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Top Cybersecurity Trends to Watch Out For in 2025

Centraleyes

By 2027, 75% of employees are expected to acquire or modify technology outside of ITs control, up from 41% in 2022. Verizons Data Breach Investigations Report showed that 74% of security breaches involve a human element, with system administrators and developers accounting for most of these errors.

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Exploits and vulnerabilities in Q4 2024

SecureList

Among notable techniques in Q4, attackers leveraged undocumented RPC interfaces and targeted the Windows authentication mechanism. Exploiting the vulnerability allows privilege escalation in the system. According to Microsoft documentation ,msc files can be used for system administration.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, February 2022 Edition

Krebs on Security

Among those is CVE-2022-22005 , a weakness in Microsoft’s Sharepoint Server versions 2013-2019 that could be exploited by any authenticated user. “However, given the number of stolen credentials readily available on underground markets, getting authenticated could be trivial. .

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, June 2023 Edition

Krebs on Security

today released software updates to fix dozens of security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software. Microsoft Corp. ” Top of the list on that front is CVE-2023-29357 , which is a “critical” bug in Microsoft SharePoint Server that can be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker on the same network.

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Best Privileged Access Management (PAM) Software for 2022

eSecurity Planet

Least privilege access is at its core, requiring every single connection within a network to be authenticated and authorized before they are granted access to a system. PAM is the utility that verifies the permissions for administrative users according to these policies. This relies on governance policies for authorization.

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Microsoft provides more mitigation instructions for the PetitPotam attack

Malwarebytes

The attack could force remote Windows systems to reveal password hashes that could then be easily cracked. Microsoft quickly sent out an advisory for system administrators to stop using the now deprecated Windows NT LAN Manager (NTLM) to thwart an attack. The authentication process does not require the plaintext password.

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Hacker breaches key Russian ministry in blink of an eye

Security Affairs

pic.twitter.com/wOCdRqOJej — NEXTA (@nexta_tv) March 6, 2022. Spurred into action by the invasion of Ukraine, Spielerkid89 decided to investigate whether he could find Russian IPs with disabled authentication to fool with. Ideally, VNC should be used only with authenticated users, such as system administrators.