Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Ransomware operators are exploiting two VMWare ESXi vulnerabilities, CVE-2019-5544 and CVE-2020-3992, to encrypt virtual hard disks. Security experts are warning of ransomware attacks exploiting two VMWare ESXi vulnerabilities, CVE-2019-5544 and CVE-2020-3992 , to encrypt virtual hard disks.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Among those is CVE-2022-22005 , a weakness in Microsoft’s Sharepoint Server versions 2013-2019 that could be exploited by any authenticated user. The change will also be enabled for all currently supported standalone versions of Office, including versions 2021, 2019, 2016, and 2013.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 12, 2024

Meanwhile, Tel Aviv, Israel-based Cycode started in 2019 to deliver a secrets detection service; it subsequently evolved into supplying advanced ASPM technology, says regional sales manager Kyle Vanderzanden. For starters the ring is aimed at system administrators and senior executives, but could eventually go mainstream.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

The accused, 36-year-old John “Armada” Revesz , has maintained that Orcus is a legitimate “ R emote A dministration T ool” aimed at helping system administrators remotely manage their computers, and that he’s not responsible for how licensed customers use his product. An advertisement for Orcus RAT.

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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. companies, predominantly in the restaurant, gambling, and hospitality industries.” ” concludes DoJ.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Our investigation revealed that this remote endpoint is associated with criminal activities dating back to 2019, indicating that these hosts were likely under the control of the same technical administration. For instance: In September 2019, Cybereason found this hostname in old LockBit 2.0

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Malwarebytes

JULY 6, 2021

At 11:37 pm on the night of September 20, 2019, cybercriminals launched a ransomware attack against Northshore School District in Washington state. Early the next morning, Northshore systems administrator Ski Kacoroski arrived on scene.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

It was designed to make it convenient for system administrators to automate tasks and manage configurations across all Windows endpoints and servers in a company network. A privileged account provides access to sensitive systems and data bases and typically gets assigned to a system administrator or senior manager.

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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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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

GandCrab dissolved in July 2019, and is thought to have become “ REvil ,” one of the most ruthless and rapacious Russian ransomware groups of all time. “The command requires Windows system administrators,” Truniger’s ads explained. “Experience in backup, increase privileges, mikicatz, network.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

To better understand the nuts and bolts of a ransomware attack, we spoke to Ski Kacaroski, a systems administrator who, in 2019, helped pulled his school district out of a ransomware nightmare that encrypted crucial data, locked up vital systems, and even threatened employee pay. That’s just one week in late 2019.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 2, 2021

NSA states APT28 has been involved in this hacking campaign since 2019 and has so far targeted many of US and UK Organizations that include those involved in manufacturing, energy, defense, logistics, media, law, education and military and political sectors.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2019

Webmin is an open-source web-based interface for system administration for Linux and Unix. News of the day is that Webmin contained a remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-15107, for more than a year. ehakkus) August 11, 2019. AppSec_Village @defcon pic.twitter.com/VxLjqpBJPF — Özkan Mustafa Akku?

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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. . The Malware Threat behind CurveBall.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2022

CrowdStrike researchers reported that at least 13 telecommunication companies were compromised by the group since 2019. In order to identify CAKETAP running on a Solaris system, administrators can check for the presence of a hook installed in the ipcl_get_next_conn hook function.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2022

If the NAS is exposed to the Internet the dashboard will display the message “The System Administration service can be directly accessible from an external IP address via the following protocols: HTTP.”. Administrator of devices exposed to the Internet should: Disable the Port Forwarding function of the router.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

“Fast forwarded to October 11, 2019, our Anglerfish honeypot captured another suspicious ELF sample, and it turned out to be the Downloader of the previous suspicious ELF sample.” Webmin is an open-source web-based interface for system administration for Linux and Unix.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Disclosure timeline: 13th September 2019: We submitted the issue to product-security@apple.com 18th September 2019: Apple asked us the resend the screen shots 10th October 2019: Apple told us that they were planning to address this issue in a future update 30th October 2019: Apple released version 12.10.2

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 21, 2021

Most of the problems discovered by Pulse Secure and Mandiant involve three vulnerabilities that were patched in 2019 and 2020. The patched vulnerabilities are listed as: CVE-2019-11510 an unauthenticated remote attacker can send a specially crafted URI to perform an arbitrary file reading vulnerability. The old vulnerabilities.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

I had the chance to meet with him again at Black Hat 2019 in Las Vegas. 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.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 14, 2021

Looking at the urgency levels Microsoft has assigned to them, system administrators have their work cut out for them once again: 13 criticial patches 103 important patches. Windows 10, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016, and Windows Server 2019.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 20, 2021

Hladyr is the systems administrator for the FIN7 hacking group, and is considered the mastermind behind the Carbanak campaign , a series of cyberattacks said to stolen as much as $900 million from banks in early part of the last decade. The conviction. According to acting US Attorney Tessa M.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 22, 2021

And speaking from experience, the last GPS week number reset to zero occurred on April 6, 2019. It is also good for system administrators to make a mental note of the date October 24, 2021. Websites and services relying on expiring cookies do not respond favorably to cookies from two decades in the future.

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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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Malwarebytes

JULY 29, 2021

The attack could force remote Windows systems to reveal password hashes that could then be easily cracked. Microsoft quickly sent out an advisory for system administrators to stop using the now deprecated Windows NT LAN Manager (NTLM) to thwart an attack. Vulnerable systems. PetitPotam. ” New mitigation details.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

MB) [link] — Nick Carr (@ItsReallyNick) April 22, 2019. Hladyr is suspected to be a system administrator for the group. This CARBANAK work was in active development when whoopsed to VT from RU on 2017-04-19. kb3r1p.rar 879 files (15.03 MB) [link] apwmie.rar 24 files (5.93 ” reads a blog post published by FireEye.

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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. The post VRM Wishlist for 2019 appeared first on NopSec.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2023

The Makop criminals were recently using version 2.5.3869 of the tool, which dates back to 2019. In fact, Makop criminals are still using tools built back in 2019 and 2020 to compromise small and medium enterprises around the world. Advanced_Port_Scanner_2.5.3869.exe Everything is freeware software maintained by Voidtools.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The fix: System administrators are encouraged to install the Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Update 14 (CU14), which was issued in February 2024 and enabled NTLM credentials Relay Protection. Despite VMware’s three-year-old deprecation statement, unprotected systems remain at risk.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

MB) [link] — Nick Carr (@ItsReallyNick) April 22, 2019. Hladyr is suspected to be a system administrator for the group. This CARBANAK work was in active development when whoopsed to VT from RU on 2017-04-19. kb3r1p.rar 879 files (15.03 MB) [link] apwmie.rar 24 files (5.93 ” reads a blog post published by FireEye.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 15, 2019

In June 2019, Riviera Beach in FL paid $600,000 to hackers to restore its email system and public records. The potential security failure of a smart city initiative could have grave consequences. A report by US cyber-security firm Recorded Future published last May highlighted a spike in ransomware attacks targeting US cities.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

In January of 2019, Reuters published a report into Project Raven, a campaign allegedly conducted by former NSA operatives and aiming at the same types of targets as Stealth Falcon. The Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) service is a built-in component of the Microsoft Windows operating system.

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SecureList

JUNE 17, 2021

Black Kingdom ransomware appeared on the scene back in 2019, but we observed some activity again in 2021. Black Kingdom is not a new player: it was observed in action following other vulnerability exploitations in 2020, such as CVE-2019-11510. CVE-2019-11510. Product affected. Pulse Secure. March 2021. Microsoft Exchange Server.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 3, 2019

As highlighted in the 2019 Thales Data Threat Report , an increasing number of organizations across the globe are now using sensitive data on digitally transformative technologies like cloud, virtualization, big data, IoT, blockchain, etc. The second layer of the stack covers system-level protection controls. To Sum It Up.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 1, 2021

#PrintNightmare / CVE-2021-1675 – It appears patches might be effective on systems that are not domain controllers. RpcAddPrinterDriverEx call as non-admin fails with access denied against fully patched Server 2016 and 2019 non-DC, but after dcpromo the exploit works again.

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The RSA Conference USA 2019 held in San Francisco — which is the world’s largest cybersecurity event with more than 40,000 people and 740 speakers — is a decent measuring stick for representation of women in this field. While RSAC keynotes saw near gender parity this year, women made up 32 percent of our overall speakers,” noted Toms.

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

This tool was used as part of an ongoing campaign that we named “ TunnelSnake “ The rootkit was detected on the targeted machines as early as November 2019; and another tool we found, showing significant code overlaps with the rootkit, suggests that the developers had been active since at least 2018. Black Kingdom ransomware.

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