Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2021

The Ukrainian national Fedir Hladyr (35), aka “das” or “AronaXus,” was sentenced to 10 years in prison for having served as a manager and systems administrator for the financially motivated group FIN7 , aka Carbanak. Between 2014 and 2016 the group used a new custom malware dubbed Carbanak that is considered a newer version of Anunak.

System Administration 136

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

A baseboard management controller (BMC) is a specialized service processor that monitors the physical state of a computer, network server or other hardware device using sensors and communicating with the system administrator through an independent connection. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

“The vulnerability is due to a system account that has a default and static password and is not under the control of the system administrator.” ” An attacker could exploit the flaw by using this default account to connect to a vulnerable system and obtain read and write access to system data.

Software 139

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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. The agency thus becoming a one-stop shop for the hacking of all other players in the aerospace industry.”.

Hacking 90

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2018

A Russian-speaking hacker, who goes by the name of Alexey, claims to have hacked into over 100,000 MikroTik routers with a specific intent, disinfect them. Alexey is a Russian-speaking cyber vigilante that decided to fix the MikroTik routers and he claims to be e system administrator. Pierluigi Paganini.

Cryptocurrency 110

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2020

Using a previous version of Exim leaves a system vulnerable to exploitation. System administrators should continually check software versions and update as new versions become available.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – APT, hacking).

Software 138

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Security Affairs

JUNE 2, 2020

Security researchers from hacking firm Citadelo disclosed details for a new critical vulnerability in VMware’s Cloud Director platform, tracked as CVE-2020-3956 , that could be abused to takeover corporate servers. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2019

“The hacking campaign, known as “ Cloud Hopper ,” was the subject of a U.S. ” The report attributed the cyberespionage campaign to the China-linked APT10 (aka Menupass, and Stone Panda), the same group recently accused of hacking telco operators worldwide. SecurityAffairs – Cloud Hopper, hacking).

Identity Theft 109

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2020

“They exhibit extensive knowledge of systems administration and common network security misconfigurations, perform thorough reconnaissance, and adapt to what they discover in a compromised network.” ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2020

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. . Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The activity of the Lazarus APT group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks. This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2020

Users and system administrators are recommended to apply the latest security patches as soon as possible to prevent attackers exploiting them. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Researchers Ron Bowes and Jeff McJunkin of Counter Hack discovered a “high” severity command injection vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-15442 , in Cisco Webex Meetings Desktop. ” Cisco advisory reveals that the vulnerability could be exploited remotely by leveraging the operating system remote management tools.

Advertising 108

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Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2020

Researchers Rich Warren from NCC Group told ZDNet that hackers are attempting to exploit the flaw to steal administrator passwords from the hacked devices. System administrators need to upgrade to fixed versions ASAP. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

“They all come with a default username and “1234” as the default password, which is rarely changed by system administrators.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2018

The Center for Internet Security (CIS) has a reference that can help system administrators and security teams establish a benchmark to secure their Docker engine. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2019

Webmin is an open-source web-based interface for system administration for Linux and Unix. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – Webmin, hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

Passwords 98

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2020

Create, start, and terminate a new process and its primary thread Search, read, write, move, and execute files Get and modify file or directory timestamps Change the current directory for a process or file Delete malware and artifacts associated with the malware from the infected system. SecurityAffairs – hacking, BLINDINGCAN).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

CARBANAK cybercrime gang was first uncovered in 2014 by Kaspersky Lab that dated its activity back to 2013 when the group leveraged the Anunak malware in targeted attacks on financial institutions and ATM networks. Between 2014 and 2016 the group used a new custom malware dubbed Carbanak that is considered a newer version of Anunak.

Malware 93

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Summarizing, crooks extended the list of targets passing from Arm and MIPS-powered devices to Intel systems. . System administrators need to employ security best practices with the systems they manage.” ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

IoT 110

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In this type of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, the malicious traffic generated with the technique is greater than the once associated with the use of memcached, a service that does not require authentication but has been exposed on the internet by inexperienced system administrators. Brasília time, 1:00 p.m.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2018

. “A list of impacted users in those domains is being sent to system administrators, and we will reach out again if any additional impacted users or issues are discovered. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

One month ago, Cisco addressed the CVE-2018-15442 vulnerability, also tracked as WebExec by Counter Hack researchers Ron Bowes and Jeff McJunkin who discovered it. Cisco advisory reveals that the vulnerability could be also exploited remotely by leveraging the operating system remote management tools. and later prior to 33.0.5,

Advertising 91

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The Roboto botnet spreads by compromising systems by exploiting the Webmin RCE vulnerability tracked as CVE-2019-15107 to drop its downloader module on Linux servers running vulnerable installs. Webmin is an open-source web-based interface for system administration for Linux and Unix. ” reads the analysis.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2021

The Emotet banking trojan has been active at least since 2014, the botnet is operated by a threat actor tracked as TA542. “The lengthy delay for the cleanup routine to activate may be explained by the need to give system administrators time for forensics analysis and checking for other infections.”

Malware 111

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2019

US DoJ charged two Russian citizens for deploying the Dridex malware and for their involvement in international bank fraud and computer hacking schemes. 32) and Igor Turashev (38) for distributing the infamous Dridex banking Trojan , and for their involvement in international bank fraud and computer hacking schemes. Pierluigi Paganini.

Banking 95

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

Furthermore, when planning cloud-based service architectures, corporate system administrators need to evaluate various logging options offered by could service providers and integrate activity log data into existing risk detection flows. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

Administrators may consider using IP-based access control lists (ACLs) to allow only trusted systems to access the affected systems. Administrators can help protect affected systems from external attacks by using a solid firewall strategy. Administrators are advised to monitor affected systems.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

CARBANAK cybercrime gang was first uncovered in 2014 by Kaspersky Lab that dated its activity back to 2013 when the group leveraged the Anunak malware in targeted attacks on financial institutions and ATM networks. Between 2014 and 2016 the group used a new custom malware dubbed Carbanak that is considered a newer version of Anunak.

Malware 71

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) service is a built-in component of the Microsoft Windows operating system. The BITS service is used by programmers and system administrators to download files from or upload files to HTTP web servers and SMB file shares. ” concludes the report. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2019

2014), as described on the MMD blog when MMD detected 5 variants active under almost 15 panels scattered in China network. But let’s see what are the execution binaries and what an administrator will see because this analysis IS for rise the system administration awareness: Code execution: execve("/tmp/upgrade""); // to execute upgrade.

DDOS 109

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 2, 2018

Three members of the notorious cybercrime gang known as FIN7 and Carbanak have been indicted and charged with 26 felony counts of conspiracy, wire fraud, computer hacking, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft. Hladyr is suspected to be a system administrator for the group. Pierluigi Paganini.

Banking 65

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Andrea Pierini (@ decoder_it ) “Andrea is an IT Architect & Security Manager with long-term experience and in-depth knowledge covering all aspects of IT: from SW development to systems administration; networking administration and IT security. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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McAfee

OCTOBER 4, 2021

I was born and raised in Malaga, Spain, and spent a good part of my professional career in my home country until I moved to the US in 2014. Since 2014 I’ve had the pleasure to work very closely with super talented colleagues from our McAfee Enterprise teams in Argentina and Chile. My experience in the US has not been very different.

InfoSec 83

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Kali Linux

MARCH 28, 2023

Being a system administrator, a patch could contain a security update to stop a vulnerability. At one stage, Wireless hacking “was the thing”, so we needed to support injection on as many cards as possible. In information security (infosec) there is the need to be on the latest version.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

Rezvesz maintains his software was designed for legitimate use only and for system administrators seeking more powerful, full-featured ways to remotely manage multiple PCs around the globe. In 2014, the U.S. Tips from international private cyber security firms triggered the investigation.”.

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

Black Kingdom changes the desktop background to a note that the system is infected while it encrypts files, disabling the mouse and keyboard as it does so. | We hacked your (( Network )), and now all files, documents, images, databases and other important data are safely encrypted using the strongest algorithms ever. We Are Back ?

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