Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Security expert Pasquale Fiorillo demonstrates how to hack n RFID/NFC Vending Machine. Furthermore, the user’s credit was stored on the card enabling different attack scenarios, from double spending to potential data tamper storing an arbitrary credit. It contains the IC manufacturer data. One block contains 16 bytes.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The popular researcher Luca Bongiorni described how to make a malicious USB Implant (USBsamurai) that allows bypassing Air-Gapped environments with 10$. In case you want more privacy while injecting payloads… I recommend to use the slightly more expensive C-U0012 which has encryption enabled. How we can improve C-U0007 speed?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2019

The recently released Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for June 2019 failed to address a flaw in SymCrypt , a core cryptographic function library currently used by Windows. The flaw could be exploited by malicious programs trigger a denial of service condition by interrupting the encryption service for other programs.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2020

Microsoft has released a security update to address “a broad cryptographic vulnerability” that is impacting its Windows operating system. dll module that contains various ‘Certificate and Cryptographic Messaging functions’ used by the Windows Crypto API for data encryption. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Most of that focus has centered on data collection, storage, sharing, and, in particular, third-party transactions in which customer information is harnessed for advertising purposes. Could a party, for instance, decline to produce, review, or even collect certain types of data due to privacy concerns? But what about other contexts?

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Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2019

Once run, it starts the encryption of all the victim’s files, except for the system and programs folders: “Program Files” , “Program Files (x86)” , “Windows”. Example of ciphered file with empty original file. Actions during encryption phase. Example of HTTP request to retrieve the BTC address. Macro code.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2020

million sites, and by today, September 10, 2020, the total number of sites attacked has increased to over 2.6 I am security researcher and have discovered this 0 day in wordpress (wp-file-manager). Data exfiltrated from the web-server ( /etc/passwd file), and a remote shell could be used to take advantage this scenario.

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The Texas Record

MAY 7, 2018

We are happy to welcome guest writers from the Texas Department of Information Resources, Daniel Hankins, Shared Services Security Manager and Andy Bennett, Director Information Security Governance. Unsavory parties are stealing data, then turning around and attempting to blackmail companies and wealthy individuals into paying.

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CGI

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Cyber security is everyone’s responsibility. Wed, 10/07/2015 - 04:32. As a result, keeping this information secure has become a focal point for organisations. As a result, keeping this information secure has become a focal point for organisations. Jane tweeted about the conference and about her announcement.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

In the Guidelines, NYDFS cites the 2020 SolarWinds attack as an example of how managing growing cyber risk is “an urgent challenge for insurers.”. For example, Mondelez International Inc. 10, 2018), remains pending in an Illinois state court. billion were made under property/casualty policies that were silent about cyber risks.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2018

The downloaded payload is able to create three new local files: C:WindowsTemp temp.jpg , containing Javascript code; C:WindowsTemp Windows.vbe , containing an encoded Visual Basic script; C:ProgramData Microsoft.db , containing the encrypted final payload. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2019

First of all the attacker knew the target organization was protected by a SOC (Security Operation Center) so she sent a well crafted email claiming to deliver a Microsoft document wrapping out the weekly SOC report as a normal activity in order to induce the victim to open-it. SOC report 10 12 2019.doc Emotet Depacked. Conclusion.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2019

All the files have misleading extension to confuse the analysis and most of them are text files containing junk data. At this point, using the encoded data contained into “uaf.icm” between the string pattern “[sData]” and “[esData]” , the first script creates a second one, with a random name (es. Example of malware evasion.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

For example, a simple system that has only an on off switch. Often the tiny flashing light on the dashboard also alerts would-be criminals that the car is protected by the latest form of anti theft security. A sophisticated set of encryption and electronics is at work inside the vehicle. There is no easy way around it.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Security expert Marco Ramilli published a quick analysis of an interesting attack carried out by SWEED threat actor targeting precision engineering firms in Italy. For example (or for full read RegKeys have a look to here ): [.] Introduction. Object-3 exploiting CVE-2017-11882. Analysis of Dropped PE File. educrety.exe.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Experts at Yoroi’s Cyber Security Defence Center along with Fincantieri’s security team investigated the recently discovered Martymcfly malware attacks. At first look the message appears suspicious due to inconsistent sender’s domain data inside the SMTP headers: From: alice.wu@anchors-chain.com. Background. Malicious Email.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 25, 2022

With ransomware, attackers encrypt an organization's data and hold it hostage until a ransom is paid. Once attackers receive payment, they are supposed to share a decryption key, enabling victims to recover their data. I am a global security adviser at Splunk. Ransomware is not new. Baccio: My name is Mick Baccio.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Security firms such as Proofpoint and Eset analyzed other samples of the same threat targeting the Australian landscape back in May 2018 and, more recently, in Italy. Example of execution of the malware. Figure 10: Downlaoded javascript from equityfloat[.]pw Technical Analysis. Exported functions by the malicious dll.

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Data Protection Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

In a bid to keep pace with advancements in the technological landscape, the Singapore Government has in recent months embarked on public consultations on its draft Cybersecurity Bill (the Cyber Bill) and its proposed amendments to Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) to update the country’s data protection regime.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Here are the world's 10 largest sites: no EV! Despite this, Comodo suggests there's value in EV because of the "bigger security display": The larger security indicator makes it very clear to the user that the website is secure. You know what makes people think the website is "secure"?

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The first line of this file embeds a huge array of Base64 encoded elements, but its raw decoding led only to other incomprehensible data, evidencing the presence of a more complex layer of protection. Other structures containing Base64 data. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

It seems everything smart is hackable, with IoT startups sometimes repeating security mistakes first made decades ago. How then does one start securing it? Welcome to the hacker by original podcast from for all secure, it's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

It seems everything smart is hackable, with IoT startups sometimes repeating security mistakes first made decades ago. How then does one start securing it? Welcome to the hacker by original podcast from for all secure, it's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living.

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Security Affairs

JULY 17, 2019

Dumping the process in this moment, another piece of code hidden in a resource, which did not exist before the anti-debug trick, emerges: Figure 10: Resource comparison between the original exe and the self-modified exe. It is the encrypted final payload. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2019

For example, it uses VM-protection techniques, debug-protection, virtual machine emulation, anti-monitors techniques, anti-memory patching (see all Themida features here ). The first alert related to this wave was observed on March 22nd by The Computer Security Certified Response Team (CSIRT), of the Ministry of the Interior from Chile.

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