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

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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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. The threat actors sent the messages from e-mail addresses created on the public service “@outlook.com.”

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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. A privileged account provides access to sensitive systems and data bases and typically gets assigned to a system administrator or senior manager.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 9, 2024

In the past couple of weeks, we have observed an ongoing campaign targeting system administrators with fraudulent ads for popular system utilities. The malicious ads are displayed as sponsored results on Google’s search engine page and localized to North America. dll (Nitrogen).

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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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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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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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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2023

The APT group has persistently refined its social engineering tactics, making its spear-phishing campaigns progressively harder to detect. If the target does not respond to the spear-phishing emails, the threat actors send a follow-up message a few days later.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 19, 2022

Spearphishing is a targeted form of phishing that’s directed at and addresed to specific individuals. It uses personalization to convince victims that they are reading and responding to legitimate messages.

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Hot for Security

MAY 26, 2021

For example, the group is known to gain access to victims’ networks through phishing emails or Remote Desktop Protocol, by leveraging stolen credentials. The document contains valuable technical information regarding Conti’s modus operandi. The attackers do so by employing throw-away VoIP numbers or via ProtonMail.

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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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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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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

They found that one of their system administrators with access to customer accounts was allowing third-parties to see some of these accounts “for personal gain” Yandex made it clear in its official press release that no payment details were compromised. .”

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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 campaigns all started with spear-phishing targeted at bank employees.

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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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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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

AT&T labs provided a list of IoCs (indicators of compromise) that system administrators can use to add specific rules to security solutions. Employees should be trained against various social engineering and phishing attacks, as it’s a classic vector used by cybercriminals to deploy malware.

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IT Security Guru

APRIL 12, 2022

The use of legacy protocols such as POP or IMAP, make it difficult for system administrators to set up and activate MFA. OAuth enables consent phishing in O365. Lesson 2: Ensure MFA is activated for all users in all apps, even for super admins.

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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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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 23, 2021

The software giant’s intent was to make it more convenient and efficient for system administrators to perform Windows upkeep. RDC emerged as a go-to productivity tool, and similar controls swiftly emerged for Macs, IoS, Android and other operating systems in wide use.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 17, 2023

Phishing Emails: Cybercriminals send an email containing a malicious file or link, which deploys malware when the recipient unknowingly clicks opens the file attachment or clicks on the link. Cybercriminals hold your data hostage by encrypting it, and threaten to destroy it or publish it, unless a large ransom is paid.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The fix: System administrators are encouraged to install the Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Update 14 (CU14), which was issued in February 2024 and enabled NTLM credentials Relay Protection. Despite VMware’s three-year-old deprecation statement, unprotected systems remain at risk.

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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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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 31, 2024

Malicious ads The ads are displayed via Google searches for popular search terms related to programs used by IT and system administrators. This is typically reflected in the tools and security software installed on endpoints, which will often focus on spam and phishing emails.

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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. . Besides, you must hire an IT systems administrator who will be the go-to person for inquiries and questions about cybersecurity issues. . Data Security.

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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. Also read: How to Recover From a Ransomware Attack.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 2, 2018

Hladyr is suspected to be a system administrator for the group. According to the European authorities, FIN7 developed sophisticated banking trojan tracked as Cobalt , based on the Cobalt Strike penetration testing tool, that was spread through spear-phishing campaigns aimed at employees at different banks.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

This way, with attackers switching to distributing malicious files via phishing emails, it has become more difficult to track the version of the user’s software, or how far the attack went. System administrators that take care of physical networks are no longer needed — with cloud services management being an easy task.

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Customers invest significant time (and money) teaching their end users to spot and avoid phishing attacks, and our forthcoming changes will make sure that the Duo authentication experience can be customized to be as familiar as possible.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

This means deploying the best cybersecurity technology that implements a zero trust paradigm; developing and implementing policies and procedures that reinforce zero trust and redundancy; and educating users and systems administrators to follow procedures that mitigate risk. Build Strong Policies and Procedures.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

This can be carried out directly or using a shadow payload or using a phishing attack aimed at compromising the user's system. At this stage, the attacker's task is to create a stable channel for delivering various hacking tools and auxiliary data onto the target system. Establishing a connection.

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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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Spinone

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Usually, the encryption begins shortly after ransomware has sneaked into the system, for example, as a result of a phishing attack. Instead, they are hiding in the network and searching for system-critical data. Ransomware spreads through the cloud, as all local changes are automatically synchronized with the whole cloud.

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NopSec

OCTOBER 19, 2015

These include spear phishing attacks and drive-by downloads; vulnerabilities that should be addressed to ensure external attackers cannot compromise an internal network. A NULL session attack is something that system administrators often neglect to consider when hardening networks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

According to Finances Online , most common cybersecurity attack vectors in 2020 include phishing (38%), network intrusions (32%), stolen/lost records (8%), and system misconfiguration (5%). Firewall administration and maintenance. System administration and maintenance. Information security policies knowledge.

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