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. is being actively exploited.

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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 Affairs

APRIL 23, 2023

Abandoned Eval PHP WordPress plugin abused to backdoor websites CISA adds MinIO, PaperCut, and Chrome bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog At least 2 critical infrastructure orgs breached by North Korea-linked hackers behind 3CX attack American Bar Association (ABA) suffered a data breach,1.4

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 19, 2021

With numbers like that and a focus on ransomware, it is easy to see why Russia is owning most of the headlines. One notorious hacking group from Iran uses particularly dirty schemes to fleece users, according to Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG). When they did, attackers sent them phishing links in follow-on correspondence.".

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Webroot

JULY 8, 2021

Cybersecurity analysts are charting both a rise in ransomware incidents and in amounts cybercriminals are demanding from businesses to restore their data. That’s bad news in itself, but what’s often overlooked are the additional ways – beyond payments victims may or may not choose to make– victims pay for these attacks.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2021

Microsoft, like Google TAG, observed a cyber espionage campaign aimed at vulnerability researchers that attributed to North Korea-linked Zinc APT group. Researchers from Microsoft monitored a cyber espionage campaign aimed at vulnerability researchers and attributed the attacks to North Korea-linked Zinc APT group.

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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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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 Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter).

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Whether it is ransomware, other types of malware, or any number of cyberattacks, threat actors keep inventing new techniques to cause disruption. 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.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Six weeks after a ransomware attack, much of the Ireland HSE is still facing care disruptions. The Ireland Health Service Executive (HSE) is continuing to operate under electronic health record (EHR) downtime procedures and experiencing continued care disruptions, after suffering a ransomware attack more than six weeks ago.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Bad actors are increasingly using a technique called HTML smuggling to deliver ransomware and other malicious code in email campaigns aimed at financial services firms and other organizations, according to Microsoft researchers. See also: How to Prevent Ransomware Attacks. Thus, they’re greatly vulnerable to the attacks.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2022

BlackCat (aka ALPHV) Ransomware gang introduced an advanced search by stolen victim’s passwords, and confidential documents. Resecurity (USA), a Los Angeles-based cybersecurity company protecting Fortune 500 companies, has detected a significant increase in the value of ransom demand requests by the notorious Blackcat ransomware gang.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 24, 2021

<a href='/blog?tag='></a> tag='></a> <a href='/blog?tag='></a> tag='></a> <a href='/blog?tag='></a> tag='></a> Protecting customer data from loss and leakage has become a top priority for enterprises over the past decade.

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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. They are compromised to behave as an attacker-controlled server. In some cases, the exploited host websites appear to have been abused in both ways.

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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. Scottish environmental agency falls victim to ransomware attack. The post Cyber News Rundown: Cryptomining Malware Resurgent appeared first on Webroot Blog. Hackers leak nearly 2 million Pixlr records.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

This blog was jointly written with Santiago Cortes. AT&T Alien Labs™ is writing this report about recently created ransomware malware dubbed BlackCat which was used in a January 2022 campaign against two international oil companies headquartered in Germany, Oiltanking and Mabanaft. Executive summary. Background.

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Cisco Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Matt Olney, Director of Cisco Talos Threat Intelligence and Response: There’s two things that I found interesting about Colonial Pipeline… One is the real-world impact of the attack, i.e What do we know about the bad actor side of this attack? In fact, various ransomware groups rolled out a formal policy.

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Pentester Academy

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Lab Walkthrough — The WannaCry Ransomware In our lab walkthrough series, we go through selected lab exercises on our INE Platform. Introduction In May 2017, a worldwide ransomware attack infamously known as WannaCry was set in motion. Ransomware damages would cost the world $5 billion (USD) in 2017.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 26, 2022

In 2021, the main attack vector used by this threat actor was credential phishing attacks through emails, posing as Naver, the popular South Korean search engine and web portal. Some details about this campaign were published in this Korean blog, however they did not perform the threat attribution. Attack chains.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Limit who can see your posts, tag you in photos, or slide into your DMs without an invitation. Backup your data Picture this nightmare scenario: Your laptop is suddenly hijacked by a malware infection or a ransomware attack encrypting all your files and holding them hostage. But fear not! Stay safe out there!

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Javvad Malik

OCTOBER 29, 2020

But hold on, Dillon is tagging along. Critics say the attack on the camp is the worst part of the movie, how it was shot by a secondary camera crew and didn’t have the same pacing or drama as the rest of the movie. We understand that the attacker isn’t invisible and can make mistakes. This was a stroke of genius.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Phishing, ransomware, site defacement and SEO spam are just some of the most common threats SMBs face online. With the right plan and support, your online business can avoid these malicious attacks and the potential damage they cause. Start a store blog with how-to videos, interviews, gift guides and other content to attract customers.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Attackers could use this neat technique to infect and to mess-up your disk and eventually asking for a ransom before restoring original disk-configurations ( Petya was just one of the most infamous boot-ransomware). The original post is available on Marco Ramilli’s blog. The first two lines: 1] .code16 code16 2] .global

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

A first round of obfuscation technique was adopted by the attacker in order to make harder the analyst’s decoding process. Another fun fact was in the variable name the attacker attributed to the string “JavaScript”: emotionless. In particular the attacker refers to JavaScript through the object “emotionless.Language”.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

<a href='/blog?tag=Cybersecurity'>Cybersecurity</a> tag=Cybersecurity'>Cybersecurity</a> <a href='/blog?tag=Ransomware'>Ransomware</a> tag=Ransomware'>Ransomware</a> <a href='/blog?tag=Cyber-attacks'>Cyber-attacks</a> government.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 3, 2019

have been held hostage by a ransomware strain known as “ Robbinhood.” On May 25, The New York Times cited unnamed security experts briefed on the attack who blamed the ransomware’s spread on the Eternal Blue exploit, which was linked to the global WannaCry ransomware outbreak in May 2017.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2023

Nominate here: [link] Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter) The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 413 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition appeared first on Security Affairs.

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NopSec

APRIL 7, 2019

In our l ast week’s blog post , we outlined the first part of that webinar, without going into the three specific applications and the challenges. For example, we could tag all messages that contain the expression ‘make money’ as spam. Intrusion detection systems (IDS) are one way to stay a step ahead of potential attackers.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Attackers could use this neat technique to infect and to mess-up your disk and eventually asking for a ransom before restoring original disk-configurations ( Petya was just one of the most infamous boot-ransomware). The original post is available on Marco Ramilli’s blog. The first two lines: 1].code16 fill 510-(.-init),

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The very next day I published a blog post about how I made it so fast to search through 154M records and thus began a now 185-post epic where I began detailing the minutiae of how I built this thing, the decisions I made about how to run it and commentary on all sorts of different breaches. And then ensured could never happen again.

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Fox IT

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The overview shows that since its support for environmental keying, most samples have this feature enabled, indicating that attackers mostly use Blister in a targeted manner. This update included more configuration options, along with an optional domain hash for environmental keying, allowing attackers to deploy Blister in a targeted manner.

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Elie

AUGUST 31, 2017

Over the last two years, ransomware has been all over the news. Hardly a week goes by without a report of a large ransomware outbreak or the emergence of a new ransomware family. Despite all this attention, very little is known about how profitable ransomware is and who the criminals are that benefit from it. final post.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 23, 2021

This blog post was authored by Hasherezade. In mid-July we responded to an incident that involved an attack on a Microsoft Exchange server. The threat actor used this entry point to get into a Domain Controller and then leveraged it as a springboard to deploy ransomware. New ransomware, looking for partners.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 23, 2021

This blog post was authored by Hasherezade. In mid-July we responded to an incident that involved an attack on a Microsoft Exchange server. The threat actor used this entry point to get into a Domain Controller and then leveraged it as a springboard to deploy ransomware. New ransomware, looking for partners.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 11, 2021

The FBI confirmed this week that a relatively new ransomware group known as DarkSide is responsible for an attack that caused Colonial Pipeline to shut down 5,550 miles of pipe , stranding countless barrels of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel on the Gulf Coast. victim that earns $15 billion in annual revenue. Image: colpipe.com.

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Security has quickly risen as an important offering and implementation, heightened due to advanced cyber-attacks and even recent ransomware campaigns specifically targeting MSPs. Kit can add the “ACME Financial” tag to Stef’s admin profile to grant Stef access to client accounts with this tag.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

Everybody's got their own little blog where they post stuff. And so that's where I felt like maybe attacking this not on the network side and the IP side and is the backhaul secure and all this stuff that people are traditionally looking at. That's a traditional ICS attack vector. I noticed it seems like it's very fragmented.

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