Krebs on Security

MARCH 26, 2024

Patel said he has worked fairly hard to remove his information from multiple people-search websites , and he found PeopleDataLabs uniquely and consistently listed this inaccurate name as an alias on his consumer profile. “Ken” is a security industry veteran who spoke on condition of anonymity. ” Ken said.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Former Uber CSO Joe Sullivan was found guilty of obstructing a federal investigation in connection with the attempted cover-up of a 2016 hack at Uber, NIST and Microsoft say that mandatory password expiration is no longer needed but many organizations are still doing it, and how fake executive profiles are becoming a huge problem for […].

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 26, 2021

The White House met Wednesday with numerous high-profile private sector and education leaders to discuss the wide-ranging efforts needed to address cybersecurity threats. Among those present were Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, Apple CEO Tim Cook, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna and Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 22, 2024

Microsoft disclosed that it recently fell victim to a cyberattack by Nobelium, the Russian state-sponsored hacking group infamously responsible for the 2020 SolarWinds supply chain attack. The breach, detected on January 12th, allowed the hackers to access email accounts belonging to members of Microsoft's senior leadership team.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2022

Microsoft and identity management platform Okta both this week disclosed breaches involving LAPSUS$ , a relatively new cybercrime group that specializes in stealing data from big companies and threatening to publish it unless a ransom demand is paid. In a blog post published Mar.

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Heimadal Security

AUGUST 3, 2021

A new report shows that in Q2, 2021 the threat environment experienced major growth in cyberattacks against Microsoft Exchange servers. Last week, Kaspersky security specialists disclosed in Kaspersky’s APT Trends Q2 2021 report the specifics of a unique, long-standing Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) campaign dubbed GhostEmperor.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 19, 2023

The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) has announced the release of Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA) v.1.0 with structure changes designed to make the software supply chain security framework more accessible and specific to individual areas of the software delivery lifecycle. The stable release of the SLSA 1.0

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Troy Hunt of ‘Have I been pwned’ and a former Regional Director of Microsoft did an analysis of the data samples available on the dark net and confirmed that they truly belonged to genuine user profiles. However, Troy felt that the extract data was a small portion through which profile data were constructed.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 3, 2024

Roughly nine years ago, KrebsOnSecurity profiled a Pakistan-based cybercrime group called “ The Manipulaters ,” a sprawling web hosting network of phishing and spam delivery platforms. “Please remove this article,” Sam Raza wrote, linking to the 2021 profile. But on Jan. I already leave everything.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2022

Researchers from Kaspersky have linked a new APT group, tracked as ToddyCat, to a series of attacks aimed at high-profile entities in Europe and Asia since at least December 2020. The first wave of attacks exclusively aimed at Microsoft Exchange Servers that were compromised with the sophisticated passive backdoor Samurai.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 25, 2022

Just when it looked like a tired hacker stereotype was fading, it seems that a teenager orchestrated Lapsus$ attacks against high-profile targets like Microsoft and Nvidia—all from the comfort of the home he shares with his mother in Oxford, England.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2021

Kaspersky experts spotted a previously undocumented Chinese-speaking threat actor, tracked as GhostEmperor, that is targeting Microsoft Exchange flaws in attacks on high-profile victims. Acting covertly, rootkits are notorious for hiding from investigators and security solutions. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Microsoft disclosed a data leak, sensitive data of some of its customers were exposed by a misconfigured Microsoft server accessible online. Microsoft announced that sensitive data belonging to some of its customers were exposed on the Internet due to a misconfigured Microsoft server. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2020

An individual thought to be involved has earned accolades from the likes of Apple , Dell , and Microsoft for helping to find and fix security vulnerabilities in their products. In 2018, security intelligence firm HYAS discovered a malware network communicating with systems inside of a French national power company.

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The State of Security

MAY 1, 2022

Tripwire’s April 2022 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities for Microsoft, Google Chrome, Oracle, and Adobe. First on the patch priority list this month is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows User Profile Service.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2023

Security experts investigating 16Shop found the service used an application programming interface (API) to manage its users, an innovation that allowed its proprietors to shut off access to customers who failed to pay a monthly fee, or for those attempting to copy or pirate the phishing kit.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 25, 2021

This is partly due to how modern cyber-attacks are constantly evolving, making zero-day attacks more frequent and have proven to be the most devastating – SolarWinds and the Microsoft Exchange Server attacks are just two high-profile examples. appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Microsoft implements alerts for ‘nation-state activity’ in the Defender for Office 365 dashboard, to allow organizations to quickly respond. Since 2016 , Microsoft has been alerting users of nation-state activity, now the IT giant added the same service to the Defender for Office 365 dashboard.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 18, 2024

Microsoft has released a report detailing recent activity by Mint Sandstorm , an Iranian state-sponsored hacking group, targeting high-profile academics and researchers working on Middle Eastern affairs. Most notably, Microsoft analyzed a new custom malware dubbed MediaPl, which can exfiltrate data over encrypted channels.

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2024

. “The Federal Government’s national attribution procedure regarding this campaign has concluded that, for a relatively long period, the cyber actor APT28 used a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook that remained unidentified at the time to compromise numerous email accounts.” ” reads the announcement.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2023

An 18-year-old member of the Lapsus$ gang has been convicted of having helped hack multiple high-profile companies. ” Kurtaj had previously pleaded guilty to one count under the Computer Misuse Act and one count of fraud in relation to the BT, and to one count under the Computer Misuse Act for the hack of the City of London Police.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 6, 2022

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Intuit phish says “We have put a temporary hold on your account” The Quad commits to strengthening cybersecurity in software, supply chains Double-whammy attack follows fake Covid alert with a bogus bank call Microsoft Office zero-day “Follina”—it’s not a bug, it’s a feature! (It’s

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

In May 2015, KrebsOnSecurity briefly profiled “ The Manipulaters ,” the name chosen by a prolific cybercrime group based in Pakistan that was very publicly selling spam tools and a range of services for crafting, hosting and deploying malicious email. ZERO OPERATIONAL SECURITY. Bilal Waddaich).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2021

Microsoft, like Google TAG, observed a cyber espionage campaign aimed at vulnerability researchers that attributed to North Korea-linked Zinc APT group. Researchers from Microsoft monitored a cyber espionage campaign aimed at vulnerability researchers and attributed the attacks to North Korea-linked Zinc APT group.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Attackers compromise Microsoft Teams accounts to attach malicious executables to chat and spread them to participants in the conversation. While the popularity of Microsoft Teams continues to grow, with roughly 270 million monthly active users , threat actors started using it as an attack vector. ” continues the analysis.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 24, 2022

The LAPSUS$ threat group has had an attention-grabbing month, snaring high-profile victims like Microsoft, Okta , NVIDIA, Samsung and others. On March 22, Microsoft confirmed a substantial breach by the LAPSUS$ hacking group. The Victims: Microsoft, Okta, and Many Others. Who is the LAPSUS$ Hacking Group?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Microsoft has unveiled a new set of malware, known as MagicWeb in the wild and has concluded that the said malicious tool is the work of state-funded hacking group Nobelium that changes its trade crafts as per the machine status that they fraudulently access through cyber attacks.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2019

Buying heavily discounted, popular software from second-hand sources online has always been something of an iffy security proposition. Last week, KrebsOnSecurity heard from a reader who’d just purchased a copy of Microsoft Office 2016 Professional Plus from a seller on eBay for less than $4. Password Initial: (sent password).

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2022

After Microsoft published guidance on mitigating the two remote code execution flaws uncovered last week by Vietnamese security firm GTSC, it seems the mitigations Microsoft suggested weren’t as effective as the company had hoped. Updated Microsoft Guidance. Powershell.*” Scammers Take to GitHub.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Microsoft Regional Director. Online security, technology and “The Cloud” Australian.", Spoutible has a feature called Pods and when you browse to that page, people listening to the pod are displayed with the ability to hover over their profile and display further information. Pluralsight author.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 9, 2023

On Friday October 6, 2023, 23andMe confirmed via a somewhat opaque blog post that threat actors had "obtained information from certain accounts, including information about users’ DNA Relatives profiles." In 2019, Microsoft’s Alex Weinert wrote that “Based on our studies, your account is more than 99.9%

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 12, 2022

Microsoft yesterday released the first patch Tuesday security updates of the year 2022. Microsoft has a technology called Active Directory that allows workstations to authenticate with a “domain controller.” Along with the update comes an announcement of a new security update guide notification system. through 3.5.1

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2022

Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) announced the seizure of domains used by Iran-linked APT Bohrium in spear-phishing campaigns. Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) announced to have taken legal action to disrupt a spear-phishing operation linked to Iran-linked APT Bohrium. Middle East, and India. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Microsoft discovered a vulnerability in the TikTok app for Android that could lead to one-click account hijacking. Microsoft researchers discovered a high-severity flaw ( CVE-2022-28799 ) in the TikTok Android app, which could have allowed attackers to hijack users’ accounts with a single click. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2022

Microsoft Partch Tuesday security updates for April 2022 fixed 128 vulnerabilities, including an actively exploited zero-day reported by NSA. Ten of the 128 vulnerabilities fixed by Microsoft are rated Critical, 115 are rated Important, and three are rated Moderate in severity. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 1, 2022

Tripwire’s April 2022 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities for Microsoft, Google Chrome, Oracle, and Adobe. First on the patch priority list this month is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows User Profile Service.

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BH Consulting

MARCH 8, 2024

The situation is improving, and the proof is that we don’t have to look hard to find those doing outstanding work in security and data protection. We’ve chosen only some of these women to profile today. Government’s cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency (CISA) and is the first woman to hold the role.

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