The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

Related: We’re in the midst of ‘cyber Pearl Harbor’ Peel back the layers of just about any sophisticated, multi-staged network breach and you’ll invariably find memory hacking at the core. Here’s what I took away from our discussion: Transient hacks. This quickly gets intricately technical.

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Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2020

It supports standard protocols like VNC, RDP, and SSH and allows system administrators to remotely access and manage Windows and Linux machines. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Apache Guacamole). The post Critical Apache Guacamole flaws expose organizations at risk of hack appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Russian internet and search company Yandex discloses a data breach, a system administrator was selling access to thousands of user mailboxes. Russian search engine and internet provider Yandex discloses a data breach, the company revealed that one of its system administrators was caught selling access to 4,887 user email accounts.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2023

AvosLocker affiliates use legitimate software and open-source remote system administration tools to compromise the victims’ networks. This joint CSA updates the advisory published by the US Government on March 17, 2022.

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Hot for Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

. “Beyond its legitimate uses, TeamViewer allows cyber actors to exercise remote control over computer systems and drop files onto victim computers, making it functionally similar to Remote Access Trojans (RATs),” the FBI said.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

A CIA elite hacking unit that developed cyber-weapons failed in protecting its operations, states an internal report on the Vault 7 data leak. In March, Joshua Schulte , a former CIA software engineer that was accused of stealing the agency’s hacking tools and leaking them to WikiLeaks, was convicted of only minor charges.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2022

And if an enterprise is under an active ransomware attack, or a series of attacks, that’s a pretty good indication several other gangs of hacking specialists came through earlier and paved the way. So they used a hacking tool with a bit of living-off- the-land technique. Configure system administrative tools more wisely.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Security agencies belonging to Five Eyes (United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) have released a joint report that details some popular hacking tools. Security Affairs – Five Eyes, hacking ). The post Five Eyes Intelligence agencies warn of popular hacking tools appeared first on Security Affairs.

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The abuse by attackers of system administration, forensic, or security tools that are either already installed on systems or can be easily deployed without raising suspicion has become extremely common. Living off the land is a common tactic. To read this article in full, please click here

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The infrastructure of Toyota was compromised again, this time its global supplier management network was hacked by a researcher. The expert used the JWT to access the GSPIMS portal and after gaining access to the platform he discovered an account with system administrator privileges. ” concludes the expert.

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SecureBlitz

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

IT risk management plans help administrators and workers identify possible risks that threaten the network and connecting systems. The administrators are responsible for managing the entire network and working with data systems administrators to protect customer and business data.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 3, 2023

The software, used by system administrators to manage and configure networks, was communicating externally with an unfamiliar system on the internet. The DOJ asked the security firm Mandiant to help determine whether the server had been hacked.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 2, 2021

But a new discovery made by the National Security Agency(NSA) of United States has revealed that Russian hacking group APT28 is launching Brute Force Cyber Attacks using Kubernetes to ensure anonymity. APT28 aka Fancy Bear or Strontium is a hacking group that is funded by Russian Military Intelligence.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

A baseboard management controller (BMC) is a specialized service processor that monitors the physical state of a computer, network server or other hardware device using sensors and communicating with the system administrator through an independent connection. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2021

The Ukrainian national Fedir Hladyr (35), aka “das” or “AronaXus,” was sentenced to 10 years in prison for having served as a manager and systems administrator for the financially motivated group FIN7 , aka Carbanak. SecurityAffairs – hacking, FIN7). ” reads the press release published by DoJ. ” concludes DoJ.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

CERT-UA observed the campaign in April 2023, the malicious e-mails with the subject “Windows Update” were crafted to appear as sent by system administrators of departments of multiple government bodies. Most of the APT28s’ campaigns leveraged spear-phishing and malware-based attacks.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2019

“Mail server, domain administrator and system administrator accounts were all affected, giving cyberespions access to the past and current passwords of more than 2,000 ICAO system users. The agency thus becoming a one-stop shop for the hacking of all other players in the aerospace industry.”.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

” Since 2016 Microsoft continues to track nation-state activity against the email accounts of its customers, the IT giant warned of state-sponsored hacking campaigns originating from China, Russia, and Iran for years. SecurityAffairs – hacking, nation-state hacking). It automatically investigates and remediates attacks.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Prosecutors say Vasinskyi was involved in a number of REvil ransomware attacks, including the July 2021 attack against Kaseya , Miami-based company whose products help system administrators manage large networks remotely. Among those was carder[.]su, The biggest is password re-use by cybercriminals (yes, crooks are lazy, too).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2020

“This advisory emphasizes the importance for National Security System (NSS), Department of Defense (DoD), and Defense Industrial Base (DIB) system administrators to apply vendor-provided patches to affected VMware® identity management products and provides further details on how to detect and mitigate compromised networks.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2021

The vendor recommended changing system administrator account, reset access control, and installing the latest available version. SecurityAffairs – hacking, FileZen). If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 20, 2020

But that 2016 story came on the heels of an exclusive about the hacking of vDOS — at the time the world’s most popular and powerful DDoS-for-hire service. Preston’s guilty plea agreement (PDF) doesn’t specify who he admitted attacking, and refers to the target only as “Victim 1.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2021

The Taiwanese company urges its customers to enable multi-factor authentication where available, enable auto block and account protection, and to use string administrative credentials, . System administrators that have noticed suspicious activity on their devices should report it to Synology technical support.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 8, 2021

The attackers exploited a vulnerability in software from Kaseya , a Miami-based company whose products help system administrators manage large networks remotely. They said with the amount of individual machines hacked and ransomwared, it would be very difficult for all of these systems to be remediated at once.”

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 22, 2022

last week said they dismantled the “ RSOCKS ” botnet, a collection of millions of hacked devices that were sold as “proxies” to cybercriminals looking for ways to route their malicious traffic through someone else’s computer. The RUSdot mailer, the email spamming tool made and sold by the administrator of RSOCKS.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2021

US CISA and NSA released new guidance that provides recommendations on how to harden Kubernetes deployments and minimize the risk of hack. Kubernetes is an open-source container-orchestration system for automating computer application deployment, scaling, and management. SecurityAffairs – hacking, LockBit 2.0).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 7, 2021

Microsoft Corporation is urging all Windows users including those using Win 7 and 8 operating systems to update their devices with the latest security patches.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2022

The China-linked hacking group has been active since at least 2016, according to the CrowdStrike researchers it is using a very sophisticated toolset. The group hacked mobile telephone networks around the globe and used specialized tools to access calling records and text messages from telecommunications companies. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Adam Levin

APRIL 8, 2019

Denying anything happened gives system administrators more time to identify and patch newly discovered vulnerabilities. The post Facebook May Have Gotten Hacked, and Maybe It’s Better We Don’t Know appeared first on Adam Levin. Then there are the repercussions to the company’s stock price.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 20, 2021

Ukrainian nationals Dmytro Fedorov, Fedir Hladyr, and Andrii Kolpakov, were members of a prolific hacking group widely known as FIN7. In 2018 three high-ranking members of a sophisticated international cybercrime group operating out of Eastern Europe were arrested and taken into custody by US authorities.

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2020

The issue could be exploited by supplying a malformed Java object to a specific listener on an vulnerable system. Administrators should update their Unified CCE installs as soon as possible. SecurityAffairs – Unified CCE, hacking). The good news is that Cisco is not aware of attacks in the wild that exploited the flaw.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

US and Japanese authorities warn that a China-linked APT BlackTech planted backdoor in Cisco router firmware to hack the businesses in both countries. The advisory also includes recommendations for system administrators to prevent the installation of backdoor firmware images and unusual device reboots.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 23, 2021

Here are the key takeaways: Lower-tier hacks. No organization wants to find itself having to recover from a devastating ransomware hack – or dealing with an unauthorized intruder who has usurped control of its operational systems. But that only served as a dinner bell to criminal hacking rings.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

The accused, 36-year-old John “Armada” Revesz , has maintained that Orcus is a legitimate “ R emote A dministration T ool” aimed at helping system administrators remotely manage their computers, and that he’s not responsible for how licensed customers use his product. An advertisement for Orcus RAT.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The fix: System administrators are encouraged to install the Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Update 14 (CU14), which was issued in February 2024 and enabled NTLM credentials Relay Protection. Despite VMware’s three-year-old deprecation statement, unprotected systems remain at risk.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 19, 2021

Being a systems administrator can be a fulfilling job with a lot of rewards. But if you're a SysAdmin for a hacking group, you could be rewarded with time behind bars. This is exactly what is happening to 35-year-old Fedir Hladyr, who was a SysAdmin for the hacking group FIN7.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2021

One of the most outstanding capabilities of iLOBleed is the manipulation of the iLO firmware upgrade routine, when the system administrator tries to upgrade the iLO firmware, the malware simulates the version change while preventing the upgrade routine. . SecurityAffairs – hacking, iLOBleed). ” continues the report.

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