Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2021

Microsoft Security Intelligence researchers uncovered a malware campaign that is spreading a remote access trojan (RAT) tracked as STRRAT. pic.twitter.com/mGow2sJupN — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) May 19, 2021. STRRAT RAT was first spotted in June 2020 by G DATA who documented its features.

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2020

Experts from the Microsoft Security Intelligence team provided some details on a new “massive campaign” using COVID-19 themed emails. Researchers from the Microsoft Security Intelligence team provided some details on a new massive phishing campaign using COVID-19 themed emails. macros in malware campaigns.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

Researchers from AhnLab Security Intelligence Center (ASEC) observed North Korea’s Kimsuky APT group conducting spear-phishing attacks to deliver forceCopy info-stealer malware. The group works under the control of the Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB) foreign intelligence service.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

pic.twitter.com/YpUVEfmlUH — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) November 16, 2020. — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) November 16, 2020. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Office 365). This unique subdomain is added to a set of base domains, typically compromised sites.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

pic.twitter.com/mcRyEBUmQH — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) January 30, 2020. TA505 hacking group has been active since 2014 focusing on Retail and banking sectors. pic.twitter.com/1qnx3NmwiB — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) January 30, 2020.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The Zerologon vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-1472 , is an elevation of privilege that resides in the Netlogon. Administrators of enterprise Windows Servers have to install the August 2020 Patch Tuesday to mitigate “unacceptable risk” posed by the flaw to federal networks. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Zerologon).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

— Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) August 26, 2020. SecurityAffairs – hacking, malware). The post Anubis, a new info-stealing malware spreads in the wild appeared first on Security Affairs. Anubis has been around since June when it appeared on several cybercrime forums. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2020

COVID-19 themed phishing campaigns recently observed by Microsoft was using messages with subject lines like “BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLAN ANNOUNCEMENT STARTING MAY 2020.” SecurityAffairs – COVID-19, hacking). The post Crooks continues to use COVID-19 lures, Microsoft warns appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The alert published by CISA was based on data provided by the Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) and the CISA itself since July 2020. pic.twitter.com/POppQ51uMX — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) September 22, 2020. SecurityAffairs – hacking, CISA).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

pic.twitter.com/POppQ51uMX — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) September 22, 2020. ” #Emotet AAR for 2020/09/22: Well yesterday was kinda nuts with nearly 400 malspams received with the majority being attachment on 60/40 basis. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Emotet). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2020

The notorious Emotet went into the dark since February 2020, but now has surged back with a new massive spam campaign targeting users worldwide. Emotet AAR for 2020/07/17- Well played Ivan, I dont usually do a Friday report but I did one just for you <3. link] — Joseph Roosen (@JRoosen) July 18, 2020. TNW and Be safe!

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2020

New blog: The threat actor BISMUTH, which has been running increasingly complex targeted attacks, deployed coin miners in campaigns from July to August 2020. Learn how the group tried to stay under the radar using threats perceived to be less alarming: [link] — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) November 30, 2020.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2020

pic.twitter.com/EbI8kxICQG — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) May 4, 2020. The attachment is a ZIP archive containing the familiar ISO file carrying a malicious SCR file with misleading icon pic.twitter.com/o1FbMUbTBs — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) May 4, 2020.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2022

Microsoft Security Intelligence team Microsoft reported that a new variant of the Sysrv botnet, tracked as Sysrv-K, now includes exploits for vulnerabilities in the Spring Framework and WordPress. — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) May 13, 2022. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Sysrv botnet).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

— Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) April 28, 2020. ” reads the Tweet published by the Microsoft Security Intelligence team. . ” reads the Tweet published by the Microsoft Security Intelligence team.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2024

Akamai’s Security Intelligence and Response Team (SIRT) has detected a botnet campaign exploiting multiple previously known vulnerabilities and a newly discovered zero-day, tracked as CVE-2024-7029 (CVSS score: 8.7), in AVTECH CCTV cameras. . ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Over the past year, Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has observed an evolution of the tools, techniques, and procedures employed by Iranian nation-state actors. Learn more from this blog summarizing these trends, as presented at #CyberWarCon : [link] — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) November 16, 2021.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2021

Business email compromise (BEC) attacks represent a serious threat for organizations worldwide, according to the annual report released by FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center , the 2020 Internet Crime Report , in 2020, the IC3 received 19,369 Business Email Compromise (BEC)/Email Account Compromise (EAC) complaints.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2021

“The most recent extortion attack — peaking at more than 800 Gbps and targeting a European gambling company — was the biggest and most complex we’ve seen since the widespread return of extortion attacks that kicked off in mid-August 2020. SecurityAffairs – hacking, ransom DDoS). ” Likely DDoS extortion attacks.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2021

Across the years, the researchers found analyzed multiple backdoors and hacking tools composing the arsenal of the cyberespionage group. Researchers at company firm Symantec reportedly linked the CIA hacking tools to a number of cyber attacks launched in recent years by a threat actor the company identified as the Longhorn group. “The

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Indeed, Infosecurity Magazine shared an April 2020 survey that arrived at the following results: Nearly half (45%) of respondents said that they did not consider reusing their passwords to be a serious problem. In an article for Security Intelligence , I said, “ the password doesn ’ t matter.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2020

pic.twitter.com/V2JcZg2kjt — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) April 17, 2020. This week’s campaign uses several hundreds of unique macro-laced document attachments in emails that pose as message from a non-profit offering free COVID-19 test.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 18, 2020

“It doesn’t seem like we’ve moved the needle on security at all,” says Tim Woods, vice president of technology alliances at FireMon, the leading provider of automated network security policy management systems. I had the chance to visit with Woods at RSAC 2020 in San Francisco recently. Meanwhile, 73.5

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2022

Microsoft states that multiple news reports have linked the company to the Subzero malware toolset used to hack a broad range of devices, phones, computers, and network and internet-connected devices. Confirm that Microsoft Defender Antivirus is updated to security intelligence update 1.371.503.0 Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2020

link] — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) October 12, 2020. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Trickbot). The post Microsoft partnered with other security firms to takedown TrickBot botnet appeared first on Security Affairs. ” reads the post published by Microsoft. Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 4, 2021

percent of all malware detected on networks of WatchGuard Technologies customers in the second quarter came over encrypted connections, raising the security risk for the 80 percent of such organizations that lack processes for decrypting and scanning HTTPS traffic for threats. A surprising 91.5

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Organizations and security incidents in Kubernetes environments, these are 5 key components of the control plane that demand special attention. Organizations are no strangers to security incidents in their Kubernetes environments. For information on how to secure that part of a Kubernetes cluster, click here. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SC Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2021

Many more companies and organizations have been hacked and that valuable information was stolen over periods of months and years, ClearSky researchers wrote in a blog posted.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2021

In the 2020 Cloud Native Survey , 91% of respondents told the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) that they were using Kubernetes—an increase from 78% in 2019 and 58% a year earlier. For more information about other aspects of Amazon EKS security, click here. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Microsoft Exchange).

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Jane Frankland

AUGUST 18, 2020

Whilst this is concerning, when talking to executives outside of security, like I did on a recent masterclass with Nowcomm , it’s vital they understand of the following: 1. These days, hacking as a service is cheap. Security intelligence comes with a high pay off. All attacks are not sophisticated.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 27, 2022

Dashlane Password Manager provides companies with everything they need to onboard new employees, manage permissions and monitor security issues all from one place. It also includes advanced features such as SAML-based single sign-on (SSO) and the company's security architecture has never been hacked. Learn more about Dashlane.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Researchers from Microsoft Security Intelligence are also warning of the ongoing Halloween-themed Emotet campaign. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Emotet). The post Emotet operators are running Halloween-themed campaigns appeared first on Security Affairs. Enable Edition template mostly used. Source Bleeping Computer.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 15, 2022

Aleksei Burkov , a cybercriminal who long operated two of Russia’s most exclusive underground hacking forums, was arrested in 2015 by Israeli authorities. In June 2020, Burkov was sentenced to nine years in prison. government went to secure Burkov’s arrest.” Image: Andrei Shirokov / Tass via Getty Images.

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