The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

It was designed to make it convenient for system administrators to automate tasks and manage configurations across all Windows endpoints and servers in a company network. Another branch of attacks revolve around ransomware, crypto jacking, denial of service attacks and malware spreading activities.

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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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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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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. ” reads the alert published by CERT-UA.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 20, 2021

Hladyr is the systems administrator for the FIN7 hacking group, and is considered the mastermind behind the Carbanak campaign , a series of cyberattacks said to stolen as much as $900 million from banks in early part of the last decade. The malware. The campaigns all started with spear-phishing targeted at bank employees.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 protects all of Office 365 against advanced threats like business email compromise and credential phishing. 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.

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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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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2023

The APT group has persistently refined its social engineering tactics, making its spear-phishing campaigns progressively harder to detect. “In many instances, Kimsuky actors do not attach malware to their initial email. “Usually, the questions will revolve around current events and whether U.S.

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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 17, 2023

Ransomware is a vicious type of malware that infects your laptop/desktop or server. Cybercriminals use it as a launching pad to block access to business-critical systems by encrypting data in files, databases, or entire computer systems, until the victim pays a ransom. What is Ransomware?

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

We also review what pushed cybercriminals to transform their operations into the now well-known malware-as-a-service model — the use of cloud servers, the decreasing relevance of custom malware and the subsequent emergence of small, agile teams. Malware developers — no longer hiring. Client-side attacks on the wane.

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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

JULY 13, 2023

“WormGPT produced an email that was not only remarkably persuasive but also strategically cunning, showcasing its potential for sophisticated phishing and BEC attacks” (screenshot below). ” 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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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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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. In fact, it highlights how the migration to cloud services has expanded the attack surface.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2019

“APT10 often attacked a service provider’s system by “spear-phishing” – sending company employees emails designed to trick them into revealing their passwords or installing malware. APT10 hackers also targeted the customers of the IT companies stealing plans, blueprints, personal information, and other data.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

From phishing attacks to ransomware attacks, business owners need to be adequately prepared to prevent further damage. . Human errors often lead to data breaches, malware, and virus attacks that might compromise the company’s systems. Besides, cybercriminals are becoming craftier with sophisticated technology. Human Resources.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Blue teams consist of security analysts, network engineers and system administrators. A red team’s activity can extend beyond cybersecurity attacks and vulnerability scanning to include phishing , social engineering , and physical compromise campaigns lasting weeks or more.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 2, 2018

The gang stole over a billion euros from banks across the world, the name “Carbanak” comes with the name of the malware they used to compromise computers at banks and other financial institutions. Hladyr is suspected to be a system administrator for the group. The man is suspected to be a supervisor of the group.

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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. practice assignments and job interviews.

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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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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. Maarten Broekman has worked as a system administrator and systems engineer for over 25 years, primarily in the shared web-hosting space.

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SiteLock

MAY 16, 2022

The SiteLock Malware Research Team (SMRT) detected and remediated numerous phishing kits installed on a customer site in a variety of locations. First, we find a post on the WordPress forums that implies a plugin was “resurrected as malware” with the similar header information. About The Author.

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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. It makes sense then that the bad guys are taking notice of the trends in enterprise data storage and developing malware, including ransomware, that will target your cloud environments.

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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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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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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2021

It’s nice when ransomware gangs have their bitcoin stolen, malware servers shut down, or are otherwise forced to disband. REvil’s last big victim was Kaseya , a Miami-based company whose products help system administrators manage large networks remotely. ” That CrowdStrike report was from July 2019. .

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 16, 2022

They're the long game operations where something as small as a single phishing email could escalate into millions of IDs being exfiltrated. Living off the land or fireless malware is a threat actor leveraging the utilities readily available on a system. And so then it becomes Okay, well, how can you defend against this?

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

We discovered the malware as part of an attack against a high-profile organization in Vietnam. We found the loader for this file so interesting that we decided to base one of the tracks of our Targeted Malware Reverse Engineering course on it. The exploit-chain attempts to install malware in the system through a dropper.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Brian Krebs is an independent investigative reporter known for his coverage of technology, malware , data breaches , and cybercrime developments. Russian software engineer Eugene Kaspersky’s frustration with the malware of the 80s and 90s led to the founding of antivirus and cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky Lab. — thaddeus e.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2025

Campaign A (20192023): Used emails with malware attachments (LODEINFO) to target politicians, media, and government. Campaign C (2024): Delivered malware (ANEL) via email links, targeting academia and think tanks, evolving to abuse Visual Studio Code. .“This Track antivirus detections carefully.

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