Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2020

DeathRansom was considered fake ransomware due to the fact that it did not implement an effective encryption process, but now things are changing. DeathRansom is a ransomware family that was initially classified as a joke because it did not implement an effective encryption scheme. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2019

The flaw exploited in the attacks, tracked as CVE-2019-3396 , is a server-side template injection vulnerability that resides in the Widget Connector macro in Confluence Server. “In our analysis, we saw that an attacker was able to exploit CVE-2019-3396 to infect machines with the AESDDoS botnet malware.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Researchers from Trend Micro, while monitoring the activity of the China-linked threat actor Earth Lusca , discovered an encrypted file hosted on a server under the control of the group. Additional analysis led to the discovery of a previously unknown Linux backdoor tracked as SprySOCKS. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2019

Technical analysis. In order to investigate the attribution of the sample, Cybaze-Yoroi Zlab researchers performed a comparative analysis of the January 2019’s sample with respect to technical indicators and TTP published in previous articles. Figure 5 – GreyEnergy invokes sleep API to evade analysis. Conclusion.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2023

The MegaCortex ransomware first appeared on the threat landscape in May 2019 when it was spotted by security experts at Sophos. Since November 2019, MegaCortex operators started adopting double extortion tactics. The decryptor also supports the “Scan Entire System” mode which allows users to search for all encrypted files.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Much has been written about Crown Sterling and we won’t go into that here; however, there was a very interesting talk in the 101 track at DefCon that offered some good analysis of the threat and how we have been, perhaps, focused on the wrong benchmarks. The post Black Hat/DefCon 2019: Where is Quantum?

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 8, 2021

With a multi-layered approach to endpoint protection, the ESET PROTECT Advanced solution fits small to medium-sized businesses and offers advanced EPP capabilities, full disk encryption , and an automated sandbox for dynamic threat analysis. Full Disk Encryption. Read more: 19 Best Encryption Software & Tools of 2021.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2021

According to BleepingComputer , forum users reported an intensification of the attacks since December 20, the analysis of submissions to the ID ransomware service for this specific threat started to increase on December 19 and reached a peak on December 20. The malicious code appends.encrypt extension to filenames of encrypted files.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

One of the two flaws in Chrome addressed by Google, CVE-2019-13720, was exploited in a campaign that experts attribute to Korea-linked threat actors. Reported by banananapenguin on 2019-10-12[$TBD][ 1019226 ] High CVE-2019-13720: Use-after-free in audio. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2021

The analysis of the source code revealed the presence of comments in the Russian language that gives us an idea of the origin of the ransomware gang behind it. In October 2019, security experts at Emsisoft have developed a tool to decrypt files encrypted by the Paradise ransomware. Source BleepingComputer.

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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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The experts are monitoring the Mirai-based botnet since November 2019 and observed it exploiting two Tenda router 0-day vulnerabilities to spread a Remote Access Trojan (RAT). “Two zero days, 12 remote access functions for the router, encrypted traffic protocol, and infrastructure IP that that moves around. .

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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

JULY 28, 2021

The earliest THOR sample that was spotted by the experts is dated back to August 2019. The analysis of the file revealed that it includes the encrypted and compressed PlugX payload. Static analysis reveals that once loaded into memory, Aro.dat begins to unpack itself and initiates communication with a C2 server.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

In January 2019, Reuters published a report into Project Raven, a campaign allegedly conducted by former NSA operatives and aiming at the same types of targets as Stealth Falcon. The authors used different languages to hinder analysis, researchers explained. ” reads the analysis published by ESET.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The Operation CuckooBees had been operating under the radar since at least 2019, threat actors conducted multiple attacks to steal intellectual property and other sensitive data from victims. ” reads the analysis published by Symantec. dll, which includes the malicious export sqlite3_prepare_v4.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

DTrack is a modular backdoor used by the Lazarus group since 2019 , it was employed in attacks against a wide variety of targets, from financial environments to a nuclear power plan. The second stage payload is a heavily obfuscated shellcode, the APT group used an encryption method different for each sample.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The analysis of the C2 infrastructure revealed that the most notable activity is in the US, Turkey, UAE, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. ” reads the analysis published by TrendMicro. ” continues the analysis. Currently, the new variant was employed in attacks aimed at users in the Middle East.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

” reads the analysis published by Google. ” The iOS exploit chain used a framework based on Ironsquirrel to encrypt exploits delivered to the visitor’s browser. ” The iOS exploit chain used a framework based on Ironsquirrel to encrypt exploits delivered to the visitor’s browser.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2021

Last year, the group published a detailed analysis on how the Chinese government has improved its surveillance system to detect and block the popular circumvention tools Shadowsocks and its variants. Shadowsocks is a free and open-source encryption protocol project, widely used in China to circumvent Internet censorship.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2020

The GuLoader is a popular RAT that appeared in the threat landscape in 2019 and that was involved in other COVID-19 campaigns, it is written in VB5/6 and compressed in a.rar/.iso In the last campaign observed by experts, the downloader utilizes cloud hosting services to keep the payload encrypted. ” reads the analysis.

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Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2021

When infected with this ransomware, the extension of the encrypted file is changed to the victim’s name. ” reads the analysis published by S2W LAB on Medium. Lile other ransomware operations, BlackMatter also set up its leak sitewhere it will publish data exfiltrated from the victims before encrypting their system.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

A Cookie Theft malware was employed in phishing attacks against YouTube creators, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) warns. Financially motivated threat actors are using Cookie Theft malware in phishing attacks against YouTube creators since late 2019. ” reads the analysis published by Google TAG.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Germany-based G Data CyberDefense released software designed to trick the STOP ransomware variant into believing that a targeted system has already been compromised and keeping it from encrypting files after the device has been infected. But STOP ransomware will not encrypt files anymore if the system has the vaccine.”.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Avast researchers reported that since 2019, MyKings operators have amassed at least $24 million in the Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Dogecoin. ” reads the analysis published by the expert. “For protection against quick analysis and against static extraction with regular expressions, the substitute values are encrypted.

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Security Affairs

JULY 16, 2021

Since 2019 experts found many Joker apps on Google Play store, in September 2019 security experts at Google removed from the store 24 apps. The developers are embedding Joker as a payload that can be encrypted in different ways, either a.dex file xored or encrypted with a number, or through the same. dex file as before.

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Data Protection Report

JANUARY 7, 2019

The two-year transitional period under the New York State Department of Financial Services (“DFS””) Cybersecurity Regulation , 23 NYCRR 500 (the “Regulation”), will expire on March 1, 2019, with the final remaining requirement becoming effective. Upcoming certifications.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2022

According to BleepingComputer , forum users reported an intensification of the attacks since December 20, the analysis of submissions to the ID ransomware service for this specific threat started to increase on December 19 and reached a peak on December 20. The malicious code appends.encrypt extension to filenames of encrypted files.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

ESET has been aware of the existence of modules since the end of 2019 when its experts first spotted the “basic” components of the malware. ” reads the analysis published by ESET. ” reads the analysis published by ESET. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2020

Experts at cyber security firm Cypher conducted a study on Portuguese domains during 2019 and concluded that Emotet and Ryuk were the most active threats. This is the conclusion of a study by Cipher Portugal, which studied Portuguese domains during 2019. This enhancement appeared in the middle of September 2019.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2021

Acer is the world’s 6th-largest PC vendor by unit sales as of January 2021, it has more than 7,000 employees (2019) and in 2019 declared 234.29 billion in revenue. financial spreadsheets, bank documents and communications) as proof of the hack.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2023

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) released a joint advisory that provides indicators of compromise (IOCs) and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) associated with the notorious LockBit 3.0

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 28, 2020

In late December 2019, fuel and convenience store chain Wawa Inc. The fraud bazaar Joker’s Stash on Monday began selling some 30 million stolen payment card accounts that experts say have been tied back to a breach at Wawa in 2019. Representatives from MasterCard did not respond to requests for comment.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

19, Apex was alerted that its systems had been infected with a destructive strain of ransomware that encrypts computer files and demands payment for a digital key needed to unscramble the data. “When they encrypt the data, that happens really fast,” he said. Roswell, Ga. on Tuesday, Feb. More than a week later on Jan.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2019

This new variant was behind a series of ransomware campaigns beginning in June 2019, including attacks against the City of Edcouch, Texas and the Chilean Ministry of Agriculture.” ” reads the analysis published by CrowdStrike. ” continues the analysis. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

NextCry is a new ransomware that was spotted by researchers while encrypting data on Linux servers in the wild. T he name comes from the extensions the ransomware appends to the filenames of encrypted files. I realized immediately that my server got hacked and those files got encrypted.” ” said xact64.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

The other is a publicly disclosed bug in Microsoft’s Bitlocker encryption technology ( CVE-2018-8566 ) that could allow an attacker to get access to encrypted data. One mitigating factor with both security holes is that the attacker would need to be already logged in to the targeted system to exploit them.

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