Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2021

FIN7, operating under the guise of Bastion Secure, published job offers for programmers (PHP, C++, Python), system administrators, and reverse engineers. The gang was looking for administrators to map out compromised companies’ networks and locate sensitive data, including backup.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 21, 2022

Inactive Accounts and Default Configurations. Hackers gained initial access by brute-forcing an existing account via “a simple, predictable password” to enroll a new device in the MFA procedures, the agencies said. MFA was automatically disabled because the account was inactive for a long period.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The agencies offered some sound cybersecurity advice for BlackByte that applies pretty generally: Conduct regular backups and store them as air-gapped, password-protected copies offline. Update and patch operating systems, software, and firmware as soon as updates and patches are released. BlackByte Ransomware Protection Steps.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Privileged accounts are among an organization’s biggest cybersecurity concerns. These accounts give admins control over data, applications, infrastructure and other critical assets that average system users don’t have permission to access or change. What is Privileged Access Management (PAM)? WALLIX Bastion. PAM best practices.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

. “Upon gaining an initial foothold into a telecommunications organization or network service provider, PRC state-sponsored cyber actors have identified critical users and infrastructure including systems critical to maintaining the security of authentication, authorization, and accounting.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

They targeted specific profiles such as system administrators who know how to map corporate networks, locate backups and identify users within a system, which are critical steps in ransomware attacks. Further reading: Best Backup Solutions for Ransomware Protection. practice assignments and job interviews.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Their backups worked, Tipton said, but the process itself happened slower than expected. A disaster recovery plan is only as useful as it is accessible, and an inaccessible password vault could slow down literally every single part of a data recovery effort if administrators simply cannot access their accounts.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 15, 2024

July 11, 2024 Ransomware Group Exploits Veeam Backup & Replication Vulnerability Type of vulnerability: Remote code execution. in Veeam Backup & Replication allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands, compromising backup integrity and allowing for lateral movement. The problem: CVE-2023-27532 (CVSS score: 7.5)

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 6, 2021

Kaseya’s flagship product is a remote monitoring and management (RMM) solution called the Virtual Systems Administrator (VSA) and is the product at the center of the current attack. When administrators noticed suspicious behavior on Friday, Kaseya shut down VSA. Backup data regularly. VSA server breached.

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SecureList

MARCH 12, 2024

Mitigation: do not store files containing sensitive data, such as passwords or backups, in web application publish directories. During one of the projects, an SQL injection into an application that was open to signup by any internet user let us obtain the credentials of an internal system administrator.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 1, 2021

As a Domain Admin they could then act almost with impunity, spreading ransomware, deleting backups and even disabling security software. If they can secure any kind of access, they can potentially use PrintNightmare to turn a normal user into an all-powerful Domain Admin. Mitigation.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 27, 2024

This affected system administrators worldwide. The fix: Administrators should download and install the KB5039705 OOB update via Windows Update, WSUS, or the Microsoft Update Catalog. The fix: Veeam released Backup Enterprise Manager version 12.1.2.172 and Backup & Replication version 12.1.2

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

A few days later, IT systems started malfunctioning with ransom messages following. The system administrator did not configure standard security controls when installing the server in question. Meanwhile, the suspect server was connected to the CDOT domain with an administrator account and the internet.

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Duo's Security Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

One common hurdle for systems administrators setting up new Duo Unix integrations is PAM — Pluggable Authentication Modules. We hope that the guidance below, combined with our extensive documentation , will help those setting up new integrations get their systems configured quickly and easily. prior to implementing Duo.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Backup solutions companies have contributed to this misconception by alluding to keeping your data safe by storing it in the cloud. While public cloud vendors offer amazing resiliency in their datacenter infrastructure, most do not offer native backups.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 21, 2023

By concentrating on crucial patches that fix serious flaws or have a significant influence on system stability, system administrators may make sure that resources are used effectively and that possible disruptions are kept to a minimum. Professional plans start from $245/year up to $24,295/year.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2022

This cloud-centric model offers administrators granular network management opportunities while leveraging the bandwidth and reducing the cost of service delivery. Experienced administrators understand the importance of inspecting all network traffic. Traditional Networks vs Software-Define Networks (SDN). Inspecting Web Traffic.

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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. SpinOne still allows the user account access to the environment. In other words, an employee whose user account has been victimized will still have access to his or her G Suite or Office 365 account.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Always keep your eyes open to control-rights of the senior IT managers or systems administrators with the authority to configure servers, firewalls, cloud storage, and file-sharing (or another network privilege). and you will never lose sleep over you cybersecurity issues – because Spinbackup takes care of your valuable data.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 22, 2021

It’s widely known, and endlessly repeated, that the last, best line of defence against the potentially devastating effects of a ransomware attack is your backups. Ski Kacoroski, System administrator, Northshore School District. Why do backups fail? This is what we learned from Crape: Backups are difficult.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

Is it the hospital, which should have had a power backup? And, you know, I had the Twitter account ID set up in 2018. I had tweeted this video, it's pinned on our Twitter account hack, not crime. Let's say someone hacks into the local power grid and, as a result, a hospital loses power to its critical patient care units.

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SecureList

JANUARY 31, 2025

As an example, let’s create a user-defined scheduler task that will run under the account labdomain.localadmin. The tool spins up its own SMB server, where it creates malicious policies, then changes the path to the GPT, and after applying the modified policies, restores them to their original state from its backup.

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