Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2020

The Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck announced that threat actors have accessed their account at the Oname.com domain registrar and hijacked one of its domain names. “The domain registration information has been amended at around 20:52 on June 1, 2020, and there is no impact on the customer’s assets at this time.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Researchers at AppOms discovered a vulnerability in Zoom Room as part of the HackerOne live hacking event H1-4420. The experts discovered the vulnerability in June 2023, they warned that an attacker can take over a Zoom Room’s service account and gain access to the victim’s organization’s tenant.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The threat actor was able to use these session tokens to hijack the legitimate Okta sessions of 5 customers, 3 of whom have shared their own response to this event.” ” The three customers who shared their own responses to the event are Cloudflare, 1Password , and BeyondTrust. ” continues the post.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 11, 2021

In response, the non-profit has offered a glimpse into its work-in-progress “Accountability Framework,” designed to help relevant health care stakeholders take responsibility for keeping cyberspace secure by enforcing behavioral norms and also by understanding and rooting out the underlying causes when attacks do happen. “Too

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2024

Brokewell malware supports “accessibility logging,” it records any device events such as touches, swipes, displayed information, text input, and opened applications. The experts explained that potentially all applications on the device are vulnerable to data compromise as Brokewell logs every event.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The City of Philadelphia discloses a data breach that resulted from a cyber attack that took place on May 24 and that compromised City email accounts. The City of Philadelphia announced it is investigating a data breach after attackers that threat actors broke some of City email accounts containing personal and protected health information.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

According to state investigators, Dunkin' Donuts failed to respond to a series of successful cyber attacks that left tens of thousands of customer's online accounts vulnerable. Now the company is being forced to take certain information security measures and pay a $650,000 fine to the state of New York.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Security firm Sumo Logic disclosed a security breach after discovering the compromise of its AWS account compromised last week. The company disclosed a security breach after discovering that its AWS account was compromised last week. The company discovered the security breach on Friday, November 3, 2023.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 8, 2021

The post CPDP 2021 – Moderator: Eduard Fosch-Villaronga ‘Artountability: Accountability, Ai And Art’ appeared first on Security Boulevard. Our sincere thanks to CPDP 2021 - Computers, Privacy & Data Protection Conference for publishing their well-crafted videos on the organization's YouTube channel.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The fabricated LinkedIn identities — which pair AI-generated profile photos with text lifted from legitimate accounts — are creating major headaches for corporate HR departments and for those managing invite-only LinkedIn groups. Another “swarm” of LinkedIn bot accounts flagged by Taylor’s group.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2024

Attackers often exploit current events or emergency situations to elicit emotional responses and induce victims to act hastily without carefully evaluating the legitimacy of the communications. He is also the author of the book “La Gestione della Cyber Security nella Pubblica Amministrazione”.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Companies must take this into account and consider extending employee training to also promote security and privacy habits among all family members, especially children. Companies can promote family online safety with family-focused materials, events, and outreach. Host virtual events? Do you have a corporate book club?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 1, 2024

These are the Top 2023 Security Affairs cybersecurity stories … enjoy it. CYBERCRIMINALS LAUNCHED “LEAKSMAS” EVENT IN THE DARK WEB EXPOSING MASSIVE VOLUMES OF LEAKED PII AND COMPROMISED DATA Leaksmas: On Christmas Eve, multiple threat actors released substantial data leaks, Resecurity experts reported.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

PuTTY.exe Rhysida actors have been observed creating Secure Shell (SSH) PuTTy connections for lateral movement. In one example, analysis of PowerShell console host history for a compromised user account revealed Rhysida actors leveraged PuTTy to remotely connect to systems via SSH [ T1021.004 ].

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The advisory published by the vendor states that the exploitation of the vulnerability allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to create an account on an affected system with privilege level 15 access. The attacker can then use that account to gain control of the affected system.” ” states Cisco Talos.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2024

The ransomware identifies user accounts by viewing successful logins in Windows Event Viewer, it also uses a modified variant of the open-source PSnmap Tool. Cactus ransomware uses the SoftPerfect Network Scanner (netscan) to look for other targets on the network along with PowerShell commands to enumerate endpoints.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The threat actor was able to use these session tokens to hijack the legitimate Okta sessions of 5 customers, 3 of whom have shared their own response to this event.” The three customers who shared their own responses to the event are Cloudflare, 1Password , and BeyondTrust. ” continues the update.

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Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2022

Security researchers from Horizon3.ai The tool allows monitoring activities of Active Directory and produces alerts and reporting for one or more desired Active Directory change events. The unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability was discovered by security researcher Naveen Sunkavally at Horizon3.ai

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2023

This ominous cyber-event sent shockwaves through the $26 trillion U.S. The ransomware disruption temporarily prevented bank employees from accessing their corporate email accounts and connecting to the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation to resolve large batches of U.S. trillion under management. Treasury market. Treasury trades.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 13, 2022

Enforce strong passwords and implement multi-factor authentication (MFA) — by educating users about using a unique password for each account and enforcing higher security for privileged accounts (administrators, root). Accounting for humans. •Educate your employees on threats and risks such as phishing and malware.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

the Maine Attorney General’s Office, Bank of America noted that it cannot determine “with certainty what personal information was accessed” during the attack. .” On February 1, Bank of America started notifying 57028 customers impacted by the data breach.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The ransomware identifies user accounts by viewing successful logins in Windows Event Viewer, it also uses a modified variant of the open-source PSnmap Tool. Cactus ransomware uses the SoftPerfect Network Scanner (netscan) to look for other targets on the network along with PowerShell commands to enumerate endpoints.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 11, 2021

The post CPDP 2021 – Moderator: Eduard Fosch-Villaronga ‘Artountability: Accountability, AI, And Art’ appeared first on Security Boulevard. Our sincere thanks to CPDP 2021 - Computers, Privacy & Data Protection Conference for publishing their well-crafted videos on the organization's YouTube channel.

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Hot for Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

(CJH) is alerting more than 36,000 UPMC patients that some of their personal data may have been inappropriately accessed as the result of an information security breach at the company,” the notice reads. “This event did not occur at UPMC or affect the security of its electronic patient records or other computer systems.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2021

The cyberattack temporarily blocked the customers’ access to their account information, the cooperative is working to restore the impacted system. We are thankful that no information has been accessed during this event.”. The system maintenance prevents members from accessing their accounts and any payment systems.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2022

“See Tickets was alerted to activity indicating potential unauthorized access by a third party to certain event checkout pages on the See Tickets website in April 2021. “On September 12, 2022, we determined the event may have resulted in unauthorized access to the payment card information of certain of our customers.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The advisory published by the vendor states that the exploitation of the vulnerability allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to create an account on an affected system with privilege level 15 access. This vulnerability allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to create an account on an affected system with privilege level 15 access.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The researchers found two SharkbotDopper apps in Google Play Store, “Mister Phone Cleaner” and “Kylhavy Mobile Security,” with 10K and 50K installs respectively. SharkBot is a banking trojan that has been active since October 2021, it allows to steal banking account credentials and bypass multi-factor authentication mechanisms.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 5, 2021

Our thanks to Security BSides Athens for publishing their outstanding Security BSides Athens 2021 Conference videos on the groups' YouTube channel. The post Security BSides Athens 2021 – Talk 8: Leonidas Tsaousis’ ‘Click Here For Free TV!

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2023

Unit42 researchers were able to recover the script from the Windows Event Log (WEL). The script identifies any mounted drives on the target system by using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) , then iterates through the identified drives to prepare data exfiltration via HTTP POST events using the object’s.UploadFile method.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2022

This post provides a timeline of the events related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine from the cyber security perspective. Below is the timeline of the events related to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine that occurred in the previous weeks: April 8 – Anonymous and the IT ARMY of Ukraine continue to target Russian entities.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2023

. “As a result, we believe the risk to individuals whose personal data was involved in this event is low. Nonetheless, a robust review of the files involved was conducted to identify individuals whose personal information may be contained in the files.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2022

This post provides a timeline of the events related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine from the cyber security perspective. Mar 28 – While Twitter suspends Anonymous accounts, the group hacked VGTRK Russian Television and Radio. Apr 02 – Ukraine intelligence leaks names of 620 alleged Russian FSB agents.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

“The group also relies on valid accounts and leverage strong operational security, which combined, allows for long-term undiscovered persistence. The Volt Typhoon’s activities suggest that the group primarily aims to establish a foothold within networks to secure access to Operational Technology (OT) assets.

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2023

“We investigated alerts in our corporate Security Information & Event Management (SIEM) and blocked the compromised account. “We are confident that our layered security controls prevented the threat actor from accomplishing what we believe to be their primary objective of launching ransomware.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The advisory published by the vendor states that the exploitation of the vulnerability allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to create an account on an affected system with privilege level 15 access. This vulnerability allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to create an account on an affected system with privilege level 15 access.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2023

. “Based on the activity logs provided by Okta for their Support Portal, the HAR file had not been accessed by their support engineer until after the events of the incident. Security confirmed that the act of downloading the file would be captured in the activity logs by downloading the file from the support case.

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