Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Our investigation revealed that this remote endpoint is associated with criminal activities dating back to 2019, indicating that these hosts were likely under the control of the same technical administration. A quick examination of the publicly accessible profile of the Moscow-based server swiftly uncovered a peculiarity.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2021

It’s nice when ransomware gangs have their bitcoin stolen, malware servers shut down, or are otherwise forced to disband. REvil’s last big victim was Kaseya , a Miami-based company whose products help system administrators manage large networks remotely. ” That CrowdStrike report was from July 2019. .

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The group targeted organizations in multiple sectors, including defense, government, electronics, telecommunication, technology, media, telecommunication industries. The nation-state actors employed multiple custom malware families targeting Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD operating systems.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

Canadian police last week raided the residence of a Toronto software developer behind “ Orcus RAT ,” a product that’s been marketed on underground forums and used in countless malware attacks since its creation in 2015. An advertisement for Orcus RAT. In an “official press release” posted to pastebin.com on Mar.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Today, technological advances have seen a rise in cyber security threats globally. Besides, cybercriminals are becoming craftier with sophisticated technology. Thus, it would be best if you secured all networks by incorporating firewalls and advanced encryption technology. Human Resources. Data Security.

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2023

“Generative AI technologies and chatbots have exploded in popularity in 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, ” concludes the report.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 13, 2023

This experiment underscores the significant threat posed by generative AI technologies like WormGPT, even in the hands of novice cybercriminals.” The accessibility of generative AI technology empowers attackers to execute sophisticated BEC attacks even with limited skills. Promotion of jailbreaks for AI platforms.

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Herjavec Group

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Like it or not, within a few months, educational institutions have now become enterprise IT entities, taking on all the responsibilities of securely delivering qualitative technology services. Ask your school system administrators to provide a copy of their incident response policies and plans. So, what to do?

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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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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 13, 2021

This is possible, the company says, because of improvements to its Hardware Shield product and more powerful Threat Detection Technology (TDT). Intel's Hardware Shield and Threat Detection Technology. Providing operating system visibility into the BIOS- and firmware-protection methods used at boot time.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 22, 2020

Tools and best practices One of the big things school districts do have going for them happens to be the same advantage all SMBs currently enjoy: there is no lack of technology and best practices regimens readily available to tap into. It’s just a matter of finances and institutional intent, which go hand in glove.

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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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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

We discovered the malware as part of an attack against a high-profile organization in Vietnam. We found the loader for this file so interesting that we decided to base one of the tracks of our Targeted Malware Reverse Engineering course on it. The exploit-chain attempts to install malware in the system through a dropper.

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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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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

Last Watchdog recently sat down with Satya Gupta, founder and CTO of Virsec , a San Jose-based supplier of advanced data protection systems. Virsec is a leading innovator of memory protection technologies. Another branch of attacks revolve around ransomware, crypto jacking, denial of service attacks and malware spreading activities.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2019

Unfortunately, despite steady advances in malware detection and intrusion prevention systems, and much effort put into training employees to be wary of suspicious email, weaponized email and document-based malware remain as virulent as pervasive as it was two decades ago. The key takeaways: Productivity vs. security.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Fortinet has addressed four vulnerabilities in FortiWeb web application firewalls that were reported by Positive Technologies expert Andrey Medov. . ” Andrey Medov at Positive Technologies explains. 4 XSS in FortiWeb (CVE-2021-22122), found by Andrey Medov, have been patched. Two example PoCs: 1⃣ /error3?msg=30&data=';alert('xss');//

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 29, 2022

What’s more, it will likely take a blend of legacy security technologies – in advanced iterations – combined with a new class of smart security tools to cut through the complexities of defending contemporary business networks. Its rather mundane function is to record events in a log for a system administrator to review and act upon, later.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Blue teams consist of security analysts, network engineers and system administrators. The red team will use cyberattack tactics such as reconnaissance, malware deployment, vulnerability exploitation, phishing attacks, and command and control servers to conduct an advanced attack.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 2, 2021

But it’s coming, in the form of driverless cars, climate-restoring infrastructure and next-gen healthcare technology. The best evidence of this is how email has become a battleground where companies must continually defend attackers’ endlessly creative efforts to manipulate email to circulate malware and distribute phishing ruses.

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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). On receiving the e-mail, Zimbra submits it to Amavis for spam and malware inspection. At the moment, Zimbra has released a patch and shared its installation steps.

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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.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

The Chinese security firm also adds that the APT-C-39 hacking group employed several Vault 7 tools in its operations, including the Fluxwire backdoor, and the Grasshopper malware builder. 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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SiteLock

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Providers think customers are not going to learn the cloud technology from A to Z and that they need only to have features readily available, operating flawlessly, and offering acceptable security levels. David Balaban is a computer security researcher with over 17 years of experience in malware analysis and antivirus software evaluation.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

We also review what pushed cybercriminals to transform their operations into the now well-known malware-as-a-service model — the use of cloud servers, the decreasing relevance of custom malware and the subsequent emergence of small, agile teams. Malware developers — no longer hiring. Client-side attacks on the wane.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

As technology continues to evolve, so does the security around it. Website security is unique because, while it can be used in tandem with other cybersecurity solutions, it is the only type of cybersecurity solution that can actually protect a website from malicious threats, such as malware and vulnerabilities. Website Security.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Brian Krebs is an independent investigative reporter known for his coverage of technology, malware , data breaches , and cybercrime developments. Russian software engineer Eugene Kaspersky’s frustration with the malware of the 80s and 90s led to the founding of antivirus and cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky Lab.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Looking back at past leaks of private companies providing such services, such as in the case of Hacking Team, we learned that many states all over the world were buying these capabilities, whether to complement their in-house technologies or as a stand-alone solution they couldn’t develop. SIGINT-delivered malware.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In this article, we’ll describe their new toolset, the malware used to steal and exfiltrate data, and the techniques used by this group to move laterally and conduct espionage operations. The malware uses a static seed to generate a 256-byte XOR_KEY block using shuffle and add operations. dev/fam/mfe?

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Cloud security consists of all the technologies and processes that ensure an organization’s cloud infrastructure is protected against internal and external cybersecurity threats. They also need to lay out the specific security technologies that employees must use to protect data and applications in the cloud.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Security orchestration, automation and response, or SOAR, is a fledgling security technology stack that first entered the cybersecurity lexicon about six years ago. Today there exists a widening shortage of security analysts talented and battle tested enough to make sense of the rising tide of data logs inundating their SIEM systems.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 17, 2022

TTPs, secure messaging client abuse, malware, and targeting demonstrate that this set of activity and resources align with Earth Berberoka/GamblingPuppet activity discussed at Botconf 2022 by Trend Micro researchers, also discussed as an unknown or developing cluster by other vendors. These data points included. PluginDestory [sic].

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 17, 2023

Namely, there are scripts using commands that an attacker could use to steal data from the company’s network , but which also resembled legitimate administrative tasks used by IT professionals for various system administration tasks. But, lo and behold, it was a RaaS gang the whole time!

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Spinone

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Let us take a look at top cloud storage solutions in themselves and the features they offer that may prove useful in fighting malware. Additionally, there are dangers in the misconceptions many organizations have that public cloud storage offers a magical defense against malware/ransomware attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2022

This cloud-centric model offers administrators granular network management opportunities while leveraging the bandwidth and reducing the cost of service delivery. SD-WAN segmentation capabilities allow administrators to separate traffic according to application characteristics and network policies. SDN vs SD-WAN.

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SecureList

JUNE 17, 2021

The malware generates a 64-character pseudo-random string. Encryption process. The static analysis of Black Kingdom shows how it generates an AES-256 key based on the following algorithm. The pseudo-algorithm used by Black Kingdom. It then takes the MD5 hash of the string and uses it as the key for AES-256 encryption.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 24, 2024

Outbound rules restrict the traffic of users within your network, preventing them from accessing certain external systems, websites, or networks deemed unsafe. For example, a business employee on the company network might try to access a website that had previously caused a malware infection on a company computer.

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