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Exposed eyes: 40,000 security cameras vulnerable to remote hacking

Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2025

Over 40,000 internet-exposed security cameras worldwide are vulnerable to remote hacking, posing serious privacy and security risks. Bitsight scanned the internet and identified over 40,000 exposed HTTP- and RTSP-based cameras, capturing live screenshots. To capture screenshots, they tested common RTSP URIs (e.g.,

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Authorities released free decryptor for Phobos and 8base ransomware

Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2025

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. The experts observed a massive spike in activity associated with this threat actor between May and June 2023.

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Think Linux desktop market share isn't over 6%? This 15 million-system scan says otherwise

Zero Day

AUGUST 7, 2025

Also: 5 command line backup tools every Linux user should use for desktops and servers Examining the Linux desktop by business type revealed that industries such as business services, consumer and retail, and government show significantly higher Linux adoption in Europe compared to North America. The research suggests 2.5%

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Internet Backbone Giant Lumen Shuns.RU

Krebs on Security

MARCH 8, 2022

Lumen Technologies , an American company that operates one of the largest Internet backbones and carries a significant percentage of the world’s Internet traffic, said today it will stop routing traffic for organizations based in Russia. However, we are taking steps to immediately stop business in the region.”

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Over 39K unauthenticated Redis services on the internet targeted in cryptocurrency campaign

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Threat actors targeted tens thousands of unauthenticated Redis servers exposed on the internet as part of a cryptocurrency campaign. The tool is not designed to be exposed on the Internet, however, researchers spotted tens thousands Redis instance publicly accessible without authentication. ” warns Censys. ” warns Censys.

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Who’s Behind the DomainNetworks Snail Mail Scam?

Krebs on Security

JULY 3, 2023

com , which says it belongs to a Las Vegas-based Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and digital marketing concern generically named both United Business Service and United Business Services. SammySam_Alon registered at Houzz using an Internet address in Huntsville, Ala. and Renton, Wash. 68.35.149.206).

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9 attack surface discovery and management tools

CSO Magazine

MARCH 21, 2023

The goal with CAASM tools is to give the adversary as little information about the security posture of the business as possible while still maintaining critical business services. To read this article in full, please click here

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TinyNuke banking malware targets French organizations

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The TinyNuke malware is back and now was used in attacks aimed at French users working in manufacturing, technology, construction, and business services. “In the most recent campaigns, the threat actor uses invoice-themed lures purporting to be logistics, transportation, or business services entities.”

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New Leak Shows Business Side of China’s APT Menace

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

i-SOON’s “business services” webpage states that the company’s offerings include public security, anti-fraud, blockchain forensics, enterprise security solutions, and training. Danowski said that in 2013, i-SOON established a department for research on developing new APT network penetration methods.

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RSAC insights: Malware is now spreading via weaponized files circulating in data lakes, file shares

The Last Watchdog

JUNE 3, 2022

Bad actors are constantly evolving their techniques to compromise the organization’s business services,” Srinivasan says. Pulitzer Prize-winning business journalist Byron V. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW

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UNC2529, a new sophisticated cybercrime gang that targets U.S. orgs with 3 malware

Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2021

. “For example, UNC2529 used a unique username, masquerading as an account executive for a small California-based electronics manufacturing company, which Mandiant identified through a simple Internet search.”

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Weakness at the Network Edge: Mandiant Examines 2022’s Zero-Day Exploits

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 27, 2023

” The three activity sets included a campaign against the Philippine government between March and May 2022; a campaign against telecommunications and business service providers in South Asia in April 2022; and a campaign against organizations in Belarus and Russia in May 2022.

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Ransomware Attacks on Schools: 'Dirty, Rotten Scoundrels' Stop Online Learning

SecureWorld News

AUGUST 31, 2020

"We talked about the possibility of waiting to the end of school, but our IT folks said, just like any other infection, the longer you let it go the worse it is going to get," said Assistant Superintendent of Business Services Larry Teixeira. It holds student demographics along with attendance.

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Five reasons why MNOs play a central role in the drone ecosystem

CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Other big trends impacting the industry include the Internet of Things (IoT) devices and sensors, AI and machine learning algorithms and data analytics. MNOs have a large and strong customer network throughout different business service departments. Sales capabilities.

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Cloud Migration Guide Introduction

Spinone

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Lack of Cloud experience Existing Processes and Procedures Internet Connection Redundancy Disaster Recovery Processes Security Management Lack of Cloud Experience Certainly, a driving factor that can deter an organization from moving to the public cloud is a lack of cloud expertise. Internet disruptions can then severely impact the business.

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H.I.G. Growth Partners Invests in Corelight’s $75M Series D Financing

CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Growth Partners considers investments across all industries but focuses on certain high-growth sectors where it has extensive in-house expertise such as technology, healthcare, internet and media, consumer products and technology-enabled financial and business services.

Healthcare

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KMIP: The Cure for the Common Key Management Headache

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 8, 2018

In addition, the DSM is starting to support a number of new business services as well. For example, one service provider is using the DSM to handle keys in its emergency services applications. Following are a couple examples: Smart grids. Conclusion.

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Cyber security guidance for small fleet operators

Pen Test Partners

JANUARY 23, 2025

Isolating personal devices from business systems reduces the risk that a compromised personal device or account can impact the business. Appropriate use of business networks A Wi-Fi network is available on the vessel which can be used to access the Internet. This is primarily for business purposes.

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Managed IT Service Providers (MSPs): A Fast Way to Secure IT

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2023

While MSPs also provide a wide range of business services, here we’ll focus on managed IT and cybersecurity service providers. For IT services and infrastructure, some larger MSPs will provide generalist services and attempt to solve all problems.

Penetration Testing

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Managed IT Service Providers (MSPs): A Fast Way to Secure IT

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2023

While MSPs also provide a wide range of business services, here we’ll focus on managed IT and cybersecurity service providers. For IT services and infrastructure, some larger MSPs will provide generalist services and attempt to solve all problems.

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Office 365 Backup. The Cost of Data Loss

Spinone

JANUARY 30, 2019

The large public cloud vendors today, including Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, all have a multitude of services in their portfolio that businesses can generally find that fit any use case they may have for infrastructure or services. These two services are email and file storage.

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Cloud Security Checklist

Spinone

DECEMBER 28, 2018

The cloud has certainly matured as a platform and solution for today’s business-critical applications. Organizations have chosen to run not only production virtual machines on top of cloud infrastructure but also business services such as email and file storage. However, this is not true.

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Ultimate Guide for Cloud Apps Audit for Education

Spinone

DECEMBER 25, 2018

There is arguably no organization today that isn’t at least considering hosting business services in the public cloud. Cloud has revolutionized the way businesses thinking about their infrastructure. With little time and effort organizations can provision powerful and even complex systems.

Education

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Migrating from On Premise to Google G Suite

Spinone

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Obtaining the Google G Suite Skills Needed for Migration The really nice thing about Google G Suite is there are a wealth of resources for organization’s on-premise IT Teams to leverage to quickly get up to speed with Google G Suite before migrating business services and data to the G Suite public cloud.

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Spam and phishing in 2024

SecureList

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Social media business services were increasingly used as a pretext for credential theft, as they play a key role in developing and promoting businesses and are directly linked to financial operations. Scam in the Russian segment Last year, the Russian segment of the internet was not spared from mass scam mailings.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 273

Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2020

DNS

DNS Surveillance Advertising Malware

Cyber Security Informer

Exposed eyes: 40,000 security cameras vulnerable to remote hacking

Authorities released free decryptor for Phobos and 8base ransomware

Trending Sources

Think Linux desktop market share isn't over 6%? This 15 million-system scan says otherwise

Internet Backbone Giant Lumen Shuns.RU

Over 39K unauthenticated Redis services on the internet targeted in cryptocurrency campaign

Who’s Behind the DomainNetworks Snail Mail Scam?

9 attack surface discovery and management tools

TinyNuke banking malware targets French organizations

New Leak Shows Business Side of China’s APT Menace

RSAC insights: Malware is now spreading via weaponized files circulating in data lakes, file shares

UNC2529, a new sophisticated cybercrime gang that targets U.S. orgs with 3 malware

Weakness at the Network Edge: Mandiant Examines 2022’s Zero-Day Exploits

Ransomware Attacks on Schools: 'Dirty, Rotten Scoundrels' Stop Online Learning

Five reasons why MNOs play a central role in the drone ecosystem

Cloud Migration Guide Introduction

H.I.G. Growth Partners Invests in Corelight’s $75M Series D Financing

KMIP: The Cure for the Common Key Management Headache

Cyber security guidance for small fleet operators

Managed IT Service Providers (MSPs): A Fast Way to Secure IT

Managed IT Service Providers (MSPs): A Fast Way to Secure IT

Office 365 Backup. The Cost of Data Loss

Cloud Security Checklist

Ultimate Guide for Cloud Apps Audit for Education

Migrating from On Premise to Google G Suite

Spam and phishing in 2024

Security Affairs newsletter Round 273

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