Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2022

Some variants of the ransomware append the English name of the target company to the filenames of the encrypted files. Recently, the Chinese security firm Rising detected a Linux variant of the SFile ransomware that uses the RSA+AES algorithm mode. as the suffix name. .” ” reported The Record. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2022

Experts discovered a feature in Microsoft 365 suite that could be abused to encrypt files stored on SharePoint and OneDrive and target cloud infrastructure. Researchers from Proofpoint reported that a feature in the in Microsoft 365 suite could be abused to encrypt files stored on SharePoint and OneDrive. ” continues the report.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 5, 2024

Strong encryption protects data securely from unauthorized access, but the specific algorithms that qualify as strong encryption change over time as computing power increases and researchers develop new ways to break encryption. What Makes an Encryption Algorithm Strong?

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 29, 2023

However, as with any software component, APIs are also prone to security vulnerabilities that can be exploited by attackers. API security is an ongoing process that demands continual attention and effort from everyone on the development team. API Basics: What Is an API and How Do APIs Work? How do APIs work?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2023

Microsoft Security Threat Intelligence team warns of four different ransomware families ( KeRanger , FileCoder , MacRansom , and EvilQuest ) that impact Apple macOS systems. One of the most important capabilities of ransomware is the capability of targeting specific files to encrypt. ” reads the analysis published by Microsoft.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 27, 2023

But in addition to vastly improved reasoning and visual capabilities, GPT-4 also retains many of ChatGPT’s security and privacy issues , in some cases even enhancing them. They presented this summary of those exploits — the thumbs up means those capabilities have been enhanced in GPT-4: ChatGPT security issues carried over to GPT-4.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

To counter HNDL, migrating critical systems to Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) provides encryption and authentication methods resistant to an attack from a cryptographically relevant quantum computer (CRQC). This vulnerability could expose sensitive enterprise information to risk. In the U.S.,

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2022

Another gang, Night Sky ransomware operation, started exploiting the Log4Shell vulnerability in the Log4j library to gain access to VMware Horizon systems. The Night Sky ransomware operation started exploiting the Log4Shell flaw (CVE-2021-44228) in the Log4j library to gain access to VMware Horizon systems. trendmrcio[.]com,

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 10, 2021

What’s driving the security of IoT? The Urgency for Security in a Connected World. It’s also enabling manufacturers to respond faster to security vulnerabilities, market demand, and even natural disasters. Device Security is Hard. The same rings true for encryption and authentication. Guest Blog: TalkingTrust.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 10, 2022

Hackers have found a way to infect Windows Event Logs with fileless malware , security researchers have found. The system uses DLL (Dynamic Link Library) files to store some resources the application needs and will load automatically. If it does not find one, the encrypted shell code is written in 8KB chunks in the event logs.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

These are the three components of the CIA triad, an information security model designed to protect sensitive information from data breaches. The CIA triad is a widely accepted principle within the industry, and is used in ISO 27001 , the international standard for information security management.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 19, 2023

As software development teams move towards a DevOps culture, security is becoming an increasingly important aspect of the development process. DevSecOps is a practice that integrates security into the DevOps workflow. According to GitLab’s 2022 Global DevSecOps Survey , there isn’t enough clarity around who owns security.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The Event-Stream library is a very popular NodeJS module used to allow developers the management of data streams, it has nearly 2 million downloads a week. It has been estimated that the tainted version of the library was downloaded by nearly 8 million developers. For example: $ npm ls event-stream flatmap -stream. through 5.1.0

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

JSWorm encrypts all the user files appending a new extension to their name. During the encryption phase, the ransomware creates an HTML Application “JSWRM-DECRYPT.hta” in each folder it encounters. The malware encrypts all the files whose extension is not present in the list. Figure 3: Extensions excluded from encryption.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 19, 2018

Every June, Gartner hosts a terrific security conference near Washington, D.C. called Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit. This event is focused on the needs of senior IT and security professionals, such as CISOs, chief risk officers, architects, IAM and network security leaders.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Many are addressing this via building accelerators that could be customized for enterprise consumption that helps accelerate specific areas of modernization and one such example from IBM is IBM Consulting Cloud Accelerators. We will explore key areas of acceleration with an example in this article.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Encryption scrambles data to make it unreadable to those without decryption keys. Proper use of encryption preserves secrecy and radically lowers the potential damage of a successful cybersecurity attack. Definition, How it Works, & Examples. their significance, and their pros and cons.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2020

xHelper is a piece of malware that was first spotted in October 2019 by experts from security firm Symantec, it is a persistent Android dropper app that is able to reinstall itself even after users attempt to uninstall it. and Russia. and sends it to a server under the control of the attackers ([link]. . ” continues the report.

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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. . The flaw affects the way Crypt32.dll

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Buran is advertised as a stable malware that uses an offline cryptoclocker , 24/7 support, global and session keys, and has no third-party dependencies such as libraries. The malware will encrypt the files only if the machines are not in Russia, Belarus or Ukraine. . Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – Buran RaaS, malware).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

“It’s not uncommon for attackers to download legitimate third-party tools onto infected machines (for example, PsExec is often abused to run other tools or commands).” One of the second-stage instances of PowerShell downloads the legitimate node.exe tool, while another drops WinDivert packet capture library components.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2020

Security researchers at ESET recently uncovered a campaign carried out by the InvisiMole group that has been targeting a small number of high-profile organizations in the military sector and diplomatic missions in Eastern Europe. .” ” reads the analysis published by ESET. Pierluigi Paganini.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Guido Vranken returns to The Hacker Mind to discuss his CryptoFuzz tool on GitHub, as well as his experience fuzzing and finding vulnerabilities in cryptographic libraries and also within cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum. Fortunately, in this episode, we’re discussing vulnerabilities in both. Yeah, like that.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2019

“For example, in order to be able to report on the victim’s activities, Attor monitors active processes to take screenshots of selected applications. The malware implements a modular structure with a dispatcher and loadable plugins, all of which are implemented as dynamic-link libraries (DLLs). ru , and payment system WebMoney.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

In it, I would call out particularly egregious -- and amusing -- examples of cryptographic " snake oil.". I dropped it both because it stopped being fun and because almost everyone converged on standard cryptographic libraries, which meant standard non-snake-oil cryptography. Crown Sterling is complete and utter snake oil.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 15, 2020

Yesterday's Microsoft Windows patches included a fix for a critical vulnerability in the system's crypto library. It was discovered by security researchers. Interestingly, it was discovered by NSA security researchers, and the NSA security advisory gives a lot more information about it than the Microsoft advisory does.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Sites like British Airways and Ticketmaster have to comply with the PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) , just like the rest of our clients. the same web server), but it’s also common practice to download them from a third-party library. Most of the time, these files are downloaded from the same source (i.e.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 2, 2021

And my background is pretty straightforward with cyber security for the past 16 years on many different levels. Vamosi: At SecTor, an annual security conference in Toronto, Paua gave not one but two talks this year. They are both online and offline, and they are covering various aspects of cybersecurity. It's not wrong.

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AIIM

JULY 24, 2018

Mitigate Data Privacy and Security Risks with Machine Learning. The Privacy and Security Dichotomy. For example, under GDPR data subjects and/or regulators may now pursue direct remedies against data processors in the event of infringement of obligations, whereas such remedies did not exist under the prior data privacy regulation.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Application programming interface (API) security is a combination of tools and best practices to secure the all-important connections between applications. API security protects data and back-end systems while preserving fluid communication between software components through strict protocols and access controls.

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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. These registry keys are responsible of the loading of dynamically linked libraries in the “read only ” and “ hidden ” “ C:ProgramDataD93C2DAC ”. As shown in Fig.3,

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Nowadays the Malware-As-A-Service is one of the criminal favorite ways to breach security perimeter. At this point, the control finally passes to the “ swety.dll ” library, the module in charge to detect the analysis environment. Figure 6: Example of the enumeration of the Hypervisors. Introduction. Load()” method.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Very few of these devices have security in mind when they were built. Non-glibc C standard library. Example: Netgear N300 a.k.a. Uses uClibc instead of glibc C standard library. Extracting firmware can sometimes be difficult due to custom firmware layouts and encryption. Prerequisites. Is a MIPS Linux firmware.

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Elie

MARCH 10, 2018

Overcoming these challenges fuels our understanding of the security and abuse landscape. mail delivery security. For example, you can use an OAuth token to only allow an app to read your Twitter timeline, while preventing it from changing your settings or posting on your behalf. fake phone verified accounts. , Under the hood. ,

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

National Security Agency (NSA), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) recently released a comprehensive guide to help them secure their code and processes. See the Top Code Debugging and Code Security Tools. How to Secure Code.

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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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