Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2024

The vulnerability CVE-2024-24919 is a Quantum Gateway information disclosure issue. Threat actors exploited the flaw to gain remote firewall access and breach corporate networks. The issue impacts CloudGuard Network, Quantum Maestro, Quantum Scalable Chassis, Quantum Security Gateways, Quantum Spark Appliances.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 7, 2024

According to a new joint cybersecurity alert , the hacktivists have been observed gaining remote access to small-scale industrial control systems used in water/wastewater, dams, energy, and food and agriculture by exploiting internet-exposed human-machine interfaces (HMIs) and using default or weak passwords.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2023

In the reconnaissance phase, the threat actors perform IP scanning to look for servers with the SSH service, or port 22 activated, then launch a brute force or dictionary attack to obtain the ID and password. The researchers recommend administrators should use strong passwords that are difficult to guess and change them periodically.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

“Retailers must take meaningful steps to protect consumers’ credit and debit card information from theft when they shop,” said Massachusetts AG Maura Healey. ” .

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Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2024

Cisco warns customers of password-spraying attacks that have been targeting Remote Access VPN (RAVPN) services of Cisco Secure Firewall devices. Cisco is warning customers of password-spraying attacks that have been targeting Remote Access VPN (RAVPN) services configured on Cisco Secure Firewall devices.

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SecureList

MARCH 12, 2024

Recommendations provided in these rankings are general in nature and based on information security best practices standards and guidelines, such as OWASP and NIST. Mitigation: do not store files containing sensitive data, such as passwords or backups, in web application publish directories. Disable unused components.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

Remote access security acts as something of a virtual barrier, preventing unauthorized access to data and assets beyond the traditional network perimeter. Keys, such as strong passwords, unique codes, or biometric scans, can be given to trusted individuals to access your resources from a distance.

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2023

SonicWall fixed multiple critical vulnerabilities impacting its GMS firewall management and Analytics management and reporting engine. SonicWall addressed multiple critical vulnerabilities in its Global Management System (GMS) firewall management and Analytics network management and reporting engine. R7 and before ● Analytics 2.5.2

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Joseph Steinberg

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

I was recently asked to take a look at CrowdSec – a new, free, open-source information security technology created in France that seeks to improve the current situation. In some ways, CrowdSec mimics the behavior of a constantly-self-updating, massive, multi-party, and multi-network firewall. CrowdSec released version 1.0

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2024

From March 18, 2024, to April 16, 2024, Duo Security and Cisco Talos observed large-scale brute-force attacks against a variety of targets, including VPN services, web application authentication interfaces and SSH services.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2023

The attackers were able to send funds from hot wallets and download user names and password hashes. “Please keep your CAS behind a firewall and VPN. With VPN/Firewall attackers from open internet cannot access your server and exploit it. Please invalidate them and generate new keys & password. and 20230120.44.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

The FBI is warning companies about the use of out-of-date Windows 7 systems, desktop sharing software TeamViewer, and weak account passwords. Set random passwords to generate 10-character alphanumeric passwords. If using personal passwords, utilize complex rotating passwords of varying lengths. Windows 10).

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In each of these cases, the cybercriminals behind the breaches were after usernames and passwords. The most commonly used passwords today are, “password” and “123456,” and it only takes a hacker.29 Each stolen record contained an email address and password. million passwords were stolen from the site’s database.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

If somebody got your password in 2018, just an upgrade will not help. You must also change password, re-check your firewall if it does not allow remote access to unknown parties, and look for scripts that you did not create. .” reads a post published by MikroTik in a forum post. We are working on other solutions too.”

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 17, 2023

The 12 technical and operational control requirements of the PCI DSS were established to ensure data security competence and are accepted as a benchmark for information security. The answer to this is password and configuration management and should be one of your highest security priorities.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2023

The following table contains the list ID and password values used by the bot in the dictionary attacks along with the IP address for the target. ID Password Attack Target admin qwe123Q# 124.160.40[.]48 They should also use security programs such as firewalls for servers accessible from outside to restrict access by attackers.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Cruz shared his findings with WordPress security firm Wordfence and provided it a working proof of concept exploit for the flaw. The security firm confirmed the ongoing attack, its Web Application Firewall blocked over 450,000 exploit attempts during the last several days. Wordfence said.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

.” A local attacker with command-line access can exploit the bug to perform operations on the Glassfish server directly via a hardcoded password. The issue impacted FortiGate firewalls and FortiProxy web proxies. The full list of vulnerabilities addressed in November 2022 is available here.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 12, 2021

Like other Black Hat conferences, the mission of the NOC is to build a conference network that is secure, stable and accessible for the training events, briefings, sponsors and attendees. Threat hunting is a core mission of the Cisco Secure team, while monitoring the DNS activity for potentially malicious activity. Recorded Future.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2021

of Zyxel USG devices contains an undocumented account (zyfwp) with an unchangeable password. The password for this account can be found in cleartext in the firmware.” Impacted devices include Unified Security Gateway (USG), ATP, USG FLEX and VPN firewalls products. The vulnerability received a CVSS score of 7.8,

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2022

The vulnerability is an unauthenticated stack-based buffer overflow that was reported by Jacob Baines , lead security researcher at Rapid7. The CVE-2021-20038 vulnerability impacts SMA 100 series appliances (including SMA 200, 210, 400, 410, and 500v) even when the web application firewall (WAF) is enabled.

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The Security Ledger

MAY 2, 2024

Gary McGraw On LLM Insecurity Episode 254: Dennis Giese’s Revolutionary Robot Vacuum Liberation Movement Malicious Python Packages Target Crypto Wallet Recovery Passwords In this Spotlight episode of the Security Ledger podcast, I interview Jim Broome, the President and CTO of the managed security service provider DirectDefense.

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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.[ 1 ] secretsdump A script used to extract credentials and other confidential information from a system.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2022

TrickBot is a popular Windows banking Trojan that has been around since October 2016, its authors have continuously upgraded it by implementing new features, including powerful password-stealing capabilities. The post Microsoft releases open-source tool for checking MikroTik Routers compromise appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2023

“We developed a Proof of Concept and began writing and testing a firewall rule immediately. ” According to the analysis conducted by the WordPress security firm Sucuri, the vulnerability resides in a PHP file called “class-platform-checkout-session.php.” The vulnerability impacts plugin versions 4.8.0

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2021

Taiwanese vendor QNAP has published a security advisory to warn customers of a new piece of malware named Dovecat that is targeting NAS devices. The malware targets QNAP NAS devices exposed online that use weak passwords. ” reads the security advisory published by the vendor. Install a firewall.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2023

Ransomware Redefined: RedEnergy Stealer-as-a-Ransomware attacks MAR-10445155-1.v1 v1 Truebot Activity Infects U.S.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The data breach compromised payment card information of roughly 40 million customers. It has also agreed to strengthen its information security program through a series of steps, which must be done within 180 days of the agreement. The company will pay a total of $17.5 million to 46 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

“ This actor has also demonstrated interest in obtaining unauthorized access to SCADA systems using common default passwords.” ” The FBI urges organizations that suffered a security breach in the past to reset passwords, enhance the security of systems exposed online and warn their employees.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The operation reversibly modified the routers’ firewall rules to block remote management access to the devices. Change any default usernames and passwords. Implement strategic firewall rules on WAN-side interfaces to prevent the unwanted exposure of remote management services. Upgrade to the latest firmware version.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2023

This campaign specifically targets SSH servers exposed to the internet with password authentication enabled. The username/password list they use is relatively limited and includes default and easily-guessed credential pairs.” ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2022

“It is recommended that your QNAP NAS stay behind your router and firewall without a public IP address. The vendor also warned customers in January to secure their NAS devices immediately from active ransomware and brute-force attacks. ” reads the advisory published by QNAP. Configure MFA (2-Step Verification) on QNAP NAS.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

CVE-2020-7567 – A high-severity issue described as missing encryption of sensitive data vulnerability that could be exploited to find the password hash when the attacker has captured the traffic between EcoStruxure Machine – Basic software and Modicon M221 controller and broke the encryption keys.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

. “Thus, instead of having a malicious executable pass directly through a network, the attacker builds the malware locally behind a firewall.” ” The emails employed in the campaign attributed to DEV-0193 used a specially crafted HTML page as an attachment.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The alert provides the following mitigations: Change the default settings, including changing default administrator username, password, and port (9000). Configure SonarQube instances to sit behind your organization’s firewall and other perimeter defenses to prevent unauthenticated access.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2020

I strongly advise you, firstly, to log on to all servers running HP Device Manager and set a strong password for the "dm_postgres" user of the "hpdmdb" Postgres database on TCP port 40006 1/4 — Nicky Bloor (@nickstadb) September 29, 2020. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Researchers at the threat intelligence firm Cyble discovered a new wave of phishing attacks targeting multiple organizations that are abusing the ngrok platform, a secure and introspectable tunnel to the localhost. Users of ngrok and other tunnelling services are advised to obtain authorization from their information security teams.

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