NetSpi Executives

OCTOBER 13, 2023

A novel 0-day vulnerability referred to as, “HTTP/2 Rapid Reset,” (CVE-2023-44487) sent the cybersecurity industry into quick action to minimize potential risks. What Could Happen If Exploited The industry is seeing large-scale DDoS attacks stemming from exploitation of HTTP/2 Rapid Reset. From Rapid Reset to Rapid Response!”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2020

” Sophos investigated the incident and determined that hackers were targeting systems configured with either the administration (HTTPS service) or the User Portal exposed on the WAN zone. “After determining the components and impact of the attack, Sophos deployed a hotfix to all supported XG Firewall/SFOS versions.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2022

Greek intelligence service used surveillance malware to spy on a journalist, Reuters reports Slack resets passwords for about 0.5% of its users due to the exposure of salted password hashes Twitter confirms zero-day used to access data of 5.4

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Google Security

MARCH 8, 2023

Posted by Jasika Bawa, Chrome Security Team Starting in Chrome 111 we will begin to turn down the Chrome Cleanup Tool, an application distributed to Chrome users on Windows to help find and remove unwanted software (UwS). Commensurate with this, we have observed a steady decline in UwS findings on users' machines.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Also, Apple has also quashed a pair of zero-day bugs affecting certain macOS and iOS users, and released iOS 16 , which offers a new privacy and security feature called “ Lockdown Mode.” Wired.com describes Safety Check as a feature for users who are at risk for, or currently experiencing, domestic abuse.

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Google Security

MAY 11, 2022

But we know some users like to go a level deeper in understanding how we’re making the latest release safer, and more private, while continuing to offer a seamless experience. This is a strong assertion: "same user, same device" as long as the key is available, a cryptographic assertion of integrity can be made.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 5, 2023

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a fundamental component of best practices for account security. It is a universal method employed for both personal and corporate user accounts globally. text messages) is an authentication method that entails users providing their phone numbers during their profile setup.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 29, 2021

According to researchers at Menlo Security, the SolarMarker campaign is one of two such efforts they’ve seen in recent months using SEO poisoning to deceive users and get them to download the malicious payload into their systems. This leads to vulnerabilities being introduced in a user’s websites. Malicious SolarMarker downloads.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2020

xHelper , a new strain of Android malware is able to re-install itself on infected devices even after victims delete it or force a factory reset. If you do use a different firmware, remember that some of the device’s components might not operate properly.” ” continues Kaspersky. Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

However, if you delve into the traffic, you’ll see that most of the traffic is not from legitimate users. However, this basic security level is not adequate to block today’s evolving bots as they perfectly mimic human users. Blocking IP may sometimes end up blocking the legitimate users using the IP.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

They might gain access to sensitive files or impersonate a user with high privileges to perform harmful actions. Insecure authentication process such as flawed account recovery or password reset, or insecure session tokens. Vulnerable and Outdated Components (?): previously “Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The buffer overflow occurs in the “bridge” component that accepts remote commands sent to the bulb over Zigbee protocol from other devices such as a mobile app. ” Researchers did not reveal technical details or PoC exploit for the vulnerability to allow users to patch their systems. .”Our

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Google Security

JUNE 29, 2020

But first, let’s take a quick look at some of the most important changes we’ve made in Android 11 to protect user privacy and make the platform more secure. As shared in the “ All things privacy in Android 11 ” video, we’re giving users even more control over sensitive permissions.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

When that happens, all isn’t lost; it’s possible to recover from most cyber attacks with tools and techniques available to average users. Disconnect from the Internet Unplugging your computer from the internet ensures that the malware cannot communicate with its source or download additional malicious components.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2018

The Intel Management Engine consists of a microcontroller that works with the Platform Controller Hub chip, in conjunction with integrated peripherals, it is a critical component that handles data exchanged between the processor and peripherals. ” concludes the experts.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The vulnerability is an arbitrary file deletion vulnerability that could be exploited by a malicious or compromised privileged user to take over the online store. Anyway, the expert highlighted that deleting certain plugin files in WordPress an attacker could disable security checks and take over the e-commerce website.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 12, 2023

SAP has released a blog post on Security Note #3411067 that emphasizes the importance of updating the affected components. This allows a user who is actually blocked to regain access to the application, leading to considerable impact on confidentiality and integrity. SAP Security Notes #3382353 , tagged with a CVSS score of 7.5,

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 28, 2019

Traditional signature-based detection generally remains a core component of modern AV suites. The good news is that there is robust tool using – called a password manager – that significantly reduces your exposure to criminal specialists who poses a tangible threat to every Internet user: credential stuffers.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Now, some might think that simply tightening policies and scaling down user privileges is the way to stop the malware from starting any process on the device. But in this case, since the actions are performed by a trusted user, administrators or a security solution may not be able to detect them.

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Elie

MARCH 10, 2018

Being part of the emergency response task force is a central aspect of our team, as it allows us to focus on helping our users when they need it the most and exposes us to tough challenges in real time, as they occur. This is the long term token that Gooligan stole in order to impersonate users on the Play Store.

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SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

These statistics are based on detection verdicts of Kaspersky products received from users who consented to providing statistical data. Therefore, attackers constantly monitor the situation in the world, collecting the most interesting topics for potential victims, and then use these for infection or cheating users out of their money.

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Elie

MARCH 10, 2018

Being part of the emergency response task force is a central aspect of our team, as it allows us to focus on helping our users when they need it the most and exposes us to tough challenges in real time, as they occur. This is the long term token that Gooligan stole in order to impersonate users on the Play Store.

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SecureList

MAY 7, 2024

Software vulnerabilities that threat actors can exploit or are already actively exploiting are a critical component of that landscape. Software vulnerabilities that allow attackers to gain control over the target user’s system are of the highest value to exploit developers.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 18, 2021

A placeholder man page for libcryptex(3) has literally nothing to say about the “Cryptex management library”, except an interesting detail: A copyright date of 19 October, 2018, suggesting that SSV had been in development for a long time before materializing as an end user feature. From <libproc.h>

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Fox IT

MARCH 3, 2022

Since this features can be used to simulate touches/clicks and button presses, it can be used to not only automatically transfer money but also install other malicious applications or components. stopAll : used to reset/stop the ATS feature, stopping the in progress automation. to be simulated in an specific order.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 7, 2022

Since credential dumping, in particular LSASS abuse, is such a common component of many attack chains it makes reasonable sense for the defensive industry to focus on this as a choke point. Our goal is to open a token handle linked to a logon session for a user account we want to preserve access for. Technical Background. Approaches.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 23, 2020

We already knew this malware as ‘wAgent’ It’s main component only works in memory and it fetches additional payloads from a remote server. redacted]c$ cmd.exe /c query user cmd.exe /c net user [redacted] /domain cmd.exe /c whoami. System Owner/User Discovery. redacted] cmd.exe /c ping -n 1 -a 192.[redacted]

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Users of D-Link DAP-X1860 extenders are advised to take precautions, such as limiting manual network scans, being suspicious of sudden disconnections, and turning off the extender when not in use. The bug allows for a 1-click RCE attack by requiring a user to mistakenly download and open a specially crafted.CUE file.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Users are advised to apply this patch promptly to secure their systems. Factory reset before patch: Ivanti recommends users to perform a factory reset on their appliance before applying the patch. and CVE-2024-21887(a command-injection vulnerability found into multiple web components with a CVSS score of 9.1)

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Google Security

DECEMBER 1, 2022

This matches the expectations published in our blog post 2 years ago about the age of memory safety vulnerabilities and why our focus should be on new code, not rewriting existing components. These are low-level components that require a systems language which otherwise would have been implemented in C++. There are approximately 1.5

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The former is used to hide the user mode malware’s artefacts from investigators and security solutions, while demonstrating an interesting undocumented loading scheme involving the kernel mode component of an open-source project named Cheat Engine to bypass the Windows Driver Signature Enforcement mechanism.

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SecureList

JANUARY 20, 2022

Further analysis has shown that a single component within the inspected firmware’s image was modified by attackers in a way that allowed them to intercept the original execution flow of the machine’s boot sequence and introduce a sophisticated infection chain.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 2, 2021

It's always very interesting how on the other side there could be potentially discovered so every hacker has its own mind, and every infrastructure has its own context and money components that are never the same. So a user gets a link and an email user clicks on the link and opens an attachment. Yep, so runs a macro.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The attackers changed emails for users and reset passwords. ” Social engineering attacks target the human component of any organization and the use of generative AI and deepfakes is bringing the level of sophistication of such attacks to a higher level. We have already passed this feedback on to Google.”

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Users can choose among options such as the Microsoft Authenticator app, Windows Hello biometric technology, a security key compatible with the FIDO-2 (Fast Identity Online) standard, or a verification code that can be sent to a phone or email. A large company on average spends $1 million a year on password resets.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

End users tend to be careless with passwords, frequently reusing or sharing their passwords. Multi-factor authentication, or MFA, is simply an umbrella term for verifying the identity of end-users with a password and at least one other form of authentication. Jump to: What is multi-factor authentication? MFA can be hacked.

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Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

IAM encompasses various components, with Single Sign-On (SSO) unifying multiple applications under a single login system, Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) enhancing access controls, and automation tools simplifying profile management and user activity tracking. These identities belong to users, devices, applications, or even systems.

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