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SHARED INTEL: How ransomware evolved from consumer trickery to deep enterprise hacks

The Last Watchdog

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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SANS Critical Control 20: SANS Penetration Testing and Red Team Exercises

NopSec

But before delving into the details, let’s give penetration testing a definition. According to the SANS Critical Control # 20, Penetration testing involves mimicking the actions of computer attackers to identify vulnerabilities in a target organization, and exploiting them to determine what kind of access an attacker can gain.

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

Herjavec Group

2011 — Sony Pictures — A hack of Sony’s data storage exposes the records of over 100 million customers using their PlayStation’s online services. 2011 — RSA SAFETY — Sophisticated hackers steal information about RSA’s SecurID authentication tokens, used by millions of people, including government and bank employees.

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Copycat Criminals mimicking Lockbit gang in northern Europe

Security Affairs

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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Tropic Trooper spies on government entities in the Middle East

SecureList

Executive summary Tropic Trooper (also known as KeyBoy and Pirate Panda) is an APT group active since 2011. Swor: A simple penetration testing tool whose author tried to make it immune to removal by security solutions. In the first stage, only the extraction of the next stage, which was encrypted with the same RC4 key, occurs.

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Best Digital Forensics Tools & Software for 2021

eSecurity Planet

Be it advanced locks, encryption barriers, or deleted and unknown content, the UFED (Universal Forensic Extraction Device) can extract physical and logical data. Noticing that digital forensic tools used by law enforcement were insufficient, Canadian police officer Jad Saliba founded Magnet Forensics in 2011. Magnet Forensics.

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Top VC Firms in Cybersecurity of 2022

eSecurity Planet

Company Sector Year Status Isovalent Cloud security 2020 Private Illumio Cloud security 2015 Private SignalFx Monitoring 2015 Acquired: Splunk CipherCloud Cloud security 2012 Acquired: Lookout Lookout Mobile security 2011 Private. Bessemer Venture Partners. NightDragon. Sequoia Investments. Tiger Global Management.