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This post includes the details of the Coronavirus-themed attacks launched from May 17 to May 23, 2020. Experts from the Microsoft SecurityIntelligence team provided some details on a new “massive campaign” using COVID-19 themed emails. Below a list of attacks detected this week. Pierluigi Paganini.
Analysis of the NIST National Vulnerability Database shows that security teams were under siege in 2020 defending against an unprecedented number of flaws. But we’re not here to harp on the problem – we want to propose a solution: Using securityintelligence to enable risk-prioritized vulnerability management.
Microsoft is actively tracking threat actor activity using exploits for the CVE-2020-1472 Netlogon EoP vulnerability, dubbed Zerologon. — Microsoft SecurityIntelligence (@MsftSecIntel) September 24, 2020. We strongly recommend customers to immediately apply security updates for CVE-2020-1472.
We’re seeing more activity leveraging the CVE-2020-1472 exploit (ZeroLogon). — Microsoft SecurityIntelligence (@MsftSecIntel) October 6, 2020. — Microsoft SecurityIntelligence (@MsftSecIntel) October 6, 2020. states Microsoft. We strongly recommend patching. Pierluigi Paganini.
The group works under the control of the Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB) foreign intelligence service. At the end of October 2020, the US-CERT published a report on Kimuskys recent activities that provided information on their TTPs and infrastructure. LNK shortcut files, disguised as Office documents.
pic.twitter.com/Q3BMs7fSvx — Microsoft SecurityIntelligence (@MsftSecIntel) May 27, 2020. Learn how to build organizational security hygiene to prevent human-operated attacks: [link] — Microsoft SecurityIntelligence (@MsftSecIntel) May 27, 2020.
I think there are four main trends that will play out in the field of informationsecurity in the next 20 years. The best example of the need for this is national level securityintelligence, reconnaisance, and vulnerability assessment. Here’s my talk on this topic at DEFCON in 2020.
The Finnish SecurityIntelligence Service ( SUPO ) warns Russia will highly likely intensify its cyber activity over the winter. The Finnish SecurityIntelligence Service ( Suojelupoliisi or SUPO ) warn of a highly likely intensification of cyberespionage activities conducted by Russia-linked threat actors over the winter.
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. We strongly recommend patching.
pic.twitter.com/EbI8kxICQG — Microsoft SecurityIntelligence (@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 SecurityIntelligence (@MsftSecIntel) May 4, 2020.
pic.twitter.com/mcRyEBUmQH — Microsoft SecurityIntelligence (@MsftSecIntel) January 30, 2020. pic.twitter.com/1qnx3NmwiB — Microsoft SecurityIntelligence (@MsftSecIntel) January 30, 2020. In contrast, past Dudear email campaigns carried the malware as attachment or used malicious URLs.
Microsoft SecurityIntelligence researchers uncovered a malware campaign that is spreading a remote access trojan (RAT) tracked as STRRAT. pic.twitter.com/mGow2sJupN — Microsoft SecurityIntelligence (@MsftSecIntel) May 19, 2021. STRRAT RAT was first spotted in June 2020 by G DATA who documented its features.
Researchers from AhnLab SecurityIntelligence 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.
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 SecurityIntelligence (@MsftSecIntel) September 22, 2020. ” reads that alert published by CISA.
pic.twitter.com/POppQ51uMX — Microsoft SecurityIntelligence (@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. Heaviest I can remember in some time. Shared templates in paste.
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 SecurityIntelligence (@MsftSecIntel) November 30, 2020.
Microsoft SecurityIntelligence 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 SecurityIntelligence (@MsftSecIntel) May 13, 2022.
American Airlines flight 718, a Boeing 737 Max, is seen parked at its gate at Miami International Airport as passengers board for a flight to New York on December 29, 2020 in Miami, Florida. A campaign of remote access trojans is targeting the aerospace and travel industries. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images). They change and are tailored.
To ease these burdens, SECaaS and SOCaaS vendors have emerged as cloud-based security as a service that can collect, analyze, and correlate your information from diverse systems and applications — turning former headaches into actionable informationsecurityintelligence. Security as a Service (SECaaS) .
Akamai’s SecurityIntelligence 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.
“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. reads the analysis published by Akamai. ” Likely DDoS extortion attacks. .
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 SecurityIntelligence (@MsftSecIntel) November 16, 2021.
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.” Microsoft Threat IntelligenceInformation Center (MSTIC) has uncovered activity by the threat actor PHOSPHOROUS, which has been masquerading as conference organizers and sending spoofed invitations by email to high-profile individuals.
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. The guidance provided above can help admins ensure container runtime security in Amazon EKS.
link] — Microsoft SecurityIntelligence (@MsftSecIntel) October 12, 2020. In this blog, we detail the evolution of Trickbot, associated tactics, recent campaigns, and dive into the anatomy of a specific attack. ” reads the post published by Microsoft.
Researchers from threat intelligence firm RiskIQ, using passive DNS data related to Knotweed attacks, linked the C2 infrastructure used by the malware since February 2020 to DSIRF. Confirm that Microsoft Defender Antivirus is updated to securityintelligence update 1.371.503.0 or later to detect the related indicators.
In March 2020, Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 accused the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of having hacked Chinese organizations for the last 11 years. In November 2019, ESET researchers discovered a new downloader, dubbed DePriMon, that used new “Port Monitor” methods in attacks in the wild.
Researchers from Microsoft SecurityIntelligence are also warning of the ongoing Halloween-themed Emotet campaign. #Emotet Daily Summary Post for 2019/10/31 – Halloween Party template used on E3, E2 was Banking/IRS/Invoice/etc spam and E1 was after ENG/ESP/FRA/PRT(BR) speakers with Invoice/Billing crap. Source Bleeping Computer.
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