Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

The Apple Mail app available on macOS stores leave s a portion of users encrypted emails in plaintext in a database called snippets. The Apple expert Bob Gendler discovered that the Apple Mail app available on macOS stores leaves a portion of users encrypted emails in plaintext in a database called snippets. ” continues the post.

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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. “The SFile ransomware uses the Mbed TLS library, RSA-2048 and AES-256 algorithms for file encryption. The ransomware was involved in targeted attacks against corporate and government networks.

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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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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 8, 2023

government agencies, global banks, telcos, and tech companies. It supports multiple languages (C/C++, Rust, Python, Go, and others), operating systems (MacOS and Linux), and cryptographic libraries (OpenSSL, BoringSSL and libOQS), with future additions planned. Also read: The U.S.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Experts observed a 400% increase in the number of attacks, compared with October, that hit government organizations. PYSA ransomware operators focus on large or high-value finance, government and healthcare organisations. locked to the filename of the encrypted files. locked to the filename of the encrypted files.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Ukrainian national faces up to 20 years in prison for his role in Zeus, IcedID malware schemes CISA: Cisco ASA/FTD bug CVE-2020-3259 exploited in ransomware attacks CISA adds Microsoft Exchange and Cisco ASA and FTD bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog US gov offers a reward of up to $10M for info on ALPHV/Blackcat gang leaders U.S.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Symantec pointed out that the attacks against government organizations in Hong Kong remained undetected for a year in some cases. Spyder Loader loads AES-encrypted blobs to create the wlbsctrl.dll which acts as a next-stage loader that executes the content.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2021

In March 2020, CERT France cyber-security agency warned about a new wave of ransomware attack that was targeting the networks of local government authorities. According to the experts, the first infections were observed in late 2019, victims reported their files were encrypted by a strain of malware. ” continues the alert.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

A cyber espionage group targets governments and state-owned organizations in multiple Asian countries since early 2021. Threat actors are targeting government and state-owned organizations in multiple Asian countries as parts of a cyber espionage campaign that remained under the radar since early 2021. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2022

Y2k22 bug in Microsoft Exchange causes failure in email delivery Security Affairs most-read cyber stories of 2021 PulseTV discloses potential credit card breach The Have I Been Pwned service now includes 441K accounts stolen by RedLine malware Multiple flaws in Netgear Nighthawk R6700v3 router are still unpatched How to implant a malware in hidden (..)

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2020

PaloAlto Networks experts warn of malicious Coronavirus themed phishing campaigns targeting government and medical organizations. Recently organizations in healthcare, research, and government facilities have been hit by Coronavirus-themed attacks that deployed multiple malware families, including ransomware and information stealers (i.e.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2019

The hackers targeting organizations across multiple industries and have also targeted foreign governments, dissidents, and journalists. “ Threat actors used a custom steganography algorithm to hide the encrypted payload within PNG images to to avoid detection. ” reads the report published by the experts.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The Budworm cyber espionage group (aka APT27 , Bronze Union , Emissary Panda , Lucky Mouse , TG-3390 , and Red Phoenix) is behind a series attacks conducted over the past six months against a number of high-profile targets, including the government of a Middle Eastern country, a multinational electronics manufacturer, and a U.S.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

” states the Government Agency. The good news is that according to the Agency, data was encrypted, it also added that Google and Adobe were not able to see the CP R numbers. “Google Hosted Libraries have been designed to remove all information that allows identifying users before logging on. .

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, for example, governments have recently implemented QR codes to create Digital COVID Certificates for vaccination, tests status and other reasons. In 2020, Omer Shafiq explained how he spoofed an encrypted QR code containing COVID test reports that was supposed to be digitally signed and unforgeable.

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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. Encryption algorithm types will provide an overview of the mathematical algorithms used to encrypt data (AES, RSA, etc.),

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2022

Microsoft Exchange Server massive attacks (March 2021) – At least tens of thousands of Microsoft customers may have been hacked by allegedly the China-linked APT groups since January, including business and government agencies. Because the tool was too slow, the company used its backups to restore the systems.

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AIIM

JULY 24, 2018

Article 28 lays out the obligation requirements that govern the relationship between data controllers and processors. Third party processor agreements need to be reviewed in the context of GDPR compliance obligations, particularly, compliance accountability, data transfer provisions and data security requirements.

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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. That means it falls to you to protect your cryptocurrency. All of which speaks to the power of hacking.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Likewise, if cyber criminals encrypt the organisation’s files in a ransomware attack, they will face major disruption. Its asset library assigns organisational roles to each asset group, applying relevant potential threats and risks by default. appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2019

At least 23 Texas local governments targeted by coordinated ransomware attacks. A backdoor mechanism found in tens of Ruby libraries. million to allow towns to access encrypted data. Once again thank you! Bluetana App allows detecting Bluetooth card skimmers in just 3 seconds. 5 Ways to Protect Yourself from IP Address Hacking.

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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. Assume that this vulnerability has already been weaponized, probably by criminals and certainly by major governments. A spoofing vulnerability exists in the way Windows CryptoAPI (Crypt32.dll) Ars Technica article.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 12, 2018

If you work with the PCI DSS, you’ll understand what it takes to compromise an application, the cardholder data environment (CDE) and the database where card details are stored encrypted. the same web server), but it’s also common practice to download them from a third-party library. appeared first on IT Governance Blog.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The experts exploited the vulnerability to reconstruct encryption keys and developed a decryptor that allows victims of the Rhysida ransomware to recover their encrypted data for free. Rhysida ransomware employed a secure random number generator to generate the encryption key and subsequently encrypt the data.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 10, 2022

Speaking of government intervention on cyber attacks, the US government was forced to intervene after state-sponsored attackers targeted Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities in March. Additionally, the UK government website crashed – on the day that Britons aged 25–29 were invited to book their COVID-19 vaccines.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The money is kept by the government and in return, a “non-permanent” profit officially titled as “interest” is given back to the officers at the end of each year. The two dll are legit windows library and are used in support of the malicious behaviour. The Fund is financial planning for defense personnel. The SilentCMD Module.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2018

Turla is the name of a Russian cyber espionage APT group (also known as Waterbug, Venomous Bear and KRYPTON) that has been active since at least 2007 targeting government organizations and private businesses. This is a binary blob with a special format that contains encrypted commands for the backdoor ,” reads the report released by ESET.

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The Texas Record

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Manuscript collections – Private (non-government agency) manuscript collections that have been digitized. We also have a sub-set of records from the Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center out in Liberty, TX. Records are encrypted “at-rest” so only authorized users can access their contents.

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Cyber Info Veritas

JULY 11, 2018

The server then encrypts this data before sending it out to its target destination; all of this takes milliseconds depending on the location of the server. For instance, although users in other countries pay the same Netflix fee paid by users in the United States, Netflix users in the United States have a larger library of shows.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 2, 2021

What would be valuable from their perspective to encrypt and then ask for the ransom. Consider the Lost Library at Alexandria--this was the greatest library ever built in the ancient world. Customers repositories stayed there for three weeks, and then started to encrypt their data, so they are in the environment.

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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.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 7, 2021

In the process of doing so, I encountered a small snag: The FSB’s website said in order to communicate with them securely, I needed to download and install an encryption and virtual private networking (VPN) appliance that is flagged by at least 20 antivirus products as malware. government on multiple occasions over the past five years.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 19, 2018

Gartner Research Director Brian Lowans called “data the new oil” and spent his session, “The State of Data Security” describing how important it is to set up a governance structure and to have organizations working together in order to identify, classify and strategically approach protecting data. I hope to see you at Gartner SRM next year!

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 7, 2023

They look for possible vulnerabilities such as input validation errors, improper coding practices, and known susceptible libraries in the codebase. It examines the dependencies and libraries used in a project by scanning code sources, including Git repositories and package manifests.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018. As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events. The post Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup appeared first on IT Governance Blog.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 8, 2022

Certainly no one uses 40 bit encryption anymore. The phone key then understands that message and encrypts it back to the sender to the vehicle with that secret key, the car and the phone have that challenge token and only then the car would unlock. It's using device encryption and it's pretty good protected. It's I like it.

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IT Governance

JULY 31, 2019

Croatian government targeted by mysterious hackers (unknown). LaPorte, Indiana, government pays $132 after its systems crippled by ransomware (unknown). New Bedford, MA, and Syracuse, NY, governments also hit by ransomware (unknown). NV, becomes latest US government to be hit by ransomware (unknown). Data breaches.

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