Schneier on Security

JUNE 4, 2019

The period has seen major platform evolution, with the mobile phone replacing the PC and laptop as the consumer terminal of choice, with Android replacing Windows, and with many services moving to the cloud.The use of social networks has become extremely widespread. and more on response. His final slide contained a summary.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

It’s a fun end-of-year tradition, but it can also provide valuable insight into coming trends to help defenders be prepared for what’s on the horizon. The risk that doesn’t get enough attention and that defenders need to understand is that ransomware has evolved. Lior Div, CEO and Co-founder, Cybereason. Predictions”.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 20, 2021

The company would later do the same to the Kelihos botnet , a global spam machine which shared a great deal of code with Waledac and infected more than 110,000 Microsoft Windows PCs. Levashov was arrested in 2017 while in Barcelona, Spain with his family. ” Mark Rasch , a former federal prosecutor with the U.S.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 18, 2023

This is the second installment of the Defender’s Guide series. In keeping with the theme, we are discussing Windows Services, the underlying technology, common attack vectors, and methods of securing/monitoring them. If your Windows service must interact with other stations, you will need to access the unmanaged Windows API.”.

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Engineering Accountability Technology Software 84

eSecurity Planet

JULY 21, 2023

5 Best Practices for Preventing LOTL Attacks How to Recover from Living Off the Land Attacks What Tools Help Defend Against LOTL Attacks? Windows Management Instrumentation Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is a management tool for Windows admins to write scripts and connect computer systems.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

How can an industrial recycler safely secure its $400,000 hard drive recertification rack with control software that only runs on Windows XP? 53% of industrial sites maintain obsolete Windows OS such as Windows XP. 3 Ways to Defend Unprotected Devices. These are not uncommon risks.

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SecureList

JULY 7, 2021

The PyInstaller module for Windows contains a script named “Guard” Perhaps the most interesting finding here is that this malware was developed for both Windows and macOS operating systems. However, we consider that these similarities serve as minor ties and are not enough to make any attribution. svchost.exe.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The Brute Ratel post-exploitation toolkit has been cracked and now is available in the underground hacking and cybercrime communities. Threat actors have cracked the Brute Ratel C4 (BRC4) post-exploitation toolkit and leaked it for free in the cybercrime underground. reads the description of the tool on its website. Brc4 v1.2.2/5 in, and Xss[.]is,

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 24, 2023

Better Phishing Grammar Consider the following unremarkable phishing email which has probably been sent in multiple variations to a million inboxes: Windows user alert Unusual sign-in activity We detected something unusual to use an application to sign in your Windows computer. Some worry how it might improve phishing attacks.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 7, 2021

However, these add-on technologies clearly have their limits and aren’t robust enough to carry us much deeper into digital transformation. These trends have exponentially expanded the attack surface and prompted threat actors to increase their focus on the weakly-defended access points turning up on the computing devices we use most.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 24, 2021

The researchers have written a paper (pdf) about Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) to raise awareness for both attackers and defenders alike of the security issues surrounding this complex, widely deployed, and often misunderstood system. They will also present this material at BlackHat USA 2021. Abusing AD CS. Too complicated.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 21, 2022

Using misconfigured multi-factor authentication (MFA) and an unpatched Windows vulnerability, Russian state-sponsored hackers were able to breach a non-governmental organization (NGO) and escalate privileges, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the FBI revealed last week. Also read: Best Patch Management Software.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 19, 2023

If you’re an organisation unfortunate enough to be imitated, you can also expect to field support calls from understandably annoyed people who think that you’ve ripped them off, as opposed to the genuine culprits. This kind of scammer has imitated everything from Microsoft to genuine security firms down the years.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2022

Here we’ll delve into why Cobalt Strike is so popular among hackers and how to defend against Cobalt Strike attacks. After gaining unauthorized access, the hackers implanted the payload into a legitimate Windows dll (wwanmm.dll) to avoid memory-base detection. Also read: 13 Best Vulnerability Scanner Tools for 2022.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 14, 2021

fvckrender: Be really careful out there I was dumb enough to not overlook this and open their SCR file and got my metamask swiped from à to Z all my tokens gone. In this post, we'll look at a campaign, that targeted multiple 3D or digital artists using NFT, with malware named RedLine. ArielBeckerArt.eth #SquidGang ?? Really terrible day.

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IT Security Guru

JULY 19, 2021

Similarly, and this might sound odd from someone in a senior position at a cybersecurity company, but businesses sometimes rely too much on the technology, and not enough on process, personnel and their skills. There is no such thing as a security tool that requires a minimum amount of attention. Security hygiene is the best defence.

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McAfee

APRIL 20, 2021

At McAfee we know that cybercriminals are always evolving their tradecraft, and we are committed to provid ing blue teams (cyber defenders) the capabilities needed to win the game. Time-Based Security (TBS) is one of the most relevant, effective, and simple security model s a defender can apply. Time-Based Security .

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 30, 2023

The attack affects the Windows Electron client (versions 18.12.407 and 18.12.416) and macOS versions of the PBX phone system. The attack exploits the DLL side-loading technique, and telemetry data reveals the attacks are limited to Windows Electron (versions 18.12.407 and 18.12.416) and macOS versions of the PBX phone system.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

Threat actors are crafting memory attacks designed to help them gain footholds, move laterally and achieve persistence deep inside well-defended enterprise networks. In a sense, memory attacks are a reflection of what has been left out of the $216 billion companies spent over the past two years on security products and services.

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Hacking Energy and Utilities System Administration Accountability 212

Krebs on Security

JULY 24, 2020

A common theme in these C-level executive responses is that a great many candidates simply lack hands-on experience with the more practical concerns of operating, maintaining and defending the information systems which drive their businesses. Granted, most people who have just graduated with a degree lack practical experience.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 2, 2023

In that 1998 case, the defendants behind the scheme were taking out classified ads in newspapers. ” It’s bad enough that US Job Services was leaking customer data: Constella Intelligence says the email address tied to Mr. Sites like FederalJobsCenter[.]com “Companies promising jobs with the U.S. com and usps-jobs[.]com.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Janicab was first introduced in 2013 as malware able to run on MacOS and Windows operating systems. The Windows version has a VBscript-based implant as the final stage instead of a C#/PowerShell combo as observed previously in Powersing samples. Contact us: intelreports@kaspersky.com. Initial foothold. Janicab 1.2.9a. Janicab 1.1.2.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 19, 2021

Sadly, Windows didn’t take this requirement into consideration. In November Microsoft also added detection rules to Microsoft Defender to “detect adversaries as they try to exploit this vulnerability against your domain controllers.”. Unfortunately the patch caused problems of its own, which made it very unpopular.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 11, 2023

There are also many malicious apps that can clone all of one phone's data to another phone, using a Windows or Mac computer as a middleman. .” When asked, the FBI’s Denver field office said the message was meant as an advisory, and that there was no specific case that prompted it. Enjoy the free charge!”

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 27, 2022

For instance, many functions like Windows service creation require interacting with and changes to the Windows Registry. For instance, many functions like Windows service creation require interacting with and changes to the Windows Registry. There’s more than meets the eye under the function call hood. Introduction.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 7, 2023

Windows users can install Kali using the Windows Subsystem (WSL2), for example. For now, Kali is primarily known for its roughly 600 open source pentesting tools, allowing pentesters to easily install a full range of offensive security tools. Also read: 24 Top Open Source Penetration Testing Tools What Is Penetration Testing?

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The PyInstaller module for Windows contains a script named “Guard” Interestingly, this malware was developed for both Windows and macOS operating systems. None of the similarities is enough to link Tomiris and Sunshuttle with sufficient confidence. Another language used by WildPressure is Python.

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Malware Banking Energy and Utilities Accountability 93

Security Boulevard

JUNE 7, 2023

ClickOnce Overview and Current Weaponizations “ClickOnce is a deployment technology that enables you to create self-updating Windows-based applications that can be installed and run with minimal user interaction” - MSDN ClickOnce is a vehicle for installing and updating .NET NET applications. application deployment manifest using a browser.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 18, 2022

Many security professionals think that if they have done the hard work of securing their organization, that should be enough. For example, Microsoft developed a Group Policy Management Console to manage implemented policies applied to different user groups in a Windows environment. There is, however, a next step: Documenting policies.

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SecureList

AUGUST 15, 2022

Earlier this year, we discovered a malicious campaign that employed a new technique for installing fileless malware on target machines by injecting a shellcode directly into Windows event logs. While fileless malware is nothing new, the way the encrypted shellcode containing the malicious payload is embedded into Windows event logs is.

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LRQA Nettitude Labs

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Some of the more effective and advanced EDRs do not hook any DLLs, such as Microsoft Defender for Endpoint or Elastic. The use of FreeLibrary is also a mistake, since it tries to free the main NTDLL which is not possible due to the way Windows processes work. However, instead of using kernel32.dll dll we will use ntdll.dll.

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SecureList

JUNE 2, 2022

The actor behind these families is capable of targeting Windows, Linux and macOS machines, as well as Android devices. The posted information was complete enough for us to confirm that they had indeed received a sample of WinDealer. Introduction. LuoYu is a lesser-known threat actor that has been active since 2008.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Data breaches continue to occur, in spite of all the perimeter and endpoint security controls being deployed to defend against sophisticated cyber attacks. File-system Protection: CipherTrust Transparent Encryption protects data at the file-system level on servers, databases, Windows/Linux/AIX OSs across virtual and physical servers.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 7, 2022

I knew very little about Windows authentication at the time, so when the other red teamer investigated the idea and told us it wasn’t possible, I left it at that. However I would caution any defenders against believing that an EDR will save you in every case, despite whatever the marketing tells you. Technical Background.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 1, 2023

No ransomware was delivered to the organization, and we do not have enough information to precisely attribute this activity. The vulnerability affects all supported versions of Outlook, and no user interaction is required to trigger it. We discovered that the domain in question has a deb.fdmpkg[.]org

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Malwarebytes

JULY 19, 2021

In the attack, members of the REvil ransomware gang pushed malicious Kaseya VSA updates that locked up machines and networks after first disabling several protective features in Microsoft Defender, the default anti-malware software packaged with most Windows machines today. Two small towns in Maryland saw their systems lock up.

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Internet Internet Ransomware Marketing 66

SC Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

According to the Accurics report, such solutions can “provide guardrails that help you enforce baseline security policies at build time and runtime,” as well as “reduce MTTR in both production and pre-production, and minimize attackers’ window of opportunity.”. It is no longer the responsibility of someone else,” said Siman.

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