CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

One of the most vulnerable areas that hackers use to infiltrate a company’s system is the network. The Internet network is vulnerable as cybercriminals are lurking online, waiting to intercept loopholes for hacking systems. Let your staff know about the significance of maintaining strong and unique passwords. Data Backup.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

The CISA agency provides recommendations for system administrators and owners to enhance the level of security of their organizations: Maintain up-to-date antivirus signatures and engines. Keep operating system patches up-to-date. If these services are required, use strong passwords or Active Directory authentication.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

“The command requires Windows system administrators,” Truniger’s ads explained. Semen-7907 registered at Tunngle from the Internet address 31.192.175[.]63 “I’ve been using this login since about 2013 on all the forums where I register, and I don’t always set a strong password.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 21, 2022

By using a misconfigured Cisco Duo MFA implementation to force enrollment of a new device, the hackers were then able to use the “PrintNightmare” Windows Print Spooler vulnerability ( CVE-2021-34527 and CVE-2021-36958 ) to obtain administrator privileges. Also read: Best Patch Management Software. Security Best Practices.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

Microsoft, supplier of the Windows operating system used ubiquitously in enterprise networks, recently disclosed that fully 70% of all security bugs pivot off what the software giant refers to as “memory safety issues.”. Thus, memory attacks unfold only when the application is executing, and then they disappear without a trace.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

. “ our research has uncovered new vulnerabilities, which we collectively dubbed USBAnywhere , in the baseboard management controllers (BMCs) of Supermicro servers, which can allow an attacker to easily connect to a server and virtually mount any USB device of their choosing to the server, remotely over any network including the Internet.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2023

The gang leverages exposed remote administration services and internet-facing vulnerabilities to gain and maintain access to victim networks. Technical Details Makop ransomware operator arsenal is a hybrid one: it contains both cust-developed tools and off-the-shelf software taken from public repositories.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

The script init2 kills any previous versions of the miner software that might be running, and installs itself. Cashdollar explained that threat actors started scanning the Internet for Intel systems that would accept files over SSH port 22 to maximize their efforts. firefoxcatche (sic) doesn’t exist.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 13, 2022

In addition, manual mitigation steps can be undertaken by system administrators to prevent successful exploitation (see below). This creates a large attack surface where any software relying on cpio might in theory be leveraged to take over the system.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Between January and August 2020, unidentified actors used aggregation software to link actor-controlled accounts to client accounts belonging to the same institution, resulting in more than $3.5 Some of the credentials belonged to company leadership, system administrators, and other employees with privileged access.".

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

used the password 225948. NEROWOLFE A search on the ICQ number 669316 at Intel 471 shows that in April 2011, a user by the name NeroWolfe joined the Russian cybercrime forum Zloy using the email address d.horoshev@gmail.com , and from an Internet address in Voronezh, RU. 2011 said he was a system administrator and C++ coder.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

Still, in the wrong hands, RDP attacks and vulnerabilities related to remote desktop software are a severe threat. Recent years presented a torrent of research showing how vulnerable RDP systems are for organizations not taking additional cybersecurity precautions. Also read : Best Internet Security Suites & Software.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

9 Security Flaws Discovered in Schweitzer Power Management Products Type of attack: The security threats associated with the flaws in Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) power management devices include remote code execution, arbitrary code execution, access to administrator rights, and watering hole attacks. version of Superset.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 6, 2021

Managed service providers (MSPs) have long relied on third-party software to manage clients’ IT infrastructure, but a massive ransomware attack launched over the weekend at customers of Kaseya will likely cause MSPs to take a harder look at the security of their IT suppliers. Establishing Standards for Secure Systems.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

Experts from Safety Detective discovered thousands of refrigeration systems made by Resource Data Management (RDM) exposed to remote attacks. An attacker can easily access the vulnerable instances because they use a known default username and password combination. In many cases, the web interface can be accessed without authentication.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The legitimate executable file with digital signature and original name nclauncher.exe from the software package Pulse Secure Network Connect 8.3 The following paths and file names are known on attacked systems: C:Program FilesWindows MailAcroRd64.exe is used as a loader. SCRIPT_NAME%.ps1

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Herjavec Group

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Ask your school system administrators to provide you their written cybersecurity policies and procedures concerning proposed remote learning capabilities. Ask your school system administrators to provide a copy of their incident response policies and plans. School Systems and Educators. So, what to do?

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 22, 2020

Parents have long held a special duty to protect their school-aged children from bad actors on the Internet. No one enforced the use of passwords, nor insisted on strict teacher control of those lessons. This was an early indicator of how far most schools have to go in adopting an appropriate security posture.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 20, 2022

Historically, Microsoft recommended using the Enhanced Security Admin Environment (ESAE) architecture to provide a secure environment for AD administrators to prevent full compromise of a production forest in case of compromise of non-admin users. The AD tier model was part of ESAE. BHE can also help you with maintenance.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Software and Patch Management, part 1. The systems are “air gapped”, disconnected from the typical sort of threat that exploits unpatched systems. Software and Patch Management, part 2. They claim new software executables were applied to the system, despite the rules against new software being applied.

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Errata Security

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Software and Patch Management, part 1 They claim Dominion is defective at one of the best-known cyber-security issues: applying patches. The systems are “air gapped”, disconnected from the typical sort of threat that exploits unpatched systems. Maybe they are right, maybe new software was installed or old software updated.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

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. In the past years, we have seen vulnerability researchers increasingly focus on emailing software. Mail servers become priority targets.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 20, 2020

Someone compromised the entire Twitter network, probably by stealing the log-in credentials of one of Twitter's system administrators. Internet communications platforms -- such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube -- are crucial in today's society. Not a few people's Twitter accounts, but all of Twitter.

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