eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 12, 2021

At the same time, McAfee researchers since about 2019 also have seen a rise in the use of leak sites, which cybercriminals use to publish seized data from companies. The LockBit ransomware first emerged in 2019 and may be increasing in use to fill the void left by the closing down of the REvil and DarkSide operations.

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SiteLock

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

REvil (ransomware evil), also known as Sodin and Sodinokibi, is an ambitious criminal ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) enterprise group that rose to fame in 2019. REvil ransomware is a file-blocking virus that encrypts files after infection and shares a ransom request message. Encrypt your sensitive data wherever possible.

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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 first is Ransom.Sodinokibi , which Malwarebytes has already profiled and has been detecting since 2019.). Threat profile: Conti ransomware.

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McAfee

JANUARY 7, 2021

The ISO 27701 Standard has been published in August 2019, and all companies, whether vendors or customers, should look into it. appeared first on McAfee Blogs. The application of the ISO 27701 standard can also be used for supporting compliance with other data privacy laws. Because yes, We Practice Inclusive Candor and Transparency.

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Pentester Academy

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

It targeted Microsoft Windows operating system by encrypting the data on the victim’s machine and seeking ransom in exchange for a promise to decrypt all the encrypted files and potentially undo the damage, but that’s far from the truth, as we discuss further! Ransomware damages would cost the world $5 billion (USD) in 2017.

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SiteLock

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Discovered in April 2019 , DoppelPaymer ransomware is a type of malware belonging to the Dridex family of malware. Emotet kickstarts other malicious software that encrypts files or drives on the network and changes passwords to lock users out of the system. on our blog. What Is DoppelPaymer Ransomware?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 14, 2020

A 2019 survey of full time workers in the U.S. To accomplish this, organizations must ensure their encryption keys remain secure for their PKI, document signing, and encryption infrastructure. Actually, the opposite is true, as many IT organizations have been ahead of the curve.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

As stated in a recent Eset report , the Shade infection had an increase during October 2018, keeping a constant trend until the second half of December 2018, taking a break around Christmas, and then resuming in mid-January 2019 doubled in size (shown in Figure 1). Shade encrypts all the user files using an AES encryption scheme.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

was used to register at least six domains, including a Russian business registered in Khoroshev’s name called tkaner.com , which is a blog about clothing and fabrics. Pin was active on Opensc around March 2012, and authored 13 posts that mostly concerned data encryption issues, or how to fix bugs in code. Image: Ke-la.com.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2019

” reads a blog post published by Wandera. At the time of writing, experts at Wandera were not able to crack encrypted communications made by the apps with the C&C server. “The objective of most clicker trojans is to generate revenue for the attacker on a pay-per-click basis by inflating website traffic.

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

NCC Group and Fox-IT observed this threat actor during various incident response engagements performed between October 2019 until April 2020. The more recent intrusions took place in 2019 at companies in the aviation industry. observed Q2 2017 Cobalt Strike v3.12, observed Q3 2018 Cobalt Strike v3.14, observed Q2 2019.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Ransomware has a public/private key encryption to make your data unreadable. In theory, ransomware may encrypt a file of any type. However, some files on your computer are encrypted more often than others. Ransomcloud is a special ransom malware, designed to encrypt cloud emails and attachments. How Does Ransomware Work?

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Spinone

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Sodinokibi Ransomware Analysis Sodinokibi, also referred to as Sodin or REvil, is a ransomware strain that appeared in April of 2019 and became the 4th most distributed ransomware in the world since then. This ransomware strain encrypts files and appends a random extension to encrypted files. PerCSoft attack , August 2019.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Crypto ransomware encrypts the data on your computer or in the cloud. However, you can not use encrypted data. Encrypting ransomware is much harder to deal with, as you can not get access to your data simply by switching devices or finding a way to pass a screen lock. Ryuk is one of the most common ransomware of 2018-2019.

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SecureList

APRIL 24, 2023

In this blog post, we’re excited to share what we now know of Tomiris with the broader community, and discuss further evidence of a possible connection to Turla. The following table lists all Tomiris malware families we are aware of: Name Type Language Comments Tomiris Downloader Downloader C Mentioned in our original blog post.

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Fox IT

JUNE 23, 2020

We believe those changes were ultimately caused by the unsealing of indictments against Igor Olegovich Turashev and Maksim Viktorovich Yakubets , and the financial sanctions against Evil Corp in December 2019. WastedLocker aims to encrypt the files of the infected host. This is described in more detail in the String encryption section.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

A sophisticated hacking group was in SolarWinds ' production environment as early as 2019 before affecting 18,000 of its clients, which include private companies like FireEye and Microsoft and several US federal agencies, via an embedded backdoor to updates of its network monitoring software, Orion.

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

McAfee customers are protected from the malware/tools described in this blog. A more detailed blog with specific recommendations on using the McAfee portfolio and integrated partner solutions to defend against this attack can be found here. MVISION Insights customers will have the full details, IOCs and TTPs shared via their dashboard.

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SecureList

MAY 12, 2021

To ensure that their ability to restore encrypted files would never be questioned, they cultivated an online presence, wrote press releases and generally made sure their name would be known to all potential victims. Since 2019, this ransomware has been advertised on underground forums and has a strong reputation as a RaaS operator.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 12, 2022

Back in 2015, when Let’s Encrypt was was just emerging as a certificate-authority force, Josh Aas, the ISRG's executive director said that "Encryption should be the default for the web. Let's Encrypt simplifies this.". . In addition, ACME can make the process of choosing a backup CA a fairly easy one. That is very true.

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SecureList

JUNE 15, 2022

Complex attacks almost invariably feature several phases, such as reconnaissance, initial access to the infrastructure, gaining access to target systems and/or privileges, and the actual malicious acts (data theft, destruction or encryption, etc.). Revenue: 8kk+$ (information is current as of 2019). Country: France. Price: 300$.

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McAfee

AUGUST 24, 2021

For a brief overview please see our summary blog here. Attacks on healthcare settings are increasing with the FBI estimating a cyberattack using “Ryuk” ransomware took in $61 million over a 21-month period in 2018 and 2019. The backup archive can then be downloaded for later restore of the settings. Table of Contents.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Rise of data leak site: many cyber extortion groups may pivot to solely conducting data exfiltration One of the biggest trends from 2021—which continued in 2022—was an expansion of the numbers of double extortion attacks, which originally started in 2019.

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SecureList

JULY 28, 2022

We identified a Windows variant of this sample using the same string encryption algorithm, internal modules, and functionalities. In late 2021, we encountered a malicious DXE driver incorporated into several UEFI firmware images that were flagged by our firmware scanner (integrated into Kaspersky products at the start of 2019).

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Security Boulevard

JULY 11, 2021

However, this all changed with the advent of stronger encryption schemes in the ransomware code and especially the availability of cryptocurrency as a payment method which is fairly difficult to track by law enforcement. The script further on encrypted the systems. Who is REvil and why are they relevant to this conversation?

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Fox IT

MAY 4, 2021

Since September 2019, Fox-IT/NCC Group has intensified its research into known active Gozi variants. But if you would like to understand the rather tortured history of this particular malware a little better, the research and blog posts on the subject by Check Point are a good starting point. Q3 2019 – Q2 2020, Classic fraud era.

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