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Slashdot: Amazon Confirms Employee Data Stolen After Hacker Claims MOVEit Breach

Nov 11, 2024

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Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/11/11/2124251/amazon-confirms-employee-data-stolen-after-hacker-claims-moveit-breach?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Amazon Confirms Employee Data Stolen After Hacker Claims MOVEit Breach Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Amazon has confirmed a data breach linked to a third-party vendor, exposing employee contact information but not sensitive data. This incident raises important questions about third-party risk management and security controls.…

The Register: Alleged Snowflake attacker gets busted by Canadians – politely, we assume

Nov 11, 2024

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/11/infosec_in_brief/ Source: The Register Title: Alleged Snowflake attacker gets busted by Canadians – politely, we assume Feedly Summary: Also: Crypto hacks will continue; CoD hacker gets thousands banned, and more in brief One of the suspected masterminds behind the widespread Snowflake breach has been arrested in Canada – but the saga isn’t over,…

Hacker News: Windows Process Injection

Nov 9, 2024

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Source URL: https://www.outflank.nl/blog/2024/10/15/introducing-early-cascade-injection-from-windows-process-creation-to-stealthy-injection/ Source: Hacker News Title: Windows Process Injection Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text introduces a novel process injection technique dubbed Early Cascade Injection, which enhances existing methods by executing more stealthily against Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) systems. The author provides a detailed technical analysis of Windows…

Cloud Blog: (In)tuned to Takeovers: Abusing Intune Permissions for Lateral Movement and Privilege Escalation in Entra ID Native Environments

Nov 6, 2024

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/abusing-intune-permissions-entra-id-environments/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: (In)tuned to Takeovers: Abusing Intune Permissions for Lateral Movement and Privilege Escalation in Entra ID Native Environments Feedly Summary: Written by: Thibault Van Geluwe de Berlaere, Karl Madden, Corné de Jong The Mandiant Red Team recently supported a client to visualize the possible impact of a compromise by…

Schneier on Security: IoT Devices in Password-Spraying Botnet

Nov 6, 2024

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Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/11/iot-devices-in-password-spraying-botnet.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: IoT Devices in Password-Spraying Botnet Feedly Summary: Microsoft is warning Azure cloud users that a Chinese controlled botnet is engaging in “highly evasive” password spraying. Not sure about the “highly evasive” part; the techniques seem basically what you get in a distributed password-guessing attack: “Any threat actor…

The Register: Public sector cyber break-ins: Our money, our lives, our right to know

Nov 4, 2024

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/04/public_sector_breakins_opinion/ Source: The Register Title: Public sector cyber break-ins: Our money, our lives, our right to know Feedly Summary: Is that a walrus in your server logs, or aren’t you pleased to see me? Opinion At the start of September, Transport for London was hit by a major cyber attack. TfL is the…

The Register: 6 IT contractors arrested for defrauding Uncle Sam out of millions

Nov 3, 2024

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/03/6_it_contractors_arrested_for/ Source: The Register Title: 6 IT contractors arrested for defrauding Uncle Sam out of millions Feedly Summary: Also, ecommerce fraud ring disrupted, another Operation Power Off victory, Sino SOHO botnet spotted, and more in brief The US Department of Justice has charged six people with two separate schemes to defraud Uncle Sam…

Microsoft Security Blog: Midnight Blizzard conducts large-scale spear-phishing campaign using RDP files

Nov 1, 2024

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Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/10/29/midnight-blizzard-conducts-large-scale-spear-phishing-campaign-using-rdp-files/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: Midnight Blizzard conducts large-scale spear-phishing campaign using RDP files Feedly Summary: Since October 22, 2024, Microsoft Threat Intelligence has observed Russian threat actor Midnight Blizzard sending a series of highly targeted spear-phishing emails to individuals in government, academia, defense, non-governmental organizations, and other sectors. This activity is…

Microsoft Security Blog: Chinese threat actor Storm-0940 uses credentials from password spray attacks from a covert network

Nov 1, 2024

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Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/10/31/chinese-threat-actor-storm-0940-uses-credentials-from-password-spray-attacks-from-a-covert-network/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: Chinese threat actor Storm-0940 uses credentials from password spray attacks from a covert network Feedly Summary: Since August 2023, Microsoft has observed intrusion activity targeting and successfully stealing credentials from multiple Microsoft customers that is enabled by highly evasive password spray attacks. Microsoft has linked the source…

Alerts: Foreign Threat Actor Conducting Large-Scale Spear-Phishing Campaign with RDP Attachments

Oct 31, 2024

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Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/10/31/foreign-threat-actor-conducting-large-scale-spear-phishing-campaign-rdp-attachments Source: Alerts Title: Foreign Threat Actor Conducting Large-Scale Spear-Phishing Campaign with RDP Attachments Feedly Summary: CISA has received multiple reports of a large-scale spear-phishing campaign targeting organizations in several sectors, including government and information technology (IT). The foreign threat actor, often posing as a trusted entity, is sending spear-phishing emails containing malicious…

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