The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 7, 2023

Related: How AI can relieve security pros What causes spam emails? Leaked email: Companies or third-party vendors put email address security at risk when they experience data breaches. Typically, scammers want to get ahold of an email because it’s a gold mine of information. Spam emails are a security concern.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2024

security flaws in JetBrains TeamCity to deploy multiple malware families and gain administrative control over impacted systems. In early March, Rapid7 researchers disclosed two new critical security vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2024-27198 (CVSS score: 9.8) and CVE-2024-27199 (CVSS score:7.3), in JetBrains TeamCity On-Premises.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 26, 2024

“For some reason, PeopleDataLabs has three profiles that come up when you search for my info, and two of them are mine but one is an elementary school teacher from the midwest,” Patel said. “Ken” is a security industry veteran who spoke on condition of anonymity. ” Ken said.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2023

ssh/authorized_keys, anyone with the corresponding private key can authenticate the SSH server without supplying a password. Initially, they deployed and executed a separate Monero miner alongside the usual RapperBot binary, but starting from January 2023, they included the mining capabilities in the bot. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Software giant Atlassian released emergency security updates to address a critical zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-22515 (CVSS score 10), in its Confluence Data Center and Server software. Atlassian fixed a critical zero-day flaw in its Confluence Data Center and Server software, which has been exploited in the wild. and later.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 21, 2020

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday issued a joint alert to warn about the growing threat from voice phishing or “ vishing ” attacks targeting companies. authenticate the phone call before sensitive information can be discussed.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2021

In recent months the number of cyberattacks against misconfigured Kybernetes systems has surged, threat actors mainly used the to illegally mine cryptocurrencies. The guidance details the security challenges associated with setting up and securing a Kubernetes cluster. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2021

The TeamTNT botnet is a crypto-mining malware operation that has been active since April 2020 and that targets Docker installs. The activity of the TeamTNT group has been detailed by security firm Trend Micro, but in August experts from Cado Security discovered that that botnet is also able to target misconfigured Kubernetes installations.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2023

The crypto-miner Kinsing was first spotted by security firm Aqua Security in April 2020, at the time the experts spotted threat actors scanning the Internet for Docker servers running API ports exposed without a password. The Kinsing malware abuses the resources of the Docker installations to mine cryptocurrency.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Akamai Security Research discovered a new evasive Golang-based malware, tracked as KmsdBot, that infects systems via an SSH connection that uses weak login credentials. The malware was employed in cryptocurrency mining campaigns and to launch denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Use public key authentication for your SSH connections.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2024

Indeed, while anonymity provides privacy and security for transactions, it can also be exploited by criminals for illicit activities, such as money laundering , drug trafficking, illegal arms sales, and terrorist financing. Prevention comes through educating users and taking robust security measures to protect their digital assets.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

Our continued reliance on passwords for authentication has contributed to one toxic data spill or hack after another. There, denizens with computer rigs that are built primarily for mining virtual currencies can set to work using those systems to crack passwords.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 4, 2020

One of the most-read advice columns on this site is a 2018 piece called “ Plant Your Flag, Mark Your Territory ,” which tried to impress upon readers the importance of creating accounts at websites like those at the Social Security Administration , the IRS and others before crooks do it for you. DHS’s myE-Verify homepage.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Trend Micro researchers have spotted crypto-mining campaigns that are actively exploiting a recently disclosed critical remote code execution vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence deployments across Windows and Linux. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cryptocurrency mining). reads the advisory published by the company. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

LastPass says the changes are needed to ensure all customers are protected by their latest security improvements. That story cited research from Adblock Plus creator Wladimir Palant , who said LastPass failed to upgrade many older, original customers to more secure encryption protections that were offered to newer customers over the years.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2021

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2022

The malware supports a broad range of features, including the ability to steal credentials, cookies, and bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA) codes. MaliBot disguises itself as a cryptocurrency mining app named “Mining X” or “The CryptoApp”, experts also observed the malicious code masqueraded as “MySocialSecurity” and “Chrome” apps. .

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

And in May of this year, GoDaddy disclosed that 28,000 of its customers’ web hosting accounts were compromised following a security incident in Oct. 17 was not related to a security incident, but rather a technical issue that materialized during planned network maintenance. 2019 that wasn’t discovered until April 2020.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 16, 2019

Related podcast: Securing software containers. As beneficial as Kubernetes is for orchestrating containerized environments, a maturing set of security best practices must be adhered to for enterprises to ensure that their applications and data are as safe as possible from emerging vulnerabilities and exploits. Best Practices.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 17, 2021

An authenticated attacker could execute arbitrary commands as the root user on the underlying system via the SAML server configuration page. Experts pointed out that the flaw could be chained with an authentication bypass flaw that could allow an attacker. The vulnerability impacts Fortinet FortiWeb versions 6.3.11 Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 11, 2022

Many of the basic principles for securing a data lake will be familiar to anyone who has secured a cloud security storage container. Essentially, we are securing an app at scale with enormous requirements for stored data, incoming data, data interactions, and network connections. Data Lake Security Scope.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2020

As first reported here last year , First American’s website exposed 16 years worth of digitized mortgage title insurance records — including bank account numbers and statements, mortgage and tax records, Social Security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and drivers license images. In the days that followed, the DFS and U.S.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Security researchers from Palo Alto Networks have discovered a new botnet, tracked as PgMiner, that targets PostgreSQL databases running on Linux servers to install a cryptocurrency miner. “We believe PGMiner is the first cryptocurrency mining botnet that is delivered via PostgreSQL.” ” continues the analysis.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 18, 2018

Convenience must be delicately balanced against security. The recent series of strategic moves made by VASCO Data Security underscore this seismic shift in banking services. VASCO long ago established itself as a leading supplier of authentication technology to 2,000 banks worldwide. This, of course, is a tall task.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 22, 2024

Once released, the PoC starts the clock for active attacks, especially for security tools, as demonstrated in active attacks on Palo Alto’s PAN-OS vulnerability fixed the week before. Unless major security players [adopt] secure-by-design architectures, this trend will only accelerate due to platformization and consolidation.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2022

The issue was reported by security firm Volexity, the company announced the availability of the security fixes for supported versions of Confluence within 24 hours (estimated time, by EOD June 3 PDT). Security Affairs is one of the finalists for the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2022

Akamai security researchers discovered a new Golang-based P2P Botnet, tracked as Panchan, that is targeting Linux servers that has been active since March 2022. ” The botnet is engaged in cryptomining activity, the malicious code has been designed to hijack the computer’s resources to mine cryptocurrencies.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The tool is not designed to be exposed on the Internet, however, researchers spotted tens thousands Redis instance publicly accessible without authentication. SecurityAffairs – hacking, mining). The post Over 39K unauthenticated Redis services on the internet targeted in cryptocurrency campaign appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 18, 2019

My thinking at the time was that it would make the data more easily accessible to more people to go and do awesome things; build mobile clients, integrate into security tools and surface more information to more people to enable them to do positive and constructive things with the data. There is no rate limiting. There is no cost.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2020

Postal Service, the credit bureaus or the Social Security Administration, it’s a good idea to do so for several reasons. Adding multi-factor authentication (MFA) at these various providers (where available) and/or establishing a customer-specific personal identification number (PIN) also can help secure online access.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 22, 2023

How Thales and Red Hat Secure Kubernetes Data in a 5G World madhav Fri, 06/23/2023 - 05:03 The Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) that operate 5G mobile broadband networks face many challenges related to their highly distributed infrastructure. Using Kubernetes out of the box presents several challenges for security admins.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 22, 2023

How Thales and Red Hat Secure Kubernetes Data in a 5G World madhav Fri, 06/23/2023 - 05:03 The Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) that operate 5G mobile broadband networks face many challenges related to their highly distributed infrastructure. Using Kubernetes out of the box presents several challenges for security admins.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2023

shc executables are typically used as loaders and prepare the system for mining via Diicot’s custom fork of XMRig, along with registering persistence.” This campaign specifically targets SSH servers exposed to the internet with password authentication enabled. ” reads the report published by Cado.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 17, 2020

The company, based in Petach Tikvah, Israel, addresses the problem via a “virtual Hardware Security Module” as opposed to the traditional method of using physical infrastructure. PKI is the authentication and encryption framework on which the Internet is built. But no one ever sees the number seven.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2019

By leveraging the combination of stolen login credentials, web cookies, and SMS data, based on past attacks like this, we believe the bad actors could bypass multi-factor authentication for these sites. Experts believe the threat actors could bypass multifactor authentication for the sites for which they are able to steal associated info.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 16, 2024

The dispute between Ray’s developers and security researchers highlights hidden assumptions and teaches lessons for AI security, internet-exposed assets, and vulnerability scanning through an understanding of ShadowRay. The tool boasts a customer list that includes DoorDash, LinkedIn, Netflix, OpenAI, Uber, and many others.

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