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Over 3.1 million cyber attacks on cloud user accounts

CyberSecurity Insiders

million cyber attacks on cloud user accounts. And most of them were malware related followed by account hijackings and targeted attacks against vulnerabilities. Legal, Real Estate and transportation and business service accounts remain in the second place on the list. The post Over 3.1

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8Base ransomware operators use a new variant of the Phobos ransomware

Security Affairs

The group has been active since March 2022, it focused on small and medium-size businesses in multiple industries, including finance, manufacturing, business services, and IT. The experts observed a massive spike in activity associated with this threat actor between May and June 2023. and Brazil.

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Mastering Identity and Access Management in the Cloud

CyberSecurity Insiders

The migration of business services, apps and data in the cloud has blurred traditional corporate perimeter. Businesses need to evolve their traditional identity and access management (IAM) program to safeguard the access to their cloud-based assets and data.

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Insider Threat: Employees indicted for stealing $88 million of license keys

Malwarebytes

Pearce also hijacked accounts of former Avaya employees to generate more license keys and draw suspicion away from him. He also used his privileges to conceal evidence that such accounts were generating keys, leaving Avaya in the dark for years. They then sold the keys to other resellers and end-users globally.

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Over 39K unauthenticated Redis services on the internet targeted in cryptocurrency campaign

Security Affairs

. “Under certain conditions, if Redis runs with the root account (or not even), attackers can write an SSH public key file to the root account, directly logging on to the victim server through SSH. ” reads the post published by Zhu on September 11, 2022.

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UNC2529, a new sophisticated cybercrime gang that targets U.S. orgs with 3 malware

Security Affairs

“For example, UNC2529 used a unique username, masquerading as an account executive for a small California-based electronics manufacturing company, which Mandiant identified through a simple Internet search.” ” states the analysis published by FireEye.

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Who’s Behind the DomainNetworks Snail Mail Scam?

Krebs on Security

com , which says it belongs to a Las Vegas-based Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and digital marketing concern generically named both United Business Service and United Business Services. The name on the WHMCS account was Shmuel Orit Alon , from Kidron, Israel. and Renton, Wash.

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