Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2022

Which are the cyber attacks of 2021 that had the major impact on organizations worldwide in terms of financial losses and disruption of the operations? According to Bloomberg , CNA Financial opted to pay the ransom two weeks after the security breach because it was not able to restore its operations. The pipeline allows carrying 2.5

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Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2022

Hive ransomware operators have improved their file-encrypting module by migrating to Rust language and adopting a more sophisticated encryption method. According to a report published by blockchain analytics company Chainalysis, the Hive ransomware is one of the top 10 ransomware strains by revenue in 2021. key files.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 4, 2021

percent of all malware detected on networks of WatchGuard Technologies customers in the second quarter came over encrypted connections, raising the security risk for the 80 percent of such organizations that lack processes for decrypting and scanning HTTPS traffic for threats. Malware in Encrypted Traffic. A surprising 91.5

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A new Linux variant of the Clop ransomware has been observed in the wild, the good news is that its encryption algorithm is flawed. The researchers noticed that the encryption algorithm implemented in the ELF executable is flawed and can allow victims to decrypt locked files without paying a ransom. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Royal Ransomware operators added support for encrypting Linux devices and target VMware ESXi virtual machines. The Royal Ransomware gang is the latest extortion group in order of time to add support for encrypting Linux devices and target VMware ESXi virtual machines. The malware changes the extension of the encrypted files to ‘.royal’.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 10, 2022

For many, 2021 was a year to forget. The cyber security landscape offered similarly familiar topics: there were huge data breaches at Facebook and LinkedIn, while the threat of ransomware reached catastrophic levels. 2021 got off to an inauspicious start when cyber security researchers reported a huge leak of Brazilian residents’ data.

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Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2021

ransomware is now able to encrypt Windows domains by using Active Directory group policies. ransomware that encrypts Windows domains by using Active Directory group policies. " @demonslay335 @VK_Intel pic.twitter.com/fYxFbVQ6gX — MalwareHunterTeam (@malwrhunterteam) July 17, 2021. A new variant of the LockBit 2.0

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The Hive ransomware operators have developed a new variant of their malware that can encrypt Linux and FreeBSD. ESET researchers discovered a new Hive ransomware variant that was specifically developed to encrypt Linux and FreeBSD. 1/6 pic.twitter.com/dBw0E5pj6r — ESET research (@ESETresearch) October 29, 2021.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2021

Recently emerged LockFile ransomware family LockFile leverages a novel technique called intermittent encryption to speed up encryption. Sophos researchers discovered that the group is now leveraging a new technique called “intermittent encryption” to speed up the encryption process.

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2021

Experts warn of a 16-year-old vulnerability (CVE-2021-3438) in an HP, Xerox, and Samsung printers driver that an attacker could exploit to gain admin rights on systems. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-3438 , is a buffer overflow that resides in the SSPORT.SYS driver which is used by some printer models.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2022

Security researchers from Cleafy reported that the SOVA Android banking malware is back and is rapidly evolving. The SOVA Android banking trojan was improved, it has a new ransomware feature that encrypts files on Android devices, Cleafy researchers report. The malware has been active since 2021 and evolves over time.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2021

The OpenSSL Project patched a high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-3711 , that can allow an attacker to change an application’s behavior or cause the app to crash. The vulnerability ties the decryption of SM2 encrypted data, the changes depend on the targeted application and data it maintains (i.e. and 1.0.2za.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Google discovered a flaw in GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG)’s Libgcrypt encryption library that could be exploited to get remote code execution. pic.twitter.com/GYJOddEPxl — Filippo Valsorda (@FiloSottile) January 29, 2021. pic.twitter.com/LYC9PsURqn — Filippo Valsorda (@FiloSottile) January 29, 2021.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 22, 2022

So You Think You Are Protected With Cloud Native Encryption? According to industry surveys, like the IBM 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report, a very high percentage of data breaches occur because attackers are abusing system privileges. Cloud customers are responsible for the security and protection of data stored in the cloud.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2021

Threat actors are actively scanning the Internet for VMware vCenter servers affected by a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-21985. The CVE-2021-21985 flaw is caused by the lack of input validation in the Virtual SAN ( vSAN ) Health Check plug-in, which is enabled by default in the vCenter Server.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The Video conferencing platform Zoom announced the implementation of end-to-end encryption (E2EE) and its availability starting next week. The popular Video conferencing platform Zoom announced the availability of the end-to-end encryption (E2EE) starting next week. ” reads the post published by the company. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2021

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for May 2021 security updates addressed 55 vulnerabilities, four are rated as Critical. CVE-2021-28476 – Hyper-V Remote Code Execution Vulnerability The flaw could allow a guest VM to force the Hyper-V host’s kernel to read from an arbitrary, potentially invalid address. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The activity of the TeamTNT group has been detailed by security firm Trend Micro, but in August 2020 experts from Cado Security discovered that botnet is also able to target misconfigured Kubernetes installations. “Breaking the cryptographic encryption is considered “Mission: Impossible”. ” continue the experts.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Microsoft December 2021 Patch Tuesday addresses 67 vulnerabilities, including an actively exploited Windows Installer vulnerability. One of the vulnerabilities fixed by Microsoft, tracked as CVE-2021-43890 , is under active exploitation. Yes No EoP CVE-2021-43883 Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Important 7.1

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

CVE-2021-40847 flaw in Netgear SOHO routers could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code as root. Security experts from consulting firm GRIMM have discovered a vulnerability in Small Offices/Home Offices (SOHO) Netgear routers that could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code as root.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 19, 2021

CipherTrust Data Security Platform now allows users to control encryption keys for data processed by Google Cloud’s Confidential Computing. Tue, 10/19/2021 - 06:19. The Thales partnership with Google Cloud takes a huge step forward with the announcement of Google Cloud ubiquitous data encryption.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Don't Encrypt Everything; Protect Intelligently. Thu, 11/11/2021 - 09:30. And though you likely cannot calculate exactly how much data your organization holds; you know it is going to be a big and costly problem to “Encrypt Everything.”. Encrypting everything is time intensive because of explosive data growth.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 18, 2021

Machine Leading and Quantum Computing Challenges Also Among the Topics Analyzed What do the world's leading encryption and security experts think about non-fungible tokens, supply chain attacks, coordinated vulnerability disclosure and the state of quantum computing?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2021

The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) revealed that the number of phishing websites peaked at record levels in the first quarter of 2021. The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) has published its new Phishing Activity Trends Report related to the first quarter of 2021. Reported Phishing Websites for Q1 2021.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

A cyber espionage group targets governments and state-owned organizations in multiple Asian countries since early 2021. Threat actors are targeting government and state-owned organizations in multiple Asian countries as parts of a cyber espionage campaign that remained under the radar since early 2021. ” continues the report.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. All of your files are encrypted with RSA-2048 and AES-128 ciphers.” Attackers will inform the victim that their data is encrypted. IMPORTANT INFORMATION !!! Screenshot example.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2022

Security is essential for a CMS. Security is also necessary if your retrieval system (such as a website or mobile app) has a paywall or is restricted to only a subset of people, such as customers or resellers. Best security practices. According to the IBM Data Breach Report 2021 , data breaches in the United States reached $4.24

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Mitigating Ransomware Attacks – Decoupling Encryption Keys From Encrypted Data. Once the hackers gain an inside entry in an organisation’s IT systems, they deploy a file-encrypting malware known as ransomware. Some ransomware selectively seeks out sensitive data and will only encrypt those files. Wed, 11/25/2020 - 05:55.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 13, 2021

Data Encryption Shields the Energy Sector Against Emerging Threats. Wed, 01/13/2021 - 09:42. Security of CNI is a national security issue. Additionally, the vulnerabilities of the energy sector are of particular concern to national security due to its enabling function across all CNI systems. A recent U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 2, 2021

As we’ve seen with major attacks like Kaseya and Colonial Pipeline, cybercriminals have continued to innovate, developing new tools and tactics to encrypt and exfiltrate data. The short answer is they can’t, especially if they stick to the same security approach they’ve been using for years. billion this year.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Threat actors are distributing the GravityRAT remote access trojan masqueraded as an end-to-end encrypted chat application named SoSafe Chat. Threat actors are distributing the GravityRAT RAT masqueraded as an end-to-end encrypted chat application named SoSafe Chat. in) used by the attackers. .” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 4, 2021

The Cloud Trust Paradox: Keeping Control of Data & Encryption Keys in the Cloud. Thu, 03/04/2021 - 09:38. Trust is a much-debated topic in cloud security. It is as important as privacy, security and compliance. The necessity of keeping encryption keys off the cloud.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Microsoft February 2021 Patch Tuesday addresses 56 vulnerabilities, including a flaw that is known to be actively exploited in the wild. The CVE-2021-1732 zero-day is an elevation of privilege issues that resides in the Windows Win32k component. ” reads a blog post published by Microsoft.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 11, 2021

Analyzing Verizon's 2021 Breach Investigations Report, Talent Management and More Criminals tricked into using an FBI-run encrypted messaging app, Verizon's 2021 Breach Investigations Report and overcoming the challenges of recruiting cybersecurity professionals are among the latest cybersecurity topics to be featured for analysis by a panel of Information (..)

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Thales at GITEX 2021 – An Exciting Time With Exciting News. Wed, 11/03/2021 - 07:29. The GITEX 2021 conference was met with high attendance along with safety protocols, and it lived up to its usual innovative expectations. Identity and security management is one of the challenges of any organization’s cloud migration initiative.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 23, 2022

Shifting Risk and Business Environment Demand creates a Shift in Security Strategies. Malware and accidental human error are the biggest security threats. When asked about the most frequent types of attacks, 56% of global respondents ranked malware as the leading source of security attacks. 2021 Report. 2021 Report.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 24, 2021

The increasing mobility of data, as it ping-pongs between clouds, data centers and the edge, has made it an easier target of cybercrime groups, which has put a premium on the encryption of that data in recent years. Since then, interest in fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) has increased, largely paralleling the rise of cloud computing.

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