Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2023

Copycat Criminals mimicking Lockbit gang in northern Europe Sandworm APT targets Ukraine with new SwiftSlicer wiper ISC fixed high-severity flaws in DNS software suite BIND Patch management is crucial to protect Exchange servers, Microsoft warns Hacker accused of having stolen personal data of all Austrians and more CVE-2023-23560 flaw exposes 100 (..)

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Expert found Backdoor credentials in ZyXEL LTE3301 M209 Raspberry Robin malware used in attacks against Telecom and Governments TikTok parent company ByteDance revealed the use of TikTok data to track journalists BetMGM discloses security breach impacting 1.5 Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2022

China-linked APT group Tropic Trooper has been spotted previously undocumented malware written in Nim language. The final payload encoded in the image is TClient, which is a backdoor that was used by the Tropic Trooper APT group in past campaigns. The collected information is formatted and sent to the C&C server.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 27, 2022

A conventional computer would need 300 trillion years to break RSA encryption – considered the gold standard for Public Key Encryption (PKE). Research by the Organization of American States found cyberattacks against critical infrastructure and manufacturing are more likely to target industrial control systems than steal data.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

European Parliament votes to tighten up rules for the sale and export of surveillance and encryption technology. The term “ dual-use ” refers to technology that can be used for both peaceful and military aims. The European Union this week agreed to tighten up rules for the sale and export of dual-use technology.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

worth of NFTs from tens of OpenSea users Trickbot operation is now controlled by Conti ransomware.

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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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eSecurity Planet

JULY 3, 2021

VPNs offer clients an encrypted access channel to remote networks through a tunneling protocol and can obfuscate the client’s IP address. User Reviews: With over 12k reviews on TrustPilot, CyberGhost VPN holds an industry-high 4.8/5 Also Read: Tokenization vs. Encryption: Pros and Cons. Enter VPN technology. 5 star rating.

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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.” IMPORTANT INFORMATION !!! Description.

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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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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The Kremlin breaks with all tradition and announces that — at the request of the United States — it has arrested 14 people suspected of working for REvil , one of the more ruthless and profitable Russian ransomware groups. Penchukov was arrested after leaving Ukraine to meet up with his wife in Switzerland.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Today, the gap between these two groups has narrowed significantly. As a result, industry executives are re-evaluating how to balance sustainability with the ever-growing corporate and consumer demand for video content. VITEC shares their commitments to sustainability and enlists their industry to join them.

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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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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The attack caused such a wide variety of disruptions in so many different industries, many of which likely went unreported since many companies had no incentive to publicize their security failings and were not required to do so. Why should companies that do not employ basic cyber hygiene be subsidized by industry peers?

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Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

Instead, they should remain adaptive to the particularized needs of their organization, responsive to new industry developments, and vigilant of changes to business objectives that could affect the cyber threat landscape. Encrypting critical data assets. Creating an enterprise-wide governance structure. Managing digital identities.

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IT Governance

MARCH 11, 2024

Glosbe dictionary exposes almost 7 million records The multilingual online dictionary Glosbe left a MongoDB instance unsecured last year, exposing nearly 7 million users’ information, including personal data, encrypted passwords and social media identifiers. Glosbe did not reply, but the open instance was soon closed. of the Standard.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 27, 2021

Included with that question was an encrypted text file which John downloaded then wrote a simple python script to decrypt it. When he did that, the encrypted text resolved as a nonsense clear text phrase about “Leon is a programmer who aspires to create programs that help people do less.” So, that’s the military.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 27, 2021

Included with that question was an encrypted text file which John downloaded then wrote a simple python script to decrypt it. When he did that, the encrypted text resolved as a nonsense clear text phrase about “Leon is a programmer who aspires to create programs that help people do less.” So, that’s the military.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Group-IB , a global threat hunting and intelligence company, has presented its annual Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2020/2021 report. The stand-off between various pro-government hacker groups saw new players come onto the scene, while some previously known groups resumed their operations.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

I worked at NSA both as a contractor and in the military for about 15 years, building those implants, building these exploits to do some of these attacks that we are currently talking about. Vamosi: So I'm wondering are there particular industries that are targeted by these types of attacks? Vamosi: So it's interesting.

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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. Usually a certain amount of Bitcoin. Later that year, just slightly better than that.

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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. Usually a certain amount of Bitcoin. Later that year, just slightly better than that.

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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. These are not groups of individual hackers sitting around the table late at night as it was in teh early days of malware writing. Instead we have these faceless ransomware groups.

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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. The top inhibitor (with an average rank of 3.66) was a lack of skilled personnel – we've long known the cybersecurity industry is lacking a proper pool of qualified talent. street legal F1 Hypercar.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 28, 2018

Military operatives and intelligence units today routinely hack to knock down critical infrastructure, interfere with elections, and even to exact revenge on Hollywood studios. plants and factories, specifically to gain control of industrial control systems , also called operational technology, or OT. “As Iran hacks Saudi plants.

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