Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The cybersecurity basics should be just that—basic. But the reality is that basic cybersecurity blunders continue to affect businesses of all sizes, which has led to embarrassing vulnerabilities, hacks, and attacks. Easy to do, agreed-upon, and adopted at a near 100 percent rate by companies and organizations everywhere, right?

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2022

I had the chance to discuss these findings last week at Black Hat USA 2022, with John Shier, senior security advisor at Sophos, a next-generation cybersecurity leader with a broad portfolio of managed services, software and hardware offerings. Configure system administrative tools more wisely.

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SecureList

MARCH 12, 2024

Distribution of Sensitive Data Exposure vulnerabilities by risk level, 2021–2023 ( download ) Among the sensitive data we identified during our analysis were plaintext one-time passwords and credentials, full paths to web application publish directories and other internal information that could be used to understand the application architecture.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 6, 2021

Privileged accounts assigned special logon credentials to system administrators in charge of onboarding and off boarding users, updating and fixing IT systems and carrying out other network-wide tasks. There are a lot of moving parts to modern IT systems. This inertia is not at all surprising.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 18, 2020

It was this week's bombshell cybersecurity news. Some of the most secret parts of the CIA appear to have worse cybersecurity than a typical small or medium-sized business (SMB). Senator Ron Wyden revealed that this has been known within the agency for years and well documented, yet "woefully lax" cybersecurity persists.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Urgent patching and prompt updates can protect systems from unauthorized access, data breaches, and potential exploitation by threat actors. To secure sensitive data, cybersecurity specialists, software vendors, and end users should encourage collaborative efforts against malicious activities.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 23, 2021

Leading-edge cybersecurity systems in service today apply machine learning in some amazing ways to help large enterprises identify and instantly respond to cyber threats. The software giant’s intent was to make it more convenient and efficient for system administrators to perform Windows upkeep. Password concierge.

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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. If MFA is unavailable, enforce password complexity requirements [ D3-SPP ]. ” reads the advisory published by the US agencies.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 22, 2020

The prospect of remotely-taught lessons remaining widespread for some time to come has profound privacy and cybersecurity implications, going forward. No one enforced the use of passwords, nor insisted on strict teacher control of those lessons.

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IT Security Guru

APRIL 12, 2022

There are a few notable exploited misconfigurations, from default built-in file sharing, and lack of password enforcement, albeit no password to multi-factor authentication (MFA), to the risks of legacy protocols and OAuth apps, that can bring a little clarity to understanding the complex landscape that is a company’s SaaS security posture.

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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. v1 , U.S. .

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 17, 2023

Cybersecurity Ventures predicts by 2031 ransomware will cost victims $265 billion annually, and it will affect a business, consumer, or device every 2 seconds. They wreak havoc by bringing critical infrastructures, supply chains, hospitals, and city services to a grinding halt. What is Ransomware?

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2021

According to Tenable, the remote authentication-bypass vulnerability is tied to an issue related to how HPE handles password resets for administrator accounts. The password change is carried out by sending a request to URL /redfish/v1/SessionService/ResetPassword/1. This allows the attacker to SSH to the EIM host as root.”.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 29, 2020

The researchers concluded that for many people involved, cybercrime amounts to little more than a boring office job sustaining the infrastructure on which these global markets rely, work that is little different in character from the activity of legitimate system administrators.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 2, 2020

Citadelo experts were able to perform the following actions triggering the vulnerability: View content of the internal system database, including password hashes of any customers allocated to this infrastructure. Modify the system database to steal foreign virtual machines (VM) assigned to different organizations within Cloud Director.

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SC Magazine

JULY 7, 2021

Multiple critical vulnerabilities in Philips Clinical Collaboration Platform Portal could enable an attacker to take control over an affected system, according to a recent Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency alert. and earlier. The issue is also caused by the Apache Tomcat protocol.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

He is also looking for opportunities to collect additional access parameters (usernames and passwords), elevate privileges, or use already existing compromised accounts for unauthorized access to systems, applications, and data. Attackers may use the following methods to obtain administrator privileges: Compromised passwords.

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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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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 28, 2023

Some of these attacks are challenging to detect because they look like they could be the behavior of legitimate system administrators. Type enable and the corresponding system password initially set during system installation to enter EXEC PRIVILEGED mode. The command line prompt will be changed from > to #.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 28, 2023

Some of these attacks are challenging to detect because they look like they could be the behavior of legitimate system administrators. Type enable and the corresponding system password initially set during system installation to enter EXEC PRIVILEGED mode. The command line prompt will be changed from > to #.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 31, 2023

In these attack scenarios, the attackers send out repeated targeted phishing attacks to employees until someone gets tired of the notifications and gives up their credentials and the one-time password token. FIDO allows users and organizations to access their resources without a username or password using an external security key.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 21, 2022

Using misconfigured multi-factor authentication (MFA) and an unpatched Windows vulnerability, Russian state-sponsored hackers were able to breach a non-governmental organization (NGO) and escalate privileges, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the FBI revealed last week. Security Best Practices.

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Herjavec Group

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Ask your school system administrators to provide you their written cybersecurity policies and procedures concerning proposed remote learning capabilities. Ask your school system administrators to provide a copy of their incident response policies and plans. School Systems and Educators. So, what to do?

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

How to Conduct a Vulnerability Assessment: 5 Steps toward Better Cybersecurity. Best Password Crackers. Password cracking consists of retrieving passwords stored in computer systems. System administrators and security teams (and hackers) can use them to spot weak passwords. Useful links.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

According to a 2020 case study on one of the firms, security researchers identified more than 1,500 email addresses and 6,000 passwords exposed in more than 80 data breaches. Some of the credentials belonged to company leadership, system administrators, and other employees with privileged access.".

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

That’s Gartner’s estimate of global spending on cybersecurity in 2017 and 2018. Memory hacking is being carried out across paths that have been left comparatively wide open to threat actors who are happy to take full advantage of the rather fragile framework of processes that execute deep inside the kernel of computer operating systems.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

Recent years presented a torrent of research showing how vulnerable RDP systems are for organizations not taking additional cybersecurity precautions. A few days later, IT systems started malfunctioning with ransom messages following. Remote Desktop Software and Cybersecurity. What is the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)?

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a warning to Critical Infrastructure (CI) owners and operators, and other users who get the time from GPS, about a GPS Daemon (GPSD) bug in GPSD versions 3.20 Various businesses and organizations rely on these systems. through 3.22.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

CIOs must come to grips with the fact that we're all human and that shortcuts don't have a place when developing strong cybersecurity habits. Internal hygiene is critical, and that includes ensuring that system level usernames and passwords are not hard-coded. Our job is to look at the problem holistically.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Put passwords and disaster recovery plans on paper. Recovery plans typically identify the key systems and data inside your organization, and the shortest path to restoring critical business functions. We had to wait almost 36 hours to get our password vault restored so we could get passwords out of it,” Tipton said.

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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.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Administratio n (CISA), Snatch was originally named Team Truniger , based on the nickname of the group’s founder and organizer — Truniger. “The command requires Windows system administrators,” Truniger’s ads explained.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2022

If the NAS is exposed to the Internet the dashboard will display the message “The System Administration service can be directly accessible from an external IP address via the following protocols: HTTP.”. Administrator of devices exposed to the Internet should: Disable the Port Forwarding function of the router.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 27, 2021

You never think you’re gonna be hit by ransomware,” says Ski Kacoroski , a system administrator with the Northshore School District in Washington state. We reached out to Adam Kujawa, Malwarebytes’ resident cybersecurity evangelist, and asked what organizations can do to minimize the chance their holiday weekend will be disrupted.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 12, 2023

You never think you're gonna be hit by ransomware," said Ski Kacoroski , a system administrator with the Northshore School District in Washington state, speaking on Malwarebytes' Lock & Code podcast. On the podcast, Kacoroski spoke about Northshore’s nighttime attack: "It was an early Saturday morning.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2021

They will often describe potential “legitimate” uses for their malware – only to further describe anti-malware evasion properties, silent installation and operation or features such as cryptocurrency mining, password theft or disabling webcam lights.” ” reads the post published by Palo Alto Networks.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

cybersecurity agencies, which highlighted the threats in a pair of warnings issued in recent days. And the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added 15 more vulnerabilities to its list of actively exploited vulnerabilities. cybersecurity advisories in recent weeks. The FBI and U.S.

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