Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Phobos variants are usually distributed by the SmokeLoader , but in 8Base campaigns, it has the ransomware component embedded in its encrypted payloads. The group has been active since March 2022, it focused on small and medium-size businesses in multiple industries, including finance, manufacturing, business services, and IT.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Nation-state advanced persistent threat (APT) actors have used VPN device vulnerabilities for credential harvesting, remote code execution, traffic hijacking, data leaking, and to compromise the security of encrypted traffic sessions. Some VPN providers encrypt devices in such a way that fast incident response is impossible.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Broadcom also offers a location hub microcontroller and System-on-a-Chip (SoC) systems for embedded IoT security for organizations handling product manufacturing. Product developers and manufacturers can conduct IoT product testing, including incident response. JFrog Features. What Are IoT Devices?

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Imperial Violet

JULY 22, 2023

Since we don’t want that, the same attestation certificate is used in many security keys and manufacturers are supposed to use the same certificate for batches of at least 100,000 security keys. The credential ID that they return is actually an encrypted seed that allows the security key to regenerate the private key as needed.

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Imperial Violet

AUGUST 9, 2019

Of course, there are other manufacturers who make security keys and, if it advertises “CTAP2” support, there's a good chance that it'll work too. Generally, most security keys operate statelessly, i.e. the credential ID is an encrypted private seed, and the security key doesn't store any per-credential information itself.

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Imperial Violet

MARCH 26, 2018

The FIDO Alliance is a group of major relying parties, secure token manufacturers, and others which defines many of the standards around Security Keys. In practice, however, the key handle is always an encrypted version of the private key itself (or a generating seed). This term refers to any entity trying to authenticate a user.

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