eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Breaking Authentication Attackers can get unauthorized access to the IaaS environment by exploiting weak authentication systems or weaknesses in the authentication process. This danger emphasizes the significance of having strong authentication mechanisms and upgrading access controls on a regular basis.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Domain Name System Security Extension (DNSSEC) protocols authenticate DNS traffic by adding support for cryptographically signed responses. To help clarify DNSSEC, we will explore both the DNSSEC features and benefits and compare it against DNS Security, DNS Crypt, and Encrypted DNS. What Are DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC)?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2020

DigiLocker provides an account in cloud to every Aadhaar holder to access authentic documents/certificates such as driving license, vehicle registration, academic mark sheet in digital format from the original issuers of these certificates. It also provides 1GB storage space to each account to upload scanned copies of legacy documents.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 5, 2024

From securing everyday personal messages and the authentication of digital signatures to protecting payment information for online shopping and even guarding top-secret government data and communications—cryptography makes digital privacy possible. In modern times, cryptography has become a critical lynchpin of cybersecurity.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2021

assembly that is intended to be loaded as a module within an IIS web server that also exposes Exchange’s Outlook Web Access (OWA),” reads the analysis published by Kaspersky. Once a user has successfully authenticated on the OWA authentication web page, the Owawa module captures its credential.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The vulnerability affects the way Microsoft applications use OAuth for authentication, these applications trust certain third-party domains and sub-domains that are not registered by Microsoft. ” continues the analysis. A vulnerability in the Microsoft OAuth implementation exposes Azure cloud accounts to takeover.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2024

The truncation can lead to using less secure client authentication algorithms and deactivating specific countermeasures against keystroke timing attacks in OpenSSH 9.5.” Another pre-requirement is that the connection must be secured by either ChaCha20-Poly1305 or CBC with Encrypt-then-MAC. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2024

Researchers released PoC exploit code for a recently disclosed critical authentication bypass flaw in Fortra’s GoAnywhere MFT (Managed File Transfer). ” reads the analysis published by Horizon3. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Four encryption and authentication issues in Modicon M221 PLCs were reported by Trustwave, three of which have been independently found by the security firm Claroty. According to the analysis published by Claroty the flaw could be triggered by an attacker with a foothold on the OT network.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Backed by a huge open source database of known exploits, it also provides IT with an analysis of pen testing results so remediation steps can be done efficiently. Read more: Metasploit: Pen Testing Product Overview and Analysis. Read more: Fiddler: Pen Testing Product Overview and Analysis. Security Onion. Aircrack-ng.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2023

Statc Stealer is written in C++, it supports filename discrepancy checks to avoid the execution in a sandbox and reverse engineering analysis. The infection chain starts when victims are tricked into clicking on an ads that appears like an authentic Google advertisement.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 12, 2024

Conduct content analysis to improve safety measures. Sample access restriction from SolarWinds’ access rights management dashboard Encrypt Data This practice entails using data encryption tools to keep sensitive data confidential and safe from illegal access or exploitation, even if the device is lost or stolen.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 10, 2024

A comprehensive understanding of your cardholder data environment (CDE) is crucial for later risk analysis and targeted control implementation. Ensure that multi-factor authentication (MFA) is enforced for all accounts with access to the CDE, especially those with privileged access. Risk Assessment Reevaluation : PCI DSS 4.0

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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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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Aporeto's container security platform uses application context to enforce authentication, authorization, and encryption policies.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Today, criminal hackers rather routinely leverage loosely-configured and lightly-monitored APIs in two ways: to gain a foothold in the early stages of multi-stage network attacks, and later to encrypt crucial systems and/or exfiltrate sensitive data. At this point, other aspects of security beyond the signature-based analysis become critical.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2023

Xplain hack impacted the Swiss cantonal police and Fedpol Zyxel published guidance for protecting devices from ongoing attacks Kimsuky APT poses as journalists and broadcast writers in its attacks New Linux Ransomware BlackSuit is similar to Royal ransomware CISA adds Progress MOVEit Transfer zero-day to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (..)

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

The technologies for secure remote access can range from VPNs and multi-factor authentication to more advanced access and zero trust controls. Strong passwords, two-factor authentication, firewalls, encryption, and monitoring systems are just a few of the tools and procedures used to maintain security.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This advisory provides information on tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) associated with the ransomware gang that were obtained from the analysis of a sample of BlackMatter ransomware as well from trusted third-party reporting. BlackMatter then remotely encrypts the hosts and shared drives as they are found.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Once opened, the email appears as a legitimate email communication from American Express, while the content instructs the cardholder on how to view the secure, encrypted message attached. ” reads the analysis published by the Armorblox. ” reads the analysis published by the Armorblox. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2023

Additional analysis revealed that the malware borrows code from the Hive project that was leaked in 2017 as part of Vault 8 series. ” reads the analysis published by the experts. . ” reads the analysis published by the experts. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2021

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued an alert to warn that the Mamba ransomware is abusing the DiskCryptor open source tool to encrypt entire drives. Mamba ransomware is one of the first malware that encrypted hard drives rather than files that was detected in public attacks. ” reads the alert published by the FBI.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2023

” reads the analysis published by Cleafy. The malware also supports features to bypass two-factor authentication (2FA) using both SMSs or the Google Authenticator app by abusing of Android’s accessibility services. It also provides a built-in list of injections against 450 financial applications.”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 7, 2020

If your business is taking an ‘encrypt everything’ approach, data discovery with risk analysis will help prioritize where to deploy data security solutions first. Encrypt all sensitive data. Data discovery, classification and risk analysis helps set priorities for data security implementation. Securely store your keys.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 6, 2024

Perform risk assessments specifically targeting API endpoints vulnerable to Broken Authorization and Authentication as well as Excessive Data Exposure. Conduct regular assessments to uncover API vulnerabilities that traditional WAFs may miss, such as inadequate validation or misconfigured authentication.

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Security Affairs

JULY 26, 2023

A remote and authenticated attacker can escalate privileges from admin to super-admin on the Winbox or HTTP interface.” The CVE-2023-30799 flaw can be exploited by a remote and an authenticated attacker to escalate privileges from admin to ‘super-admin’ which allows it to get a root shell on the router.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This discipline – sitting at the intersection of computer science and data analysis – has become integral to mobile applications, voice assistants, fraudulent transaction detection, image recognition, autonomous driving, and even medical diagnostics. An encrypted model is basically useless without the correct decryption key.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2022

. “Unlike the majority of Mirai variants, which natively brute force Telnet servers using default or weak passwords, RapperBot exclusively scans and attempts to brute force SSH servers configured to accept password authentication. ” reads the analysis published by FortiGuard Labs. Once stored public keys stored in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys,

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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. According to Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) researchers, who spotted the campaign, the attacks were launched by multiple hack-for-hire actors recruited on Russian-speaking forums.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

The skimmer loads dynamically to avoid static malware scanners and uses unique encryption parameters for each victim to obfuscate the malicious code.” The JavaScript URL is hardcoded in the loader script in encrypted format, experts observed that the attackers can change the URL for each victim.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

This discipline – sitting at the intersection of computer science and data analysis – has become integral to mobile applications, voice assistants, fraudulent transaction detection, image recognition, autonomous driving, and even medical diagnostics. An encrypted model is basically useless without the correct decryption key.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

This discipline – sitting at the intersection of computer science and data analysis – has become integral to mobile applications, voice assistants, fraudulent transaction detection, image recognition, autonomous driving, and even medical diagnostics. An encrypted model is basically useless without the correct decryption key.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

EventBot is a mobile banking trojan and infostealer that abuses Android’s accessibility features to steal user data from financial applications, read user SMS messages, and steal SMS messages to allow the malware to bypass two-factor authentication.” ” reads the analysis published by Cybereason.

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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

JULY 5, 2023

Upon launching the malware it first authenticates to the C2, then retrieves an encrypted list of targets. Dynamic analysis allowed for the calculation of all necessary values to decrypt the data” reads the analysis published by Sekoia.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

“In a TLS server, this can be triggered if the server requests client authentication and a malicious client connects.” ” The CVE-2022-3602 flaw was initially rated as CRITICAL , but further analysis based on some of the mitigating factors led its severity rate to be downgraded to HIGH. release. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Cyber criminals may damage, destroy, steal, encrypt, expose, or leak data as well as cause harm to a system. Encrypted threats spiked 167%, ransomware increased 105%, and 5.4 In May, cybersecurity researchers revealed that ransomware attacks are increasing their aggressive approach by destroying data instead of encrypting it.

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