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IKEA servers hit by Qakbot Malware

CyberSecurity Insiders

IKEA, the furniture giant from Sweden, has disclosed that its servers were hit by a Qakbot malware that could have compromised its staff and partner accounts to a certain extent. However, as the investigation is still underway, compromise of accounts is yet to be determined.

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ProtonMail hands user’s IP address and device info to police, showing the limits of private email

Malwarebytes

ProtonMail offers end-to-end encrypted mail services. At a bare minimum, anything handed over to law enforcement would surely be in encrypted form. Back in the day… In 2007, reality came knocking at the door in the form of articles with titles like “ Encrypted e-mail company Hushmail spills to feds ”. What happened?

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North Korea-linked Lazarus APT targets defense industry with ThreatNeedle backdoor

Security Affairs

Attackers employed a custom tunneling tool to achieve this, it forwards client traffic to the server, the malware encrypts the traffic using trivial binary encryption. Next, the attackers logged in to the web interface using a privileged root account. ” states the report published by Kaspersky.

Malware 100
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Portnox Cloud: NAC Product Review

eSecurity Planet

Founded in 2007, Por t nox began selling a software-based NAC solution to be used in local networks. For example, encryption keys, administrator passwords, and other critical information are stored in the Azure Key Vault in FIPS 140-2 Level 2-validated hardware security modules (HSMs).

IoT 98
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US and UK agencies warn of Russia-linked APT28 exploiting Cisco router flaws

Security Affairs

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. SNMP v2 doesn’t support encryption and so all data, including community strings, is sent unencrypted.” through 12.4

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Microsoft: North Korea-linked Zinc APT targets security experts

Security Affairs

Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) attributes this campaign with high confidence to ZINC, a DPRK-affiliated and state-sponsored group, based on observed tradecraft, infrastructure, malware patterns, and account affiliations.” Attackers also employed an encrypted Chrome password-stealer hosted on ZINC domain [link]. .

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Chrome wants to make your passwords stronger

Malwarebytes

Password managers weren’t exactly flying off the shelves back in 2007, your only real options were home grown. People ended up saving logins in all sorts of odd places: Text files, email accounts…you name it. Making use of encryption , instead of leaving data lying around in plaintext, is excellent.