eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2022

Cybersecurity researchers last week revealed that a new ransomware gang called Onyx is simply destroying larger files rather than encrypting them. ” Most threat actors have been focused on locking data, sometimes with innovative techniques to evade detection tools. .” Only small files lower than 2MB are encrypted.

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Ransomware Encryption Military Cybersecurity 127

Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2022

In January 2022, researchers at Kaspersky ICS CERT uncovered a series of targeted attacks on military industrial enterprises and public institutions in Afghanistan and East Europe. The emails used weaponized Microsoft Word documents exploiting the CVE-2017-11882 vulnerability. com specified in the administrator’s contact data.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2020

According to the media outlet, the incident resulted in the loss of data for users of their free 10GB storage feature. At the time the company only confirmed an internal investigation on a problem related to “10GB of data storage.”. The image.canon site suffered an outage on July 30th, 2020, that lasted for six days, until August 4th.

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Ransomware Archiving Military Encryption 126

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Welcome to our October 2022 review of data breaches and cyber attacks. By contrast, comparatively little personal data was breached, with our figures confirming that at least 9,990,855 records were compromised. For now, it’s unclear what damage the data could cause if exposed, so we’ve omitted the figure from our tally.

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Data breaches Ransomware Insurance Phishing 111

Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. It’s a surreal experience, paging through hundreds of top-secret NSA documents. Both Greenwald and his employer, the Guardian , are careful about whom they show the documents to.

Computer and Electronics 120

Computer and Electronics Encryption Government Privacy 120

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 7, 2020

When it came time for companies to sign legal documents, Bernard’s victims invariably interacted with a 40-something Inside Knowledge employee named “ Katherine Miller ,” who claimed to be his lawyer. and Secure Swiss Data Ltd (more on Secure Swiss data in a moment). Docklands Enterprise Ltd.,

Communications 241

Communications Military Security Government 241

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Russia-linked cyberespionage group APT28 uses fake NATO training documents as bait in attacks aimed at government bodies. The malicious code creates a Windows scheduled task that runs every minute and sends data in obfuscated and encrypted form to the C2 server with post requests. screenshots) to hxxp://194.32.78[.]245/protect/get-upd-id[.]PHP”

Military 109

Military Government Encryption Communications 109

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

First, it said that it would invest in cultivating military assets in the digital space, as reported by the Organization for World Peace. While we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any data transmission over the Internet…. When opened, the document asked users to enable macros.

Security 105

Security IoT Personal data Military 105

Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

Google sued by New Mexico attorney general for collecting student data through its Education Platform. Slickwraps discloses data leak that impacted 850,000 user accounts. Decathlon Spain data leak exposed Spanish employees’ data & more. Kr00k Wi-Fi Encryption flaw affects more than a billion devices.

Security 91

Security Ransomware Military Data breaches 91

Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

The company already sent a data breach notification to the impacted individuals. ” reads the data breach notification. ” reads the data breach notification. According to documents filed with the U.S. “On May 24, 2020, we discovered a security incident affecting some of our systems.

Ransomware 97

Ransomware Data breaches Military Cybersecurity 97

Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2020

Earlier versions of Agent.BTZ were used to compromise US military networks in the Middle East in 2008. The new variant leverages Gmail’s web interface to covertly receive commands and exfiltrate sensitive data. “The main use of ComRAT is discovering, stealing and exfiltrating confidential documents.

Military 99

Military Communications Encryption Authentication 99

Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2020

QBot Trojan operators are using new tactics in their campaign to hijack legitimate email conversations to steal sensitive data from the victims. QBot, aka Qakbot and Pinkslipbot , has been active since 2008, it is used by malware for collecting browsing data and banking credentials and other financial information from the victims.

Passwords 108

Passwords Military Manufacturing Encryption 108

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

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 !!!

Ransomware 97

Ransomware Encryption Insurance Cloud 97

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The Operation Transparent Tribe was first spotted by Proofpoint Researchers in Feb 2016, in a series of espionages operations against Indian diplomats and military personnel in some embassies in Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan. The document presents itself as a request for a DSOP FUND (Defence Services Officers Provident Fund ).

Military 116

Military Communications Encryption IT 116

Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

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Security 83

Security Computer and Electronics Ransomware Marketing 83

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Precision engineering is a very important business market in Europe, it includes developing mechanical equipment for: automotive, railways, heavy industries and military grade technology. Basically the attacker asks to the victims to quote the entire list of spear-parts included in an attached Excel document. Technical Analysis.

Passwords 45

Passwords Encryption File names Military 45

Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2018

The new analysis conducted by ESET revealed that hackers breached Germany’s Federal Foreign Office , Turla infected several computers and used the backdoor to syphon data for almost the whole of 2017. Data exfiltration itself also takes place via PDF files.” Technically, the attachment does not have to be a valid PDF document.

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Metadata Military Libraries Access 45

Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2021

China-linked APT group Cycldek is behind an advanced cyberespionage campaign targeting entities in the government and military sector in Vietnam. China-linked APT group LuckyMouse (aka Cycldek, Goblin Panda , Hellsing, APT 27, and Conimes) is targeting government and military organizations in Vietnam with spear-phishing.

Military 85

Military Government Phishing Libraries 85

IT Governance

JUNE 27, 2019

Employees were left to file paperwork manually and share documents via fax machines. The ransomware was accompanied by a note: “Your files are encrypted with the strongest military algorithms. Without our special decoder it is impossible to restore the data.”. There were people from finance making sandwiches for the team.

Ransomware 87

Ransomware Phishing Insurance Systems administration 87

Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2024

The ColdRiver APT (aka “ Seaborgium “, “Callisto”, “Star Blizzard”, “TA446”) is a Russian cyberespionage group that has been targeting government officials, military personnel, journalists and think tanks since at least 2015. In November 2022, TAG spotted COLDRIVER sending targets benign PDF documents from impersonation accounts.

Phishing 98

Phishing Encryption Military Archiving 98

Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2022

Threema is the instant messenger designed to generate as little user data as possible. All communication is end-to-end encrypted, and the app is open source. Threema does not require users to provide a phone number or email address upon registration, this means that it is impossible to link a user’s identity through this data.

FOIA 107

FOIA Computer and Electronics IT Encryption 107

IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Also in January, the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) fined Carphone Warehouse £400,000 – one of the largest fines it issued under the DPA (Data Protection Act) 1998 – for multiple security inadequacies that led to a 2015 data breach in which three million customers’ personal data was compromised. Inbenta, however, said.

Data breaches 71

Data breaches Personal data Access GDPR 71

The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 18, 2019

The disclosure that malicious intruders hacked the computer systems of the South Korean government agency that oversees weapons and munitions acquisitions for the country’s military forces is not much of a surprise.

Encryption 158

Encryption Authentication Military Government 158

Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Dual-use items are sensitive goods, services, software, and technology that can be used for both civil and military purposes. It merely defines them as “items specially designed to enable the covert surveillance of individuals by monitoring, extracting, collecting or analyzing data from information and telecommunication systems.”

Military 88

Military Compliance Manufacturing Sales 88

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Since many people use the same passwords or patterns when generating passwords, hackers have more and more opportunities to gain access to sensitive company data. With these tools, all passwords for an account are stored in a unique, encrypted vault only accessible using a key that the individual user possesses. Password auto-filling.

Passwords 121

Passwords Encryption Authentication Cloud 121

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

18, 2021, when an employee on a Windows computer opened a booby-trapped Microsoft Excel document in a phishing email that had been sent two days earlier. The HSE ultimately enlisted members of the Irish military to bring in laptops and PCs to help restore computer systems by hand.

Ransomware 259

Ransomware Cybersecurity Phishing Security 259

ForAllSecure

MARCH 1, 2022

In the book The Art of Invisibility , I challenged my co author Kevin Mitnick to document the steps needed to become invisible online. Operational Security is typically a military process. It's a process of protecting critical information through encryption and being aware of the potential for eavesdropping on conversations.

Privacy 52

Privacy IT Passwords Encryption 52

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

Effective implementation improves data throughput, system reliability, and overall security for any organization. Network Elements Networks connect physical and virtual assets and control the data flow between them. Storage: Contains user and application data at rest; can be integrated with other elements (server, etc.)

Security 104

Security Cloud Cybersecurity Risk 104

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

billion for cyber operations in next year’s budget for the Department of Defense, a data that confirms the strategic importance of the fifth domain of the warfare for the US Government. The document includes another $2.2 The US administration requested $9.8 The budget was released on February 10, it requests $9.8

Artificial Intelligence 130

Artificial Intelligence Military Cybersecurity Encryption 130

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

With these tools, all passwords for an account are stored in a unique, encrypted vault only accessible using a key that the individual user possesses. This solution offers true two-factor authentication and impressive encryption capabilities. Password auto-filling. Multi-factor authentication. Unlimited password storage.

Passwords 52

Passwords Encryption Authentication Cloud 52

Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

A high-profile cyber incident may cause substantial financial and reputational losses to an organization, including the disruption of corporate business processes, destruction or theft of critical data assets, loss of goodwill, and shareholder and consumer litigation. Encrypting critical data assets. Managing digital identities.

Cybersecurity 60

Cybersecurity Risk Passwords Authentication 60

ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

You might not think of it as a major aspect of security and yet, stolen credentials are really the key to data breaches today. For example, here’s Jerry Lewis in a scene from a 1950s film, where he’s trying to break into a Nazi German military base. Fact is, we’ve long had passwords as a credential. Lewis: Good.

Passwords 52

Passwords Authentication Access Data breaches 52

ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

Vamosi: Whenever there's a data breach, a ransomware attack, large security event in general, I would like to learn something about how it happened. This is the practice of concealing messages or information in non secret texts or data, such as an image. You know, peel back the onion to see what steps were used in the exploit chain.

Ransomware 52

Ransomware Marketing IT Libraries 52

KnowBe4

MAY 23, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #21 | May 23rd, 2023 [Double Trouble] 78% of Ransomware Victims Face Multiple Extortions in Scary Trend New data sheds light on how likely your organization will succumb to a ransomware attack, whether you can recover your data, and what's inhibiting a proper security posture.

Ransomware 81

Ransomware Phishing Security awareness Risk 81

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The chips were alleged to have spied on users of the devices and sent unspecified data back to the Chinese military. We don’t often hear about intentional efforts to subvert the security of the technology supply chain simply because these incidents tend to get quickly classified by the military when they are discovered.

Computer and Electronics 224

Computer and Electronics IT Security IoT 224

The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Russia’s asymmetrical cyber-attacks have been a well-documented, rising global concern for most of the 2000s. We discussed how Russia in 2023 began synchronizing asymmetrical attacks with kinetic military operations — targeting Ukraine’s infrastructure with both missile strikes and advanced power grid hacks.

Cybersecurity 313

Cybersecurity Military Government Data Privacy 313

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Law enforcement also had access to data stolen from the victims of the ransomware operation, a circumstance that highlights the fact that even when a ransom is paid, the ransomware gang often fails to delete the stolen information. lockbit3g3ohd3katajf6zaehxz4h4cnhmz5t735zpltywhwpc6oy3id[.]onion

Government 118

Government Ransomware Encryption Passwords 118