Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2024

National Security Agency (NSA) admitted to buying internet browsing records from data brokers to monitor Americans’ activity online without a court order. released documents that confirmed the National Security Agency (NSA) buys Americans’ internet browsing records without a court order. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore.,

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2023

IT Army of Ukraine hacktivists have temporarily disrupted internet services in some of the territories that have been occupied by Russia. Ukrainian hacktivists belonging to the IT Army of Ukraine group have temporarily disabled internet services in some of the territories that have been occupied by the Russian army.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Google warns that the North Korea-linked APT37 group is exploiting Internet Explorer zero-day flaw to spread malware. North Korea-linked APT37 group (aka ScarCruft , Reaper, and Group123) actively exploited an Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-41128 , in attacks aimed at South Korean users.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2023

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) addressed three denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities in the DNS software suite BIND. The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) released security updates to address three denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities in the DNS software suite BIND.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) announced that is scanning all Internet-exposed devices hosted in the UK for vulnerabilities. The United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is scanning all Internet-exposed devices hosted in the United Kingdom for vulnerabilities. 35.177.10.231.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Iran comes under cyber-attack again, a massive offensive brought down a large portion of the Iranian access to the Internet. Iran infrastructures are under attack, a massive cyberattack brought down a large portion of the Iranian access to the Internet, according to the experts the national connectivity fell to 75%.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2023

Most internet-exposed Cacti servers are vulnerable to the critical vulnerability CVE-2022-46169 which is actively exploited in the wild. Researchers from Censys discovered that the majority of internet-exposed Cacti servers are vulnerable to the critical flaw CVE-2022-46169 which is under active exploitation in the wild.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2022

While the Russian army is conducting coordinated missile and drone strikes in Ukraine experts observed Internet disruptions in the country. Global internet monitor NetBlocks reported widespread Internet disruptions in the country as a result of the attacks. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Censys found 30,000 internet-facing QNAP appliances potentially impacted by a recently disclosed critical code injection flaw. On January 30, Taiwanese vendor QNAP released QTS and QuTS firmware updates to address a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-27596 (CVSS v3 score: 9.8), that affects QNAP NAS devices. and QuTS hero h5.0.1

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Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2021

Experts at the NetBlocks Internet Observatory observed this week a temporary disruption of internet service in Russia due to new restrictions. On Wednesday 10 March 2021, researchers from Network data from the NetBlocks Internet Observatory observed the disruption of internet service provided by the Russian operator Rostelecom.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Censys researchers warn of more than 4,000 vulnerable Pulse Connect Secure hosts exposed to the Internet. Pulse Connect Secure is a widely-deployed SSL VPN solution for remote and mobile users, for this reason, it is a target of attacks by multiple threat actors. ” reads the post published by Censys. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2022

Researchers from Cyber looked for VNC exposed over the internet and discovered over 8000 VNC instances with authentication disabled, most of them in China, Sweden, and the United States. Exposing VNCs to the internet, increases the likelihood of a cyberattack. connected via VNC and exposed over the internet. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Russia’s internet watchdog, ‘Roskomnadzor’, has announced the ban of other VPN products, 15 VPN services are now illegal in Russia. Russian communications watchdog Roskomnadzor tightens the control over the Internet and blocked access to six more VPN services. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Threatpost

APRIL 21, 2021

For example, the concept of SearchInform is to ensure control of threats at all levels of the information network: from hardware and software to file systems and databases, from user actions on a PC to their activity on the Internet.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The Internet was shutdown several days and more than 80 websites, most of them news and political sites, were blocked. Qurium forensics report: Internet blocking in Belarus. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Internet). The post HOW DO PROVIDERS IMPLEMENT INTERNET BLOCKING IN BELARUS? appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Microsoft warns of a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer that is actively exploited by threat actors using weaponized Office docs. Microsoft warns of a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2021-40444) in Internet Explorer that is actively exploited by threat actors to hijack vulnerable Windows systems. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2021

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center has released its annual report, the 2020 Internet Crime Report , which includes data from 791,790 complaints of suspected cybercrimes. That identifying information was then used to establish a bank account to receive stolen BEC/EAC funds and then transferred to a cryptocurrency account.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Threat actors targeted tens thousands of unauthenticated Redis servers exposed on the internet as part of a cryptocurrency campaign. The tool is not designed to be exposed on the Internet, however, researchers spotted tens thousands Redis instance publicly accessible without authentication. ” warns Censys. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2023

Researchers at Censys have identified hundreds of devices deployed within federal networks that have internet-exposed management interfaces. The experts focused on roughly 1,300 of these hosts that were accessible online and discovered hundreds of devices with management interfaces exposed to the public internet.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2023

The North Korea-linked APT group Lazarus has been exploiting a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-47966 , in Zoho’s ManageEngine ServiceDesk in attacks aimed at the Internet backbone infrastructure provider and healthcare organizations. The actors exploited a vulnerable ManageEngine ServiceDesk instance to gain initial access.”

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

We have so much change happening and we can drive it to happen in a more positive way to reduce the resource needs for organizations and actually scale security for businesses of all sizes.".

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Researchers from Rapid7 reported that of the 60,000 internet-facing GitLab installations: 21% of installs are fully patched against this issue. In addition, ideally, GitLab should not be an internet facing service. If you need to access your GitLab from the internet, consider placing it behind a VPN.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 1, 2022

The post EDRi PrivacyCamp22 – Panel: ‘A Feminist Internet’ appeared first on Security Boulevard. Sincere thanks to EDRi (European Digital Rights) for publishing their phenomenal videos from the EDRi PrivacyCamp22 Conference on the organization’s YouTube channel.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

A massive DDoS hit New Zealand ‘s third-largest internet operator isolating parts of the country from the Internet. A massive DDoS hit Vocus ISP, New Zealand ‘s third-largest internet operator, isolating parts of the country from the Internet. “This afternoon our network was impacted by a DDoS attack.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2022

Russian Internet watchdog Roskomnadzor is going to ban Instagram in Russia to prevent the spreading of info related to the Ukraine invasion. Russia will ban Instagram, the decision was announced by Russian Internet watchdog Roskomnadzor. GB) and another containing two databases containing HR procedures (290.6 Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2020

There seems to be a new stealer in town called #TroyStealer , targeting Portuguese internet users EXE: [link] Exfil email address: domionhuby@gmail.com Has anyone seen this threat before? /cc Finally, the malware validates there is a valid Internet connection through a speed test website. on Twitter, and targeting Portuguese users.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2021

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) addressed a high-severity denial-of-service (DoS) flaw (CVE-2021-25218) affecting the BIND DNS software. The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has released security updates to address a high-severity denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-25218 , that affects its BIND DNS software.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Dear readers, I decided to create a simple Infographic that shows Cybercrime facts in 2019, I’ve done it for Safer Internet Day 2020. The post Safer internet day – Cybercrime facts Infographic appeared first on Security Affairs. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The FBI’s Internal Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released the FBI 2019 Internet Crime Report , a document that outlines cybercrime trends over the past year. Here we are to analyze the annual FBI 2019 Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) , one of the most interesting documents on the crime trends observed in the last 12 months.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Celebrating Safer Internet Day: Surviving Lockdowns Edition. This year’s celebration of the Safer Internet Day comes at a time when people are exercizing social distancing measures to help contain the pandemic. The theme of the day, “Together for a better internet”, couldn’t be more appropriate. Tue, 02/09/2021 - 10:06.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

Iran – After the announcement of the government to cut fuel subsidies, protests erupted in the country and the authorities blocked Internet access. Initially, mobile networks stopped working in large areas of the country, the government blocked any access to the Internet. SecurityAffairs – Iran, Internet access).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2020

An attacker could use $300 worth of off-the-shelf equipment to eavesdrop and intercept signals from satellite internet communications. The academic researcher James Pavur, speaking at Black Hat 2020 hacking conference , explained that satellite internet communications are susceptible to eavesdropping and signal interception.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Today, I'm very happy to welcome the Czech Republic's National Cyber and Information Security Agency who can now query their government domains along with the 26 other nations that have come before them. Data breaches impact all of us in one way or another, and government agencies are no exception.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 11, 2022

Sood’s ‘(Internet of Things or Threats) Anatomizing The Structure Of loT Botnets’ appeared first on Security Boulevard. Our thanks to BSides Berlin for publishing their tremendous videos from the BSides Berlin 2021 Conference on the organization’s’ YouTube channel. The post BSides Berlin 2021 – Aditya K.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2021

The FBI arrested a man for allegedly planning a bomb attack against Amazon Web Services (AWS) to kill about 70% of the internet. The man was attempting to buy C-4 plastic explosives from an undercover FBI employee, the explosive would have been used to destroy the data center and kill about 70% of the internet. ” continues DoJ.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

A decade from now, we may not even recognize security features from when the internet first came about. SecurityAffairs – artificial intelligence , sensitive information). The post 5 Ways artificial intelligence Is Being Used to Keep Sensitive Information Secure appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Europol announced another success in the fight against cybercrime, the agency shut down 30,506 Internet domain names for distributing counterfeit and pirated items. Europol announced the shutdown of 30,506 Internet domain names for distributing counterfeit and pirated items as part of the ‘In Our Sites’ (IOS) operation launched in 2014.

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