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Padlocks, Phishing and Privacy; The Value Proposition of a VPN

Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

I want a "secure by default" internet with all the things encrypted all the time such that people can move freely between networks without ever needing to care about who manages them or what they're doing with them. Here's the value proposition of a VPN in the modern era: 1.

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VPN Phishing DNS Encryption

WinDealer dealing on the side

SecureList

JUNE 2, 2022

In one case we investigated, we noticed that a signed executable qgametool.exe (MD5 f756083b62ba45dcc6a4d2d2727780e4 ), compiled in 2012, deployed WinDealer on a target machine. Layout of the encrypted data. Packets exchanged with the C2 server contain a header (described in the next table) followed by AES-encrypted data.

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Malware Encryption Social Engineering Telecommunications

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Padlocks, Phishing and Privacy; The Value Proposition of a VPN

WinDealer dealing on the side

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