Duo's Security Blog

MAY 11, 2022

The lightweight application collects device health information such as Operating System (OS) version , firewall status, disk encryption status, presence of Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) agents and password status. Administrators can set access policies based on device health.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

“The command requires Windows system administrators,” Truniger’s ads explained. Presented with the information gathered for this report (and more that is not published here), Mr. Tretyakov acknowledged that Semen7907 was his account on sysadmins[.]ru, Details after contacting on jabber: truniger@xmpp[.]jp.”

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Also, remember how users can use keys rather than a password to login? So, imagine Susan is a system admin and she has access to several servers. She used SSH keygen to generate keys and she now can login to the systems via Secure Shell. The next time the user goes to that server, the server presents its key.

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SiteLock

MAY 16, 2022

If DBHOST is present, the plugin attempts to run add_action to hook into the WordPress install for persistence before calling a function and then evaluating a different value. Maarten Broekman has worked as a system administrator and systems engineer for over 25 years, primarily in the shared web-hosting space.

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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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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The agencies offered some sound cybersecurity advice for BlackByte that applies pretty generally: Conduct regular backups and store them as air-gapped, password-protected copies offline. BlackByte Ransomware Protection Steps. Most of these vulnerabilities have been around for years, but they are actively under attack.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2019

. “Mail server, domain administrator and system administrator accounts were all affected, giving cyberespions access to the past and current passwords of more than 2,000 ICAO system users. Hackers could read, send or delete emails from any user. “ reports Radio-Canada.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Impacket v0.9.24 - Copyright 2021 SecureAuth Corporation Password: [proxychains] Strict chain. (Figure 1) This admin requirement can result in hierarchy compromise via credential relaying to the SMB service and I will demonstrate how this can be abused later. You can skip ahead here if you’d like. 4 [proxychains] DLL init: proxychains-ng 4.16

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IT Security Guru

APRIL 12, 2022

One slight misconfiguration or unsafeguarded user permission presents a possible attack vector. 60% of Microsoft Office 365 and G Suite tenants have been targeted with IMAP-based password-spraying attacks, according to researchers. The thing is that most organizations now have hundreds of SaaS apps.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

It does provide clustering and high availability functions, however, it relies on high availability for Disaster Recovery (DR) scenarios and lacks a true “break glass” capability to allow access to passwords in emergency situations. It integrates with Office 365, Google Workspace, Okta and more for both cloud-based and on-premises systems.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The loader starts its activities by loading an encrypted payload from another file that should be present in the same directory. The other two variants should be loaded with the legitimate VLC.exe media player, which is abused to sideload the malicious library.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

Recent years presented a torrent of research showing how vulnerable RDP systems are for organizations not taking additional cybersecurity precautions. A few days later, IT systems started malfunctioning with ransom messages following. Reconnaissance. Check Point.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

After poking around with the app on two separate devices, Moussouris discovered that she could easily eavesdrop on conversations without having her user icon present in a room. The big problem about these vulnerabilities is that, because they are so basic, they are so easy to abuse. That is the risk.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Authentication and password management. Passwords are one of the least safe user authentication methods, yet they are also frequently used for web applications for safeguarding online data. OWASP recommends the following methods: Implement monitoring to identify attacks against multiple user accounts, utilizing the same password.

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SiteLock

APRIL 7, 2022

Likely, targets receive a link to [link] which presents the following page: Figure 1: Phishing Site. Right click on the page, select ‘View Page Source’, and a new tab or window will be opened containing the HTML content that your browser was presented with. The phishing kit we want to highlight is one appropriately titled the Citi kit.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 18, 2020

The page above reveals the bottom line of this report: "This wake-up call presents us with an opportunity to right longstanding imbalances and lapses, to reorient how we view risk, redacted.We must care as much about securing our systems as we care about running them if we are to make the necessary revolutionary change.".

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2023

The Originating Malvertising Campaign According to CTI investigation on the adversary infrastructure, we were able to identify an ongoing campaign luring system administrators to install the malicious code into their machines.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 20, 2022

For example, Domain Admins in Tier Zero can have the privilege to reset the password of any user account. In contrast, tiering allows the help desk to reset the password of Tier Two users only and not the server admins in Tier One and Zero. GPOs and settings Moving a user or computer object may result in a change of GPOs applied.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 31, 2023

In these attack scenarios, the attackers send out repeated targeted phishing attacks to employees until someone gets tired of the notifications and gives up their credentials and the one-time password token. Some MFA implementations present proven technical flaws (such as the SS7 protocol vulnerability for SMS).

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 22, 2020

No one enforced the use of passwords, nor insisted on strict teacher control of those lessons. To Zoom’s credit, password protection and a “waiting room” feature, which allows the host to control when a participant joins the meeting, are the default settings for its free and single license paid accounts.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Doubling down on developer-specific threats, IBM presented noteworthy research at this year’s edition of BlackHat, evidencing how source code management or continuous integration systems could be leveraged by attackers. 2023 will very likely be a year of 0-days for all major email software. The next WannaCry.

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