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. The CVE-2018-15442 vulnerability could be exploited by an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands as a privileged user. and later prior to 33.0.5,

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Threat actors also exploited the exploit code for the CVE-2018-14847 vulnerability in MikroTik routers to recruit them in botnets such as Mirai and VPNFilter. Alexey is a Russian-speaking cyber vigilante that decided to fix the MikroTik routers and he claims to be e system administrator.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 20, 2021

In 2018 three high-ranking members of a sophisticated international cybercrime group operating out of Eastern Europe were arrested and taken into custody by US authorities. The arrest was announced by Europol on 26 March 2018. The arrest. Arresting the leader of that group did not stop the activities of the group though.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 19, 2022

Since 2018, one of the Lazarus Group’s tactics has been to disguse AppleJeus malware as cryptocurrency trading platforms for both Windows and Mac. CISA warns that it uses these trojanized applications to gain access to victims’ computers, to spread other malware, and steal private keys or to exploit other security gaps.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

The three vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2018-16056 , CVE-2018-16057 and CVE-2018-16058 affect respectively the Bluetooth Attribute Protocol (ATT) dissector, the Radiotap dissector, and the Audio/Video Distribution Transport Protocol (AVDTP) dissector components of Wireshark. “To

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

In January 2018 foreign authorities also arrested Fedir Hladyr in Dresden, Germany, he is currently detained in Seattle pending trial. Hladyr is suspected to be a system administrator for the group. In late June 2018, foreign authorities arrested Andrii Kolpakov in Lepe, Spain.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

In October 2018, prosecutors in the Southern District of California named four Adconion employees — Jacob Bychak , Mark Manoogian , Petr Pacas , and Mohammed Abdul Qayyum — in a ten-count indictment on charges of conspiracy, wire fraud, and electronic mail fraud. Amobee , the Redwood City, Calif.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The MATA malware framework could target Windows, Linux, and macOS operating systems, the malware framework implements a wide range of features that allow attackers to fully control the infected systems. “Our investigation revealed indications that point to Lazarus building supply-chain attack capabilities.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

Ensure that you have dedicated management systems [ D3-PH ] and accounts for system administrators. Enable robust logging of Internet-facing services and monitor the logs for signs of compromise [ D3-NTA ] [ D3-PM ]. Protect these accounts with strict network policies [ D3-UAP ].

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

In middle May 2018, both The New York Times and The Washington Post , revealed the name of the alleged source of the Vault 7 leak , the man who passed the secret documents to Wikileaks. Furthermore, CCI focused on building cyber weapons and neglected to also prepare mitigation packages if those tools were exposed.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

In January 2018 foreign authorities also arrested Fedir Hladyr in Dresden, Germany, he is currently detained in Seattle pending trial. Hladyr is suspected to be a system administrator for the group. In late June 2018, foreign authorities arrested Andrii Kolpakov in Lepe, Spain.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 28, 2022

Back in 2018 I made this statement: Dear %Companies%, A single security minded Sys Admin is worth more than a handful of pentesters. Rob Fuller (@mubix) June 14, 2018. System administrators usually know their systems very well. Finally lets get to the meat of this lesson. What are these tricks?

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

This skills deficit has been the top worry of IT pros for several years, according to tech consultancy ESG’s annual survey of IT pros; some 53% of the organizations participating in ESG’s 2018 -2019 poll reported a “problematic shortage” of cybersecurity skills. Digital transformation has only exacerbated this security skills gap.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 15, 2022

The two leaked Nvidia certificates have expired, being valid from 2011 to 2014 and 2015 to 2018. For system administrators, David Weston, Vice President of OS Security and Enterprise at Microsoft, has tweeted some guidance on how you can configure Windows Defender Application Control policies to control which Nvidia drivers can be loaded.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 2, 2018

In January 2018 foreign authorities also arrested Fedir Hladyr in Dresden, Germany, he is currently detained in Seattle pending trial. Hladyr is suspected to be a system administrator for the group. In late June 2018, foreign authorities arrested Andrii Kolpakov in Lepe, Spain.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 12, 2018

Nick Jovanovic, VP Federal of Thales eSecurity Federal (a division of TDSI), recently spoke with Federal Tech Talk’s John Gilroy about federal agency data security and key findings from the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report, Federal Government Edition. Federal Tech Talk, which looks at the world of high technology in the U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

Between 2016 and 2018, the malware strain SamSam made brute force RDP attacks an integral part of its attacks on several public organizations. By exploiting weak server vulnerabilities, the Iran-based hackers were able to gain access, move laterally, encrypt IT systems, and demand ransom payment. clinical labs company September U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

They targeted specific profiles such as system administrators who know how to map corporate networks, locate backups and identify users within a system, which are critical steps in ransomware attacks. The Gemini researchers reported that the company appeared legitimate in many respects, such as: job descriptions.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 23, 2018

Gartner predicts that the worldwide public cloud services market will grow 17 percent in 2018 to $287.8 billion, up from $246.8 billion in 2017. While the increase in cloud migration is by no means a new trend, we are seeing more and more organizations seeking cloud-like consolidation, whether on-premises or in a private or public cloud.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

According to Microsoft documentation ,msc files can be used for system administration. Attackers exploited this functionality to run commands on user systems: inside the.msc file, they specified the URI urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt and commands in JavaScript and VBScript.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

CVE-2018-1000861 : A vulnerability in the Stapler web framework used by Jenkins (technology for continuous delivery) to handle HTTP requests allows attackers to use crafted URLs to invoke public methods fraudulently. Most of these vulnerabilities have been around for years, but they are actively under attack. How to Use the CISA Catalog.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Yakubets is considered the leader of the gang behind the Bugat malware and botnet , the cybercrime group known as Evil Corp, while Turashev allegedly was tasked with other functions, including system administration, management of the internal control panel, and oversight of botnet operations.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 28, 2023

Some of these attacks are challenging to detect because they look like they could be the behavior of legitimate system administrators. To remedy this vulnerability, Adobe recommends installing Update 16 for ColdFusion 2018 and Update 6 for ColdFusion 2021. Threat actors can use WFP to escalate their privileges on Windows.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 28, 2023

Some of these attacks are challenging to detect because they look like they could be the behavior of legitimate system administrators. To remedy this vulnerability, Adobe recommends installing Update 16 for ColdFusion 2018 and Update 6 for ColdFusion 2021. Threat actors can use WFP to escalate their privileges on Windows.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

To top it off, cybercriminals make use of legitimate services that are meant to help system administrators, such as PSexec, which allows remote execution of programs. System administrators that take care of physical networks are no longer needed — with cloud services management being an easy task.

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NopSec

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Most of the time, network and system administrators are concerned about the availability of their network and systems because of the continuous vulnerability scanning pressure. I also observed in my discussions with clients that enterprise CMDB systems are rarely updated or effectively maintained.

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Kali Linux

MARCH 28, 2023

Being a system administrator, a patch could contain a security update to stop a vulnerability. In information security (infosec) there is the need to be on the latest version. This is often because: Being a developer, you may need the latest feature which has just been added.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 21, 2024

On Detection: Tactical to Functional Part 12 Introduction At Shmoocon 2015, Will Schroeder (Harmj0y) gave a talk titled “ I Hunt Sys Admins ,” describing how attackers can hunt (or find the location of) system administrators throughout the network.

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Digital Shadows

AUGUST 17, 2021

Going back a bit, it was also the top attack vector in 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, and well, hopefully, you get the picture. 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 !). Why should I care about Phish?

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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. According to Rezvesz himself, he is no stranger to the Canadian legal system.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

However, many years later was 2018. And in 2018, I bought five hover 100 of them on sticker mule, and took them to DEF CON. And, you know, I had the Twitter account ID set up in 2018. And it was about that time that a skateboarding is not a crime sticker came out was pretty popular. And think, you know, kind of fast forwarding.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Longtime network and system administrator Jack Daniel is a technology community activist, mentor, and storyteller. — Jack Daniel (@jack_daniel) October 10, 2018. jaysonstreet) March 3, 2018. — Kevin Mitnick (@kevinmitnick) January 20, 2018. Denial-of-Suez attack. Jack Daniel | @jack_daniel.

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

com – all generated using RoyalRoad and attempting to exploit CVE-2018-0802. In the vast majority of the incidents we discovered, FoundCore executions were preceded by the opening of malicious RTF documents downloaded from static.phongay[.]com Notify your supervisors as soon as possible.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 18, 2021

A placeholder man page for libcryptex(3) has literally nothing to say about the “Cryptex management library”, except an interesting detail: A copyright date of 19 October, 2018, suggesting that SSV had been in development for a long time before materializing as an end user feature. CPU security mitigation APIs.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 20, 2020

Someone compromised the entire Twitter network, probably by stealing the log-in credentials of one of Twitter's system administrators. Back in 2018, Twitter said it was exploring encrypting those messages, but it hasn't yet. Not a few people's Twitter accounts, but all of Twitter.

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