Cyber Defense Advisors

Month: March 2023

Russian Cyberwarfare Documents Leaked

Now this is interesting: Thousands of pages of secret documents reveal how Vulkan’s engineers have worked for Russian military and intelligence agencies to support hacking operations, train operatives before attacks on national infrastructure, spread disinformation and control sections of the internet. The company’s work is linked to the federal security service or FSB, the domestic […]

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Report: Terrible employee passwords at world’s largest companies

Find out the most commonly used weak passwords by industry and country, according to NordPass. Plus, get tips on creating strong passwords. The post Report: Terrible employee passwords at world’s largest companies appeared first on TechRepublic.

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  • March 30, 2023

Automatic Updates Deliver Malicious 3CX ‘Upgrades’ to Enterprises

In a Solar Winds-like attack, compromised, digitally signed versions of 3CX DesktopApp are landing on user systems via the vendor’s update mechanism.

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Report: Terrible employee passwords at world’s largest companies

Find out the most commonly used weak passwords by industry and country, according to NordPass. Plus, get tips on creating strong passwords. The post Report: Terrible employee passwords at world’s largest companies appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Report: Terrible employee passwords at world’s largest companies

Find out the most commonly used weak passwords by industry and country, according to NordPass. Plus, get tips on creating strong passwords. The post Report: Terrible employee passwords at world’s largest companies appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Report: Terrible employee passwords at world’s largest companies

Find out the most commonly used weak passwords by industry and country, according to NordPass. Plus, get tips on creating strong passwords. The post Report: Terrible employee passwords at world’s largest companies appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Report: Terrible employee passwords at world’s largest companies

Find out the most commonly used weak passwords by industry and country, according to NordPass. Plus, get tips on creating strong passwords. The post Report: Terrible employee passwords at world’s largest companies appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Volume of HTTPS Phishing Sites Surges 56% Annually

Scammers are increasingly trying to legitimize their efforts

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  • March 30, 2023

AlienFox Malware Targets API Keys and Secrets from AWS, Google, and Microsoft Cloud Services

A new “comprehensive toolset” called AlienFox is being distributed on Telegram as a way for threat actors to harvest credentials from API keys and secrets from popular cloud service providers. “The spread of AlienFox represents an unreported trend towards attacking more minimal cloud services, unsuitable for crypto mining, in order to enable and expand subsequent campaigns,” SentinelOne […]

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