Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

Most of the APT28s’ campaigns leveraged spear-phishing and malware-based attacks. 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.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The United States Department of Justice sentenced two individuals that were providing bulletproof hosting to various malware operations. The two individuals, Aleksandr Skorodumov (33) of Lithuania, and Pavel Stassi (30) of Estonia, administrated the bulletproof hosting service between 2009 and 2015.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2021

WeSteal is a Python-based malware that uses regular expressions to search for strings related to wallet addresses that victims have copied to their clipboard. “When pursuing cases against malware authors, prosecutors typically need to demonstrate the author’s intent for the malware. There is the name of the malware itself.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The activity of the Lazarus APT group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks. This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 21, 2022

CISA is ISACA’s (Information Systems Audit and Control Association) high-level certification designed for those who audit, control, monitor, and assess an organization’s information technology and business systems. These individuals will be the elite of information security and the top practitioners in the field.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The nation-state actors employed multiple custom malware families targeting Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD operating systems. Custom malware families used by the group include BendyBear, Bifrose, BTSDoor, FakeDead (a.k.a.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2022

Upon its initialization, the malware removes itself from the loaded modules list and updates the last_module_id with the previously loaded module to delete any trace of its presence. “This CAKETAP variant targeted specific messages destined for the Payment Hardware Security Module (HSM).” ” concludes the report.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 22, 2022

Kloster says he’s worked in many large companies in Omsk as a system administrator, web developer and photographer. “Thanks to you, we are now developing in the field of information security and anonymity!,” “I opened an American visa for myself, it was not difficult to get.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2021

European law enforcement has conducted an operation aimed at performing a mass-sanitization of computers infected with the infamous Emotet Windows malware. European law enforcement agencies automatically wiped the infamous Emotet malware from infected systems across the world as part of a mass sanitization operation.

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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

MARCH 16, 2022

VNC is a desktop sharing system – you can use it to remotely access your work computer from home or any other location, or allow technical support staff to do likewise. Ideally, VNC should be used only with authenticated users, such as system administrators. “It was so easy to gain access to these systems.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2020

US CISA published an alert related to a new North Korean malware, dubbed BLINDINGCAN, used in attacks on the US defense and aerospace sectors. According to the government experts, the BLINDINGCAN malware was employed in attacks aimed at US and foreign companies operating in the military defense and aerospace sectors.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2022

Linux rootkits are malware installed as kernel modules in the operating system. Once installed, they intercept legitimate Linux commands to filter out information that they do not want to be displayed, such as the presence of files, folders, or processes. ” concludes the report which also includes indicators of compromise.

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2023

Unfortunately, as system administrators seek ways to control access to these platforms, users may seek out alternative ways to gain access.” However, this recent campaign shows malicious ads can still slip by moderators and deliver victims malware.” In this case, the visitors were downloading Midjourney-x64.msix,

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

The popular researcher Larry Cashdollar, from Akamai SIRT, announced in exclusive to The Register, that he observed a miner that previously hit only Arm-powered IoT devices targeting Intel systems. The researchers revealed that one of his honeypots was hit by this IoT malware that targets Intel machines running Linux.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

At the time, BleepingComputer reported that the City’s court system canceled all jury trials and jury duty for several days starting from May 2nd. CBS News Texas obtained an image the ransomware note dropped by the malware on the infected systems.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2022

“Bridgestone Americas are currently investigating a potential information security incident. All we do is provide paid training to system administrators around the world on how to properly set up a corporate network. We are only interested in money for our harmless and useful work.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Even with high-level security measures, no one is safe from such threats. That is why most companies hire professional information security services to mitigate the risks arising from data breaches. Human errors often lead to data breaches, malware, and virus attacks that might compromise the company’s systems.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2020

The Malware Threat behind CurveBall. Many system administrators and companies were rushing to update internet exposed machines, like web servers or gateways, worried about possible remote code execution, reviving the EternalBlue /WannaCry crisis in their mind. .

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2023

“In many instances, Kimsuky actors do not attach malware to their initial email. Additionally, the APT group also impersonates operators or administrators of popular web portals claiming that a victim’s account has been locked following suspicious activity or fraudulent use. ” continues the advisory.

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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. If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

ESET researchers discovered a new malware associated with the Stealth Falcon APT group that abuses the Windows BITS service to stealthy exfiltrate data. Security researchers from discovered a new malware associated with the Stealth Falcon cyber espionage group that abuses the Windows BITS service to stealthy exfiltrate data.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2019

US DoJ charged two Russian citizens for deploying the Dridex malware and for their involvement in international bank fraud and computer hacking schemes. The Bugat malware a multifunction malware package designed to automate the theft of confidential personal and financial information. Attorney Brady.

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SiteLock

OCTOBER 12, 2021

They are also becoming more concerned about how the provider monitors security events, responds to malware attacks , and reports on these issues. David Balaban is a computer security researcher with over 17 years of experience in malware analysis and antivirus software evaluation. David runs MacSecurity.net.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Blue team members might be led by a chief information security officer (CISO) or director of security operations, making this team the largest among the three. Blue teams consist of security analysts, network engineers and system administrators.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2020

Users and system administrators are recommended to apply the latest security patches as soon as possible to prevent attackers exploiting them. SecurityAffairs – malware, Patch Tuesday). Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The website is a clone of the website of Convergent Network Solutions Ltd , Bastion Secure’s ‘About’ page states that is a spinoff of the legitimate cybersecurity firm that anyway not linked to the criminal gang. Once gained access to the target network, the threat actors could then drop malware and ransomware. .

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The alerts are also sent to system administrators and security teams, who can directly contact the affected employees and take action to prevent their accounts take over. Microsoft Defender for Office 365 protects all of Office 365 against advanced threats like business email compromise and credential phishing.

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Notice Bored

OCTOBER 12, 2021

but are they 'information security controls'? If you determine that a policy in this area would be worthwhile for your organisation, but don't presently have one, the SecAware "physical information security" policy template is a starting point. I would argue yes for some, perhaps most of them.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

System administrators are recommended to update their VMWare ESXi installs or disable SLP support to secure them. If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 23, 2021

Two months after fully restoring its systems, CNA Financial, the leading US insurance company that was attacked by a group using Phoenix CryptoLocker ransomware, issued a legal notice of an information security incident to the Consumer Protection Bureau in New Hampshire.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

“The first allows you to obtain the hash of the system administrator account due to excessive DBMS user privileges, which gives you access to the API without decrypting the hash value. ” If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The Roboto botnet spreads by compromising systems by exploiting the Webmin RCE vulnerability tracked as CVE-2019-15107 to drop its downloader module on Linux servers running vulnerable installs. Webmin is an open-source web-based interface for system administration for Linux and Unix. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 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),” states the FBI’s PIN alert.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2020

The attacks began last week, the systems administrator Marco Hofmann first detailed them. I found these source IP addresses of the attackers in my nstraces: 45.200.42.0/24 24 220.167.109.0/24 Most of the victims of these attacks are in the gaming industry. ” wrote Hofmann.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

According a report recently published by Chinese security firm Qihoo 360, leaked materials they collected reveal that Vault 7 was developed by Joshua and that APT-C -39 a CIA-linked hacking unit. Qihoo 360 reported that technical details of most implants used by the APT-C-39 are consistent with the ones described in the Vault 7 dump.

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Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2020

Security experts from Check Point Research have discovered multiple critical reverse RDP vulnerabilities in the Apache Guacamole, which is a clientless remote desktop gateway. It supports standard protocols like VNC, RDP, and SSH and allows system administrators to remotely access and manage Windows and Linux machines.

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