Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 23, 2024

This concealed their attack until the environment was encrypted and backups were sabotaged. Figure 3: Scattered Spider attack timeline Social Engineering: Fool Me Once, Fool Me Twice To gain initial access to the target network, the threat actor called the organization’s IT help desk and persuaded staff to reset the CFO’s account password.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Eskom_SA #cybersecurity #infosec pic.twitter.com/clUC6hKdSN — Dominic Alvieri (@AlvieriD) October 8, 2022. “Administration servers, Databases, backups, employee access to the administration of POS terminals and much more. Everest Ransom Team just posted a claim of a South African state owned electricity company.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Typically, that post-breach recovery relies on surface level fixes: “rotating the KRBTGT password twice”, “increasing the available RID pool”, etc. The NTDS.dit file is used by Active Directory to manage and organize users, groups, security descriptors and password hashes. How do defenders truly reclaim control over their domain?

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 23, 2024

This concealed their attack until the environment was encrypted and backups were sabotaged. Figure 3: Scattered Spider attack timeline Social Engineering: Fool Me Once, Fool Me Twice To gain initial access to the target network, the threat actor called the organization’s IT help desk and persuaded staff to reset the CFO’s account password.

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SecureList

MAY 19, 2023

Over the years, the infosec community has discovered multiple APTs operating in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict region – Gamaredon, CloudAtlas , BlackEnergy and many others. From the WmiPrvSE.exe process, it makes a backup of the VFS file, copying mods.lrc to mods.lrs. In order to steal, it reads Gmail cookies from browser databases.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The confidentiality, integrity, and availability of it all -- you know, the classic CIA triad in infosec. There were PDFs of Election Day passwords that supervisors use to start in elections. Bee: Can you tell me what the password was? I’m talking about the totality of the voting system. Lamb: A four digit PIN.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The confidentiality, integrity, and availability of it all -- you know, the classic CIA triad in infosec. There were PDFs of Election Day passwords that supervisors use to start in elections. Bee: Can you tell me what the password was? I’m talking about the totality of the voting system. Lamb: A four digit PIN.

Hacking 52

Hacking Mobile Software Technology 52

ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The confidentiality, integrity, and availability of it all -- you know, the classic CIA triad in infosec. There were PDFs of Election Day passwords that supervisors use to start in elections. Bee: Can you tell me what the password was? I’m talking about the totality of the voting system. Lamb: A four digit PIN.

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Hacking Mobile Software Technology 40

ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

So a hacker is able to do misconfiguration, able to escalate to a local system, and then maybe extract hashes and maybe someone is not using labs or maybe they are so they are randomizing administrators passwords or not. A lot of infosec’s knowledge is either tribal -- passed on from one person to another - or can be found in books.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2022

We get the InfoSec people that were on enterprise systems, we get them that come because they want to learn more about security. Then from there we go to a we're brute forcing username passwords or credentials. Historically with InfoSec it's been Hey, the sky is falling. We're gonna look at post post exploitation tools.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

He also talks about his infosec journey hacking cryptocurrencies, joining the Digital Defense Service and CISA, and helping secure the 2020 presidential election… all before the age of 22. If you don't have anti malware on your computer that protects against these types of attacks, or if you don't have good backups.

Hacking 52

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

He also talks about his infosec journey hacking cryptocurrencies, joining the Digital Defense Service and CISA, and helping secure the 2020 presidential election… all before the age of 22. If you don't have anti malware on your computer that protects against these types of attacks, or if you don't have good backups.

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Hacking Ransomware Cryptocurrency Engineering 52

ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Fortunately, there are those in the InfoSec world, who are actively looking at the subject and speaking out at conferences, such as Black Hat. Vamosi: That talk focused on the fact that there are InfoSec hackers openly working to address this problem. Don't share your phone, don't share your password with your partner.

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