eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Also Read: 4 Best Antivirus Software of 2022. Virtual Private Networks (VPNs). A virtual private network (VPN) takes a public internet connection (i.e. Less-promoted uses for VPNs include accessing restricted sites in authoritarian countries and masking illegal activities. Key Features of a VPN. Back to top.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 18, 2022

Breached accounts were analyzed according to the country’s origin, and the actual time the breach was recorded. Q4 has seen an 81 percent drop in exposed accounts (44.2 The US topped the charts in exposed accounts this quarter with two out of 100 American internet users affected. Good start to 2022. million). •Q1

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

million customers, including website administrator passwords, sFTP credentials, and private SSL keys; -December 2022: Hackers gained access to and installed malware on GoDaddy’s cPanel hosting servers that “intermittently redirected random customer websites to malicious sites.” A U2F device made by Yubikey.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2022

Twice in the past month KrebsOnSecurity has heard from readers who’ve had their accounts at big-three credit bureau Experian hacked and updated with a new email address that wasn’t theirs. In both cases the readers used password managers to select strong, unique passwords for their Experian accounts.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2022

Proof-of-concept exploits for the critical CVE-2022-26134 vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence and Data Center servers are available online. Proof-of-concept exploits for the critical CVE-2022-26134 flaw, affecting Atlassian Confluence and Data Center servers, have been released. Make sure to patch & put behind a vpn!

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2022

The 911 service as it existed until July 28, 2022. But some of them — like 911 — build their networks in part by offering “free VPN” or “free proxy” services that are powered by software which turns the user’s PC into a traffic relay for other users. “Not sure how did the hacker get in,” the 911 message reads.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 16, 2023

A Russian man identified by KrebsOnSecurity in January 2022 as a prolific and vocal member of several top ransomware groups was the subject of two indictments unsealed by the Justice Department today. prosecutors say Mikhail Pavolovich Matveev , a.k.a. “Mother Russia will help you,” Wazawaka concluded. 17, 1992).

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

According to the analytical agency Newzoo, in 2022, the global gaming market will exceed $ 200 billion , with 3 billion players globally. One of the most outstanding examples involves $2 million ‘s worth of CS:GO skins stolen from a user’s account , which means that losses can get truly grave.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Wazawaka has since “lost his mind” according to his erstwhile colleagues, creating a Twitter account to drop exploit code for a widely-used virtual private networking (VPN) appliance, and publishing bizarre selfie videos taunting security researchers and journalists. Wazawaka, a.k.a. Matveev, a.k.a.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2022

The smash-and-grab attacks by LAPSUS$ obscure some of the group’s less public activities, which according to Microsoft include targeting individual user accounts at cryptocurrency exchanges to drain crypto holdings. The group of teenagers who hacked Twitter hailed from a community that traded in hacked social media accounts.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 20, 2023

3CX hired incident response firm Mandiant , which released a report on Wednesday that said the compromise began in 2022 when a 3CX employee installed a malware-laced software package distributed via an earlier software supply chain compromise that began with a tampered installer for X_TRADER , a software package provided by Trading Technologies.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Researchers at Cyble have observed initial access brokers (IABs) selling access to enterprise networks likely compromised via a recently patched critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-40684 , in Fortinet products. A proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code for the CVE-2022-40684 flaw has been released online. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2023

Earlier today, incident response firm Mandiant revealed that since at least October 2022, Chinese cyber spies have been exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in many email security gateway (ESG) appliances sold by California-based Barracuda Networks to hoover up email from organizations using these devices. “Patch your #Fortigate.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2022

On March 22, 2022 night the group shared a torrent for a 7zip archive containing 9 GB of Microsoft source code. Microsoft has now confirmed that the attackers have compromised the account of one of its employees gaining limited access to source code repositories. . No customer code or data was involved in the observed activities.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This is our latest installment, focusing on activities that we observed during Q3 2022. We can confirm a Maui ransomware incident in 2022, but we would expand their “first seen” date from the reported May 2021 to April 15, 2021, and the geolocation of the target to Japan and India. The most remarkable findings.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. The homepage of Stark Industries Solutions.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 2, 2022

The Atlas VPN report said the number of new Linux malware samples collected soared by 646% from the first half of 2021 to the first half of 2022, from 226,334 samples to nearly 1.7 Windows still leads overall due to its commanding market share, accounting for 41.4 million malware samples in the first half of 2022.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 10, 2022

In this February 2022 ransomware review, we go over some the most successful ransomware incidents based on both open source and dark web intelligence. Observed since: February 2022 Ransomware note: read_me.html Ransomware extension: <original file name> [vote2024forjb@protonmail[.]com].encryptedJB SFile (Escal). LockBit 2.0.

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The Hacker News

AUGUST 11, 2022

Networking equipment major Cisco on Wednesday confirmed it was the victim of a cyberattack on May 24, 2022 after the attackers got hold of an employee's personal Google account that contained passwords synced from their web browser.

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Fox IT

DECEMBER 28, 2022

CVE-2022-27510 – Unauthorized access to Gateway user capabilities. On November 8th 2022, Citrix published a security bulletin for CVE-2022-27510 , a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Citrix ADC (formerly known as NetScaler) and Citrix Gateway. nc, Date: Sep 23 2022, 13:12:49 (64-bit) Done.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 6, 2022

They often use their own devices and resort to simple obfuscation strategies like a VPN. They try rigging the system by reusing or stacking coupons, sometimes setting up multiple accounts to get more than what’s allowed. The post Five Fraud Trends To Watch Out for in the 2022 Holiday Season appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

This report uses anonymous statistics collected between August 2021 and August 2022 by the Do Not Track component, which blocks loading of web trackers. That service, too, accounts for a fairly large share of DNT detections across the world. Statistics collection principles. Its smallest share was in the CIS: 9.06%.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2022

This exposure of sensitive credential and network access information, especially privileged user accounts, could lead to subsequent cyber attacks against individual users or affiliated organizations.” In 2017, crooks launched a phishing campaign against universities to compromise.edu accounts.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2022

The investigation conducted by Cisco Security Incident Response (CSIRT) and Cisco Talos revealed that threat actors compromised a Cisco employee’s credentials after they gained control of a personal Google account where credentials saved in the victim’s browser were being synchronized. ” reads the analysis published by Cisco Talos.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In Q3 2022, Kaspersky researchers uncovered a previously undocumented Android spyware, dubbed SandStrike, employed in an espionage campaign targeting the Persian-speaking religion minority, Bahá?í. The threat actors were distributing a VPN app embedding a highly sophisticated spyware. í religion that are banned in Iran.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

They must be convoluted to be any good, which means they’re difficult to remember, especially since the average person has to juggle passwords to access dozens of online accounts. Credential stuffing has enabled criminal hacking rings to turbo-charge their malware spreading and account hijacking campaigns.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 3, 2023

2021 saw a massive increase in phishing attacks , and that trend has continued into 2022. Since many people use the same passwords across social media platforms and for sites for banks or credit cards, a criminal needs access to just one account to gain access to every account.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Vicarius Vulnerability management 2022 Private Dragos ICS and OT security 2021 Private Safeguard Cyber Risk management 2021 Private CyberGRX Risk management 2019 Private Signifyd Fraud protection 2018 Private RedOwl Security analytics 2015 Acquired: Forcepoint. AllegisCyber Investments. Insight Investments.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

For example, a popular tactic in spyware attacks is now to send phishing e-mails from compromised corporate mail accounts of a partner organization of the intended victim. Update firewalls and SSL VPN gateways in good time. And for some companies, the consequences of a security compromise in 2021 will catch up with them only in 2022.

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DoublePulsar

JANUARY 15, 2025

Each folder then contains an IP address, and each IP address contains config.confa full Fortigate config dumpand vpn-users.txt, a plaintext list of credentials. The data appears to have been assembled in October 2022, as a zero day vuln. 2022 zero day was used to raid Fortigate firewall configs. Somebody just released them.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 14, 2022

In other words, 2022 has been an eventful year in the threat landscape, with malware continuing to take center stage. The 6 Nastiest Malware of 2022. 2022 was no different. 2022 was no different. With that, here are the 6 Nastiest Malware of 2022. Here are this year’s wicked winners.

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Heimadal Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The American technology giant, Cisco, confirmed that the data leaked by Yanluowang ransomware gang on September 11, 2022, is authentic. The company’s network has been breached through the VPN account of an employee. The data now released on the dark web was stolen in a cyberattack in May, this year.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

These days, users need an ever-growing number of online accounts to stay connected with their friends, colleagues, and employers. With these tools, all passwords for an account are stored in a unique, encrypted vault only accessible using a key that the individual user possesses. Intuitive interface. Read more: Dashlane Review.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2024

Since 2011, Wang and his co-conspirators had been distributing malware through malicious VPN applications, including MaskVPN, DewVPN, PaladinVPN, ProxyGate, ShieldVPN, and ShineVPN. The FBI has published information at fbi.gov/911S5 to help identify and remove 911 S5’s VPN applications from your devices or machines.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2025

After years of low-profile IT work and self-study, his activity paused in 2022, likely due to jail time. He reused weak passwords across accounts, failed to enable or secure 2FA, mixed personal and criminal activity, and left critical files exposed on poorly secured servers.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Every year is abundant with major data leaks, biggest data breaches and hacks drawing massive media attention (such as Medibank and Optus data breach, Twitter data breach, and Uber and Rockstar compromise in 2022 and in T-Mobile , MailChimp and OpenAI in 2023). But are we really conscious of the true scale of the threat?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The investigation conducted by Cisco Security Incident Response (CSIRT) and Cisco Talos revealed that threat actors compromised a Cisco employee’s credentials after they gained control of a personal Google account w here credentials saved in the victim’s browser were being synchronized. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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