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. In the last stage of the attack, the stealer uses the ransomware modules to encrypt the user’s data.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2019

Experts observed an increase of the malware spreading using less-known archive types as dropper,in particular ISO image.Delphi wrapper makes analysis harder. Technical Analysis. As expected, the malicious payload is stored in the resource section in encrypted way (probably using a simple XOR-encryption). Introduction.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2021

Accenture security researchers published an analysis of the latest Hades campaign, which is ongoing since at least December 2020. . Experts discovered that threat actors targeted a large US transportation & logistics organization, a large US consumer products organization, and a global manufacturing organization.

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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 28, 2023

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. “New analysis from NCC Group’s Global Threat Intelligence team has revealed that ransomware attacks are soaring, with 436 victims in May. .

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2021

According to BleepingComputer , forum users reported an intensification of the attacks since December 20, the analysis of submissions to the ID ransomware service for this specific threat started to increase on December 19 and reached a peak on December 20. The malicious code appends.encrypt extension to filenames of encrypted files.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The attacks detailed by Cybereason targeted technology and manufacturing companies primarily located in East Asia, Western Europe, and North America. ” reads the analysis published by Symantec. Spyder Loader loads AES-encrypted blobs to create the wlbsctrl.dll which acts as a next-stage loader that executes the content.

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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. BlackSuit appends the . similarities in blocks, and 98.9%

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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

JULY 15, 2022

The list of victims includes manufacturing organizations, banks, schools, and event and meeting planning companies. The Holy Ghost ransomware appends the file extension.h0lyenc to filenames of encrypted files. The analysis of the attackers’ wallet transactions shows that they failed to extort ransom payments from their victims.

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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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Krebs on Security

APRIL 26, 2019

But according to an in-depth analysis shared with KrebsOnSecurity by security researcher Paul Marrapese , iLnkP2P devices offer no authentication or encryption and can be easily enumerated, allowing potential attackers to establish a direct connection to these devices while bypassing any firewall restrictions.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2019

The ransomware targets poorly protected or vulnerable NAS servers manufactured by Taiwan-based QNAP Systems, attackers exploits known vulnerabilities or carry out brute-force attacks. encrypt extension to filenames of encrypted files. encrypt extension to filenames of encrypted files. The malicious code appends.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2022

According to BleepingComputer , forum users reported an intensification of the attacks since December 20, the analysis of submissions to the ID ransomware service for this specific threat started to increase on December 19 and reached a peak on December 20. The malicious code appends.encrypt extension to filenames of encrypted files.

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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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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

” reads the analysis published by Cybereason. The malware also downloads the Command-and-control (C2) URLs, C2 communication is encrypted using Base64, RC4, and Curve25519. . With each new version, the malware adds new features like dynamic library loading, encryption, and adjustments to different locales and manufacturers.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The analysis of attacks where Egregor has been deployed revealed that the TTPs used by the threat actors are almost identical to the ones used by the ProLock operators, whose campaigns have been described in Group-IB blog post in May. Egregor’s favorite sectors are Manufacturing (28.9% ProLock = Egregor. of victims) and Retail (14.5%).

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Here are the services that stood out in our analysis. The focus is on recovering deleted and encrypted files as quickly as possible. Determines the initial vector of infection, where your current data backups are, and the sensitivity of encrypted files. Data is recovered remotely or returned on encrypted media.

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2021

The audio equipment manufacturer Bose Corporation said it was the victim of a ransomware attack that took place earlier this year, on March 7. The audio maker confirmed that it did not pay any ransom and recovered the encrypted files from its backups with the support of third-party cybersecurity experts.

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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). The other most vulnerable sectors were business services (23), construction (22), manufacturing (19) and transport (18).

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 8, 2023

A close-up of the SDV architecture The infrastructure layer This layer includes not only the vehicle but also the telco equipment, roadside units, smart city systems and similar components, as well as various backend systems of the original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A China-linked APT group tracked as Antlion is using a custom backdoor called xPack in attacks aimed at financial organizations and manufacturing companies, Symantec researchers reported. ” reads the analysis published by the Broadcom-owned company Symantec.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 14, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently published an analysis of the top 12 vulnerabilities exploited in 2022. Tenable’s CEO accused Microsoft of “grossly irresponsible, if not blatantly negligent” responses to vulnerability disclosures that affect popular and important tools such as Azure.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2019

Since at least 2014, experts at FireEye have observed APT32 targeting foreign corporations with an interest in Vietnam’s manufacturing, consumer products, and hospitality sectors. “ Threat actors used a custom steganography algorithm to hide the encrypted payload within PNG images to to avoid detection.

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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. The attackers demanded $1.9

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

The experts only observed a few different camera brands as a number of camera manufacturers OEM HiSilicon DVR/NVR Soc device. ” reads the analysis published by 360Netlab. The bot uses two different layers of encryption and decryption codes to prevent the code from being analyzed.

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Adam Shostack

JULY 1, 2021

Missing boundaries may be a flaw in the design of 5G, rather than a flaw in the analysis. However, that should be called out by the people doing the analysis, rather than the person writing this meta-analysis. ” The 5G folks are clearly in the complexity camp, and that complexity dogs this analysis.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2022

based media organization with offices in China and Hong Kong, electronic component designers and manufacturers in Lithuania and Japan, a law firm in the U.S., The HUI Loader is used to decrypt and load a third file containing an encrypted payload that is also deployed to the infected host. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2020

Most of the infections were observed in organizations in the US and Europe, the most targeted industries were in the government, military, and manufacturing sectors. . ” reads the analysis published by CheckPoint.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JULY 13, 2022

These will become the default route for NHS organisations to provide access to their de-identified data for research and analysis. In simple terms, these are specially designated, secure servers on which a third party researcher’s access to health data can be properly controlled and monitored.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2020

The malicious code specifically targets QNAP NAS devices manufactured by Taiwanese company QNAP, it already infected over 62,000 QNAP NAS devices. These are encrypted with the actor’s public key and sent to their infrastructure over HTTPS. “Analysis shows a significant number of infected devices. ” reads the alert.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2021

The flaws were privately reported to the medical manufacturer on January 11 that addressed in B. ” reads the analysis published by the researchers. Braun in SpaceCom L82 or later, Battery Pack SP with WiFi:L82 or later, and DataModule compactplus version A12 or later. ” reads the advisory published by B. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2020

.” continues the analysis. ” The configuration of the ActionSpy is encrypted by DES and the decryption key is generated in native code, it includes the C&C server address. The traffic between C&C and ActionSpy is encrypted by RSA and transferred via HTTP.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

private encryption keys, passwords, payment card credentials) and offers a separate secure environment for executing Trusted Applications. ” reads the analysis published by Check Point. ” reads the analysis. The QSEE is a sort of hardware enclave that protects sensitive information (i.e.

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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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Security experts from security firm SEC Consult have identified over 100 companies that buy and re-brand video surveillance equipment (surveillance cameras, digital video recorders (DVRs), and network video recorders (NVRs)) manufactured by the Chinese firm Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology Co., ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2020

The security duo, composed of Pierre Kim and Alexandre Torres, disclosed seven vulnerabilities in the firmware of FTTH OLT devices manufactured by C-Data. ” reads the analysis published by the experts. The most severe issue is the presence of Telnet backdoor accounts hardcoded in the firmware.

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