Malwarebytes

APRIL 9, 2024

In the past couple of weeks, we have observed an ongoing campaign targeting system administrators with fraudulent ads for popular system utilities. The malicious ads are displayed as sponsored results on Google’s search engine page and localized to North America. dll (Nitrogen).

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The Shikitega attack consists of a “multistage infection chain where each module responds to a part of the payload and downloads and executes the next one,” the AT&T researchers wrote. The researchers found five different scripts that aim to set four CRON jobs, which are recurrent tasks you can program on a computer system.

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

We also recognize that defenders and system administrators operate with a lot of constraints and aren’t always able to configure their environment to their ideal security posture. Be especially aware of the owner role, which is a super-admin role: it can grant admin privileges to other accounts.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

One tried-and-true incursion method pivots off social engineering. It was designed to make it convenient for system administrators to automate tasks and manage configurations across all Windows endpoints and servers in a company network. Privilege account credentials are widely available for sale.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2020

“They exhibit extensive knowledge of systems administration and common network security misconfigurations, perform thorough reconnaissance, and adapt to what they discover in a compromised network.” ” reads the post published by Microsoft. ” continues Microsoft.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 11, 2022

Famed hacker Kevin Mitnick learned early on to use emotion to manipulate and socially engineer his targets. At the time, his targets were typically sysadmins, and the social engineering started with a phone call. The account number they supply is NOT the correct account for donations.".

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SecureList

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Not much later, this same security package deployment service was used to push GamePlayerFramework downloaders, with these downloaders communicating with the same C2, and signed with the same digital certificate. These downloaders maintained PDB strings with “PuppetLoader” filepaths. com C2 used by the PlugX implant.

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