SC Magazine

MAY 24, 2021

Like most ransomware variants, Conti typically steals victims’ files and encrypts the servers and workstations to force a ransom payment from the victim. Tavakoli said the FBI report mentions Mimikatz, a tool created in 2007. The ransom letter instructs victims to contact the actors through an online portal to complete the transaction.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Winnti (aka APT41 , Axiom, Barium , Blackfly) is a cyberespionage group that has been active since at least 2007. Spyder Loader loads AES-encrypted blobs to create the wlbsctrl.dll which acts as a next-stage loader that executes the content.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

ProtonMail offers end-to-end encrypted mail services. At a bare minimum, anything handed over to law enforcement would surely be in encrypted form. Back in the day… In 2007, reality came knocking at the door in the form of articles with titles like “ Encrypted e-mail company Hushmail spills to feds ”. What happened?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

“In short, Cerebro can suck up any data that is not encrypted. The software also allow dragnet surveillance, according to the brochures presented at Milipol it is an updated copy of Eagle, the program ceded to Gaddafi in 2007. . Code name of the operation: “Toblerone”. A weapon of choice for authoritarian governments.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In a first stage it allocates the memory space where to copy the encrypted data and whose content is executed by the packer. Then, in the second stage the packer decrypts the code into another portion of the same memory allocation where it stored the encrypted data, and then transfers the execution to this second layer.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2020

The ransomware encrypted files and renamed their filenames by adding the “ easy2lock” extension, this extension was previously associated with recent WastedLocker ransomware infections. This group has been active since at least 2007, in December 2019, the U.S.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Attackers employed a custom tunneling tool to achieve this, it forwards client traffic to the server, the malware encrypts the traffic using trivial binary encryption. .” ThreatNeedle attempt to exfiltrate sensitive data from the infected networks through SSH tunnels to a remote server located in South Korea.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The Turla APT group (aka Snake , Uroburos , Waterbug , Venomous Bear and KRYPTON ) has been active since at least 2007 targeting diplomatic and government organizations and private businesses in the Middle East, Asia, Europe, North and South America, and former Soviet bloc nations.

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2020

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. The Mac version uses the same AES key and IV as the Linux variant to encrypt and decrypt the config file.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. Msadoz<n> dll (detected by Trend Micro as BKDR64_BINLODR.ZNFJ-A) – encrypted backdoor.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. Dacls Bot include command execution, file management, process management, test network access, C2 connection agent, and network scanning.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 22, 2021

Password managers weren’t exactly flying off the shelves back in 2007, your only real options were home grown. Making use of encryption , instead of leaving data lying around in plaintext, is excellent. Malware, for example, would specifically target password storage in browsers and plunder everything in sight.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2023

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. SNMP v2 doesn’t support encryption and so all data, including community strings, is sent unencrypted.” through 12.4

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Even today, less than half of the known antivirus engines are flagging the infection on VirusTotal , as observed by BleepingComputer: The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 1, 2020

Turnkey solutions Smarter data governance may not be as sexy as the latest automated threat hunting tools or post quantum encryption. The company was founded in 2007, has 16,000 customers worldwide and venture backing from the likes of Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Caufield & Byers, and Goldman Sachs.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2021

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. Attackers also employed an encrypted Chrome password-stealer hosted on ZINC domain [link]. .

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2020

The Winnti group was first spotted by Kaspersky in 2013, but according to the researchers the gang has been active since 2007. Experts noticed that modules are stored encrypted on disk at the same location with inoffensive-looking names.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2020

The Turla APT group (aka Snake , Uroburos , Waterbug , Venomous Bear and KRYPTON ) has been active since at least 2007 targeting diplomatic and government organizations and private businesses in the Middle East, Asia, Europe, North and South America, and former Soviet bloc nations.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2021

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. The activity of the Lazarus APT group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks.

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Security Affairs

JULY 17, 2019

The Turla APT group (aka Snake , Uroburos , Waterbug , Venomous Bear and KRYPTON ) has been active since at least 2007 targeting diplomatic and government organizations and private businesses in the Middle East, Asia, Europe, North and South America and former Soviet bloc nations. ” concludes Kaspersky.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 3, 2021

VPNs offer clients an encrypted access channel to remote networks through a tunneling protocol and can obfuscate the client’s IP address. With 3000 servers in 160 locations and 94 countries, ExpressVPN boasts its military-grade encryption and leak-proofing features, including a kill switch and unlimited bandwidth for clients.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 19, 2023

Founded in 2007, Por t nox began selling a software-based NAC solution to be used in local networks. For example, encryption keys, administrator passwords, and other critical information are stored in the Azure Key Vault in FIPS 140-2 Level 2-validated hardware security modules (HSMs).

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IoT Authentication VPN Backups 98

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

since Q3 of 2007. According to data from the Federal Reserve , the 55-69 age group currently controls 41.2% of the wealth in the United States as of Q1 2022, compared to 6.5% for individuals under 40. In fact, the 55-69 age group have had uninterrupted control of over 40% of the wealth in the U.S. Business targets.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2018

Turla is the name of a Russian cyber espionage APT group (also known as Waterbug, Venomous Bear and KRYPTON) that has been active since at least 2007 targeting government organizations and private businesses. This is a binary blob with a special format that contains encrypted commands for the backdoor ,” reads the report released by ESET.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 7, 2021

In the process of doing so, I encountered a small snag: The FSB’s website said in order to communicate with them securely, I needed to download and install an encryption and virtual private networking (VPN) appliance that is flagged by at least 20 antivirus products as malware. biz, circa 2007. Image: Wikipedia.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

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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Encryption Government Authentication Accountability 91

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The APT41 group (aka Winnti , Axiom, Barium , Blackfly, HOODOO) is a China-linked cyberespionage group that has been active since at least 2007. Attackers also a Packerloader tool to load and execute shellcode, which is stored in a file in an encrypted form. The attack is the latest in a series of intrusions against CNI targets.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The attack is estimated to have resulted in the encryption of files belonging to around 60 Kaseya customers using the on-premises version of the platform. QakBot (aka QBot, QuackBot and Pinkslipbot) is a banking Trojan that was first discovered in 2007, and has been continually maintained and developed since then.

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Malware Banking Energy and Utilities Accountability 85

The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 17, 2018

This penalty was in connection with Facebook harvesting user data, over the course of seven years — between 2007 and 2014. Heathrow Airport was fined £120,000 when it lost a USB stick containing non-encrypted and sensitive data. social media company with a £500,000 fine. Related: Zuckerberg’s mea culpa rings hollow.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 21, 2021

First spotted in-the-wild in 2007, the earliest known version of the ZeuS Trojan was caught stealing sensitive information from systems owned by the United States Department of Transformation. ZeuS is also capable of re-encrypting itself every time it infects a system, making each infection “unique” and therefore harder to detect.

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Banking Malware Encryption Accountability 124

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 8, 2018

In many organizations, the proliferation of encryption deployments has been directly proportional to the rise in disparate key repositories—and associated key management headaches. In the years that followed, the use of encryption has seen dramatic growth, which has only served to intensify the need for a standard like KMIP.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2021

A taste of the latest release of QakBot – one of the most popular and mediatic trojan bankers active since 2007. The malware QakBot , also known as Qbot , Pinkslipbot , and Quakbot is a banking trojan that has been made headlines since 2007. Figure 15: Identification of Delphi forms and unknown resources (encrypted QakBot DLL).

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 26, 2022

Detection for signature-less, insider, and encrypted malware threats. Malware analysis without decryption for advanced encrypted threats. Launched in 2007, ExtraHop’s success as a AI-based cybersecurity vendor led to its acquisition in July 2021 by Bain Capital for $900 million. Cisco Secure Network Analytics Features.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2019

The structure of this stream is fully specified in Microsoft Office Excel 97-2007 – Binary File Format Specification. This temp file is the Ammyy RAT encrypted file, which will be decrypted and renamed at a later stage ( wsus.exe ). The full list of programs it is seeking is the following. Figure 25: Customer-based AV solutions.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

Developed by the SANS Institute in 2007, SIFT works on 64-bit OS, automatically updates the software with the latest forensic tools and techniques, and is a memory optimizer. The first version of Volatility was launched at Black Hat and DefCon in 2007 and based its services around academic research into advanced memory analysis and forensics.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 1, 2022

It's a process of protecting critical information through encryption and being aware of the potential for eavesdropping on conversations. One afternoon in 2007, a container loaded with drug ecstasy went missing from a port in Melbourne, Australia. Operational Security is typically a military process. It was worth about $500 million.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

It leverages a federation of technologies across the Services, Application, and Infrastructure dimensions of a layered security architecture, including: Identity & Access management (+MFA) Enterprise Mobility Management Privileged Access Management Encryption Software-Defined Perimeter Orchestration Analytics Risk Scoring Software Defined Perimeter (..)

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