Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Rarely do cybercriminal gangs that deploy ransomware gain the initial access to the target themselves. More commonly, that access is purchased from a cybercriminal broker who specializes in acquiring remote access credentials — such as usernames and passwords needed to remotely connect to the target’s network.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Storm-2372s targets during this time have included government, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), information technology (IT) services and technology, defense, telecommunications, health, higher education, and energy/oil and gas in Europe, North America, Africa, and the Middle East.” ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Fortinet warns of a patched FortiWLM vulnerability that could allow admin access and sensitive information disclosure. Fortinet warned of a now-patched Wireless LAN Manager (FortiWLM) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-34990 (CVSS score of 9.6), that could lead to admin access and sensitive information disclosure. through 8.6.5

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Collaboration 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2023

A brand, best known for its lion roaring for over a century, has leaked access to its user data in Peru. The company has also leaked the credentials needed to access the dataset. If exposed, such information could enable the threat actor to impersonate a victim and access applications illegitimately.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

“According to the indictment, Ptitsyn facilitated the worldwide use of a dangerous ransomware strain to target corporations and various organizations, including government agencies, healthcare facilities, educational institutions, and critical infrastructure.

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Collaboration 2.0

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Revenue, Size, Geography and Level of Access Help Determine Sale Price for Access The most sought-after type of victim for ransomware-wielding attackers is a large, U.S.-based

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 23, 2024

INE Security , a leading provider of cybersecurity training and certifications, today shared its cybersecurity training for cyber hygiene practices for small businesses, underscoring the critical role of continuous education in safeguarding digital assets.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2022

The FBI warns organizations in the higher education sector of credentials sold on cybercrime forums that can allow threat actors to access their networks. The FBI has observed incidents of stolen higher education credential information posted on publically accessible online forums or listed for sale on criminal marketplaces.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2021

. “These actors are utilizing advanced knowledge of enterprise networking and security misconfigurations to achieve lateral movement and gain access to the victim’s environments.” The malware was recently employed in attacks against large US schools and education organizations. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Josh Renaud alerted Missouri education department officials that their website was exposing the Social Security numbers of more than 100,000 primary and secondary teachers in the state. Renaud found teachers’ SSNs were accessible in the HTML source code of some Missouri education department webpages.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2024

Hackers breached the mobile device management (MDM) firm Mobile Guardian, the company detected unauthorized access to iOS and ChromeOS devices on August 4th. The Ministry of Education (MOE) in Singapore confirmed that the incident heavily impacted students in the country. ” reported the MOE.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 5, 2025

Microsoft reported that China-linked APT group Silk Typhoon has shifted tactics to target IT solutions like remote management tools and cloud apps for initial access. Though not directly attacking Microsoft cloud services, they exploit unpatched apps to escalate privileges and gain access to customer networks.

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Collaboration 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2024

Microsoft's new unified Teams app enables you to switch between different cloud environments and accounts for personal and work access.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 14, 2022

Threat actors carried out smishing attacks on nearly 10,000 Autralian higher education students enrolled at Deakin University and downloaded PII of about 47,000 students. Hackers compromised an employee's credentials to access the university's third-party SMS solutions provider to execute the attack.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The man is accused of multiple crimes, including the discovery and disclosure of secrets, illegal access to computer systems, computer damage and money laundering. ” reads the press release published by the Spanish Police. During the search, the agents seized cryptocurrencies and various computer equipment.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

educational nonprofit organization National Student Clearinghouse disclosed a data breach that impacted approximately 900 US schools. The vulnerability is a SQL injection vulnerability, it can be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to gain unauthorized access to MOVEit Transfer’s database. “a

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OpenText Information Management

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

But before then, we’ll be sharing proprietary research from the upcoming State of Secure Information Management where we explore strategies to enable secure access and protect sensitive data. This presents an opportunity for education and training programs in the industry.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Louis Post-Dispatch ran a story about how its staff discovered and reported a security vulnerability in a Missouri state education website that exposed the Social Security numbers of 100,000 elementary and secondary teachers. “A hacker is someone who gains unauthorized access to information or content. On Wednesday, the St.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Gmail client-side encryption (CSE) is now available for Workspace Enterprise Plus, Education Plus, and Education Standard customers. Google announced that Gmail client-side encryption (CSE) is now available for all Google Workspace Enterprise Plus, Education Plus, and Education Standard customers.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2021

CyberNews researchers found an exposed configuration file hosted on a Sky.com subdomain, containing what appear to be production-level database access credentials, as well as addresses to development endpoints. Access to the configuration file has now been disabled. Who had access? Original post @ [link]. What’s the impact?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2024

The group continued to carry out password spray attacks targeting the educational sector for infrastructure procurement and focused on the satellite, government, and defense sectors for intelligence gathering. They also leveraged compromised accounts from educational institutions to create additional Azure tenants.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. VPNs, RDPs) to gain initial access to the target network and maintain persistence. The group relied on compromised credentials to authenticate to internal VPN access points.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

A Reddit user with the handle ‘Educational-Map-8145’ published a proof of concept exploit for a zero-day flaw in the Linux client of Atlas VPN. This port can be accessed by ANY program running on the computer, including the browser.” The exploit code works against the latest version of the client, 1.0.3. .

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The group managed to maintain access without being detected for as long as possible. In the most recent campaign, the group targeted organizations in the communications, manufacturing, utility, transportation, construction, maritime, government, information technology, and education sectors. and Guam without being detected.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Cisco warns that a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2023-20269) in Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) is actively exploited by ransomware groups to gain initial access to corporate networks. The group now is targeting Cisco VPN products to gain initial access to corporate networks. or earlier).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

This mode limits the user’s ability to close the browser or access other applications, making it easier for hackers to obtain the desired information. Why and how to protect ourselves Once the credentials are stolen, hackers can use them to access various online accounts, including banking, e-mail, and social media accounts.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2021

The list was published with the intent of raising awareness of common hardware weaknesses through CWE and educating designers and programmers on how to address them as part of the product development lifecycle. . The list includes a total of 12 vulnerabilities entries that had a score from 1.03 to 1.42 (the highest possible score was 2.0).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2024

Microsoft has observed APT28 using GooseEgg in post-compromise activities against various targets, including government, non-governmental, education, and transportation sector organizations in Ukraine, Western Europe, and North America. This tool modifies a JavaScript constraints file and executes it with SYSTEM-level permissions.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Iran-linked Agonizing Serpens group (aka Agrius , BlackShadow , Pink Sandstorm , DEV-0022 ) has been targeting Israeli organizations in higher education and tech sectors with destructive cyber attacks since January 2023. Based on our telemetry, the most targeted organizations belong to the education and technology sectors.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. VPNs, RDPs) to gain initial access to the target network and maintain persistence. The group relied on compromised credentials to authenticate to internal VPN access points.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. VPNs, RDPs) to gain initial access to the target network and maintain persistence. The group relied on compromised credentials to authenticate to internal VPN access points.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Google introduces end-to-end encryption for Gmail web to its Workspace and education customers to protect emails sent using the web client. The IT giant announced that the client-side encryption in Gmail on the web will be available in beta for Google Workspace Enterprise Plus, Education Plus, and Education Standard customers.

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CILIP

MARCH 5, 2025

Establishing value in transitional agreements and open access publishing Transformative agreements (TAs) were designed to bring about a global transition from paywalled content to open access. However, assessing the value is complicated by other benefits an agreement may offer like additional access to content for all users (i.e.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. VPNs, RDPs) to gain initial access to the target network and maintain persistence. The group relied on compromised credentials to authenticate to internal VPN access points.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

authoring agencies have recently observed indications of Volt Typhoon actors maintaining access and footholds within some victim IT environments for at least five years,” reads the alert. “the U.S. The Volt Typhoon group has been active since at least mid-2021 it carried out cyber operations against critical infrastructure.

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