Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2023

In April 2017, Wikileaks published some documents about the project, describing it as a sort of malware command and control infrastructure used by the US agency to control its malicious code and exfiltrate information from the target systems. ” reads the analysis published by the experts. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Few would describe 2017 as a quiet year. After supporters and opponents of mandated government access to encrypted communications publicly feuded for much of 2016, reprising arguments they’ve had since at least the days of the “Clipper Chip,” these “encryption debates” seemed to quiet down for much of last year.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

On April 22, 2019, HHS began investigating DMS after receiving a breach notification indicating that DMS’ network server was infected by the Gandcrab ransomware in April 2017. DMS did not detect the attack until after the ransomware was used to encrypt its files in December 2018.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The data was compromised during a cyber attack that occurred between May 13 and July 30, 2017, which affected 146 million customers globally. Equifax Ltd failed to ensure adequate security measures were in place or notice that Equifax Inc. Department of Homeland Security in March 2017. or following the transfer.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The security firm first detected the attacks on November 21 and immediately alerted the CERT US. The group is also the author of the NotPetya ransomware that hit hundreds of companies worldwide in June 2017, causing billions worth of damage. The key is then RSA encrypted and written to aes.bin. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 22, 2019

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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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2023

A deeper analysis revealed that the threat actor CloudWizard has been linked to an activity cluster that dates back to May 2016 that was tracked by ESET researchers as Operation Groundbait. Further analysis revealed that the actor behind the above operations has been active since at least 2008. .” ” We are in the final!

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

From the very beginning of the cloud computing era, security has been the biggest concern among enterprises considering the public cloud. In addition, 95 percent of survey respondents confirmed that they are extremely to moderately concerned about public cloud security. What is cloud security?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2021

. “In recent months, Microsoft has detected cyberattacks targeting security researchers by an actor we track as ZINC. “Observed targeting includes pen testers, private offensive security researchers, and employees at security and tech companies. ” states the report published by Microsoft. eXplorer.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

According to a report published by Symantec in 2017, Longhorn is a North American hacking group that has been active since at least 2011. In 2017, Symantec speculated that at least 40 targets in 16 countries have been compromised by the threat actors. ” reads the analysis. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2023

The spear-phishing message appears as a benign conversation lure masquerading as a senior fellow with the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) to the public media contact for a nuclear security expert at a US-based think tank focused on foreign affairs. ” reads the analysis published by Proofpoint.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2020

IcedID banking trojan first appeared in the threat landscape in 2017, it has capabilities similar to other financial threats like Gozi , Zeus , and Dridex. ” reads the analysis published by Juniper, “Previous versions of IcedID injected into svchost.exe and downloaded encrypted modules and config as “.dat”

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2022

A Mandiant’s report attributed the string of attacks against the SWIFT banking system to the APT38, including the hack of Vietnam’s TP Bank in 2015, Bangladesh’s central bank in 2016, Taiwan’s Far Eastern International in 2017, Bancomext in Mexico in 2018, and Banco de Chile in 2018. ” reads the analysis published by Trellix.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2021

So far, Konni RAT has managed to evade detection as only 3 security solutions on VirusTotal were able to detect the malware. Security researchers at Malwarebytes Labs have uncovered an ongoing malware campaign that is mainly targeting Russia with the Konni RAT. ” reads the analysis published by Malwarebytes.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2021

The weaponized RTF documents generated with the exploit builder are able to trigger the CVE-2017-11882 , CVE-2018-0798 , CVE-2018-0802 vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Equation Editor. ” reads the analysis published by Cybereason. ” reads the analysis published by Cybereason. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2021

According to the experts, the BackdoorDiplomacy APT group has been active since at least 2017. In a third attack, researchers targeted a Plesk server with poorly configured file-upload security to execute another webshell. ” The analysis published by ESET includes indicators of compromise (IoCs). Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 14, 2023

No one likes the hassle of dealing with patch management or vulnerability management , but it is universally agreed that security breaches are far worse. Google announced this week that it will now push out weekly security updates to Chrome to help make users more secure.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Yoroi security firm uncovered a targeted attack against one of the most important companies in the Italian Naval Industry leveraging MartyMcFly Malware. Today I’d like to share an interesting analysis of a Targeted Attack found and dissected by Yoroi (technical details are available here ). Stage1: Encrypted Content.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

All too many companies lack a full appreciation of how vital it has become to proactively manage and keep secure “unstructured data.”. One reason for the enduring waves of ransomware is that unstructured data is easy for hackers to locate and simple for them to encrypt. The main difference between the two is organization and analysis.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Encryption uses mathematical algorithms to transform and encode data so that only authorized parties can access it. What Encryption Is and How It Relates to Cryptology The science of cryptography studies codes, how to create them, and how to solve them. How Does Encryption Process Data? How Does Encryption Process Data?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2021

Researchers from security firms Profero and Security Joes linked a series of ransomware attacks to the China-linked APT27 group. Security researchers from security firms Profero and Security Joes investigated a series of ransomware attacks against multiple organizations and linked them to China-linked APT groups.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

Numerous strains of this destructive code have been the front-page news in global computer security chronicles for almost a decade now, with jaw-dropping ups and dramatic downs accompanying its progress. File encryption 2013 – 2015. They added data theft to the classic encryption scenario. inch diskettes.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Since the beginning of the year, security firms observed a new intense ransomware campaign spreading the Shade ransomware. Between January and February, a new, intense, ransomware campaign has been observed by many security firms. Technical analysis. Shade encrypts all the user files using an AES encryption scheme.

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2022

The attackers employed the Konni RAT (remote access trojan), which was first spotted by Cisco Talos researchers in 2017 and has been undetected since 2014 while being employed in highly targeted attacks. ” reads the analysis published by the experts. appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The new variant also manages to evade many available protections, registering a low detection rate against security solutions. doesn’t actually encrypt the files on the devices but only inhibits the access to the phone. ” reads the analysis published by Microsoft. Like other Android ransomware, MalLocker.B

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2020

Once the GuLoader malware has downloaded an encrypted file from [link] it will decrypt it and inject the malware into the legitimate Windows wininit.exe process. The final payload is the FormBook information-stealing Trojan, a malware that was first spotted by researchers at FireEye in October 2017. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

” reads the analysis published by Kaspersky. Kaspersky experts found a similar sample on Google Play, it implements high levels of encryption, furthermore, the malicious code was able to download and execute additional malicious payloads that would be suitable to the specific device environment (i.e Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2019

The Satan ransomware first appeared in the threat landscape in January 2017 when the independent malware research @Xylit0l discovered it. The Satan ransomware used RSA-2048 and AES-256 cryptography , it appends the names of encrypted files with the “. ” reads the analysis published by Fortinet. stn ” extension.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 2, 2020

This week, the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued a joint advisory about a massive ongoing campaign spreading the QSnatch data-stealing malware. reads the alert. “Analysis shows a significant number of infected devices.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2020

Security experts from Kaspersky Lab reported that North Korea-linked hackers are attempting to spread a new ransomware strain known as VHD. The group has been linked to several major cyber attacks, including the 2014 Sony Pictures hack , several SWIFT banking attacks since 2016, and the 2017 WannaCry ransomware infection.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2020

The United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued a joint advisory about a massive ongoing campaign spreading the QSnatch data-stealing malware. These are encrypted with the actor’s public key and sent to their infrastructure over HTTPS.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

According to security reearchers at Trend Micro, the North Korea-linked APT group Lazarus recently targeted banks in Latin America. Security experts from Symantec have recently discovered a malware, tracked as FastCash Trojan , that was used by the Lazarus APT Group , in a string of attacks against ATMs.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2019

On August 2019, the experts at Intezer and McAfee have conducted a joint investigation focused the analysis on the code reuse, past investigations revealed that some APT groups share portions of code and command and control infrastructure for their malware. The samples were importing a small number of common DLLs and functions.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2019

During our analysis we constantly run into the tricks cyber-attackers use to bypass companies security defences, sometimes advanced, others not. Technical Analysis. The third one is related to binary payloads abusing code signature tricks to evade traditional security controls. Introduction. The Broken Doc.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

In July, security researchers from FireEye uncovered and blocked a campaign carried out by Chinese APT10 group (aka Menupass, and Stone Panda) aimed at Japanese media sector. The analysis of the UPPERCUT samples revealed that their timestamps were overwritten and filled with zeroes. Security Affairs – Kelihos, malware ).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2019

Security experts at Cisco Talos uncovered a series of highly targeted attacks, tracked as Frankenstein campaign, hackers used tools built by combining four different open-source techniques. ” reads the analysis published by Cisco Talos. The first document named “MinutesofMeeting-2May19. online:80/luncher.doc.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2019

Security experts at Cisco Talos uncovered a series of highly targeted attacks, tracked as Frankenstein campaign, hackers used tools built by combining four different open-source techniques. ” reads the analysis published by Cisco Talos. The first document named “MinutesofMeeting-2May19. online:80/luncher.doc.

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