Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Since 2011 it was employed in attacks aimed at Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) in many countries, including Bahrain, Ethiopia, UAE, and more. The binaries are stored encrypted and obfuscated too, with a slightly different format, the AES Initialization vector being stored within the core module binary instead of in the encrypted module files.”

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 24, 2023

At a high level, DKIM enables an organization to provide encryption hash values for key parts of an email. Using public-private encryption key pairs, receiving email servers can compare the received email hash value against the received hash value to validate if any alterations took place in transit.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 21, 2022

SHA-1 was officially deprecated by NIST in 2011 and its usage for digital signatures was prohibited in 2013. NOTES: *The four algorithms selected by NIST are: (1) The CRYSTALS-Kyber algorithm has been selected in general encryption, (2) CRYSTALS-Dilithium, (3) FALCON, and (4) SPHINCS+ as the three algorithms for digital signatures.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

Although most people think of ransomware as a dodgy application that encrypts data and holds it for ransom, the concept is much more heterogeneous than that. File encryption 2013 – 2015. It emerged in September 2013 and paved the way for hundreds of file-encrypting menaces that have splashed onto the scene ever since.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 22, 2023

Waterfox came into the browser scene in 2011, coming right out the box with official x64 support (a rarity among browsers at the time) and promoted itself as an "ethical browser." However, many things have changed in the browser landscape, and even the Waterfox project as whole since 2011.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

According to a report published by Symantec in 2017, Longhorn is a North American hacking group that has been active since at least 2011. The second stage installs itself and loads the third stage using an encrypted, hardcoded path. The new DePriMon downloader was used by the Lambert APT group, aka Longhorn, to deploy malware.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 30, 2023

The campaign began in 2011 as World Backup Month and was changed to World Backup Day later. World Backup Day is an annual celebration held by the backup technology industry to encourage people to back up their data and avoid the risk of losing it forever.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2022

The malware encrypts all the data with a key that is unique for each sample and sends it along with a sample identifier to the C2 server located at the domain name youbot[.]solutions. Aparat is an Iranian video-sharing site that was founded in 2011. ” “The business listing has a logo of an eye in a red circle.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2023

Despite not being the true LockBit Locker group, these micro criminals were still able to cause significant damage by encrypting a large number of internal files. He is a former member of the ANeSeC CTF team, one of the firsts Italian cyber wargame teams born back in 2011.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 6, 2018

Over in the APAC region, South Korea has had a regulation in place since 2011. The only true way to protect data is to encrypt it. Encryption is key when it comes to protecting data. Many of the data privacy mandates state that by encrypting the data, you avoid the breach notifications requirements.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The xPack backdoor is a.NET loader that fetches and executes AES-encrypted payloads, it supports multiple commands. Symantec speculates Antlion is has been active since at least 2011, its TTP overlaps the ones associated with China-linked nation-state actors. ” concludes the report that includes IoCs and Yara Rules.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

By 2011 or so, it was clear the BYOD trend was unstoppable, and companies began to impose much tighter security constraints. Leveraging habits SyncDog sought to take a fresh approach by deploying robust encryption to mission-critical apps and sensitive company data. Encryption is the mainstay of our approach,” Egenrieder says. “We

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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. Founded in 2011, CyberGhost VPN is headquartered in Bucharest, Romania, and boasts over 30 million global customers. Also Read: Tokenization vs. Encryption: Pros and Cons. Encrypt.me.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 15, 2022

This creates a “chain of trust” between a signature on a piece of software and a CA—like DigiCert or Let’s Encrypt—that operating systems trust. The two leaked Nvidia certificates have expired, being valid from 2011 to 2014 and 2015 to 2018.

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Elie

MARCH 17, 2018

This file is encrypted with a hardcoded [XOR encryption] function. This encryption is used to escape the signatures that detect the code that Gooligan borrows from previous malware. Encrypting malicious payload is a very old malware trick that has been used by. since at least 2011. back in 2011.

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Elie

MARCH 17, 2018

This file is encrypted with a hardcoded [XOR encryption] function. This encryption is used to escape the signatures that detect the code that Gooligan borrows from previous malware. Encrypting malicious payload is a very old malware trick that has been used by. since at least 2011. back in 2011.

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Google Security

MAY 23, 2023

Once Chrome determines that the certificate is valid, Chrome can use it to establish an encrypted connection to the website. Encrypted connections prevent attackers from being able to intercept (i.e., For example, in 2011 a compromised CA led to a large-scale attack on web users in Iran. eavesdrop) or modify communication.

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Webroot

MARCH 15, 2021

That day came in February 2011, met with a dramatic announcement by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. On the other hand, IPv6 is based on 128-bit encryption. That made for just under 4.3 billion possible number combinations under the IPv4 system. ” It seemed like the end of an era.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 13, 2019

On the other hand, WhatsApp -- purchased by Facebook in 2014 -- provides users with end-to-end encrypted messaging. If Facebook were doing a convincing job of controlling fake news without end-to-end encryption, then we would expect to hear how it could use patterns in metadata to handle encrypted fake news.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The jailbreak works with all Apple products released between 2011 and 2017, including iPhone models from 4S to 8 and X. Encrypt or decrypt hex data on a connected device in pwned DFU Mode using its GID or UID key. Checkm8 leverages vulnerabilities in the Apple Bootrom (secure boot ROM) to achieve full control over their device.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2023

Their operations are based on the human operator ransomware practice where most of the intrusion is handled by hands-on keyboard criminals, even in the encryption stage. He is a former member of the ANeSeC CTF team, one of the firsts Italian cyber wargame teams born back in 2011.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2023

It is crucial to ensure that leaked keys are in longer bit-lengths and encoded using secure encryption/hashing algorithms. As reported in 2011, the company fell victim to two cyberattacks, which are suspected to be part of an espionage attempt. Safran has already been targeted by threat actors.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 15, 2023

According to the BBC, the data includes: Passport scans of both pupils and parents which date back to 2011. Backups are the last line of defence against an attack that encrypts your data. There’s going to be quite a bit of concern for parents and teachers alike, with sensitive data being thrown into the mix. Backup your data.

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McAfee

JANUARY 28, 2021

As a privacy law student in 2011 at the Santa Clara University, he met a Facebook representative who explained to the students that Europeans had many privacy rights in the EU but were however not doing much to protect them. Can’t I just use encryption or anonymization as Supplementary Measures enough to protect data? 4] [link]. [5]

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 28, 2023

Introduction: Dridex, also known as Cridex or Bugat, is a banking Trojan that has been active since 2011. The malware also uses basic string encryption to hide the malicious URL it connects to in order to retrieve a file.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2018

Ramnit is one of the most popular banking malware families in existence today, it was first spotted in 2010 as a worm, in 2011, its authors improved it starting from the leaked Zeus source code turning the malware into a banking Trojan. The second STAGE-1 C&C server is used for controlling malware via an encrypted connection.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 27, 2018

Sidenote: she's an avid 1Password user and has been since 2011, this password dated back a couple of decades when, like most people still do today, she had reused it extensively). I'm like yo my credit cards and financial information your entering into this internet system isn't even fully encrypted.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 5, 2021

IBM, the technology giant that has paved way for many of the computing inventions, has announced a new encryption standard that offers confidential computing while processing data. Till date we have seen data being encrypted while in transit or at rest.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 11, 2023

The term was first used by Brian Krebs in 2011 after a proof of concept was conducted at DEF CON by Wall of Sheep. While cryptominers mine a mobile phone's CPU/GPU for cryptocurrency and drain its battery, ransomware freezes devices or encrypts files for ransom.

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Fox IT

DECEMBER 7, 2021

This model utilizes the Half-Space-Trees algorithm and provides our security operations teams (SOC) with the opportunity to detect suspicious behavior, in real-time, even when network traffic is encrypted. The prevalence of encrypted traffic. The use of encrypted network protocols yields improved mitigation against eavesdropping.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The first two samples had 2010/2011 as the compilation date, as shown on the graph below. In fact, the PIN is encrypted in the device upon entry using a variety of encryption schemes and symmetric keys. Sometimes the traffic is not even encrypted. SPSniffer: serial port sniffer allowing capture of not-encrypted traffic.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 6, 2022

Asymmetric cryptography relies on secret keys —one public and one private—which are used to encrypt and decrypt data. Secure websites (those with URLs that begin with https ) encrypt data as it travels between the server and the client, providing confirmation that the website is indeed what it claims to be. What Is a TLS/SSL Error?

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

This variant of fraud has been around since at least 2011, when an Australian Broadcasting Corporation employee with high-level IT access privileges hijacked company computers to mine Bitcoin.

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SC Magazine

MAY 19, 2021

Visitors crowd a cloud computing presentation at the CeBIT technology trade fair on March 2, 2011 in Hanover, Germany. That could be by purging un-needed data, encryption, archiving, anonymizing data, basically doing something different,” Halota said. Sean Gallup/Getty Images).

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

A kind of digital smash and grab of sensitive information such as the encryption keys created to protect sensitive transactions on a site like Amazon, or your bank with no way to trace any of it back to you. And this happens over and over until you leave the web site and break the encrypted channel and establish a new one on another website.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

A kind of digital smash and grab of sensitive information such as the encryption keys created to protect sensitive transactions on a site like Amazon, or your bank with no way to trace any of it back to you. And this happens over and over until you leave the web site and break the encrypted channel and establish a new one on another website.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

A kind of digital smash and grab of sensitive information such as the encryption keys created to protect sensitive transactions on a site like Amazon, or your bank with no way to trace any of it back to you. And this happens over and over until you leave the web site and break the encrypted channel and establish a new one on another website.

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