Accountability System Administration Threat Detection 
CyberSecurity Insiders
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
He is also looking for opportunities to collect additional access parameters (usernames and passwords), elevate privileges, or use already existing compromised accounts for unauthorized access to systems, applications, and data. Cybercriminals may also perform some destructive actions aimed at data or systems.
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, 2020
The PerSwaysion campaign proliferates with alarming rates by leveraging compromised accounts’ email data to select further targets who hold important roles in their companies and share business relations with the victims. New round of phishing attempts leveraging current victim’s account usually takes less than 24 hours.
eSecurity Planet
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Privileged accounts are among an organization’s biggest cybersecurity concerns. These accounts give admins control over data, applications, infrastructure and other critical assets that average system users don’t have permission to access or change. What is Privileged Access Management (PAM)? WALLIX Bastion. PAM best practices.
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. Attackers target Citrix with insecure legacy protocols.
SecureWorld News
JUNE 18, 2020
Shared passwords and a failure to control access: "Most of our sensitive cyber weapons were not compartmented, users shared systems administrator-level passwords.". Because no one had that ability, no one was accountable—and the mission system in question, like others, lacked appropriate security.".
CyberSecurity Insiders
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
If any potentially hazardous characters must be allowed as input, be sure that you implement additional controls like output encoding, secure task specific APIs, and accounting to use that data throughout the application. Implement password hashing on a trusted system. Hackers can use these credentials to get access to all accounts.
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