eSecurity Planet

JULY 13, 2023

“This tool presents itself as a blackhat alternative to GPT models, designed specifically for malicious activities.” In one experiment, they asked WormGPT “to generate an email intended to pressure an unsuspecting account manager into paying a fraudulent invoice.”

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SecureList

MARCH 12, 2024

Compared to Broken Access Control, Sensitive Data Exposure contained a greater number of low-risk vulnerabilities, but high-risk ones were present as well. 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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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Update and patch operating systems, software, and firmware as soon as updates and patches are released. Review domain controllers, servers, workstations, and active directories for new or unrecognized user accounts. Federal organizations will only have until February 24, 2022 to patch this vulnerability. How to Use the CISA Catalog.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 2, 2022

In most organization system administrators can disable or change most or all SSH configurations; these settings and configurations can significantly increase or reduce SSH security risks. Disabling root account remote login - This prevents users from logging in as the root (super user) account. Here’s my key.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2019

Webmin is an open-source web-based interface for system administration for Linux and Unix. It allows users using web browsers to set up user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. I'ill share detailed information about my presentation and vulnerabilities very soon! ehakkus) August 11, 2019.

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Notice Bored

OCTOBER 12, 2021

For instance, electric valve and sluice gate controllers on a sewage treatment plant that are computerised and networked smart things are at risk from malware, hackers, inept system administration or configuration errors, software design flaws and programming bugs, mechanical problems, power glitches and more.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2019

For example, the indictment alleges that the Bugat malware allowed computer intruders to hijack a computer session and present a fake online banking webpage to trick a user into entering personal and financial information.” Attorney Brady. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2019

According to an investigation conducted by Secureworks hackers were also able to access the hackers were also able to compromise the mail servers to obtain access to admin accounts. Hackers could read, send or delete emails from any user. “ reports Radio-Canada.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Abusable Requirements The first issue that raises an eyebrow is the requirement that the machine account for the passive site server must be a member of the LOCAL ADMINISTRATORS group on the active site server. Figure 2: Site Installation Account Next, we’ll shift focus to the site database role.

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Adam Levin

APRIL 8, 2019

Facebook’s Two-Factor Authentication phone numbers exposed: After prompting users to provide phone numbers to secure their accounts, Facebook allows anyone to look up their account by using them. Denying anything happened gives system administrators more time to identify and patch newly discovered vulnerabilities.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 1, 2021

They were working on a presentation to be held at the Black Hat security conference. A different team of researchers had also found an RCE vulnerability in the Print Spooler service. They called theirs PrintNightmare and believed it was the same as CVE-2021-1675.

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

There are new and expanding opportunities for women’s participation in cybersecurity globally as women are present in greater numbers in leadership. Elizabeth got her start in technology with Metropolitan Regional Information Systems (MRIS), the nation’s largest Multiple Listing Service (MLS) and real estate information provider.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 17, 2022

One of several presentations by our GReAT researchers included an interesting set of APT activity targeting online casino development and operations environments in Southeast Asia. A recorded video of the presentation is already online. Retrieves various system information, namely: Local network IP addresses. GetSystemInfo.

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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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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 14, 2019

This is because privileged accounts are widely deployed all across modern business networks — on-premises, in the cloud, across DevOps environments and on endpoints. Attackers that are able to gain access to privileged accounts can elevate privileges and move laterally throughout the network to accomplish their end goal.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 20, 2023

Determine if these changes present new vulnerabilities or whether they alter existing vulnerabilities. Develop and implement suitable remediation procedures in collaboration with key stakeholders such as system administrators, network engineers, and security teams.

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IT Security Guru

APRIL 12, 2022

One slight misconfiguration or unsafeguarded user permission presents a possible attack vector. The attackers target the legacy and insecure IMAP protocol to bypass MFA settings and compromise cloud-based accounts providing access to SaaS apps. The thing is that most organizations now have hundreds of SaaS apps.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

The PerSwaysion campaign proliferates with alarming rates by leveraging compromised accounts’ email data to select further targets who hold important roles in their companies and share business relations with the victims. New round of phishing attempts leveraging current victim’s account usually takes less than 24 hours.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

Recent years presented a torrent of research showing how vulnerable RDP systems are for organizations not taking additional cybersecurity precautions. A few days later, IT systems started malfunctioning with ransom messages following. Also read : Best Internet Security Suites & Software.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

If any potentially hazardous characters must be allowed as input, be sure that you implement additional controls like output encoding, secure task specific APIs, and accounting to use that data throughout the application. Implement password hashing on a trusted system. Hackers can use these credentials to get access to all accounts.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2023

The Originating Malvertising Campaign According to CTI investigation on the adversary infrastructure, we were able to identify an ongoing campaign luring system administrators to install the malicious code into their machines.

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SiteLock

APRIL 7, 2022

Likely, targets receive a link to [link] which presents the following page: Figure 1: Phishing Site. Right click on the page, select ‘View Page Source’, and a new tab or window will be opened containing the HTML content that your browser was presented with. The phishing kit we want to highlight is one appropriately titled the Citi kit.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 18, 2020

The page above reveals the bottom line of this report: "This wake-up call presents us with an opportunity to right longstanding imbalances and lapses, to reorient how we view risk, redacted.We must care as much about securing our systems as we care about running them if we are to make the necessary revolutionary change.".

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

From a high-level perspective, the infection chain follows the expected execution flow: However, in this case, the shellcode was heavily obfuscated – the technical details were presented in the ‘ The leap of a Cycldek-related threat actor ‘ report. Notify your supervisors as soon as possible.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 20, 2022

They recommend tiered administration with dedicated admin accounts. Admins should use a hardened Privileged Access Workstation (PAW) when performing administrative tasks, and the admin session must require Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and Just-In-Time (JIT) restrictions. Tier One : Enterprise servers and applications.

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SecureList

JUNE 17, 2021

Transactions made to a Bitcoin account. The adversary behind Black Kingdom adapted parts of the code, adding features that were not originally presented in the builder, such as the hardcoded key or communication with the mega.io Notify your supervisors as soon as possible. Code analysis.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The loader starts its activities by loading an encrypted payload from another file that should be present in the same directory. The other two variants should be loaded with the legitimate VLC.exe media player, which is abused to sideload the malicious library.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

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. There's always one if you're presented with two options, there's always a third one right. I just handed out stickers, and it kind of just, it started taking off from there, I think.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 22, 2020

To Zoom’s credit, password protection and a “waiting room” feature, which allows the host to control when a participant joins the meeting, are the default settings for its free and single license paid accounts. Media-savvy student body Zoom-bombing is comparatively easy to get under control.

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