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

JULY 1, 2020

Security experts have uncovered a new piece of ransomware dubbed EvilQuest designed to encrypt macOS systems, it is also able to install additional payloads and potentially take over the infected machine. ” reads the analysis wrote by Wardle. The ransomware also checks for some common anti-virus solutions (e.g.

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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. Of course, if the target has Adobe Reader or Acrobat installed, it might be easier for attackers to achieve that log in.

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Security Affairs

JULY 3, 2023

The analysis of the documents employed in the campaign that were uploaded to VirusTotal reveals that they the Chinese APT group attempted to target diplomats and government entities in Czechia, Hungary, Slovakia, the U.K., and Ukraine. . ” concludes the report.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

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. For structured data, users can run simple analysis tools, i.e., content searches, to find what they need. Delete data.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

According to its analysis , 260 organisations in the UK fell victim to ransomware between January 2020 and June 2022, a figure that’s only exceeded by Canada (276) and – in a distant lead – the US (2,379). You can find all the guidance you need with our Ransomware Staff Awareness E-learning Course.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

While some packers like UPX only compress the file, others can also encrypt it. Detecting UPX-Packed Files You can try a simple UPX command to spot UPX-packed files: upx -l {suspicious_binary} Of course, it’s limited and won’t work all the time. Many cases seem to involve UPX. You need to log suspicious activities and behaviors.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2020

” reads the analysis published by PaloAlto Networks. Experts noticed that the name of the file employed in this campaign references the date March 23, 2020, and it was not updated over the course of the campaign. ” continues the analysis. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

This will help me later in the case I will be able to obtain a firmware that eventually is encrypted (i.e. Firmware Analysis: Passed the initial shock, I thought the data inside the dump would have been still encrypted in some way. With of course, an active anti-tamper detection mechanism that will void the encrypted content.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

CNAP provides encryption, access control, threat detection and response features for enhanced security. Mobile behavioral analysis: Similar to user and entity behavioral analysis (UEBA) solutions, mobile behavioral analysis tools look for signs that apps are engaging in risky or malicious behaviors. The issue led U.S.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The statistics are worrying, and, of course, they represent an opportunity for cyber-crooks. In this case, based on the analysis of the shared IoC, all the identified samples are not new and were reused with some small changes. Technical Analysis. Figure 4: Piece of the encrypted file downloaded from “share.]dmca.]gripe”.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2021

With them, I acquired Windows artifacts on dozens of incidents for further analysis in laboratory machines. This is useful in case the volume is encrypted, so the physical image could be more complicated to be processed later. Of course, I will keep it updated, if more artifacts are needed to be extracted for our investigations.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 9, 2019

Because of the quick reaction we had, we were able to contain the encryption part” to roughly 50 percent of customer systems, he said. “The core of this criminal business is to give back your valuable data in the original form (for ransom of course).”. . Image: Accenture iDefense.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

” reads the analysis published by Avast. “Unlike the aforementioned IoT botnets, this one tries to be more stealthy and persistent once the device is compromised, and it does not (yet) do the usual stuff a botnet does like DDOS , attacking all the devices connected to the internet, or, of course, mining cryptocurrencies.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Security researchers from ESET published a detailed analysis of a recently discovered cyber espionage group tracked as GreyEnergy. Security experts from ESET published a detailed analysis of a recently discovered threat actor tracked as GreyEnergy, its activity emerged in concurrence with BlackEnergy operations.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2018

The campaign appears as targeted and well-planned, crooks targeted several enterprises and encrypted hundreds of PC, storage and data centers in each infected company. ” reads the analysis published by Check Point. Continuing the analysis, the experts discovered that both ransomware uses a quite identical dropper.

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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. On display, we saw quite a bit on monitoring and reporting services.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 16, 2021

In a blog post , researchers with the Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Team outlined how the cybercriminals changed tactics to evade detection, going so far as to change their obfuscation and encryption mechanisms an average of every 37 days – including using older encryption methods like Morse code.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Our analysis will then need to consider what it will take to prepare to meet that request and how to communicate it clearly, without technical jargon, to our executives, to the board, and possibly to a judge and jury. Of course, most companies don’t have this in place, or the SEC would not be creating a new requirement.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2021

The BEHINDER is a publicly available, multi-platform web shell that allows attackers to establish encrypted connections with command and control (C2). ” continues the analysis published by FireEye. ” SonicWall is urging it customers to update the their installs. ” reads the advisory published by the security vendor.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. ” continues the analysis. The skimmer script used in these attacks collects customers’ data, including names, email addresses, telephone numbers, hotel room preferences, and of course, credit card details.

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IT Governance

APRIL 11, 2023

For instance, it could monitor users’ keystrokes or encrypt the user’s files in a ransomware attack. According to its analysis, malware was proportionately more common in phishing attacks, with Emotet and QakBot remaining the two most common strains. YouTube has said its team are investigating the phishing campaign. “We’re

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Many organizations, for instance, continue to rely heavily on legacy firewalls and WAFs, which, of course, is precisely where Capital One went wrong. Runtime security, paired with behavior analysis, is the ideal approach, which brings us back to Big Data.”. WAFs came along specifically to filter web app traffic and protect websites.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2019

” reads the analysis published by Symantec. The malware then connects to the C&C server and waits for commands, experts noticed that the malware encrypts communications and implements certificate pinning to prevent MiTM attacks. ” continues the analysis. “The app, called Xhelper, is persistent.

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IT Governance

JUNE 27, 2019

TrendMicro’s analysis into the ransomware found that it was the same system administration tool abused by the likes of SOREBRECT and Bad Rabbit. The ransomware was accompanied by a note: “Your files are encrypted with the strongest military algorithms. How the incident occurred. Everything in the company was turned upside down.”.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Modernization teams perform their code analysis and go through several documents (mostly dated); this is where their reliance on code analysis tools becomes important. Generative AI-assisted API mapping called out in this paper is a mini exemplar of this.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2018

TS: Yes, you can put something into everything, but all of a sudden you have this massive big data collection problem on the back end where you as the attacker have created a different kind of analysis problem. Of course, some nations have more capability than others to sift through huge amounts of data they’re collecting.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. “I ran my own analysis on top of their data and reached the same conclusion that Taylor reported. But on Nov.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 17, 2018

A full list of affected products can be found on Intel’s website , as can technical analysis of the vulnerability. provides additional privacy for data exchanges by encrypting more of the negotiation handshake to protect it from eavesdroppers. Finally, it was of course Patch Tuesday this week. In contrast to TLS 1.2,

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IT Governance

MARCH 6, 2019

For example, the Standard includes several controls relating to data encryption, which is one of the most effective ways of securing information and protecting its confidentiality, integrity and availability. This involves conducting a needs analysis and defining a desired level of competence. Measure, monitor and review.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 2, 2019

Conduct a detailed gap analysis. Conducting a GDPR gap analysis will help you assess your current workflows, processes and procedures to identify the gaps that you need to fill. Our selection of training courses , books , software and consultancy services can give you an essential boost. Ensure that your staff are trained.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 4, 2020

But while we're here, check out just how much more efficient br is than gzip: That's about a 29% improvement in response size which is pretty amazing for just a tweak of the request header (assuming your client can support brotli, of course). Each one of those rows with a random hash suffix represents it as having been seen zero times.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 7, 2023

And of course reporting has to be good to fix the flaws they do find. Other features include: Data encryption Compliance management capabilities Server monitoring and alerting Data import and export John the Ripper This free password-cracking tool supports 15 operating systems, including 11 from the Unix family, DOS, Win32, BeOS, and OpenVMS.

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The Falcon's View

MAY 16, 2018

In the first case you quickly go down the data governance path (inclusive of data security), which must factor in requirements for control, retention, protection (including encryption), and masking/redaction, to name a few things. Consider, if you will, a cloud resource being compromised in order to run cryptocurrency mining.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 13, 2019

Shutting down a feature based on internal security analysis would be a clear message. On the other hand, WhatsApp -- purchased by Facebook in 2014 -- provides users with end-to-end encrypted messaging. Changing course here would be a dramatic and negative signal. Better data security so Facebook sees less.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2019

That file was delivered via malscam campaigns around the world and its source-code is obfuscated in order to evade antivirus detection and complicate its analysis. For more details and complete analysis of this malicious campaign see the Technical Analysis below. Technical Analysis. Banking credentials, of course.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 21, 2022

Of course, data protection requires effective cybersecurity solutions. Conduct risk analysis. In any case, risk analysis is the smart thing to do. The solution is data encryption, which uses mathematical algorithms to scramble data, replacing plaintext with ciphertext.

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