Security Affairs

AUGUST 26, 2019

The name of the ransomware comes after the extension it adds to the encrypted file names, the malicious code also deletes their shadow copies to make in impossible any recovery procedure. Below the ransom note dropped by the Nemty ransomware after the encryption process is completed. SecurityAffairs – Nemty ransomware, hacking).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 6, 2023

Requirement 4: Less specificity on the type of encryption used means your organization is freer to follow industry best practices. Requirement 5: It is no longer sufficient to just have standard antivirus software. Below is a high-level overview of the differences between PCI v3.2.1 and PCI v4.0: Follow Tyler Reguly on Twitter.

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2019

Even if the activity of Dridex decreased in the last couple of years, crooks continued to updates it adding new features such the support of XML scripts, hashing algorithms, peer-to-peer encryption, and peer-to-command-and-control encryption. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

“When the attack happened multiple antivirus programs were disabled by the attack and hard drives just lit up with activity. ” Some reports circulating online reveal that the ransomware added the “ ryk” extension to the filenames of encrypted documents, a circumstance that confirms a Ryuk ransomware infection.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2020

Ryuk infects computers by encrypting all local and shared files, not allowing the user’s access without paying the ransom. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – malware, hacking). This enhancement appeared in the middle of September 2019. DOWNLOAD FULL REPORT.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2020

The GandCrab was advertised in the Russian hacking community, researchers from LMNTRIX who discovered it noticed that authors was leveraging the RIG and GrandSoft exploit kits to distribute the malware. ransom amount, individual bots and encryption masks). Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

’ In a first attack scenario, hackers leverage a Microsoft antivirus component to load mpsvc.dll that acts as a loader for Groza_1.dat. The attackers use a simple XOR encryption algorithm with the string “Hapenexx is very bad” as a key. SecurityAffairs – hacking, KilllSomeOne). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2019

The ransomware encrypts data on the victim’s machine and appends the.Jnec extension to the encrypted data asking a ransom 0.05 ransomware still has a low detection rate , it was identified as malicious by 31/71 antivirus of the VirusTotal services. At the moment of writing, 29 antivirus engines detect JNEC.a

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Even today, less than half of the known antivirus engines are flagging the infection on VirusTotal , as observed by BleepingComputer: The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

NextCry is a new ransomware that was spotted by researchers while encrypting data on Linux servers in the wild. T he name comes from the extensions the ransomware appends to the filenames of encrypted files. The malicious code targets Nextcloud instances and it is currently undetected by antivirus engines. ” said xact64.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2020

Unlike other ransomware strains that don’t encrypt victims in Russia and other CIS countries, Shade also targets computers in Russia and Ukraine. We are also publishing our decryption soft; we also hope that, having the keys, antivirus companies will issue their own more user-friendly decryption tools.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2019

The ransomware , tracked by Intezer as “ QNAPCrypt ” and “ eCh0raix ” by Anomali , is written in the Go programming language and uses AES encryption to encrypt files. encrypt extension to filenames of encrypted files. encrypt extension to the encrypted files.” onion websites.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2019

The flaw could be exploited by malicious programs trigger a denial of service condition by interrupting the encryption service for other programs. Obviously, lots of software that processes untrusted content (like antivirus) call these routines on untrusted data, and this will cause them to deadlock.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. “On one of the compromised information systems, experts found encrypted files with the extension “ newversion.”

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Cyber criminals may damage, destroy, steal, encrypt, expose, or leak data as well as cause harm to a system. Also read: Best Antivirus Software of 2022. Encrypted threats spiked 167%, ransomware increased 105%, and 5.4 In 2015, global cyber crime had a cost of about $3 trillion, and the cost is expected to rise to $10.5

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2020

“In July 2018, we succeeded in decrypting encrypted communication with an infected server and an external server that was performing unauthorized communication, and stored it on our internal server for information sharing with other departments used by our defense business division 27,445 files were found to have been accessed illegally.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2019

FireEye Mandiant discovered that the FIN7 hacking group added new tools to its cyber arsenal, including a module to target remote administration software of ATM vendor. The group that has been active since late 2015 targeted businesses worldwide to steal payment card information. SecurityAffairs – FIN7, hacking).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Adiantum will bring encryption on Android devices without cryptographic acceleration. 620 million accounts stolen from 16 hacked websites available for sale on the dark web. Astaroth Trojan relies on legitimate os and antivirus processes to steal data. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2021

The activity of the Zinc APT group, aka Lazarus, surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks. The group is considered responsible for the massive WannaCry ransomware attack, a string of SWIFT attacks in 2016, and the Sony Pictures hack. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Zinc).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2020

Once encrypted files with the ransomware, threat actors were also infected by banking Trojans like Dridex trojan, a circumstance that suggests this malware was used as the initial attack vector. . In many cases, some machines run without standard safeguards, like security updates and cloud-delivered antivirus protection.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2020

To increase the complexity of hacking your device, always get to know who is calling your APIs, by using a simple access authentication (user/password) or an API key (asymmetric key). Encryption. It is better to use ICAP (Internet Content Adaptation Protocol) servers or excellent Antivirus systems to protect the data of your company.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Researchers at Emsisoft firm has released a new free tool to decrypt files encrypted by the Paradise ransomware. Security experts at Emsisoft have developed a tool to decrypt files encrypted by the Paradise ransomware. This ransomware family encrypts files using Salsa20 and RSA-1024 and it appends several extensions to theis filenames.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Experts from Antivirus maker Emsisoft discovered a bug in the decrypter app of the infamous Ryuk ransomware. megabytes) it will only encrypt certain parts of it in order to save time and allow it to work its way through the data as quickly as possible before anyone notices.” ” reads the post published by Emsisoft.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Though polite, the Creeper was still an annoyance to some, and in 1971, Ray Tomlinson developed the first antivirus software , called Reaper. One of the first pieces of antivirus software , McAfee’s VirusScan, was released in 1987. Welcome to [link] Hacked By Chinese!”. It later evolved to also include file encryption.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

To bypass antivirus systems, hackers send out malicious emails in non-working hours with delayed activation. Another technique used by cybercriminals to bypass antivirus systems is a targeted attack, in which malicious email are delivered outside regular working hours. More than 80% of all malicious files were disguised as .zip

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

At a first sight, the office document had an encrypted content available on OleObj.1 Those objects are real Encrypted Ole Objects where the Encrypted payload sits on “EncryptedPackage” section and information on how to decrypt it are available on “EncryptionInfo” xml descriptor. Stage1: Encrypted Content.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

According to the experts, LOLbins are very effecting in evading antivirus software. . The C2 data are encoded in base64 format as well as custom encrypted, attackers inserted them within posts on Facebook or the profile information about user accounts on YouTube. continues the researchers. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2018

The campaign appears as targeted and well-planned, crooks targeted several enterprises and encrypted hundreds of PC, storage and data centers in each infected company. Experts highlighted that the encryption scheme of the Ryuk ransomware was built specifically for small-scale operations. ” continues the report. Check Point says.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2019

The new variant of the malware is currently undetected by most of the antivirus firms, the incorporation of the BlueKeep scanner suggests that operators would explore financial opportunities on Windows platforms too. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. gooobb ” file. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Details included names, addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth and encrypted passwords, all of which could be used to access other accounts belonging to these users. In July 2015, user data of the extramarital dating site, Ashley Madison, was stolen by hackers. The total cost of data breaches in 2015 was estimated at $4 million.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2019

Then, all the information is encoded in Base64 and sent to the C2 through the “ connect ” function, using a SSL encrypted HTTP channel. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Here the malware implements recon functionalities, retrieves machine information and grabs screenshot every minute.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2019

The malware spreads via Trojanized applications disguised as cracked software, or applications posing as legitimate software such as video players, drivers or even antivirus software. Browsing History Stealer Payload — This payload collects Chrome’s browsing history and sends it to the C&C in an encrypted form. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2018

During the analysis time, only really few Antivirus (6 out of 60) were able to “detect” the sample. AntiVirus Coverage. The used encryption algorithm is AES and everything we need to decrypt is in this file, so let’s build up a simple python script to print our decryption parameters.

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2019

su”, using an SSL encrypted communication, and stores them in “C:UsersPublic” path: “ rtegre.exe ” and “ wprgxyeqd79.exe Analyzing it in depth, we discover it actually is the RMS (Remote Manipulator System) client by TektonIT , encrypted using the MPress PE compressor utility, a legitimate tool, to avoid antivirus detection.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2019

That file was delivered via malscam campaigns around the world and its source-code is obfuscated in order to evade antivirus detection and complicate its analysis. Data includes date/hour of infection , remote IP from victim’s computer , OS version and antivirus name. Figure 16: EMOTET collects antivirus product name via WMI query.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2020

After a few minutes of collecting information about the infected machine, the trojan sends encrypted commands onto this server. In this specific request, and based on the path, the trojan sends details about which antivirus is installed on the victim’s machine. SecurityAffairs – Trojan banker, hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2019

This technology is stored in the Workbook OLE stream in Excel 97-2003 format which makes it very difficult to detect and parse by antivirus (AV) engines. doc and.xlm) to evade antivirus detection and bypass spam filters as well. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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