Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

” Since 2016 Microsoft continues to track nation-state activity against the email accounts of its customers, the IT giant warned of state-sponsored hacking campaigns originating from China, Russia, and Iran for years. Every time Microsoft experts have detected attacks from state-sponsored hackers, they have alerted users via email.

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Verizons Data Breach Investigations Report showed that 74% of security breaches involve a human element, with system administrators and developers accounting for most of these errors. We are seeing increased use of AI to automate attacks, including malware generation and phishing campaigns.

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Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Phishing is still one of the most common attack vectors, and the holidays provide an especially appealing time to launch an attack thats been supercharged by modern natural language processing models and novel QR codes. No industry is spared this phishing season, though some are targeted more often than others.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 9, 2024

In the past couple of weeks, we have observed an ongoing campaign targeting system administrators with fraudulent ads for popular system utilities. We have observed several different advertiser accounts which were all reported to Google. The lures are utilities commonly used by IT admins such as PuTTY and FileZilla.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 10, 2019

Wipro issued a media statement , via its Economic Times division, acknowledging “potentially abnormal activity in a few employee accounts on our network due to an advanced phishing campaign. One such go-to APT technique is to remotely leverage legit administrative tools to carry out malicious activities — under cover.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

CERT-UA warns of a spear-phishing campaign conducted by APT28 group targeting Ukrainian government bodies with fake ‘Windows Update’ guides. Most of the APT28s’ campaigns leveraged spear-phishing and malware-based attacks. The threat actors sent the messages from e-mail addresses created on the public service “@outlook.com.”

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 11, 2022

He writes about this in his book, "Ghost in the Wires": "I would call the company I'd targeted, ask for their computer room, make sure I was talking to a system administrator, and tell him, 'This is [whatever fictitious name popped into my head at that moment], from DEC support. Mitnick says his favorite emotional tool was fear.

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Digital Shadows

AUGUST 17, 2021

What is Phish(ing)? But, never mind the dozens of other reports and white papers about phishing that come out every year from security industry leaders, let’s take a look at the 2021 Verizon DBIR. Why should I care about Phish? The reason why phishing is still reigning supreme?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2023

The APT group has persistently refined its social engineering tactics, making its spear-phishing campaigns progressively harder to detect. If the target does not respond to the spear-phishing emails, the threat actors send a follow-up message a few days later.

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SiteLock

APRIL 7, 2022

In this article, we look at a few phishing kits that were recently found in customer sites and compare their structure and complexity. What Is A Phishing Kit? Everyone has heard of phishing emails and phishing sites, but what exactly is a phishing ‘kit’. Phishing Kit – Citi Group. First, the address bar.

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IT Security Guru

APRIL 12, 2022

The attackers target the legacy and insecure IMAP protocol to bypass MFA settings and compromise cloud-based accounts providing access to SaaS apps. The use of legacy protocols such as POP or IMAP, make it difficult for system administrators to set up and activate MFA. OAuth enables consent phishing in O365.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 2, 2021

The best evidence of this is how email has become a battleground where companies must continually defend attackers’ endlessly creative efforts to manipulate email to circulate malware and distribute phishing ruses. And threat actors have become adept at account takeovers. Attribute-based access.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 9, 2024

User data was stolen from Cisco Duo, a service that provides organizations with multi-factor authentication (MFA) and single sign-on (SSO) network access, as a consequence of a phishing attack targeting an employee of a third-party telephony provider. The breach allowed the threat actor to download SMS message logs. Why does it matter?

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 13, 2023

In one experiment, they asked WormGPT “to generate an email intended to pressure an unsuspecting account manager into paying a fraudulent invoice.” ” Just last week, Acronis reported that AI tools like ChatGPT have been behind a 464% increase in phishing attacks this year.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2021

FIN7, operating under the guise of Bastion Secure, published job offers for programmers (PHP, C++, Python), system administrators, and reverse engineers. The gang was looking for administrators to map out compromised companies’ networks and locate sensitive data, including backup.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The researchers found five different scripts that aim to set four CRON jobs, which are recurrent tasks you can program on a computer system. Two of them regard the current user and the rest are for the root account. How to Protect Against Shikitega. Advanced configuration hardenings are strongly recommended.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

It could be compromised directly or by hacking the account of someone with access to the website management. This way, with attackers switching to distributing malicious files via phishing emails, it has become more difficult to track the version of the user’s software, or how far the attack went.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The fix: System administrators are encouraged to install the Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Update 14 (CU14), which was issued in February 2024 and enabled NTLM credentials Relay Protection. Read our guide on privilege escalation attacks next to learn about the detection and prevention strategies for your privileged accounts and data.

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SecureList

MARCH 12, 2024

During one of the projects, an SQL injection into an application that was open to signup by any internet user let us obtain the credentials of an internal system administrator. An XSS attack against the application’s clients can be used for obtaining user authentication information, such as cookies, phishing or spreading malware.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

They’re known for their credit card malware and phishing campaigns. They targeted specific profiles such as system administrators who know how to map corporate networks, locate backups and identify users within a system, which are critical steps in ransomware attacks. Also read: How to Recover From a Ransomware Attack.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 2, 2018

Hladyr is suspected to be a system administrator for the group. According to the European authorities, FIN7 developed sophisticated banking trojan tracked as Cobalt , based on the Cobalt Strike penetration testing tool, that was spread through spear-phishing campaigns aimed at employees at different banks.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

These types of "unauthorized access" attacks account for 50% of all data breaches and can cost companies as much as $9.5M Companies need to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to combat account takeovers and tackle fraud at the front door and subsequently throughout their networks. dollars to remediate per incident.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Dominion simply uses “role based security” instead of normal user accounts. The auditors claim account passwords must “be changed every 90 days”. Ideally, accounts wouldn’t be created until they were needed. In practice, system administrators aren’t available (again, it’s an airgapped system, so no remote administration).

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Errata Security

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Dominion simply uses “role based security” instead of normal user accounts. The auditors claim account passwords must “be changed every 90 days”. Ideally, accounts wouldn’t be created until they were needed. In practice, system administrators aren’t available (again, it’s an airgapped system, so no remote administration).

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Customers invest significant time (and money) teaching their end users to spot and avoid phishing attacks, and our forthcoming changes will make sure that the Duo authentication experience can be customized to be as familiar as possible. Today, the Duo Prompt is available in English, French and German.

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NopSec

OCTOBER 19, 2015

These include spear phishing attacks and drive-by downloads; vulnerabilities that should be addressed to ensure external attackers cannot compromise an internal network. A NULL session attack is something that system administrators often neglect to consider when hardening networks. Pass-the-Hash.

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SiteLock

JANUARY 13, 2022

This can include any number of the following activities: Processing phishing data – They can set up your site as a phishing site or simply as a location to store data from a phishing site. If you use a CMS, we have a few specific pointers here specifically at WordPress, it applicable to all content management systems.

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Spinone

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

These are words that no system administrator or business leader wants to hear from anyone using a computer on their network. Starting out as a phishing email that masquerades as an applicant seeking a job, the email has a link to a Dropbox location that is supposed to contain the resume.

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Verizons Data Breach Investigations Report showed that 74% of security breaches involve a human element, with system administrators and developers accounting for most of these errors. We are seeing increased use of AI to automate attacks, including malware generation and phishing campaigns.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Social engineering attacks , including phishing, spam, and viruses introduced via clickable links within e-mail affected 80% of the banking institutions in 2016. VoIP phishing and impersonation also victimized millions of corporate employees across the world , contributing to an even greater cyber threat.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Here are the top Twitter accounts to follow for the latest commentary, research, and much-needed humor in the ever-evolving information security space. Kennedy founded cybersecurity-focused TrustedSec and Binary Defense Systems and co-authored Metasploit: The Penetration Tester’s Guide. Denial-of-Suez attack. — thaddeus e.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

A group of teenagers used social engineering to breach Twitter's network and take over the accounts of a whole bunch of A-listers. The teens also took over Twitter accounts of several cryptocurrency companies regulated by the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS). How did the Twitter account takeover attack work?

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Sending phishing emails to engineers can be used as an exploitation technique to get them to import malicious configuration files ( CVE-2023-31171 ), which results in arbitrary code execution. Business email compromise (BEC) assaults were the main aim of this large phishing effort, which resulted in significant financial losses.

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

All of these documents were blank, suggesting the existence of precursor documents – possibly delivered by means of spear-phishing or a previous infection – that trigger the download of the RTF files. com – all generated using RoyalRoad and attempting to exploit CVE-2018-0802. Notify your supervisors as soon as possible.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2025

” In both campaigns A and C, attackers used spear-phishing attacks, however, the two campaigns show notable differences in their malware and infection techniques. Campaign A relied on LODEINFO , a type of malware that infected systems primarily through malicious email attachments. .” reads the report published by NPA.“This

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