Digital Shadows

AUGUST 17, 2021

The targeted phishing is going after folks in HR using fake but malicious resumes or payroll and accounts receivable teams to move legitimate payment accounts into attacker control. A compromised customer account might use business email compromise tactics to phish everyone in that customer’s circle.

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IT Security Guru

JANUARY 12, 2021

I wrote this article in an attempt to answer the most common questions that people have about making a career in cybersecurity. System Administrator (or, sysadmin). As a CBO at Ampcus Cyber, Viral overlooks the go-to-market Strategy, channel partner programs, strategic accounts, and customer relationship management.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

In this article we will learn how to address and effectively respond to major enterprise cybersecurity threats and provide tips to mitigate IT security risk. In the event of the Ransomware assault, the G Suite administrator will receive a notification about the incident either via e-mail or by Slack.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

This article looks at the remote desktop protocol, how RDP attacks work, best practices for defense, the prevalence of RDP attacks today, and how remote desktop software vendors are securing their clients. A few days later, IT systems started malfunctioning with ransom messages following. Defending Against RDP Attacks: Best Practices.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 21, 2021

There is no patch for it yet (it is expected to be patched in early May), so system administrators will need to mitigate for the problem for now, rather than simply fixing it. According to some articles the threat-actors are linked to China. The identified threat actors were found to be harvesting account credentials.

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VPN Authentication Malware System Administration 72

Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

It isn’t anyone’s fault, necessarily, since news articles about ransomware attacks often focus on the attack, the suspected threat actors, the ransomware type, and, well, not much else. Further, when recovering from a ransomware attack, there will almost always be what Kacaroski called a “system admin chokepoint.”.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2022

This article looks at the security functionality of SD-WAN solutions and how to bolster SD-WAN cybersecurity. This cloud-centric model offers administrators granular network management opportunities while leveraging the bandwidth and reducing the cost of service delivery. Jump ahead for a technical review on SD-WAN.

Firewall 57

Firewall Architecture Software Backups 57

Security Boulevard

JUNE 20, 2022

They recommend tiered administration with dedicated admin accounts. Admins should use a hardened Privileged Access Workstation (PAW) when performing administrative tasks, and the admin session must require Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and Just-In-Time (JIT) restrictions. Tier One : Enterprise servers and applications.

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SiteLock

APRIL 7, 2022

In this article, we look at a few phishing kits that were recently found in customer sites and compare their structure and complexity. This article is going to explore two different phishing kits that we have found and highlight the ways in which they can be detected and avoided. What Is A Phishing Kit? Phishing Kit – Citi Group.

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Phishing Engineering System Administration Malware 52

Spinone

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

These are words that no system administrator or business leader wants to hear from anyone using a computer on their network. In this article, we will try to prove the opposite. SpinOne still allows the user account access to the environment. My screen shows a large red skull and says all of my files are locked!

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Ransomware Encryption Malware Backups 52

SecureList

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In this article, we’ll describe their new toolset, the malware used to steal and exfiltrate data, and the techniques used by this group to move laterally and conduct espionage operations.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

He was indicted on charges of stealing millions of academic articles and journals from a digital archive at MIT. Vamosi: In 2002, I wrote an article for ZDNET titled “Jail Time is Not The Answer to Cyber Crime.” And, you know, I had the Twitter account ID set up in 2018. But MIT didn’t press charges.

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