CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 17, 2023

To combat these vulnerabilities, organizations must consider establishing hybrid workplace network security. This article will discuss types of network security breaches to watch out for. With hybrid and remote workplaces becoming increasingly normal, workplace network security must become a priority.

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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 22, 2024

Threats from malware, cryptographic infections and compromised networks have never been greater. Headlines regularly attest to such widespread problems, from infection-felled organizations to dangerous vulnerabilities in popular tools.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 20, 2023

Protecting the Network from Viruses and Trojans: NGFW’s application awareness analyzes header information and the payload against established application signatures to validate the application’s integrity and permission for use. Firewalls primarily serve to protect against undesirable or malicious network traffic.

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Trend Micro

JUNE 10, 2025

Respond to Threats Agilely Maximize effectiveness with proactive risk reduction and managed services Learn more Operationalizing Zero Trust Operationalizing Zero Trust Understand your attack surface, assess your risk in real time, and adjust policies across network, workloads, and devices from a single console Learn more By Role By Role By Role Learn (..)

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Security Boulevard

MAY 29, 2022

It makes quite a few useful things possible: fast general Internet access (on the order of DSL) download and even upload of high-resolution video always-on behavior (with batteries lasting the entire day) apps relying on location and identity (technically a smartphone feature). The post Do we really need 5G? The post Do we really need 5G?

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 8, 2020

There’s an old adage in information security: “Every company gets penetration tested, whether or not they pay someone for the pleasure.” ” Many organizations that do hire professionals to test their network security posture unfortunately tend to focus on fixing vulnerabilities hackers could use to break in.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

” There are numerous stages within this infection chain that could have been stopped with properly layered defenses on the email and network security stack. ” The Astaroth Trojan was first spotted by security firm Cofense in late 2018 when it was involved in a campaign targeting Europe and Brazil. .”

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2020

“Administrators can update Exim Mail Transfer Agent software through their Linux distribution’s package manager or by downloading the latest version from [link]. ” “NSA adds its encouragement to immediately patch to mitigate against this still current threat.” “Update Exim immediately by installing version 4.93

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 21, 2025

Matthew Weiss, former football coach for the University of Michigan and the Baltimore Ravens, for almost 10 years accessed the social media and other online accounts of thousands of student athletes and downloaded personal information and intimate images, said prosecutors who indicted for illegal computer access and identity theft.

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Webroot

MARCH 9, 2021

For even more tips from Webroot IT security experts Tyler Moffitt, Kelvin Murray, Grayson Milbourne, George Anderson and Jonathan Barnett, download the complete e-book on hacker personas. Be sure to update and patch software and firewalls as well as network security programs. The Impersonator. The post Who’s Hacking You?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2022

Upon opening the file, a webpage is displayed and it requests the recipients to save a downloaded ISO file. The experts noticed that the ISO is not downloaded from a remote web, instead, it is generated within the victim’s browser by the JavaScript code that is embedded inside the HTML receipt file.

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2021

Guides asset owners and operators through a systematic process to evaluate their operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) network security practices against the ransomware threat. Provides an analysis dashboard with graphs and tables that present the assessment results in both summary and detailed form.

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SecureList

APRIL 21, 2025

txt file contains aBase64-encoded PowerShell script that then downloads and runs theLumma Stealer. txt The script performs the following actions: Downloads the malware. It downloads the win15.zip When decoded, the malicious PowerShell script looks like this: Contents of win15.txt zip file from https[:]//win15.b-cdn[.]net/win15.zip

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The Shikitega attack consists of a “multistage infection chain where each module responds to a part of the payload and downloads and executes the next one,” the AT&T researchers wrote. Once the CRONs are set, there’s no need to keep downloaded files, so the malware deletes them to evade detection. Multistage Infection Chain.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The attackers dropped a PHP malware sample through a backdoor linked to a WordPress plugin called Download-monitor, which was installed after the honeypot was accessed. “Download-monitor had been installed after the honeypot’s weak WordPress admin credentials had been guessed. .” ” concludes the analysis.

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2024

One of the requests observed by the researchers includes an encoded URL that, when decoded, reveals a command sequence attempting to wipe files, download a script from a remote server, set executable permissions, and execute the script. The researchers analyzed the payloads and identified them as Mirai bots.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The APT32 also targeted peripheral network security and technology infrastructure corporations, and security firms that may have connections with foreign investors. ” The attack chain begins with spear-phishing messages that include a link to an alleged important document to download.

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Trend Micro

JULY 2, 2025

Respond to Threats Agilely Maximize effectiveness with proactive risk reduction and managed services Learn more Operationalizing Zero Trust Operationalizing Zero Trust Understand your attack surface, assess your risk in real time, and adjust policies across network, workloads, and devices from a single console Learn more By Role By Role By Role Learn (..)

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Therefore, organizations need a true ‘defense in depth’ strategy and a multi-layered security solution that inspects email delivery, network activity, endpoint behavior, and follow-on attacker activities.”. As an added detection-evasion technique against endpoint security controls, the created JavaScript file is password-protected.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 23, 2024

associates,center,cloud,consulting,dev,digital,domains,email,global,gmbh,group,holdings,host,inc,institute,international,it,llc,ltd,management,ms,name,network,security,services,site,srl,support,systems,tech,university,win and.zone , among others. Seralys found certificates referencing more than 9,000 distinct domains across those TLDs.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2020

Russian state-sponsored hackers leverage the vulnerability to download a shell script from a domain under their control and use it to “add privileged users, disable network security settings, update SSH configurations to enable additional remote access, execute an additional script to enable follow-on exploitation.”.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 24, 2021

They asked us to download TeamViewer and share the ID and password so they could connect. They also quietly downloaded and installed another program (SupRemo) to maintain unattended access. Working behind the scenes, they downloaded a VBS script onto the machine which they placed into the Startup folder. com email address.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 9, 2024

User data was stolen from Cisco Duo, a service that provides organizations with multi-factor authentication (MFA) and single sign-on (SSO) network access, as a consequence of a phishing attack targeting an employee of a third-party telephony provider. The breach allowed the threat actor to download SMS message logs. Why does it matter?

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SC Magazine

APRIL 1, 2021

They say cheaters never prosper, and new security research indicates that malicious hackers are doing their part to bring that bromide to life for unscrupulous gamers, including those who are downloading trojanized video game cheat mods on their work devices.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2025

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Doctor Chaos

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Rombertik attacks are based on social engineering, tricking users into downloading the executable program which is disguised as a PDF file. Please understand that attackers will use a variety of techniques to hide malware extensions from users, and obfuscate file types to subvert network security technologies.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The network security vendor said the credentials were stolen from systems that remain unpatched against a two-year-old vulnerability – CVE-2018-13379 – or from users who patched that vulnerability but failed to change passwords. Fortinet confirmed the veracity of the hackers’ claims in a blog post today.

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Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2019

Researchers at Network Security Research Lab of Qihoo 360 discovered a Lua-based backdoor dubbed Godlua that targets both Linux and Windows systems. “The Bot sample downloads many Lua scripts when executing, and the scripts can be broken down to three categories: execute, auxiliary, and attack.” The second variant.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 17, 2025

Download now. Leverage the Power of Stealth Networking Dispersive Stealth Networking offers an advanced alternative to VPN-based security. Dispersive can help you make your network invisible to attackers and resilient by design. Ready to rethink your infrastructure?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The last shellcode in the attack chain is composed of a set of instructions that make an HTTP request to a hard-coded domain to download a malicious payload and inject it into a process. According to the experts the loader has two main classes named “ Kraken ” and “ Loader “.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 16, 2022

By using complex obfuscation techniques in the downloader script, the attackers. The post Campaign Uses Public Cloud to Spread RAT Payloads appeared first on Security Boulevard. Italy and Singapore.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 8, 2021

Now, the SecureX Security Services Exchange (SSE) acts as an API gateway, enabling SecureX Orchestrator to invoke FMC API calls. Download them today and address common use cases for observable actions, remediations, and incident endpoint enrichment. sxo-05-security-workflows/workflows/secure-firewall/.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

At the end of May, the network security solutions provider Barracuda warned customers that some of its Email Security Gateway (ESG) appliances were recently breached by threat actors exploiting a now-patched zero-day vulnerability.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The victims were tricked into downloading utilities to complete fake job assessments. Putty) and networking tools. They used LinkedIn to connect with the victims and gain their trust. Then they moved the conversation away from the platform to encrypted messaging apps like WhatsApp.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2020

Hackers are scanning the Internet for vulnerable network-attached storage (NAS) devices running multiple QNAP firmware versions vulnerable to a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability addressed by the vendor 3 years ago. “By using the execv to execute custom command, command injection has been avoided.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Researchers from from Netlab, the network security division of Chinese tech giant Qihoo 360, have discovered a new botnet, tracked as HEH, that contains the code to wipe all data from infected systems, such as routers, IoT devices, and servers.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 21, 2021

This surge in TLS abuse has shifted the security community’s focus back to a venerable network security tool, the firewall. For all the good TLS has done, it has also made it much easier for attackers to download and install malicious modules and exfiltrate stolen data,” Schiappa says.

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