Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2024

A researcher who goes online with the moniker ‘Netsecfish’ disclosed a new arbitrary command injection and hardcoded backdoor flaw, tracked as , tracked as CVE-2024-3273 , that impacts multiple end-of-life D-Link Network Attached Storage (NAS) device models. This trick allows attackers to obtain bypass authentication.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 10, 2024

The Compliance Countdown – A Roadmap Through Phases 1 & 2 madhav Thu, 04/11/2024 - 05:17 While compliance mandates can sometimes feel burdensome, PCI DSS 4.0 Let's break down the key steps you should be taking right now to meet the 31 March 2024 deadline and explore ways to streamline your compliance efforts for the long term.

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SecureList

APRIL 15, 2024

They generated a custom version of the ransomware, which used the aforementioned account credential to spread across the network and perform malicious activities, such as killing Windows Defender and erasing Windows Event Logs in order to encrypt the data and cover its tracks. In this article, we revisit the LockBit 3.0

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 10, 2024

The Compliance Countdown – A Roadmap Through Phases 1 & 2 madhav Thu, 04/11/2024 - 05:17 While compliance mandates can sometimes feel burdensome, PCI DSS 4.0 Let's break down the key steps you should be taking right now to meet the 31 March 2024 deadline and explore ways to streamline your compliance efforts for the long term.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Implement authentication and authorization controls for all human-to-software and software-to-software interactions regardless of network location. Stop malicious encryption. Living off the Land is one of six cyberthreats that resource-constrained IT teams need to be ready to combat in 2024, covered in our 2024 State of Malware report.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Coyote does not implement any code obfuscation and only uses string obfuscation with AES encryption. Encrypted string table building To retrieve a specific string, it calls a decryption method with the string index as a parameter. The decryption method works by creating a table of base64-encoded data.

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SecureList

MAY 7, 2024

Additionally, we take a close look at several noteworthy vulnerabilities discovered in Q1 2024. The number of newly registered CVEs, 2019 — 2024. The decline in 2024 is due to data being available for Q1 only ( download ) As the chart illustrates, the number of new vulnerabilities has been steadily increasing year over year.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

” In February 2024, a court order allowed US authorities to neutralize the Moobot botnet, a network of hundreds of small office/home office (SOHO) routers under the control of the Russia-linked group APT28. Communication to and from the EdgeRouters involved encryption using a randomly generated 16-character AES key.

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Energy and Utilities Government Firewall Malware 95

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 12, 2024

Proofpoint’s 2024 data loss landscape report reveals 84.7% Customize training materials to address these specific concerns, including data handling protocols, password management , and phishing attempt identification. Encrypt data at rest with encryption algorithms and secure storage techniques.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 29, 2024

Dashlane is a password management software that’s popular for business and personal uses alike. Like many other password managers, Dashlane makes it easy for users to create new passwords and store existing ones in a secure vault. The company was founded in 2009, and the first software edition was released in 2012.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Additionally, certain network requests piqued our interest: login_user request to get access_token with a correct password The request in the screenshot above retrieves an access token to the API based on the following authentication data: username, password and key. This was the first security-related issue we discovered.

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 17, 2023

in March of 2024. Do not use vendor-supplied defaults for system passwords and other security parameters HARDEN YOUR SYSTEMS AND IMPLEMENT SYSTEM CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT A basic requirement across information security, using default passwords is a big no-no! Important Note: PCI DSS current version, Version 3.2.1,

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Passwords Computers and Electronics Software Risk 52

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 28, 2020

These breaches left contact information, account passwords, credit card numbers, private photos, and more exposed. Gartner reports that by 2024, more than 45% of IT spending on infrastructure, application software, and business process outsourcing will shift from traditional solutions to the cloud. Reliance on cloud computing grows.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

Encryption and the development of cryptography have been a cornerstone of IT security for decades and remain critical for data protection against evolving threats. While cryptology is thousands of years old, modern cryptography took off in the 1970s with the help of the Diffie-Hellman-Merkle and RSA encryption algorithms.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 13, 2024

madhav Tue, 05/14/2024 - 05:47 Thales and Microsoft: a long partnership in Identity Security Thales and Microsoft recently celebrated their long-term partnership at the Microsoft Security Excellence Award Ceremony during RSA Conference 2024, as Thales won the Identity Trailblazer Award.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

That's not unprecedented, but this is: password: "$2y$10$B0EhY/bQsa5zUYXQ6J.NkunGvUfYeVOH8JM1nZwHyLPBagbVzpEM2", No way! Is that genuinely a bcrypt hash of my own password? Yep, that's exactly what it is : The Spoutible API enabled any user to retrieve the bcrypt hash of any other user's password.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 22, 2024

April 13, 2024 Delinea Secret Server Patched After Researcher’s Public Disclosure Type of vulnerability: Authentication bypass. Widely-used PuTTY Utility Allows Recovery of Encryption Secret Keys Type of vulnerability: Deterministic cryptographic number generation. and revoke all existing encryption keys.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 19, 2023

While multi-factor authentication (MFA) generally protects against common methods of gaining unauthorized account access, not all multi-factor authentication methods can defend against sophisticated attacks. Authentication establishes confidence that the claimant has possession of one or more authenticators bound to the credential.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 10, 2024

It looks like Atomic Stealer was updated around mid to late December 2023, where its developers introduced payload encryption in an effort to bypass detection rules. Some samples from crack websites made their way to VirusTotal around that time frame, followed by a malvertising campaign we observed in January 2024.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The initial disclosure involved two CVEs (CVE-2023-46805 and CVE-2023-21887) allowing a remote attacker to perform authentication bypass and remote command injection exploits. How It Works The attackers were observed exploiting two vulnerabilities CVE-2023-46805 (an authentication-bypass vulnerability with a CVSS score of 8.2)

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 26, 2023

The new Thales secrets management solution helps ensure that only authorized workloads and applications can access their passwords, API keys, and certificates, protecting them from unauthorized access, theft, or misuse. FIDO2) with PKI/CBA in a single authenticator. FIDO2) with PKI/CBA in a single authenticator.

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Ransomware Encryption Authentication Phishing 71

eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Most organizations express confidence in their current status and budgets, but also expect to experience at least one data breach in 2024. Compromised Credentials Compromised identities from phishing, info stealers, keyloggers, and bad password habits provide the entry point for most ransomware attacks and data breaches.

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Pen Test Partners

OCTOBER 9, 2023

For example: a user enumeration vulnerability, a weak password policy, and a lack of brute force protection and lockout can still lead to an attacker gaining access to an account. Use AES encryption. The CoP includes the following recommendations for manufacturers: No default passwords. Encrypt in transit.

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IoT Firmware Mobile Manufacturing 52

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 27, 2022

According to the White House order , agencies have until the end of the government’s fiscal year 2024 to reach the target goals laid out in the strategy and based on a zero-trust model developed by the U.S. All traffic must be encrypted and authenticated as soon as practicable.”. creating isolated environments.

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Cisco Security

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Wi-Fi Air Marshal, by Jérémy Couture, Head of SOC, Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Wi-Fi Air Marshal, by Jérémy Couture, Head of SOC, Paris 2024 Olympic Games. I also observed an AP spoofing and broadcast de-authentication attack. From our experiences at Black Hat USA 2022, we had encrypted frames enabled, blunting the attack.

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Engineering Mobile Malware Wireless 71

Cisco Security

AUGUST 28, 2023

Clear Text authentication still exists in 2023 Although not directly related to malware infection, we did discover a few other interesting findings during our threat hunt, including numerous examples of clear text traffic disclosing email credentials or authentication session cookies for variety of applications.

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Wireless DNS Mobile Technology 68

SecureList

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 2023, for instance, there was a significant rise in posts offering login credentials and passwords for various personal and work accounts. The ongoing evolution of loaders on dark markets is likely to see the introduction of new versions written in modern programming languages like Golang and Rust in 2024.

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Marketing Cryptocurrency Malware Ransomware 104

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 31, 2023

How to Meet Phishing-Resistant MFA madhav Tue, 08/01/2023 - 05:18 Incorporating multi-factor authentication (MFA) as a fundamental security measure for your organization is now considered standard practice. MFA bombing or MFA fatigue attacks demonstrate the limitations of simple two-factor or multi-factor authentication.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Israeli man sentenced to 80 months in prison for providing hacker-for-hire services Russian APT Gamaredon uses USB worm LitterDrifter against Ukraine The board of directors of OpenAI fired Sam Altman Medusa ransomware gang claims the hack of Toyota Financial Services CISA adds Sophos Web Appliance bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (..)

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