Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2021

“The cyber threat to NASA’s computer networks from internet-based intrusions is expanding in scope and frequency, and the success of these intrusions demonstrates the increasingly complex nature of cybersecurity challenges facing the Agency. . Pervasive weaknesses exist in NASA IT internal controls and risk management practices. •

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2022

As every computer security professional knows, if anything is on the Internet, it’s subject to increasingly sophisticated attacks. percent of CMS users worry about the security of their CMS—while 46.4 percent actually had a CMS security issue affect their content.

Data breaches 262

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

For organizations looking to improve their security posture, this is causing confusion and vendor fatigue, especially for companies that don’t have a full time Chief Information Security Officer. The vendors are well-intentioned.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Researchers from from Netlab, the network security division of Chinese tech giant Qihoo 360, have discovered a new botnet, tracked as HEH, that contains the code to wipe all data from infected systems, such as routers, IoT devices, and servers. In the current version, each node cannot send control command to its peers.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2024

This extortion campaign involved several security failures, including exposing environment variables, using long-lived credentials, and the lack of a least privilege architecture. This indicates that these threat actor groups are both skilled and knowledgeable in advanced cloud architectural processes and techniques.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2018

. “The main issue is a legal and political environment of the People’s Republic of China, where (the) aforementioned companies primarily operate,” reads a statement issued by the Czech National Cyber and Information Security Agency. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The malicious code can target various architectures, it supports both flooder and backdoor capabilities. The primary target of NKAbuse is Linux desktops, however, it can target MISP and ARM architecture. The protocol enables secure and low-cost data transfer. ” reads the report published by Kaspersky.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Devices running no longer supported firmware will not receive security updates in the future with the result that they will be more exposed to cyber-attacks. For this reason, it is essential to disconnect these devices from the internet, disable remote access, and use a strong, unique password.

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2019

In December 2018, the Czech National Cyber and Information Security Agency warned against using the equipment manufactured by Chinese firms Huawei and ZTE because they pose a threat to state security. The Chinese firm was already excluded by several countries from building their 5G internet networks.

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SC Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2021

For example, companies with exposed IoT are more than 50% more likely to have email security issues, according to a new report and blog post from the Cyentia Institute and RiskRecon. But what does that correlation mean for chief information security officers? Let’s say you had a printer operating on the internet.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Indeed, what should be evaluated among chief information security officers “is the security posture of the home environment ,” said Roland Dobbins, Netscout principal engineer, who authored the report. “That includes the broadband internet access router.

DDOS 117

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2018

In November 2018, the Wall Street Journal reported that the US Government is urging its allies, including Germany, to exclude Huawei from critical infrastructure and 5G architectures. Huawei was already excluded by several countries from building their 5G internet networks.

Technology 110

Technology Internet Internet Advertising 110

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The botnet leverages a robust architecture based on a combination of third-party services, P2P, and Command & Control servers. This architecture was implemented to make the botnet resilient to takedowns by law enforcement and security firms with the support of the vendors of the infected devices.

Architecture 145

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2024

The attack begins with the threat actor scanning the internet to find hosts with Docker’s default port 2375 open. Researchers at Datadog uncovered a new cryptojacking campaign linked to the attackers behind Spinning YARN campaign. The threat actors target publicly exposed and unsecured Docker API endpoints for initial access.

Internet 140

Internet Internet Malware Architecture 140

Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2023

Researchers spotted an updated version of the KmsdBot botnet that is now targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The Akamai Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT) discovered a new version of the KmsdBot botnet that employed an updated Kmsdx binary targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

IoT 98

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

“The investigation has yielded insights into the botnet’s network architecture, exploitation campaigns, malware components, and operational use, illuminating the evolving tactics and techniques employed by the threat actors. “This botnet has targeted entities in the U.S. ” concludes the report.

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IoT Wireless DDOS Architecture 142

Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2024

Researchers at Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs discovered a new malware family, named Cuttlefish, which targets enterprise-grade and small office/home office (SOHO) routers to harvest public cloud authentication data from internet traffic. The binary analyzed by the researchers is compiled for all major architectures used by SOHO operating systems.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2021

The seller published multiple ads in multiple hacking forums and also offered access to a sample of the stolen info, including blueprints and PII.

Engineering 145

Engineering Telecommunications Data breaches Wireless 145

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The campaign was uncovered by CrowdStrike by investigating a series of security incidents in multiple countries, the security firm added that the threat actors show an in-depth knowledge of telecommunications network architectures. ” reads the report published by Crowdstrike.

Telecommunications 141

Telecommunications Mobile Hacking Architecture 141

Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2022

Then the malware contacts the C2 and sends system information (i.e. computer name, user name, OS version, architecture type, list of installed anti-malware products) to the operators. Once the malware is installed, it can stay in the system to steal user information and download additional payloads.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

In November 2018, the Wall Street Journal reported that the US Government was urging its allies to exclude Huawei from critical infrastructure and 5G architectures. Chinese equipment is broadly adopted in many allied countries, including Germany, Italy, and Japan.

Manufacturing 145

Manufacturing Advertising Surveillance Architecture 145

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) researchers discovered a new variant of the Zerobot botnet (aka ZeroStresser) that was improved with the capabilities to target more Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The IT giant is tracking this cluster of threat activity as DEV-1061. The bot is saved using the filename “zero.”.

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Notice Bored

JANUARY 9, 2021

So, egged-on by information security pro's and IT auditors (me, for instance), management took the risk seriously and invested significant resources into solving "the Y2k issue". Go ahead, show me the associated risk profiles and documented security architectures. The sheer scale of the Internet problem is the real issue.

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Internet Internet Risk InfoSec 52

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Researchers at Cado Security Labs discovered a new variant of the P2Pinfect botnet that targets routers, IoT devices, and other embedded devices. This variant has been compiled for the Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipelined Stages (MIPS) architecture. ” The new bot targets devices embedded with 32-bit MIPS processor.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2022

The botnet targets multiple architectures, including arm, bsd, x64, and x86. Then the script downloads the actual Enemybot binary which is compiled for the target device’s architecture. The researchers attribute the botnet to the cybercrime group Keksec which focuses on DDoS-based extortion.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2022

It allows threat actors to target multiple architectures without requiring technical skills. “The platform currently supports Windows, Linux and Python-based payloads, allowing adversaries to target multiple architectures without requiring significant development resources.”

Architecture 98

Architecture DDOS Internet Internet 98

Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2021

A new variant of the Mirai botnet, tracked as Moobot, was spotted scanning the Internet for vulnerable Tenda routers. Researchers from AT&T Alien Lab have spotted a new variant of the Mirai botnet, tracked asu Moobot, which was scanning the Internet for the CVE-2020-10987 remote code-execution (RCE) issue in Tenda routers.

Malware 143

Malware Internet Internet DDOS 143

SecureList

MARCH 12, 2024

More than a third (39%) used the microservice architecture. Recommendations provided in these rankings are general in nature and based on information security best practices standards and guidelines, such as OWASP and NIST. Most of the web applications were owned by companies based in Russia, China and the Middle East.

Passwords 140

Passwords Authentication Architecture Risk 140

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2022

IT Asset Management software provider Lansweeper has scanned the Internet for VMware ESXi servers and found over 45,000 instances that have reached end-of-life (EOL). There will be no architectural, performance improvements, or feature additions. Security patches are limited to one roll-up per year.”

Architecture 114

Architecture Cybercrime Software Internet 114

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

” Recently, experts at Intezer researchers have spotted a strain of the Linux mining that also scans the Internet for Windows RDP servers vulnerable to the Bluekeep. The installation script also retrieves the contents of a Pastebin URL containing a Monero wallet ID and mining information, then it downloads the miner.

Architecture 106

Architecture Cryptocurrency Malware Advertising 106

SecureList

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The actors behind the attack used spear-phishing mails to target several victims, some were infected with Windows executable malware by downloading files through an internet browser. Next, they were able to access the control panels of two security solutions simultaneously. The last one we named MATA gen.5

Malware 136

Malware Phishing Internet Internet 136

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The Momentum bot targets various Linux platforms running upon multiple CPU architectures, including ARM, MIPS, Intel, and Motorola 68020. Experts revealed details on the tools and techniques used by the botnet to compromise Linux devices and recruit them in launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

Malware 104

Malware DDOS Advertising DNS 104

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Researchers discovered a new Go-based botnet called Zerobot that exploits two dozen security vulnerabilities IoT devices. Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researchers have discovered a new Go-based botnet called Zerobot that spreads by exploiting two dozen security vulnerabilities in the internet of things (IoT) devices and other applications.

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IoT Architecture Internet Internet 98

CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 24, 2021

As long-time information security professionals and (ISC)² Community Champions, we have experienced the way cybersecurity employees engage and work with one another continue to adapt in response to changes in the workplace and world at large. We suggest that all cybersecurity professionals be informed on these topics as they evolve.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As organizations strive for excellence in digital transformation and face the realities of an accelerated push to remote work, they’ve been called to rethink their networking and cybersecurity architecture. SASE helps future-proof cybersecurity architecture by decoupling security control from the data center.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Like the Mirai botnet, Dark Mirai determines the victim’s architecture to fetch and download the matching payload. Below are the two requests sent to the devices to compromise them: The researchers pointed out that successful exploitation requires authentication of the routers.

Firmware 145

Firmware Architecture Malware Hacking 145

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

. “Our analysis of this particular sample indicates the file executes on microprocessor without interlocked pipelined stages (MIPS) architecture. This is an extension understood by machines running reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architecture, which is prevalent on many IoT devices.” ” continues the analysis.

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