Malwarebytes

JANUARY 31, 2024

Malicious ads The ads are displayed via Google searches for popular search terms related to programs used by IT and system administrators. net: Malicious redirect The page is designed to look identical to the real website except for the download link which points somewhere else.

Malware 81

Malware Hacking System Administration Ransomware 81

SecureWorld News

MARCH 11, 2022

He writes about this in his book, "Ghost in the Wires": "I would call the company I'd targeted, ask for their computer room, make sure I was talking to a system administrator, and tell him, 'This is [whatever fictitious name popped into my head at that moment], from DEC support. Mitnick says his favorite emotional tool was fear.

Social Engineering 69

Social Engineering Engineering Phishing Accountability 69

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Sending phishing emails to engineers can be used as an exploitation technique to get them to import malicious configuration files ( CVE-2023-31171 ), which results in arbitrary code execution. Business email compromise (BEC) assaults were the main aim of this large phishing effort, which resulted in significant financial losses.

VPN 111

VPN Firmware Authentication Phishing 111

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

It was designed to make it convenient for system administrators to automate tasks and manage configurations across all Windows endpoints and servers in a company network. Threat actors are increasingly leveraging PowerShell to stealthily download snippets of malicious script, coding that executes in memory.

Hacking 212

Hacking Energy and Utilities System Administration Accountability 212

SiteLock

MAY 16, 2022

The SiteLock Malware Research Team (SMRT) detected and remediated numerous phishing kits installed on a customer site in a variety of locations. The header comment of all WordPress plugins and themes contains information about the component, including the name, the location to download it from, a description, and the author information.

Malware 52

Malware System Administration Engineering Phishing 52

SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

In the vast majority of the incidents we discovered, FoundCore executions were preceded by the opening of malicious RTF documents downloaded from static.phongay[.]com In conjunction with spam campaigns, the adversaries later switched to compromised websites where visitors are tricked into downloading the malware. What guarantees ?

Ransomware 138

Ransomware Malware Banking Encryption 138

SiteLock

JANUARY 13, 2022

This can include any number of the following activities: Processing phishing data – They can set up your site as a phishing site or simply as a location to store data from a phishing site. Maarten Broekman has worked as a system administrator and systems engineer for over 25 years, primarily in the shared web-hosting space.

Cryptocurrency 52

Cryptocurrency Phishing Software System Administration 52

SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

To ensure more users were infected, cybercriminal groups developed exploit kits for specific user groups and tailored exploits downloaded to victims’ devices. After running the exploit, the attackers would choose a specific payload to be downloaded to the infected device.

Cybercrime 140

Cybercrime Banking Malware Ransomware 140

NopSec

OCTOBER 19, 2015

These include spear phishing attacks and drive-by downloads; vulnerabilities that should be addressed to ensure external attackers cannot compromise an internal network. A NULL session attack is something that system administrators often neglect to consider when hardening networks.

Firewall 40

Firewall VPN Passwords System Administration 40

Spinone

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

These are words that no system administrator or business leader wants to hear from anyone using a computer on their network. Starting out as a phishing email that masquerades as an applicant seeking a job, the email has a link to a Dropbox location that is supposed to contain the resume. Until recently, it was relatively sage.

Ransomware 52

Ransomware Encryption Malware Backups 52

ForAllSecure

AUGUST 16, 2022

They're the long game operations where something as small as a single phishing email could escalate into millions of IDs being exfiltrated. Vamosi: In EP 49, I talked about Living off the Land, a attack strategy that uses existing applications on a victim’s machine, as opposed to downloading a new Zero Day or something cool like that.

InfoSec 40

InfoSec Firewall Engineering System Administration 40