Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2023

AvosLocker affiliates use legitimate software and open-source remote system administration tools to compromise the victims’ networks. This joint CSA updates the advisory published by the US Government on March 17, 2022.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 21, 2022

CISA is ISACA’s (Information Systems Audit and Control Association) high-level certification designed for those who audit, control, monitor, and assess an organization’s information technology and business systems. These individuals will be the elite of information security and the top practitioners in the field.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2021

The Taiwanese company urges its customers to enable multi-factor authentication where available, enable auto block and account protection, and to use string administrative credentials, . System administrators that have noticed suspicious activity on their devices should report it to Synology technical support.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2021

The Ukrainian national Fedir Hladyr (35), aka “das” or “AronaXus,” was sentenced to 10 years in prison for having served as a manager and systems administrator for the financially motivated group FIN7 , aka Carbanak. ” concludes DoJ.

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2020

The issue could be exploited by supplying a malformed Java object to a specific listener on an vulnerable system. Administrators should update their Unified CCE installs as soon as possible. .” An unauthenticated, remote attacker could exploit the issue to execute arbitrary code as the root user on a vulnerable device.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2021

The vendor recommended changing system administrator account, reset access control, and installing the latest available version. If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 2, 2020

Escalate privileges from “Organization Administrator” (normally a customer account) to “System Administrator” with access to all cloud accounts (organization) as an attacker can change the hash for this account. Read other sensitive data related to customers, like full names, email addresses or IP addresses.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

“The vulnerability is due to a system account that has a default and static password and is not under the control of the system administrator.” ” An attacker could exploit the flaw by using this default account to connect to a vulnerable system and obtain read and write access to system data.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2022

VNC is a desktop sharing system – you can use it to remotely access your work computer from home or any other location, or allow technical support staff to do likewise. Ideally, VNC should be used only with authenticated users, such as system administrators.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The alerts are also sent to system administrators and security teams, who can directly contact the affected employees and take action to prevent their accounts take over. Microsoft Defender for Office 365 protects all of Office 365 against advanced threats like business email compromise and credential phishing.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The expert used the JWT to access the GSPIMS portal and after gaining access to the platform he discovered an account with system administrator privileges. made it easy to find accounts that had elevated access to the system. I eventually uncovered a system administrator email and was able to log in to their account.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2021

One of the most outstanding capabilities of iLOBleed is the manipulation of the iLO firmware upgrade routine, when the system administrator tries to upgrade the iLO firmware, the malware simulates the version change while preventing the upgrade routine. . ” continues the report.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Yandex, a European multinational technology firm best known for being the most-used search engine in Russia, has revealed it had a security breach, leading to the compromise of almost 5,000 Yandex email accounts. The company says it spotted the breach after a routine check by its security team.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Skorodumov was one of the organization’s lead systems administrators, he configured and managed the clients’ domains and IP addresses, provided technical assistance to help clients optimize their malware and botnets.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

“The first allows you to obtain the hash of the system administrator account due to excessive DBMS user privileges, which gives you access to the API without decrypting the hash value. ” If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2020

Users and system administrators are recommended to apply the latest security patches as soon as possible to prevent attackers exploiting them. Additional technical details on the Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday updates for March 2020 are available in the analysis published by Zero Day Initiative.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2020

The attacks began last week, the systems administrator Marco Hofmann first detailed them. I found these source IP addresses of the attackers in my nstraces: 45.200.42.0/24 24 220.167.109.0/24 Most of the victims of these attacks are in the gaming industry. ” wrote Hofmann.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2022

“Bridgestone Americas are currently investigating a potential information security incident. All we do is provide paid training to system administrators around the world on how to properly set up a corporate network. We are only interested in money for our harmless and useful work.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

System administrators are recommended to update their VMWare ESXi installs or disable SLP support to secure them. If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here.

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2020

Using a previous version of Exim leaves a system vulnerable to exploitation. System administrators should continually check software versions and update as new versions become available.” Other vulnerabilities exist and are likely to be exploited, so the latest fully patched version should be used. ” concludes NSA.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

CERT-UA observed the campaign in April 2023, the malicious e-mails with the subject “Windows Update” were crafted to appear as sent by system administrators of departments of multiple government bodies. Most of the APT28s’ campaigns leveraged spear-phishing and malware-based attacks.

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System Administration Government Phishing Malware 98

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

. “Beyond its legitimate uses, TeamViewer allows cyber actors to exercise remote control over computer systems and drop files onto victim computers, making it functionally similar to Remote Access Trojans (RATs),” states the FBI’s PIN alert.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2022

In order to identify CAKETAP running on a Solaris system, administrators can check for the presence of a hook installed in the ipcl_get_next_conn hook function. Below is an example command to identify a hooked ipcl_get_next_conn function: root@solaris:~# echo ‘ipcl_get_next_conn::dis -n 0 ; ::quit’ | mdb -k.

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Banking Telecommunications System Administration Hacking 144

Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2020

Security experts from Check Point Research have discovered multiple critical reverse RDP vulnerabilities in the Apache Guacamole, which is a clientless remote desktop gateway. It supports standard protocols like VNC, RDP, and SSH and allows system administrators to remotely access and manage Windows and Linux machines.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 9, 2024

However, delegating tasks also introduces new information security challenges. OpenSSH is used in a wide range of scenarios where secure network communication is required. It is a critical tool in various fields, including system administration, development, and cybersecurity.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

In May, the FBI and CISA also warned cyber attacks coordinated by Beijing and attempting to steal COVID-19 information from US health care, pharmaceutical, and research industry sectors. Keep operating system patches up-to-date. Disable File and Printer sharing services.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Danny Adamitis , principal information security researcher at Lumen and co-author of the report on AVrecon, confirmed Kilmer’s findings, saying the C2 data matched up with what Spur was seeing for SocksEscort dating back to September 2022. md , and that they were a systems administrator for sscompany[.]net.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2020

Many system administrators and companies were rushing to update internet exposed machines, like web servers or gateways, worried about possible remote code execution, reviving the EternalBlue /WannaCry crisis in their mind. . The Malware Threat behind CurveBall.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Our investigation revealed that this remote endpoint is associated with criminal activities dating back to 2019, indicating that these hosts were likely under the control of the same technical administration. This hostname connection is particularly heterogeneous, but it technically makes sense.

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2021

SSH stands for Secure Shell or Secure Socket Shell and is a network protocol that is most often used by system administrators for remote command-line requests, system logins and also for remote command execution. This allows the attacker to SSH to the EIM host as root.”.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Create, start, and terminate a new process and its primary thread Search, read, write, move, and execute files Get and modify file or directory timestamps Change the current directory for a process or file Delete malware and artifacts associated with the malware from the infected system. ” reads the report published by Kaspersky.

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Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2020

System administrators need to upgrade to fixed versions ASAP. To have an idea of the potential impact of the issue, let’s consider thousand of vulnerable devices are exposed online. Researchers from Bad Packers have located 1,832 vulnerable F5 hosts online. A proof-of-concept exploit is now publicly available.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Summarizing, crooks extended the list of targets passing from Arm and MIPS-powered devices to Intel systems. . System administrators need to employ security best practices with the systems they manage.” “Criminals will continue to monetize unsecured resources in any way they can.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2019

Webmin is an open-source web-based interface for system administration for Linux and Unix. Webmin, the popular open-source web-based interface for Unix admin contained a remote code execution vulnerability for more than a year. It allows users using web browsers to set up user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The website is a clone of the website of Convergent Network Solutions Ltd , Bastion Secure’s ‘About’ page states that is a spinoff of the legitimate cybersecurity firm that anyway not linked to the criminal gang.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The advisory also includes recommendations for system administrators to prevent the installation of backdoor firmware images and unusual device reboots.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2021

Organizations with effective spam filtering, proper system administration and up-to-date Windows hosts have a much lower risk of infection.” ” If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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