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 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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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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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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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 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. ” concludes DoJ.

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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.

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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. .” An unauthenticated, remote attacker could exploit the issue to execute arbitrary code as the root user on a vulnerable device.

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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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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Yandex, a European multinational technology firm best known for being the most-used search engine in Russia, has revealed it had a security breach, leading to the compromise of almost 5,000 Yandex email accounts. The company says it spotted the breach after a routine check by its security team.

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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. . ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Skorodumov was one of the organization’s lead systems administrators, he configured and managed the clients’ domains and IP addresses, provided technical assistance to help clients optimize their malware and botnets.

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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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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.” In this case, the visitors were downloading Midjourney-x64.msix, msix, which is a Windows Application Package also signed by ASHANA GLOBAL LTD. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2023

System administrators need to be aware that adversaries can exploit edge devices to place backdoors that persist even after updates and / or reboots.” As of August 14, most of the backdoored instances are in Germany, France and Switzerland. ” concludes the report.”As

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2023

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. The advisory includes potential mitigation measures for email recipients and recipients’ systems administrators.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2022

In order to identify CAKETAP running on a Solaris system, administrators can check for the presence of a hook installed in the ipcl_get_next_conn hook function. Below is an example command to identify a hooked ipcl_get_next_conn function: root@solaris:~# echo ‘ipcl_get_next_conn::dis -n 0 ; ::quit’ | mdb -k.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The advisory also includes recommendations for system administrators to prevent the installation of backdoor firmware images and unusual device reboots.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

“The vulnerability is due to a system account that has a default and static password and is not under the control of the system administrator.” ” An attacker could exploit the flaw by using this default account to connect to a vulnerable system and obtain read and write access to system data.

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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. Data Security. Large corporations, small businesses, and even individuals suffer from numerous attacks from cybercriminals.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

The City experts believe that the group specifically targeted a prioritized list of servers using legitimate Microsoft system administrative tools. Early on the morning of Wednesday, May 03, 2023, the group started executing the ransomware on the City of Dallas.

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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

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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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 22, 2023

Panagiotis holds the position of the Global Information Security Manager in Global Information Security at Intrum. A : I recently changed positions, moving from Information Security Officer, into leading a new unit that will be help Intrum to manage and control all aspects of their information security compliance.

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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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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Danny Adamitis , principal information security researcher at Lumen and co-author of the report on AVrecon, confirmed Kilmer’s findings, saying the C2 data matched up with what Spur was seeing for SocksEscort dating back to September 2022. md , and that they were a systems administrator for sscompany[.]net.

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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

JANUARY 7, 2022

.” Customers can check whether their NAS is exposed online by using the Security Counselor, a built-in security portal for QNAP NAS devices. Administrator of devices exposed to the Internet should: Disable the Port Forwarding function of the router.

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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

MARCH 11, 2020

Users and system administrators are recommended to apply the latest security patches as soon as possible to prevent attackers exploiting them. Additional technical details on the Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday updates for March 2020 are available in the analysis published by Zero Day Initiative.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2021

Organizations with effective spam filtering, proper system administration and up-to-date Windows hosts have a much lower risk of infection.” ” 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

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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McAfee

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Please join McAfee, AWS, and our customers to discuss the impact women are having on information security in the cloud. These remarkable women represent multiple roles in cloud and security, from technical leadership through executive management. Chief Information Security Officer. Can’t make it? Collins Aerospace.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Create, start, and terminate a new process and its primary thread Search, read, write, move, and execute files Get and modify file or directory timestamps Change the current directory for a process or file Delete malware and artifacts associated with the malware from the infected system. ” reads the report published by Kaspersky.

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SiteLock

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The audit process helps the customer ascertain that the provider has implemented and follows all the necessary security procedures, including those that specify rules for interacting with contractors and controlling the work of system administrators. 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

MAY 28, 2020

Using a previous version of Exim leaves a system vulnerable to exploitation. System administrators should continually check software versions and update as new versions become available.” Other vulnerabilities exist and are likely to be exploited, so the latest fully patched version should be used. ” concludes NSA.

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