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Security Affairs newsletter Round 355

Security Affairs

Researchers shared technical details of NSA Equation Group’s Bvp47 backdoor Sophos linked Entropy ransomware to Dridex malware. Are both linked to Evil Corp? worth of NFTs from tens of OpenSea users Trickbot operation is now controlled by Conti ransomware.

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Best Enterprise VPN Solutions for 2021

eSecurity Planet

VPNs offer clients an encrypted access channel to remote networks through a tunneling protocol and can obfuscate the client’s IP address. With 3000 servers in 160 locations and 94 countries, ExpressVPN boasts its military-grade encryption and leak-proofing features, including a kill switch and unlimited bandwidth for clients.

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Malicious app exploiting CVE-2019-2215 zero-day available in Google Play since March

Security Affairs

The flaw is a use-after-free vulnerability that affects the Android kernel’s binder driver, it could be exploited by a local privileged attacker or a malicious app to escalate privileges to gain root access to a vulnerable device. Collected data is encrypted using RSA and AES encryption algorithms, then it is sent to the C&C server.

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Snowden Ten Years Later

Schneier on Security

Chatting with Snowden on an encrypted IM connection, I joked that the NSA cafeteria menu probably has code names for menu items. Transferring files electronically is what encryption is for. I told Greenwald that he and Laura Poitras should be sending large encrypted files of dummy documents back and forth every day.

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Q&A: Cloud Providers and Leaky Servers

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Compounding the problem, configuring Identity and Access Management (IAM) in the cloud can be difficult. I was one of 68 million Dropbox users that received an email last year asking me to reset my password because they found out that in 2012 they had lost our User IDs and hashed passwords.

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Versa Unified SASE Review & Features 2023

eSecurity Planet

Versa SASE stands out in the Secure Access Service Edge market for its self-hosted option for organizations seeking full control of their SASE environment, but the company also retains a private backbone for clients seeking a high-speed and traditionally-managed SASE solution. Who is Versa Networks?

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Russia’s SolarWinds Attack

Schneier on Security

Users who downloaded and installed that corrupted update between March and June unwittingly gave SVR hackers access to their networks. There are many ways to establish persistent access that survive rebuilding individual computers and networks. Recovering from this attack isn’t easy.