Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

A visualization of the Internet made using network routing data. Imagine being able to disconnect or redirect Internet traffic destined for some of the world’s biggest companies — just by spoofing an email. Image: Barrett Lyon, opte.org. Based in Monroe, La., Lumen Technologies Inc.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 1, 2021

The group conducts cyber espionage operations to target government entities mainly in South Korea. On December 2020, KISA (Korean Internet & Security Agency) provided a detailed analysis about the phishing infrastructure and TTPs used by Kimsuky to target South Korea. Victimology. One of the lures used by Kimsuky named “???

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 4, 2020

And it's a malware strain used specifically by the Chinese government. Chinese government actors are using malware variants in conjunction with proxy servers to maintain a presence on victim networks and to further network exploitation. Scan all software downloaded from the Internet prior to executing. It's called Taidoor.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

FBI and CISA on a joint note issued a public alert that computer networks of government and corporate companies were on the verge of being targeted by a cyber attack on this coming Labor Day weekend, i.e on September 6th of 2021. billion.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 30, 2023

Thanks to a workforce that is increasingly operating remotely and accessing applications that reside outside the corporate perimeter (i.e. What’s more, with the growing adoption of edge computing and internet-of-things (IoT) devices, enterprises are struggling.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 20, 2022

The DOJ says RSOCKS initially targeted Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as industrial control systems, time clocks, routers, audio/video streaming devices, and smart garage door openers, though it expanded to targeting additional types of devices including conventional computers.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In the most recent campaign, the group targeted organizations in the communications, manufacturing, utility, transportation, construction, maritime, government, information technology, and education sectors. The Volt Typhoon group has been active since at least mid-2021 it carried out cyber operations against critical infrastructure.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

But what really requires a high speed internet connection is the large amounts of data that ransomware gangs steal from affected networks to add extra leverage to their ransom demands. Pen testing tools Many Initial Access Brokers (IABs) are happy to deploy pen testing tools (i.e. Prevent intrusions.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Interestingly, Symantec analysts confirmed their research that the malware took down the systems from Wednesday evening, just a few hours away from the first bombing attack on Ukraine, i.e. 3:30 am on Thursday. However, the analysis further confirmed that the malicious software infiltrated the systems in the last week of December last year.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2023

Researchers from the Fortinet FortiGuard Labs observed an attack targeting a government entity in the United Arab Emirates with a new PowerShell-based backdoor dubbed PowerExchange. “The Exchange server is accessible from the internet, saving C2 communication to external servers from the devices in the organizations.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2021

According to the government, that database contained a large number of credit card numbers and stolen credentials from the Trickbot botnet, as well as information about infected machines available as bots. “Many in the gang not only knew her gender but her name too,” Holden wrote.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. THE INTERNET NEVER FORGETS.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 21, 2021

Related: Why PKI will endure as the Internet’s secure core. That’s why “wet” signatures, i.e. signing in the presence of a notary, remains a requirement for some transactions involving high dollars or very sensitive records. Most of us, by now, take electronic signatures for granted. PKI is a perfect fit for this, Trzupek says.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 1, 2022

The records also provide insight into how Conti has dealt with its own internal breaches and attacks from private security firms and foreign governments. “He knew how the bot works, i.e. he probably saw the source code, or reversed it. Conti’s threatening message this week regarding international interference in Ukraine.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 18, 2020

government cybersecurity agencies warned this week that the attackers behind the widespread hacking spree stemming from the compromise at network software firm SolarWinds used weaknesses in other, non-SolarWinds products to attack high-value targets. However, the SolarWinds compromise would have provided that internal access nicely.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

According to statistics from the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report , complaints to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have been rising since 2017. This made a lot of sense, especially in the earlier days of the Internet where cybersecurity measures were nowhere near as robust as they are today. Individuals. Businesses.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

China-linked hackers carried out cyber espionage campaigns targeting governments, corporations, and think tanks with TAIDOOR malware. China has been using #Taidoor malware to conduct #cyber espionage on governments, corporations, and think tanks. US government agencies published the Malware Analysis Report MAR-10292089-1.v1

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2023

According to DoJ, data relating to the operation of DDoS-for-hire services seized in the past by law enforcement show that hundreds of thousands of registered users have used these platforms to launch millions of attacks against millions of victims (i.e. School districts, universities, financial institutions and government websites).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Almost any sector was hit by sophisticated, high-impact ransomware attacks, including the Defense Industrial Base, Emergency Services, Food and Agriculture, Government Facilities, and Information Technology Sectors. Another phenomenon that characterized the last year is an important shift from “big-game” hunting in the United States (i.e.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 9, 2023

But APIs have come to be relied upon to hook company networks into AWS, Azure and Google Cloud resources as well as to enable wide-open, rapid-fire software development practices, i.e. DevOps and CI/CD. Honoring data sovereignty Name any business use case: banking, retail, healthcare, government, military, entertainment, elections.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2018

2018 was the year of the Internet of Things (IoT), massive attacks and various botnets hit smart devices, These are 5 IoT Security Predictions for 2019. This bill demonstrates that governments can, and will, be involved in regulating IoT devices. Attacks that infect a high volume of devices with a direct internet interface (i.e.,

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2021

Government experts reported that threat actors are targeting Pulse Secure devices since June 2020 by attempting to exploit multiple know vulnerabilities, including CVE-2019-11510 , CVE-2020-8260 , CVE-2020-8243 , CVE-2021-2289. Scan all software downloaded from the Internet prior to executing. ” Reads the CISA’s alert.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 21, 2020

Here's what Blindingcan has accomplished so far: "A threat group with a nexus to North Korea targeted government contractors early this year to gather intelligence surrounding key military and energy technologies. CISA refers to any malicious cyber activity from the North Korean government as Hidden Cobra.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2020

The Tropic Trooper APT that has been active at least since 2011, it was first spotted in 2015 by security experts at Trend Micro when it targeted government ministries and heavy industries in Taiwan and the military in the Philippines. ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. “tracert -h 8 8.8.8.8”

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Also read : Top Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Tools for 2022. Once data is mapped, organizations make better decisions on how that data is governed and reduce their risk footprint. So there should be incremental steps and goals (i.e., Also read : Thousands of Data Center Management Apps Exposed to Internet.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

. #1 Fragmentation shifting to polarization: governments and multistakeholder communities are all the more divided — and have formed into groups based on like-mindedness. In the past we observed the first signs of governments’ diverging views on how cyberspace and cybersecurity should be regulated. And in the U.S.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

He was quoted as saying that he and his co-conspirators would steal the data and if Tesla refused to pay the ransom the company's secrets would be placed on the internet. Like the GDPR, NIS requires the UK critical national infrastructure firms (i.e. ISPs, utilities) and energy sector firms (i.e.

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Google Security

MAY 23, 2023

Upon connecting to a website, Chrome verifies that a recognized (i.e., Encrypted connections prevent attackers from being able to intercept (i.e., The Chrome Root Program, led by members of the Chrome Security team, provides governance and security review to determine the set of CAs trusted by default in Chrome.

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

This analysis of data captured by Shodan one week after the exploit POC was released concluded that over 30K Exchange servers were still vulnerable, noting that the data may have underrepresented the full scope (i.e., Shodan hadn’t had time to scan the full Internet). Well, the US government is. vCenter Server. FireEye Blog.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2023

In October 2022, Kaspersky researchers uncovered a malware campaign aimed at infecting government, agriculture and transportation organizations located in the Donetsk, Lugansk, and Crimea regions with a previously undetected framework dubbed CommonMagic. The archive contained two files, a decoy document (i.e.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 3, 2023

The first is to rebalance responsibility for cybersecurity away from individuals, small businesses and local governments, and towards “the owners and operators of the systems that hold our data and make our society function, as well as of the technology providers that build and service these systems.”

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IT Security Guru

AUGUST 17, 2023

With the world more digitised and interconnected than ever, a significant attack on CNI could lead to physical harm or even the loss of life. The UK Government recently issued a national statement that warns organisations about the potential for cyberattacks on CNI. Under certain circumstances or conditions (i.e.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) published an alert to warn the public of fraudulent schemes leveraging cryptocurrency ATMs and Quick Response (QR) codes to complete payment transactions. Fraudulent schemes include online impersonation in which scammer poses as a familiar entity (i.e.

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DoublePulsar

APRIL 20, 2023

Capita handle £6.5billion of UK government contracts. It is a serious threat to all organisations which should be met with both a response by government, and businesses. They will investigate “IT incidents” and unclear “cyber incidents”… as they might be something interesting, i.e. not ransomware. Why does this matter?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2022

In November, the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) published an alert to warn the public of fraudulent schemes leveraging cryptocurrency ATMs and Quick Response (QR) codes to complete payment transactions. ? Fraudulent schemes include online impersonation in which scammer poses as a familiar entity (i.e.

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The message could appear be from a government agency, your bank, your place of worship, your gym, a colleague at work. Most likely you didn’t pause before you clicked, and got phished or compromised in some other way–possibly by an internet of things device connected to your home network. Your Finances Glitch.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2019

It can be achieved using a malicious code that modifies the computer’s TCP/IP configuration to point at a rogue DNS server under the control of an attacker, or t hrough mo difying the behaviour of a trusted DNS server so that it does not comply with internet standards. gov ) to prevent DNS hijacking attacks.

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