Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2019

Later it was involved in many malspam attacks, but only in July 2018, the authors released a substantially updated variant. ” reads a blog post published by Bleepingcomputer. The post STOP ransomware encrypts files and steals victim’s data appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Looking to the new year however, which trends will come to define our industry in 2018 and beyond? Constant and consistent developments in PKI; encryption by default, key management processes, underlying blockchain technology and the value of the IoT are also unlikely to shy away from the limelight. Shift towards micro-services.

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Heimadal Security

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Widely known for targeting governments, academia, healthcare, manufacturing, and technology organizations’ cybersystems, Ryuk is a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group that’s been active since August 2018. It typically encrypts data on an infected system, rendering the data inaccessible until a ransom is paid in untraceable bitcoin.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 3, 2018

Large data scale breaches have led an increasing number of companies to embrace comprehensive encryption strategies to protect their assets. According to our 2018 Global Encryption Trends Study , 43% of respondents report that their organization has an encryption strategy they apply across the enterprise, compared with 15% in 2005.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 4, 2018

But to do that you must believe that the data is going to be protected and that the organization is protecting you – and that requires secure infrastructure and encryption. I look forward not only to our own ongoing growth and success in 2018, but also to contributing to yours! You can also find me at @CindyProvin.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 26, 2018

As a result, database encryption has never been more crucial in order to protect the massive amounts of information that is held in the diverse mix of databases that large enterprises rely on today, including relational, SQL, NoSQL and big data environments. The post To Go Native, Or Not to Go Native.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

The 2017 Thales Encryption Trends Study Australia found the IT department’s influence over encryption strategy has more than halved in the past five years from 59 per cent to 28 per cent. Our report also found that 55 per cent of organisations say finding where sensitive data resides is their top encryption challenge.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Now in its 13 th year, our Global Encryption Trends Study that is performed by the Ponemon Institute reveals interesting findings that span a dozen different geographies. This year, we found that multi-cloud use as well as compliance requirements have encouraged organizations around the globe to embrace a more extensive encryption strategy.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

This is the reality for many website owners, and now more than ever, they need to be on alert for cyberattacks in 2018. Cybercriminals can encrypt their backdoor files with a decoding key that only they possess, meaning, no one else has access to their malicious file. Protect your website and your visitors in 2018 and beyond.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 24, 2018

One thing all of these incidents have in common is how accessible the leaked information was after the breaches themselves occurred, something that could have been avoided had the data been encrypted. For more information on the Privacy Amendment Act 2017, please visit our dedicated landing page.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The historic amount of coverage that data breaches have produced in 2018 has exposed executives and consumers to the importance of security, like no year before. These stunning results underscore the importance of enterprise organizations to encrypt sensitive data as part of their digital transformation strategy as opposed to an afterthought.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

The 2017 Thales Encryption Trends Study Australia found the IT department’s influence over encryption strategy has more than halved in the past five years from 59 per cent to 28 per cent. Our report also found that 55 per cent of organisations say finding where sensitive data resides is their top encryption challenge.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 19, 2018

Another example of back to the basics was how Gartner Research Directors Gorka Sadowski and Pete Shoard took us through the State of the Threat Landscape, 2018 (see chart below). I started this blog with how insider threat events are leveling, while hacking events continue to accelerate. I’ll leave that up to your imagination.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 23, 2023

Upon analysis and comparison, we determined that this sample was an updated version of DarkGate, a multi purpose malware toolkit first identified in 2018. The original blog post from enSilo (now Fortinet) also notes that its author may have been using email to spread malicious attachments. The downloaded file, IPAVSCAN_win_vers_1.1.3.msi,

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 24, 2018

Given the level of interest in compliance, then, it’s unsurprising that Thales eSecurity managing principal consultant Ian Christofis delivered his presentation, “Meeting the Challenges of GDPR and other Compliance with Encryption”, to a packed audience. Among the points Ian made: Privacy and security are often confused.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The list includes Amazon (banned in 2018), Google (2018), Microsoft (2022), and Cloudflare (2015). As I explained in the blog DNS hijacks: what to look for , DNS is the phonebook of the internet to the effect that the input is a name and the output is a number. They are also known as content distribution networks.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Thales eSecurity’s 2018 Global PKI Trends Study , revealed increased reliance on PKIs as a core enterprise asset and root of trust. The post Guest Blog: Why it’s Critical to Orchestrate PKI Keys for IoT appeared first on Data Security Blog | Thales eSecurity.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2022

A Mandiant’s report attributed the string of attacks against the SWIFT banking system to the APT38, including the hack of Vietnam’s TP Bank in 2015, Bangladesh’s central bank in 2016, Taiwan’s Far Eastern International in 2017, Bancomext in Mexico in 2018, and Banco de Chile in 2018. “We suspect the ransomware families [.]

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

When government agencies and international intelligence groups pooled together resources to gather user data, the VPN’s encryption seemed like the light at the end of the tunnel. On the 6th of December 2018, a law that is a direct attack on internet users’ privacy was agreed to by both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The flaw affects the process implemented by the Signal Desktop application to encrypt locally stored messages. Signal Desktop application leverages an encrypted SQLite database called db.sqlite to store the user’s messages. The encryption key is used each time Signal Desktop application accessed the database.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 1, 2018

Around the world, enterprises are anxious about May 25, 2018, the day enforcement begins for the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We at Thales have blogged about the GDPR , its global impact, reach, and penalties. Encrypting or pseudonymization of sensitive data. They have good reason.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2023

“Lancefly’s custom malware, which we have dubbed Merdoor, is a powerful backdoor that appears to have existed since 2018.” A legitimate tool by Avast was installed by the attackers and used to dump LSASS memory The group was spotted using a “masqueraded version” of WinRAR to stage and encrypt files before exfiltration.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 24, 2021

Tech blog Bleeping Computer suspects a ransomware attack behind the network outage and added that the interruption could be a result on a file encrypting server attack. Note- As of the stats released in 2018, CNA is the 7th largest commercial insurance company that specialized in property and casualty liability.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 31, 2018

According to our 2018 Global Data Threat Report , 67% of enterprises have been breached, with that percentage rate growing every year. Encryption has now become the leading solution for protecting sensitive data. It is considered a best practice to separate your encryption keys from the data. Data breaches are the new normal.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 16, 2018

In doing this, though, they must ask themselves if they have the proper access controls, data management approaches, and encryption installed. You can also visit us at this year’s RSA Conference, San Francisco, April 16-20, 2018, North Expo Booth #3425, Moscone Center. If they don’t, they are at risk of becoming the next headline.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

So watch out for weak encryption protocols, insufficient network segregation, or insecure user authentication mechanisms. Software gaps Similarly, the availability of onboard Wi-Fi services has become increasingly common in commercial aircraft so passengers can stay connected to the internet even during a long flight.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 2, 2019

For its part, the United Kingdom incorporated GDPR into its Data Protection Act 2018 3 and the NIS Directive into its NIS Regulations 2018 4 , a political choice showing that the UK strategically desires to be aligned and, to a certain extent, compliant with the new EU regulations. Governing the transfer of data.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2021

“The loader decrypts the malicious malware and executes it using memfd create (as described in this blog in 2018). Upon executing the code, it will ask the user the path for the payload to be encrypted and the password to be used for AES encryption to hide the malware within the loader.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 23, 2018

John Grimm, Thales eSecurity’s Senior Director of IoT Security Strategy, recently spoke with CyberWire’s Dave Bittner about key findings and trends from Thales eSecurity’s 2018 Global Encryption Trends Study. A sampling of John’s comments: The lynchpin of any good encryption system is how well you protect the key.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

At a first sight, the office document had an encrypted content available on OleObj.1 Those objects are real Encrypted Ole Objects where the Encrypted payload sits on “EncryptedPackage” section and information on how to decrypt it are available on “EncryptionInfo” xml descriptor. Stage1: Encrypted Content.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 11, 2021

We looked at REvil, also known as Sodinokibi or Sodin, earlier in the year in a Threat Trends blog on DNS Security. For information on the methodology behind this chart, please see the end of the Threat Trends blog.). Figure 2-A desktop that has been encrypted by REvil/Sodinokibi. Encrypting files. Creating a mutex.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 22, 2019

In a writeup on WebMonitor published in April 2018 , researchers from security firm Palo Alto Networks noted that the product has been primarily advertised on underground hacking forums, and that its developers promoted several qualities of the software likely to appeal to cybercriminals looking to secretly compromise PCs.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 19, 2019

Particularly when the cloud provider in question posts constantly to its blog about how companies can minimize their risk from such incidents by trusting it with their data. On Christmas Eve 2018, cloud hosting provider Dataresolution.net took its systems offline in response to a ransomware outbreak on its internal networks.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

19, Apex was alerted that its systems had been infected with a destructive strain of ransomware that encrypts computer files and demands payment for a digital key needed to unscramble the data. “When they encrypt the data, that happens really fast,” he said. Roswell, Ga. on Tuesday, Feb. More than a week later on Jan.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2022

From 2018 to present, Aoqin Dragon has also been observed using a fake removable device as an initial infection vector. If the loader is not in the removable disk, it will copy all the modules under “%USERPROFILE%AppDataRoamingEverNoteService”, which includes normal files, the backdoor loader and an encrypted backdoor payload.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Hence, all network traffic “must be encrypted and authenticated as soon as practicable.” Networks : Encrypt and authenticate all network traffic within a business environment, while segmenting networks to limit the impact of successful breaches. This includes traffic between devices, containers, APIs and other cloud workloads.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

As The 2018 Thales Global Data Threat Report notes, “The top Big Data security issue is that sensitive data can be anywhere – and therefore everywhere – a concern expressed by 34% of global and U.S. Moreover, encryption keys must be protected and managed in a trusted manner for security and compliance with regulations. respondents.”.

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