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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

FritzFrog P2P botnet is back and is targeting servers belonging to entities in the healthcare, education, and government sectors. The bot is written in Golang and implements wormable capabilities, experts reported attacks against entities in the government, education, and finance sectors. ” reads the report published by Akamai.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Researchers discovered a vulnerability in the code of the Rhysida ransomware that allowed them to develop a decryption tool. The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2023

Ransomware operators use the AuKill tool to disable EDR software through Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) attack. Sophos researchers reported that threat actors are using a previously undocumented defense evasion tool, dubbed AuKill, to disable endpoint detection and response (EDR) software.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2023

China-linked APT41 group used the open-source red teaming tool GC2 in an attack against a Taiwanese media organization. Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) team reported that the China-linked APT41 group used the open-source red teaming tool Google Command and Control ( GC2 ) in an attack against an unnamed Taiwanese media organization.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 14, 2022

Enterprise cybersecurity traditionally prevents such attacks in two ways: staff education, giving employees the tools they need to recognize and report suspicious emails that land in their inboxes; along with cybersecurity solutions , which prevent malicious emails from reaching inboxes in the first place. Current solutions.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2023

Vice Society ransomware operators have been spotted using a PowerShell tool to exfiltrate data from compromised networks. Threat actors are using the PowerShell tool to evade software and/or human-based security detection mechanisms. “Vice Society’s PowerShell data exfiltration script is a simple tool for data exfiltration.

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Collaboration 2.0

AUGUST 15, 2024

Though it will be available to any user, the new tool is targeted to the education market in particular. Grammarly Authorship will attempt to detect whether AI, a human, or a combination of the two created content.

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Collaboration 2.0

AUGUST 15, 2024

Though it will be available to any user, the new tool is targeted to the education market in particular. Grammarly Authorship will attempt to detect whether AI, a human, or a combination of the two created content.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2021

Chashell is a reverse shell over DNS provider, while Chisel is a port-forwarding tool. The malware was recently employed in attacks against large US schools and education organizations. . The Trojan leverages the gobfuscate GoLang tool for obfuscation. The first variant of the RAT was less sophisticated and poorly obfuscated.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

The Estonian man is accused of having helped the Russian government and military to purchase US-made electronics and hacking tools. “Shevlyakov also attempted to acquire computer hacking tools.” hacking tools and electronics appeared first on Security Affairs. ” reads a press release published by DoJ.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2024

Cisa added the flaw to the KEV catalog after Microsoft reported that the Russia-linked APT28 group (aka “ Forest Blizzard ”, “ Fancybear ” or “ Strontium ” used a previously unknown tool, dubbed GooseEgg, to exploit the Windows Print Spooler flaw CVE-2022-38028.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In the most recent campaign, the group targeted organizations in the communications, manufacturing, utility, transportation, construction, maritime, government, information technology, and education sectors. The group also relies on customized versions of open-source tools for C2 communications and stay under the radar.

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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. The tool sqlextractor (binary name sql.net4.exe)

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 20, 2025

Customers Question Why PowerSource Support Tool Had Direct Access to Their Systems Educational software-maker PowerSchool faces over 20 lawsuits seeking class-action status, filed in the wake of a massive data breach involving current and former student and faculty data being held by an as-yet-unknown number of school districts across the U.S.,

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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. million.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The threat actor has been active since July 2022, it was observed targeting organizations in the education, healthcare, IT, and manufacturing sectors. Microsoft observed the financially motivated threat actor tracked as Vanilla Tempest using INC ransomware for the first time to target the healthcare sector in the United States.

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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 group relies on living off-the-land techniques such as native (built into the operating system) network administration tools to perform malicious operations.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 14, 2022

The problem is that there are no available tools that can help end users understand the intricate and complex world of online private data protection and privacy policies behind it. Let’s try to scope such a tool by answering a couple of questions. What should this tool do exactly, what kind of added value is expected for end users?

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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. MOVEit Transfer is a file transfer tool used by many organizations, including the Clearinghouse, to support the transfer of data files.” We have also coordinated with law enforcement.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 21, 2022

Firm's Largest Acquisition to Extend User Education to Small to Midsized Clients Huntress has made the largest acquisition in its eight-year history, buying Curricula to boost user education.

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Collaboration 2.0

JUNE 21, 2024

With the sudden arrival of ChatGPT, educators and editors face a worrying surge of automated content submissions. We look at the problem and what can be done about it.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2024

The attacks were observed as recently as February 2024, they targeted government, education, emergency services, healthcare, and other critical infrastructure sectors. Phobos intrusions also involved the use of various open-source tools, including Smokeloader, Cobalt Strike , and Bloodhound. ” reads the joint CSA.

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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. The group relies on living off-the-land techniques such as native (built into the operating system) network administration tools to perform malicious operations.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2024

Educate and protect users and investors To effectively counter cybercrime, it is essential to understand the nature and techniques used by criminals. Prevention comes through educating users and taking robust security measures to protect their digital assets. Education improves awareness” is his slogan.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

As of April 28, the site mentioned nine companies primarily from aviation, financial, education and manufacturing industries. This tool is also used for enabling lateral movement capability with obtained hashes and mimikatz’s sekurlsa::pth. In addition, the group leveraged some custom tools for network reconnaissance.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2024

The group targeted multiple industries, including media and communications, telecoms, technology, healthcare, and education and government entities. ” Earth Baku uses publicly available reverse tunneling tools to maintain control access in post-exploitation activities. . ” reads the report published by Trend Micro.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The malware was used in attacks against multiple industries, including education, real estate, retail, non-profit organizations, telecom companies, and governments. The backdoor is written in.NET and leverages the domain name service (DNS) protocol to establish a covert communication channel with the command and control infrastructure.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The activity was characterized by the use of a combination of rare tools and techniques to gain access to the target network and collect intelligence from sensitive IIS server. The previous campaigns associated with this group targeted government, education, and electronic manufacturers in East Asia and the Middle East.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 11, 2022

Essential security tool. Post Covid 19, these patterns are likely to become even more engrained as digitally remote work, education, healthcare and entertainment activities predominate. Yet in the consumer and SMB space, VPNs role as an essential privacy and security tool for individuals and small companies appears to be solidifying.

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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. The group relies on living off-the-land techniques such as native (built into the operating system) network administration tools to perform malicious operations.

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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. The group relies on living off-the-land techniques such as native (built into the operating system) network administration tools to perform malicious operations.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Based on Ransomlooker, a free Cybernews tool for monitoring the dark web and other hidden areas of the internet, 64% of organizations have already suffered from a ransomware attack. Why should employers educate employees about cyber security? Furthermore, it’s estimated that this sum will increase to nearly $24 trillion by 2027.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2024

The Akira ransomware has been active since March 2023, the threat actors behind the malware claim to have already hacked multiple organizations in multiple industries, including education, finance, and real estate. Akira threat actors also use credential scraping tools like Mimikatz and LaZagne to aid in privilege escalation.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Resecurity researchers dumped Gigabytes of data from Agent Tesla C2Cs, one of the most well-known cyberespionage tools suffers a data leakage. Researchers found active instances of Agent Tesla and developed a mechanism to enumerate the affected clients and extract compromised data. In some cases, we saw obvious patterns of cybercriminals.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The Sabbath ransomware gang has targeted critical infrastructure, including education, health, and natural resources in the United States and Canada. This highlights how well-known tools, such as BEACON, can lead to impactful and lucrative incidents even when leveraged by lesser-known groups.”

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