Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2024

The binary analyzed by the researchers is compiled for all major architectures used by SOHO operating systems. The malware passively monitors network packets for “credential markers,” including usernames, passwords, and authentication tokens. The bash script also downloads and executes Cuttlefish.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Generating and maintaining static signatures for variations on IoT malware is tedious, as the assembly code often changes across variants and architectures and text strings are subject to modification. Diaphora works by analyzing each function present in the binary and extracting a set of features from each analyzed function.

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SecureList

APRIL 15, 2024

If the attacker knows their way around the target infrastructure, they can generate malware tailored to the specific configuration of the target’s network architecture, such as important files, administrative accounts, and critical systems. The TXT files contain instructions on how to execute the password-protected files.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The prolific use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Large Language Models (LLMs) present new challenges we must address and new questions we must answer. In this case, students needed to learn about the evolution of operating system architecture. For instance, what do we do when AI is wrong? It is not an authentication protocol.

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Artificial Intelligence Architecture Authentication Education 81

Cisco Security

OCTOBER 15, 2021

As companies interact more digitally with customers and end-users, their attack surface increases, presenting more opportunities for would-be attackers. ” For some environments, this can unfold as easily as a compromised username and password being used to infiltrate a virtual private network (VPN) to access network resources.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/ %s Safari/537.36″ The malware gets the version number of the installed chrome.exe from the EXE file present at one of the following file paths: C:Program Files (x86)GoogleChromeApplicationchrome.exe. Checking the OS architecture and the next shellcode architecture.

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Encryption Architecture Malware Engineering 121

CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Supply chain challenges have always been present, but they’re growing increasingly common and severe. Implement Zero-Trust Architecture. This education should cover how to spot and respond to phishing attempts, the importance of two-factor authentication and good password management. Create an Incident Response Plan.

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Notice Bored

AUGUST 5, 2022

Zero-trust - whatever that means to the presenter and audience; Cloud - meaning Azure, specifically; DevOps and DevSecOps - whatever those terms mean ; MS threat intelligence including artificial intelligence/machine learning rapid responses to novel malware (a cool idea, provided it works reliably). Thank you MS for releasing it.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Attack vectors There are two main IoT infection routes: brute-forcing weak passwords and exploiting vulnerabilities in network services. A successful password cracking enables hackers to execute arbitrary commands on a device and inject malware. Unfortunately, users tend to leave these passwords unchanged.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

"Preparing for a Post-Quantum World" is the topic of a panel presentation at SecureWorld Denver on September 19, and with good reason. As for the panel presentation at SecureWorld Denver , it features Edgar Acosta, Experienced Cybersecurity Professional (former CISO at DCP Midstream ); Craig Hurter, Sr.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The bot was also targeting Linux and Mac devices performs dictionary attacks against SSH services to guess their username and passwords. The same package is present in the Linux variant but it contains only one function: storm_powershell__ptr_Backend_StartProcess. ” reads the Intezer’s report. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

“Threat actors can be present on a victim network long before they lock down a system, alerting the victim to the ransomware attack. Using strong passwords. Threat actors often search through a network to find and compromise the most critical or lucrative targets. ” reads the joint alert. Updating OS and software.

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Ransomware Risk Encryption Passwords 115

Security Boulevard

JUNE 9, 2023

Once the malicious webshell is installed, it creates a random 36 characters long password which later is used for the authentication purpose. The value of the custom header contains the password generated during the installation of the malicious webshell. The Zscaler platform is not susceptible to this vulnerability. aspx or _human2.aspx

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 1, 2022

Finding Passwords With Deep Learning. While exactly what operators are after varies from environment to environment, there is one common target that everyone’s always interested in: passwords. Offensive ML includes things like sandbox detection , augmenting password guessing attacks , or improving spear phishing. DeepPass?—?Finding

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Passwords Architecture Backups Phishing 85

Cisco Security

AUGUST 12, 2021

For several years, Cisco Secure provided DNS visibility and architecture intelligence with Cisco Umbrella and Cisco Umbrella Investigate ; and automated malware analysis and threat intelligence with Cisco Secure Malware Analytics (Threat Grid) , backed by Cisco Talos Intelligence and Cisco SecureX. From Russia With Love. app.nihaocloud[.]com.

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DNS Firewall Phishing Mobile 137

Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2023

We explored a potential architecture of an autonomous malware threat based on four main steps: an AI-empowered reconnaissances, reasoning and planning phase, and the AI-assisted execution. A model for Autonomous Threats First of all we are going to describe a general architecture that could be adopted for such an objective.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 28, 2023

This will not only help better test the architectures that need to be prioritized, but it will provide all sides with a clear understanding of what is being tested and how it will be tested. This presents several challenges. Wireless networks are often neglected by security teams and managers who set poor passwords and permissions.

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Penetration Testing Social Engineering Wireless Engineering 125

CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2022

Create strong passwords. The usage of complex passwords on a terminal network security can impede or even defeat different attack tactics. The usage of complex passwords on a terminal network security can impede or even defeat different attack tactics. Bots and fraudsters will locate the weak points in your architecture. .

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eCommerce Cyber Attacks Passwords Mobile 112

Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2023

The most interesting characteristic of the Triada Trojan apart is its modular architecture, which gives it theoretically a wide range of abilities. ” The Guerrilla malware has a modular structure, each plugin was designed to support a specific feature, including: SMS Plugin : Intercepts one-time passwords sent via SMS.

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Mobile Advertising Malware Cybercrime 96

Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Last August, I launched a little feature within Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) I called Pwned Passwords. This was a list of 320 million passwords from a range of different data breaches which organisations could use to better protect their own systems. Here's what it's all about: There's Now 501,636,842 Pwned Passwords.

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Passwords Data breaches Mobile Risk 279

Daniel Miessler

DECEMBER 24, 2022

The initial blog was on August 25th, saying there was a breach, but it wasn’t so bad because they had no access to customer data or password vaults: Two weeks ago, we detected some unusual activity within portions of the LastPass development environment. And specifically, asking me whether I used LastPass or any other password manager.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 13, 2021

In some of the more egregious examples of poor planning, security was left in the realm of strictly technical aspects of network architecture. Tim Reisch shared a similar experience, discovering “hard coded, backdoor passwords on control systems that could be accessed via the internet, by anyone.” Beyond the Technical.

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Software Education Passwords Cybersecurity 80

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

If you’re looking for a password manager for your business, Bitwarden and LastPass might be on your list of potential solutions. Both vendors will help you and your employees store access credentials, improve password health, and share sensitive information securely. PBKDF2 SHA-256 encryption for master passwords.

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Password Management Passwords Encryption Authentication 117

Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 24, 2023

An organization’s users must have trust in both the domain and the fidelity of its architecture. Typically, that post-breach recovery relies on surface level fixes: “rotating the KRBTGT password twice”, “increasing the available RID pool”, etc. password hashes) from Active Directory. PsExec.exe -s accepteula dc1.asgard.corp

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Backups Passwords Authentication Accountability 67

Security Boulevard

JUNE 15, 2022

Whether any alert rules are present. Whether any additional threat indicators are present. But since users often mistype their passwords – typically a non-malicious event for most environments – it wouldn’t be necessary to generate an alert each time. Alert Triggers. Event code 4625 in Windows means a failed login attempt.

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Firewall Passwords Architecture Mobile 52

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 20, 2022

With various Linux builds and distributions at the heart of cloud infrastructures, mobile and IoT, it presents a massive opportunity for threat actors,” he wrote. Mirai, a Linux Trojan that has been around since 2016, is similar to Mozi in that it exploits weak protocols and passwords to compromise devices by using brute-force attacks.

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IoT DDOS Malware Internet 145

Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

Based on our findings, there are some similarities in both techniques and architectures with another cybercrime group, which appeared in the wild around 2012, most probably Romanian. 14 ) performs a first check on CPU architecture and a second one on the number of processors. Technical Analysis. Figure 14: Content of “run” script file.

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Architecture Malware Hacking DDOS 105

SC Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

That said, other factors such as the “elite” network and data access the VPN often provides, as well as technical weaknesses around passwords and the authentication process, also played a part. Required are additional considerations on the security architecture and workflows used by an organization,” said Schrader.

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VPN Technology Marketing Media 128

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2020

After the initial foothold, and when poor network segmentation is present, a lateral movement on the nework based on a pivot attack is possible. x.xPerforming authentication attempts… =Target vulnerable, changing account password to empty stringResult: 0Exploit complete! DOMAIN_NAME 192.168.x.xPerforming Final Thoughts.

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Social Engineering Passwords Advertising Accountability 102

Adam Levin

APRIL 8, 2019

Hundreds of millions of user passwords left exposed to Facebook employees: News recently broke that Facebook left the passwords of between 200 million and 600 million users unencrypted and available to the company’s 20,000 employees going back as far as 2012. This article originally appeared on Inc.com.

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Hacking Data privacy Artificial Intelligence System Administration 100

Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

When I launched Pwned Passwords V2 last week , I made it fast - real fast - and I want to talk briefly here about why that was important, how I did it and then how I've since shaved another 56% off the load time for requests that hit the origin. Why Speed Matters for Pwned Passwords. And a bunch of other cool perf stuff while I'm here.

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Passwords Internet Internet Architecture 200

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Admins and security teams must act quickly to protect their VPN networks from these persistent and evolving threats: Deactivate default accounts and passwords connected with your VPN systems to prevent brute-force attacks. In several instances, these incursions culminate in ransomware attacks, wreaking havoc on organizations.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 25, 2023

If the PowerShell is not present, the malware generates a hidden file with MZ-PE loader with a randomized name located in % APPDATA % directory. If administrative rights are present, its ether executes a PowerShell script that creates two task scheduler entries with GUID-like names and with different triggers.

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Malware DNS Encryption Cryptocurrency 120

CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Presented below is a rundown of the most important points and inferences from the update made in the OWASP Top 10. These include buffer overflows, race conditions, hard-coded passwords, directory tree traversal errors, random numbers that are not exactly random thus regarded as insecure, as well as cross-site scripting (XSS), among others.

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Cyber threats Cyber Attacks Software Risk 117

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 30, 2023

and connected industrial equipment Vulnerable password practices Unauthorized access levels Unauthorized data disclosure Insufficient system maintenance Non-protected computer stations Insecure internal network applications When Should You Do an Internal Vulnerability Scan? Why then should we run both kinds of scans?

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Penetration Testing Network Security Risk Data breaches 98

CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Software-centric: This will generate an understanding of the system so that its architecture and data flow are better understood. . This uses an architectural perspective, at design level, to appraise an application to see what threats exist in the user-application interactions, as well as the interactions with outside systems. .

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Cybersecurity Architecture Risk Passwords 52

Security Boulevard

AUGUST 3, 2022

Thanks to some phenomenal work by Simon Décosse , BloodHound now includes attack paths where a principal can read the clear-text password for a computer by having both the DS-GetChanges and DS-GetChangesInFilteredSet privileges. the ability to synchronize LAPS passwords without needing full DCSync rights. SyncLAPSPassword.

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Data collection Authentication Passwords Architecture 52