Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Every time you send a mobile payment, search for airline flight prices, or book a restaurant reservation - you are using an API. This could include Personally Identifiable Information (PII) of their subscribers or even their payment information. Unfortunately, API attacks are increasing as vectors for security incidents.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2024

In early January, independent security research and consulting team SRLabs discovered a vulnerability in Black Basta ransomware’s encryption algorithm and exploited it to create a free decryptor. The ransomware employs encryption based on a ChaCha keystream, which is utilized to perform XOR operations on 64-byte-long chunks of the file.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 1, 2024

According to BleepingComputer, the impacted provider was the Swedish MSP Visma who manages the payment systems for the supermarket chain. Visma confirmed they were affected by the Kaseya cyber attack that allowed the REvil ransomware to encrypt their customers’ systems.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2022

Unlike other ransomware operations, RedAlert only accepts ransom payments in Monero. RedAlert is human-operated ransomware, the ransomware uses NTRUEncrypt public key encryption algorithm for encryption. crypt[Random number] ” extension to the filenames of encrypted files. log), swap files(.vswp), vswp), virtual disks(.vmdk),

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 24, 2024

The app heavily encrypts all user financial data. Deploying privacy protections: The app uses encryption to protect data from cybercriminals and other prying eyes. These standards outline how businesses must protect customers’ payment card data. The user can accept or reject each use of their data individually.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 19, 2021

Experts say the biggest reason ransomware targets and/or their insurance providers still pay when they already have reliable backups is that nobody at the victim organization bothered to test in advance how long this data restoration process might take. “That is still somewhat rare,” Wosar said.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2023

They included a lot of sensitive information, such as database credentials, login information for the SMTP server, enterprise payment processing information, and others. On September 18th, the Cybernews research team discovered two publicly hosted environment files (.env) env) attributed to New England Biolabs (NEB).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Compliance madhav Tue, 09/19/2023 - 05:17 It is essential for any business that stores, processes, and transmits payment card information to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Consumers’ payment data is a compelling target for criminals who continue to circumvent IT security defenses.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 22, 2024

Cybercriminals typically request ransom payments in Bitcoin and other hard-to-trace cryptocurrencies, providing victims with decryption keys on payment to unlock their devices. The photo will expedite the recovery process and help when filing a police report or a possible claim with your insurance company.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 10, 2024

presents an opportunity to future-proof your payment card security. Although this deadline is past, use this checklist to ensure you have everything in order: Environment Inventory : Ensure you thoroughly map and document all systems, components, and processes interacting with cardholder data (CHD). PCI DSS 4.0:

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 23, 2021

For starters, chip-based payment cards were supposed to make it far more expensive and difficult for thieves to copy and clone. When the ATM is no longer in use, the skimming device remains dormant, storing the stolen data in an encrypted format. But the data dump from the shimmer was just encrypted gibberish.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The security firm discovered a bug in the encryption process implemented by the Hades ransomware that can be used to recover the files encrypted by some variants. “We discovered a vulnerability in the encryption schema that allows some of the variants to be decrypted without paying the ransom.

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IT Governance

JULY 14, 2022

Organisations that fall within Levels 2–4 of the PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) can attest to compliance with an SAQ (self-assessment questionnaire). You will fall into one of those levels if your organisation processes fewer than six million card transactions per year. PCI SAQ types. They are as follows: SAQ A.

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Rocket Software

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

To combat this, payment processors need to take even greater care during the holidays to guard their business and protect their customers’ personal information. This means understanding and complying with PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) to avoid costly breaches and violations.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Experts spotted a new variant of ESXiArgs ransomware targeting VMware ESXi servers, authors have improved the encryption process, making it much harder to recover the encrypted virtual machines. This change allowed the ransomware to encrypt larger chunks of data in the targeted files, making it impossible to recover them.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 1, 2022

Ransomware encrypts data and demands a ransom in exchange for decryption. As data recovery is impossible if the encryption key is not obtained, some companies suffer from considerable damage, such as the payment of huge amounts of money or the loss of important data.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 28, 2020

said a nine-month-long breach of its payment card processing systems may have led to the theft of card data from customers who visited any of its 850 locations nationwide. Wawa said the breach did not expose personal identification numbers (PINs) or CVV records (the three-digit security code printed on the back of a payment card).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 13, 2023

While authorities in multiple countries have issued sanctions regarding ransomware payments, the efficacy of these sanctions in actually preventing ransomware incidents is in question. Conclusion Ransomware sanctions are a concerted effort to curb the rampant danger of these attacks by preventing bad actors from receiving ransom payments.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 26, 2021

The Future of Payments Security. The increasing trend of using mobile payments for in-store purchases (especially during the pandemic) is leading criminals to increasingly focus their efforts on defrauding people through online fraud and scams. during the transaction process without the knowledge of both customer and service provider.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Now in its 13 th year, our Global Encryption Trends Study that is performed by the Ponemon Institute reveals interesting findings that span a dozen different geographies. This year, we found that multi-cloud use as well as compliance requirements have encouraged organizations around the globe to embrace a more extensive encryption strategy.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Payment Security Vulnerabilities: Change is Everywhere. We have also changed the way that we pay for goods and services and we are now offered alternatives beyond using our credit cards, such as wallets and instant payments in many of our transactions. Tue, 09/06/2022 - 21:15. It has always been understood that change is inevitable.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2021

based PrismHR handles everything from payroll processing and human resources to health insurance and tax forms for hundreds of “professional employer organizations” (PEOs) that serve more than two million employees. The company processes more than $80 billion payroll payments annually on behalf of PEOs and their clients.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 5, 2023

Thales payShield receives the French Cartes Bancaires HSM certification madhav Thu, 07/06/2023 - 04:35 Securing online payments is more important than ever. The meteoric rise of e-commerce and digital transactions has made online payments an essential part of doing business but, as a result, has subjected organizations to increased risk.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2021

In order to facilitate file encryption, the ransomware look for processes associated with backups, anti-virus/anti-spyware, and file copying and terminates them. The Hive ransomware adds the.hive extension to the filename of encrypted files. The malware deletes the Hive executable and the hive.bat script. key.hive or *.key.*.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 10, 2022

How Can We Secure The Future of Digital Payments? The financial services ecosystem has evolved tremendously over the past few years driven by a surge in the adoption of digital payments. This raises the question of where digital payment technologies will take us in the future, and how will this affect consumers?

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 19, 2022

The malware exfiltrates data before encrypting the targeted devices to provide additional means of extortion. lilith” extension to rename encrypted files. Besides, the files are encrypted using local Windows cryptographic APIs and random keys generated on the fly. The malware uses a custom “.lilith”

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 21, 2021

If your business handles debit or credit card data, you’ve probably heard of the PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard). It’s an information security framework designed to reduce payment card fraud by requiring organisations to implement technical and organisational defence measures. Who needs PCI DSS compliance?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 15, 2023

The most effective way to ensure data security is through encryption and proper key management. Key Management as a Service (KMaaS) allows companies to manage encryption keys more effectively through a cloud-based solution instead of running the service on physical, on-premises hardware.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2020

The main difference between the two threats is that Nefilim doesn’t include the Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) component and doesn’t use Tor for the payment process. The encrypted AES key will be included in the contents of each encrypted file. share much of the same code.” Nefilim appends the.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 27, 2021

NetWalker has been among the most rapacious ransomware strains, hitting at least 305 victims from 27 countries — the majority in the United States, according to Chainalysis, a company that tracks the flow virtual currency payments. million last summer in exchange for a digital key needed to unlock files encrypted by the ransomware.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 5, 2024

Strong encryption protects data securely from unauthorized access, but the specific algorithms that qualify as strong encryption change over time as computing power increases and researchers develop new ways to break encryption. What Makes an Encryption Algorithm Strong?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2022

DeadBolt ransomware is targeting QNAP NAS devices worldwide, its operators claim the availability of a zero-day exploit that allows them to encrypt the content of the infected systems. Once encrypted the content of the device, the ransomware appends. The hijacked QNAP login screen displays a ransom note demanding the payment of 0.03

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2022

The malware masquerades as ransomware, but the analysis of the code demonstrates that it does not actually encrypt, but only destroys data in the infected system. . The experts pointed out that this development process for C/C++ malware developers for Windows is unusual. ” reads the report published by Kaspersky.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Successful strategic sourcing often results in process optimization, cost management, customer satisfaction, risk management , increased sustainability and other benefits. Sourcing teams are automating processes like data analysis as well as supplier relationship management and transaction management.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2022

The ransomware encrypts files on the targeted systems using the “.cuba” ” The new variant is able to terminate a larger number of processes and services, to prevent that applications could lock them and interfere with the encryption process. Cuba ransomware has been active since at least January 2020.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

The incident did not affect child maintenance payments for the month because they were already processed. This has led to all information systems being encrypted and unavailable to both internal employees as well as members of the public. The Department claims that no data has been exfiltrated by the ransomware operators.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2021

The Sodinokibi/REvil is one of the major ransomware operations in the threat landscape, if conducted many attacks against high-profile targets, including the meat processing giant JBS and US nuclear weapons contractor Sol Oriens. Upon accessing the ransom payment site, victims have to provide a key from the ransom note in a basic form.

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