Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2020

” Between 2018 and 2019 the researchers assessed 28 telecom operators in Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America and verifies the presence of the vulnerabilities in the GTP protocol. phone number) of a real subscriber and impersonate him to access the Internet. Faults in the GTP protocol directly impact 5G networks.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

internet service providers (ISPs) as part of a cyber espionage campaign code-named Salt Typhoon. internet service providers in recent months as part of a cyber espionage campaign code-named Salt Typhoon. internet-service providers in recent months in pursuit of sensitive information, according to people familiar with the matter.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

A security flaw in Exim mail servers could be exploited by local or remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with root privileges. The Exim development team has addressed a vulnerability in Exim mail server, tracked as CVE-2019-15846, that could be exploited by local and remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2019

Microsoft Patches Over 90 Vulnerabilities With August 2019 Updates. Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for August 2019 address more than 90 flaws, including two new ‘ wormable ‘ issues in Windows Remote Desktop Services. ” reads the security advisory for the CVE-2019-1181.”An

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Another year is ending and this is the right time to discover which are the worst passwords of 2019 by analyzing data leaked in various data breaches. Independent anonymous researchers, compiled and shared with security firm NordPass a list of 200 most popular passwords that were leaked in data breaches during 2019.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 8, 2021

CVE-2021-31959 affects everything from Windows 7 through Windows 10 and Server versions 2008 , 2012 , 2016 and 2019. For a quick visual breakdown of each update released today and its severity level, check out the this Patch Tuesday post from the SANS Internet Storm Center.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 22, 2022

A copy of the passport for Denis Kloster, as posted to his Vkontakte page in 2019. 2019, he obtained a visa from the American Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand. “Thanks to you, we are now developing in the field of information security and anonymity!,” info , allproxy[.]info It shows that in Oct.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

The bad side of all of these adventure is, now I have my research materials scattering around all over the internet during these past three years (smile). The post MMD-0063-2019 – Summarize report of three years MalwareMustDie research (Sept 2016-Sept 2019) appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Security experts at SafeBreach have discovered a vulnerability in McAfee antivirus software tracked as CVE-2019-3648 that could allow an attacker with Administrator privileges to escalate privileges and execute code with SYSTEM privileges. ” reads the analysis published by SafeBreach. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2019

Malware researchers at Cybaze-Yoroi ZLAB observed many attack attempts trying to spread malware abusing the CVE-2019-10149 issue. EW N030619 , CVE-2019-10149 ). Sigurdsson (Security Researcher), which abuses ToR network to distribute its payload, or also the 9th June wave which tried to download a particular Linux agent.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

In May 2019, Microsoft disclosed the BlueKeep vulnerability, more than a year later over 245,000 Windows systems still remain unpatched. Over a year ago Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for May 2019 addressed nearly 80 vulnerabilities, including the BlueKeep flaw. ” CVE Number of affected systems CVSSv3 CVE-2019-0211 3357835 7.8

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 24, 2023

The plea comes just months after Emelyantsev was extradited from Bulgaria, where he told investigators, “America is looking for me because I have enormous information and they need it.” Denis Kloster, as posted to his Vkontakte page in 2019. “Thanks to you, we are now developing in the field of information security and anonymity!,”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2020

107 million records include personal data and basic account information such as the user ID, number of Weibo tweets, number of followers and accounts users are following, account gender, geographic location and more. “Internet users found that 538 million Weibo user records are being sold on dark web marketplace.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2022

The infection chain starts with the installation of a tainted program downloaded from the Internet. The post Nitrokod crypto miner infected systems across 11 countries since 2019 appeared first on Security Affairs. The attackers used a scheduled tacks mechanism to implement delays between each stage of the infection chain.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2024

The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) warned of thousands of Microsoft Exchange servers in the country vulnerable to critical flaws. “Around 45,000 Microsoft Exchange servers in Germany can currently be accessed from the Internet without restrictions. ” reads the alert published by the BSI.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2020

National Security Agency (NSA) warned that Russia-linked APT group tracked Sandworm Team has been exploiting a critical vulnerability (CVE-2019-10149) in the Exim mail transfer agent (MTA). The two issues are: a remote code execution vulnerability tracked as CVE-2019-15846, it impacts version 4.92.1 through 4.92.2.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2020

An APT group is exploiting the flaws patched earlier this year in Firefox and Internet Explorer in attacks aimed at China and Japan. An APT group is exploiting two vulnerabilities patched earlier this year in Firefox and Internet Explorer in attacks aimed at China and Japan. ” concluded the report.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Security experts who reviewed the leaked data say they believe the information is legitimate, and that i-SOON works closely with China’s Ministry of State Security and the military. In 2021, the Sichuan provincial government named i-SOON as one of “the top 30 information security companies.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2020

Attackers frequently chain together web shells on multiple compromised systems to route traffic across networks, such as from internet-facing systems to internal networks” reads the document. Web shells can serve as persistent backdoors or as relay nodes to route attacker commands to other systems.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Massive DDoS attack brought down 25% Iranian Internet connectivity. OT attacks increased by over 2000 percent in 2019, IBM reports. Safer internet day – Cybercrime facts Infographic. Reading the 2019 Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) report. Fix it now!

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2020

“According to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), which provides the public with a means of reporting Internet-facilitated crimes, romance scams result in greater financial losses to victims when compared to other online crimes.” ” reads the alert published by the FBI.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2020

Experts at cyber security firm Cypher conducted a study on Portuguese domains during 2019 and concluded that Emotet and Ryuk were the most active threats. Emotet , the most widespread malware worldwide and Ryuk , a ransomware type, are growing threats and real concerns for businesses and internet users in 2020.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

The nation-state hackers are scanning the entire internet, in search of vulnerable webmail and Microsoft Exchange Autodiscover servers that expose TCP ports 445 and 1433. In May 2019, the experts noticed that the group started using hacked email addresses of numerous high-profile targets to send credential spam messages.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2021

ClearSky experts linked the Lebanese Cedar group to intrusions at telco companies, internet service providers, hosting providers, and managed hosting and applications companies. The activities of the group were first spotted by Check-Point and Kaspersky labs in 2015. CVE-2012-3152).

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2019

Experts at Intezer researchers have spotted a strain of the Linux mining that also scans the Internet for Windows RDP servers vulnerable to the Bluekeep. ” The vulnerability , tracked as CVE-2019-0708, impacts the Windows Remote Desktop Services (RDS) and was addressed by Microsoft with May 2019 Patch Tuesday updates. .

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2019

Hackers are targeting millions of mail servers running vulnerable Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) versions, threat actors leverage the CVE-2019-10149 flaw. Millions of mail servers running vulnerable Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) versions are under attack, threat actors are exploiting the CVE-2019-10149 flaw to take over them.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Cyber threat analysts at Silent Push said they recently received reports from a partner organization that identified an aggressive scanning effort against their website using an Internet address previously associated with a campaign by FIN7 , a notorious Russia-based hacking group. ” Orn advertising Araneida Scanner in Feb.

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Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The idea was that it’d be some massive blast that would take out the country’s power grid, or disable the entire internet, along with what they used to call e-commerce. SafetyDetectives reports the average cost of a ransomware-caused downtime incident has risen from $46,800 in 2018, to $141,000 in 2019, to $283,800 in 2020.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

In 2019, Meta disclosed that it had inadvertently stored some users’ passwords in plaintext on its internal systems, without encrypting them. “As part of a routine security review in January, we found that some user passwords were being stored in a readable format within our internal data storage systems.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2020

The intrusion into the Potsdam administration’s servers was discovered on Tuesday, and on Wednesday evening systems were disconnected from the Internet to contain the infection and prevent data exfiltration. ” reads the advisory published by the City of P o tsdam. ” reads the update.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 7, 2021

Through the network, if, for instance, a home WiFi network shuts down, the Amazon smart devices connected to that home network will still be able to function, as they will be borrowing internet connectivity from neighboring products. link] — Whitney Merrill (@wbm312) May 30, 2021.

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2019

Even a device that is reaching outbound to the internet could be attacked and taken over. “ According to Shodan , there are over 808K SonicWall firewalls connected to the Internet, representing a similar number of networks that these devices defend.” ” reads the report published by Armis Labs.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

. “PIONEER KITTEN tradecraft is characterized by a pronounced reliance on exploits of remote external services on internet-facing assets to achieve initial access to victims, as well as an almost total reliance on open-source tooling during operations.” ” reads the report published by Crowdstrike.

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Daniel Miessler

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

I think there are four main trends that will play out in the field of information security in the next 20 years. I think there are four main trends that will play out in the field of information security in the next 20 years. ISC) 2 says there were over 4 million too few cybersecurity people in 2019.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

The protocol is used to connect, search, and modify shared internet directories, a CLDAP DDoS can amplify traffic to 70 times its volume. AWS researchers observed a +10% increase in the total number of events compared with Q4/2019, while the largest bit rate (Tbps) passed from 0,6 in Q4/2019 to 2,3 in Q1/2020.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

“The exploitation of the vulnerabilities translates to dangerous attack vectors against many IoT products released in 2018-2019. At first glance, most of the vulnerabilities affect product’s availability by allowing them to be remotely restarted, deadlocked or having their security bypassed. “continues the experts.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2020

“On May 29, 2020, Unit 42 researchers discovered a new variant of a hybrid cryptojacking malware from numerous incidents of CVE-2019-9081 exploitation in the wild.” ” reads the report published by the Unit42 team. “Lucifer is quite powerful in its capabilities.

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