Security Affairs

MAY 31, 2022

SideWinder has been active since at least 2012, the group main targeted Police, Military, Maritime, and the Naval forces of Central Asian countries. The URLs used for C2 communications for these domains are split into two parts: The Installer module contains the first part of the URL which is the C2 server domain name in encrypted form.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Below is the list of vulnerabilities exploited by V3G4: CVE-2012-4869 : FreePBX Elastix Remote Command Execution Vulnerability Gitorious Remote Command Execution Vulnerability CVE-2014-9727 : FRITZ!Box Unlike most Mirai variants, the V3G4 variant uses different XOR encryption keys for string encryption.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2021

The analysis of the file revealed that it includes the encrypted and compressed PlugX payload. Aro.dat is, in fact, an encrypted and compressed PlugX payload.” Aro.exe is likely part of the “ ARO 2012 advanced repair and optimization tool,” which is a freely available tool that claims to fix Windows registry errors.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2020

In malspam attacks, attackers could encrypt the Excel file by setting up a password, then when the victims receive the email, hackers trick them into opening the attachment using a password included in the content of the message. Excel attempts to decrypt and open the file and run any macros it contains. .

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2021

Shadowsocks is a free and open-source encryption protocol project, widely used in China to circumvent Internet censorship. It was created in 2012 by a Chinese programmer named “ clowwindy “, and multiple implementations of the protocol have been made available since. SecurityAffairs – hacking, China).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter). The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 355 appeared first on Security Affairs. Researchers shared technical details of NSA Equation Group’s Bvp47 backdoor Sophos linked Entropy ransomware to Dridex malware. Are both linked to Evil Corp? Pierluigi Paganini.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

Those secrets collectively have a code name—ECI, for exceptionally compartmented information—and almost never appear in the documents. Chatting with Snowden on an encrypted IM connection, I joked that the NSA cafeteria menu probably has code names for menu items. Transferring files electronically is what encryption is for.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2019

In June 2018, experts at Kaspersky were investigating attacks against government and military entities in South and Southeast Asian countries, The experts tracked the campaign as EasternRoppels, they speculate it may have started as far back as 2012. According to the experts, the backdoor might have been active since at least 2012. . “We

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2020

The expert Bob Diachenko has discovered an unsecured Elasticsearch install belonging to a UK security firm that contained 5 billion records of data leaked in previous incidents that took place between 2012 and 2019. ” wrote Security Discovery’s researcher Bob Diachenko.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

“However, instead of sending it in cleartext, the client deploys a symmetric AES encryption for any communication over the WebSocket for the first exchange, as no shared secret is established yet, and the AES encryption will generate a default key for this first exchange. SecurityAffairs – hacking, PurpleFox botnet).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2020

The expert Bob Diachenko has discovered an unsecured Elasticsearch install belonging to the security firm Keepnet Labs that contained 5 billion records of data leaked in previous incidents that took place between 2012 and 2019. ” wrote Security Discovery’s researcher Bob Diachenko.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2019

. “However, when we encountered Asruex in a PDF file, we found that a variant of the malware can also act as an infector particularly through the use of old vulnerabilities CVE-2012-0158 and CVE-2010-2883 , which inject code in Word and PDF files respectively.” ” reads the report published by Trend Micro. EBSS section.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2021

The CVE-2021-20021 and CVE-2021-20022 flaws were discovered by FireEye’s Mandiant team on March 26, 2021 while investigating an attack against one of its customers using an instance of SonicWall’s Email Security (ES) application running on a Windows Server 2012 installation. SecurityAffairs – hacking, SonicWall).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Stealth Falcon is a nation-state actor active since at least 2012, the group targeted political activists and journalists in the Middle East in past campaigns. The attacks have been conducted from 2012 until 2106, against Emirati journalists, activists, and dissidents. .”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The file downloaded from this censorship free file hosting is actually a chunk of 125KB random looking bytes, suggesting it would likely be some binary payload protected with strong encryption. Figure 4: Piece of the encrypted file downloaded from “share.]dmca.]gripe”. Figure 9: C2 connection.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2020

SideWinder, a group that has been active since 2012, is a known threat and has reportedly targeted military entities’ Windows machines. Collected data is encrypted using RSA and AES encryption algorithms, then it is sent to the C&C server. SecurityAffairs – Android, hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

In June 2018, experts at Kaspersky were investigating attacks against government and military entities in South and Southeast Asian countries, The experts tracked the campaign as EasternRoppels, they speculate it may have started as far back as 2012. This C2 encrypts data with the same key as the C&C requests.

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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. The communications are encrypted using a custom or modified encryption scheme that is based on Substitution-Permutation Network.

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NopSec

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Remember Shamoon, the malware that disabled some 35,000 computers at one of the world’s largest oil companies in 2012? Modern variants of ransomware, called crypto ransomware, entomb the files stored on a hard drive using strong encryption. It gives the example of Hacking Team, based in Italy, and Vupen Security, based in France.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2019

File name: control MD5: c4463d6ae741d4fb789bd0895fafebee SHA1: c8866ca1012dfabf5ad131cfeea0036dacb433e6 Creation time: 2012-09-21 09:56:09 First submission on VT: 2019-02-19 23:26:41. This temp file is the Ammyy RAT encrypted file, which will be decrypted and renamed at a later stage ( wsus.exe ). About the author Pedro Tavares.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2020

DeathStalker is a hack-for-hire group discovered by Kaspersky, it has been targeting organizations worldwide, mainly law firms and financial entities, since 2012. SecurityAffairs – hacking, backdoor). The post Cyber mercenaries group DeathStalker uses a new backdoor appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 2, 2022

In this episode I’m talking to the organizers of the Lockpicking Village,the ICS village, the Car Hacking Village, and the Aerospace Village. And, there’s thirty more villages including Girls Hack Village, the Voting Machine Hacking village, the IoT Village, and the Bio Hacking village. I'm Robert Vamosi.

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Kali Linux

MARCH 28, 2023

In information security (infosec) there is the need to be on the latest version. Being a system administrator, a patch could contain a security update to stop a vulnerability. At one stage, Wireless hacking “was the thing”, so we needed to support injection on as many cards as possible.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

How do the current DMCA laws impact those who hack digital devices? To answer these questions, Paul Roberts, Editor-in-Chief of the Security Ledger, has founded securepairs.org , a group of infosec experts who are volunteering their free time to fight for the digital right to repair in local legislation. Watch EP 01 See TV Guide.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

How do the current DMCA laws impact those who hack digital devices? To answer these questions, Paul Roberts, Editor-in-Chief of the Security Ledger, has founded securepairs.org , a group of infosec experts who are volunteering their free time to fight for the digital right to repair in local legislation.

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