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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Data Breach Today

JUNE 11, 2021

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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. ” reads the analysis published by Cleafy. Oscorp or BRATA ).”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2021

Researchers conducted a new analysis of the Diavol ransomware and found new evidence of the link with the gang behind the TrickBot botnet. reads the analysis published by Fortinet. ” continues the analysis. Browsing to the URL led to us a website, seen in figures 2 and 3, from which we derived the name for the ransomware.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

” reads the analysis published by AquaSec. ” The Pollard’s Kangaroo interval ECDLP solver algorithm appears to be an attempt to break the SECP256K1 encryption which is used by Bitcoin to implement its public key cryptography. “Breaking the cryptographic encryption is considered “Mission: Impossible”.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The popular cyber security researcher Patrick Wardle published a detailed analysis of the new macOS ransomware Turtle. The Turtle ransomware reads files into memory, encrypt them with AES (in CTR mode), rename the files, then overwrites the original contents of the files with the encrypted data. concludes the analysis.

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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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Researchers at SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab discovered multiple issues in several security products from Fortinet, including hardcoded key and encryption for communications. ” reads the analysis published by the experts. “The messages are encrypted using XOR “encryption” with a static key.”

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 28, 2024

Related: The role of ‘attribute based encryption’ There’s nothing intrinsically wrong with companies seeking to better understand their customers. Both regulations have profound implications for companies seeking to collect and apply aggregate statistical analysis to consumer data.

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IT Governance

MARCH 6, 2019

Yes, most information security experts will be able to explain what confidentiality, integrity and availability mean, but other terms, like ‘risk’, are surprisingly vague. There’s a good reason for this: information security best practice is constantly evolving, meaning any advice listed in the Regulation could soon be out of date.

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2020

Ransomware encrypts from virtual machines to evade antivirus. Ragnar Locker deploys Windows XP virtual machines to encrypt victim’s files, the trick allows to evaded detection from security software. ” continues the analysis. Mounting all the shared drives to encrypt.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2024

” reads the analysis published by Unit 42. By leveraging this deceptive domain, the threat actors behind Bifrost aim to bypass security measures, evade detection, and ultimately compromise targeted systems.” The recent sample of Linux variants of BIFROSE employes RC4 encryption to encrypt the collected victim data.

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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. 8base” file extension for encrypted documents, a circumstance that suggested a possible link to the 8Base group or the use of the same code-base for their ransomware.

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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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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

After supporters and opponents of mandated government access to encrypted communications publicly feuded for much of 2016, reprising arguments they’ve had since at least the days of the “Clipper Chip,” these “encryption debates” seemed to quiet down for much of last year. device locking, secure messaging, etc.);

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2020

DeathRansom was considered fake ransomware due to the fact that it did not implement an effective encryption process, but now things are changing. DeathRansom is a ransomware family that was initially classified as a joke because it did not implement an effective encryption scheme. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2022

” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. “The actors customized previous ransomware binaries for the intended victim through the use of confidential information such as leaked accounts and unique company IDs as the appended file extension. ” continues the analysis. AGENDA.THIAFBB.”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2024

In early January, 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. Depending on the file size, the ransomware encrypts the initial 5000 bytes. continues the researchers.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The authors also implemented different obfuscation techniques and custom encryption to avoid detection. ” To circumvent analysis and detection, the malware encrypts all C2 communications. The usage of the Xamarin framework allowed threat actors to remain under the radar for a long time. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The encryption and decryption are not robust and the ransomware lack features like Windows Shadow Copy removal, File unlocking for a more thorough impact, Anti-analysis, and Defensive evasion (AMSI bypass, disabling event logging, etc.). At this point in this ransomware, the encryption process has already finished.

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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. “Second, Hertzbleed shows that, even when implemented correctly as constant time, cryptographic code can still leak via remote timing analysis. ” continues the post.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2023

One of the most important capabilities of ransomware is the capability of targeting specific files to encrypt. FileCoder and MacRansom use the Linux find utility to search for selected files to encrypt. . “The ransomware families we analyzed often share similar anti-analysis and persistence techniques. _README_”. .

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 1, 2024

The encrypted tokens are decrypted using an encryption key stored in Chrome’s Local State within the UserData directory, similar to the encryption used for storing passwords.” “This table contains two crucial columns: service (GAIA ID) and encrypted_token. ” reads the report published by CloudSEK.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2021

Like other ransomware gangs, Lorenz operators also implement double-extortion model by stealing data before encrypting it and threatening them if the victim doesn’t pay the ransom. Lorenz sends the name of the infected system to a C2 before encrypting the file. Lorenz places a header before the encrypted file instead.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2022

The report provides information about tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of the threat actors using the Maui ransomware along with indicators of compromise (IOCs) that were obtained by government experts during incident response activities and industry analysis of a Maui sample.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2024

“The JScript file then drops a Base64-encrypted file and a batch file. The Base64-encrypted file is decoded with the certutil -f decode command, resulting in the creation of a Portable Executable (PE) DLL file.” Upon downloading and opening the archive, a JScript file is dropped onto the system.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The AXLocker ransomware encrypts victims’ files and steals Discord tokens from the infected machine. The analysis of the code revealed that the startencryption() function implements the capability to search files by enumerating the available directories on the C: drive. ” reads the analysis published by Cyble. .

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The attackers exploited the Log4Shell remote code execution vulnerability to download a.NET binary from a remote server that encrypts the files on the target machine and adds the extension.khonsari to each file. NOT MODIFY OR DELETE THIS FILE OR ANY ENCRYPTED FILES. NOT MODIFY OR DELETE THIS FILE OR ANY ENCRYPTED FILES.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The security firm discovered a bug in the encryption process implemented by the Hades ransomware that can be used to recover the files encrypted by some variants. “We discovered a vulnerability in the encryption schema that allows some of the variants to be decrypted without paying the ransom.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 9, 2023

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. The ransomware encrypts files and appends the “.ifire” IceFire doesn’t encrypt the files with “.sh” IceFire doesn’t encrypt the files with “.sh”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2022

#Ransomware Hunt: "White Rabbit" with extension " scrypt", drops note for each encrypted file with "<filename> scrypt.txt" with victim-specific information: [link] "Follow the White Rabbit…" pic.twitter.com/lhzHi5t1KK — Michael Gillespie (@demonslay335) December 14, 2021.

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Security Affairs

JULY 5, 2023

Once inside the system, this malicious variant stealthily extracts sensitive information and proceeds to encrypt the compromised files.” ” reads the analysis published by Zscaler. ” continues the analysis. ” extension to encrypted files and deletes backups. It appends the “ FACKOFF!”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The attack took place on February 11 and encrypted data in the production servers. As a result of the attack, the system is down, files and databases are encrypted.” This information is useful to the authorities or for further analysis of the attack Do not shut down the affected equipment.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

The malicious code hidden in the apps can harvest sensitive information from compromised Android devices. The apps can collect information about the user’s contacts, including IDs, nicknames, names, and phone numbers. The collected information is then encrypted and cached into a temporary file named tgsync.s3.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2022

” reads the analysis published by SafeBreach. The command is encrypted using AES-256 CBC. The analysis of the ID count revealed that the attackers C2 have compromised a total of 70 computers. The analysis of the ID count revealed that the attackers C2 have compromised a total of 70 computers.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

Thus, it can be difficult for even small enterprises to keep up with information security and data privacy compliance. Sometimes, however, information security, data privacy, and IT compliance overall are people problems more than they are pure data problems. Security, Privacy and Compliance Can Conflict.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2022

Some variants of the ransomware append the English name of the target company to the filenames of the encrypted files. Recently, the Chinese security firm Rising detected a Linux variant of the SFile ransomware that uses the RSA+AES algorithm mode. as the suffix name. . as the suffix name. ” reported The Record. .

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