eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure and a surge in exploited vulnerabilities are getting the attention of U.S. BlackByte Ransomware Attack Methods, IoCs. The FBI-Secret Service warning came just ahead of news that the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers had also been hit by BlackByte ransomware. The FBI and U.S.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 14, 2021

Thankfully, all systems are back online now, according to Bakker Logistiek’s CEO Toon Verhoeven who gave an interview to local news organization, Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS). ” One of the foodstuffs most affected by the attack is packaged cheese. The flaws were being taken advantage of by an attack group called Hafnium.

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IT Security Guru

APRIL 6, 2021

When we read about cyberattacks in the news, they typically involve a well-known brand or large enterprise. However, the recent attack on Microsoft Exchange Servers is expected to impact over 60,000 organisations. The perception is the bigger the organization, the greater the impact. Why is this?

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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. Conti makes international news headlines each week when it publishes to its dark web blog new information stolen from ransomware victims who refuse to pay an extortion demand.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 23, 2021

Microsoft is struggling through a rough July for security issues even as the company continues to add more cybersecurity capabilities through acquisitions. Microsoft issued a workaround for this issue while it developed a patch. And Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities were at the center of U.S. Microsoft and Security.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 3, 2021

roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, April 2021. The UK Security Service MI5 said 10,000 staff from every UK government department and from important UK industries have been lured by fake LinkedIn profiles. million of a £10.4

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 17, 2021

Global incident response is underway as a result of the SolarWinds supply chain cyberattack, and the attacks on Microsoft Exchange servers. There will be a federal response to the SolarWinds supply chain cyberattack: "Finally, the third part of what we’re doing about it is responding to the perpetrators of the attack.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 5, 2022

On June 23, 2022, Harmony was notified of an attack on its proprietary Horizon Ethereum Bridge. Eleven transactions extracted tokens stored in the bridge with an estimated value of approximately $100 million USD at the time of the attack. [1]. The attacker then changed assets to the Ethereum network.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2018

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 185 – News of the week appeared first on Security Affairs.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Due to the fact that this is the sort of activity that would take place during the preparation stages of an attack – stages that we typically have no visibility into, there may be more occurrences of such interactions between APTs and the cybercrime world that we’re unaware of. But this prediction also came true another way.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 9, 2021

Globally, hundreds of thousand of organizations running Exchange email servers from Microsoft just got mass-hacked, including at least 30,000 victims in the United States. 5, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that at least 30,000 organizations and hundreds of thousands globally had been hacked. But by Feb.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 4, 2022

Microsoft published a report on July 26th alerting defenders to the malicious use of Internet Information Services (IIS) extensions. As with many other attacks, threat actors will first exploit a critical vulnerability in the application to gain initial access, then drop a script web shell as the first stage payload.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 4, 2022

And any machine-in-the-middle (MitM) attackers between you and the DNS resolver—such as rogue Wi-Fi access points—can also silently change your plain text DNS requests and use them to direct you to malicious websites. Humans are poorly equipped to create and remember them, and demonstrably poor at building systems that handle them securely.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This report takes a close look at the history of the Cuba group, and their attack tactics, techniques and procedures. The gang has scored a series of resonant attacks on oil companies, financial services , government agencies and healthcare providers. The group has attacked numerous companies around the world.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers recently published lessons learned from the disruptive and costly ransomware attack in May 2021 on Ireland’s public health system. 18, 2021, when an employee on a Windows computer opened a booby-trapped Microsoft Excel document in a phishing email that had been sent two days earlier.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 29, 2021

Some of the world’s top tech firms are backing a new industry task force focused on disrupting cybercriminal ransomware gangs by limiting their ability to get paid, and targeting the individuals and finances of the organized thieves behind these crimes. ” According to security firm Emsisoft , almost 2,400 U.S. Image: IST.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 11, 2021

Cloud” is a term used to describe a vast network of remote servers located around the world linked together to form a contiguous platform for computer services that can be subdivided and scaled with ease. The same robustness can be said about the physical security of their servers. The Cloud, in other words. Cloud adoption.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

In December, SolarWinds, a well-known IT managed services provider, fell victim to a sophisticated supply-chain attack. In our initial report on Sunburst , we examined the method used by the malware to communicate with its C2 (command-and-control) server and the protocol used to upgrade victims for further exploitation.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 2, 2018

While awaiting that confirmation, my pent-up frustration seeped into a tweet that seemed to touch a raw nerve among others in the security industry. Just like my speaker bureau, Apollo had simply put all this data up on an Amazon server that anyone on the Internet could access without providing a password.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 8, 2023

Unfortunately, text-based email protocols are extremely vulnerable to hacking and email has become the primary vector for cyber attacks. Microsoft estimates that 94% of cyberattacks begin with a malicious email — a horrific statistic that can be dramatically reduced by adopting email security standards, tools, and services.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Account Hijacking How it occurs: Attackers acquire unlawful access using stolen user credentials, which could result in unauthorized account and data access and misuse. DDoS Attacks How they occur: Distributed Denial of Service ( DDoS ) attacks overload cloud and network systems, interrupting access and triggering service disruptions.

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SecureList

JUNE 17, 2021

The ransomware was used by an unknown adversary for exploiting a Microsoft Exchange vulnerability (CVE-2021-27065). The industry already provided a script to recover encrypted files in case they were encrypted with the embedded key. Microsoft Exchange Server. Background. The ransomware family was DearCry.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Attack them where they are unprepared, appear where you are not expected.” Cybersecurity is a complex subject matter for most people, and the levels of sophistication and ingenuity being applied in some cyberattacks, shows that there is an ever-increasing level of co-operation and exchange of information by the criminal underworld.

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SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

Targeted attacks. In December, SolarWinds, a well-known IT managed services provider, fell victim to a sophisticated supply-chain attack. Out of the 18,000 Orion IT customers affected by the malware, it seems that only a handful were of interest to the attackers. Lazarus targets the defence industry.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 1, 2021

roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, May 2021. The NCSC's technical director, Dr Ian Levy, referred to Hollywood depictions of cyber-attacks on critical city infrastructure. Colonial Pipeline DarkSide Ransomware Attack.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2019

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. A bug in Mirai code allows crashing C2 servers. IDF hit Hamas, it is the first time a state launched an immediate physical attack in response to a cyber attack. Kindle Edition. Paper Copy.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Countless news headlines of data leakage and privacy violations continue to rock businesses in a wide range of industries and technology spaces. One of the industry-standard encryption types is AES Encryption or Advanced Encryption Standard. PFS requires that the private keys for a connection are not kept in persistent storage.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 25, 2022

William Bangham: Judy, the FBI said a group known as Dark Side is responsible for this cyber attack, which used what is known as ransomware ransomware is malicious computer code that blocks and owners access to their computer network until a ransom gets paid. Ransomware is not new. Baccio: My name is Mick Baccio.

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SecureList

JULY 29, 2021

Investigating the recent Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities we and our colleagues from AMR found an attacker deploying a previously unknown backdoor, “FourteenHi”, in a campaign that we dubbed ExCone, active since mid-March. These attacks were attributed to Nobelium and APT29 by Microsoft and Volexity respectively.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

He’s been around the hacking scene since the late 1990s, he knows a few people, and he has contributed a lot to the industry. And we both know people in the industry. Basically, in Child Exploitation cases, criminals exchange photos of underaged individuals and/or even sell access to them, which is human trafficking.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 6, 2022

But in all probability, there's more likelihood of what we call the 'backhoe attack' that would have more impact on a region than Code Red, or anything we've seen so far.” Centre for Defence: In 2007, a struggle over a divisive Soviet statutes set the standard for a new form of Russian interference in the affairs of foreign states.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2020

For users of these bigger messaging apps, we have some good news: 86% of the apps (11 of 13) we looked at were secure by default. These results are generally promising, as it signifies that the secure messaging industry is heading in the right direction. Only two apps – Briar and Qtox – use a peer-to-peer (P2P) transport mechanism.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Mobile devices exposed to wide attacks. Last June, Google’s TAG team released a blog post documenting attacks on Italian and Kazakh users that they attribute to RCS Lab, an Italian offensive software vendor. BruteRatel, an attack tool comparable to CobaltStrike, remains on our radar when it comes to APT adoption.

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 17, 2021

SECURITY NEWS. Darkside, the ransomware group that ransomed Colonial, has largely gone dark after its servers and Bitcoin were seized. The most interesting thing to me about this story is that the attack appears to have been somewhat accidental, and the attack was actually on the company’s IT systems and not their OT systems.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 21, 2023

Because of its meteoric rise into public consciousness and rapid adoption, the generative AI chatbot has been the subject of continuing, complex conversations about its impact on the cybersecurity industry, threat landscape, and humanity as a whole. Will ChatGPT be the sentient harbinger of death some have claimed?

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