Krebs on Security

JULY 30, 2020

Traditional payment cards encode cardholder account data in plain text on a magnetic stripe, which can be read and recorded by skimming devices or malicious software surreptitiously installed in payment terminals. Newer, chip-based cards employ a technology known as EMV that encrypts the account data stored in the chip.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2024

A team of researchers released a suite of tools that could help victims to decrypt data encrypted with by the Black Basta ransomware. Independent security research and consulting team SRLabs discovered a vulnerability in Black Basta ransomware’s encryption algorithm and exploited it to create a free decryptor.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2022

Unlike other ransomware operations, RedAlert only accepts ransom payments in Monero. RedAlert is human-operated ransomware, the ransomware uses NTRUEncrypt public key encryption algorithm for encryption. crypt[Random number] ” extension to the filenames of encrypted files. log), swap files(.vswp), vswp), virtual disks(.vmdk),

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

What Are the Best Use Cases for Symmetric vs Asymmetric Encryption? Symmetric Encryption. In symmetric encryption , the sender and receiver use a separate instance of the same key to encrypt and decrypt messages. Symmetric encryption heavily relies on the fact that the keys must be kept secret. Scott Carter.

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Bleeping Computer

MARCH 8, 2022

ProtonMail is urging its Russian user base to hurry up and renew their subscriptions before it is too late, as multiple payment processing services like Mastercard, Visa, and PayPal are exiting the Russian market. ProtonMail is a provider of privacy-centric and end-to-end encrypted email services to millions around the world. [.].

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2023

They included a lot of sensitive information, such as database credentials, login information for the SMTP server, enterprise payment processing information, and others. On September 18th, the Cybernews research team discovered two publicly hosted environment files (.env) env) attributed to New England Biolabs (NEB).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Compliance madhav Tue, 09/19/2023 - 05:17 It is essential for any business that stores, processes, and transmits payment card information to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Consumers’ payment data is a compelling target for criminals who continue to circumvent IT security defenses.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 1, 2024

According to BleepingComputer, the impacted provider was the Swedish MSP Visma who manages the payment systems for the supermarket chain. Visma confirmed they were affected by the Kaseya cyber attack that allowed the REvil ransomware to encrypt their customers’ systems.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2024

In early January, independent security research and consulting team SRLabs discovered a vulnerability in Black Basta ransomware’s encryption algorithm and exploited it to create a free decryptor. The ransomware employs encryption based on a ChaCha keystream, which is utilized to perform XOR operations on 64-byte-long chunks of the file.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Every time you send a mobile payment, search for airline flight prices, or book a restaurant reservation - you are using an API. This could include Personally Identifiable Information (PII) of their subscribers or even their payment information. Unfortunately, API attacks are increasing as vectors for security incidents.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 6, 2022

From hardware or software issues and hidden backdoor programs to vulnerable process controls, weak passwords, and other human errors, many problems can put your transactions at risk and leave the door open to cybercriminals. This only takes a few clicks, because an SSL certificate is a text file with encrypted data. Source; Pexels.

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Spinone

MARCH 19, 2020

Encryption is one of the tried and true security mechanisms for keeping data secure and private both on-premises and in the cloud. It allows masking data with mathematical algorithms that scramble the data so that it is unreadable without the encryption key. However, there is a weakness with traditional encryption techniques.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 19, 2021

Experts say the biggest reason ransomware targets and/or their insurance providers still pay when they already have reliable backups is that nobody at the victim organization bothered to test in advance how long this data restoration process might take. “That is still somewhat rare,” Wosar said.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The security firm discovered a bug in the encryption process implemented by the Hades ransomware that can be used to recover the files encrypted by some variants. “We discovered a vulnerability in the encryption schema that allows some of the variants to be decrypted without paying the ransom.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 10, 2024

presents an opportunity to future-proof your payment card security. Although this deadline is past, use this checklist to ensure you have everything in order: Environment Inventory : Ensure you thoroughly map and document all systems, components, and processes interacting with cardholder data (CHD). PCI DSS 4.0:

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 26, 2023

Numerous gas and fuel filling stations throughout Canada experienced significant disruptions in processing credit card and reward points-based payments due to a cyber attack on Suncor Energy, the parent company. NOTE- Ransomware is a form of malware that encrypts data within an infected database until a ransom is paid.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Experts spotted a new variant of ESXiArgs ransomware targeting VMware ESXi servers, authors have improved the encryption process, making it much harder to recover the encrypted virtual machines. This change allowed the ransomware to encrypt larger chunks of data in the targeted files, making it impossible to recover them.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

LockBit is accused of extorting hundreds of companies and organizations globally by encrypting their data and demanding massive ransoms. However, it claimed critical systems like ransom payment tracking remained unaffected due to backups. Nonetheless.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 28, 2020

said a nine-month-long breach of its payment card processing systems may have led to the theft of card data from customers who visited any of its 850 locations nationwide. Wawa said the breach did not expose personal identification numbers (PINs) or CVV records (the three-digit security code printed on the back of a payment card).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Payment Security Vulnerabilities: Change is Everywhere. We have also changed the way that we pay for goods and services and we are now offered alternatives beyond using our credit cards, such as wallets and instant payments in many of our transactions. Tue, 09/06/2022 - 21:15. It has always been understood that change is inevitable.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 5, 2023

Thales payShield receives the French Cartes Bancaires HSM certification madhav Thu, 07/06/2023 - 04:35 Securing online payments is more important than ever. The meteoric rise of e-commerce and digital transactions has made online payments an essential part of doing business but, as a result, has subjected organizations to increased risk.

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Webroot

APRIL 2, 2024

The Role of GPUs in Brute Force Attacks Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) have revolutionized not just gaming and graphic design, but also the world of cybersecurity. Their powerful parallel processing capabilities make them particularly adept at handling the computational demands of brute force attacks.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 26, 2021

The Future of Payments Security. The increasing trend of using mobile payments for in-store purchases (especially during the pandemic) is leading criminals to increasingly focus their efforts on defrauding people through online fraud and scams. during the transaction process without the knowledge of both customer and service provider.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2021

based PrismHR handles everything from payroll processing and human resources to health insurance and tax forms for hundreds of “professional employer organizations” (PEOs) that serve more than two million employees. The company processes more than $80 billion payroll payments annually on behalf of PEOs and their clients.

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Identity IQ

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

This indicates that your connection is encrypted, making it harder for cybercriminals to intercept your data. Here’s how: Use secure payment methods like credit cards or digital wallets: These offer an added layer of protection. Reputable online stores can provide secure payment options during checkout.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 10, 2022

How Can We Secure The Future of Digital Payments? The financial services ecosystem has evolved tremendously over the past few years driven by a surge in the adoption of digital payments. This raises the question of where digital payment technologies will take us in the future, and how will this affect consumers?

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 23, 2021

For starters, chip-based payment cards were supposed to make it far more expensive and difficult for thieves to copy and clone. When the ATM is no longer in use, the skimming device remains dormant, storing the stolen data in an encrypted format. But the data dump from the shimmer was just encrypted gibberish.”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 13, 2023

While authorities in multiple countries have issued sanctions regarding ransomware payments, the efficacy of these sanctions in actually preventing ransomware incidents is in question. Conclusion Ransomware sanctions are a concerted effort to curb the rampant danger of these attacks by preventing bad actors from receiving ransom payments.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 10, 2024

presents an opportunity to future-proof your payment card security. Although this deadline is past, use this checklist to ensure you have everything in order: Environment Inventory : Ensure you thoroughly map and document all systems, components, and processes interacting with cardholder data (CHD). PCI DSS 4.0:

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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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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2021

In order to facilitate file encryption, the ransomware look for processes associated with backups, anti-virus/anti-spyware, and file copying and terminates them. The Hive ransomware adds the.hive extension to the filename of encrypted files. The malware deletes the Hive executable and the hive.bat script. key.hive or *.key.*.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Depending on the flow of infection, targets can expect to find a demand for payment to unlock encrypted files or sneaky malware looking to grab cryptocurrency details from system clipboard functions. The email is cryptocurrency themed, and claims that a payment of yours has “timed out” and will need resending.

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 9, 2020

A week later, Travelex is processing transactions with pen and paper at its 1,200 branches located in more than 70 countries. . “To To date, the company can confirm that whilst there has been some data encryption, there is no evidence that structured personal customer data has been encrypted.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 19, 2023

encryption, since it is based on your web-site’s certificate. There may be a red unencrypted path between the web server and order management server/application, then there would be a blue data path from your servers to the payment gateway using encryption negotiated by the gateway. This would start with TLS1.2,

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2020

The main difference between the two threats is that Nefilim doesn’t include the Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) component and doesn’t use Tor for the payment process. The encrypted AES key will be included in the contents of each encrypted file. share much of the same code.” Nefilim appends the.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This platform is the largest payment exchange platform between doctors, pharmacies, healthcare providers, and patients in the US healthcare system. Stop malicious encryption. Change Healthcare is one of the largest healthcare technology companies in the United States. Use EDR or MDR to detect unusual activity before an attack occurs.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 19, 2022

The malware exfiltrates data before encrypting the targeted devices to provide additional means of extortion. lilith” extension to rename encrypted files. Besides, the files are encrypted using local Windows cryptographic APIs and random keys generated on the fly. The malware uses a custom “.lilith”

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