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Google blocked China-linked APT31’s attacks targeting U.S. Government

Security Affairs

The campaign took place in February and Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) team was not able to link it to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) director Shane Huntley confirmed that the IT giant was able to detect and block all phishing messages. government.

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New SLP Vulnerability to play catalyst to 2000x DDoS attacks

CyberSecurity Insiders

Assigned with an ID tag of CVE- 2023-29552, the flaw if exploited can impact over 2,000 organizations and can spill data from over 54,000 SLP instances…. now that’s interesting!

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UK government scanning all connected devices for cybersecurity lapses

CyberSecurity Insiders

NOTE- Any data thought to be personal or sensitive will be removed from analysis and tagged in such a way that capturing it in the future is next to impossible. Connected devices list includes routers, modems, gateways, hotspots, ethernet hubs, repeaters, bridges, and switch. .

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A week in security (February 13 - 19)

Malwarebytes

February's Patch Tuesday tackles three zero-days Four EU telco giants will start asking users if they want personalized targeted ads WordPress sites backdoored with ad fraud plugin Fake Hogwarts Legacy cracks lead to adware, scams Arris router vulnerability could lead to complete takeover Ransomware pushes City of Oakland into state of emergency TikTok (..)

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Recently disclosed CVE-2020-29583 Zyxel flaw already under opportunistic attack

Security Affairs

According to GreyNoise, the attacks are opportunistic exploitation of the Zyxel backdoor, threat actors are also crawling SOHO Routers exposed online. GreyNoise is observing both opportunistic exploitation of the newly discovered Zyxel USG SSH Backdoor and crawling of SOHO Routers.

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Wireless Security: WEP, WPA, WPA2 and WPA3 Explained

eSecurity Planet

Most network access control (NAC) solutions support wireless networks in addition to wired ones, and many Wi-Fi routers include access controls like allowlisting or denylisting. Update your router firmware from your router’s manufacturer and install them to ensure your router is up to date and secure.

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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

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. SocksEscort[.]com com , is what’s known as a “SOCKS Proxy” service. .” WHO’S BEHIND SOCKSESCORT?

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