SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Start small, skill up The starting line is all about building up some basic skills—networking basics, firewall configuration, system hardening, threat analysis, and access control. Each piece of knowledge is a potential ticket into conversations, networking events, and job opportunities. Here's the game plan.

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Webroot

MARCH 29, 2021

A firewall with the right threat intelligence embedded could have blocked communications with the command-and-control server thus preventing a Trojanized Orion install from connecting back to the attackers and stopping them from furthering the attack. But recent events have worked to undermine this growing understanding.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Microsoft first noticed that to conceal malicious traffic, the threat actor routes it through compromised small office and home office (SOHO) network devices, including routers, firewalls, and VPN hardware. critical infrastructure in the event of a major crisis or conflict with the United States.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2021

On January 31, 2020 the Bureau receives its second CISA request to investigate the compromised servers and a few days later, on February 5, 2020, the Bureau confirmed that other servers were hacked. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Citrix). ” states the report. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A new data leak that appears to have come from one of China’s top private cybersecurity firms provides a rare glimpse into the commercial side of China’s many state-sponsored hacking groups. APT stands for Advanced Persistent Threat, a term that generally refers to state-sponsored hacking groups.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2019

Your IP address represents your digital identity online, hacking it not only allows attackers to access your device or your accounts, but it may cause even bigger damage. Cybercriminals are interested in hacking your IP address for various reasons. The hacked and stolen IPs are often used for carrying out illegal activities.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2021

THOMPSON posted about the Capital One hack on GitHub, she exploited a misconfigured web application firewall to get access to the data. Based on our analysis to date, this event affected approximately 100 million individuals in the United States and approximately 6 million in Canada. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Capital One).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

A cyberattack on gambling giant IGT disrupted portions of its IT systems China-linked APT Gelsemium uses a new Linux backdoor dubbed WolfsBane Microsoft seized 240 sites used by the ONNX phishing service U.S.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2025

The encrypted China Chopper variant, frequently used by the attackers, employed AES encryption to evade detection by Web Application Firewalls (WAFs). They patched the Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) to suppress event logs and bypassed the Antimalware Scan Interface (AMSI) by modifying amsi.dll, allowing malicious PowerShell execution.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

China's National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center (CVERC) recently made a statement accusing the United States National Security Agency (NSA) of repeatedly hacking the Northwestern Polytechnical University, a key public military research university located in Xi'an, China. TAO is a tactical implementation unit of the U.S.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

A DoS attack that caused disruptions at a power utility in the United States exploited a flaw in a firewall used in the facility. The incident took place earlier this year, threat actors exploited a known vulnerability in a firewall used by the affected facility to cause disruption. and 7 p.m., and 7 p.m.,

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Threat hunting is the practice of actively seeking out dangers to cyber security by detecting and eliminating new and emerging threats that are able to evade preventative controls such as firewalls and antivirus software. One of the most commonly used tools for threat hunting, however is security information and event management (SIEM).

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Why would cybercriminals be interested in hacking a vegan food blog? Joe can use a web application firewall (WAF ) to help protect his blog from bad bots and other malicious traffic. He is the go-to guy when the church wants to post new announcements and events. To prevent a DDoS attack, a web application firewall must be used.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2020

Expert found a hardcoded SSH public key in Fortinet ’s Security Information and Event Management FortiSIEM that can allow access to the FortiSIEM Supervisor. . The feature was implemented to enable connecting to collectors from the supervisor when there is a firewall between the collector and the supervisor. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2021

December 21 – SUPERNOVA, a backdoor found while investigating SolarWinds hack. Expert found a hardcoded SSH public key in Fortinet ’s Security Information and Event Management FortiSIEM that can allow access to the FortiSIEM Supervisor. April 27 – Hacking Microsoft Teams accounts with a GIF image. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2024

The attackers exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in Zyxel firewalls used by many critical infrastructure operators in Denmark. On April 25, 2023, Zyxel disclosed a critical vulnerability (CVSS score 9.8), tracked as CVE-2023-28771 , in a number of their firewalls. According to the report, 11 companies were immediately compromised.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

experts observed that one threat actor compromised 96% of the 80 Postgres honeypots that the researchers deployed, and all the instances were hacked within 30 seconds. Each firewall policy might block 600-3,000 known scanner IP addresses. SecurityAffairs – hacking, honeypot). Rocke , TeamTNT ).” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2022

SonicWall confirmed that some of its Email Security and firewall products have been impacted by the Y2K22 bug. Security vendor SonicWall confirmed that some of its Email Security and firewall products have been impacted by the Y2K22 bug. SecurityAffairs – hacking, IKEA). x should upgrade to the latest Junk Store 7.6.9.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

PortStarter A back door script written in Go that provides functionality for modifying firewall settings and opening ports to pre-configured command and control (C2) servers.[ wevtutil.exe A standard Windows Event Utility tool used to view event logs. AnyDesk also supports remote file transfer.

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2024

Threat actors exploited the flaw to gain remote firewall access and breach corporate networks. In light of these events, we have been monitoring attempts to gain unauthorized access to VPNs of Check Point’s customers. The vulnerability CVE-2024-24919 is a Quantum Gateway information disclosure issue.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The skimmer is added to the onclick event of the checkout button and onunload event of the web page. com is neither a malicious site nor a hacked site. . com is neither a malicious site nor a hacked site. A good website firewall can help to minimize the risk of infection in the first place.”

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 4, 2021

A cornucopia of cybersecurity solutions went on public display today as Black Hat USA 2021 convened once more as a live event in Las Vegas. Related: Kaseya hack raises more supply chain worries. For small- and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) cutting through the marketing hype can be daunting.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Here are some ideas IT admins can use to detect a network compromise sooner, potentially limiting the damage of an adverse cyber event. Because so much of cybersecurity relies on passive forms of protection (think firewalls, antivirus solutions, password protection, etc.), Consider booby trapping your network.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 10, 2021

No one, save threat actors, was paying close attention to the ramifications of granting a myriad of small- and mid-sized contractors privileged access inside the company firewall. It’s notable that the Solar Winds hack is something of an outlier. These are the providers with whom sensitive data and privileged access gets shared daily.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 30, 2022

Each firewall, IDS, MFA, and email security is built to protect and stop cyber attacks. Distortion hacks are becoming more common. For example, suppose criminals hack into your company’s cloud. While enforcement of FERPA is left to the department of education, there is some sense of data accountability and disclosure of events.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In December 2023, Microsoft first noticed that to conceal malicious traffic, the threat actor routes it through compromised small office and home office (SOHO) network devices, including routers, firewalls, and VPN hardware. The group also relies on customized versions of open-source tools for C2 communications and to stay under the radar.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

A remote, unauthenticated attacker can trigger the flaw to perform a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) attack via HTTP fields observed in the traffic and event logviews. The issue impacted FortiGate firewalls and FortiProxy web proxies. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Fortinet). ” reads the advisory. Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

There are many types of cyberattacks , with top trends for 2022 including mobile attacks, ransomware, COVID-related scams and hacks, zero-click attacks , malicious QR codes , phishing , cryptojacking , and IoT malware attacks, among others. Security information and event management (SIEM). Next-generation firewalls (NGFW).

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Security Affairs

JULY 27, 2020

Create a partnership with your local internet service provider (ISP) prior to an event and work with your ISP to control network traffic attacking your network during an event. Configure network firewalls to block unauthorized IP addresses and disable port forwarding. SecurityAffairs – hacking, FBI). Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 15, 2021

Reacting to the disclosure of this momentous supply-chain hack , many of the breached organizations were able to deploy advanced tools and tactics to swiftly root out Sunburst and get better prepared to repel any copycat attacks. The SolarWinds hack provided a chance to assess how far SOAR technology has come. Cohesive use of intel.

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Security Through Education

MARCH 3, 2021

Malicious actors use emotions in human hacking with a high success rate. Install and maintain anti-virus software, firewalls, and email filters. Learn More About Emotions and Human Hacking. The Human Hacking Conference is happening March 11-13, 2021. Below are some helpful tips to help prevent a social engineering attack.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

One way of dealing with that is to simply block the devices from receiving any updates: Troy, Firewall Rule number 1 for HA and Home IoT subnets (although breaks Wiz Bulb connectivity even though they have a “local” access API) pic.twitter.com/RGOhsGaq7F — GerryD ©? The attacker would have to be on your wi-fi network to do the hack.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2024

Although details are limited, Versa Networks confirmed one case where the vulnerability was exploited due to a customer’s failure to implement recommended firewall guidelines. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganin ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, Volt Typhoon)

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2020

Below some mitigations recommended by the Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) Research Team to reduce risk from threats that exploit gateways and VPN vulnerabilities: Apply all available security updates for VPN and firewall configurations. Monitor and pay special attention to your remote access infrastructure.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2023

The threat actors also gained access to terminal event logs and scan for any instance where customers scanned private key at the ATM. “Please keep your CAS behind a firewall and VPN. With VPN/Firewall attackers from open internet cannot access your server and exploit it. Terminals should also connect to CAS via VPN.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2024

Additional podcast guest Mark Hughes, Global Managing Partner, Cybersecurity Services, IBM Consulting, pointed out how events such as Colonial Pipeline clearly showed how a single piece of a supply chain can have a disproportionate impact on all the other parts.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2021

SecurityAffairs – hacking, Epsilon Red ransomware). ” continues the analysis. Researchers have not found any link between the Epsilon Red operators and other threat actors. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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