Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2023

GoTo is notifying customers that its development environment was breached in November 2022, attackers stole customers’ backups and encryption key. The security breach was disclosed in November 2022, but at the time the company was not able to determine the impact on its customers’ data. ” continues the notice.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2023

xyz pic.twitter.com/VLhISark8Y — Goldwave (@OGoldwave) March 13, 2023 The variant employed in the campaign supports a more sophisticated encryption method of byte remapping and a monthly rotation of the C2 server. #ViperSoftX is back, doesn't look like much has changed. c2 arrowlchat[.]com ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2023

A new ransomware strain named Rorschach ransomware supports the fastest file-encrypting routine observed to date. The researchers conducted five separate encryption speed tests in a controlled environment (with 6 CPUs, 8192MB RAM, SSD, and 220000 files to be encrypted), limited to local drive encryption only.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 17, 2022

The value of Key Rotation and Re-encryption. Thu, 08/18/2022 - 06:07. To meet various compliance requirements and reduce the risk of your most sensitive data getting compromised you may want to consider changing the encryption key used to protect this data. Re-encryption - how it might impact current systems.

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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. The most important change in the latest Hive variant is the encryption mechanism it adopts. ” reads the post published by Microsoft. ” continues Microsoft. .

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 22, 2022

So You Think You Are Protected With Cloud Native Encryption? Fri, 04/22/2022 - 09:54. Segregation of duties applies also to how you handle encryption and cryptographic key management for protecting your sensitive data stored in cloud storage such as the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes. Use AWS managed key.

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The Security Ledger

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The post State of Modern Application Security: 6 Key Takeaways For 2022 appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Related Stories Tapping into the Power of the Security Community Spotlight: Automation Beckons as DevOps, IoT Drive PKI Explosion Spotlight: ShardSecure on Protecting Data At Rest Without Encryption.

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The Security Ledger

JANUARY 19, 2022

What does 2022 have in store? The post Spotlight: COVID, Cloud Sovereignty and Other 2022 Trends with DigiCert appeared first on The Security. Can We Fix It In 2022? So it is with predictions for this new year, 2022. Read the whole entry. » » Click the icon below to listen.

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The Security Ledger

JANUARY 14, 2022

The post Spotlight: ShardSecure on Protecting Data At Rest Without Encryption appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Can We Fix It In 2022? Encryption tools for securing that data are widely available, but they come with costs both in management overhead and in speed of access. Click the icon below to listen.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 21, 2022

” Also read: Cybersecurity Employment in 2022: Solving the Skills Gap. As of mid-2022, the cost is $381 USD. As of mid-2022, the cost is $249. . As of mid-2022, the cost is $749 USD. As of mid-2022, the cost of the exam is $575 for ISACA members and $760 for non-members. . CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

You can now implement and maintain encryption with minimal impact. Tue, 02/08/2022 - 07:26. Encryption is best practice to ensure cybercriminals do not gain access to your business’s sensitive data. But deployment and management of encryption generally incur downtime. Initial encryption. The challenge of downtime.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2022

The SOVA Android banking trojan was improved, it has a new ransomware feature that encrypts files on Android devices, Cleafy researchers report. In March 2022, SOVA authors released version 3.0 The malware encrypts the files inside the infected devices using an AES algorithm and renaming them with the extension “.enc”.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Cuba ransomware gang received more than $60 million in ransom payments related to attacks against 100 entities worldwide as of August 2022. Dollars (USD) and received more than $60 million in ransom payments from over 100 victims worldwide as of August 2022, the US government states. ” reads the report. ” reads the report.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 29, 2022

How the new Spirion-Thales partnership enables sensitive-data-centric encryption. Thu, 06/30/2022 - 05:43. Encryption achieves this goal by making the data readable only to those individuals with the proper access levels. Wouldn’t it be better if you could only encrypt the data that you need to protect?

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

technology companies during the summer of 2022. stole at least $800,000 from at least five victims between August 2022 and March 2023. 2022 that an intrusion had exposed a “limited number” of Twilio customer accounts through a sophisticated social engineering attack designed to steal employee credentials.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2024

A team of researchers released a suite of tools that could help victims to decrypt data encrypted with by the Black Basta ransomware. Independent security research and consulting team SRLabs discovered a vulnerability in Black Basta ransomware’s encryption algorithm and exploited it to create a free decryptor.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for November 2022 addressed a privilege escalation vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-37966 , that impacts Windows Server. The issue is addressed by out-of-band updates released to Microsoft Update Catalog on and after November 17, 2022. ” reads the advisory published by Microsoft.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

2022 will go down as the year where some semblance of normality returned. In total, we have so far reported more than 1,000 data breaches in 2022, with almost half a billion breached records. Google , Clearview AI , and Meta all receives hefty penalties in 2022, demonstrating the continued important of effective information security.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2024

The Black Basta ransomware group has been active since April 2022 , like other ransomware operations, it implements a double-extortion attack model. A joint research by Elliptic and Corvus Insurance revealed that the group accumulated at least $107 million in Bitcoin ransom payments since early 2022.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 18, 2022

RSA Conference 2022 Back to Physical - The Thrill of Meeting in Person! Thu, 05/19/2022 - 05:25. And just like that, RSA Conference 2022 is back in San Francisco ! Besides keynotes and presentations, RSA Conference 2022 is also about socializing and networking. The keyword here is ‘together.’. ThalesRSAC2022.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Welcome to our October 2022 review of phishing attacks, in which we explore the latest email scams and the tactics that cyber criminals use to trick people into handing over personal data. Many people believe that this indicates that a URL is genuine, but it simply means that traffic sent to the site is encrypted. Get started.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 26, 2022

Five Hot Security and Privacy Topics You Need To Understand in 2022. Thu, 01/27/2022 - 06:13. The Cloud Trust Paradox: Keeping Control of Data & Encryption Keys in the Cloud. When it comes to encryption keys, security best practice is all about control and separation between encrypted data at rest and the keys.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2022

Hertzbleed attack: Researchers discovered a new vulnerability in modern Intel and AMD chips that could allow attackers to steal encryption keys. The experts will present their findings at the 31st USENIX Security Symposium that will take place in Boston, 10–12 August 2022. ” reads the website set up to describe the attack.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 11, 2023

The Most Popular Data Security Webinars of 2022: Sovereignty, Cloud Security and Compliance Top the List. Throughout 2022, Thales hosted more than 40 webinars on a wide variety of cybersecurity topics, including, cloud security, data sovereignty, compliance, data threat trends, and rethinking approaches to role-based authentication.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 8, 2022

The global cost of ransomware has risen from $325 million to $20 billion from 2016 to 2021, and on average, only 65% of encrypted data was restored after a ransom was paid. Zerto’s automated failover and failback is said to recover encrypted files, virtual machine (VM) applications, sites, and data within minutes of when an infection occurs.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 6, 2022

About the only consensus on cybersecurity in 2022 is that things will get uglier, but in what ways? Here are some of the more interesting predictions for 2022 we’ve seen from cybersecurity researchers. Here are some of the more interesting predictions for 2022 we’ve seen from cybersecurity researchers.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Their trepidation is focused on the potential undermining of a core security component of classical computing systems: encryption. Their median prediction for when PQC will become a necessity was 2022, just three years from now. To its credit, the global cybersecurity community is not asleep on this. But that’s not the crucial issue.

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HID Global

MARCH 11, 2022

The Case for Encrypting Everything: A Q&A With PKI Expert Mrugesh Chandarana. Fri, 03/11/2022 - 17:00. mchandarana.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Phobos variants are usually distributed by the SmokeLoader , but in 8Base campaigns, it has the ransomware component embedded in its encrypted payloads. The group has been active since March 2022, it focused on small and medium-size businesses in multiple industries, including finance, manufacturing, business services, and IT.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 8, 2022

Verizon’s 2022 Mobile Security Index Report – Confirming what we all suspected. Tue, 08/09/2022 - 05:56. Todd Moore | VP, Encryption Products. What happens when you combine a pandemic that forces most businesses into a remote work environment, coupled with increased mobile device use for many daily tasks? Data Security.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

He’d been on the job less than six months, and because of the way his predecessor architected things, the company’s data backups also were encrypted by Zeppelin. “We’ve found someone who can crack the encryption.” Then came the unlikely call from an FBI agent. “Don’t pay,” the agent said.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 8, 2024

The new year brought few new vulnerabilities, and only Ivanti Endpoint Manager (EPM) and Kyber, the quantum resistant encryption algorithm, publicized new vulnerabilities or fixes. The problem: Ivanti announced CVE-2023-39336 that affects all versions of EPM prior to and including 2022 SU4. The fix: Update to 2022 Service Update 5.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Samba released updates to address multiple vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2022-38023, CVE-2022-37966, CVE-2022-37967, and CVE-2022-45141, that can be exploited to take control of impacted systems. On December 15, 2022, Samba announced the 4.17.4, security releases to address the above issues. and greater).

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 2, 2022

The Atlas VPN report said the number of new Linux malware samples collected soared by 646% from the first half of 2021 to the first half of 2022, from 226,334 samples to nearly 1.7 million malware samples in the first half of 2022. Read next: Exfiltration Can Be Stopped With Data-in-Use Encryption, Company Says.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 9, 2023

IceFire was first detected in March 2022 by researchers from the MalwareHunterTeam , but the group claimed victims via its dark web leak site since August 2022. In an attack observed by the experts, the ransomware successfully encrypted a CentOS host running a vulnerable version of IBM Aspera Faspex file server software.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2024

ESET first discovered a new Linux version of DinodasRAT in October 2023, but experts believe it has been active since 2022. The campaign seems active since at least early 2022 and focuses primarily on government organizations. The library uses the Tiny Encryption Algorithm ( TEA ) in CBC mode to cipher and decipher the data.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 8, 2023

More alarmingly, the company said it appears attackers first started exploiting the flaw in October 2022. If they’re going for data ransoming, they’re encrypting the data itself — not the machines.” “Barracuda’s recommendation at this time is full replacement of the impacted ESG.”

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