Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2022

Threat actors behind the Twilio hack also gained access to the accounts of 93 individual users of its Authy two-factor authentication (2FA) service. Twilio last week announced that that the threat actors also gained access to the accounts of 93 individual users of its Authy two-factor authentication (2FA) service.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 8, 2019

All of cloud backup services for Office 365 admins perform the same primary function – they automatically backup your data. And this difference in “not what but how” is crucial for data security. And of course, read about how to use it to backup office 365 emails easily !

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2024

Direct Trading Technologies, an international fintech company, jeopardized over 300K traders by leaking their sensitive data and trading activity, thereby putting them at risk of an account takeover. The leak poses a variety of risks, expanding from identity theft to takeover and cashing-out accounts of traders. Account data.

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Spinone

AUGUST 25, 2018

Spinbackup is a cloud-to-cloud backup and cloud G Suite security solution provider. Our unique market value proposition is to remove human factor for data security and use machine learning algorithms to fully automate G Suite data protection and we do it all in one very well designed dashboard.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2023

. “MyBB admin logs show the account of a trusted but currently inactive member of the forum admin team was used to access the web-based MyBB admin console twice: on 16 February and again on 21 February. The account was used to create database backups which were then downloaded and deleted.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The threat actors sent victims a phone number in a phishing attempt, often related to pending charges on their accounts. The FBI also published recommendations for organizations to improve their security posture in response to these new activity trends. The FBI also recommends reviewing the security posture of third-party vendors.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The second critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-38548 (CVSS score 9.8), can be exploited by an unprivileged user who has access to the Veeam ONE Web Client the ability to acquire the NTLM hash of the account used by the Veeam ONE Reporting Service. The vulnerability only affects Veeam ONE 12.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In traditional on-site backup systems security is mainly a physical concern – ensuring data is backed up in more than one location in case of hardware loss or failure and restricting access to the physical backup media to only trusted employees. In cloud backup, security concerns are different.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The exposed data exposed a disk backup of two employees’ workstations containing secrets, private keys, passwords, and over 30,000 internal Microsoft Teams messages. “The researchers shared their files using an Azure feature called SAS tokens, which allows you to share data from Azure Storage accounts.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Early this month, Evgueni Erchov, Director of IR & Cyber Threat Intelligence at Arete Incident Response, told ZDNet that multiple ransomware gangs are cold-calling victims if they don’t pay the ransom and attempt to restore from backups. Patch operating systems, software, firmware, and endpoints. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

that can allow website subscribers to download the latest database backups, which could potentially contain sensitive data. “The plugin uses custom “nonces” and timestamps to securely identify backups. This info could allow attackers to receive the backup via mail by manipulating the request. score of 8.5)

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2022

The report also includes a list of mitigation measures to increase the resilience of company networks: Implement a recovery plan to maintain and retain multiple copies of sensitive or proprietary data and servers in a physically separate, segmented, and secure location (i.e., Regularly back up data, password protect backup copies offline.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

The Talos researchers discovered a number of features implemented by Phobos allowing operators to establish persistence in a targeted system, perform speedy encryption, and remove backups. Disable system recovery, backup and shadow copies and the Windows firewall. Embedded configuration with more than 70 options available.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The IT giant also removed 1,183 Google accounts, 908 cloud projects, and 870 Google Ads accounts used by the operators. Glupteba disruption over last year: 63M Google Docs 1,183 Google Accounts, 908 Cloud Projects, and 870 Google Ads accounts. users were warned via Safe Browsing. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The good news is in the latter attack the victims restored its backups. The FBI provided the following mitigations to protect against ransomware attacks: Regularly back up data, air gap, and password protect backup copies offline. Avoid reusing passwords for multiple accounts. Focus on cyber security awareness and training.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

service account, admin accounts, and domain admin accounts) to have strong, unique passwords. If using Linux, use a Linux security module (such as SELinux, AppArmor, or SecComp) for defense in depth. The agencies urge victims of ransomware to report incidents and never pay the ransom. ” concludes the advisory.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2020

Last week a member of the Joomla Resources Directory (JRD) team left an unencrypted full backup of the JRD site ( resources.joomla.org ) on an unsecured Amazon Web Services S3 bucket operated by the company. “JRD full site backups (unencrypted) were stored in a third-party company Amazon Web Services S3 bucket.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

“Sirva.com says that all their information worth only $1m. We have over 1.5TB of documents leaked + 3 full backups of CRM for branches (eu, na and au) Sirva Worldwide, Inc. The LockBit ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for the attack on SIRVA, the group has stolen 1.5TB of data and already leaked it.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2024

The following vulnerabilities, discovered by the security researcher Pierre Barre , impact all versions up to 2.3.0 The following vulnerabilities, discovered by the security researcher Pierre Barre , impact all versions up to 2.3.0 Brocade SANnav OVA before v2.3.1, and v2.3.0a, contain hardcoded TLS keys used by Docker.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2020

The group confirmed that the broadcasting of France 3 will be transferred to the headquarters of France Televisions, the company also activated the backup site in response to the incident. The attackers also hijacked the Channel TV5Monde website and social media accounts of the French broadcaster.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2024

As an example of compromised accounts, Resecurity outlined exposed access credentials belonging to a major data center and one of the largest vendors providing international-scale network telephony connectivity to governmental and national telecom providers in Africa.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2020

The City of Lafayette, Colorado, USA, has been forced to pay $45,000 because they were unable to restore necessary files from backup. The City also added that credit card data was not stored on its systems, anyway it invited residents and employees to monitor their bank accounts for suspicious activity.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

-based cyber intelligence firm Hold Security , KrebsOnSecurity in March told Gunnebo about a financial transaction between a malicious hacker and a cybercriminal group which specializes in deploying ransomware. “The harsh and unfortunate reality is the security of a number of security companies is s**t,” Arena said.

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2021

“As for utility billing, Tulsa police say new account registration is currently unavailable. Tulsans can make a payment on their account and view their bill as a guest as long as they have their new account number and customer ID, plus the name on their account exactly as it appears on their bill.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2023

According to an Update on Network Security Incident the company states that account access to Western Digital’s online store also was impacted and that it plans to restore the service by the week of May 15, 2023. “We are writing to notify you about a network security incident involving your Western Digital online store account.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

. “By reporting any related information to FBI Cyber Squads, you are assisting in sharing information that allows the FBI to track malicious actors and coordinate with private industry and the United States Government to prevent future intrusions and attacks.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2019

The total size is uncertain, but the researcher downloaded a sample of about a terabyte in size, including 750 gigabytes of compressed email backups.” Researchers also found credentials for Attunity systems and its official Twitter account, and an employee personal information (names, salary, date of birth, and employee ID numbers).

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SecureList

MAY 28, 2024

But along with the advantages, such as saved time and resources, delegating non-core tasks creates new challenges in terms of information security. Having compromised the service provider’s infrastructure, intruders can obtain user accounts or certificates issued by the target organization, and thereby connect to their systems.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2022

“The actors have leveraged privileged accounts to gain access to VMware vCenter Server and reset account passwords [ T1098 ] for ESXi servers in the environment. If you use Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), secure and monitor it. Use standard user accounts on internal systems instead of?administrative?accounts,

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Below are the recommended mitigations included in the alert: Implement regular backups of all data to be stored as air gapped, password protected copies offline. Review domain controllers, servers, workstations, and active directories for new or unrecognized user accounts. Do not give all users administrative privileges.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2022

. “Proofpoint has discovered a potentially dangerous piece of functionality in Office 365 or Microsoft 365 that allows ransomware to encrypt files stored on SharePoint and OneDrive in a way that makes them unrecoverable without dedicated backups or a decryption key from the attacker.”

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Chief information security officers (CISOs) should proactively implement strategies and protect their infrastructures against hacking months and weeks leading up to this busy time of the year.  Yet, the holiday period is critical for many businesses. Automate digital certificate renewals Expired digital certificates  (e.g.,

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2022

. “The CSA—created in response to reports of increased activity against MSPs and their customers—provides specific guidance for both MSPs and customers aimed at enabling transparent discussions on securing sensitive data.” Deprecate obsolete accounts and infrastructure. Backup systems and data. Apply updates.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2023

NCA infiltrates the cybercriminal underground with fake DDoS-for-hire sites Pwn2Own Vancouver 2023 awarded $1,035,000 and a Tesla for 27 0-days CISA announced the Pre-Ransomware Notifications initiative China-linked hackers target telecommunication providers in the Middle East City of Toronto is one of the victims hacked by Clop gang using GoAnywhere (..)

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 7, 2021

At the University of California Berkeley, Chief Information Security Officer Allison Henry and school CIO, Jenn Stringer, posted about what is going on within the UC community: "Beginning Monday, March 29, many UC Berkeley email accounts started receiving messages stating that their personal data had been stolen and would be released.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2022

Set up a new administrator account, and disable the default admin account. Enforce a strong password policy for all NAS users, including the new administrator account you’ve just created. You can schedule updates to avoid interrupting backup/sync or other tasks. Configure MFA (2-Step Verification) on QNAP NAS.

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