Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2022

Password management software firm LastPass disclosed a security breach, threat actors had access to portions of the company development environment through a single compromised developer account and stole portions of source code and some proprietary technical information. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 28, 2021

A crucial part of the Russians’ success was their ability to move through these organizations by compromising cloud and local network identity systems to then access cloud accounts and pilfer emails and files. It wasn’t the first time cloud services were the focus of a cyberattack, and it certainly won’t be the last.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Importantly, none appeared to have suffered the sorts of attacks that typically preface a high-dollar crypto heist, such as the compromise of one’s email and/or mobile phone accounts. “If you have my seed phrase, you can copy and paste that into your wallet, and then you can see all my accounts.

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Cryptocurrency Passwords Encryption Accountability 351

Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2024

An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit the vulnerability to log in to a vulnerable device using the root account and execute arbitrary commands. ” Pierluigi Paganini Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, Brocade) Brocade SANnav OVA before v2.3.1,

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 29, 2024

Internet security best practices mandate unique credentials for each online account; doing so would be impossible without a solid password manager like Dashlane. You can also set up compromised password alerts that will proactively look for leaked passwords or vulnerable accounts across your company.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 4, 2022

A big reason why APIs haven’t gotten the attention they deserve may be that, from a security standpoint, they fall into a category of hacking tactics known as Living off the Land, or LotL. Legacy security architectures just don’t fit this massively complex, highly dynamic environment. Here are my key takeaways: Manipulating APIs.

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2023

Experts warn of phishing attacks that are combining the use of compromised Microsoft 365 accounts and.rpmsg encrypted emails. Trustwave researchers have observed threat actors using encrypted RPMSG attachments sent via compromised Microsoft 365 accounts in a phishing campaign aimed at stealing Microsoft credentials.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

ViperSoftX uses more sophisticated encryption and anti-analysis techniques Atomic macOS Stealer is advertised on Telegram for $1,000 per month CISA warns of a critical flaw affecting Illumina medical devices OpenAI reinstates ChatGPT service in Italy after meeting Garante Privacy’s demands Cisco discloses a bug in the Prime Collaboration Deployment (..)

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 20, 2021

It calls for organizations to start proactively managing the myriad new attack vectors they’ve opened up in the pursuit of digital agility — by embracing a bold new IT architecture that extends network security far beyond the traditional perimeter. A full transition to a radically transformed security architecture is a tall order.

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Adam Levin

APRIL 29, 2020

In this kind of attack, hackers intercept payment card data and personal information from e-commerce sites by exploiting the architectural complexity of those e-commerce sites. . The threat posed by a hack targeting WooCommerce isn’t bad only because of the technology’s ubiquity.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 25, 2024

North Korea's prolific state-sponsored hacking units are once again setting their sights on South Korea's defense and arms manufacturing sector. Organizations can then work to counter these TTPs specific to each their assets, criticality, architecture, and other unique risks and considerations for that organization.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Government Accountability Office audit last week found that the defense department is playing catch up when it comes to securing weapons systems from cyberattacks. Don’t be surprised if the number of victims climbs higher, as we learned from the 2015 hack of 21.5 The hacking of DoD travel records raises an important nuance.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The botnet leverages a robust architecture based on a combination of third-party services, P2P, and Command & Control servers. This architecture was implemented to make the botnet resilient to takedowns by law enforcement and security firms with the support of the vendors of the infected devices. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 18, 2024

Microsoft has released a report detailing recent activity by Mint Sandstorm , an Iranian state-sponsored hacking group, targeting high-profile academics and researchers working on Middle Eastern affairs. New capabilities observed include compromising legitimate email accounts to bolster credibility in phishing attempts.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The main reasons to rewrite malware in Rust is to have lower AV detection rates, compared to malware written in most common languages, and to target multiple architectures. Unlike past variants, the Rust version of the Agenda ransomware is able to terminate the Windows AppInfo process and disable User Account Control (UAC).

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Ransomware Encryption Healthcare Education 118

Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2022

RapperBot has limited DDoS capabilities, it was designed to target ARM, MIPS, SPARC, and x86 architectures. “In conjunction, it adds the root user account every hour by writing the following script to “/etc/cron.hourly/0” in the event that other users (or botnets) attempt to remove their account from the victim system.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2022

In August password management software firm LastPass disclosed a security breach, threat actors had access to portions of the company development environment through a single compromised developer account and stole portions of source code and some proprietary technical information. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach).

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2022

” The alert provides tactical actions for MSPs and customers, including: Identify and disable accounts that are no longer in use. Enforce MFA on MSP accounts that access the customer environment and monitor for unexplained failed authentication. Manage internal architecture risks and segregate internal networks.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2020

XSS vulnerabilities accounted for 18% of all flaws reported by bug hunters, these issues received a total of $4.2 XSS vulnerabilities can be exploited by threat actors for multiple malicious activities, including account takeover and data theft. Information Disclosure accounts for 63% from last year. million / €33.4

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2021

US CISA and NSA released new guidance that provides recommendations on how to harden Kubernetes deployments and minimize the risk of hack. Periodically review all Kubernetes settings and use vulnerability scans to help ensure risks are appropriately accounted for and security patches are applied. ” states the guidance.

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System Administration Architecture Firewall Risk 102

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2023

The most interesting characteristic of the Triada Trojan apart is its modular architecture, which gives it theoretically a wide range of abilities. Triada was designed with the specific intent to implement financial frauds, typically hijacking the financial SMS transactions. ” concludes the report.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The threat intelligence platforms and detection and response systems installed far and wide, in SMBs and large enterprises alike, simply are not doing a terrific job at accounting for how APIs are facilitating multi-staged network breaches. API hacking escapades. A startling 95% of API attacks happen on authenticated endpoints.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2021

Threat actors carried out brute-force and password spraying attacks in an attempt to gain access to Microsoft customer accounts. Microsoft highlights the importance of best practices such as Zero-trust architecture and multi-factor authentication to prevent these attacks. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Nobelium).

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Financial Services Architecture Cyber Attacks Accountability 87

Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Active audit of privileged accounts that were recently created or updated. Figure 2: VPN vulnerabilities open doors to cyber threats, protect against these risks with Zero Trust architecture. Zero trust is a fundamentally different architecture than those built upon firewalls and VPNs.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

IP address, hostname, screen resolution, OS version, CPU architecture, ProcessorId, and GPU information), and steal various browser credential databases and files that may contain sensitive user information. The FUD-Loader malware downloader was also published by the same GitHub account.

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Malware Data collection Architecture Hacking 97

Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2023

BleepingComputer confirmed that the zip archive contained “previously unknown encryptors for macOS, ARM, FreeBSD, MIPS, and SPARC” architectures. The experts pointed out that the archive has been bundled as March 20, 2023, it also includes builds for PowerPC CPUs, which are used in older macOS systems.

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Encryption Architecture Ransomware Education 94

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 27, 2022

The Biden Administration is pushing federal agencies to adopt a zero-trust security architecture to protect themselves and their data from “increasingly sophisticated and persistent threat campaigns,” according to a new strategy issued this week by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). See the Best Zero Trust Security Solutions for 2022.

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Adam Levin

APRIL 8, 2019

Facebook’s Two-Factor Authentication phone numbers exposed: After prompting users to provide phone numbers to secure their accounts, Facebook allows anyone to look up their account by using them. The post Facebook May Have Gotten Hacked, and Maybe It’s Better We Don’t Know appeared first on Adam Levin.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

Related: Kaseya hack worsens supply chain risk. Chris Clements, VP of Solutions Architecture, Cerberus Sentinel. Compromising that could make other unrelated accounts vulnerable. as well as insurance and merchant accounts, to commit insurance fraud and wire fraud. For T-Mobile, this is the sixth major breach since 2018.

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McAfee

MAY 27, 2021

May 2021 has been an extraordinary month in the cybersecurity world, with the DoD releasing its DoD Zero Trust Reference Architecture (DoDZTRA), the Colonial Pipeline being hit with a ransomware attack, and the White House releasing its Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity (EO). If the situation sounds ominous, it is.

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Cybersecurity Architecture Artificial Intelligence Social Engineering 85

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2020

While investigating the impact of the recent SolarWind hack, on December 15th Microsoft reported to CrowdStrike that threat actors attempted to read CrowdStrike’s emails by using a compromised Microsoft Azure reseller’s account. As part of our secure IT architecture, CrowdStrike does not use Office 365 email.”

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Architecture Hacking Accountability Risk 94

Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Okta, a leading provider of authentication services and Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions, confirmed that its private GitHub repositories were hacked this month. Review cloud admin/super admin account audit logs. Review all executive accounts including MFA method changes. Re-enable MFA for those accounts.

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Accountability Architecture Authentication Internet 98

Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2024

Managing cloud alerts effectively requires overcoming the unique complexities introduced by cloud architectures. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybersecurity) She is also a regular writer at Bora.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2021

For example, a sample with the MD5 hash sum 914e49921c19fffd7443deee6ee161a4 contains two architectures: x86_64 and ARM64.” The first one corresponds to previous-generation, Intel-based Mac computers, but the second one is compiled for ARM64 architecture, which means that it can run on computers with the new Apple M1 chip.”.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 23, 2021

Your business can use LastPass to maintain unique passwords for each employee’s online accounts—a critical practice for modern cybersecurity health. LastPass disadvantages: history of hacking. One of the biggest risks with using LastPass is its track record with preventing hacks. LastPass pricing.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2021

The expert determined the number of cryptocurrencies that were mined to a mining pool account by inspecting the mining pool. The researchers noticed that some images have different tags for different CPU architectures or operating systems, in this way the attacker can choose the best cryptominer for the victim’s hardware.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 8, 2021

Internet security best practices mandate unique credentials for each online account; doing so would be impossible without a solid password manager like Dashlane. You can also set up compromised password alerts that will proactively look for leaked passwords or vulnerable accounts across your company.

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