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Calculating the Benefits of the Advanced Encryption Standard

Schneier on Security

NIST has completed a study -- it was published last year, but I just saw it recently -- calculating the costs and benefits of the Advanced Encryption Standard. Extending the approach of looking back from 2017 to the larger national economy required the selection of economic sectors best represented by the 169 survey respondents.

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Iran-linked APT TA453 targets Windows and macOS systems

Security Affairs

” reads the analysis published by Proofpoint. That system identifier is then encrypted with the NokNok function and base64 encoded before being used as the payload of an HTTP POST to library-store.camdvr[.]org.” ” continues the analysis.

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Top 5 Application Security Tools & Software for 2023

eSecurity Planet

Encryption: This protects sensitive data by converting it into a coded form that can only be accessed or decrypted with the appropriate key. Encryption ensures that data remains confidential and secure, even if intercepted or accessed by unauthorized parties. This area is called static application security testing, or SAST.

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The Long Run of Shade Ransomware

Security Affairs

Technical analysis. This file acts as downloader in the infection chain, using a series of hard-coded server addresses, It heavily rely on obfuscation and encryption to avoid the antimalware detection. Shade encrypts all the user files using an AES encryption scheme. References to an Oil-Gas company. Conclusions.

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InvisiMole group targets military sector and diplomatic missions in Eastern Europe

Security Affairs

” reads the analysis published by ESET. It exploits a vulnerability in the Windows wdigest.dll library and then uses an improved ListPlanting technique to inject its code into a trusted process. This allows the InvisiMole group to devise creative ways to operate under the radar.”

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Taking down Gooligan: part 2 — inner workings

Elie

This post provides an in-depth analysis of the inner workings of Gooligan, the infamous Android OAuth stealing botnet. in December 2017. This file is encrypted with a hardcoded [XOR encryption] function. This encryption is used to escape the signatures that detect the code that Gooligan borrows from previous malware.

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Taking down Gooligan: part 2 — inner workings

Elie

This post provides an in-depth analysis of the inner workings of Gooligan, the infamous Android OAuth stealing botnet. in December 2017. This file is encrypted with a hardcoded [XOR encryption] function. This encryption is used to escape the signatures that detect the code that Gooligan borrows from previous malware.