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. 8base” file extension for encrypted documents, a circumstance that suggested a possible link to the 8Base group or the use of the same code-base for their ransomware.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2023

Meta Platforms announced the implementation of more features into its end-to-end encrypted Messanger App. Meta Platforms started gradually expanding testing default end-to-end encryption for Messenger.

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WIRED Threat Level

MAY 21, 2020

By using metadata instead of content to spot suspicious behavior, the social network can keep privacy intact.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JULY 9, 2019

Commonwealth Ombudsman calls for Peter Dutton’s ability to censor its reports on the process to be revoked New encryption powers to seek assistance from tech companies to spy on users have been used at least five times by federal and New South Wales police. Continue reading.

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Dark Reading

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Attribute-based encryption could help keep sensitive metadata off of the Dark Web.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a script to allow them to recover encrypted VMware ESXi servers. Experts noticed that only a few thousand systems were encrypted worldwide. The good news is that in most cases the attacks failed because the ESXiArgs ransomware did not encrypt virtual disk files.

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

After supporters and opponents of mandated government access to encrypted communications publicly feuded for much of 2016, reprising arguments they’ve had since at least the days of the “Clipper Chip,” these “encryption debates” seemed to quiet down for much of last year. See, e.g., here.) device locking, secure messaging, etc.);

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The tools can slow their data connections to a crawl, break the encryption of phone calls, track the movements of individuals or large groups, and produce detailed metadata summaries of who spoke to whom, when, and where.

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Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2023

Once the VM has been terminated, the malicious code can encrypt virtual disks (.vmdk), vmdk), metadata (.vmsd), crypt extension to the filenames of the encrypted files and for each file creates a file with a .README_TO_RESTORE vmsd), and snapshots (.vmsn). The Abyss encryptor appends the .crypt

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

First spotted in mid-August 2022 , Venus is known for hacking into victims’ publicly-exposed Remote Desktop services to encrypt Windows devices. “You need to create this file and inject into the machine(s) like this so that metadata would say that they were created on his computer,” they continued.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2021

Targeting VMware ESXi systems, threat actors could encrypt as many virtual machines as possible with a significant impact on the victims. Researchers from MalwareHunterTeam spotted multiple Linux ELF64 versions of the HelloKitty ransomware designed to target VMware ESXi servers and encrypt virtual machines hosted on them.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 26, 2022

The threat actor was also able to copy a backup of customer vault data from the encrypted storage container which is stored in a proprietary binary format that contains both unencrypted data, such as website URLs, as well as fully-encrypted sensitive fields such as website usernames and passwords, secure notes, and form-filled data.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2023

” In a post published by NOYB, the organization claims that WhatsApp doesn’t encrypt metadata and share it with Facebook and Instagram, which use this information to customize ads. “While the communication itself is encrypted, the phone numbers and associated Facebook or Instagram accounts of people are collected.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 28, 2020

Namely, they should implement encryption, key management and identity and access management (IAM) to help preserve the privacy of their stored data. Encryption. An organization’s digital security strategy would not be complete without encryption. Key Management. A Streamlined Data Security Strategy.

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Security Affairs

JULY 3, 2023

MetaData: Metadata refers to data about data. Example: Metadata can include information about the source, creation date, file format, or authorship of a document. These cyberattacks can gain unauthorized access to systems, steal or encrypt data, or delete valuable information. Use encryption to protect sensitive data.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Its metadata was then indexed by search engines and discovered by Cybernews researchers on October 17th. The Cybernews research team has discovered that their personal data was exposed in a leak. Los Angeles-based electric car-sharing provider Blink Mobility left a misconfigured MongoDB database open to the public.

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WIRED Threat Level

OCTOBER 29, 2018

"Sealed sender" gives the leading encrypted messaging app an important boost, hiding metadata around who sent a given message.

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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.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

The documents revealed that encrypted messages can be intercepted from iPhone devices when they are in “partial AFU (after first unlock)” mode. “There’s also some metadata in the screenshots, which indicates not only that Signal had been decrypted on the phone, but that the extraction was done in “partial AFU.” .

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Schneier on Security

MAY 29, 2020

But crucially, Facebook says that the detection will occur only based on metadata­ -- not analysis of the content of messages­ -- so that it doesn't undermine the end-to-end encryption that Messenger offers in its Secret Conversations feature. That default Messenger encryption will take years to implement.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2023

Exfiltrate the collected data via encrypted DNS queries to the domain *.h4ck[.]cfd, To identify companies that are vulnerable the script sends the metadata about the host (such as its hostname and current working directory) to me. The first 1,000 files in $HOME/*. cfd, using the DNS server wheezy[.]io. Is is a real supply chain attack?

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 25, 2020

Analyzing encrypted traffic One area where Juniper is differentiating itself is in the area of encrypted traffic analysis. Pitt points out that a big challenge for businesses today is that more than 80 percent of Internet traffic is encrypted. Up to 30 percent of bad traffic is now encrypted traffic as well,” Pitt points out.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 31, 2020

The Navy has also warned adversaries may view video and metadata from drone systems even though the air vehicle is encrypted. The Department of Homeland Security previously warned the private sector their data may be pilfered off if they use commercial drone systems made in China.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Long and interesting interview with Signal’s new president, Meredith Whittaker: WhatsApp uses the Signal encryption protocol to provide encryption for its messages. WhatsApp does not protect metadata the way that Signal does. It doesn’t have your profile information and it has introduced group encryption protections.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2021

There was no need for a password or login credentials to access the information, and the data was not encrypted. The information leaked included approximately 8,000,000 voice recordings, 13,000,000 phone numbers, and hundreds of millions of call logs and metadata. Redacted example of metadata information. What’s Happening?

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Zapproved

DECEMBER 2, 2021

From metadata concerns to targeted collections, we’ve got your answers. What happens in the collection phase of ediscovery and what can go wrong?

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erwin

JULY 12, 2019

Activating their metadata to drive agile data preparation and governance through integrated data glossaries and dictionaries that associate policies to enable stakeholder data literacy. Creating and automating a curated enterprise data catalog , complete with physical assets, data models, data movement, data quality and on-demand lineage.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

The attackers also drop a malicious DLL and an encrypted payload file, noticing that the legitimate binary files are vulnerable to DLL search order hijacking. “When executed, they import the malicious DLL that loads, decrypts, and executes the payload file.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The file’s metadata includes the phrases “Linkedin based job application” and “Employment / Job Application,” indicating it’s likely part of a LinkedIn-based spear-phishing attack. Phishing on LinkedIn. users enumerations and RDP clients enumerations.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2022

The phishing emails contain a Microsoft Office attachment that includes an external reference in its metadata which downloads a malicious template file. “This technique works by sending an encrypted string appended to the DNS query set as a subdomain. The template file contains a VB script that will start the infection process.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2021

The PoC code released by Google allows to recover cached data from the memory, including sensitive data such as the encryption keys. See resourcepolicy.fyi and web.dev/fetch-metadata. The technique allows isolating kernel space from user space memory. ” continues Google.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 12, 2021

It supports file, block and object storage, works with AWS and Azure, encrypts data at rest and in motion, and offers compliance and metadata intelligence. BrickStor works with primary storage systems, online archives in the cloud, at the edge, or in the data center. It integrates with SIEM and SOAR systems for log analysis.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

They both use Perfect Forward Secrecy , which automatically changes encryption keys on a recurring basis to prevent data from being decrypted if other components of the key exchange are compromised. Thankfully, ExpressVPN doesn’t log sensitive details like IP addresses, browsing history, traffic destination/metadata, or DNS queries.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

The ransomware targets files with the.vmxf,vmx,vmdk,vmsd, and.nvram extensions on compromised ESXi servers and creates a “ args” file for each encrypted document with metadata.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2018

The latest version of Google OS, Android Pie, implements significant enhancements for cybersecurity, including a stronger encryption and authentication. The tech giant updated the File-Based Encryption implementing the support for external storage media, it also included the metadata encryption with hardware support.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

args”file for each encrypted document with metadata. BleepingComputer first reported that the attacks could be linked to a new ransomware family, tracked by ID Ransomware ‘s Michael Gillespie as ESXiArgs. The ransomware targets files with the.vmxf,vmx,vmdk,vmsd, and.nvram extensions on compromised ESXi servers and creates a “.args”file

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The malware communicates with the C2 communications via POST HTTP requests and uses RC4 encryption with a hardcoded key encoded with Base64. When comparing the malware executable with the original Oracle executable, we can see the similar metadata between the files. The PyVil RAT stores the malware settings (i.e.

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