Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2022

Atlassian warned of an actively exploited critical unpatched remote code execution flaw (CVE-2022-26134) in Confluence Server and Data Center products. “Atlassian has been made aware of current active exploitation of a critical severity unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in Confluence Data Center and Server.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2022

If applied to a higher-impact threat—such as a credential harvester or spyware—this PowerShell behavior could help malware gain an initial foothold and go undetected before performing more overtly malicious activity, like exfiltrating data from a user’s browser sessions.” ” reads the analysis published by the experts.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 13, 2022

The top drivers of the continued growth of cybersecurity are: the growing need to protect the API supply chain, the inadequacy of existing identity management systems, and the unfulfilled promise of data-driven AI-powered cybersecurity systems. Leveraging data science. Securing APIs.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2022

The botnet was developed to conduct DDoS attacks, but further analysis revealed that it could be used to coordinate large-scale disinformation campaigns, mimiking the behavior of a large audience online. Nisos analyzed the data and determined that Fronton is a system developed for coordinated inauthentic behavior on a massive scale.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2022

” reads the analysis published ZScaler. ” The backdoor supports multiple functionalities, including Upload/Download Files and execution of system commands on the infected machine by abusing DNS records, including TXT records for incoming commands and A records for data exfiltration. . .” ” continues the report.

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NopSec

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Brad LaPort , a veteran Gartner analyst and I were on a content project, talking about why the market was missing out on a new category to encapsulate the disparate exposure data and derive actionable insights. We were debating about what we should call this new category. Is it Cyber Exposure Management?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 7, 2022

” reads the analysis published by Mandiant. The data reported in ProDaft’s report confirms that the analyzed malware administration panel was used to manage FAKEUPDATES infections and to distribute secondary payloads, including BEACON. Treasury in December 2019. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2022

Its operators have a data leak site, where they post exfiltrated data from their victims who refused to pay the ransom. ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. Please vote for Security Affairs and Pierluigi Paganini in every category that includes them (e.g. cuba” extension. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Imagine your digital environment as a bustling metropolis, with every user, application, and system contributing to the constant flow of data and activities. EDR is a category of tools designed to continuously monitor the intricate web of cyber threats on endpoints across a network. This data is then anonymized.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 7, 2022

QBot, aka Qakbot and Pinkslipbot , has been active since 2008, it is used by threat actors for collecting browsing data and banking credentials and other financial information from the victims. Please vote for Security Affairs and Pierluigi Paganini in every category that includes them (e.g. exe: regsvr32.exe Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2022

” reads the analysis published by CloudSEK. Please vote for Security Affairs and Pierluigi Paganini in every category that includes them (e.g. sections “The Underdogs – Best Personal (non-commercial) Security Blog” and “The Tech Whizz – Best Technical Blog”). seconds before starting its activity.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2022

Atlassian has addressed on Friday an actively exploited critical remote code execution flaw (CVE-2022-26134) in Confluence Server and Data Center products. Atlassian has been made aware of current active exploitation of a critical severity unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in Confluence Data Center and Server.

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Security Affairs

MAY 31, 2022

The attacker can then install programs, view, change, or delete data, or create new accounts in the context allowed by the user’s rights.” The popular cybersecurity expert Kevin Beaumont, who named the bug Follina , published an analysis of the flaw. reads the analysis published by Beaumont. To nominate, please visit:?.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2022

Researchers from Cyble published a technical analysis of the malware after the initial discovery made by ESET. Please vote for Security Affairs and Pierluigi Paganini in every category that includes them (e.g. sections “The Underdogs – Best Personal (non-commercial) Security Blog” and “The Tech Whizz – Best Technical Blog”).

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Banking Malware Cybercrime Phishing 140

Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2022

The attacker can then install programs, view, change, or delete data, or create new accounts in the context allowed by the user’s rights.”. The popular cybersecurity expert Kevin Beaumont, who named the bug Follina , published an analysis of the flaw. reads the analysis published by Beaumont. “The Pierluigi Paganini.

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Google Security

JANUARY 11, 2024

If you need a refresher, you can read our previous blog post detailing MiraclePtr and its objectives. Our analysis is based on two primary information sources: incoming vulnerability reports and crash reports from user devices. What does the data tell us? Evaluating Security Impact First let’s focus on its security impact.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2022

” continues the analysis. ” BlackCat ransomware operators used both MEGAsync and Rclone for data exfiltration, they renamed them as legitimate Windows process names (for example, winlogon.exe , mstsc.exe ) to avoid raising suspicion. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2022

The Moshen Dragon’s activity analysis led to the discovery of several payloads uploaded to VirusTotal, some of which were the ‘PlugX Talisman variant’. SentinelOne detailed lateral movements, credential harvesting, and data exfiltration performed by the threat actors by exploiting the flaw in the popular security solutions.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2022

Proof-of-concept exploits for the critical CVE-2022-26134 vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence and Data Center servers are available online. Proof-of-concept exploits for the critical CVE-2022-26134 flaw, affecting Atlassian Confluence and Data Center servers, have been released. reads the analysis published by Volexity.

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VPN IoT Cybersecurity Engineering 123

Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2022

The flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-25845 (CVSS score: 8.1), resides in a feature called “AutoType” and is related to the deserialization of untrusted data. ” reads the analysis published by JFrog’s Uriya Yavnieli. .” ” reads the analysis published by JFrog’s Uriya Yavnieli.

Hacking 74

Hacking Cybersecurity Information Security 74

Elie

DECEMBER 12, 2019

So in January 2016, as a preparation to providing better statistical analysis, our RTBF reviewers started manually annotating each requested URL with additional data, including the site category, the type of page content, and the requesting entity. This new data enabled us to conduct a longitudinal analysis of how.

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Media Government Internet Internet 118

BH Consulting

JANUARY 11, 2022

In that spirit, we’ve rounded up five of our most popular blogs from the past year. From ransomware and scams to security frameworks and employee privacy, our 2021 ‘greatest hits’ show how broad the areas of cybersecurity and data protection can be. Under the GDPR, fingerprints fall under the category of biometric data.

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Cybersecurity Insurance Scams Cyber Risk 59

Centraleyes

APRIL 23, 2024

Enhanced Customer Experience and Personalization The power of data-driven personalization enhances customer experiences, fostering stronger connections between businesses and their clientele. Illustration : Amazon’s retail transformation illustrates the benefits of data-driven personalization.

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Risk Technology Artificial Intelligence Data privacy 52

Cisco Security

MARCH 11, 2021

Our Threat Trends blog series takes a look at the activity that we see in the threat landscape and reports on those trends. This data comes from Cisco Umbrella , our cloud-native security service. Overview of analysis. While performing this analysis we looked at a wide variety of threat trends.

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DNS Phishing Ransomware Internet 61

Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2022

This blog post serves to share what highly targeted organizations are up against and ways to defend against attacks of this nature.” The analysis of the logs revealed significant and repeated suspicious access aimed at a valid JSP file (login.jsp). . “This type of attack is rare and difficult to detect. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2022

Privacy Affairs published the Dark Web Index, an analysis of prices for illegal services/products available in the black marketplaces and related to the period between February 2021 and June 2022. The price varies between $100 up to $120 depending on the volume of data and the source of the data. To nominate, please visit:?.

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Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

This blog aims to serve as a guide to navigating the intricate terrain of cyber risk quantification, providing insights into its significance, methodologies, and the transformative impact it can have on organizational cybersecurity strategies. This approach brings clarity and accuracy where qualitative cyber risk analysis falls short.

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Risk Cyber Risk Cybersecurity Penetration Testing 52

CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) — dynamic analysis of an application without access to the source code and execution environment (using the black box method). At the initial stage, as a rule, static code analysis (SAST) comes into play. What is SAST?

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Marketing Software Risk Technology 128

Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2022

The actors are positioning themselves as an elite cyber offensive group targeting NATO infrastructure and performing cyberespionage to steal sensitive data. The responsibility of the new division includes “cyber sabotage”, disruption of Internet resources, data theft and financial intelligence focused on NATO, their members and allies.

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Centraleyes

APRIL 18, 2024

Analytical Evidence Analytical evidence Involves examining and analyzing data to identify patterns, trends, or anomalies. Electronic Evidence Digital data stored on systems, servers, and networks, including log files, configuration settings, and other digital artifacts, encompass this category.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 23, 2022

I wrote many blog posts about doing big things for small dollars and did talks all over the world about the great success I'd had with these approaches. Investigation time and the first thing I look at is Azure's cost analysis which breaks down a line item like the one above into all the individual services using it.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 2, 2022

The analysis of the internal chats of the Conti ransomware group revealed the gang was working on firmware attack techniques. The analysis of Conti group’s chats , which were leaked earlier this year, revealed that the ransomware gang has been working on firmware attack techniques. ” reads the post published by Eclypsium.

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2022

” reads the analysis published by Microsoft. business/data[.]php?p=form. Please vote for Security Affairs and Pierluigi Paganini in every category that includes them (e.g. sections “The Underdogs – Best Personal (non-commercial) Security Blog” and “The Tech Whizz – Best Technical Blog”) To nominate, please visit:?

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Hacking eCommerce Cybersecurity Information Security 73

Centraleyes

DECEMBER 4, 2023

On May 25, 2018, Germany entered a new era of data protection. This marked a significant milestone, shaping global data privacy and setting the stage for enhanced regulations within Germany. But what does this mean for data subjects, and how can they enforce their privacy rights?

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Data privacy Risk Telecommunications Big data 52

Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2022

These modules, along with the permissions the core apps have, enable Hermit to exploit a rooted device, record audio and make and redirect phone calls, as well as collect data such as call logs, contacts, photos, device location and SMS messages.” ” reads the analysis published by Lookout. To nominate, please visit:?.

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Centraleyes

MARCH 25, 2024

The platform goes beyond data collection by automatically generating actionable remediation tasks with intelligent prioritization and efficient management. The platform’s conditional routing rules and customizable workflows ensure timely risk assessment surveys and seamless data capture for supplier risk management.

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Risk Data collection Architecture Government 111

McAfee

JUNE 22, 2020

Like any enterprise, cybercrime focuses its resources where it can derive value, which is data. In the case of ransomware, data is held hostage for a direct monetary exchange, whereas many other data breaches seek to steal data and monetize it on dark web markets. That’s where the data was. . They are: .

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