Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2022

In early 2020, researchers found something weird going on with Linux servers hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS). In a perfect world, the firewalls of our servers would only allow web traffic in from trusted ports. In a perfect world, the firewalls of our servers would only allow web traffic in from trusted ports. How it works.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2021

According to Talos, the threat actor has been active at least since late 2018, experts observed intermittent activity towards the end of 2019 and through early 2020. Upon executing the fake installers, they execute the following pieces of malware on the victim’s system: A password stealer called RedLine Stealer.

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Hacker Combat

JUNE 2, 2022

In December 2020, the DoppelPaymer extortion gang exposed documents allegedly stolen from some of its databases in the United States. To detect attacks, scan all emails and conduct regular data backups. Configure firewalls to prevent rogue IP addresses from gaining access.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Ransomware frequently contains extraction capabilities that can steal critical information like usernames and passwords, so stopping ransomware is serious business. Just in 2020, the SolarWinds hack could’ve been prevented for organizations that promptly patch software. Offline Backups. Zero Trust. Statistics.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 2, 2022

Estimates on the amount of ransoms paid in 2020 run into the hundreds of millions of dollars. Failing to plan is planning to fail, as they say, and the symptoms of failing to plan are: Not having having an incident response plan Not making backups Not testing that your backups work Not keeping backups beyond the reach of attackers.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

OCTOBER 16, 2020

For example, if someone in your organization reuses their VPN password somewhere else, and there’s no multi-factor authentication setup, hackers could easily login to the VPN and have free rein over all of your organization’s information. link] — Shannon Vavra (@shanvav) June 24, 2020 So ACT today! million exposed RDP ports.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Bitdefender has been through two rounds of NSS Labs testing in recent years, scoring an A in 2020 testing (no vendor got higher than AA). A network firewall. Two-way firewall. Password manager. We’d also note that ransomware in particular requires unique data backup and recovery tools and services.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2020

It’s worth noting that despite the fact that Fxmsp stopped all public activity in late 2019, Group-IB discovered that a European energy company, that he was selling access to, fell victim to a ransomware attack in 2020. Then, he carries out brute-force attacks on the victim’s server to guess the RDP password.

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

NCC Group and Fox-IT observed this threat actor during various incident response engagements performed between October 2019 until April 2020. Credential theft and password spraying to Cobalt Strike. This adversary starts with obtaining usernames and passwords of their victim from previous breaches. Initial access (TA0001).

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Experts say the best defense is a multi-pronged network security strategy that includes a firewall, anti-malware software, network monitoring, intrusion detection and prevention (IDPS), and data protection. Always change the default passwords for any IoT devices you install before extended use. How to Defend Against a Backdoor.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 23, 2022

The DazzleSpy backdoor software had interesting features to foil detection, including end-to-end encryption to avoid firewall inspection as well as a feature that cut off communication if a TLS-inspection proxy was detected. Use web application firewalls to protect exposed web apps. Use strong passwords. Secure Assets.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Recent research by Positive Technologies looked at the cyber threat landscape during Q2 2021 and found that ransomware attacks reached “stratospheric” levels, accounting for 69% of all malware attacks, a huge jump from 39% in Q2 2020. Free Kaspersky Password Manager Premium. Automatic, secure 50 GB cloud backup.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 30, 2024

Centralize secrets and set storage to private: Keep API keys and passwords in a centralized, secure management system. Backup files: Regularly back-up public cloud resources. Use web application firewall (WAF): WAF screens requests based on IP addresses or HTTP headers, identifies code injection attempts, and defines response quotas.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

Remote desktop software’s sensitive influence over other devices means identity and access management (IAM), password security , and multi-factor authentication are critical for risk management. Like in the case of SolarWinds in 2020, masked threat actors aren’t afraid to linger for months during reconnaissance.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Security services and tools include anti-DDoS , SOCaaS , web application firewalls (WAF), data encryption , and more. Also Read: Top Web Application Firewall (WAF) Vendors. With the EDB PostgreSQL Advanced Server, clients gain features like password profiles, enhanced audit logging, and data redaction. Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Armis was acquired at a $1 billion price tag by Insight Partners in January 2020, joining Insight’s other cybersecurity subsidiaries like SentinelOne, Perimeter81, Mimecast, and Tenable. In addition to Cyber Vision, the Cisco IoT Threat Defense also includes firewalls , identity service engines (ISE), secure endpoints, and SOAR.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 19, 2023

Nping The Nping network package generator can be used for network stress testing, ARP poisoning, denial of service attacks, firewall rule testing, trouble-shooting, and more. Nping’s echo mode enables users to track how packets might be modified between source and destination hosts to understand firewall rules or detect packet corruption.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This is what you, a potential ransomware victim, need to know to protect your data and your business in 2020. It can be your login and password to your Office 365 or G Suite or some other information. A brute force attack is a method of gaining access to a site or server by cracking a victim’s password and/or username.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 6, 2021

After a series of highly publicized ransomware attacks this spring, the Kaseya attack most resembles the compromise of SolarWinds in late 2020. Backup data regularly. Like SolarWinds, both companies serve large B2B audiences, where Kaseya’s products produce hundreds of end products and services.

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Cytelligence

JANUARY 21, 2020

Between backup cameras, video screens, GPS systems, and Wi-Fi networks, they have more electronics stacked in them than ever. Stay Smart Home/IoT Safe in 2020. Here are ten things you can do to stay smart home/IoT safe in 2020: Change the default username and password. Always remember to change your passwords regularly.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2023

WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/84.0.4147.125 Safari/537.36 ” which has been observed by Sucuri repeatedly in compromised machine logs starting in late 2020 and well into the current period. Organizations should also enforce a strong password policy (complexity, 16+ characters, etc.), Windows NT 10.0; wc-ajax=1”.

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Fox IT

JUNE 23, 2020

WastedLocker is a new ransomware locker we’ve detected being used since May 2020. We believe it has been in development for a number of months prior to this and was started in conjunction with a number of other changes we have seen originate from the Evil Corp group in 2020. WastedLocker. CobaltStrike C&C Domains.

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SecureList

JUNE 15, 2022

I will buy accounts for access to corporate VPNs or firewalls (FortiGate, SonicWall, PulseSecure, etc.) For example, use of data from stealer logs or password mining. 2TB of 2020-2021 data: credentials related to banking accounts and the most popular services. Screenshot translation. or take them for further attack development.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Compromised Credentials Compromised identities from phishing, info stealers, keyloggers, and bad password habits provide the entry point for most ransomware attacks and data breaches. 583% increase in Kerberoasting [password hash cracking] attacks. 64% of managers and higher admit to poor password practices.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

For a quick look back, check out the 2020 and 2021 reports. Cloud misconfiguration errors related to public access to storage buckets, account permissions, password storage and management, unencrypted data stores, etc., Cloud threat insights 55.1% of organizations leverage more than a single cloud provider and 66.7%

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SC Magazine

MAY 13, 2021

The energy sector experienced a 74% increase in ICS vulnerabilities disclosed during the second half of 2020 compared to second half 2018. firewall rules, ACLs) in place to reduce the inherent risk. Despite the sensitivity of OT environments, many organizations use single-factor user names and passwords to access assets.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 8, 2020

It's not a discussion we should be having in 2020, a time of unprecedented regulatory provisions designed to prevent precisely the sort of behaviour I'm going to describe in this post. He also wrote about the other betting operators implicated in the database backups and how there appeared to be a common thread across them.

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