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. . ” The spam messages contain URLs to.ZIP files that serve VBS content designed to download the payload from one of six hardcoded encrypted URLs. . .

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2019

The attackers appear to be focused o n stealing military-related information. The researchers speculate on a possible connection to Domestic Kitten espionage activities, an extensive surveillance operation conducted by Iranian APT actor aimed at specific groups of individuals since 2016.

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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 ” Or you might see a readme.txt stating, “Your files have been replaced by these encrypted containers and aren’t accessible; you will lose your files on [enter date] unless you pay $2500 in Bitcoin.” Screenshot example. Statistics.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

Encryption and the development of cryptography have been a cornerstone of IT security for decades and remain critical for data protection against evolving threats. While cryptology is thousands of years old, modern cryptography took off in the 1970s with the help of the Diffie-Hellman-Merkle and RSA encryption algorithms.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Tensions rose throughout February as the Russian military amassed across the Ukrainian border. Although Vladimir Putin and his sympathisers assured the world that they were simply conducting military exercises, the inevitable occurred on 24 February, when troops mobilised and war was declared.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

Chatting with Snowden on an encrypted IM connection, I joked that the NSA cafeteria menu probably has code names for menu items. Transferring files electronically is what encryption is for. I told Greenwald that he and Laura Poitras should be sending large encrypted files of dummy documents back and forth every day.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 21, 2017

The nonprofit GDI Foundation has tracked close to 175,000 examples of misconfigured software and services on the cloud this year. On both occasions Uber left its encryption keys on GitHub, which in part led to the breach. I’m sure every hacker group has added data leak tools to their arsenal.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 7, 2023

For example, some methods meet national security and federal standards, while others are focused on private companies. Methodologies are exhaustive, detailed, and developed for different businesses and organizations.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

31, 2021, the HSE’s antivirus software detected the execution of two software tools commonly used by ransomware groups — Cobalt Strike and Mimikatz — on the Patient Zero Workstation. The HSE ultimately enlisted members of the Irish military to bring in laptops and PCs to help restore computer systems by hand.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 30, 2023

VAMOSI: Four days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, on February 28, 2022, members of the Conti ransomware group began leaking information about the internal operations. ” Over the next few weeks, chats from encrypted Telegram, and other communications were leaked. Conti, with ties to Russia, came out in support of Russia.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 1, 2022

SO I only mention Ross Ulbricht in talks because I use him as an example of an Operation Security, or OpSec failure. 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. And he found some.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Today, the gap between these two groups has narrowed significantly. One example is the VITEC SmartLink function for ChannelLink IP Gateways. Most video content was created — and encoded — by a much smaller percentage of the population compared to those who consumed – and therefore decoded video.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

These controls include: Active Directory (AD): Manages users, groups, and passwords as a fundamental access control for an organization and the basis for most other security tools. Virtual private networks (VPNs): Secure remote user or branch office access to network resources through encrypted connections to firewalls or server applications.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Observers do, however, have a pretty good idea who was behind the NotPetya attack because several governments, including the United States and the United Kingdom, issued coordinated statements blaming the Russian military. Future attacks are not likely to receive the same determination.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2018

I have a Yahoo email account, I’ve shopped at Home Depot and Target , my father was in the military and had a security clearance, which included a dossier on his family, archived at the U.S. Here’s a roundup of reaction from cybersecurity thought leaders: Gary Roboff, Senior Advisor, the Santa Fe Group: Roboff.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 21, 2020

Digital commerce from day one has revolved around companies bulling forward to take full advantage of wondrous decentralized, anonymous characteristics of the Internet, which began a military-academic experiment. LW: What’s a concrete example of a pervasive exposure opened up by cloud migration?

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Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

Encrypting critical data assets. For example, organizations dealing with the most sensitive data—such as defense contractors—should target the adaptive tier across functional areas, while organizations with a lower risk profile may decide to target lower tiers when designing their systems. Encrypting Critical Data Assets.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In the case of double-extortion ransomware attacks, malware is used to not only encrypt the victim’s data but also exfiltrate sensitive files, such as customer information, which attackers then threaten to release publicly. Although Creeper is the first known example of a worm, it is not actually malware.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

Vamosi: Perhaps Kyle can give us an example of how this works in the real world. My favorite example of how this works is it's not always additive, meaning they need to bring in their own complex payloads. Microsoft, we're using them as the example in windows they love their backwards compatibility. Vamosi: So it's interesting.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 27, 2021

Often I would just use a screwdriver and break a toaster, for example, down to its smallest components, and then try and map out its circuitry. For example, from CSAW 2018, John talked about a crypto challenge category on the Jeopardy board called babycrypto. So, that’s the military. Mechanical things. Electronic Things.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 27, 2021

Often I would just use a screwdriver and break a toaster, for example, down to its smallest components, and then try and map out its circuitry. For example, from CSAW 2018, John talked about a crypto challenge category on the Jeopardy board called babycrypto. So, that’s the military. Mechanical things. Electronic Things.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 6, 2022

He suggested I back off and leave the speculation about the Russian Business Network, a group at the time responsible for many online attacks, to Europol. Vamosi: So this is an example of what’s news and what’s not. Instead we have these faceless ransomware groups. Terrorist groups like al Queada, and ISIS.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

Failure to pay, and your data is encrypted forever. And at that point, the the fun part was I was in this slack group called the bug bounty Forum, which is kind of where a lot of bug bounty people were getting together and it's growing significantly. For example, by typing in open SSL 1.0 Usually a certain amount of Bitcoin.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

Failure to pay, and your data is encrypted forever. And at that point, the the fun part was I was in this slack group called the bug bounty Forum, which is kind of where a lot of bug bounty people were getting together and it's growing significantly. For example, by typing in open SSL 1.0 Usually a certain amount of Bitcoin.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Other examples of this sort of attack include fake apps in the Google Play store, and hacked replacement screens for your smartphone. We know, for example, of an NSA exploit that remains on a hard drive even after it is reformatted. It’s an increasingly common way to attack networks.

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KnowBe4

MAY 23, 2023

experienced solely the encryption of data and no other form of extortion It's this last data point that interests me. CyberEdge mentions threatening to publicly release data, notifying customers or media, and committing a DDoS attack as examples of additional threats mentioned by respondents. street legal F1 Hypercar.

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