Anton on Security

JANUARY 3, 2023

Weak passwords continued to be the most common factor at 41% of observed compromises. this data point is from 2020 , so treat this as a low boundary in 2023. . — this this data point is from 2020 , so treat this as a low boundary in 2023. It also reminds us that an unauthorized backup run is a solid indicator of compromise.]

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 10, 2021

The company does not believe the botnet is exploiting vulnerabilities in its software, it’s simply going after weak or default passwords using brute force guessing. In this case, if a password is guessed successfully, the device is infected with malware that will carry out additional attacks on other devices. StealthWorker.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2024

has charged a Chinese national for hacking thousands of Sophos firewall devices worldwide in 2020. has charged the Chinese national Guan Tianfeng (aka gbigmao and gxiaomao) for hacking thousands of Sophos firewall devices worldwide in 2020. Passwords associated with external authentication systems such as AD or LDAP are unaffected.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The startup started reporting the security incident to its customers that had their data accidentally exposed online, only users who registered on its platform before or on March 17, 2020, were impacted. ” The user details were contained in a file that appears to be an older backup. sent by the company to its users today. .

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The data leak was first reported by experts from the security firm Under the Breach , the full SQL backup contains , emails, hashed passwords, and other information. – Usernames, E-mails, Passwords and more. – Full SQL backup. Hacked due to exposed s3 AWS bucket.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In March 2020, KrebsOnSecurity alerted Swedish security giant Gunnebo Group that hackers had broken into its network and sold the access to a criminal group which specializes in deploying ransomware. ” It remains unclear whether the stolen RDP credentials were a factor in this incident.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2021

The malware moves all files stored on the device to password-protected 7zip archives and demand the payment of a $550 ransom. “The Multimedia Console, Media Streaming Add-on, and Hybrid Backup Sync apps need to be updated to the latest available version as well to further secure QNAP NAS from ransomware attacks.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Although technically OneDrive doesn’t fall under the umbrella of online backup software it can still be used to that end. In this article, you’ll learn how to backup files to OneDrive on a computer and mobile devices. How to backup computer to OneDrive OneDrive is a flexible tool. You still can backup your files.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Tape vendors have been promoting themselves as a solution to the ransomware problem because of their ability to provide air-gapped data backup, but trying to recover terabytes of data from a tape drive can be a little like, well, running into red tape. Q: Can you air gap a disk backup system? Tape vs. Disk: The Ransomware Issues.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2020

In the meantime, if you have any further questions please drop us a direct message, call us on 01329 750 630, or visit our FAQs webpage [link] — Aerial Direct (@Aerial_Direct) March 13, 2020. To reassure you, the database did not include any passwords or financial details, such as bank account number or credit card information.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

FBI is warning private industry partners of a surge in Ragnar Locker ransomware activity following a confirmed attack from April 2020. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a flash alert (MU-000140-MW) to warn private industry partners of an increase of the Ragnar Locker ransomware activity following a confirmed attack from April 2020.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

million in 2023, according to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report, and over 700,000 small businesses were targeted in cybersecurity attacks in 2020, according to the Small Business Association. Cloud vendors often handle the security and backup processes automatically, so examine your technology and see if that is the case.

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Spinone

MAY 8, 2020

On the world scene, 2020 has already been a challenging year for businesses across the board with COVID-19. Coupled with the current pandemic and the cybersecurity threats that have been very prevalent and growing in recent years such as ransomware, there are many different cyber risk types n 2020 that your business needs to prepare for.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2020

” Unfortunately, most organizations often neglect the protection of RDP accesses and workers use easy-to-guess passwords and with no additional layers of authentication or protection. Between December 2019 and until February 2020, the experts observed a number of attacks between 70,000 and 40,000 on a daily basis.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

“As a result, we lost the proxy and destination backup servers,” SPR explained. “We don’t know users’ balances, or your account logins or passwords, or the [credit cards] you purchased, or anything else! “Besides, now it’s impossible to open and decrypt the backend. ” SPR pleaded.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

“Experience in backup, increase privileges, mikicatz, network. In April 2020, Truniger was banned from two of the top Russian cybercrime forums, where members from both forums confirmed that Semen7907 was one of Truniger’s known aliases. Details after contacting on jabber: truniger@xmpp[.]jp.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

In another incident that occurred in March 2021, a ransomware attack blocked the operations at a US beverage company, while in a November 2020 attack on a US-based international food and agriculture business threat actors requested the payment of a gigantic $40 million ransom. Avoid reusing passwords for multiple accounts.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Microsoft AI researchers accidentally exposed 38TB of sensitive data via a public GitHub repository since July 2020. The Microsoft AI research team started publishing data in July 2020. 20, 2020 – SAS token first committed to GitHub; expiry set to Oct. ” reads the report published by Wiz.”The 5, 2021 Oct.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 22, 2021

To all those who are using QNAP storage devices for backup or file sharing purposes, here’s an alert that needs your attention. Qlocker Ransomware is not only accessing files by encrypting them with a password protected 7Zip archives ending with.7z 7z extension, but is also seen stealing data from the victim devices. BTC for each file.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2020

. “It appears that someone was able to breach the server through a shell in avatar uploading in the forum software and get access to our current database dating April 2, 2020,” said Ace. The data breach notice discovered by the data breach monitoring service Under the Breach.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2021

Leaked data includes names, e-mails, mobile numbers, encrypted passwords, user wallet details, order details, bank details, KYC details (PAN number, passport numbers) and deposit history. The researcher Rajshekhar Rajaharia analyzed the leaked data, it is a MongoDB database of 6GB that contains three backup files with BuyUcoin data.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

In 2020, the United States brought charges against four men accused of building a bulletproof hosting empire that once dominated the Russian cybercrime industry and supported multiple organized cybercrime groups. SALOMON As an affiliate of Spamdot, Salomon used the email address ad1@safe-mail.net , and the password 19871987gr.

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Hacker Combat

APRIL 22, 2022

increase on 2020 levels. Ransomware cost businesses and individuals $18 billion in 2020, with the average sum paid totaling $220,298 in the first quarter of 2021. 2 Backup your data. You could find yourself unable to access important information, passwords, and others. 7 Use strong and unique passwords. Conclusion.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2020

A series of messages published on Barnes & Noble’s Nook social media accounts state that it had suffered a system failure and is working to restore operations by restoring their server backups. 1/2 — NOOK (@nookBN) October 14, 2020. (2/2) — NOOK (@nookBN) October 14, 2020. Thank you for your patience.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

As we pointed out in our State of Malware report, published earlier this year, Malwarebytes recorded an eye-watering 607% increase in malware detections in the agriculture sector in 2020. Malwarebytes recorded a 607% increase in agriculture sector attacks in 2020. Avoid reusing passwords for multiple accounts.

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2020

Threat actors attempted to exploit a zero-day (CVE-2020-12271) in the Sophos XG firewall to spread ransomware to Windows machines, the good news is that the attack was blocked by a hotfix issued by Sophos. Passwords associated with external authentication systems such as AD or LDAP are unaffected. ” continues the report.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 1, 2019

NormShield found that all of the 2020 presidential hopefuls, thus far, are making sure their campaigns are current on software patching, as well as Domain Name System (DNS) security; and several are doing much more. Beyond Simple Passwords : Provides detailed information on keeping strong passwords and deploying two-factor authentication.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Instead of encrypting backup data, BlackMatter instead wipes it clean in some cases. Rather than encrypting backup systems, BlackMatter actors wipe or reformat backup data stores and appliances. Backup your data and put procedures in place for restoration. Choose unique, strong passwords. October 18, 2021.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The recently discovered Free Download Manager (FDM) supply chain attack, which distributed Linux malware, started back in 2020. The maintainers of Free Download Manager (FDM) confirmed that the recently discovered supply chain attack dates back to 2020. collect) that launches the /var/tmp/crond file every 10 minutes.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

“On May 24, 2020, we discovered a security incident affecting some of our systems. “Our investigation to-date has identified evidence of unauthorized access to our systems from approximately April 15, 2020 until May 24, 2020. . The company already sent a data breach notification to the impacted individuals.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Malwarebytes has been tracking the group since December 2020. But you should also realize that while it’s easy to say that you need reliable and easy to deploy backups, for example, it’s not always easy to follow that advice. Maintain offline backups of data, and regularly maintain backup and restoration.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 14, 2022

Zloader has a Domain Generating Algorithm (DGA) embedded within the malware that creates additional domains as a fallback or backup communication channel for the botnet. The primary goal of Zloader was originally financial theft, stealing account login IDs, passwords and other information to take money from people’s accounts.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2020

. “ we found that the InfiniteWP Client and WP Time Capsule plugins also contain logical issues in the code that allows you to login into an administrator account without a password.” The plugins are affected by logical issues that could allow attackers to log in as administrators without providing any password.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 22, 2024

Microsoft disclosed that it recently fell victim to a cyberattack by Nobelium, the Russian state-sponsored hacking group infamously responsible for the 2020 SolarWinds supply chain attack. In this case, an old fashioned 'password spray attack' worked just fine to let attackers in to read management emails.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2020

Use two-factor authentication with strong passwords. Recently the FBI has issued a security alert about Netwalker ransomware attacks targeting U.S. and foreign government organizations. Recently the Netwalker ransomware operators were looking for new collaborators that can provide them with access to large enterprise networks.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The gang has been active since at least 2020, threat actors hit organizations from various industries. Below are the recommended mitigations included in the alert: Implement regular backups of all data to be stored as air gapped, password protected copies offline.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2021

The threat actors are actively exploiting the following vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiOS: CVE-2018-13379 ; CVE-2020-12812 ; CVE-2019-5591. The joint alert also states that attackers scanning also enumerated devices for the CVE-2020-12812 and CVE-2019-5591 flaws. Implement the shortest acceptable timeframe for password changes.

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