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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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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Malwarebytes

MAY 28, 2021

In this blog, we’ll home in on Conti, the strain identified by some as the successor, cousin or relative of Ryuk ransomware , due to similarities in code use and distribution tactics. The files are then held for ransom and the victim is threatened by data loss, because of the encryption, and leaking of the exfiltrated data.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 22, 2019

The software is broadly classified as malware by most antivirus companies, likely thanks to an advertised feature list that includes dumping the remote computer’s temporary memory; retrieving passwords from dozens of email programs; snarfing the target’s Wi-Fi credentials; and viewing the target’s Webcam.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. “If you have my seed phrase, you can copy and paste that into your wallet, and then you can see all my accounts. . But on Nov.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 4, 2022

According to Forbes, “the first half of 2018 was marked by an increase in API-related data breaches, with the 10 largest companies reporting the loss of 63 million personal records.” A primary culprit of these attacks is the lack of understanding of application programming interfaces, or APIs.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

government — along with a number of leading security companies — recently warned about a series of highly complex and widespread attacks that allowed suspected Iranian hackers to siphon huge volumes of email passwords and other sensitive data from multiple governments and private companies. That changed on Jan.

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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

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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SiteLock

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Researchers and security firms have linked REvil as a strain of GandCrab, another RaaS group that was wildly popular in 2018. REvil ransomware is a file-blocking virus that encrypts files after infection and shares a ransom request message. Use a password manager to generate and track your passwords.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 14, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Ransomware attacks like the ones carried out by OnePercent Group have been crippling businesses across the country since the FBI first reported a 37% uptick in cybercrime in 2018. Encrypt all sensitive company data. Ensure all web traffic is encrypted with SSL or TLS.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 17, 2018

link] — Nodestack (@NodestackUK) April 12, 2018. In the case above, HostGator was being taken to task for storing passwords in a retrievable fashion (i.e. gdlinux — Guardian Digital (@gdlinux) April 13, 2018. — Jason Snelders (@JasonSnelders) April 12, 2018. I'll come back to that.

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Anton on Security

JUNE 10, 2022

A password manager claimed “zero trust for passwords” while a SIEM/UEBA vendor promised to reveal all zero trust secrets (I bet they use VPN internally…). Data security : it has happened for a few years, but somehow data security (whether encryption or DLP or some new space) has been less noisy lately, nobody seems to be disrupting it.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 7, 2018

The correct answer to this question is: The traffic between the browser and the webshop is encrypted. cc @troyhunt pic.twitter.com/bRM5BnVC6l — Tim Skauge (@tims) May 3, 2018. Most notably, they're now free through services like Let's Encrypt and Cloudflare and they're dead easy to setup so there goes another barrier too.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 14, 2021

If that’s the case, the username, password, user’s IP address and current timestamp are stored in a file at C:WindowsTempaf397ef28e484961ba48646a5d38cf54.db.ses. The result of the command is encrypted (as previously described) and returned to the operator.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

This blog post contains excerpts from those reports. ASMCrypt As mentioned in our previous blog post , we monitor many underground forums. After selecting all the desired options and pressing the build button, the application creates an encrypted blob hidden inside a.png file.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

At the 2018 Winter Olympic Games held in PyeongChang, for instance, cyber criminals leveraged a previously unknown family of malware called Olympic Destroyer to attack the Games’ servers just before the opening ceremony. Unfortunately, digital criminals are also closely following the buzz surrounding this tournament.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 3, 2018

12345678 and “password” are not strong passwords. To develop a strong password use a phrase and add some numbers and symbols – but make sure it’s not a quote from your Facebook page! I saved the best for last as encryption is what we do at Thales, we protect the most sensitive data for organizations around the globe.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2019

more than the $646 billion spent in 2018. Many of the IoT sensors hoovering up sensitive personal and business data, and the routers this data flows through, for instance, have weak or non-existent passwords and lack a uniform way to patch inevitable software vulnerabilities that turn up.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

” reads the post on KrebsonSecurity blog. The good news is that it seems that API doesn’t expose USPS account passwords. Krebs also pointed out that a vulnerability assessment of Informed Visibility was published in October 2018 by the USPS’s Office of Inspector General (OIG). ” continues Krebs.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

In May 2017, the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA) rolled out its Cyber Security Framework mandating detailed data security rules, including a requirement to encrypt and containerize business data in all computing formats. This column originally appeared on Avast Blog.). Cyber hygiene isn’t difficult.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 1, 2022

Conti makes international news headlines each week when it publishes to its dark web blog new information stolen from ransomware victims who refuse to pay an extortion demand. Plus, he somehow encrypted the config, i.e. he had an encoder and a private key, plus uploaded it all to the admin panel. nl — circa October 2018.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 10, 2022

A password manager claimed “zero trust for passwords” while a SIEM/UEBA vendor promised to reveal all zero trust secrets (I bet they use VPN internally…). Data security : it has happened for a few years, but somehow data security (whether encryption or DLP or some new space) has been less noisy lately, nobody seems to be disrupting it.

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NopSec

JULY 28, 2023

Good news for blog content, but less so for production networks. On the hardware side of the spectrum, researchers discovered that AMD Zen2 CPUs are vulnerable to a memory dump vulnerability that could result in unintended disclosure of neat things like encryption keys and passwords. No privileged access required.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

KeyPlug is a modular backdoor with the capability of communicating to its server via several network communication protocols set in its XOR-encrypted embedded configuration block. Kaspersky first discovered this malware in 2018, together with the CVE-2018-8453 vulnerability. In 2019, SoleDragon was also deployed through Skype.

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

Credential theft and password spraying to Cobalt Strike. This adversary starts with obtaining usernames and passwords of their victim from previous breaches. These credentials are used in a credential stuffing or password spraying attack against the victim’s remote services, such as webmail or other internet reachable mail services.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 10, 2022

These services require various information from the user, such as username, password and payment information, and retain details of our interactions with the service. In this blog post I will discuss just a few of these insights. This includes forcing service providers to utilise encryption and multi factor authentication (MFA).

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 6, 2023

According to Purplesec, ransomware attacks have increased by 350% since 2018, zero-day attacks were up by 55% in 2021, and out of the 30 million SMBs in the USA, over 66% have had at least 1 cyber incident between 2018-2020. Cybercrime is on the rise at a startling rate. Endpoint security defenses are an important part of this.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 12, 2018

For years identity management has relied on three factors for authentication: What one knows (passwords). In this blog post, and in one by my colleague Sandy Carielli from Entrust Datacard, we discuss big data analytics and how it is enabling the evolution of new behavior-based authentication for easier and more robust identity management.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

When I launched Pwned Passwords V2 last week , I made it fast - real fast - and I want to talk briefly here about why that was important, how I did it and then how I've since shaved another 56% off the load time for requests that hit the origin. Why Speed Matters for Pwned Passwords. And a bunch of other cool perf stuff while I'm here.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Security firms such as Proofpoint and Eset analyzed other samples of the same threat targeting the Australian landscape back in May 2018 and, more recently, in Italy. Further data, including IoCs and Yara rules, decide in the report published on the Yoroi blog. Technical Analysis. Listening proxy in execution. Conclusion.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

agarwal_mohit) January 5, 2018. I think the URL is right but it seems inaccessible from other countries: [link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) January 9, 2018. Security /= George blocking — Vatsalya Goel (@vatsalyagoel) January 9, 2018. They claim that they're hack-proof. Can you prove otherwise? travelling).

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NopSec

MAY 17, 2022

The most common (also deprecated) method of authentication is NTLM, which is a challenge/response protocol that authenticates a user without the user sending their password across the network. The challenge is then encrypted by a hash of the user’s password, and sent to the server. Don’t be that guy!!

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

We assume that those who called the numbers were asked to provide the login and password for the service that the scammers were imitating, or to pay for some diagnostics and troubleshooting services. Viewing the file required entering the password to the recipient’s corporate email account. Reputation, bitcoins or your life?

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Antivirus and security giant Avast and virtual private networking (VPN) software provider NordVPN each today disclosed months-long network intrusions that — while otherwise unrelated — shared a common cause: Forgotten or unknown user accounts that granted remote access to internal systems with little more than a password.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 25, 2018

thanks @troyhunt for the excellent @haveibeenpwned service that notifies users of #privacy disasters like this :) [link] pic.twitter.com/jlqnKXteDG — Yale Privacy Lab (@YalePrivacyLab) June 4, 2018. I at least know about it, thx to @haveibeenpwned — Tim Plas (@TJPlas) June 3, 2018. ticketfly a heads up would have been nice.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

The Outlaw Hacking Group was first spotted by TrendMicro in 2018 when the cyber criminal crew targeted automotive and financial industries. The definition of p ip means to read “ip port” file, namely the file which is downloaded by one of the two C2 with encrypted multiple SSH requests as shown by Fig. This is the “ Stage 1 ”.

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