Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
Honeypot Hits Reinforce Need for Strong Passwords and Multifactor Authentication Honeypot data collected by CISO Jesse La Grew highlights how attackers continue to target default usernames - including for SSH - together with weak passwords to gain brute force remote access to their targets.
Security Affairs
JUNE 8, 2020
Akamai security researcher Larry Cashdollar discovered the campaign after his honeypot was hit by the malware. Once the malicious code has guessed the admin password, Stealthworker installs and deletes various components. Once the malicious code has guessed the admin password, Stealthworker installs and deletes various components.
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Scale of Long-Running Attacks 'Unprecedented,' Warns The Shadowserver Foundation Honeypots designed to track malicious internet activity have detected a surge in brute-force password login attempts against edge devices, and especially - but not exclusively - targeting equipment manufactured by Palo Alto Networks, Ivanti and SonicWall, said The Shadowserver (..)
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 25, 2018
Threat actors are attempting to exploit a flaw in Orange LiveBox ADSL modems to retrieve their SSID and WiFi password in plaintext. Experts at Bad Packets observed a scan targeting their honeypot, further investigation allowed them to discover that they were leaking the local network access details. admin/admin).
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 12, 2021
Researchers at NetLab 360 reported that their Anglerfish and Apacket honeypots were already hit by attacks attempting to trigger the Log4Shell flaw in the Log4j library. ssh/authorized_keys file, the attacker can directly log into the remote server without password authentication. After the public key is added to the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
The researchers set up a honeypot to collect data on infected IoT devices, the way threat actors infect IoT devices and what families of malware are involved. Top 10 countries from which Kaspersky traps were hit by Telnet password attacks is led by Brazil, China, and Japan. What is infecting IoT devices and how?
Security Affairs
JANUARY 12, 2024
The SonicWall researchers discovered that the magic string requirePasswordChange=Y is the root cause of the authentication bypass regardless of the username and password field or other parameters in an HTTP request. The experts pointed out that almost all of these are honeypots.
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