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. This makes it harder for targets to remove it from their systems.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. md , and that they were a systems administrator for sscompany[.]net. co and a VPN provider called HideIPVPN[.]com.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The fix: System administrators are encouraged to install the Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Update 14 (CU14), which was issued in February 2024 and enabled NTLM credentials Relay Protection. Despite VMware’s three-year-old deprecation statement, unprotected systems remain at risk.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

He is also looking for opportunities to collect additional access parameters (usernames and passwords), elevate privileges, or use already existing compromised accounts for unauthorized access to systems, applications, and data. Attackers may use the following methods to obtain administrator privileges: Compromised passwords.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2021

They will often describe potential “legitimate” uses for their malware – only to further describe anti-malware evasion properties, silent installation and operation or features such as cryptocurrency mining, password theft or disabling webcam lights.” ” reads the post published by Palo Alto Networks. ” concludes the report.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

PAM market. It provides Privileged Account and Session Management (PASM) capabilities for all systems, as well as Privilege Elevation and Delegation Management (PEDM) for Windows and UNIX/Linux systems. It integrates with Office 365, Google Workspace, Okta and more for both cloud-based and on-premises systems.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

“The command requires Windows system administrators,” Truniger’s ads explained. “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. cc is essentially a data market,” they continued. “Snatchteam[.]cc

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IT Security Guru

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

password guessing). Although the market for integrated API security solutions is still in its beginning stages, a recent study found almost 70% of respondents ranked an API protection platform as “very important”. API Security needs to be a Top Priority for the Modern Enterprise. API Security Tools.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

September 5, 2023 Atlas VPN Leaks Users’ IP Addresses Type of attack: Zero-Day Vulnerability, a new vulnerability that is often difficult to fix since no patch is available on the market yet. Users are also urged to carefully inspect the default setups and passwords, especially while installing software. of the Atlas VPN Linux client.

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Adam Levin

APRIL 8, 2019

Hundreds of millions of user passwords left exposed to Facebook employees: News recently broke that Facebook left the passwords of between 200 million and 600 million users unencrypted and available to the company’s 20,000 employees going back as far as 2012. Then there are the repercussions to the company’s stock price.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 18, 2020

A rush to market, as if the Center for Cyber Intelligence (CCI) was making IoT devices instead of the world's most advanced cyber weapons. in a press to meet growing and critical mission needs, CCI had prioritized building cyber weapons at the expense of securing their own systems. Says the report: ".in Says the report: ".in

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2023

In thirty days, the operation we monitored was capable to establish initial access to over 8 thousand endpoints and steal sensitive data that are now reaching the underground black markets. Most of the victims mount Windows 10 Professional and Enterprise operating systems, including several Datacenter versions of Windows Server.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Additionally, multi-factor authentication (MFA) can further reduce the risk of malicious actors gaining access to sensitive information, even if they manage to steal usernames and passwords. Intrusion prevention and detection systems (IDPS) are among some of the most effective cloud security tools on the market.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Such discoveries usually lead to massive and indiscriminate exploitation, and compromised machines are sold on dark markets to secondary buyers for the purposes of ransomware deployment. Our own telemetry also confirms that RDP brute-force attacks have remained predominant throughout 2022. The next WannaCry.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 16, 2019

Well, an entrepreneur and a professor, and it’s great to see that your research has led you to kinda bring this out to market. So, we fielded it there, but we think the market would be in the testing environment. Do you have product in the market? Ashley: Excellent. That’s exciting. So, tell us, what is Mayhem?

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 16, 2019

Well, an entrepreneur and a professor, and it’s great to see that your research has led you to kinda bring this out to market. So, we fielded it there, but we think the market would be in the testing environment. Do you have product in the market? Ashley: Excellent. That’s exciting. So, tell us, what is Mayhem?

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 16, 2019

Well, an entrepreneur and a professor, and it’s great to see that your research has led you to kinda bring this out to market. So, we fielded it there, but we think the market would be in the testing environment. Do you have product in the market? Ashley: Excellent. That’s exciting. So, tell us, what is Mayhem?

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Digital Shadows

AUGUST 17, 2021

It could be a system administrator who has access to sensitive defense information and recently just met an attractive fitness influencer on social media (hello, Iran !). Figure 1: Typical marketing spam. A compromised customer account might use business email compromise tactics to phish everyone in that customer’s circle.

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