Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

4 XSS in FortiWeb (CVE-2021-22122), found by Andrey Medov, have been patched. cmdb_edit_path=");alert('xss');// Advisory: [link] pic.twitter.com/jCOILHKWc4 — PT SWARM (@ptswarm) February 4, 2021. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Fortinet). Two example PoCs: 1⃣ /error3?msg=30&data=';alert('xss');//

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2021

The bold author of a new cryptocurrency stealer, dubbed WeSteal, is promising its customers a leading way to make money in 2021. According to Palo Alto Networks, the author of WeSteal, that goes online as “ComplexCodes,” started advertising the cryptocurrency stealer on underground forums in mid-February 2021. Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 10, 2021

Cases of cyber-attacks are rapidly increasing, and businesses have every reason to worry following the recent prediction that damage costs might shoot beyond $6 trillion by the end of 2021. Cybersecurity services will still be in high demand 2021 and beyond. million jobs available by 2021. Identify a gap and bridge it.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2021

The authorities started pushing out a 32-bit payload named “ EmotetLoader.dll ” to clean up the infected systems, the process was set to trigger itself automatically on April 25, 2021 as confirmed by researchers at Malwarebytes. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Emotet). ” reads the post published by MalwareBytes.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Now new findings reveal that AVrecon is the malware engine behind a 12-year-old service called SocksEscort , which rents hacked residential and small business devices to cybercriminals looking to hide their true location online. Usually, these users have no idea their systems are compromised. Image: Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs.

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2021

Researchers from Tenable have disclosed a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in HPE Edgeline Infrastructure Manager (EIM), tracked as CVE-2021-29203 , that could be exploited by attackers to compromise a customer’s cloud infrastructure. SecurityAffairs – hacking, HPE). Users are urged to update to HPE EIM v1.22

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

Ensure that you have dedicated management systems [ D3-PH ] and accounts for system administrators. SecurityAffairs – hacking, China-linked threat actors). Enable robust logging of Internet-facing services and monitor the logs for signs of compromise [ D3-NTA ] [ D3-PM ]. To nominate, please visit:?. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2023

In particular, recent investigations were able to identify four of them: the ARestore escalation tool, the backdoor, and other publicly available toolkits such as Advanced_Port_Scanner and a particular popular Chinese hack tool. The “ARestore” tool is.NET executable built in 2020 and partially obfuscated.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

“The command requires Windows system administrators,” Truniger’s ads explained. Mr. Tretyakov suggested someone may have framed him, pointing to an August 2023 story at a Russian news outlet about the reported hack and leak of the user database from sysadmins[.]ru, ru account was used without his permission.

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

While analyzing the CVE-2021-1732 exploit, first discovered by DBAPPSecurity Threat Intelligence Center and used by the BITTER APT group, we found another zero-day exploit that we believe is linked to the same threat actor. The exploit-chain attempts to install malware in the system through a dropper. We Are Back ?

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IT Security Guru

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Per a recent report from Q4 2020 to Q4 2021 , the average number of APIs per company increased by 221% in 12 months and that API attack traffic grew by 681% while overall API traffic grew by 321%. Microservices Architecture has Created a Security Blind Spot. Microservices communicate over APIs. Internal APIs or Private APIs are not Immune.

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IT Security Guru

JANUARY 12, 2021

System Administrator (or, sysadmin). million cybersecurity by 2021) , better job security, a wide variety of self-employment options, and so on. Here’s a brief overlook of the kind of specializations you can earn if you decide to take a plunge into cybersecurity: Penetration testing (or, pentesting). Secure Software Development.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Shah provides her expertise in hacking, software development, and kernel development and advocates for open source initiatives. Kennedy founded cybersecurity-focused TrustedSec and Binary Defense Systems and co-authored Metasploit: The Penetration Tester’s Guide. — Eva (@evacide) October 4, 2021.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Our investigation revealed that this remote endpoint is associated with criminal activities dating back to 2019, indicating that these hosts were likely under the control of the same technical administration. In 2021, that hostname appeared in SMTP messages reported as a “romance scam” in a popular romance and dating scam tracking forum.

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SecureList

JUNE 17, 2021

Black Kingdom ransomware appeared on the scene back in 2019, but we observed some activity again in 2021. The ransomware was used by an unknown adversary for exploiting a Microsoft Exchange vulnerability (CVE-2021-27065). March 2021. CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2021-26857, CVE-2021-26858, CVE-2021-27065.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 6, 2021

Kaseya’s flagship product is a remote monitoring and management (RMM) solution called the Virtual Systems Administrator (VSA) and is the product at the center of the current attack. When administrators noticed suspicious behavior on Friday, Kaseya shut down VSA. VSA server breached. Preparing for Criminal Enterprise.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2023

The Originating Malvertising Campaign According to CTI investigation on the adversary infrastructure, we were able to identify an ongoing campaign luring system administrators to install the malicious code into their machines. He is a former member of the ANeSeC CTF team, one of the firsts Italian cyber wargame teams born back in 2011.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Email hacking is a prevalent communication security breach. For example, in 2019 attackers hacked 773 million Outlook emails. System administrators can establish file limitations, privileges, and responsibilities using a file management system. million people during the first quarter of 2021.

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Kali Linux

MARCH 28, 2023

Being a system administrator, a patch could contain a security update to stop a vulnerability. At one stage, Wireless hacking “was the thing”, so we needed to support injection on as many cards as possible. In information security (infosec) there is the need to be on the latest version.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 16, 2022

It’s about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. In May 2021, for Episode 20 of The Hacker Mind , I interviewed Frank Duff was then the Director of ATT&CK Evaluations for MITRE Engenuity. Because those are the same behaviors that real users real administrators are using.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Later today (Friday, September 24, 2021), Republican auditors release their final report on the found with elections in Maricopa county. If CISA still has it in their recommendations for election systems, then CISA is wrong. System logs are as likely to cause confusion, as they do above with the “anonymous logins” issue.

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Errata Security

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Author: Robert Graham (@erratarob) Later today (Friday, September 24, 2021), Republican auditors release their final report on the found with elections in Maricopa county. If CISA still has it in their recommendations for election systems, then CISA is wrong. They are unlikely to provide proof of votes being flipped in a hack.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In another publication , Google also followed up on the activities of a similar vendor named Cytrox that had leveraged four 0-day vulnerabilities in a 2021 campaign. One glaring example is Iran, which faced a series of spectacular hacks and sabotages. One of the major cyber-incidents of 2022 took place early this year: the Okta hack.

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