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The Attack in Plain English Last Tuesday March 2nd Microsoft announced that a Chinese Nation-State actor they called HAFNIUM had been utilizing four zero-day vulnerabilities on premises version of Microsoft Exchange.[1] Microsoft and other researchers say that the Chinese government had successfully penetrated and expanded into what was initially thought to be around 30,000 US companies and organizations. Since then, the number has been expanded to 60,000 companies and includes companies.

Compromising a Domain With the Help of a Spooler My job in the Cymulate Research Lab is to craft and implement attack scenarios for Cymulate customers to launch in their environment and increase their cyber-resilience. In this tech-blog post I will show how an attacker can gain access to corporate assets from an initial foothold by combining multiple techniques. The scenario is performed in two stages. In the first stage we will abuse unconstrained delegation and use techniques to enumerate.

Strategic Value: Proven by Customer Data As a veteran cybersecurity professional, I get excited when I find a solution that is both strategic and disruptive. Things that simplify, accelerate and optimize my customer’s ability to adapt to changing threats is paramount to me. These elements lead to enterprises minimizing risks, enabling business and building skills. It leads to happier and more confident individuals, teams and companies. Continuous Security Validation through breach attack.

  February 2021 remained active by threat actors, launching cyberattacks and new malware strains. We saw that organizations working on COVID-19 vaccines remained popular targets. During the month, threat actors attacked an Oxford University lab, which is researching and producing COVID-19 vaccines. They were able to gain access to its internal systems, including machines used to prepare biochemical samples. In addition to Oxford University, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, overworked hospitals.

 In January 2021, cybercrime kept thriving, also exploiting the current COVID-19 pandemic for personal gain with hackers leaking stolen Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine data online.   Stolen Data from Pfizer/BioNTech Servers The threat actors breached the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and stole part of its Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine data from its servers. The stolen data included email screenshots, EMA peer review comments, Word documents, PDFs, and PowerPoint presentations. Some of the stolen.

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Threat actors were active as ever during December 2020, ending an already difficult year with a major ramification. TA542 Back with a Vengence  Let’s start with the threat group TA542 (aka Mummy Spider, ATK 104, and Mealybug) that came back after a month and a half break. The group relaunched its Emotet botnet, delivering documents with malicious macros that once enabled, connected to seven malicious domains to download the Emotet payload. Some of the victims included Lithuania's National.

A few days before Christmas, the domain registrar and hosting service GoDaddy came under fire in the press and social media for phish-testing their users with a fake email which made it look like they were getting a US$650 bonus for the holidays.  While the methodology used can and does need to be done better in future, the test itself raises some serious questions for corporate cybersecurity professionals and regular users alike.   Here's What Happened: GoDaddy's cybersecurity team sent an.

Update as of December 17, 2020 A consortium of industry vendors including Microsoft and Google have actively been working to circumvent the ability of SUNBURST to successfully activate and attack. Microsoft was able to gain possession and control over a key domain - avsvmcloud[.]com - which the SUNBURST attack binaries use to get Command and Control (C&C) information. Without this C&C connectivity, the SUNBURST system remains in an inactive state if it has not yet become active within an.

Is It Time For CEOs To Be Personally Liable For Cyber-Physical Security Incidents? In a recent Gartner press release written in an article September 1st Gartner predicts 75% of CEOs will be personally liable for cyber-physical security incidents by 2024. The famous last words “I wasn’t aware” or “ Oh that’s our CISO, they handle this” can no longer be handed that hall pass. What’s that old saying about ignorance of the law? While ignorance is bliss said Cypher in the movie Matrix, we can no.