Malwarebytes

JANUARY 15, 2023

The real world impact of cybercrime rears its head once more, with word that 14 schools in the UK have been caught out by ransomware. According to the BBC, the data includes: Passport scans of both pupils and parents which date back to 2011. Contractual offers made to members of staff. Special Educational Needs (SEN) data.

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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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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2023

Incident Insights Recently, there has been a significant increase in ransomware attacks targeting companies in northern Europe. 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.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 15, 2022

As we wrote on March 3, 2022 Nvidia, was recently attacked by the LAPSUS$ ransomware group. 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 ensuing data leak included two of NVIDIA’s code signing certificates.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 21, 2025

Bitdefender: Best for endpoint security and ransomware protection 3 No current available value 4.7 IBM: Best for Advanced Encryption 13 $233.91 CrowdStrike Best for endpoint security and services Headquarters: Sunnyvale, California Founded: 2011 Annual Revenue: $3.4 Cisco: Best for Integrated Network Security 16 $242.51

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

However, P8 contains many built-in functions and redesigns of the communication protocol and encryption algorithm, making it a well-designed and powerful espionage platform. The access management software facilitates access to the encrypted partition of the drive. There are also some changes to the victimology.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 29, 2023

First observed in 2011, the holiday stresses the importance of having extra copies of data in case of an attack or accident. Encrypt Your Sensitive Data Data encryption isn't just for large organizations. It is now possible for anyone to encrypt data and other information through a variety of readily available tools.

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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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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

Between high-profile ransomware attacks and mergers, it is a time of high stakes and great change for the industry. The solution includes cloud sandboxing technology, preventing zero-day threats, and full disk encryption capability for enhanced data protection. Founded: 2011. Get started today! Visit website. Crowdstrike.

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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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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. DDoS attacks, ransomware-based campaigns, cryptocurrency mining campaigns).

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Fox IT

JUNE 23, 2020

WastedLocker is a new ransomware locker we’ve detected being used since May 2020. Evil Corp were previously associated to the Dridex malware and BitPaymer ransomware, the latter came to prominence in the first half of 2017. The new WastedLocker ransomware appeared in May 2020 (a technical description is included below).

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SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

In 2020, Kaspersky mobile products and technologies detected: 5,683,694 malicious installation packages, 156,710 new mobile banking Trojans, 20,708 new mobile ransomware Trojans. This is a typical example of the kind of old-school text-message scams that were popular in 2011 and 2012. Mobile ransomware Trojans. and Asacub.snt.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

February 2011: Ross Ulbricht Creates the Silk Road Marketplace “I created Silk Road because I thought the idea for the website itself had value, and that bringing Silk Road into being was the right thing to do. The hidden service gained traction in 2011 and then hit the mainstream when a Gawker article about the site was published.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Given how lucrative and necessary both sectors are to daily life, they make prime targets for ransomware. In 2020 alone, 79 ransomware attacks were conducted against government entities in the U.S., costing an estimated $18.88 Much like other fields of tech, cyber crime is also constantly evolving.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2023

The threat actor abused Bitly shortener and an ad hoc BlogSpot account to protect the malicious code, lastly stored in an encrypted zip archive hosted on Mega.nz. The shared secret is used to encrypt the GZipped memory stream using a xor-based algorithm in a compress-then-encrypt fashion.

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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

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Several threat actor groups, including those that use ransomware, have been pivoting to this attack scheme before 2013, and occurrences of such attacks have only gone up exponentially through the years. Think of it as Let's Encrypt for code signing. A malformed software update also affected Kaseya's clients in 2021.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

billion in 2021, and growing concerns over data security , software supply chains , and ransomware suggest the market will remain strong through economic ups and downs. Also read : Cybersecurity Outlook 2022: Third-Party, Ransomware, and AI Attacks Will Get Worse. Investments in cybersecurity more than doubled from $12 billion to $29.5

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Security Boulevard

MAY 22, 2025

DanaBot implements a custom binary protocol that is encrypted using 1,024-bit RSA and 256-bit AES in CBC mode. From 2011 to 2014, Gameover Zeus (aka the Business Club) had also set up special instances that were used to collect intelligence related to countries located in the Middle East and Eastern Europe.

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Spinone

JUNE 28, 2020

According to the True Cost of Compliance with Data Protection Regulations , a recent study sponsored by Globalscape and independently conducted by Ponemon Institute, since 2011 there has been a 45% increase in non-compliance costs. This results in lost revenue that can last for years.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The other thing I'll tell you is, I joined Codenomicon in 2011. That was a big thing and lots of hospital systems being hit with ransomware and and so on and, and usually the roots of those are, are, are user errors like somebody opens up an email that they shouldn't have or something like that. So, with a lot of fun. When I joined.

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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. There are many categories of malware that cybercriminals could install through juice jacking, including adware, cryptominers, ransomware, spyware, or Trojans. Consider any random technology left behind as suspect.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Ransomware, for example, usually doesn’t self-replicate. The Rise of Ransomware: 2011-2022. The 2010s and early 2020s have been marked by an increased prevalence in ransomware attacks. Copycat ransomware like TorrentLocker and CryptoWall starting springing up. It later evolved to also include file encryption.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 21, 2021

ZeuS is also capable of re-encrypting itself every time it infects a system, making each infection “unique” and therefore harder to detect. In 2011, the source code for ZeuS 2.0.8.9 Banking trojans haven’t gone away, but in recent years their activity has been eclipsed by an epidemic of ransomware. was leaked.

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