BH Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

That’s one of the many fascinating insights from Hive Systems’ 2023 Password Table. Security company Trustwave tracked a noticeable increase in this kind of activity in early 2023. Separately, the security provider Cloudflare said that identity deception like that used in BEC scams can “easily bypass email authentication standards”.

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Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2023

“Successful exploits could allow attackers to monitor users’ internet activity, highjack internet connections and redirect traffic to malicious websites or inject malware into network traffic. ” The vendor addressed the issues in April 2023 with the release of firmware version 1.0.10.94 We are in the final!

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BH Consulting

AUGUST 16, 2023

The agency’s ninth Internet Organised Crime Assessment (IOCTA) 2023 report gives a law enforcement perspective on current cybercrime techniques. She has been shortlisted for the Piccaso Privacy Awards 2023 in two categories: ESG privacy initiative, and the privacy award for achievement.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

In that particular case, however, they sought supporting materials in a manner similar to the use of an internet search engine. Then the fall 2023 semester began, and a new pattern emerged. It wasn't an infrequent problem during the fall 2023 semester. It is not an authentication protocol.

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BH Consulting

DECEMBER 11, 2023

They include credentials that stay in use for a long time, inconsistent use of multi-factor authentication, and cloud workloads with non-administrator permissions. It also found instances where virtual machines are exposed to the internet. Cloud security was also a theme in Microsoft’s ‘Cybersecurity Trends in Ireland 2023’ report.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2023

.” The researchers reported the issues to the United States Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which assigned the following five CVEs: Use of Hard-coded Credentials CWE-798 ( CVE-2023–1748 , CVSS3.0: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key CWE-639 ( CVE-2023–1749 , CVSS3.0:

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NopSec

MAY 31, 2023

May was a rather quiet month for security research, but an excellent write up filtered to the masses from the Pwn2own 2023 conference held in Vancouver, B.C. Finally, it wouldn’t be a worthy blog post if we didn’t include a nugget from patch Tuesday. tar file manipulation. tar file manipulation.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 9, 2024

It involves convincing a user to click on a malicious link in an email, which can then steal the user’s password hash and authenticate as the user in another Microsoft service. “Microsoft has updated their backend and notified any customers who have been affected by the credential leakage.”

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday for September 2023 includes 59 vulnerabilities, five of them rated critical and two currently being exploited in the wild. The two vulnerabilities currently being exploited are CVE-2023-36761 , an information disclosure flaw in Microsoft Word with a CVSS score of 6.2;

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2023

The new vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-35082 (CVSS score: 10.0), can be exploited by unauthenticated attackers to access the API in older unsupported versions of MobileIron Core (11.2 “In our testing of CVE-2023-35078, we had access to MobileIron Core version 11.2.0.0-31. and below). and prior. . and below of the product.”

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday for March 2023 includes patches for more than 70 vulnerabilities, including zero-day flaws in Outlook and in Windows SmartScreen. Critical Outlook Zero-Day The Outlook zero-day, CVE-2023-23397 , with a critical CVSS score of 9.8, is being actively exploited.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2023

FortiGuard Labs researchers observed a worrisome level of attacks attempting to exploit an authentication bypass vulnerability in TBK DVR devices. Threat actors are attempting to exploit a five-year-old authentication bypass issue, tracked as CVE-2018-9995 (CVSS score of 9.8), in TBK DVR devices. .

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2023

The maintainers of the software have released security patches to address an insecure default configuration, tracked as CVE-2023-27524 (CVSS score: 8.9), that could lead to remote code execution. The issue was discovered by Horizon3 researchers who reported that there are more than 3000 instances of the platform exposed to the Internet.

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NetSpi Technical

JANUARY 18, 2024

Time-Based One-Time Password (TOTP) Time-Based One-Time Password (TOTP) is a common two-factor authentication (2FA) mechanism used across the internet. During authentication, the secret is used in combination with the time in a cryptographic hash function to produce a secure 6-digit passcode. View the details of CVE-2023-43320.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

stole at least $800,000 from at least five victims between August 2022 and March 2023. The missives asked users to click a link and log in at a phishing page that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page. A graphic depicting how 0ktapus leveraged one victim to attack another. Image credit: Amitai Cohen of Wiz.

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Fox IT

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

On 9 January 2023, we identified a total of 286 servers running R1Soft server software with a specific backdoor. Fox-IT informed the Dutch NCSC to coordinate the sharing of this knowledge towards the relevant national CERTs on 12 January 2023. curl [link] -F "file=@/var/tmp/[REDACTED].txt"

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SecureList

JULY 5, 2023

Hot wallets and attempts at hacking them A hot wallet is a cryptocurrency wallet with permanent access to the internet. Phishing scams that target cold wallets A cold wallet (cold storage) is a wallet without a permanent connection to the internet, like a dedicated device or even just a private key written on a slip of paper.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Only 33 percent consistently use two-factor authentication (2FA). Bad actors are not going away anytime soon, and we can predict that in 2023, we’ll see even more threats and attacks than in years past. based web security vendor that provides secure, cloud-based internet isolation.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2023

A data breach disclosed by Toyota Motor Corporation exposed info of more than 2 million customers for ten years Toyota Motor Corporation disclosed a data breach that exposed the car-location information of 2,150,000 customers between November 6, 2013, and April 17, 2023. ” continues the notice.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2023

Additionally, since this product is unlikely to be exposed to the internet, the attacker likely has already established a foothold somewhere else on the network.” which can be exploited by a remote attacker to collect sensitive session and application information without authentication.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 11, 2023

APIs then played an important role in the birth of the Internet, offering a way for applications to exchange data across the Internet via a specific set of protocols. According to the Salt Security API Security Trends 2023 report , API attacks are on the rise. It also launched what would become a massive e-commerce industry.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2023

ssh/authorized_keys, anyone with the corresponding private key can authenticate the SSH server without supplying a password. Initially, they deployed and executed a separate Monero miner alongside the usual RapperBot binary, but starting from January 2023, they included the mining capabilities in the bot. ” We are in the final!

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DoublePulsar

DECEMBER 3, 2023

How CitrixBleed vulnerablity in Netscale has become the cybersecurity challenge of 2023. This Fedcomp platform was not patched for CitrixBleed, as no Netscaler patches had been applied since May 2023: [link] A ransomware group gained entry to Trellance via Ongoing Operations. This has since been confirmed by the US Treasury.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 4, 2023

madhav Tue, 04/04/2023 - 07:04 During WWII, the US Office of War Information created posters encouraging people to avoid careless talk. Fast forward to 2023, and this adage finds new meaning in the context of generative AI tools, like OpenAI ChatGPT, Google Bard, and Microsoft Copilot. The message was, “Loose lips sink ships."

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NetSpi Executives

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The theme for 2023’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month is “Secure Our World,” focusing on ways individuals and businesses can protect against online threats. Turn on Multifactor Authentication Even strong, secure passwords can be exposed by attackers. But the mission never ends.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Although IBM hopes to make a 1,000-qubit machine by 2023, widespread adoption of quantum computing is still decades away. The global internet economy relies on cryptography as the foundation for a secure network. Even now, our cybersecurity climate is getting hotter.

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BH Consulting

MARCH 21, 2024

million out of £106 million in financial losses in its 2023 fiscal year were due to a ransomware attack. Meanwhile, plans for an EU-wide digital wallet gained momentum with regulation adopted in late February, to introduce a system to allow citizens to identify and authenticate themselves online. MORE Old tech never dies.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2023

On March 2023, researchers from Kaspersky spotted a previously unknown APT group, tracked as Bad Magic (aka Red Stinger), that targeted organizations in the region of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict. The module’s configuration includes OAuth tokens that are used for cloud storage authentication.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 30, 2021

According to the latest Cisco Annual Internet report , there will be 29.3 billion networked devices by 2023. Be sure to check out the bonus tip at the end of the blog and share in the comments other ways your organization is successfully securing APIs. Use strong authentication and authorization. Maps to API1-API10.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 9, 2023

Known ransomware attacks by gang, May 2023 This isn't the first time this year a gang has overhauled LockBit and climbed to the top spot on our monthly charts. The gang's blog suggests it's open to targeting businesses of all sizes, so long as they aren't located in "Latin America, Africa, or other colonized countries." A new norm?

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 28, 2023

XDR (eXtended Detection and Response) Integrations At Black Hat USA 2023, Cisco Secure was the official Mobile Device Management, DNS (Domain Name Service) and Malware Analysis Provider. We appreciate alphaMountain.ai , Pulsedive and Recorded Future donating full licenses to the Black Hat USA 2023 NOC. Hunter summer camp is back.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 23, 2023

Ivanti has published a security blog post about a vulnerability in Ivanti Sentry, formerly MobileIron Sentry. The CVE patched in this update is CVE-2023-38035 , which has a CVSS score of 9.8 Reportedly , Ivanti customers have seen exploitation of CVE-2023-38035 in Sentry when port 8443 is exposed to the Internet.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

” Monahan has been documenting the crypto thefts via Twitter/X since March 2023, frequently expressing frustration in the search for a common cause among the victims. To automatically populate the appropriate credentials at any website going forward, you simply authenticate to LastPass using your master password. Then on Aug.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This blog examines the escalating phishing landscape, shortcomings of common anti-phishing approaches, and why implementing a Protective DNS service as part of a layered defense provides the most effective solution. This staggering figure represents more than 59 percent of the losses from the top five most costly internet crimes worldwide.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

To lend an air of authenticity and to motivate the victim to enter valid information, the swindlers warned that the victim could be prosecuted for providing false information. In a typical internet hoax manner, crypto scam sites offered visitors to get rich quick by paying a small fee. Scammers created a page on the telegra.ph

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 16, 2023

The advice is urgent because on January 13, 2023 the Horizon3 Attack Team tweeted that Proof of Concept (PoC) code and a deep-dive blog will be released within a week. Zoho used Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) to simplify the authentication process. Mitigation.

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SecureList

JUNE 20, 2023

Introduction In today’s interconnected world, more and more devices are being connected to the internet, including everyday household items like pet feeders that are becoming smart by virtue of this simple fact. Internet providers now ship home routers that can, for example, spin up an additional guest network.

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