Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2024

Security experts at Deep Instinct Threat Lab have uncovered a targeted campaign against Ukraine, exploiting a Microsoft Office vulnerability dating back almost seven years to deploy Cobalt Strike on compromised systems. The DLL also implements features to evade detection and avoid analysis by security experts.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

In fact, memory attacks have quietly emerged as a powerful and versatile new class of hacking technique that threat actors in the vanguard are utilizing to subvert conventional IT security systems. That’s Gartner’s estimate of global spending on cybersecurity in 2017 and 2018. Fast forward to 2017. Manipulating runtime.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2021

The new malware implement new and improved rootkit and worm capabilities, it continues to target cloud applications by exploiting known vulnerabilities such as Oracle WebLogic ( CVE-2017-10271 ) and Apache ActiveMQ ( CVE-2016-3088 ) servers. One of the ways to use LD_PRELOAD is to add the crafted library to /etc/ld.so.preload.”

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 21, 2019

In 2017, some Android phones came with a backdoor pre-installed : Criminals in 2017 managed to get an advanced backdoor preinstalled on Android devices before they left the factories of manufacturers, Google researchers confirmed on Thursday. The attackers used the backdoor to surreptitiously download and install modules.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2019

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Microsoft warns of spam campaign exploiting CVE-2017-11882 flaw. Google expert disclosed details of an unpatched flaw in SymCrypt library. Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for June 2019 fix 88 flaws. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived!

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Bug bounty programs are very important for the security of software and hardware, major tech firms launched their own programs to discover flaws before hackers. The project was renewed in 2017 for three more years including bug bounty programs to improve the security of software used. GNU C Library (glibc). 15/10/2019.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Security experts at Symantec have discovered eight potentially unwanted applications (PUAs) into the Microsoft Store that were dropping cryptojacking Coinhive miners. The malicious Monero (XMR) Coinhive cryptomining scripts were delivered leveraging the Google’s legitimate Google Tag Manager (GTM) library.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2019

The Commons FileUpload library is the default file upload mechanism in Struts 2, the CVE-2016-1000031 was discovered two years ago by experts at Tenable. The CVE-2017-5645 flaw resides in the Codehaus versions of Groovy and affected OCA Unified Inventory Management. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2019

UPnP-enabled devices running outdated software are exposed to a wide range of attacks exploiting known flaws in UPnP libraries. In early 2013, researchers at Rapid7 published an interesting whitepaper entitled “Security Flaws in Universal Plug and Play” that evaluated the global exposure of UPnP-enabled network devices.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

According to Cofense, in the most recent campaign, the message was sent by a compromised email account and passed Symantec Email Security and Microsoft EOP gateways. Unlike past attacks, in the last campaign, attackers attempted to exploit the Microsoft Office remote code execution vulnerability ( CVE-2017-8570 ). Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 10, 2021

A critical vulnerability in the open-source logging software Apache Log4j 2 is fueling a chaotic race in the cybersecurity world, with the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) issuing an emergency security update as bad actors searched for vulnerable servers. Anybody using Apache Struts is likely vulnerable. Enterprises Urged to Apply the Patch.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The FTC has long used this authority to take action against companies in the privacy and data security context. According to the complaint , after Equifax was alerted to a critical network security vulnerability in March 2017, the company’s security personnel ordered that vulnerable systems be patched within 48 hours.

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CILIP

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Download Now: Making the Difference - an Excellence Framework for Prison Libraries Making the Difference - an Excellence Framework for Prison Libraries supports prison library providers and prison library staff to develop, deliver and promote prison library services. Every prison library is different.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added 13 new vulnerabilities to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog , including recently disclosed Apache Log4Shell Log4j and Fortinet FortiOS flaws. The post CISA adds Log4Shell Log4j flaw to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2019

A security expert at SEC Consult discovered that some WAGO industrial managed switches are affected by several serious vulnerabilities. A security researcher at consulting company SEC Consult discovered several vulnerabilities in some models of WAGO industrial switches. ” reads the security advisory. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 16, 2018

Just a tad over 5 years ago, I released my first ever Pluralsight course - OWASP Top 10 Web Application Security Risks for ASP.NET. Developers have a huge appetite for OWASP content and I'm very happy to now give them even more Top 10 goodness in the course I'm announcing here - Play by Play: OWASP Top 10 2017.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

based security vendor in the thick of helping companies make more of their threat feeds. The company launched in 2013, the brainchild of Ryan Trost and Wayne Chiang, a couple of buddies working as security analysts in a U.S. We spoke at Black Hat USA 2019. ThreatQuotient is a Reston, Virg.-based

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Security researchers from TrendMicro have uncovered a cyber espionage campaign carried out by an APT group tracked as DRBControl that employed a new family of malware. The Type 2 backdoor was first released in July 2017, it was employed in a spear-phishing attack distributing a weaponized Microsoft Word document. Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2022

As organizations embrace hybrid IT environments, SD-WAN and the tools combine to form a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) offering that gives organizations the latest capabilities for optimizing WANs and securing hybrid enterprise workloads. Networking specialists like Cisco and HPE’s Aruba are moving deeper into security.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2023

Application security tools and software solutions are designed to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities and threats in software applications. These tools play a vital role in ensuring the security, integrity, and confidentiality of sensitive information, such as personal data and financial records.

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The Texas Record

DECEMBER 4, 2017

This is the fourth post of a multi-part recap of the 2017 e-Records Conference. Presentation materials from the conference are available on the e-Records 2017 website. When moving records between libraries in SharePoint, the integrity of the document could be altered. Information Governance: Take Control and Succeed.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2018

In one incident in 2017, HIDDEN COBRA actors enabled cash to be simultaneously withdrawn from ATMs located in over 30 different countries. “HIDDEN COBRA actors most likely deployed ISO 8583 libraries on the targeted switch application servers. Security Affairs – Hidden Cobra, FastCash ). ” states the report.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

A previously unknown cyber espionage group, tracked as Gallmaker, has been targeting entities in the government, military and defense sectors since at least 2017. Gallmaker been active since at least December 2017, researchers observed a spike in its operations in April and most recent attacks were uncovered in June.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Javali trojan is active since November 2017 and targets users of financial and banking organizations geolocated in Brazil and Mexico. dll: Windows legitimate DLL for runtime dependencies – MICROSOFT® C RUNTIME LIBRARY. dll: Windows legitimate DLL for runtime dependencies – MICROSOFT® C RUNTIME LIBRARY.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Security experts at Cybaze – Yoroi ZLab have analyzed a new sample of the AdvisorsBot malware, a downloader that was first spotted in August 2018. It’s interesting to notice it calls some “non-library” functions; functions loaded from the previously referenced dll file. Table 3 – DLL information. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Security experts at HackenProof are warning Open Elasticsearch instances expose over 82 million users in the United States. Elasticsearch is a Java-based search engine based on the free and open-source information retrieval software library Lucene. ” reads a blog post published by HackenProof. citizens (i.e. citizens (i.e.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2020

Security researchers at ESET recently uncovered a campaign carried out by the InvisiMole group that has been targeting a small number of high-profile organizations in the military sector and diplomatic missions in Eastern Europe. . The attack chain begins with the deployment of a TCP downloader that fetches the next stage payload.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2022

The bot includes exploits for Oracle WebLogic Server vulnerabilities CVE-2019-2725 and CVE-2017-10271 , and the Drupal RCE flaw tracked as CVE-2018-7600. “Debian and Ubuntu have also released security advisories regarding this matter. It saves it as “/tmp/russ” and executes it. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2019

We analyzed this sample two years ago and we linked it to a Sofacy attack operation discovered by FE researchers in the mid of 2017, which hit several hotels in European and Middle Eastern countries. GAMEFISH document dropper (reference sample, 2017). Technical Analysis. exe” system utility. Figure 4: “mrset.bat” file code.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

To address this problem, researchers have created several cryptographic libraries that they claim are more usable; however, none of these libraries have been empirically evaluated for their ability to promote more secure development. But it's not surprising. The one constant of usability testing is that people surprise you.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2019

The group has been active at least since 2009, in April 2017 experts from PwC UK and BAE Systems uncovered a widespread hacking campaign, tracked as Operation Cloud Hopper , targeting managed service providers (MSPs) in multiple countries worldwide. Further technical details, including IoCs, are reported in the analysis published by inSile.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2023

IcedID banking trojan first appeared in the threat landscape in 2017, it has capabilities similar to other financial threats like Gozi , Zeus , and Dridex. The “maker.dll” is a malicious libraries used to perform various malicious activities and load the IcedID malware, while “ikm.msi” is a legitimate installer of the Zoom application.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2019

Early April, experts at Yoroi-Cybaze ZLab spotted a new interesting malware sample, likely active since 2017, that was linked to ATMitch attacks. . In the first days of April, our threat monitoring operations spotted a new interesting malware sample possibly active in the wild since 2017. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2019

In other words all the infrastructures, the samples, the command and controls, the domains and IPs, the certificate, the libraries and, general speaking, all the operations that come before the attack phase in term of environments. For example from 2017 to early 2018 APT28 used specific techniques such as: T1251 , T1329 , T1336 and T1319.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Since the beginning of the year, security firms observed a new intense ransomware campaign spreading the Shade ransomware. Between January and February, a new, intense, ransomware campaign has been observed by many security firms. Comparison between the ransom note of Shade 2019 (up) and Shade 2017 (down, source: SonicWall ).

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Q: If a ransomware attack happens in the future, is it likely that if tape is used, the attackers will use their system access to attack the tape library and robot since they did not get what they want? As we have seen, hackers keep upping their game and it is just a matter of time before they add attacks on tape robots and libraries.

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