CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The EC-Council Academic division awards formally highlight academic institutions and faculty within North America and across the world that excel each year with lasting impacts on their students’ cybersecurity education and local communities. dean, College of Business and Information Technology at the University.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) also published a security advisory on the CVE-2020-4006 zero-day flaw. ” According to the NSA, the threat actors installed a web shell on the VMWare Workspace ONE system and then forged SAML credentials for themselves. .” ” Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 22, 2023

With these words Panagiotis Soulos summarizes his philosophy of why the CCSP credential is important to any cybersecurity professional. Panagiotis holds the position of the Global Information Security Manager in Global Information Security at Intrum. Let me give you a little of information about Intrum.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

CERT-UA observed the campaign in April 2023, the malicious e-mails with the subject “Windows Update” were crafted to appear as sent by system administrators of departments of multiple government bodies. Most of the APT28s’ campaigns leveraged spear-phishing and malware-based attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Red, blue and purple teams simulate cyberattacks and incident responses to test an organization’s cybersecurity readiness. Blue team members might be led by a chief information security officer (CISO) or director of security operations, making this team the largest among the three.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2022

In mere seconds, a hacker remotely accessed a computer belonging to a regional Russian Ministry of Health, taking advantage of sloppy cybersecurity practices to expose its entire network. Spielerkid89, who wished to remain anonymous, did not intend to harm the organization and left its systems intact. Original post at [link].

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

US and Japanese intelligence, law enforcement and cybersecurity agencies warn of a China-linked APT, tracked as BlackTech (aka Palmerworm, Temp.Overboard, Circuit Panda, and Radio Panda), that planted backdoor in Cisco router firmware to access multinational companies’ networks. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 22, 2022

Cybersecurity firm Constella Intelligence shows that in 2017, someone using the email address istanx@gmail.com registered at the Russian freelancer job site fl.ru Kloster says he’s worked in many large companies in Omsk as a system administrator, web developer and photographer. ” the post enthuses.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

The City experts believe that the group specifically targeted a prioritized list of servers using legitimate Microsoft system administrative tools. The City immediately initiated mitigation efforts after the discovery of the attack and it started restoring its services with the help of external cybersecurity experts.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2021

The module has full access to all the firmware, hardware, software, and operating system installed on the server. . The attacks were spotted by Iranian cybersecurity firm Amnpardaz, this is the first time ever that malware targets iLO firmware. The level of sophistication of these attacks suggests the involvement of an APT group.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Yandex, a European multinational technology firm best known for being the most-used search engine in Russia, has revealed it had a security breach, leading to the compromise of almost 5,000 Yandex email accounts. The company says it spotted the breach after a routine check by its security team.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2021

The vendor recommended changing system administrator account, reset access control, and installing the latest available version. If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The news of the attack was also confirmed by the popular cybersecurity researchers Kevin Beaumont that reported that threat actors are using the two issues to bypass all Windows OS security, by shutting down VMs and encrypting the VMDK’s directly on hypervisor. Threat actors left the ransom note at the datastore level.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

The Department of Health and Human Services has made progress in threat sharing efforts to support cybersecurity within its partnerships and the health care sector. But the Government Accountability Office found areas where HHS could better coordinate its efforts to support department information sharing and overall health IT security.

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2023

Unfortunately, as system administrators seek ways to control access to these platforms, users may seek out alternative ways to gain access.” In this case, the visitors were downloading Midjourney-x64.msix, msix, which is a Windows Application Package also signed by ASHANA GLOBAL LTD. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

The FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Department of Defense (DoD) released information on a RAT variant, dubbed TAIDOOR, used by China-linked hackers in cyber espionage campaigns targeting governments, corporations, and think tanks. Keep operating system patches up-to-date.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in August 2020. The CISA MAR provided indicators of compromise (IoCs), Yara rules, and other technical info that could be used by system administrators to discover compromise systems within their networks. ” reads the report published by Kaspersky.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

US NSA, CISA, and the FBI published a joint cybersecurity advisory to warn that China-linked threat actors have breached telecommunications companies and network service providers. Ensure that you have dedicated management systems [ D3-PH ] and accounts for system administrators.

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Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2020

link] — USCYBERCOM Cybersecurity Alert (@CNMF_CyberAlert) July 3, 2020. Researchers Rich Warren from NCC Group told ZDNet that hackers are attempting to exploit the flaw to steal administrator passwords from the hacked devices. System administrators need to upgrade to fixed versions ASAP. Remediate immediately.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2022

.” Customers can check whether their NAS is exposed online by using the Security Counselor, a built-in security portal for QNAP NAS devices. Administrator of devices exposed to the Internet should: Disable the Port Forwarding function of the router.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2020

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published a Malware Analysis Report (MAR) that includes technical details about a new strain of malware, tracked as BLINDINGCAN, that was attributed to North Korea. In April, the U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Fifteen years after the launch of the microblogging social media platform, Twitter remains a dominant public forum for instant communication with individuals and organizations worldwide on a universe of topics, including #cybersecurity. Top Cybersecurity Experts to Follow on Twitter. Binni Shah | @binitamshah. Eva Galperi n | @evacide.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2021

Organizations with effective spam filtering, proper system administration and up-to-date Windows hosts have a much lower risk of infection.” ” If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2022

This is why it is essential for system administrators and security companies to be aware of this kind of malware and write protections for their users as soon as possible.” ” Security Affairs is one of the finalists for the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS.

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2021

SSH stands for Secure Shell or Secure Socket Shell and is a network protocol that is most often used by system administrators for remote command-line requests, system logins and also for remote command execution. This allows the attacker to SSH to the EIM host as root.”.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

The CIA report highlighted the lax cybersecurity measures by the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence, a super-sophisticated hackers unit. ” continues the report “While CIA was an early leader in securing our enterprise information technology (IT) system, we failed to correct acute vulnerabilities to our mission IT systems.”.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2021

“The lengthy delay for the cleanup routine to activate may be explained by the need to give system administrators time for forensics analysis and checking for other infections.” ” If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here. concludes MalwareBytes.

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SecureList

MARCH 12, 2024

Recommendations provided in these rankings are general in nature and based on information security best practices standards and guidelines, such as OWASP and NIST. The rankings are expert opinions based on the number of applications containing a specific vulnerability and the severity of the impact.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

In this article we will learn how to address and effectively respond to major enterprise cybersecurity threats and provide tips to mitigate IT security risk. Today, c yber security incidents lead to significant damage, alarming organizations of all types and sizes in different geographic locations.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Obviously, when using an infrastructure that includes different networks with different user directories and different security policies, it is tough to comply with all information security requirements. The concept of PIM, in contrast to PAM, is aimed at managing existing accounts: administrator, root, etc. Conclusion.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 2, 2020

Escalate privileges from “Organization Administrator” (normally a customer account) to “System Administrator” with access to all cloud accounts (organization) as an attacker can change the hash for this account. SecurityAffairs – VMware Cloud Director, cybersecurity). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Our investigation revealed that this remote endpoint is associated with criminal activities dating back to 2019, indicating that these hosts were likely under the control of the same technical administration. This hostname connection is particularly heterogeneous, but it technically makes sense.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Michigan is cultivating a collection of amazing cybersecurity training facilities, called Cyber Range hubs, that are shining models for what’s possible when inspired program leaders are given access to leading-edge resources, wisely supplied by public agencies and private foundations. Merit 1981. So we did some research.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company , has identified a series of sophisticated successful phishing attacks against the management and executives of more than 150 companies around the world. Please give me your vote for European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS [link].

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

And also reached three significant conclusions, which you can summarize like this: Twitter is to blame for the cyberattack's success, because of inadequate cybersecurity going all the way to the top. New York should increase cybersecurity regulations as a result, especially for social media companies.

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