Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2022

Unfaithful HackerOne employee steals bug reports to claim additional bounties Threat Report Portugal: Q2 2022 CISA orders federal agencies to patch CVE-2022-26925 by July 22 Tens of Jenkins plugins are affected by zero-day vulnerabilities Microsoft: Raspberry Robin worm already infected hundreds of networks. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Cybercrime Data breaches Ransomware Healthcare 84

Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2022

Proofpoint’s Threat Research Team uncovered a cyber espionage campaign targeting entities across the world that was orchestrated by a China-linked threat actor. “The RTF template injection URL returned a macro-laden Microsoft Word document. The macro contains a series of hardcoded hex bytes stored as strings.

Energy and Utilities 94

Energy and Utilities Manufacturing Government Media 94

eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

The 2023 vendor surveys arriving this quarter paint a picture of a cybersecurity landscape under attack, with priority issues affecting deployment, alert response, and exposed vulnerabilities. 583% increase in Kerberoasting [password hash cracking] attacks. 583% increase in Kerberoasting [password hash cracking] attacks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 4, 2023

UK government potentially skimps on senior cyber role salary as the NCSC calls for more investment in people, Microsoft talks up the potential for ChatGPT and the US moves to ban spyware. In other words, ChatGPT will be supporting cyber defenders even as threat actors use the generative AI tech to finesse their own code and phishing lures.

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BH Consulting

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Ransomware an ongoing threat to industry as crime gangs organise Malware-based cyber-attacks are the most prominent threat to industry, Europol says. A companion to Europol’s IOCTA 2023 report , it digs deeper into malware – ransomware in particular – and DDoS attacks. Ransomware reminders were plentiful lately.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2022

The campaign was discovered by journalists at NK News , an American news site that focuses on North Korea. NK News investigated the attacks with the help of the malware researchers at Stairwell who discovered a new strain of malware they tracked as Goldbackdoor. us which impersonates NK News (dailynk[.]com),

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 1, 2024

Vendors and researchers disclosed a wide range of vulnerabilities this week from common Cisco IOS, Fortinet, and Windows Server issues to more focused flaws affecting developers (PyPI), artificial intelligence (Ray, NVIDIA), and industrial controls (Rockwell Automation). The fix: Update affected versions ASAP: FortiClient EMS 7.2:

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Authentication Artificial Intelligence Software Cybersecurity 107

BH Consulting

AUGUST 9, 2022

As the security industry cliche goes, there’s no such thing as a silver bullet. Researchers from Microsoft identified a phishing campaign that bypasses MFA. Dark Reading’s report noted the mitigation steps that Microsoft suggests for reinforcing MFA, such as conditional access. That said, not all MFA is equal.”

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

At Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT), we monitor a number of APT groups, analyze trends and try to anticipate their future developments to keep ahead of the evolving threat landscape and keep our customers safe. In January, ESET discovered a new wiper, deployed in an attack in Ukraine via the Active Directory GPO.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Until recently, I was fairly active on Twitter , regularly tweeting to more than 350,000 followers about important security news and stories here. Ransomware group Conti chimes in shortly after the invasion, vowing to attack anyone who tries to stand in Mother Russia’s way.

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Cryptocurrency Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Scams 239

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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Ransomware Passwords Scams Government 124

Security Boulevard

AUGUST 2, 2022

ThreatLabz has discovered a new strain of a large-scale phishing campaign, which uses adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) techniques along with several evasion tactics. Similar AiTM phishing techniques were used in another phishing campaign described by Microsoft recently here. Key points.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 13, 2022

Fast forward to 2022, and the headache has become a migraine—not just for IT teams but business owners, employees, and customers as well. The supply chain, already stretched to a breaking point, suffered additional misfortunes across multiple industries, from agriculture and manufacturing to technology and utilities. Top industries.

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Ransomware Manufacturing Government Computers and Electronics 110

Digital Shadows

AUGUST 17, 2021

What is Phish(ing)? We’re talking about the email attack variety. But, never mind the dozens of other reports and white papers about phishing that come out every year from security industry leaders, let’s take a look at the 2021 Verizon DBIR. Why should I care about Phish?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Also, that threat actors, especially state-sponsored, and criminal enterprises would take advantage of the expanding cyber-attack surface by using their resources to employ more sophisticated means for discovering target vulnerabilities, automating phishing, and finding new deceptive paths for infiltrating malware. Ransomware.

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SecureList

JULY 29, 2021

For more than four years, the Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) at Kaspersky has been publishing quarterly summaries of advanced persistent threat (APT) activity. On May 27 and 28, details regarding an ongoing email campaign against diplomatic entities throughout Europe and North America were released by Volexity and Microsoft.

Malware 143

Malware Phishing Password Management Social Engineering 143

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 20, 2023

However, this cost estimate will certainly increase if the testing is required to be in-person in Tokyo (add significant travel costs) and one of the IP addresses is a Microsoft 365 domain (add risk and difficulty). These costs are based on their specific experience and their expectations regarding the typical engagement.

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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

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Implementing network segmentation: VLANs provide network segmentation, which limits the attack surface and helps enforce security policies. These policies may be in accordance with industry-specific compliance standards such as HIPAA or PCI DSS, and they may include procedures to enforce data retention, auditing, and reporting obligations.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 21, 2023

But for the small team of programmers responsible for maintaining the program, it was still their best line of defense against the unrelenting tide of new and unknown viruses that threatened to breach their systems. Will ChatGPT be the sentient harbinger of death some have claimed?

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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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Spinone

MAY 8, 2020

The threat landscape for businesses today is filled with many different security threats and attack vectors used by hackers and other malicious individuals. What Is a Cyber Attack? Cyber attacks have become all too common in today’s world largely due to how organizations have evolved in the way they carry out business.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

Living off the Land (LoL) is an attack where files already on your machine, ie your operating system, are used against you. Vamosi: Whenever there's a data breach, a ransomware attack, large security event in general, I would like to learn something about how it happened. They would be undetectable, right?

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Protection against sophisticated malware and zero-day attacks. Anti- phishing , anti-fraud and anti-spam features. The company stopped only 63% of threats in last year’s MITRE testing in our analysis, but with a strong R&D team, Kaspersky will use that knowledge to keep improving. Email phishing filter.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2020

Nowadays Iran’s Cybersecurity capabilities are under microscope, many news sites, gov. It also appears OilRig carries out supply chain attacks, where the threat group leverages the trust relationship between organizations to attack their primary targets.” MuddyWater.

Computers and Electronics 76

Computers and Electronics Penetration Testing Malware Government 76

ForAllSecure

MARCH 22, 2023

ABC News : News of that stunning arrest of the drug kingpin who goes by the name Dread Pirate Roberts who has cornered the internet drug market. Whatever sites you have access to like your news sites, Amazon, e-commerce, etc. She discusses what is and what is not likely to happen next. VAMOSI: We hear a lot about the Dark Web.

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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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