Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Spotting and Stopping Persistent Invaders Nation state affiliated threat actors such as FIN6 , NICKEL , and Emissary Panda targeted critical Active Directory assets, notably the (Windows NT Directory Services) NTDS.dit file, the KRBTGT service account, and Active Directory certificates. password hashes) from Active Directory.

Backups 69

Backups Passwords Authentication Accountability 69

Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The attacker gained initial access to two employee accounts by carrying out social engineering attacks on the organization’s help desk twice. This concealed their attack until the environment was encrypted and backups were sabotaged. Within six hours, the attacker began encrypting the organization’s systems.

Social Engineering 52

Social Engineering Engineering Accountability Backups 52

Notice Bored

JULY 21, 2022

The customer is apparently seeking guidance on integrating infosec into the development process, which begs the question "Which development process?". Prompted by some valuable customer feedback earlier this week, I've been thinking about how best to update the SecAware policy template on software/systems development.

Software 72

Software Risk InfoSec Security Awareness 72

SecureList

MAY 19, 2023

Over the years, the infosec community has discovered multiple APTs operating in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict region – Gamaredon, CloudAtlas , BlackEnergy and many others. From the WmiPrvSE.exe process, it makes a backup of the VFS file, copying mods.lrc to mods.lrs. In order to steal, it reads Gmail cookies from browser databases.

Encryption 129

Encryption Malware Internet Internet 129

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 11, 2021

Even the most critical damages caused by ransomware are repairable as long as you have a solid backup strategy. Subject to the malware class and timeframes for decryption set by the attackers, too many victims end up transferring funds to the hacker’s accounts. The rule of thumb says that no demands set by ransomware must be satisfied.

Ransomware 71

Ransomware Insurance Encryption Cyber Insurance 71

Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 12, 2021

You can log events such as input validation failures, authentication and authorization success and failures, application errors, and any other events that deal with sensitive functionality like payment, account settings, and so on. This will give you insight into the malicious activities going on in your network.

Social Engineering 78

Social Engineering Penetration Testing Authentication Phishing 78

ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The confidentiality, integrity, and availability of it all -- you know, the classic CIA triad in infosec. Bee: I have to put in 16 letters and digits to get into my FreshDirect account. These might begin to solve problems with individual voting machines, but what about the larger problem? Bee: Can you tell me what the password was?

Hacking 52

Hacking Mobile Software Technology 52

ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The confidentiality, integrity, and availability of it all -- you know, the classic CIA triad in infosec. Bee: I have to put in 16 letters and digits to get into my FreshDirect account. These might begin to solve problems with individual voting machines, but what about the larger problem? Bee: Can you tell me what the password was?

Hacking 52

Hacking Mobile Software Technology 52

ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

He also talks about the future generation of hacking, what motivates young people today to think outside the box in a world where infosec is increasingly becoming vocational and expected. Is it the hospital, which should have had a power backup? And, you know, I had the Twitter account ID set up in 2018. Vamosi: Hackers.

Hacking 52

Hacking Technology InfoSec Media 52

ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The confidentiality, integrity, and availability of it all -- you know, the classic CIA triad in infosec. Bee: I have to put in 16 letters and digits to get into my FreshDirect account. These might begin to solve problems with individual voting machines, but what about the larger problem? Bee: Can you tell me what the password was?

Hacking 40

Hacking Mobile Software Technology 40

ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

A lot of infosec’s knowledge is either tribal -- passed on from one person to another - or can be found in books. The one thing is that you can just simply extract the password from the service accounts, which today does not sound very outstanding. And, of course, we are wondering why this is the case. To do the math.

Software 40

Software Phishing Passwords Malware 40

DoublePulsar

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Three of the victims are cybersecurity vendors, and I suspect they may have access to another larger infosec vendor that they haven’t disclosed. Even Wordpress backups, as apparently people build CRMs on Wordpress nowadays (I’m old). They will do light recon on the network for things like backup systems.

Backups 84

Backups DDOS Accountability Hacking 84

Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Zero Trust assumes there is no implicit trust granted to assets, user accounts, microservices, or data based solely on their location. Teams will likely discover key gaps, namely that their backup solutions may be insufficient and can actually take a longer period of time to recover than what the business can tolerate.

Ransomware 59

Ransomware Backups Mobile InfoSec 59

ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

She is an impressive force within the infosec world. Sometimes the decryption worked, sometimes it didn’t, creating headaches for system admins worldwide who didn’t have good backups in place. I mean if you can’t handle the details, then what do you think working in infosec is all about?

Penetration Testing 52

Penetration Testing InfoSec Cyber Attacks Education 52

ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

She is an impressive force within the infosec world. Sometimes the decryption worked, sometimes it didn’t, creating headaches for system admins worldwide who didn’t have good backups in place. I mean if you can’t handle the details, then what do you think working in infosec is all about?

Penetration Testing 52

Penetration Testing InfoSec Cyber Attacks Education 52

ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Fortunately, there are those in the InfoSec world, who are actively looking at the subject and speaking out at conferences, such as Black Hat. Vamosi: That talk focused on the fact that there are InfoSec hackers openly working to address this problem. Both involve people getting hurt. Both involve technology. Our mobile phone plans.

Technology 52

Technology Software Surveillance Media 52

ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

He also talks about his infosec journey hacking cryptocurrencies, joining the Digital Defense Service and CISA, and helping secure the 2020 presidential election… all before the age of 22. If you don't have anti malware on your computer that protects against these types of attacks, or if you don't have good backups.

Hacking 52

Hacking Ransomware Cryptocurrency Engineering 52

ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

He also talks about his infosec journey hacking cryptocurrencies, joining the Digital Defense Service and CISA, and helping secure the 2020 presidential election… all before the age of 22. If you don't have anti malware on your computer that protects against these types of attacks, or if you don't have good backups.

Hacking 52

Hacking Ransomware Cryptocurrency Engineering 52