eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Underground services are cropping up that are designed to enable bad actors to intercept one-time passwords (OTPs), which are widely used in two-factor authentication programs whose purpose is to better protect customers’ online accounts. Phishing, Social Engineering are Still Problems.

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The Hacker News

JANUARY 14, 2023

DevOps platform CircleCI on Friday disclosed that unidentified threat actors compromised an employee's laptop and leveraged malware to steal their two-factor authentication-backed credentials to breach the company's systems and data last month.

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The response is often to throw scanning engines and antivirus products at workstations, but all that does is delay boot up times and logging into the network. Instead of a somewhat nice and tidy domain tucked behind a series of firewalls and defenses, it is now connected to the same network as Alexa devices.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) expands upon a basic Network Access Control (NAC) concept to include modules for network device control and integrated security options. The post Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE): NAC Product Review appeared first on eSecurityPlanet. It trades on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the symbol CSCO.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

Code-signing certificates are supposed to help authenticate the identity of software publishers, and provide cryptographic assurance that a signed piece of software has not been altered or tampered with. “Antivirus software trusts signed programs more. “Why do I need a certificate?” 2016 sales thread on Exploit.

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Heimadal Security

JANUARY 16, 2023

On Friday, DevOps platform CircleCI revealed that unidentified threat actors compromised an employee’s laptop and stole their two-factor authentication credentials to compromise the company’s systems and data. According to CircleCI’s chief technology officer, Rob […].

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 17, 2023

CircleCI revealed an engineer's laptop was successfully infected with a yet-to-be-named information-stealing Trojan, which was used to steal an engineer's session cookie. The malware was not detected by our antivirus software. The company didn't provide information on how the malware got onto the laptop.

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2021

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a security alert related to the discovery of 13 malware samples on compromised Pulse Secure devices, many of which were undetected by antivirus products. If these services are required, use strong passwords or Active Directory authentication.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

To protect against attacks like Credential Flusher, it is essential to adopt a series of security measures: Use updated antivirus software: Ensure that your security software is always up to date to detect and block the latest threats. Always verify the authenticity of received communications.

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Hacker's King

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Phishing and Social Engineering : Phishing remains a popular attack method, leveraging emails, fake websites, and social media to deceive users into providing sensitive information. Use of Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) : MFA adds an extra layer of security by requiring users to provide two or more verification methods.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Collect and safeguard critical artifacts such as event logs, system logs, and authentication records from corporate systems. Antivirus solutions, monitoring systems, and endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools play a critical role in combating these threats.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2023

With 85% of campaigns targeting victims with phishing emails containing malicious links, another form of a social engineering attack, education and cyber vigiliance remain a high priority. The MGM attacks were almost identical to the social engineering attacks on Caesars, which targeted a third-party IT help desk.

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 8, 2020

Get their passwords changed (see above), and enable two-factor authentication. The Ubiquiti stuff has been getting better and better over the years, and as someone who started in firewall engineering, I’m starting to see tons of enterprise features in these things. Segment your high-risk devices onto a separate network.

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Webroot

JUNE 2, 2022

Phishing and social engineering. If possible, enable two-factor authentication (2FA) on your gaming accounts as well. Watch for phishing and social engineering. The best way to stay safe is to be aware of the threat—and learn how to spot phishing and social engineering attacks when you encounter them. Avoid pirated games.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. It emerges that email marketing giant Mailchimp got hacked. ” SEPTEMBER. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)

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Krebs on Security

JULY 11, 2023

“Surprisingly, there is no patch yet for one of the five zero-day vulnerabilities,” said Adam Barnett , lead software engineer at Rapid7. Many security experts expected Microsoft to address a fifth zero-day flaw — CVE-2023-36884 — a remote code execution weakness in Office and Windows.

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

In today's digital age, the concept of security has evolved far beyond the traditional boundaries of firewalls and antivirus software. Traditionally, organizations have relied on strong authentication requirements, such as multi-factor authentication (MFA), to address compromised access.

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Hacker Combat

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Improvements made by Google to protect their users from future attacks include heuristic rules that detect and then block social engineering & phishing emails, live streams for crypto-scams and theft of cookies. That way, antivirus detectors that trigger malware will be avoided. YouTube has hardened Channel-transfer workflows.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 10, 2024

In this blog post, we will review the latest changes with Atomic Stealer and the recent distribution with malicious ads via the Google search engine. Stealing browser cookies can sometimes be even better than having the victim’s password, enabling authentication into accounts via session tokens. gotrackier[.]com

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

CISA reports provide the following recommendations to users and administrators to strengthen the security posture of their organization’s systems: • Maintain up-to-date antivirus signatures and engines. If these services are required, use strong passwords or Active Directory authentication.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

The CISA agency provides recommendations for system administrators and owners to enhance the level of security of their organizations: Maintain up-to-date antivirus signatures and engines. If these services are required, use strong passwords or Active Directory authentication. Keep operating system patches up-to-date.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 4, 2024

James Clark School of Engineering, there is a cyberattack approximately every 39 seconds. Use antivirus software like Webroot Premium to protect all your devices. Use multi-factor authentication. Using more than one form of authentication to access your accounts, make it more difficult for malicious actors to gain access.

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SecureList

MAY 17, 2021

In this article we analyse the technical features of the Trojan’s components, giving a detailed overview of obfuscation techniques, the infection process and subsequent functions, as well as the social engineering tactics used by the cybercriminals to convince their victims to give away their personal online banking details. Bizarro.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Google’s Dataproc security issues could be exploited not just through the analytics engine but through Google Compute Engine, too. The problem: Google’s data processing and analytics engine Dataproc has insufficient security controls on two open firewall ports.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 29, 2024

At its core, this tactic revolves around gaming the trust users put in reputable internet services, including search engines, and the familiarity they have with online advertising per se. One way or another, the fact persists that search engine abuse can amplify the problem.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The tool also includes features to bypass Antivirus engines and perform other malicious activities. . The tools also allow to monitor a validator implant named MistyVeal that allows to verify that the targeted system is indeed an authentic victim and not a research environment.

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Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2021

Bizarro has x64 modules, the malicious code allows to trick victims into entering two-factor authentication codes in fake pop-ups. Experts pointed out that it also leverages social engineering to trick victims into downloading a mobile app. Bizarro initializes the screen capturing module.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

3: Two-Factor Authentication (2FA). This system uses an external device (usually your phone) as an additional authentication step. Still, most attackers will use trusted methods such as phishing, ransomware, or social engineering. Start with a solid antivirus and make sure all your software tools are up to date.

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Hacker's King

JANUARY 1, 2025

Enable Two-Factor Authentication - Adding Two-Factor Authentication means adding an extra layer of security. To enable it, you need to go to Settings & Privacy > Security and Account Access > Security > Two-Factor Authentication on Twitter. It enables us to make our accounts more secure.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 13, 2025

Matrix.org to retire guest accounts and introduce MAS authentication AlternativeTo The matrix.org home server will disable guest accounts and introduce the Matrix Authentication Service (MAS), which aims to alleviate client developers from having to include support for every authentication method.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Twitter will allow using the SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA) only to its Blue subscribers GoDaddy discloses a new data breach Fortinet fixes critical vulnerabilities in FortiNAC and FortiWeb German airport websites hit by DDos attacks once again Cisco fixed critical RCE bug in ClamAV Open-Source Antivirus engine CISA adds Cacti, Office, Windows (..)

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Below the list of mitigations: Maintain up-to-date antivirus signatures and engines. If these services are required, use strong passwords or Active Directory authentication. Enforce multi-factor authentication. See Protecting Against Malicious Code. Keep operating system patches up to date.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 21, 2020

It also has a list of recommended mitigations for handling Hidden Cobra threats: Maintain up-to-date antivirus signatures and engines. If these services are required, use strong passwords or Active Directory authentication. Keep operating system patches up-to-date. Disable File and Printer sharing services.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 13, 2023

Implementing endpoint protection solutions, including antivirus software, intrusion prevention systems, and device encryption, adds an extra layer of defense. Two-Factor Authentication (2FA): Implementing 2FA adds an extra layer of authentication beyond traditional usernames and passwords.

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SecureList

JANUARY 30, 2025

Introduction Since mid-2024, we’ve observed a malicious Android campaign leveraging wedding invitations as a lure to social-engineer victims into installing a malicious Android app (APK), which we have named “Tria Stealer” after unique strings found in campaign samples.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 12, 2024

Scan for malware Numerous WordPress breaches involve backdoors, enabling attackers to bypass authentication and quietly carry out malicious activities. Clean up the sitemap If an attacker has tampered with your sitemap XML file, search engines are likely to notice the irregularity, potentially leading to your site being blacklisted.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 23, 2021

The attacker(s) authenticated to the VPN appliance through several user accounts that did not have multi-factor authentication (MFA) enabled and were able to masquerade as legitimate teleworking employees. CISA believes that a vulnerability listed as CVE-2020-10148 was used to bypass the authentication to the SolarWinds appliance.

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