Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2019

At least 23 Texas local governments targeted by coordinated ransomware attacks. China-linked APT41 group targets US-Based Research University. million to allow towns to access encrypted data. Employees abused systems at Ukrainian nuclear power plant to mine cryptocurrency. Once again thank you! Texas attackers demand $2.5

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

“Even the data with the encrypted payload is stored inside this code section. The investigators also found a connection between the ASUS attack to the ShadowPad backdoor that was first detected in 2017 and that was attributed to the Axiom group (also known as APT17 or DeputyDog ). ” continues the analysis.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Designating one participant to make decisions for the group and act as data controller. Encrypted data. This is why the CNIL strongly recommends the use of encryption in order to come as close as possible to ensuring an effective exercise of the data subjects’ rights. b) Data processors. b) Data minimization.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. Penchukov was arrested after leaving Ukraine to meet up with his wife in Switzerland.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Cryptocurrency is a digital currency designed to work as a medium of monetary exchange through transactions on a computer network and is not reliant on any central authority, such as a government or bank, to uphold or maintain it. Nor am I going to wade into the debate about the ecological consequences of mining cryptocurrencies.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018. Even government and public bodies’ websites – including, ironically, the ICO – were found to be running cryptomining software after a third-party plug-in was compromised, but it transpired. Inbenta, however, said. Ticketmaster denies responsibility.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 11, 2022

A data governance manager will intensely focus on the access, transmission, and storage of data, but an IT security manager must have a broader perspective that encompasses the infrastructure and tools. Even if the company decides to keep the data, data governance needs to determine who can see or search the data and under what circumstances.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 25, 2021

Ultimately, many of these groups copy the approaches from other groups that are proving successful.”. Leak sites are part another relatively new tactic for ransomware groups looking to put more pressure on organizations to pay the ransom. Likewise, circa 2019/2020, we saw the introduction of leak sites. Leak Sites.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 2, 2022

So in this episode, I'm going to share some of the conversations I've had with leaders of some of those more established villages over the last 50 episodes of the hacker mine. But what DEF CON has done is they've had groups of people who come together that want to focus on a particular topic. Schuyler left. And DEF CON is the same way.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 6, 2020

There was some USB drive that was encrypted that they found so that's the only clue that you get. So you would have to go and figure out first of all that it's encrypted and then decrypted. Then there's a file in there that is also encrypted. You have to decrypt that as well. There was a steganography in the image.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 5, 2020

There was some USB drive that was encrypted that they found so that's the only clue that you get. So you would have to go and figure out first of all that it's encrypted and then decrypted. Then there's a file in there that is also encrypted. You have to decrypt that as well. There was a steganography in the image.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 5, 2020

There was some USB drive that was encrypted that they found so that's the only clue that you get. So you would have to go and figure out first of all that it's encrypted and then decrypted. Then there's a file in there that is also encrypted. You have to decrypt that as well. There was a steganography in the image.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

This picture comes from an analysis of specific statistics and by reading between the lines in reports from 1Password, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Flashpoint, Google Threat Analysis Group/Mandiant, NetScout, Pentera, and Sophos. 27% of all attacks mine crypto currencies, usually on unmonitored cloud systems.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

I thought what if there's any groups of people that get together that are in security or anything like that, like something that would be I've always been kind of interested in hacking and stuff like that. And that's probably a security design of what they're, what they might put out there and encryption keys and things like that.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 30, 2018

The latter group won't get anything useful from this post, but it was never meant for them. Number 1 is "Mining, Resources & Energy" which had a local boom here but is now rapidly declining (down 14% on the previous year). It was always meant for those who wanted the measure of their own choices to look more like the one above.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

So why don't I do some side look why don't I use these legitimate tools so comes up in loads of applications, you know, kindly low mine hours. Kyle was doing this for the government, doing this for the good of a nation. We were part of a group called mk 37 and Mach 37 was a big deal for in the mid Atlantic for a long time.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 10, 2021

Ollam: So lockpicking has always been a huge part of the hacker world, and the community, both as a hobby interest, and also now increasingly as with faces like mine as a professional endeavor. Many people will group. In that sense, how the most wide range of tools can group into larger categories.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 9, 2021

Ollam: So lockpicking has always been a huge part of the hacker world, and the community, both as a hobby interest, and also now increasingly as with faces like mine as a professional endeavor. Many people will group. In that sense, how the most wide range of tools can group into larger categories.

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