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

JULY 8, 2021

Last Friday, July 2, in a matter of a few minutes, a Russian hacking collective, known as REvil, distributed leading-edge ransomware to thousands of small- and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) across the planet — and succeeded in locking out critical systems in at least 1,500 of them. Related: The targeting of supply chains.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The first centers on targeting healthcare organizations that offer consultations over the Internet and sending them booby-trapped medical records for the “patient.” First spotted in mid-August 2022 , Venus is known for hacking into victims’ publicly-exposed Remote Desktop services to encrypt Windows devices.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2022

Anonymous claims to have hacked the systems of the German subsidiary of Russian energy giant Rosneft and stole 20TB of data. The Anonymous hacker collective claimed to have hacked the German branch of the Russian energy giant Rosneft. SecurityAffairs – hacking, BazarLoader). Anonymous has attacked the energy company Rosneft. .

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 9, 2021

Top of the heap this month (apart from the ongoing, global Exchange Server mass-compromise ) is a patch for an Internet Explorer bug that is seeing active exploitation. “We strongly encourage all organizations that rely on Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge (EdgeHTML-Based) to apply these patches as soon as possible.”

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2022

re is was one of the original “residential proxy” networks, which allow someone to rent a residential IP address to use as a relay for his/her Internet communications, providing anonymity and the advantage of being perceived as a residential user surfing the web. re servers, data and backups of that data.

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Security Affairs

JULY 27, 2021

Experts found three new zero-day flaws in the Kaseya Unitrends service and warn users to avoid exposing the service to the Internet. Kaseya Unitrends is a cloud-based enterprise solution that provides affordable, low-maintenance data protection offering to complement existing client backup and recovery solutions. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2021

The surface of attack for SMEs was enlarged, many of them took business continuity measures, such as adopting cloud services, improving their internet services, upgrading their websites and enabling staff to work remotely. SecurityAffairs – hacking, ENISA). SecurityAffairs – hacking, SME). Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The above-mentioned AIDS Trojan hailing from the distant pre-Internet era was the progenitor of the trend, but its real-world impact was close to zero. In many cases, the crooks hack managed service providers (MSPs) first and then use this access to compromise the partnering organizations. What does the future hold? Time will tell.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2020

firm Frost & Sullivan suffered a data breach, data from an unsecured backup that were exposed on the Internet was sold by a threat actor on a hacker forum. “The breach occurred to a misconfigured backup directory on one of Frost and Sullivan public-facing servers. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Frost & Sullivan).

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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

APRIL 14, 2023

“In the last 24 hours we became aware of a dump of the Kodi user forum (MyBB) software being advertised for sale on internet forums. The account was used to create database backups which were then downloaded and deleted. It also downloaded existing nightly full-backups of the database.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Hundreds of millions of websites on the internet today rely on the content management system WordPress. Many WordPress site owners opt for a shared hosting platform as a cost-saving measure, but this can open up sites on such infrastructure to hacking. Schedule daily backups to create multiple restore points.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2023

Margaret’s Health is the first hospital to cite a cyberattack as a reason for its closure A database containing data of +8.9 Margaret’s Health is the first hospital to cite a cyberattack as a reason for its closure A database containing data of +8.9

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2019

Researchers at AT&T Alien Labs have spotted a malware called Xwo that is actively scanning the Internet for exposed web services and default passwords. Experts at AT&T Alien Labs discovered a new piece of malware called Xwo that is actively scanning the Internet for exposed web services and default passwords. Www backup paths.

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Spinone

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

This is why you need deploy a robust Google Apps backup solution. It is therefore vital that the chosen backup solution is robust and uses the latest encryption technology to prevent against unauthorized access. Young people have grown up using the Internet and apps and are often very technologically savvy.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2020

million members of the Chinese Communist Party were leaked on a hacking forum. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Chinese Communist Party). Security experts from Cyble discovered that the details of 1.9 During routine Dark web monitoring, the experts from Cyble found a post on a Russian-speaking forum offering the details of 1.9

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Identify affected systems and immediately isolate them from the rest of the network as well as from the Internet Keep a copy of the ransom message and any other communications from the attackers. This information is useful to the authorities or for further analysis of the attack Do not shut down the affected equipment.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2024

They dropped hidden payloads or used internet protocol (IP) scanning tools, such as Angry IP Scanner, to search for vulnerable Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports or by leveraging RDP on Microsoft Windows environments. Phobos is also able to identify and delete data backups. Phobos operators used WinSCP and Mega.io

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Krebs on Security

MAY 11, 2021

On deck this month are patches to quash a wormable flaw, a creepy wireless bug, and yet another reason to call for the death of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) web browser. So do yourself a favor and backup before installing any patches. “IE needs to die – and I’m not the only one that thinks so,” Breen said.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 14, 2022

And as soon as the Internet Service provider (ISP) went public about the hack, its shares fell drastically, closing at 2.8%. The hack could have gone unnoticed if security experts from Mandiant did not discover it during their regular cyber audit. TPG is the world’s second ISP, having around 7.2 million accounts as customers.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2024

The Ukrainian hacking group Blackjack used a destructive ICS malware dubbed Fuxnet in attacks against Russian infrastructure. The Blackjack group is believed to be affiliated with Ukrainian intelligence services that carried out other attacks against Russian targets, including an internet provider and a military infrastructure.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2022

With the recent demise of several popular “proxy” services that let cybercriminals route their malicious traffic through hacked PCs, there is now something of a supply chain crisis gripping the underbelly of the Internet. A review of the Internet addresses historically used by Super-socks[.]biz Image: Spur.us.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The botnet was involved in stealing users’ credentials and data, mining cryptocurrencies abusing victims’ resources, and setting up proxies to funnel other people’s internet traffic through infected machines and routers. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Glupteba botnet). — Shane Huntley (@ShaneHuntley) December 7, 2021.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The exposed data exposed a disk backup of two employees’ workstations containing secrets, private keys, passwords, and over 30,000 internal Microsoft Teams messages. “The researchers shared their files using an Azure feature called SAS tokens, which allows you to share data from Azure Storage accounts.” 5, 2021 Oct. 6, 2051 Jun.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2022

” The vendor also recommends enabling the VPN server function on the user router to access QNAP NAS from the Internet. Users that have to access their NAS devices directly from the Internet are recommended to perform the following actions: Put your QNAP NAS behind your router and firewall. SecurityAffairs – hacking, NAS).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Experts from Qihoo 360’s Network Security Research Lab discovered a new botnet, dubbed EwDoor , that targets AT&T customers using EdgeMarc Enterprise Session Border Controller (ESBC) edge devices that are publicly exposed to the Internet. SecurityAffairs – hacking, EwDoor ). Pierluigi Paganini.

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IT Security Guru

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

These assaults specifically focus on compromising data repositories, backup systems, and vital records that are essential for recovery without capitulating to the attackers’ demands, thus increasing the likelihood of organisations acquiescing. Turn off services sc.exe – Stop backup software from creating recoverable copies.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 6, 2021

Related: Poll confirms rise of Covid 19-related hacks. A VPN encrypts all internet traffic so that it is unreadable to anyone who intercepts it. This keeps your information away from prying eyes, such as internet service providers and hackers. You can keep a data backup on hardware or use a cloud-based service.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

“Experience in backup, increase privileges, mikicatz, network. Semen-7907 registered at Tunngle from the Internet address 31.192.175[.]63 The above accounts, as well as the email address semen_7907@mail.ru , were all registered or accessed from the same Yekaterinburg Internet address mentioned previously: 31.192.175.63.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 1, 2019

What this tells me is that the presidential candidates, at least, actually appear to be heeding lessons learned from the hacking John Podesta’s email account – and all of the havoc Russia was able to foment in our 2016 elections. Kudos to Reitnger — and to philanthropist Craig Newmark, the founder of Craigslist.com. Talk more soon.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2021

SecurityAffairs – hacking, CISA). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini. The post US CISA releases guidance on how to prevent ransomware data breaches appeared first on Security Affairs.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 21, 2021

One of the most common mistakes made by small businesses is that they adopt all new IT equipment and computers but leave their internet and Wi-Fi susceptible to external threats. In fact, over 25% of small businesses are using a VPN to access the internet. Backup data on Cloud . Ensure Network Security . Final Thoughts. .

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2022

Preliminary investigation indicates that Checkmate attacks via SMB services exposed to the internet, and employs a dictionary attack to break accounts with weak passwords.” All your data has been encrypted, backups have been deleted. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Checkmate ransomware). Your unique ID: bc75c72[edited].

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

SockDetour serves as a backup fileless Windows backdoor in case the primary one is removed. “SockDetour is a backdoor that is designed to remain stealthily on compromised Windows servers so that it can serve as a backup backdoor in case the primary one fails,” reads the analsysi published by Palo Alto Networks.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

Is hacking a crime? Bryan McAninch (Aph3x) talks about his organization, Hacking Is Not A Crime , and the ethical line it draws on various hacking activities. I used to hack the phone company quite a bit. The 33 year old from suffer faced charges from US prosecutors as hacking into computers at various American agencies.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2020

The University was able to recover the operations from the backups, but decided to pay the ransom to avoid having ransomware operators leak student information online. “This was done as a proactive and preventive step to ensure information was not released on the internet. SecurityAffairs – hacking, University of Utah).

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