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. Europol said. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 19, 2022

VPNLab had been around since 2008 and had built its service around the OpenVPN technology, used strong encryption, and provided double VPN, with servers located in many different countries. We set a special encrypted channel between your computer and our foreign servers. What is double VPN?

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

.” Lumen’s research team said the purpose of AVrecon appears to be stealing bandwidth – without impacting end-users – in order to create a residential proxy service to help launder malicious activity and avoid attracting the same level of attention from Tor-hidden services or commercially available VPN services. com, sscompany[.]net,

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SecureList

JUNE 2, 2022

LuoYu is a lesser-known threat actor that has been active since 2008. Layout of the encrypted data. Packets exchanged with the C2 server contain a header (described in the next table) followed by AES-encrypted data. Initial connection: the generated AES key and its CRC32, encrypted using RSA-2048 with a hardcoded public key.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The first-ever large-scale malware attacks on IoT devices were recorded back in 2008, and their number has only been growing ever since. Brute-force attacks on services that use SSH, a more advanced protocol that encrypts traffic, can yield similar outcomes. BTC to recover the data. Some hackers even use them as, well, web cameras.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

In cases, full disk encryption is a necessary feature. Encrypted data provides an obstacle and a layer of risk mitigation against loss since the data is not easily readable without the right encryption key. Encrypted data involves both data in transit and data at rest. Top Full Disk Encryption Software of 2021.

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Cytelligence

JULY 30, 2020

In almost all cases , some form of RDP/RDG or VPN was utilized to allow access to corporate resources. However, Cytelligence found that in many cases security best practices were either only partially implemented or entirely overlooked , resulting in failures. . Implement MFA on VPN solutions. .

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