Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The government says Snatch used a customized ransomware variant notable for rebooting Microsoft Windows devices into Safe Mode — enabling the ransomware to circumvent detection by antivirus or endpoint protection — and then encrypting files when few services are running. ru account and posted as him.

Ransomware 225

Ransomware Accountability Cybercrime Backups 225

Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Ducktail has been around since 2021, and is attributed to a Vietnamese threat group. Campaigns to-date have focused on taking over Facebook Business accounts, both to manipulate pages and to access financial information. The instances of the Ducktail infostealer were identified in late 2021. Targets Facebook Business accounts.

Accountability 52

Accountability Malware Encryption Passwords 52

SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

According to Kaspersky Security Network, in Q2 2021: Kaspersky solutions blocked 1,686,025,551 attacks from online resources across the globe. Attempts to run malware for stealing money from online bank accounts were stopped on the computers of 119,252 unique users. Geography of financial malware attacks, Q2 2021 ( download ).

Adware 97

Adware Malware Ransomware IoT 97

McAfee

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

MVISION Insights Global prevalence statistics for this campaign on Nov 19, 2021. In this blog I want to show you how you can operationalize the data linked to this alert in MVISION Insights together with your investigation and protection capabilities to better protect your organization against this threat. Threat Summary.

Encryption 61

Encryption Risk Ransomware Hacking 61

Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2023

FortiGuard Labs researchers observed an ongoing hacking campaign targeting Cacti ( CVE-2022-46169 ) and Realtek ( CVE-2021-35394 ) vulnerabilities to spread ShellBot and Moobot malware. “Like most Mirai variants, it has an encrypted data section with a botnet configuration.” <Filename>.”

DDOS 83

DDOS Malware Hacking Education 83

Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 21, 2021

Where is my encryption-breaking dolphin? It is set in 2021, after all. I wager, there was no better way to prepare for my predictions blog. In this fictional 2021, the act of carrying around a corporate laptop is long past. Dropping Passwords In the actual year 2021, we do have some recognition-based authentication.

Cybersecurity 55

Cybersecurity Healthcare Authentication Internet 55

Herjavec Group

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Ransomware is a breakout ransomware group that became operational shortly after the shutdown of the REvil Ransomware and DarkSide Ransomware operations in late Summer 2021. T1070 Valid Accounts BlackMatter uses valid accounts to logon to the victim network. . BlackMatter?Ransomware TID Technique Description Observable Procedure.

Ransomware 109

Ransomware Manufacturing Energy and Utilities Encryption 109

eSecurity Planet

JULY 12, 2023

. “Microsoft has completed its investigation and determined that the activity was limited to the abuse of several developer program accounts and that no Microsoft account compromise has been identified,” Microsoft said. which has been deprecated since March 2021 due to known flaws.

Encryption 98

Encryption Accountability VPN Engineering 98

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

How better key management can close cloud security gaps troubling US government madhav Thu, 02/29/2024 - 05:38 In my first blog on this topic I noted a Treasury Department report released last year listed six cloud security challenges financial sector firms face. Thales offers vendor-independent encryption and key management services.

Government 77

Government Encryption Marketing Big data 77

Krebs on Security

MARCH 4, 2022

27, a Ukrainian cybersecurity researcher who is currently in Ukraine leaked almost two years’ worth of internal chat records from Conti, which had just posted a press release to its victim shaming blog saying it fully supported Russia’s invasion of his country. ” BY HOOK OR BY CROOK.

Ransomware 212

Ransomware Insurance Cyber Insurance Accountability 212

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The Mirai -based Moobot botnet was first documented by Palo Alto Unit 42 researchers in February 2021, in November 2021, it started exploiting a critical command injection flaw ( CVE-2021-36260 ) in the webserver of several Hikvision products. Since September 2022, Moobot botnet was spotted targeting vulnerable D-Link routers.

Energy and Utilities 94

Energy and Utilities Government Firewall Malware 94

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. Shouting “Glory for Ukraine,” the Contileaks account has since published additional Conti employee conversations from June 22, 2020 to Nov.

Ransomware 277

Ransomware Healthcare Cybercrime Government 277

Malwarebytes

JUNE 1, 2021

This blog post was authored by Hossein Jazi. 2021-05-07” in Korean language translates to “Ministry of Foreign Affairs Edition 2021-05-07” which indicates that it has been designed to target the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Korea. One of the Gmail accounts used by this actor is ” tjkim1991@gmail[.]com”

Government 145

Government Phishing Encryption Media 145

eSecurity Planet

MAY 4, 2023

In a major move forward for passwordless authentication, Google is introducing passkeys across Google Accounts on all major platforms. Passkeys can be created within Google accounts at g.co/passkeys. Still, passkeys do allow anyone with physical access to your unlocked device to access your account. Step 2: Yeet the password.”

Authentication 98

Authentication Passwords Accountability Phishing 98

Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

How better key management can close cloud security gaps troubling US government madhav Thu, 02/29/2024 - 05:38 In my first blog on this topic I noted a Treasury Department report released last year listed six cloud security challenges financial sector firms face. Thales offers vendor-independent encryption and key management services.

Government 64

Government Encryption Marketing Big data 64

Security Boulevard

JANUARY 20, 2022

In December 2021, the ThreatLabz research team identified several macro-based MS office files uploaded from Middle Eastern countries such as Jordan to OSINT sources such as VT. During our investigation we discovered that the campaign has been active since July 2021. Introduction. Threat attribution. Dynamic analysis.

Accountability 118

Accountability DNS Phishing Architecture 118

Webroot

MAY 3, 2022

Think of all the accounts you have with different providers. Your password for each of your accounts needs to be difficult to guess and unpredictable. The average cost of a data breach in 2021 rose to over 4 million dollars , increasing 10% from 2020. Passwords have become a common way to access and manage our digital lives.

Passwords 117

Passwords Identity Theft Password Management Antivirus 117

Malwarebytes

MAY 5, 2022

And its data leak blog is prepopulated with new ransomware victims and old REvil victims. 2021 was the ransomware gang’s last year of activity. Instead, it used a decryption key “from a third party” to decrypt all its encrypted files. The sites the nodes point to looked nothing like REvil’s.

Ransomware 80

Ransomware Encryption Accountability Software 80

Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2023

The joint advisory provides detailed info on tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) associated with APT28’s attacks conducted in 2021 that exploited the flaw in Cisco routers. The Russia-linked APT28 conducted the attacks in 2021 and targeted a small number of entities in Europe, U.S. ” reads the joint advisory. through 12.4

Malware 85

Malware Firmware Government Education 85

SecureList

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The malicious module was most likely compiled between late 2020 and April 2021. The assembly default “LegalCopyright” field shows “2020” as a date, and the most recent Owowa sample we could find was detected in April 2021 in our telemetry. Malicious HTTP module definition.

Authentication 109

Authentication Encryption Accountability Passwords 109

Malwarebytes

MARCH 9, 2022

RagnarLocker can be recognized by the extension of the encrypted files which contains “.RGNR_<ID>,” txt” and states the files and data have been encrypted by RAGNAR_LOCKER. The malware then attempts to silently delete all Volume Shadow Copies, preventing user recovery of encrypted files. Threat profile. RGNR_[extension].txt”

Ransomware 112

Ransomware Backups VPN Encryption 112

Malwarebytes

MARCH 30, 2021

Mespinoza originally used the.locked extension on encrypted files, and then shifted to using.pysa. PYSA is capable of exfiltrating data from its victims before encrypting the files to be ransomed. PYSA’s “leak list” blog uses a vintage MS-DOS theme and ASCII art. Leaks of exfiltrated data landed on PYSA’s blog.

Ransomware 108

Ransomware Encryption Education Government 108

Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2023

After gaining access to SMB shares, threat actors encrypt all files and leave a ransom note demanding payment in exchange for the decryption key. All three types of malicious programs were discovered in 2021-22 and are believed to be of Russian origin. CHECKMATE_DECRYPTION_README” in each folder,” it said.

Ransomware 90

Ransomware Encryption Passwords Internet 90

Malwarebytes

MAY 6, 2022

REvil (aka Sodinokibi) first appeared in May 2020 and has been responsible for numerous high-profile ransomware attacks, including arguably the biggest ransomware attack of all time—a supply-chain attack on Kaseya VSA in July 2021 that is thought to have affected over 1,000 businesses. Ensure routine auditing is conducted for all accounts.

Ransomware 86

Ransomware Encryption Accountability Technology 86

SecureList

JANUARY 18, 2023

Ransomware operators set up blogs where they post about new successful hacks of businesses and publish the data they stole. The number of posts in those blogs grew in 2022, both in open sources and on the dark web. Changes in the number of ransomware blog posts in 2021–2022, worldwide ( download ).

Media 108

Media Social Engineering Ransomware Hacking 108

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 21, 2022

As just one measure, the number of data breaches in the first nine months of 2021 exceeded all those in 2020, a new record. It underlies organizational accountability and is necessary to identify threats and uncover deficiencies. The trouble is that most encryption methods aren’t universal. Conduct risk analysis.

Encryption 214

Encryption Data privacy Cloud Migration Risk 214

McAfee

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Recently, security researcher Fabian Wosar opened a dedicated Jabber account for disgruntled cybercriminals to reach out anonymously and he stated that there was a high level of response. Challenge: Using a PHP stack+MYSQL+Bootstrap, code a standard ransomware operators’ blog in THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE with the following pages: 1) About us.

Marketing 138

Marketing Ransomware Cybercrime Accountability 138

NopSec

MAY 17, 2022

The domain controller, or Active Directory database in Microsoft environments, is based on a hierarchical schema that stores and manages all objects and object attributes in a domain or forest, which includes users, accounts, computers, and even other domains. All data is encrypted with the user’s password, aside from the username.

Authentication 52

Authentication Passwords Accountability Encryption 52

Duo's Security Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

We have a lot of thoughts on passkeys – some of which we’ve shared in other posts in this passkey blog series – and today we’re going to explore how passkeys stack up against passwords from the perspective of cloud platforms. Passkey private keys are transferred across cloud providers through end-to-end encryption between secure enclaves.

Passwords 80

Passwords Password Management Authentication Threat Detection 80

CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

This blog was jointly written with Santiago Cortes. Key takeaways: The ransomware BlackCat is coded in Rust and was created in November 2021. According to these blogs, at least 10 companies may have been impacted by these ransomware campaigns in the first two weeks of February. Blog BotenaGo. Executive summary.

Ransomware 119

Ransomware Encryption Malware Backups 119

The Last Watchdog

MAY 30, 2023

Riccardi: My book discusses how the perception of cyberattacks shifted from being mere data breaches to having real-world consequences, especially after high-profile cases in 2021, like Colonial Pipeline and Schreiber Foods. LW: How important is effective cybersecurity awareness training?

Cloud Migration 188

Cloud Migration Passwords Cybersecurity Cyber threats 188

Security Boulevard

AUGUST 3, 2022

230 apps were leaking all four 0Auth authentication credentials and could be used to fully take over Twitter accounts to perform critical/sensitive actions. Some of those sensitive actions include reading Direct Messages, retweeting, deleting messages, liking messages, and getting account settings. Twitter API.

Mobile 98

Mobile Authentication Accountability Identity Theft 98

eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Company officials also used the first week of October – which is Cybersecurity Awareness Month – to remind users of the company’s plan to enable two-factor authentication by default to many accounts, and that it will enable it for 150 million accounts before the end of 2021. Will Other Vendors Follow?

Risk 135

Risk Passwords Authentication Accountability 135

The Last Watchdog

JULY 18, 2023

consumers, ages 18 and over, was conducted by Propeller Insights on behalf of HostingAdvice in June of 2021. As “The Authority on Web Hosting,” HostingAdvice.com is home to unique content and resources in the hosting industry, including: blog articles, how-to guides, reviews and the world’s best beginner’s guide.

Hacking 100

Hacking DDOS Small Business Spyware 100

Malwarebytes

APRIL 1, 2022

This blog post was authored by Ankur Saini, Roberto Santos and Hossein Jazi. UAC-0056 also known as SaintBear, UNC2589 and TA471 is a cyber espionage actor that has been active since early 2021 and has mainly targeted Ukraine and Georgia. In this blog post, we provide a technical analysis of this new campaign. Attack process.

Encryption 125

Encryption Phishing Malware Government 125

Webroot

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

According to our 2021 Webroot BrightCloud Threat Report , on average, 18.8% Comprehensive antivirus protection will also provide password protection for your online accounts through secure encryption. The post ‘Tis the season for protecting your devices with Webroot antivirus appeared first on Webroot Blog.

Antivirus 125

Antivirus Identity Theft Adware Internet 125

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.). 2TB of 2020-2021 data: credentials related to banking accounts and the most popular services.

VPN 97

VPN Accountability Ransomware Encryption 97