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Merck settles with insurers regarding a $1.4 billion claim over NotPetya damages

Security Affairs

It is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies globally, engaged in the research, development, manufacturing, and marketing of a wide range of healthcare products. billion insurance claim for the losses caused by the NotPetya attack that took place in 2017. Merck filed a $1.4

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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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Weekly Vulnerability Recap – August 14, 2023 – Old or New, Vulnerabilities Need Management

eSecurity Planet

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently published an analysis of the top 12 vulnerabilities exploited in 2022. 2017 Zyxel Vulnerability Under Active Attack Fortinet issued an alert about thousands of daily attacks looking to perform a command injection attack on end-of-life Zyxel routers.

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Earth Empusa targets minority group with Android ActionSpy spyware

Security Affairs

The threat actors are spreading the malware through watering hole attacks targeting Tibet, Turkey, and Taiwan, The malware was first spotted in April 2020, but experts believe the ActionSpy spyware has been active at least since 2017. ” continues the analysis. The server, in turn, may send some commands to the compromised device.

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QNAP urges users to update Malware Remover after QSnatch joint alert

Security Affairs

The first campaign likely began in early 2014 and continued until mid-2017, while the second started in late 2018 and was still active in late 2019. reads the alert. “Analysis shows a significant number of infected devices. These are encrypted with the actor’s public key and sent to their infrastructure over HTTPS.

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QSnatch malware infected over 62,000 QNAP NAS Devices

Security Affairs

The malicious code specifically targets QNAP NAS devices manufactured by Taiwanese company QNAP, it already infected over 62,000 QNAP NAS devices. These are encrypted with the actor’s public key and sent to their infrastructure over HTTPS. “Analysis shows a significant number of infected devices. ” reads the alert.

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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.