NopSec

JUNE 30, 2023

Leading this month’s advisories we have a duo of pre-auth RCE vulnerabilities that impact Fortinet’s Fortigate SSL VPN and VMWare’s VRealize Network Insight. This vulnerability was assigned CVE-2023-20887. Previous vulnerabilities present in Fortinet SSL products triggered an internal code review of all SSL VPN products.

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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. In January 2023, the Faceless service website said it was willing to pay for information about previously undocumented security vulnerabilities in IoT devices.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2023

The National Safety Council leaked thousands of emails and passwords of their members, including companies such as NASA and Tesla. The National Safety Council has leaked nearly 10,000 emails and passwords of their members, exposing 2000 companies, including governmental organizations and big corporations.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

But by all accounts, few attacks from those gangs have come close to the amount of firepower wielded by a pro-Russia group calling itself “ NoName057(16).” is a company that tracks VPNs and proxy services worldwide. “And at least two of them explained that Stark offered them free VPN services that they were reselling.”

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 15, 2024

Threats range from severe weaknesses in Ivanti’s VPN appliances to zero-day exploits in popular software such as Palo Alto Networks’ PAN-OS and Telegram’s Windows client. You can strengthen your cybersecurity defenses by using reliable antivirus software, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and virtual private networks (VPNs).

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 24, 2023

Cisco is aware of reports that Akira ransomware threat actors have been targeting Cisco VPNs that are not configured for multi-factor authentication to infiltrate organizations, and we have observed instances where threat actors appear to be targeting organizations that do not configure multi-factor authentication for their VPN users.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warning of cyber attacks against Citrix NetScaler Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Gateway devices exploiting recently discovered zero-day CVE-2023-3519. “Exploits of CVE-2023-3519 on unmitigated appliances have been observed. Provision new account credentials.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Russia-linked APT group Sandworm has hacked eleven telecommunication service providers in Ukraine between since May 2023. The Russia-linked APT group Sandworm (UAC-0165) has compromised eleven telecommunication service providers in Ukraine between May and September 2023, reported the Ukraine’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA).

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Security Affairs

JULY 27, 2023

DepositFiles’ clients are at risk of their personally identifiable information, files, and passwords being stolen. Based on indexing of another sensitive file we believe that the environment configuration file was exposed starting from February 2023. researchers said. researchers said. Why is exposing config files dangerous?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2023

Most internet-exposed Cacti servers exposed to hacking French CNIL fined Tiktok $5.4 Most internet-exposed Cacti servers exposed to hacking French CNIL fined Tiktok $5.4 Most internet-exposed Cacti servers exposed to hacking French CNIL fined Tiktok $5.4

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SecureList

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Every year is abundant with major data leaks, biggest data breaches and hacks drawing massive media attention (such as Medibank and Optus data breach, Twitter data breach, and Uber and Rockstar compromise in 2022 and in T-Mobile , MailChimp and OpenAI in 2023). By November 2023, we have already found more than 3100 offers.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The report includes IOCs and TTPs identified through investigations as recently as September 2023. The Rhysida ransomware group has been active since May 2023, according to the gang’s Tor leak site, at least 62 companies are victims of the operation. VPNs, RDPs) to gain initial access to the target network and maintain persistence.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2024

The threat actors used this infrastructure to host malicious payloads, proxy attack traffic, and send spear-phishing emails to government-related targets, leveraging compromised government email accounts. “In addition, the actor used a compromised government email account to send email to other governments.”

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Duo's Security Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

Through the first two months of 2023 alone, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s Scamwatch reported more than 19,000 phishing reports with estimated financial losses of more than $5.2 Accounting for nearly a quarter of reported incidents in Australia, phishing is a broad category of social engineering with several variations.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 20, 2023

In late March 2023, 3CX disclosed that its desktop applications for both Windows and macOS were compromised with malicious code that gave attackers the ability to download and run code on all machines where the app was installed. The double supply chain compromise that led to malware being pushed out to some 3CX customers. Image: Mandiant.

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SecureList

JUNE 3, 2024

In late December, in a presentation at the 37th Chaos Communication Congress (37C3), experts from our Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) described the attack chain in detail , including – for the first time – how the attackers exploited the CVE-2023-38606 hardware vulnerability. You can read the full analysis here.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 19, 2024

The problem: The FortiOS SSL VPN feature vulnerability, CVE-2024-21762, disclosed February 8th , remains exposed to attack on nearly 150,000 devices according to the ShadowServer Foundation website. The fix: Fortinet advised users to disable SSL VPN until their FortiOS and FortiProxy deployments can be upgraded.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Network security is another big theme this week: Whether it’s a VPN connection or an enterprise-grade networking platform, patch management solutions typically won’t update network devices, so admins may need to keep an eye on any flaws there too. of the Atlas VPN Linux client. via port 8076. score of 9.8 out of 10.0,

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

“Since October 2022 and continuing into January 2023, Proofpoint has observed a cluster of evolving financially motivated activity which we are referring to as “Screentime” The attack chain starts with an email containing a malicious attachment or URL and leads to malware that Proofpoint dubbed WasabiSeed and Screenshotter.”

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 29, 2023

In addition, you can take advantage of the OAuth on-behalf-of (OBO) flow to maintain access to the target account, even after the TAP has expired. In addition, you can take advantage of the OAuth on-behalf-of (OBO) flow to maintain access to the target account, even after the TAP has expired. This is why we need a TAP.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 28, 2023

If you create a system and it accepts files or text, people will put their passwords or sensitive customer information posthaste. They’d have to be on the VPN to access it”). This can be both time-consuming and tedious. Why do we do boring stuff, then? Because it’s usually fruitful! This is something adversaries use to their advantage.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Introduction Ivanti, an IT management and security company, has issued a warning about multiple zero-day vulnerabilities in its VPN products exploited by Chinese state-backed hackers since December 2023. Active audit of privileged accounts that were recently created or updated. to gain access to ICS VPN appliances.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

We asked two questions: •What should be my biggest takeaway from 2023, with respect to mitigating cyber risks at my organization? Kerberoasting” and “Golden Ticket” attacks were both introduced in 2014 and yet enterprises continue to have hundreds of accounts configured with unconstrained delegation. Part three to follow on Friday.

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NopSec

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Based on a May 2023 report from The Hacker News , this hacking crew managed to establish a persistent foothold into critical infrastructure organizations in the U.S. They established a VPN C2 into the environment using those credentials, so they could come back to proceed on their internal network reconnaissance.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Software development company Retool was the victim of a smishing attack that resulted in the compromise of 27 accounts of its cloud customers. Software development company Retool revealed that 27 accounts of its cloud customers were compromised as a result of an SMS-based social engineering attack. ” continues the company.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 7, 2023

You may use a VPN or install utilities to capture and forward traffic to other subnets, or configure proxychains. The category usually matches the typical phases of a pentest, like “information gathering” or “post-exploitation,” but also recurrent tasks, such as “password attacks.”

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SecureList

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This is our latest installment, focusing on activities that we observed during Q3 2023. The most remarkable findings In early 2023, we discovered an ongoing attack targeting government entities in the APAC region by compromising a specific type of a secure USB drive, which provides hardware encryption.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 6, 2024

In this attack method, a small number of commonly used passwords are tried over many user accounts in succession. Many free and open-source tools, including NLBrute, Crowbar and Hydra, currently exist to allow attackers to automate these efforts over many user accounts at once.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 3, 2023

At the start of 2023, consumers remain out in the cold when it comes to online protection. Since many people use the same passwords across social media platforms and for sites for banks or credit cards, a criminal needs access to just one account to gain access to every account.

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Hackology

DECEMBER 26, 2023

After allowing password sharing for years, Netflix has recently changed its policy. The password sharing is now only allowed for a single physical household. Since its initial years, Netflix encouraged password sharing with your friends and family, which allowed them to generate a strong user base. Want to know more?

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Cryptographic keys can be random numbers, products of large prime numbers, points on an ellipse, or a password generated by a user. AES encryption can be commonly found in communication protocols, virtual private network (VPN) encryption, full-disk encryption, and Wi-Fi transmission protocols.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 13, 2024

million ATO attacks against their customers -The SolarWinds attack that compromised victim’s Microsoft365 accounts hit 100 companies and 9 US Federal Agencies. But there is one simple solution to drastically reduce the risk of account take-over: enable Multi-Factor Authentication.

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Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In fact, IBM's 2023 Cost of a Data Breach Report found that 82% of data breaches involved data stored in the cloud. IBM’s 2023 Cost of a Data Breach Report found that 82% of data breaches involved data stored in the cloud. Additionally, it imposes a substantial workload on IT administrators responsible for user account management.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 1, 2023

But ransomware attacks have been ramping up in 2023 and reinfections are occurring all over the globe, forcing lean IT teams to prepare. The business followed most of the recommendations for password resets but failed to implement 2FA. Why are businesses getting hit with ransomware more than once? the majority of security incidents.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2023

million in critical infrastructure cyber projects via new program Ivanti Ships Urgent Patch for API Authentication Bypass Vulnerability Defense contractor Belcan leaks admin password with a list of flaws Leaseweb is restoring ‘critical’ systems after security breach Microsoft is now a cybersecurity titan.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Ransomware Attacks: In 2023, a whopping 72.7% Data Breach Costs: The average global cost of a data breach in 2023 was $4.45 Cloud Security Concerns: As businesses increasingly migrate to the cloud, cloud security incidents are on the rise, with misconfigured cloud services accounting for 68% of reported incidents.

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