Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Tutanota , the popular free and open-source end-to-end encrypted email software, has been blocked by Russian authorities. The popular free and open-source end-to-end encrypted email service Tutanota has been blocked in Russia on Friday evening. The Russian government could also ban IT companies that will not comply with the same law.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Government Payment Service Inc. — a company used by thousands of U.S. Indianapolis-based GovPayNet , doing business online as GovPayNow.com , serves approximately 2,300 government agencies in 35 states. GovPayNow.com displays an online receipt when citizens use it to settle state and local government fees and fines via the site.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 1, 2021

The Kimsuky APT—also known as Thallium, Black Banshee, and Velvet Chollima—is a North Korean threat actor that has been active since 2012. The group conducts cyber espionage operations to target government entities mainly in South Korea. The encrypted version of the strings and API calls are in hex ASCII format. Victimology.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

Related: What local government can do to repel ransomware Ransomware came into existence in 1989 as a primitive program dubbed the AIDS Trojan that was spreading via 5.25-inch 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.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

The government alleges Khoroshev created, sold and used the LockBit ransomware strain to personally extort more than $100 million from hundreds of victim organizations, and that LockBit as a group extorted roughly half a billion dollars over four years. That’s what the government believes. Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2020

PaloAlto Networks experts warn of malicious Coronavirus themed phishing campaigns targeting government and medical organizations. Recently organizations in healthcare, research, and government facilities have been hit by Coronavirus-themed attacks that deployed multiple malware families, including ransomware and information stealers (i.e.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2021

Last year, the group published a detailed analysis on how the Chinese government has improved its surveillance system to detect and block the popular circumvention tools Shadowsocks and its variants. Shadowsocks is a free and open-source encryption protocol project, widely used in China to circumvent Internet censorship.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2019

According to Microsoft, the Platinum has been active since at least 2009, it was responsible for spear phishing attacks on ISPs, government organizations, intelligence agencies, and defense institutes. The campaign, which may have started as far back as 2012, featured a multi-stage approach and was dubbed EasternRoppels.”

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The Facebook-esque platform gained popularity in Russia, not just amongst users, but also the watchful eye of the government. But more than 10 years later, Durov is once again finding himself a person of interest for government affairs, facing several charges now in France where, while he is not in jail, he has been ordered to stay.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

Summary: Multiple Facebook databases were found to be unprotected by passwords or encryption, meaning anyone who searched the internet could find them. Who attacked: state-sponsored attackers working for the Chinese government, according to U.S. LinkedIn data breach (2012). government agencies. Who attacked: no attacker.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The challenge of ensuring secure and transparent elections affects a wide range of stakeholders, including voters, election officials, government agencies, political candidates, and international observers. Specific to the E2E-V voting systems, homomorphic encryption enables the tallying of votes without revealing individual votes.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 24, 2022

And studies have revealed that the newly developed file-encrypting malware is using an Open-source password management library for encryption and is having capabilities of remaining anonymous, ex-filtrate data, and having abilities to give control to remote servers. The third is something astonishing to read!

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2022

The Tropic Trooper APT has been active at least since 2012, it was first spotted by security experts at Trend Micro in 2015, when the threat actors targeted government ministries and heavy industries in Taiwan and the military in the Philippines. The collected information is formatted and sent to the C&C server.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2022

SentinelOne documented a series of attacks aimed at government, education, and telecom entities in Southeast Asia and Australia carried out by a previously undocumented Chinese-speaking APT tracked as Aoqin Dragon. Between 2012 and 2015, the Aoqin Dragon actors heavily relied on exploits for CVE-2012-0158 and CVE-2010-3333 vulnerabilities.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Secret Service issued a detailed advisory on the BlackByte Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) group, which has attacked critical infrastructure industries in recent months, among them government, financial and food and agriculture targets. “In cases where decryption is not possible, some data recovery can occur.” 7 SP1, 8, 8.1)

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Malwarebytes

MAY 6, 2021

It has made the news on several occasions after being asked by governments to hand over user data. The company says that it keeps minimal records about its users and all Signal messages and voice calls are end-to-end encrypted. The US-based photo and video sharing social networking Instagram was acquired by Facebook in 2012.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Summary: Multiple Facebook databases were found to be unprotected by passwords or encryption, meaning anyone who searched the internet could find them. Who attacked: state-sponsored attackers working for the Chinese government, according to US officials. LinkedIn data breach (2012). Government agencies. Damages: paid $1.25

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Security Affairs

MAY 16, 2023

MustangPanda has been active since at least 2012, it targeted American and European entities such as government organizations, think tanks, NGOs , and even Catholic organizations at the Vatican. In 2022 campaigns, threat actors used European Union reports on the conflict in Ukraine and Ukrainian government reports as lures.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The vision of the CDM program, created in 2012, is that all federal networks should be continuously scanned to identify and respond to threats and breaches. Along the way, I highlight where and why industry best practices for encryption, policy and access controls can be applied. I follow that path down to where that data is stored.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2024

Initially, these attacks involved malicious software that encrypts a victim’s data, rendering it inaccessible until a ransom is paid to the attackers. In all cases, the economic impact from ransomware is profound, affecting businesses, governments, and individuals globally.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

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. Mimecast Email security 2012 Nasdaq: MIME. a16z Investments. Bessemer Venture Partners. Greylock Partners.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

Somewhat quietly since about 2012 or so, nation states in that region, led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, commenced a quiet surge to the forefront of implementing comprehensive cybersecurity regulations. The practices of government contractors typically get adapted universally, over time.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Security services and tools include anti-DDoS , SOCaaS , web application firewalls (WAF), data encryption , and more. Other features include applying secure socket layer (SSL) or transport layer security (TLS) and AES-256 encryption. Also Read: Best Encryption Software & Tools for 2021.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Introduction In July 2021, a campaign was launched primarily targeting Russian government agencies and industrial enterprises. The group remains focused on targeting Russian government organizations and enterprises.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

government websites in 1998 and is sentenced to 18 months in prison in 2001. Department of Defense division computers and install a backdoor on its servers, allowing him to intercept thousands of internal emails from different government organizations, including ones containing usernames and passwords for various military computers.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

According to Microsoft, the Platinum has been active since at least 2009, it was responsible for spear phishing attacks on ISPs, government organizations, intelligence agencies, and defense institutes. “ BITS Downloader – This component is used to download encrypted files from the C&C server then decrypt and launch them.”

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

For critical cloud security tools, Forcepoint’s CASB products address Cloud Governance for application visibility and risk assessment, Cloud Audit & Protection for real-time activity monitoring and analytics, and other use cases like DLP, discovery and more. Governance and compliance reporting for OAuth-enabled apps accessing MS365.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 27, 2021

Also known as vendor risk management (VRM), TPRM goes beyond the general risk management and governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions by specializing in the onboarding, risk assessment, and due diligence for organizations working with third parties. OneTrust made our list, see who else did in the Top Cybersecurity Companies for 2021.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 26, 2024

and FIPS 140-3 josh.pearson@t… Thu, 06/27/2024 - 00:42 Encryption Shaun Chen | AVP - Sales Engineering, APAC More About This Author > Imagine a world where hackers could easily crack the encryption protecting your most sensitive information. Incorporation of ISO standards for broader compatibility (aligned with ISO/IEC 19790:2012(E)).

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The ransomware itself doesn’t handle data exfiltration but relies on these tools to steal data before encryption. RansomHub uses the Elliptic Curve Encryption algorithm Curve 25519 to lock files with a unique public/private key pair for each compromised individual.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

In most cases, the targets appear to be diplomatic and government organizations in Europe. KeyPlug is a modular backdoor with the capability of communicating to its server via several network communication protocols set in its XOR-encrypted embedded configuration block. The targets chosen by APT threat actors are equally diverse.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 21, 2017

There is simply far more data to lose today, and thanks to data breach notification laws and good netizens, we now know about the household names that lose control of our personal information and government secrets. On both occasions Uber left its encryption keys on GitHub, which in part led to the breach.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2018

The vulnerabilities allow hackers, governments, or anyone with malicious intention to read files, add/remove users, add/modify existing data, or execute commands with highest privileges on all of the devices. ExpressVPN and NordVPN both use AES 256-bit encryption and will secure all your data. Part One: XXE.

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Responsible Cyber

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

PDPA in Detail Enacted in 2012, Singapores PDPA governs how personal data is collected, used, and disclosed. Data Encryption What to do : Encrypt sensitive data to protect it from unauthorized access. Disclosures : Organizations must clearly disclose how they use and share data.

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SecureList

JULY 14, 2021

com/s/esh1ywo9irbexvd/COVID-19%20Case%2012-11- 2020.rar?dl=0&file_subpath=%2FCOVID-19+Case+12-11-2020%2FCOVID-19+Case+12-11-2020(2).docx. We found multiple archives like this with file names of government entities in Myanmar, for example “COVID-19 Case 12-11-2020(MOTC).rar” AES key for configuration string encryption.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 4, 2023

In 2012, Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) began to emerge to monitor user access of cloud services. Ensures encryption , data loss prevention (DLP) , and access restrictions to protect data from unwanted access, data leakage, and exfiltration. Automates compliance assessments and offers governance frameworks.

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Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Financial institutions, government agencies, and energy companies are among cybercriminals’ favorite targets, making the United Arab Emirates a top target for recent cyber security breaches. Compare that to 2012 when the UAE ranked fifth in the Global Cybersecurity Index. The global cost of cybercrime is projected to reach $10.5

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