SecureWorld News

JANUARY 26, 2021

Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has been working for several months to try to identify who is behind an ongoing campaign targeting security researchers, specifically those who work on vulnerability research and development at a variety of organizations. Google's TAG team discovery: cyberattack motive.

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Google Security

APRIL 30, 2024

This blog describes one set of signals for use by system administrators or endpoint detection agents that should reliably flag any access to the browser’s protected data from another application on the system. This blog will also show how the logging works in practice by testing it against a python password stealer.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 30, 2021

<a href='/blog?tag=Endpoint tag=Endpoint Protection'>Endpoint Protection</a> <a href='/blog?tag=Data tag=Data Loss Prevention'>Data Loss Prevention</a> <a href='/blog?tag=File tag=File Transfers'>File Transfers</a> <a href='/blog?tag=Advanced

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 9, 2024

SAP HotNews Security Note #3411067 , tagged with a CVSS score of 9.1, SAP Security Note #3413475 , tagged with a CVSS score of 9.1, SAP Security Note #3412456 , tagged with a CVSS score of 9.1, The HotPriority Notes in Detail SAP Security Note #3411869 , tagged with a CVSS score of 8.4, HTTP/1 is not affected.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 9, 2022

Microsoft this month also issued a different patch for another MSDT flaw, tagged as CVE-2022-35743. See Microsoft’s blog post on the Exchange Server updates for more details. The publicly disclosed Exchange flaw is CVE-2022-30134 , which is an information disclosure weakness.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The vulnerability allows attackers to craft documents that won’t get tagged with Microsoft’s “Mark of the Web,” despite being downloaded from untrusted sites. “What actions are required is not clear; however, we do know that exploitation requires an authenticated user level of access,” Breen said.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

In a blog post, Avanan said hackers are bypassing static link scanners by hosting their attacks on publicly-known services. According to Avanan blog, once the attacker publishes the lure, “Google provides a link with embed tags that are meant to be used on forums to render custom content.

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NetSpi Technical

MARCH 11, 2024

This blog will cover how we discovered CVE-2024-21378 and weaponized it by modifying Ruler , an Outlook penetration testing tool published by SensePost. In late 2015, Nick Landers, Co-Founder of Dreadnode, published a blog on the abuse of Outlook Rules for RCE. However, the syncing capability of these form objects was never altered.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 3, 2023

Depending on the site, it allows the attacker to masquerade as a victim visitor, and carry out any actions that the user is able to perform, and to access any of the user's data. For a full analysis, feel free to ready the blog by the researchers which goes into more detail. How can we use this in a full-fletched attack?

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

<a href='/blog?tag='></a> tag='></a> <a href='/blog?tag='></a> tag='></a> <a href='/blog?tag='></a> tag='></a> 2020 was a year of unprecedented challenge for anyone working in public sector cybersecurity. Featured: .

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

“An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could access a user’s Net-NTLMv2 hash which could be used as a basis of an NTLM Relay attack against another service to authenticate as the user,” the company wrote. Critical Outlook Zero-Day The Outlook zero-day, CVE-2023-23397 , with a critical CVSS score of 9.8,

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

As such, you should limit the amount of information that employees have access to. Cybercriminals are constantly searching for ways to gain access to an organization. Make sure to use common, understandable labels and data value tags for your data. You must understand how sensitive data is moved and who has access to it.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 24, 2021

<a href='/blog?tag=Data tag=Data Security'>Data Security</a> <a href='/blog?tag=Data tag=Data Breach'>Data Breach</a> <a href='/blog?tag=Information The good news is that there is more regulation to govern data, requiring organizations to protect it from unauthorized access.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Collections are open to our VirusTotal Community (registered users) and they will be enhanced with VirusTotal analysis metadata providing the latest information we have for the IoCs, along with some aggregated tags.” ” reads the announcement published by Virus Total.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 13, 2023

This vulnerability allows an attacker to gain user-level access and compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the UI5 Varian Management application. This note is tagged with a CVSS score of 7.9. SAP Security Note #3102769 , tagged with a CVSS score of 8.8, SAP Note #3318657 is tagged with a CVSS score of 6.4

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2022

The attacks were also reported by Google’s TAG team, which confirmed they were for intelligence purposes. By using summit- and conference-themed lures in Asia and Europe, this attacker aims to gain as much long-term access as possible to conduct espionage and information theft.” ” reads the report published by Cisco Talos.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

I highly recommend reading Andy Robbins’ blog, “ Microsoft Breach — What Happened (and What Should Azure Admins Do)? ”, or our recent video describing the breach here , to understand the full scope of what we know based on Microsoft’s transparency report. What Happened and What is the Attack Path? tenantid = "TENANT_ID" AND NOT toUpper(sp1.appownerorganizationid)

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2022

SecurityAffairs awarded as Best European Personal Cybersecurity Blog 2022 Crooks are using RIG Exploit Kit to push Dridex instead of Raccoon stealer Flagstar Bank discloses a data breach that impacted 1.5

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

In a blog post, Neel Mehta, Information Security lead for Google, explains how a hacker has managed to break certificate code parsing to invade email inboxes and infect users with malware. Attackers often rely on varying behaviors between different systems to gain access. 509 certificate.”.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Everything becomes clear(er) if I manually change the font in the browser dev tools to a serif version: The victim I was referring to in the opening of this blog post? Obviously, the image is resized to the width of paragraphs on this blog, give it a click if you want to check it out at 1:1 size.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2021

Magecart cybercrime gang is using favicon to hide malicious PHP web shells used to maintain remote access to inject JavaScript skimmers into online stores. Threat actors edited the shortcut icon tags with a path to the fake PNG file. ” Please vote Security Affairs as Best Personal cybersecurity Blog [link].

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NetSpi Technical

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The technique was first demonstrated by Outflank in the following blog post. The Silk Wasm With this blog post, I’ve released a proof-of-concept tool called “SilkWasm” which generates the Wasm smuggle for you. 0; //div tag used for download userAction.href=blobUrl; userAction.download="{{.OutputFile}}";

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2022

Tags available to all @GreyNoiseIO users now – Create an account to deploy a dynamic block list to block it [link] pic.twitter.com/xXldngWdPH — Andrew Morris @ RSA (@Andrew Morris) June 4, 2022. Our scans currently find around 4000 Confluence instances accessible worldwide, most in the US, likely exploitable.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Residential Proxies vs. Datacenter Proxies: this blog post examines the contours of each type and provides info on how to choose the perfect proxy option In the robust landscape of the digital era, our need for privacy, security, and accessibility on the internet has never been more acute. It really boils down to your specific needs.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Many of these photos are tagged with the identity of the people in them. It can protect access to devices or buildings effectively and conveniently. On a consumer level, it might allow you to post somewhat inappropriate party photos while preventing them being tagged with your identity.

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Herjavec Group

MARCH 24, 2022

In addition, the actual hosts being scanned are also often provisioned with IDS/IPS and additional access control restrictions. It is incumbent upon ASV customers to ensure that the ASV service provider has complete access to the scanning target systems during the scanning session time frame. PCI Data Security Standards v4.0.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 30, 2021

Today’s websites integrate dozens of third-party service providers, from user analytics to marketing tags, CDNs , ads, media and these third-party services load their code and content into the browser directly. are used to gain access to third party servers. Supply chain attack tactics.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 5, 2023

Security researchers at Akamai have published a blog about a new Magecart -alike web skimming campaign that uses compromised legitimate sites as command and control (C2) servers. The code used on the web skimming victims is designed to look like popular third-party services such as Google Tag Manager or Facebook Pixel.

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Webroot

JANUARY 25, 2021

The data was leaked in an October data breach, which Nitro confirmed, and was bundled for auction with a high price tag. Now, several months later, a member of the hacking group ShinyHunters has released access to the download link for a mere $3. Scottish environmental agency falls victim to ransomware attack.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 21, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. It also encompasses the zero-trust-network-access (ZTNA) concept. ZTNA limits access to data based on user privileges rather than granting each user access to company details. Some teams choose to use tags, so they are able to rapidly search for items.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

This gives the perpetrator the access needed to launch the ransomware and lock the company out of its own infrastructure or encrypt files until the ransom is paid in cryptocurrency. The price tag of the ransom is just one of the many costs of these attacks, and remediation can often exceed this fee many times over.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 27, 2018

Having said that, everything in this video series is equally applicable to sites like this very blog and indeed that's pretty much how I have things configured today. Next, you'll see that this is all very Cloudflare-centric and you may be wondering "why not use Let's Encrypt instead?

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LRQA Nettitude Labs

JUNE 5, 2023

In this blog post, I am going to be exploring one potential physical security attack chain, relaying a captured signal to open a gate using a device called the Flipper Zero. This blog post will focus on Sub-GHz and one potential abuse of capturing Sub-GHz signals.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 1, 2018

I ran it on a coffee budget (the goal was to keep the operating costs under what a couple of cups from a cafe each day would cost) and I made it freely accessible. As this service has grown, it's become an endless source of material from which I've drawn upon for conference talks, training and indeed many of my blog posts.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The improper restriction of XML external entity reference can allow malicious parties to interfere with the application’s processing of XML data, impacting the application’s logic, performing unauthorized actions, and accessing sensitive data. XML is used to store and transport data using a tree-like structure of tags and data.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 19, 2021

In one sentence, the Same-Origin Policy is this: A script from one page can only access data from another page if they have the same origin. If the SOP doesn’t exist, a script hosted on attacker.com can generate requests to access your information on bank.com. Access-Control-Allow-Origin: [link]. Good cookies, bad cookies.

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McAfee

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Today, Gartner named McAfee a Leader in the 2020 annual Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) for the fourth time evaluating CASB vendors. In its fourth Magic Quadrant for Cloud Access Security Brokers, Gartner evaluated eight vendors that met its inclusion criteria. You can read them here.

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