Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

million customers, including website administrator passwords, sFTP credentials, and private SSL keys; -December 2022: Hackers gained access to and installed malware on GoDaddy’s cPanel hosting servers that “intermittently redirected random customer websites to malicious sites.”

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Malwarebytes

JULY 2, 2021

Some attacks used known vulnerabilities that allowed remote code execution (RCE), while others started by trying to identify valid credentials through password spraying. The applications in the cluster used TOR and commercial VPN services to avoid revealing their IP addresses. Aim for strong passwords, but plan for bad ones.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 26, 2021

As most of the students in United States are preparing to attend physical classes from September first week for the academic year 2021-2022, Sophos has issued some Cybersecurity tips for school and college students and those are follows-. For instance, FB visible to friends option and Twitter’s ‘Protected’ feature.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2022

Twice in the past month KrebsOnSecurity has heard from readers who’ve had their accounts at big-three credit bureau Experian hacked and updated with a new email address that wasn’t theirs. In both cases the readers used password managers to select strong, unique passwords for their Experian accounts.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 3, 2021

A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, April 2021. How Strong is Your Password? A favourite sports team accounted for 6% of passwords, while a favourite TV show accounted for 5%. Think Before You LinkedIn!

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

Riley Kilmer is co-founder of Spur.us , a company that tracks thousands of VPN and proxy networks, and helps customers identify traffic coming through these anonymity services. MrMurza also told the admin that his account number at the now-defunct virtual currency Liberty Reserve was U1018928. Image: spur.us.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

911 says its network is made up entirely of users who voluntarily install its “free VPN” software. In this scenario, users indeed get to use a free VPN service, but they are often unaware that doing so will turn their computer into a proxy that lets others use their Internet address to transact online. “The 911[.]re

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 21, 2022

By using a misconfigured Cisco Duo MFA implementation to force enrollment of a new device, the hackers were then able to use the “PrintNightmare” Windows Print Spooler vulnerability ( CVE-2021-34527 and CVE-2021-36958 ) to obtain administrator privileges. Inactive Accounts and Default Configurations.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2022

This exposure of sensitive credential and network access information, especially privileged user accounts, could lead to subsequent cyber attacks against individual users or affiliated organizations.” In 2017, crooks launched a phishing campaign against universities to compromise.edu accounts.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The data covered a period from 2018 to 2021. Tokens usually serve as digital keys to user accounts. In theory, exposing tokens could lead to unauthorized account access. The exposed DTC app user data include email address, phone number, phone model, and the apps’ tokens for email, login, session, and signup.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 1, 2021

The attempted attack on the Oldsmar, Florida water treatment plant in early February 2021 demonstrated the potentially dangerous and life-threatening consequences of compromised critical infrastructure. The system was also only accessible using a shared TeamViewer password among the employees. Vaulting Shared Passwords.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

More commonly, that access is purchased from a cybercriminal broker who specializes in acquiring remote access credentials — such as usernames and passwords needed to remotely connect to the target’s network. The username associated with that account was “ bo3dom.” com back in 2011, and sanjulianhotels[.]com

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 5, 2023

Also, employees install more and more cybersecurity solutions, from password managers and ad blockers to Virtual Private Networks. Weak Passwords The frequency of repeating a password for multiple accounts is greater than keeping multiple passwords. Moreover, almost 43% of employees reported sharing passwords.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2022

The nation-state actors gained access to the network by exploiting default MFA protocols and the Windows Print Spooler vulnerability, “PrintNightmare” ( CVE-2021-34527 ), reads the advisory. In order to compromise the target network, the attackers conducted a brute-force password guessing attack against an un-enrolled and inactive account.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Fri, 10/29/2021 - 05:29. Whether you want the ‘trick’ of a malevolent threat actor infiltrating your network by exploiting a compromised password or the ‘treat’ from the peace of mind associated with multifactor authentication, the choice is yours. The hacker simply reused the password and gained access to the VPN.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2021

The Taiwanese vendor Zyxel has recently addressed a critical vulnerability in its firmware, tracked as CVE-2020-29583 , related to the presence of a hardcoded undocumented secret account. of Zyxel USG devices contains an undocumented account (zyfwp) with an unchangeable password. The vulnerability received a CVSS score of 7.8,

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

One of the most outstanding examples involves $2 million ‘s worth of CS:GO skins stolen from a user’s account , which means that losses can get truly grave. Such an engaged, solvent and eager-to-win audience becomes a tidbit for cybercriminals, who always find ways to fool their victims.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2021

The group published the link to 13 password-protected archives, allegedly containing sensitive data stolen from the chipmaker. Attention Password for the Archives: XXXXXXXXXXX#1JLDiw8″ reads the post published by the group on its leak site. !!Inside Consider installing and using a VPN. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. Consider installing and using a VPN.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 8, 2021

Colonial Pipeline's CEO made the decision to pay the ransom just hours after learning of the May 7, 2021, attack against the company. For example, an employee using the same password for multiple accounts. Or, in this case, one of the largest fuel distributors in the United States having an unused but active VPN account.

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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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Hot for Security

MAY 4, 2021

The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2021-30665 and was reported to Apple by three security researchers, nicknamed yangkang, zerokeeper and bianliang. Apple in 2021 is off to a bad start security-wise. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-30657, was discovered by security researcher Cedric Owens. How to patch now.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 21, 2021

This means companies have to be proactive and instill the right habits, which often means resisting the bad habits that lead to millions of successful cyberattacks every year – from the use of generic and easy-to-crack account credentials to the willingness to click on suspicious links and attachments in emails from untrusted sources.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 31, 2022

This exposure of sensitive credential and network access information, especially privileged user accounts, could lead to subsequent cyber attacks against individual users or affiliated organizations. May 2021 : Over 36,000 email/password combinations for.edu addresses were observed on a “publicly available instant messaging platform.”

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Credit cards offer markedly better fraud protections than debit cards , which connect directly to your bank account. Virtual credit cards similarly allow online shoppers to mask their financial accounts. Many financial institutions offer free transaction alerts that notify you when charges hit your account. Lock your devices.

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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. Enforce MFA on all VPN connections [ D3-MFA ].

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2023

The Volt Typhoon group has been active since at least mid-2021 it carried out cyber operations against critical infrastructure. In order to conceal malicious traffic, the threat actor routes it through compromised small office and home office (SOHO) network devices, including routers, firewalls, and VPN hardware.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 28, 2023

For CVE-2023-38035, Ivanti recommends installing the corresponding version of Sentry using RPM scripts: Log in to a system command line interface in a terminal window as the admin user established during system installation, and enter the corresponding password. An attacker creates a new admin user and logs into an OpenFire account.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 28, 2023

For CVE-2023-38035, Ivanti recommends installing the corresponding version of Sentry using RPM scripts: Log in to a system command line interface in a terminal window as the admin user established during system installation, and enter the corresponding password. An attacker creates a new admin user and logs into an OpenFire account.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Wazawaka has since "lost his mind" according to his erstwhile colleagues, creating a Twitter account to drop exploit code for a widely-used virtual private networking (VPN) appliance, and publishing bizarre selfie videos taunting security researchers and journalists.

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Herjavec Group

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Ransomware is a breakout ransomware group that became operational shortly after the shutdown of the REvil Ransomware and DarkSide Ransomware operations in late Summer 2021. on “VPN and other time-consuming types of initial access”? T1070 Valid Accounts BlackMatter uses valid accounts to logon to the victim network. .

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Here are 12 New Year Resolutions for a safer and more secure digital you in 2021: Think before you click that email link: 2020 was a record-breaking year for ransomware, malware, and phishing , and many, if not most of these attacks were launched with the click on a link in an email. That’s always the case when it comes to cybersecurity.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 23, 2021

Pulse Secure VPN. CISA found that the attacker(s) had access to the enterprise’s network for nearly a year, between March 2020 and February 2021. According to its investigation, the threat actor connected to the entity’s network via a Pulse Secure Virtual Private Network (VPN) appliance.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 12, 2023

” In the course of this research, we found out that the prevalent posts revolved around the sale of compromised accounts, internal databases, and documents, along with access to corporate infrastructures. Compromised users accounts from malware logs published on Darknet forums.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

million, according to IBM and the Ponemon Institute’s Cost of Data Breach Report 2021. million, according to IBM and the Ponemon Institute’s Cost of Data Breach Report 2021. CSOonline.com reports that 94% of malware is delivered via email, and phishing attacks account for more than 80% of security incidents. million to $4.24

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 10, 2022

Observed since: July 2021 Ransomware note: BlackByteRestore.txt Ransomware extension: BlackByte Kill Chain: Some victims reported that attackers used known Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities to gain access to their networks. > Observed since: January 2021 Ransomware note: BackFiles_encoded01.txt LockBit 2.0.

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