Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2024

The Finish National Cybersecurity Center (NCSC-FI) warns of increased Akira ransomware attacks targeting NAS and tape backup devices of organizations in the country. Threat actors are wiping NAS and backup devices. Cisco investigated the hacking campaign with the help of Rapid7. concludes the alert.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 12, 2024

When a website gets hacked, the aftermath can be expensive and long-lasting, and the recovery process is often extremely difficult. But what happens if a hack has already occurred? Next, let's discuss the steps to take to recover from a hack. So, instead of panicking, relax and focus on fixing your hacked WordPress site.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2023

GoTo is notifying customers that its development environment was breached in November 2022, attackers stole customers’ backups and encryption key. We also have evidence that a threat actor exfiltrated an encryption key for a portion of the encrypted backups.” ” reads an update provided by the company.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2024

The Finish National Cybersecurity Center (NCSC-FI) warns of increased Akira ransomware attacks targeting NAS and tape backup devices of organizations in the country. Threat actors are wiping NAS and backup devices. Cisco investigated the hacking campaign with the help of Rapid7. concludes the alert.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 10, 2024

The hack appears to have been designed to take advantage of anticipation around an imminent annoncement by US regulators about Bitcoin Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). With this control they can intercept messages, two-factor authentication (2FA) codes, and eventually reset passwords of the account the number has control over.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Email provider VFEmail has suffered what the company is calling “catastrophic destruction” at the hands of an as-yet unknown intruder who trashed all of the company’s primary and backup data in the United States. Every file server is lost, every backup server is lost. Founded in 2001 and based in Milwaukee, Wisc.,

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 25, 2021

Thanks to a couple of milestone hacks disclosed at the close of 2020 and start of 2021, they will forever be associated with putting supply-chain vulnerabilities on the map. Similarly, the SolarWinds and Mimecast hacks are precursors of increasingly clever and deeply-damaging hacks of the global supply chain sure to come.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

A destructive cyberattack hit the email provider VFEmail, a hacker wiped its servers in the United States, including the backup systems. An unknown attacker has launched a destructive cyber attack against the email provider VFEmail, he erased information on its server including backups, 18 years’ worth of customer emails were lost. “We

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2024

is an Authentication Bypass issue that resides in the web component of Ivanti ICS 9.x, An authenticated administrator can exploit the issue by sending specially crafted requests and execute arbitrary commands on the appliance. Below is the request employed in the attacks observed by the experts:, GET /api/v1/totp/user-backup-code/././license/keys-status/{Any

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WIRED Threat Level

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The company will also soon support the use of physical authentication keys with Apple ID, and is adding contact verification for iMessage in 2023.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2024

” Pierluigi Paganini Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, Brocade) The following vulnerabilities, discovered by the security researcher Pierre Barre , impact all versions up to 2.3.0 These switches are running Linux and are powerful. They are ideal to host implants.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2020

OGUsers, one of the most popular hacking forums, was hacked again, it is the second security breach it has suffered in a year. The popular hacking forum OGUsers was hacked again, it is the second security breach it has suffered in a year, the news was first reported by ZDNet. SecurityAffairs – OGUsers forum, hacking).

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CSO Magazine

JULY 27, 2022

Doing so requires multiple backups, cloud resources, and tested backup and recovery processes. Your servers are hit with ransomware or hacked. A multi-factor authentication device is lost. We have our normal password management processes, password storage tools, and encryption processes. Then disaster strikes.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 11, 2020

Yes, good people of the Windows world, it’s time once again to backup and patch up! The most concerning of these appears to be CVE-2020-1380 , which is a weaknesses in Internet Explorer that could result in system compromise just by browsing with IE to a hacked or malicious website.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2023

This problem, called ransomware , explains why keeping backups is so important. Hijackers’ demands lose power when you can just recover your operations from backups. Finally, don’t forget the bad press that results for businesses when they are hacked. Cyberattacks can also lead to a loss of productivity.

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BH Consulting

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

To save space in your cloud backups, print photos that give you joy and delete ones that don’t. What to do if you suspect a hack If you’re worried you may have lost control of your mobile, contact your network provider and ask them to block your SIM Card and send you a new one. Re-install AV and set up cloud backups.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Bleeping Computer analyzed the leaked data and reported that most of the published data are backups for various systems. Threat actors exploited this vulnerability to hijack existing authenticated sessions and bypass multifactor authentication or other strong authentication requirements.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The plugin allows storing backup files in multiple locations (Destinations) including Google Drive, OneDrive, and AWS. The plugin also allows storing backups via the ‘Local Directory Copy’ option, but experts discovered that this feature isn’t secure and allows unauthenticated users to download any file stored on the server.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

First spotted in mid-August 2022 , Venus is known for hacking into victims’ publicly-exposed Remote Desktop services to encrypt Windows devices. Tripwire’s tips for all organizations on avoiding ransomware attacks include: Making secure offsite backups. healthcare organizations. “They are targeting a lot of U.S.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Canadian government discloses a data breach after threat actors hacked two of its contractors. We have over 1.5TB of documents leaked + 3 full backups of CRM for branches (eu, na and au) Sirva Worldwide, Inc. “Sirva.com says that all their information worth only $1m.

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Spinone

MARCH 29, 2019

Let’s take a look at 10 Best Google Drive hacks to make your life much easier. With this Google Drive hack you gonna be a true power user and a hacker like for your friends. This hack is a great way to audit changes and keep track of access and updates to Google Drive resources. Viewing Google Drive Keyboard Shortcuts 9.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 6, 2019

They obtained the data by hacking any one of the hundreds of companies you entrust with the data­ -- and you have no visibility into those companies' security practices, and no recourse when they lose your data. Enable two-factor authentication for all important accounts whenever possible.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

that can allow website subscribers to download the latest database backups, which could potentially contain sensitive data. “The plugin uses custom “nonces” and timestamps to securely identify backups. This info could allow attackers to receive the backup via mail by manipulating the request. score of 8.5)

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Security Affairs

JULY 27, 2021

The vulnerabilities include remote code execution and authenticated privilege escalation on the client-side. Kaseya Unitrends is a cloud-based enterprise solution that provides affordable, low-maintenance data protection offering to complement existing client backup and recovery solutions. SecurityAffairs – hacking, zero-days).

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 22, 2024

Microsoft disclosed that it recently fell victim to a cyberattack by Nobelium, the Russian state-sponsored hacking group infamously responsible for the 2020 SolarWinds supply chain attack. The breach, detected on January 12th, allowed the hackers to access email accounts belonging to members of Microsoft's senior leadership team.

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Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2023

WordPress sites using the Ultimate Member plugin are under attack LockBit gang demands a $70 million ransom to the semiconductor manufacturing giant TSMC Avast released a free decryptor for the Windows version of the Akira ransomware Iran-linked Charming Kitten APT enhanced its POWERSTAR Backdoor miniOrange’s WordPress Social Login and Register plugin (..)

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This flaw impacts multiple products, including but not limited to ConnectWise R1Soft Server Backup Manager. “During a recent incident response case, we found traces of an adversary leveraging ConnectWise R1Soft Server Backup Manager software (hereinafter: R1Soft server software). and 8.6.4.1.

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Backups Software Authentication Hacking 91

Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2024

If Phobos actors gain successful RDP authentication in the targeted environment, they perform open source research to create a victim profile and connect the targeted IP addresses to their associated companies. Phobos is also able to identify and delete data backups. ” reads the joint CSA.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2022

Threat actors behind the Twilio hack also gained access to the accounts of 93 individual users of its Authy two-factor authentication (2FA) service. Twilio last week announced that that the threat actors also gained access to the accounts of 93 individual users of its Authy two-factor authentication (2FA) service.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Early this month, Evgueni Erchov, Director of IR & Cyber Threat Intelligence at Arete Incident Response, told ZDNet that multiple ransomware gangs are cold-calling victims if they don’t pay the ransom and attempt to restore from backups. SecurityAffairs – hacking, FBI). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The first step consists of recommending organizations to follow best practices to neutralize ransomware attack such as set up offline, off-site, encrypted backups. “In addition, educate your staff on the folly of using the same password on different platforms, and consider the many benefits of multifactor authentication.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 26, 2021

Kaseya Unitrends is a cloud-based enterprise solution that provides affordable, low-maintenance data protection offering to complement existing client backup and recovery solutions. The vulnerabilities include remote code execution and authenticated privilege escalation on the client-side. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Kaseya).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The Duplicator plugin allows WordPress users to migrate, copy, move or clone a site from one location to another and also serves as a simple backup utility. Once attackers had access to the WordPress site configuration file, they will gain database credentials and authentication keys and salts included in the file. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 11, 2021

Backups… Let’s Get This Out of the Way. A challenge with outsourcing backup responsibilities is that companies often have no say in how often or the level at which third parties back up their information. “With ransomware being as big as it is right now, one of the first answers that everyone goes to is backups.”

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

BackupBuddy is a plugin which offers backup solutions designed to combat “hacks, malware, user error, deleted files, and running bad commands” Unfortunately, running an older version of BackupBuddy could leave your site open to potential breaches. Backup to version 8.7.5 Traversing a WordPress installation.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2024

Threat actors are wiping NAS and backup devices. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit the vulnerability to conduct a brute force attack in an attempt to identify valid username and password combinations or an authenticated, remote attacker to establish a clientless SSL VPN session with an unauthorized user.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The experts noticed that BlackMatter operators wipe or reformat backup data stores and appliances instead of encrypting backup systems. Consider disabling or limiting New Technology Local Area Network Manager (NTLM) and WDigest Authentication. Scanning backups. SecurityAffairs – hacking, BlackMatter ransomware).

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