Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2023

“During the run, the ransomware generates a symmetric encryption key using CryptGenRandom() , which is the random number generator implemented by Windows CryptoAPI. . Files are encrypted by Chacha 2008 ( D. “The symmetric key is encrypted by the RSA-4096 cipher and appended to the end of the encrypted file.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Proxy services can be used in a legitimate manner for several business purposes — such as price comparisons or sales intelligence — but they are massively abused for hiding cybercrime activity because they make it difficult to trace malicious traffic to its original source. SocksEscort began in 2009 as “ super-socks[.]com com , segate[.]org

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2022

Europol this week announced the shutdown of VPNLab, a VPN service that is very popular in the cybercrime ecosystem. An international operation conducted by law enforcement bodies from 10 countries took down VPNLab.net, a VPN service provider that is very popular in the cybercrime ecosystem.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Burkov calls himself a specialist in information security and denies having committed the crimes for which he’s been charged. A screen shot from the Mazafaka cybercrime forum, circa 2011. K0pa also was a top staff member at Verified , among the oldest and most venerated of Russian language cybercrime forums.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Usually after the phrase there are MD5 hashes [1] , IP addresses and other technical data that should help information security specialists to counter a specific threat. We have been doing so since 2008, benefiting from Kaspersky’s decades of cyberthreat data management, and unrivaled technologies.

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NopSec

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Modern variants of ransomware, called crypto ransomware, entomb the files stored on a hard drive using strong encryption. SCADA Access As A Service (SAaaS) Cybercrime is a business. It gives the example of Hacking Team, based in Italy, and Vupen Security, based in France. One is called SCADA Access as a Service, or SAaaS.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 6, 2022

Mikko Hypponen joins The Hacker Mind to discuss cybercrime unicorns, the fog of cyber war that surrounds the Ukrainian war with its much larger neighbor, and of course Mikko’s new book, If it’s Smart, it’s Vulnerable. Vamosi: The slogan of the RSA Conference is “Where the World Talks Security,” and, in general.

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