Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2020

DeathRansom was considered fake ransomware due to the fact that it did not implement an effective encryption process, but now things are changing. DeathRansom is a ransomware family that was initially classified as a joke because it did not implement an effective encryption scheme. ” continues the report. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2019

Slack announced today to launch encryption keys that will help businesses to protect their data. Slack announced today to launch encryption keys that will help businesses to protect their data. Slack announced today to launch encryption keys that will help businesses to protect their data. Third Party Apps.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2019

Researchers discovered a dump containing 6,840,339 records associated with StockX user accounts that surfaced in the cybercrime underground. A threat actor stole details of 6 million users, the stolen data includes user names, email addresses, addresses, shoe size, purchase history, and encrypted passwords (salted MD5).

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Security Boulevard

MAY 5, 2022

OpenSSL Patches New Bug Targeting Encryption [Lessons from Heartbleed]. A flaw in the encryption algorithm used to underpin OpenSSL was exploited, triggering an infinite number of requests when certain input value(s) are used. Encryption must be encrypted. Then Don’t Ban End-to-End Encryption. brooke.crothers.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Network Solutions, one of the world’s biggest domain registrars, disclosed a data breach that impacted 22 million accounts. Network Solutions , one of the world’s biggest domain registrars, disclosed a data breach that may have impacted 22 million accounts, no financial data was exposed. ” continues the notice.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2019

A vulnerability in the Microsoft OAuth implementation exposes Azure cloud accounts to takeover. is an excellent solution for authorization, if misused or misconfigured, it could have a tremendous impact, allowing for over-privileged third-party applications or the eventual account takeover by malicious attackers.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

.” In July 2019, the UK’s data privacy regulator announced that the giant hotel chain Marriott International faces a £99 million ($123 million) fines under GDPR over 2014 data breach. According to the company, hackers accessed to the Starwood’s guest reservation system since 2014 and copied and encrypted the information.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2018

Thousands of account credentials associated with the popular file storage service Mega have been published online, The former NSA hacker Patrick Wardle, co-founder at Digita Security , discovered in June a text file containing over 15,500 usernames, passwords, and files names. zackwhittaker for writeup & collaboration!

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2020

Now the City of Lafayette admitted they were a victim of a ransomware attack that encrypted its systems and confirmed that opted to pay a $45,000 ransom to receive a decryption tool to recover its files. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” reads the announcement published by the City.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2020

million ransom to decrypt its files after being encrypted by the infamous Sodinokibi ransomware. “As part of this attack, the operators behind the Sodinokibi ransomware told BleepingComputer that they had encrypted the company’s entire network, deleted backup files, and copied more than 5GB of personal data.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2020

” According to the experts, the first infections were observed in late 2019, victims reported their files were encrypted by a strain of malware. locked to the filename of the encrypted files. “Brute force connection attempts on a supervisory console have been observed, as well as on several ACTIVE DIRECTORY accounts.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2019

The Ims00rry ransomware used AES-128 algorithm for the encryption process. Unlike most of the ransomware, Ims00rry and doesn’t append an extension to the filenames of the encrypted files. Authors of the malware ask the victim to contact them through the Telegram account @Ims00rybot. Attention!!! and GetCrypt.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2020

Now the company informed its customers that the threat actors also stole personally identifiable and financial information before encrypting the files. Cognizant did not disclose details about the cyber attack, but experts speculate the threat actors gained access to the target networks for several weeks before starting encrypting files. .

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2020

.” According to the company, attackers accessed personal details of the users, including names, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, and also encrypted passwords. In response to the incident, the bidding portal has forced a password reset for all users’ accounts, both bidder and auctioneer ones.

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Google Security

MAY 25, 2023

Google Trust Services now offers our ACME API to all users with a Google Cloud account (referred to as “users” here), allowing them to automatically acquire and renew publicly-trusted TLS certificates for free. ARI is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Internet Draft authored by Let’s Encrypt as an extension to the ACME protocol.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2020

“The intruder was able to access forum user profiles, which include the e-mail addresses connected to those forum accounts. On top of that, the attacker gained access to encrypted passwords (in technical terms: hashed and salted passwords).” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2020

There’s no need to adjust the other sections on the Account page (e.g. Home Chef users should remain vigilant against phishing attacks and suspicious activity in their accounts. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Subscription”).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2020

In response to the incident, Open Exchange Rates has forced a password reset for all accounts created before March 2, 2020. Open Exchange Rates recommends users to generate new API IDs using the account dashboard to access the service. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

. “The company recently discovered that an unauthorized party had copied and encrypted information, and took steps towards removing it,” Marriott disclosed in a statement. The vulnerability that the hackers took advantage of had been in place and used for “unauthorized access,” according to the company statement, since 2014.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2019

The popular French white hat hacker Robert Baptiste (aka @fs0c131y) discovered how to break into Tchap , a new secure messaging app launched by the French government for encrypted communications between officials and politicians. email accounts) can sign-up for an account. or @elysee.fr servers were not impacted.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

The skimmer loads dynamically to avoid static malware scanners and uses unique encryption parameters for each victim to obfuscate the malicious code.” The JavaScript URL is hardcoded in the loader script in encrypted format, experts observed that the attackers can change the URL for each victim. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Starwood Data Breach – Hackers accessed the guest reservation system of the Marriot owned Starwood since 2014 and copied and encrypted the information. According to the company, hackers accessed to the Starwood’s guest reservation system since 2014 and copied and encrypted the information. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2020

Two security researchers have found undocumented Telnet admin account accounts in 29 FTTH devices from Chinese vendor C-Data. Two security researchers have discovered undocumented Telnet admin account accounts in 29 Fiber-To-The-Home (FTTH) devices from Chinese vendor C-Data.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2020

Any Indian DigiLocker Account Could’ve Been Accessed Without Password. DigiLocker provides an account in cloud to every Aadhaar holder to access authentic documents/certificates such as driving license, vehicle registration, academic mark sheet in digital format from the original issuers of these certificates.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

First spotted in mid-August 2022 , Venus is known for hacking into victims’ publicly-exposed Remote Desktop services to encrypt Windows devices. Using hard-to-crack unique passwords to protect sensitive data and accounts, as well as enabling multi-factor authentication. Encrypting sensitive data wherever possible.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2020

On Sunday, the computer systems in the city of Torrance suffered a cyber attack that interrupted access to email accounts and server functions. “Based on the names of the archives, this data includes city budget financials, various accounting documents, document scans, and an archive of documents belonging to the City Manager.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2019

The hack took place in early November and exposed data for more than 20 million user accounts. The hacker access to users’ data, including usernames , email addresses, SHA-2 hashed passwords, account sign-up dates and country, the last-login date, the internet (IP) address, and links to profile photos. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 28, 2020

” “We use Facebook and LinkedIn for account login and do not store any passwords on our system. If you use the legacy email and password login, your passwords are encrypted, but we highly encourage that you change it. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The loader hide the main payload inside a bitmap image fileuses, in order to evade detection and protect communication the main payload uses encryption to evade detection and protect C&C communications. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” continues the report. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

Norton got ‘ demergered ’ from Symantec in 2014 and then acquired LifeLock for $2.3 There are simple steps consumers can take today, for free, to lower their overall risk of a cyber attack, including using multi-factor authentication for their accounts and using strong passwords. A lot of water has flowed under the bridge since then.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2020

. “The audit also highlighted the presence of Super User accounts owned by individuals outside Open Source Matters,” continues the notification. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 7, 2019

GateHub explained that each API requests to the victim’s accounts were authorized with a valid access token. The experts identified several other accounts connected to the cyber heists, for a total of 12 primary suspect accounts. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Facebook and Twitter warn of malicious SDK harvesting personal data from its accounts. Some Fortinet products used hardcoded keys and weak encryption for communications. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2020

A series of messages published on Barnes & Noble’s Nook social media accounts state that it had suffered a system failure and is working to restore operations by restoring their server backups. 2/2) Please be assured that there is no compromise of customer payment details which are encrypted and tokenized.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

US Postal Service has patched a critical bug that allowed anyone who has an account at usps.com to view and modify account details for other users. US Postal Service has patched a critical bug that allowed anyone who has an account at usps.com to view and modify account details for other users, some 60 million users were affected.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2020

The social network giant revealed that malware has a Chinese origin and allowed hackers to siphon $4 million from users’ advertising accounts. Threat actors initially compromised Facebook accounts, then used them to steal browser cookies and carry out malicious activities, including the promotion of malicious ads. Pierluigi Paganini.

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