Security Affairs

AUGUST 2, 2020

and foreign government organizations. and foreign government organizations. and foreign government organizations, education entities, private companies, and health agencies by unidentified cyber actors.” Use two-factor authentication with strong passwords. ” reads the alert. public health organization.

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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. The victims of the group are “targets of opportunity.” ” reads the joint advisory.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2022

While no plaintext passwords or financial data was stolen, the hack did expose answers to security questions. government agencies. government agencies and large organizations were hit by cyberattacks due to a vulnerability in their IT infrastructure provider – SolarWinds. Organizations must have a robust password policy.

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2024

Attackers have also defaced websites and leaked data to launch influence campaigns against India’s government leaders, said researchers. The compromised credentials could have been obtained by intercepting login forms on popular Internet browsers or by accessing password storage on compromised devices.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

However, if you have a British Library login and your password is used elsewhere, we recommend changing it as a precautionary measure.” The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2024

A ransomware attack against the Finnish IT services provider Tietoevry disrupted the services of some Swedish government agencies and shops. ” reads an update published by the services provider. At present, Tietoevry cannot provide a definite timeframe for the complete restoration process due to the complexity of the security breach.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

Google sued by New Mexico attorney general for collecting student data through its Education Platform. ObliqueRAT, a new malware employed in attacks on government targets in Southeast Asia. FBI recommends using passphrases instead of complex passwords. ISS reveals malware attack impacted parts of the IT environment.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 13, 2022

These Russian cyber actors are government organizations and include other parties who take their orders from the Russian military or intelligence organizations – while not technically under government control. Educate your employees on threats and risks such as phishing and malware. Related: Cyber espionage is in a Golden Age.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2019

Group-IB specialists discovered 19 928 of Singaporean banks’ cards that have shown up for sale in the dark web in 2018 and found hundreds of compromised government portals’ credentials stolen by hackers throughout past 2 years. Users’ logins and passwords from the Government Technology Agency ( [link] [.]

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Experts observed a 400% increase in the number of attacks, compared with October, that hit government organizations. PYSA ransomware operators focus on large or high-value finance, government and healthcare organisations. Once compromised the target network, attackers attempt to exfiltrate the company’s accounts and passwords database.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

. “As early as 2022, APT28 actors had utilized compromised EdgeRouters to facilitate covert cyber operations against governments, militaries, and organizations around the world.” and foreign governments and military, security, and corporate organizations. Change any default usernames and passwords.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Simple or reused passwords are still a problem. While the cybersecurity industry has presented options for every netizen, the recommendation to use original and complex passwords continues to be disregarded. Instead, people come up with passwords that are comfortable. Poor credentials. What does this mean? Vicious insider.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Resilient Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) and Strong Passwords. This year, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) coordinate the collaboration between the government and industry, running a human-centric campaign themed “See Yourself in Cyber”.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2020

The BIG-IP product is an application delivery controller (ADC), it is used by government agencies and major business, including banks, services providers and IT giants like Facebook, Microsoft and Oracle. ” Threat actors exploited the CVE-2020-5902 flaw to obtain passwords, create web shells, and infect systems with various malware.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 5, 2021

In each incident, the intruders have left behind a “web shell,” an easy-to-use, password-protected hacking tool that can be accessed over the Internet from any browser. The web shell gives the attackers administrative access to the victim’s computer servers. based Volexity for reporting the vulnerabilities.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2023

Proofpoint researchers recently reported that a Russian hacking group, tracked as Winter Vivern (aka TA473), has been actively exploiting vulnerabilities ( CVE-2022-27926 ) in unpatched Zimbra instances to gain access to the emails of NATO officials, governments, military personnel, and diplomats. reads the post published by Proofpoint.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2020

Turchin obtained credentials to target networks by launching spear-phishing attacks and brute-forcing the passwords of remote desktop servers exposed online. Once the hacker gained access to the network, the deployed password-stealing malware and remote access trojans (RATs) to harvest credentials and establish persistence in the system.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

North Korea-linked APT Diamond Sleet supply chain attack relies on CyberLink software New InfectedSlurs Mirai-based botnet exploits two zero-days SiegedSec hacktivist group hacked Idaho National Laboratory (INL) CISA adds Looney Tunables Linux bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Enterprise software provider TmaxSoft leaks 2TB of data (..)

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. Click to enlarge. PEACE HOSTING?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) is warning of the North Korea-linked ARCHIPELAGO group that is targeting government and military personnel, think tanks, policy makers, academics, and researchers in South Korea, the US and elsewhere. The experts pointed out that ARCHIPELAGO focuses on building a rapport with targets.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 30, 2018

DataLocker honed its patented approach to manufacturing encrypted portable drives and landed some key military and government clients early on; the company has continued branching out ever since. All the user needs is a strong password to access to the data. You can pop it on a thumb drive, set the password, and overnight it.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2020

We have taken steps across our technology, processes and employee education, to help prevent these types of attacks in the future.” In cases where passwords are used, pick unique passwords and consider password managers. Nation-state level attackers also are taking a similar approach.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2020

The BIG-IP product is an application delivery controller (ADC), it is used by government agencies and major business, including banks, services providers and IT giants like Facebook, Microsoft and Oracle. Threat actors exploited the CVE-2020-5902 flaw to obtain passwords, create web shells, and infect systems with various malware.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2022

While people need usernames and passwords to identify themselves, machines also need to identify themselves to one another. But instead of usernames and passwords, machines use keys and certificates that serve as machine identities so they can connect and communicate securely. Instead, they focus only on protecting human identities.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

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

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2023

The attack took place in October 2022, threat actors sent phishing emails that contained links to a password-protected file hosted in Drive. Finally, the targeting of Taiwanese media illustrates the continued overlap of public sector threat actors targeting private sector organizations with limited government ties.

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2023

In the most recent campaign, the group targeted organizations in the communications, manufacturing, utility, transportation, construction, maritime, government, information technology, and education sectors. The Volt Typhoon group has been active since at least mid-2021 it carried out cyber operations against critical infrastructure.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2019

The STRONTIUM APT group (aka APT28 , Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , and Sednit ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election. ” continues Microsoft.

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Roger's Information Security

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

FTC Chief Technologist Lorrie Cranor wrote in March it is time to reconsider mandatory password changes. Unless there is reason to believe a password has been compromised or shared, requiring regular password changes may actually do more harm than good in some cases. The prime reason given is users pick bad passwords.

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IT Governance

APRIL 28, 2021

IT Governance discovered 351 security incidents in the first three months of 2021, which accounted for 3,222,491,299 breached records. We also place ransomware in its own category, due in part to the frequency of attacks and in order to differentiate it from intrusions that may be harder to detect, such as password breaches.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 6, 2022

This October is Cyber Security Awareness Month, an event designed to educate people about information security and the steps they can take to stay safe online. Both national governments and private organisations have supported the campaign and are running programmes online and in person. How IT Governance can help.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Best practice is to require teams to use enhanced security measures like strong passwords that are changed regularly and multi-factor authentication to ensure your team is the only one accessing financial information. Stay educated. These back-ups can also be used to form a disaster recovery plan in the event of a natural disaster.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

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

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IT Governance

JANUARY 24, 2024

Leon Teale is a senior penetration tester at IT Governance with more than ten years’ experience performing penetration tests for clients in various industries all over the world. In my research work for IT Governance, I’ve noticed a pattern where the same names repeatedly crop up. What else can organisations do to protect themselves?

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

However, the code is actually part of Facebook’s password reset mechanism. If the victim shares the code, the fraudster can use it change the victim’s password and take control of their account. This will send the one-time password to the victim’s account.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 7, 2017

This week, we discuss the NCSC’s warning to senior civil servants, the poor password habits of MPs, and a bug in the patch Apple rushed out last week. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 8 December 2017. Here are this week’s stories. This includes espionage, disruption and influence operations.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Weak passwords. Hackers can crack passwords in a variety of ways: Dictionary attacks : Hackers download a text file containing a list of words (usually from a dictionary) into a cracking application, and run it against user accounts located by the application. Rainbow tables : Most modern systems store passwords in a hash.

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