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Report: No ‘Eternal Blue’ Exploit Found in Baltimore City Ransomware

Krebs on Security

.” It is not known who is behind the Baltimore ransomware attack, but Armor said it was confident that the bad actor(s) in this case were the same individual(s) using the now-suspended twitter account @Robihkjn (Robbinhood). The account also began tagging dozens of reporters and news organizations on Twitter. Image: Armor.

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Rainbow Table Attacks and Cryptanalytic Defenses

eSecurity Planet

A cryptanalytic attack is one where unauthorized actors breach a cryptographic security system through exhaustive searches for information related to the encryption scheme. Cryptanalysts or malicious actors can use basic information about the cryptographic scheme, plaintext, or ciphertext to decipher encrypted communications.

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APT29 abused the Windows Credential Roaming in an attack against a diplomatic entity

Security Affairs

Credential Roaming was introduced by Microsoft in Windows Server 2003 SP1 and is still supported on Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022. Then the attacker can write an arbitrary number of bytes to any file on the file system, posing as the victim account. The attack stands out for the use of the Windows Credential Roaming feature.

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Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

Herjavec Group

They hack into their teacher’s account and leave messages making fun of him. Air Force research facility, discover a password “sniffer” has been installed onto their network, compromising more than 100 user accounts. After being released in 2003, he uses WiFi to commit attacks, program malware and steal credit card information.

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Lockbit Ransomware targets England Merseyrail

CyberSecurity Insiders

What’s interesting in this file encrypting malware attack is the fact that few of the employees from Merseyrail and some journalists from reputed publications received an email from the company with a subject line ‘Lockbit Ransomware Attack and Data Theft’ and essayed that some sensitive data was stolen in the incident.

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Identity-based Cryptography

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

out of 5 stars on Chrome web store, 9 out of 10 pairs of participants failed to complete the assigned task of exchanging encrypted emails, i.e. 90% failure rate. The most common mistake that repeatedly occurred in all of these studies [13,14,15] was to encrypt a message with the sender’s public key. This type of scheme (e.g., [8,9])

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OnionPoison: infected Tor Browser installer distributed through popular YouTube channel

SecureList

Visual Studio 2003 – 7.10 In response to the POST request, the C2 server returns a blob containing an encrypted second stage payload. The DLL also encrypts the request body by first encrypting it with a pseudorandom AES-128 (ECB) key and then encrypting the AES key with an RSA public key specified in the configuration.