Security Affairs

MAY 31, 2022

SideWinder, an aggressive APT group, is believed to have carried out over 1,000 attacks since April 2020, Kaspersky reported. The group stands out for the high frequency and persistence of its attacks, researchers believe that the APT group has carried out over 1,000 attacks since April 2020. ” states Kaspersky.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2023

pic.twitter.com/YJavUu53v3 — vx-underground (@vxunderground) October 7, 2023 BleepingComputer was able to verify with the help of the popular malware researcher Michael Gillespie that that source code is legitimate and is related to the first version of the ransomware that was employed in 2020.

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Anton on Security

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

2020 was originally published in Anton on Security on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. “Why is Threat Detection Hard?” Anton’s Security Blog Quarterly Q3.5

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SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

In 2020, Kaspersky mobile products and technologies detected: 5,683,694 malicious installation packages, 156,710 new mobile banking Trojans, 20,708 new mobile ransomware Trojans. It just so happened that the year 2020 gave hackers a large number of powerful news topics, with the COVID-19 pandemic as the biggest of these.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Zscaler says attacks involving the use of SSL/TLS encryption jumped 260% in the first nine months of 2020 compared to the same period last year.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Ransomware operators are exploiting two VMWare ESXi vulnerabilities, CVE-2019-5544 and CVE-2020-3992, to encrypt virtual hard disks. Security experts are warning of ransomware attacks exploiting two VMWare ESXi vulnerabilities, CVE-2019-5544 and CVE-2020-3992 , to encrypt virtual hard disks. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 28, 2020

January 28, 2020 marks the 13th iteration of Data Privacy Day. 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.

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Adam Shostack

DECEMBER 11, 2019

UK, and Australia: Weak Encryption Puts Billions of Internet Users at Risk. In closely related news, nominations for the 2020 Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies are open. The Open Technology Institute has an Open Letter to Law Enforcement in the U.S., press release , letter.)

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 2, 2021

The amount of data in the world topped an astounding 59 zetabytes in 2020, much of it pooling in data lakes. They outlined why something called attribute-based encryption, or ABE, has emerged as the basis for a new form of agile cryptography that we will need in order to kick digital transformation into high gear.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In 2020: The share of spam in email traffic amounted to 50.37%, down by 6.14 In 2020, Bitcoin blackmailers stuck to their old scheme, demanding that their victims transfer money to a certain account and threatening adversity for failure to meet their demands. The share of spam in global email traffic in 2020 was down by 6.14

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2023

xyz pic.twitter.com/VLhISark8Y — Goldwave (@OGoldwave) March 13, 2023 The variant employed in the campaign supports a more sophisticated encryption method of byte remapping and a monthly rotation of the C2 server. #ViperSoftX is back, doesn't look like much has changed. c2 arrowlchat[.]com ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The TeamTNT botnet is a crypto-mining malware operation that has been active since April 2020 and targets Docker installs. The activity of the TeamTNT group has been detailed by security firm Trend Micro, but in August 2020 experts from Cado Security discovered that botnet is also able to target misconfigured Kubernetes installations.

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Bleeping Computer

JUNE 1, 2022

In 2020, ransomware actors spent an average of 230 hours to complete their attacks and 1637.6 The duration of ransomware attacks in 2021 averaged 92.5 hours, measured from initial network access to payload deployment. hours in 2019. [.].

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2020

Let’s Encrypt is going to revoke over 3 million certificates today due to a flaw in the software used to verify users and their domains before issuing a certificate. A bug in Let’s Encrypt’s certificate authority (CA) software, dubbed Boulder, caused the correct validation for some certificates.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 4, 2021

percent of all malware detected on networks of WatchGuard Technologies customers in the second quarter came over encrypted connections, raising the security risk for the 80 percent of such organizations that lack processes for decrypting and scanning HTTPS traffic for threats. Malware in Encrypted Traffic. A surprising 91.5

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Mitigating Ransomware Attacks – Decoupling Encryption Keys From Encrypted Data. Wed, 11/25/2020 - 05:55. Once the hackers gain an inside entry in an organisation’s IT systems, they deploy a file-encrypting malware known as ransomware. Some ransomware selectively seeks out sensitive data and will only encrypt those files.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2021

The Kaspersky ICS CERT published a report that provided details about the threat landscape for computers in the ICS engineering and integration sector in 2020. Kaspersky ICS CERT published a report that provided details about the threat landscape for ICS engineering and integration sector in 2020. In H2 2020, 39.3%

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 13, 2021

Data Encryption Shields the Energy Sector Against Emerging Threats. Other incidents include: The European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E) said in March 2020 it had “found evidence of a successful cyber intrusion into its office network.”. Encryption. Wed, 01/13/2021 - 09:42.

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Cisco Security

MARCH 16, 2021

In fact, 63% of threats detected by Cisco Stealthwatch in 2019 were in encrypted traffic. The European Union is concerned enough that it drafted a resolution in November 2020 to ban end-to-end encryption, prompting outcry from privacy advocates. DNS message encryption (control plane) is new. No snooping, no spoofing.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

NetWalker ransomware operators continue to be very active, according to McAfee the cybercrime gang has earned more than $25 million since March 2020. McAfee researchers believe that the NetWalker ransomware operators continue to be very active, the gang is believed to have earned more than $25 million since March 2020. reads the alert.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Threat actors are distributing the GravityRAT remote access trojan masqueraded as an end-to-end encrypted chat application named SoSafe Chat. Threat actors are distributing the GravityRAT RAT masqueraded as an end-to-end encrypted chat application named SoSafe Chat. ” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 15, 2022

Meta Digs in Heels on Encryption. Government Encryption Fight. The fight for encryption can be summarized by the arguments of two sides: government and business. Both agree that encryption is useful - the question at hand is, what is the cost of using encryption? Meta Commits to Encryption. brooke.crothers.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

versions are affected by the vulnerability dubbed BLURtooth which allows hackers to defeat Bluetooth encryption. The vulnerability could be exploited by attackers to overwrite or lower the strength of the pairing key, defeating the protocol encryption. Bluetooth 4.0 affects “dual-mode” Bluetooth devices, like modern smartphones.

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SecureBlitz

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In 2020, the digital landscape witnessed a cunning maneuver by the infamous Astaroth malware. Cisco Talos researchers first uncovered this devious strategy, revealing that Astaroth embedded encrypted and […] The post Astaroth malware uses YouTube channel descriptions for hacks appeared first on SecureBlitz Cybersecurity.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 13, 2020

End-to-end encryption. Zoom repeated its promises of “end-to-end encryption” throughout its website, on the user interface within its app and in published security “white papers”—including an April 2020 guide promoting Zoom as a way for medical professionals to transmit sensitive patient information.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Encrypted flash drives, essentially secure storage on a stick, are a proven technology that has been readily available for at least 15 years. And yet today there is a resurgence in demand for encrypted flash drives. And yet today there is a resurgence in demand for encrypted flash drives.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 24, 2021

This spring, data breaches picked up right where they left off in 2020, with recent incidents at a dating website. The post Entrust and Prime Factors spotlight US and UK application-level encryption trends appeared first on Entrust Blog.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

NetWalker ransomware operators continue to be very active, according to McAfee the cybercrime gang has earned more than $25 million since March 2020. McAfee researchers believe that the NetWalker ransomware operators continue to be very active, the gang is believed to have earned more than $25 million since March 2020. reads the alert.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2020

Researchers published proof-of-concept (PoC) code exploits for a recently-patched CVE-2020-0601 flaw in the Windows operating system reported by NSA. dll module that contains various ‘Certificate and Cryptographic Messaging functions’ used by the Windows Crypto API for data encryption. . SecurityAffairs – CVE-2020-0601, hacking).

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The state of stalkerware in 2020 (PDF). Kaspersky’s data shows that the scale of the stalkerware issue has not improved much in 2020 compared to the last year: The number of people affected is still high. In total, 53,870 of our mobile users were affected globally by stalkerware in 2020. between 2015 and 2020.

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Cytelligence

JANUARY 27, 2020

Cybercriminals or threat actors release a kind of malware which enters a computer system or network through fraudulent means and locks down files from access by encrypting them until a demanded ransom is paid to hackers in return for a decryption key. Ransomware in 2020 . Damages from ransomware in 2019 rose to over $11.5

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SC Magazine

JUNE 18, 2021

The Blackbaud data breach was the largest health care-related incident of 2020, impacting an estimated two dozen providers and well over 10 million patients. In February 2020, threat actors hacked into its self-hosted environment, stealing data as they proliferated across the network. Photo captured from Alina Lodge website ).

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Peter is an IT manager for a technology manufacturer that got hit with a Russian ransomware strain called “ Zeppelin ” in May 2020. He’d been on the job less than six months, and because of the way his predecessor architected things, the company’s data backups also were encrypted by Zeppelin. ” they wrote.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 16, 2022

The creation date for the all the weak keys was 2020 or later. Böck also found four vulnerable PGP keys, typically used to encrypt email, on SKS PGP key servers. Printer users can use the keys to generate a Certificate Signing Request. The weak Canon keys are tracked as CVE-2022-26351.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

2020 marks the launch of the Thales Data Threat Report-Global Edition for the seventh consecutive year. The 2020 Thales Data Threat Report-Global Edition indicates that we have reached a tipping point. Sage advice: encrypt everything. Yet, despite their significance, rates of data encryption and tokenization are low.

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Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2020

Researchers warn of a new feature implemented in the Sodinokibi ransomware, the threat can now encrypt open and locked files. The Sodinokibi ransomware (REvil) continues to evolve, operators implemented a new feature that allows the malware to encrypt victim’s files, even if they are opened and locked by another process.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2020

Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for January 2020 address a total of 49 vulnerabilities in various products, including a serious flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-0601, in the core cryptographic component of Windows 10, Server 2016 and 2019 editions. The flaw, dubbed ‘NSACrypt’ and tracked as CVE-2020-0601, resides in the Crypt32.dll

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