting organizations in the technology and manufacturing industries. The malicious code uses Windows Installer to reach out to QNAP-associated domains and download a malicious DLL.

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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2022

The malware uses TOR exit nodes as a backup C2 infrastructure. The malware was first spotted in September 2021, the experts observed Raspberry Robin targeting organizations in the technology and manufacturing industries. The malicious code uses Windows Installer to reach out to QNAP-associated domains and download a malicious DLL.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The malware uses TOR exit nodes as a backup C2 infrastructure. The malware was first spotted in September 2021, the experts observed Raspberry Robin targeting organizations in the technology and manufacturing industries. The malicious code uses Windows Installer to reach out to QNAP-associated domains and download a malicious DLL.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2021

As part of The Pegasus Project, the experts identified that at least 180 journalists in 20 countries were the targets of a massive surveillance activity with NSO spyware between 2016 to June 2021. The evidence demonstrates that governments used Pegasus to intimidate journalists and critical media. Exposing Pegasus infrastructure.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2021

This specific ransomware variant is attempting to propagate using a variety of recently discovered Microsoft Exchange server vulnerabilities, such as CVE-2020-1472 , CVE-2021-26855 , CVE-2021-27065 to drop ransomware on the affected hosts. This includes the use of zero-knowledge online backup of crucial information.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 9, 2021

See our top picks for the Best Incident Response Tools and Software for 2021. For example, we might nominate: The IT security manager to handle a ransomware incident; Our external accountant to investigate financial fraud; or. The building manager to handle threats to physical security at a specific office.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2022

The malware uses TOR exit nodes as a backup C2 infrastructure. The malware was first spotted in September 2021, the experts observed it targeting organizations in the technology and manufacturing industries. The malicious code uses Windows Installer to reach out to QNAP-associated domains and download a malicious DLL.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Ambitious information security experts serve as a critical part of cyber risk management. The corporation is responsible for structuring IT and information security activities to protect its data resources, such as hardware, software, and procedures. Information. Traditional Components. SecSDLC Components.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 15, 2021

Information security leaders at these two districts shared their war stories last week at the K-12 Cybersecurity Leadership Symposium, hosted by the K12 Security Information Exchange (K12 SIX) – the first-ever ISAC specifically created with local school districts in mind.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 28, 2021

According to Coveware, a company that offers incident response services to organizations impacted by ransomware attacks, Conti is the second most common ransomware family that victim organizations have reported in the first quarter of 2021. Avoid reusing passwords for multiple accounts. Focus on cyber security awareness and training.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Here you can find security-related news on many topics: Apps, IoT, Cloud, and much more. DarkReading Twitter account has more than 200k followers, a very solid number for the cybersecurity industry. Security Through Education Security Through Education is one of the best information security blogs.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2023

of polled executives report that their organizations' accounting and financial data were targeted by cyber adversaries.” ” And, “Nearly half (48.8%) of C-suite and other executives expect the number and size of cyber events targeting their organizations’ accounting and financial data to increase in the year ahead.”

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SecureList

MAY 12, 2021

Botmasters and account resellers are tasked with providing initial access inside the victim’s network. For a more detailed overview we chose two of the most noteworthy Big Game Hunting ransomware in 2021. REvil operators have demanded the highest ransoms in 2021. The first one is the REvil (aka Sodinokibi) gang.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 28, 2021

We look at three RSAC 2021 sessions and some of the most daunting vulnerabilities presented by the SANS Institute, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and Varonis Systems. Also Read: And the Winner of the 2021 RSA Innovation Contest is… SANS: Five dangerous new attack techniques and vulnerabilities.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Kia Motors, Accenture, Acer, JBS…these companies were some of the largest to be compromised by ransomware in 2021. In our 2021 Webroot BrightCloud ® Threat Report , we found overall infection rates to be rising fastest in the healthcare, non-profit and arts/entertainment/recreation industries.

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