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Ransomware Protection in 2021

eSecurity Planet

All of your files are encrypted with RSA-2048 and AES-128 ciphers.” ” Or you might see a readme.txt stating, “Your files have been replaced by these encrypted containers and aren’t accessible; you will lose your files on [enter date] unless you pay $2500 in Bitcoin.” IMPORTANT INFORMATION !!!

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APT28 and Upcoming Elections: evidence of possible interference

Security Affairs

Technical Analysis. Figure 2: password required to view and modify macros on document. The first peculiarity of the malicious document is the protected macro, in fact, when the user tries to read it immediately shows a message box asking for password. Figure 4: Payload stored in “Company” tag of document metadata.