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Orcus RAT Author Charged in Malware Scheme

Krebs on Security

An advertisement for Orcus RAT. The accused, 36-year-old John “Armada” Revesz , has maintained that Orcus is a legitimate “ R emote A dministration T ool” aimed at helping system administrators remotely manage their computers, and that he’s not responsible for how licensed customers use his product.

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Cisco fixes a static default credential issue in Smart Software Manager tool

Security Affairs

The CVE-2020-3158 flaw is related to the presence of a system account that has a default and static password in the Smart Software Manager tool. “The vulnerability is due to a system account that has a default and static password and is not under the control of the system administrator.”

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DFSCoerce, a new NTLM relay attack, can take control over a Windows domain

Malwarebytes

First, the client establishes a network path to the server and sends a NEGOTIATE_MESSAGE advertising its capabilities. The NTLM protocol uses one or both of two hashed password values. Both passwords are also stored on the server (or domain controller). Both passwords are also stored on the server (or domain controller).

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Critical flaw in VMware Cloud Director allows hackers to take over company infrastructure

Security Affairs

Citadelo experts were able to perform the following actions triggering the vulnerability: View content of the internal system database, including password hashes of any customers allocated to this infrastructure. Modify the system database to steal foreign virtual machines (VM) assigned to different organizations within Cloud Director.

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Thousands of RDM refrigeration systems exposed online are at risk

Security Affairs

Experts from Safety Detective discovered thousands of refrigeration systems made by Resource Data Management (RDM) exposed to remote attacks. An attacker can easily access the vulnerable instances because they use a known default username and password combination. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. md , and that they were a systems administrator for sscompany[.]net. co and a VPN provider called HideIPVPN[.]com.

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How Did Authorities Identify the Alleged Lockbit Boss?

Krebs on Security

ru , which at one point advertised the sale of wooden staircases. used the password 225948. 2011 said he was a system administrator and C++ coder. “Cryptolockers made a lot of noise in the press, but lazy system administrators don’t make backups after that. and admin@stairwell.ru