Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Recent spam campaigns used messages with malicious Word documents, or links to them, pretending to be an invoice, shipping information, COVID-19 information , resumes, financial documents, or scanned documents. pic.twitter.com/POppQ51uMX — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) September 22, 2020.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2019

Spam messages are carrying weaponized RTF documents that could infect users with malware without any user interaction, just opening the RTF documents. pic.twitter.com/Ac6dYG9vvw — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) June 7, 2019. Windows Defender ATP detects the documents as Exploit:O97M/CVE-2017-11882.AD

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Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2020

Emotet is considered by security experts as one of the most active botnet of 2019, “Today, Emotet suddenly surged back to life with reply-chain, shipping, payment, and invoice spam that deliver malicious Word documents spreadsheets.” ” states BleepingComputer. link] — Joseph Roosen (@JRoosen) July 18, 2020.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

pic.twitter.com/POppQ51uMX — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) September 22, 2020. Recent spam campaigns used messages with malicious Word documents, or links to them, pretending to be an invoice, shipping information, COVID-19 information , resumes, financial documents, or scanned documents.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 12, 2021

Microsoft’s Security Intelligence account also tweeted , “We have detected and are now blocking a new family of ransomware being used after an initial compromise of unpatched on-premises Exchange Servers.”. . “Microsoft observed a new family of human operated ransomware attack customers – detected as Ransom:Win32/DoejoCrypt.A.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2020

This week’s campaign uses several hundreds of unique macro-laced document attachments in emails that pose as message from a non-profit offering free COVID-19 test. pic.twitter.com/V2JcZg2kjt — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) April 17, 2020.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2019

The macro included in the documents executes the legitimate msiexec.exe tool that downloads an MSI archive. pic.twitter.com/PQ2g7rvDQm — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) June 21, 2019. — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) June 21, 2019.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 27, 2022

Nisos also documents any remaining PII that couldn’t be removed. Nisos also documents any remaining PII that couldn’t be removed. Their analysts actively remove PII from more than 165 internet databases and sources while documenting any data that cannot be removed for legal and policy reasons. ABOUT NISOS. their needs.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

pic.twitter.com/mcRyEBUmQH — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) January 30, 2020. pic.twitter.com/1qnx3NmwiB — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) January 30, 2020. When opened, the HTML leads to the download Dudear, a malicious macro-laden Excel file that drops the payload.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 26, 2022

According to Microsoft Security Intelligence, the campaign has “targeted hundreds of organisations”. It says “Your colleague shared a document with you via your organisation sharepoint” and a link. — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) January 21, 2022. Read and write access to mailboxes?

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2022

Microsoft Security Intelligence team Microsoft reported that a new variant of the Sysrv botnet, tracked as Sysrv-K, now includes exploits for vulnerabilities in the Spring Framework and WordPress. — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) May 13, 2022.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 17, 2021

According to Microsoft Security Intelligence , attackers have started using PDF files full of keywords that have a high SEO ranking, so that their links show up prominently in search results. The attack works by using PDF documents designed to rank on search results. Distribution. SEO poisoning.

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Lenny Zeltser

MAY 3, 2019

To understand the basis for these recommendations, read the documents mentioned at the end of the post. Attackers stole sensitive documents. Adversaries have routinely pursued sensitive campaign documents. Consider when to send attachments and when to share links to documents in cloud storage. campaigns from around 2016.

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Threatpost

MAY 22, 2020

documents to spread the weaponized NetSupport RAT in a spear-phishing campaign. Attackers used malicious Excel 4.0

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Webroot

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

explains Grayson Milbourne, security intelligence director for Carbonite + Webroot. Ready to take the first in protecting your most precious memories and most important documents? They want to disrupt your life and your business so much that you’re willing to pay the cybercriminals to give back your most important files.

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SC Magazine

MAY 14, 2021

Microsoft Security Intelligence earlier this week tweeted out that it has been tracking a campaign of remote access trojans (RATs) targeting the aerospace and travel industries with spear-phishing emails that distribute an actively developed loader, which then delivers RevengeRAT or AysncRAT. “The Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Over the past year, Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has observed an evolution of the tools, techniques, and procedures employed by Iranian nation-state actors. Learn more from this blog summarizing these trends, as presented at #CyberWarCon : [link] — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) November 16, 2021.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Our researchers are closely monitoring the campaign and will share additional info and investigation guidance through Microsoft 365 security center and Microsoft Threat Experts. — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) May 11, 2021.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 30, 2021

This list was originally compiled as a standard awareness document for developers and web application security practitioners. It represents a broad consensus about the most critical security risks to APIs. This plan document is the perfect addition to an existing governance policy. Maps to API10.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Court documents depict in some detail how Thompson misused authenticated and authorized credentials to perform her attack. Creating, training and maintaining algorithms specific to API security requires a great deal of data science expertise,” Isbitski says. Traditional approaches just aren’t working or can’t scale.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Office documents have been a favorite hiding place of malicious code ever since. pic.twitter.com/kwxOA0pfXH — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) May 18, 2020. They allowed users to add commands into spreadsheet cells that were then executed to perform a task. Disable manually.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2021

According to its documentation , Kubernetes comes with load balancing features that help to distribute high network traffic and keep the deployment stable. For more information about other aspects of Amazon EKS security, click here. About the Author: David Bisson is an information security writer and security junkie.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2020

It will then provide recommendations on how organizations can secure each of these components. Per Kubernetes’ documentation , kube-apiserver is the front end for the Kubernetes control plane. For information on how to secure that part of a Kubernetes cluster, click here. kube-apiserver. What it is.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 11, 2023

This concept benefits AI cybersecurity tools; the more security intelligence an ML tool has, the better it is at detecting and responding to threats. With ML, documents are organized into categories and subcategories, using named entity recognition to discover a range of sensitive information types.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Read our latest blog w/ assist from @GossiTheDog & @MalwareTechBlog [link] — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) November 7, 2019. While we currently see only coin miners being dropped, we agree w/ the research community that CVE-2019-0708 (BlueKeep) exploitation can be big. ” Noble added.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Don't Encrypt Everything; Protect Intelligently. The volume of confidential documents created daily is, frankly, incalculable, and the volume of “everything” distributed across multiple data centers around the world is much, much more. Intelligent Sensitive Data Protection. Thu, 11/11/2021 - 09:30.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2021

The tools used by Longhorn closely follow development timelines and technical specifications laid out in documents disclosed by WikiLeaks.”. Symantec has been protecting its customers from Longhorn’s tools for the past three years and has continued to track the group in order to learn more about its tools, tactics, and procedures.”

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NopSec

APRIL 18, 2024

Ever feel like you’re flying blind when it comes to your security posture? That’s where Exception Plans come in – documented decisions to delay patching specific vulnerabilities. However, these plans often sit in isolation, offering limited insight into the bigger security picture.

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Centraleyes

JULY 8, 2024

With a focus on threat intelligence and incident response, CISA’s resources empower compliance professionals to mitigate cyber threats and strengthen their security posture.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 15, 2023

This could include vulnerability scanners , configuration assessment tools, or security intelligence platforms. These documents will help you determine how to address potential vulnerabilities, and they set expectations with stakeholders for what your program will achieve.

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Jane Frankland

AUGUST 18, 2020

Security intelligence comes with a high pay off. Numerous studies have documented how men and women gauge risk differently. It’s something I wrote extensively about in my book, IN Security. You can then challenge assumptions and get superior collective outputs. INSIGHT #3.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Visibility features include real-time, granular search with FireMon’s Security Intelligence Query Language (SiQL) tool. Support and Documentation : Strong support and comprehensive documentation can be invaluable when deploying and managing a new security solution.

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The Security Ledger

AUGUST 16, 2019

Time and again, firmware from commonly used manufacturers failed to implement basic security features even when researchers studied the most recent versions of the firmware. Researchers documented 299 positive changes in firmware security scores over the 15 years covered by the study…but 370 negative changes over the same period.

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NopSec

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

The ransomware determines what files to encrypt by their file type, with office documents – docx,xlsx,pptx, photographs, and video files – almost always targeted. Crypto-ransomware systematically encrypts files that are stored locally or on accessible network file shares, using strong cryptographic algorithms.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 14, 2024

Businesses focusing on security may find LastPass unsuitable due to its breach history and lack of secret management. Despite worries, LastPass is committed to ongoing security improvement and offers users direct access to its security intelligence team. It has an easy interface for mobile devices and syncing.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Visibility features include real-time, granular search with FireMon’s Security Intelligence Query Language (SiQL) tool. Visibility Comprehensive visibility into network activity and security policies is essential for identifying potential threats and ensuring compliance.

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NopSec

JULY 13, 2016

Documentation on the API can be found here: [link] Create Cloud Scan Report and Analysis This is a sample of a Report generated by the Cloud Scanner and its table of contents. This helps reduce the learning curve in adoption without disrupting existing workflows.

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