Krebs on Security

JANUARY 31, 2020

11, 2019, two security experts at a company that had been hired by the state of Iowa to test the physical and network security of its judicial system were arrested while probing the security of an Iowa county courthouse, jailed in orange jumpsuits, charged with burglary, and held on $100,000 bail. On Thursday Jan.

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AUGUST 2, 2020

The FBI has issued a security alert about Netwalker ransomware attacks targeting U.S. The FBI has issued a new security flash alert to warn of Netwalker ransomware attacks targeting U.S. and foreign government organizations, education entities, private companies, and health agencies by unidentified cyber actors.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2020

The Shade infections increased during October 2018, keeping a constant trend until the second half of December 2018, taking a break around Christmas, and then resuming in mid-January 2019 doubled in size. Moth of the victims belongs to high-tech, wholesale and education sectors. Pierluigi Paganini.

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MAY 31, 2020

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JANUARY 24, 2020

Danish security researcher Ollypwn has released DOS exploit PoC for critical vulnerabilities in the Windows RDP Gateway. PoC (Denial-of-Service) for CVE-2020-0609 & CVE-2020-0610 Please use for research and educational purpose only. link] pic.twitter.com/R43AHUwGV0 — ollypwn (@ollypwn) January 23, 2020. Pierluigi Paganini.

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

Based on logs from compromised phones, we believe that NSO Group customers also successfully deployed KISMET or a related zero-click, zero-day exploit between October and December 2019.” ” The KISMET exploit chain doesn’t work against iOS 14 and above because the new mobile iOS implements additional security protections.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

DTrack is a modular backdoor used by the Lazarus group since 2019 , it was employed in attacks against a wide variety of targets, from financial environments to a nuclear power plan. Despite this, Lazarus has not changed the backdoor much since 2019, when it was initially discovered.” ” concludes the report.

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MARCH 30, 2024

The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) warned of thousands of Microsoft Exchange servers in the country vulnerable to critical flaws. The BSI urges operators running vulnerable instances to install available security updates and configure them securely. ” reads the alert published by the BSI.

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MARCH 17, 2019

Security expert discovered an unprotected Elasticsearch database exposed online that was containing approximately 33 million job profiles in China. . Jain discovering the ElasticSearch database on March 10th, 2019, but he was able to discover who was the owner of the archi ve. The Elasticsearch database was shutdown on March 13, 2019.

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MARCH 12, 2019

The database also contained GPS coordinates, URLs to photos, ID numbers, marital status, political and education related details, and a ‘HasVideo’ field. The exposed database was discovered by the popular security researcher Victor Gevers, he found 29808 open in China. Million Women appeared first on Security Affairs.

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

A joint security advisory published by The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) revealed that Russia-linked APT group Energetic Bear has breached US government networks and exfiltrated data.

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AUGUST 4, 2020

The malware has been active at least since August 2019, over the months the NetWalker ransomware was made available through a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model attracting criminal affiliates. “Since 2019, NetWalker ransomware has reached a vast number of different targets, mostly based in western European countries and the US.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2019

US Department of Education warned that hackers have breached at least 62 college and university networks by exploiting a vulnerability in the Ellucian Banner Web Tailor module of the Ellucian Banner ERP. ” reads the security advisory published by the expert. ” reads the security advisory published by the expert.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

CISA published a security advisory warning of a wave of attacks carried out by China-linked APT groups affiliated with China’s Ministry of State Security. ” reads the security advisory. CVE-2019-19781 enabled the actors to execute directory traversal attacks.[ Government agencies.”

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APRIL 18, 2023

US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Chrome and macOS vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The CVE-2019-8526 flaw has been exploited by the DazzleSpy backdoor in watering hole attacks aimed at politically active individuals in Hong Kong.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2020

In December 2019, Maastricht University (UM) announced that ransomware infected almost all of its Windows systems on December 23. Extra security measures have been taken to protect (scientific) data. ” N ow all critical systems at the University are online and offline backups were secured by the company.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Information Risk Management (IRM) recently published its 2019 Risky Business Report. It also concluded that the top three cybersecurity reasons that respondents use AI now are for network intrusion detection and prevention, fraud detection and secure user authentication. SecurityAffairs – secure email gateways, malware).

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Atlassian released security updates for Jira Service Desk and Jira Service Desk Data Center to address a critical flaw that can lead to information disclosure. Atlassian released security updates to address critical vulnerabilities in Jira Service Desk and Jira Service Desk Data Center. before 3.16.8, before 4.1.3, before 4.2.5,

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NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Security duo discovered personal and social information 1.2 The database, discovered on October 16, 2019, contained more than 4 terabytes of data is the largest data leaks from a single source organization in history. . The only difference being the data returned by the PDL also contained education histories.”

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MARCH 2, 2024

US CISA, the FBI, and MS-ISAC issued a joint CSA to warn of attacks involving Phobos ransomware variants observed as recently as February 2024 US CISA, the FBI, and MS-ISAC issued a joint cyber security advisory (CSA) to warn of attacks involving Phobos ransomware variants such as Backmydata , Devos, Eight, Elking, and Faust.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2021

today released software updates to plug four security holes that attackers have been using to plunder email communications at companies that use its Exchange Server products. The patches released today fix security problems in Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 , 2016 and 2019. Microsoft Corp.

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AUGUST 17, 2019

District Court in Seattle today and was ordered detained pending a hearing on August 1, 2019.”. Attorney’s Office in Seattle said servers found in Thompson’s bedroom contained data stolen from more than 30 unnamed companies, educational institutions and other entities.” reads the press release published by the DoJ. Now the U.S.

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AUGUST 21, 2019

Security experts at FireEye observed Chinese APT41 APT group targeting a web server at a U.S.-based The group hit entities in several industries, including the gaming, healthcare, high-tech, higher education, telecommunications, and travel services industries. based research university took place on April 2019.

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APRIL 29, 2021

Experts from Kaspersky explained that in February 2019, multiple antivirus companies received a collection of malware samples, some of them cannot be associated with the activity of known APT groups. . In November 2019, ESET researchers discovered a new downloader, dubbed DePriMon, that used new “Port Monitor” methods in attacks in the wild.

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APRIL 8, 2023

Nominate here: [link] Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, CISA) The post CISA adds Veritas Backup Exec flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog appeared first on Security Affairs.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Security experts at vpnMentor have discovered a huge data leak affecting Ecuador that exposed data belonging to 20 million Ecuadorian Citizens. “In Ecuador, the term “cédula” or “cédula de identidad” refers to a person’s ten-digit national identification number, similar to a social security number in the US. Pierluigi Paganini.

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APRIL 19, 2023

According to the investigators, in July 2019, Dubnikov laundered more than $400,000 in Ryuk ransom proceeds. According to a joint report published in January 2021 by security firms Advanced-intel and HYAS, Ryuk operators earned, at the time of publishing the analysis, more than $150 million worth of Bitcoin from ransom paid by their victims.

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MARCH 18, 2019

UK intelligence agency GCHQ, as part of the celebration of its centenary , has released emulators for World War II cipher machines that can be executed in the encryption app CyberChef released for educational purposes. link] #GCHQ100 pic.twitter.com/t2ixVE6j7H — GCHQ (@GCHQ) March 14, 2019. Security Affairs – GCHQ , CyberChef ).

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NOVEMBER 24, 2020

” states a security notice published by the company. The hackers were able to modify the DNS records for the NiceHash.com domain and the company was forced to immediately frozen all wallet activity to secure all user’s funds. At the time of this writing, GoDaddy did not provide details about the attacks that have happened.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

pic.twitter.com/SvpbeslrCd — vx-underground (@vxunderground) February 19, 2024 LockBit is a prominent ransomware operation that first emerged in September 2019. Lockbit ransomware group administrative staff has confirmed with us their websites have been seized.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2022

According to the experts, the SockDetour backdoor has been in the wild since at least July 2019. The attackers successfully compromised more than a dozen organizations across multiple industries, including technology, energy, healthcare, education, finance and defense. based defense contractors appeared first on Security Affairs.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

This incident is the latest in a long line of cyber attacks on the education sector. It followed August’s ransomware attack on the education administrator Blackbaud , in which students’ phone numbers, donation history and events attendance were all compromised. Cyber Security as a Service. Ransomware epidemic.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 22, 2024

22, 2024, CyberNewsWire — INE Security , a global cybersecurity training and certification provider, recently launched initiatives with several higher education institutions in an ongoing campaign to invest in the education of aspiring cybersecurity professionals. Cary, NC, Aug.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 14, 2023

” The FCC tweet also provided a link to the agency’s awareness page on juice jacking , which was originally published in advance of the Thanksgiving Holiday in 2019 but was updated in 2021 and then again shortly after the FBI’s tweet was picked up by the news media. This scam is referred to as juice jacking.”

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JULY 8, 2020

Since March 2019, Fxmsp announced in cybercrime forums the availability of information stolen from major antivirus companies located in the U.S. In 2019, Fxmsp confirmed to have breached the networks of some security companies and to have obtained long-term access. Attorney Brian T. Pierluigi Paganini.

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JUNE 29, 2022

This may include software architects, designers, developers, testers, users, project managers, security researchers, educators, and contributors to standards developing organizations (SDOs).” The post Mitre shared 2022 CWE Top 25 most dangerous software weaknesses appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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APRIL 25, 2019

Experts uncovered hacking campaigns exploiting two critical security vulnerabilities in the popular WordPress plugin Social Warfare. Experts uncovered hacking campaigns exploiting two critical security vulnerabilities in the Social Warfare plugin to take control over WordPress websites using it. version of the plugin.

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