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    VIDEO AA21-131A: DarkSide Ransomware: Best Practices for Preventing Business Disruption from Ransomware Attacks

    Original release date: May 11, 2021 Summary This Advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK®) framework, Version 9. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise for all referenced threat actor tactics and techniques. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security...
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    AA21-110A: Exploitation of Pulse Connect Secure Vulnerabilities

    Original release date: April 20, 2021 Summary The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is aware of compromises affecting U.S. government agencies, critical infrastructure entities, and other private sector organizations by a cyber threat actor—or actors—beginning in June 2020...
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    AA21-062A: Mitigate Microsoft Exchange Server Vulnerabilities

    Original release date: March 3, 2021 Summary Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security (CISA) partners have observed active exploitation of vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server products. Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute...
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    AA21-042A: Compromise of U.S. Water Treatment Facility

    Original release date: February 11, 2021 Summary On February 5, 2021, unidentified cyber actors obtained unauthorized access to the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system at a U.S. drinking water treatment plant. The unidentified actors used the SCADA system’s software to...
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    AA20-345A: Cyber Actors Target K-12 Distance Learning Education to Cause Disruptions and Steal Data

    Original release date: December 10, 2020<br/><h3>Summary</h3><p>This Joint Cybersecurity Advisory was coauthored by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC).</p>...
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    AA20-304A: Iranian Advanced Persistent Threat Actor Identified Obtaining Voter Registration Data

    Original release date: October 30, 2020 Summary This advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK®) version 7 framework. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise version 7 for all referenced threat actor tactics and techniques. This joint cybersecurity advisory...
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    AA20-275A: Potential for China Cyber Response to Heightened U.S.–China Tensions

    Original release date: October 1, 2020 Summary This Alert uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK®) framework. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise framework for all referenced threat actor techniques. In light of heightened tensions between the United States and...
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    AA20-259A: Iran-Based Threat Actor Exploits VPN Vulnerabilities

    Original release date: September 15, 2020 Summary This Alert uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK®) framework. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise framework for all referenced threat actor techniques. This product was written by the Cybersecurity and...
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    AA20-225A: Malicious Cyber Actor Spoofing COVID-19 Loan Relief Webpage via Phishing Emails

    Original release date: August 12, 2020 Summary The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is currently tracking an unknown malicious cyber actor who is spoofing the Small Business Administration (SBA) COVID-19 loan relief webpage via phishing emails. These emails include a...
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    AA20-198A: Malicious Cyber Actor Use of Network Tunneling and Spoofing to Obfuscate Geolocation

    Original release date: July 16, 2020 Summary This Activity Alert uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK™) and Pre-ATT&CK frameworks. See the MITRE ATT&CK for Enterprise and Pre-ATT&CK frameworks for referenced threat actor techniques. Attributing...
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    AA20-133A: Top 10 Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities

    Original release date: May 12, 2020 Summary The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the broader U.S. Government are providing this technical guidance to advise IT security professionals at public and private sector...
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    AA20-106A: Guidance on the North Korean Cyber Threat

    Original release date: April 15, 2020 | Last revised: June 23, 2020 Summary The U.S. Departments of State, the Treasury, and Homeland Security, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are issuing this advisory as a comprehensive resource on the North Korean cyber threat for the international...
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    AA20-182A: EINSTEIN Data Trends – 30-day Lookback

    Original release date: June 30, 2020 Summary Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) analysts have compiled the top detection signatures that have been the most active over the month of May in our national Intrusion Detection System (IDS), known as EINSTEIN. This information is...
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    AA20-133A: Top 10 Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities

    Original release date: May 12, 2020 Summary The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the broader U.S. Government are providing this technical guidance to advise IT security professionals at public and private sector...
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    AA20-120A: Microsoft Office 365 Security Recommendations

    Original release date: April 29, 2020 Summary As organizations adapt or change their enterprise collaboration capabilities to meet “telework” requirements, many organizations are migrating to Microsoft Office 365 (O365) and other cloud collaboration services. Due to the speed of these...
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    AA20-031A: Detecting Citrix CVE-2019-19781

    Original release date: January 31, 2020 Summary Unknown cyber network exploitation (CNE) actors have successfully compromised numerous organizations that employed vulnerable Citrix devices through a critical vulnerability known as CVE-2019-19781.Link Removed Though mitigations were released...
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    TA18-004A: Meltdown and Spectre Side-Channel Vulnerability Guidance

    Original release date: January 04, 2018 Systems Affected CPU hardware implementations Overview On January 3, 2018, the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) became aware of a set of security vulnerabilities—known as Meltdown and Spectre— that affect modern...
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    Mitigating speculative execution side-channel attacks in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer

    Today, Google Project Zero published details of a class of vulnerabilities which can be exploited by speculative execution side-channel attacks. These techniques can be used via JavaScript code running in the browser, which may allow attackers to gain access to memory in the attacker’s process...
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    TA16-250A: The Increasing Threat to Network Infrastructure Devices and Recommended Mitigations

    Original release date: September 06, 2016 | Last revised: September 28, 2016 Systems Affected Network Infrastructure Devices Overview The advancing capabilities of organized hacker groups and cyber adversaries create an increasing global threat to information systems. The rising threat...
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    Bountycraft at Nullcon 2017

    Security is a critical component of our products at Microsoft. A strong emphasis on security is a persistent factor throughout our entire development process. Microsoft is committed to designing and developing secure software. Testing is performed both internally and by working closely with the...
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