Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2023

ReversingLabs discovered two malicious packages, respectively named nodejs-encrypt-agent and nodejs-cookie-proxy-agent, in the npm package repository containing an open-source info-stealer called TurkoRat. The malware also supports anti-sandbox and analysis functionalities to avoid detection and prevent being analyzed.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2023

The encryptor uses a combination of ECDH on Curve25519 (asymmetric encryption) and Chacha20 (symmetric encryption) to encrypt files. The researchers discovered that the samples contain a self-delete mechanism which is invoked once the victim’s device is encrypted. ” reads the analysis published by Uptycs.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The Akira ransomware has been active since March 2023, the threat actors behind the malware claim to have already hacked multiple organizations in multiple industries, including education, finance, and real estate. ” reads the analysis published by Microsoft. ” reads the analysis published by Microsoft.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Top 8 IaaS Security Risks & Issues Each of these IaaS security risks and issues highlights the importance of a comprehensive security strategy, including ongoing monitoring, regular audits, and user education to mitigate potential threats and vulnerabilities in the cloud environment.

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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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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 22, 2019

NIST has completed a study -- it was published last year, but I just saw it recently -- calculating the costs and benefits of the Advanced Encryption Standard. Still, I like seeing this kind of analysis about security infrastructure.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2023

According to government experts, the Royal ransomware attacks targeted numerous critical infrastructure sectors including, manufacturing, communications, healthcare and public healthcare (HPH), and education. ” reads the analysis published by TrendMicro. New #ransomware #BlackSuit targets Windows, #Linux.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2022

The collected samples were 64-bit Windows PE (Portable Executable) files and were used to target healthcare and education organizations in Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and Thailand. Our investigation showed that the samples had leaked accounts, customer passwords, and unique company IDs used as extensions of encrypted files.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

Trigona is written in Delphi language, it encrypts files without distinguishing their extensions and appends the “._locked” _locked” extension to the filename of encrypted files. ” The analysis of the log from AhnLab’s ASD shows the MS-SQL process sqlservr.exe installing Trigona under the name svcservice.exe.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 17, 2018

In this blog, we’ll consider situational analysis, how to assess what’s happening in the school and how to support staff to protect the data in their care. Situational analysis – understand what’s happening now. Introduce device encryption. There are several ways to reduce the likelihood and severity of data breaches.

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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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The second stage payload is a heavily obfuscated shellcode, the APT group used an encryption method different for each sample. ” continues the analysis. .” ” continues the analysis. DTrack retrieves the payload by reading it from an offset within the file or by reading it from a resource within the PE binary.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2020

The Tycoon ransomware was used in highly targeted attacks, its operators recently targeted small to medium-sized companies and institutions in the education and software industries. ” reads the analysis published by BlackBerry. A separate encryption thread will be created for each item in the path list.”continues

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2023

The highly-targeted attacks aim at organizations in government, aviation, education, and telecom sectors. ” reads the analysis published by Symantec. The intelligence-gathering campaign started in mid-2022 and is likely still ongoing. pak) containing final payload (Merdoor backdoor).

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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.

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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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

The Royal group began reconnaissance activity in April 2023, and the analysis of system log data dates the beginning of the surveillance operations on April 7, 2023. The command-and-control beacons allowed Royal to prepare the City’s network resources for the May 03, 2023, ransomware encryption attack.”

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

M]uch of InfoSec management falls back on employee training and avoiding employee error – particularly with respect to phishing , spear phishing, and encryption lapses.”. Trotter further argued that encryption of Anthem’s data at rest would have offered only minimal security benefits and would not have prevented the hack.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2021

Upon opening the attachment, ToxicEye installs itself on the victim’s device and performs some operations in background such as: stealing data deleting or transferring files killing processes on the PC hijacking the PC’s microphone and camera to record audio and video encrypting files for ransom purposes. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Careful analysis reveals typical elements that may indicate that this is a fake site. HTTPS only indicates that the transmission of data between client and server is done by encrypting information (the letter S, the green padlock, and the certificate cannot give guarantees about the reliability of a site).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The group is very sophisticated and used zero-day exploits and complex malware to conduct targeted attacks against governments and organizations in almost every industry, including financial, energy, telecommunications, and education, aerospace. The second stage installs itself and loads the third stage using an encrypted, hardcoded path.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

Although most people think of ransomware as a dodgy application that encrypts data and holds it for ransom, the concept is much more heterogeneous than that. File encryption 2013 – 2015. It emerged in September 2013 and paved the way for hundreds of file-encrypting menaces that have splashed onto the scene ever since.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

The attackers successfully compromised more than a dozen organizations across multiple industries, including technology, energy, healthcare, education, finance and defense. SockDetour serves as a backup fileless Windows backdoor in case the primary one is removed.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 9, 2019

” reads the analysis published by Cylance. “Analysts have observed evidence of the threat actors attempting to deliver ransomware to the healthcare and education industries with PyXie.” ” continues the analysis. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2020

” reads the analysis published by PaloAlto Networks. ” continues the analysis. ” continues the analysis. . “Between March 24, 2020 at 18:25 UTC and March 26 at 11:54 UTC, Unit 42 observed several malicious emails sent from the spoofed address noreply@who [. ]

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2023

ransom Dragon Breath APT uses double-dip DLL sideloading strategy International Press Cybercrime San Bernardino County pays $1.1-million ransom Dragon Breath APT uses double-dip DLL sideloading strategy International Press Cybercrime San Bernardino County pays $1.1-million

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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). Across the UK, the education sector was the most frequently targeted, with 24 incidents.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

His news analysis columns, podcasts, and videos are crafted to foster a useful understanding of complex privacy and cybersecurity developments for company decision-makers and individual citizens — for the greater good. Byron: Companies often underestimate threats, neglect basic cyber hygiene, and fail to educate employees on cybersecurity.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

As of April 28, the site mentioned nine companies primarily from aviation, financial, education and manufacturing industries. As of April 28, the website offers to download data for free from 9 mainly US companies from the aviation, financial, education, manufacturing, and logistics companies which refused to pay the ransom.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

Strong passwords, two-factor authentication, firewalls, encryption, and monitoring systems are just a few of the tools and procedures used to maintain security. Secure Communication Channels: When sending sensitive data outside of the company network, use encrypted communication tools (such as secure email and messaging applications).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

” reads an analysis published by Symantec Threat Hunter team, part of Broadcom Software. In some cases, the arbitrary shellcode is encrypted.” Experts also shared details about an attack against a government-owned organization in the education sector in Asia. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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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. “For these infections hackers take sometimes days, weeks, or even months to encrypt your data.” ” “They decided they were coming after us,” he said.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2022

Virtually all ransomware encrypts the contents of files on the filesystem. The same Bitcoin wallet address has been observed across all DEV-0586 intrusions and at the time of analysis, the only activity was a small transfer on January 14. In this case, the same ransom payload was observed at multiple victims.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 24, 2023

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Incident details: The company found that data on its network had been encrypted without its knowledge. Records breached: 91,000 individuals affected. Records breached: Unknown.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 29, 2024

Review Data in Real-Time DLP solutions perform instant analysis of data packets or files as they’re observed. DLP uses content inspection, behavior analysis, and machine learning to detect abnormalities that indicate data breaches or policy violations. The 10 steps outlined below show how data loss prevention works.

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2019

.” reads the analysis published by Paloalto Networks. Moth of the victims belongs to high-tech, wholesale and education sectors. All the important files on your disks were encrypted. Technical details, including Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) are reported in the analysis published by the experts. txt, “Attention!

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