Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Researchers at SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab discovered multiple issues in several security products from Fortinet, including hardcoded key and encryption for communications. “The messages are encrypted using XOR “encryption” with a static key.” ” reads the analysis published by the experts. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Threat actors are distributing the GravityRAT remote access trojan masqueraded as an end-to-end encrypted chat application named SoSafe Chat. Threat actors are distributing the GravityRAT RAT masqueraded as an end-to-end encrypted chat application named SoSafe Chat. ” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2020

Let’s Encrypt is going to revoke over 3 million certificates today due to a flaw in the software used to verify users and their domains before issuing a certificate. A bug in Let’s Encrypt’s certificate authority (CA) software, dubbed Boulder, caused the correct validation for some certificates. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Encrypted flash drives, essentially secure storage on a stick, are a proven technology that has been readily available for at least 15 years. And yet today there is a resurgence in demand for encrypted flash drives. And yet today there is a resurgence in demand for encrypted flash drives.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

It’s called FREAK (which stands for Factoring Attack on RSA-EXPORT Key), and works by weakening encrypted connections on SSL and TLS, which in turn allows an attacker to intercept and decipher the “secure” data. Apparently the security flaw has been around for more than 10 years, but a fix is quickly on the way.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

versions are affected by the vulnerability dubbed BLURtooth which allows hackers to defeat Bluetooth encryption. The vulnerability could be exploited by attackers to overwrite or lower the strength of the pairing key, defeating the protocol encryption. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Ukrainian p ower g rid take downs (2015 , 2016) The capitol city of Kyiv suffers widespread, extended outages. • and Israel, 2005 – 2010,) Operation Aurora (China, 2009,) the Sony Pictures hack (North Korea, 2015,) and WannaCry (North Korea, 2017.) This means company leaders must do their due diligence.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Members of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance once again call for tech firms to engineer backdoors into end-to-end and device encryption. The statements reinforce the importance of the encryption in protecting data, privacy, and IP, but highlights the risks of abusing it for criminal and terrorist purposes. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2020

Ransomware encrypts from virtual machines to evade antivirus. Ragnar Locker deploys Windows XP virtual machines to encrypt victim’s files, the trick allows to evaded detection from security software. Mounting all the shared drives to encrypt. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The major vulnerability of the system was caused by Hospira using outdated software and having identical encryption certificates, private keys and service credentials for many of its products. Syrian Group Claims Responsibility For Hack of U.S. Army Website.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Experts spotted a new strain of the Ryuk Ransomware that was developed to avoid encrypting folders commonly seen in *NIX operating systems. Kremez noticed that the ransomware doesn’t encrypt folders that are associated with *NIX operating systems. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Threatpost

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Congress is demanding the National Security Agency come clean on what it knows about the 2015 supply-chain attack against Juniper Networks.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2019

The Hacked Ransomware was first spotted in 2017, it appends.hacked extension to the encrypted files and includes ransom notes in Italian, English, Spanish, and Turkish. In 2018, the popular malware researcher Michael Gillespie discovered a weakness in the encryption process that allowed the expert to create a decryption tool.

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

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The encryption system implemented by popular solid-state drives (SSDs) is affected by critical vulnerabilities that could be exploited by a local attacker to decrypt data. “We have analyzed the hardware full-disk encryption of several SSDs by reverse engineering their firmware. ” continues the paper.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

Google announced Adiantum, a new encryption method devised to protect Android devices without cryptographic acceleration. Google announced Adiantum , a new encryption method devised to protect Android devices without cryptographic acceleration. This hash is then used to generate a nonce for the ChaCha encryption.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2019

UK intelligence agency GCHQ released emulators for World War II cipher machines (Enigma, Typex and The Bombe) that can be executed in the encryption app CyberChef. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. The GCHQ is inviting the community of developers to contribute to the improvement of the tool.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2018

The researchers that have tracked Bitcoin addresses managed by the crime gang discovered that crooks behind the SamSam ransomware had extorted nearly $6 million from the victims since December 2015 when it appeared in the threat landscape. Million since late 2015. Million since late 2015 appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2020

Researchers warn of a new feature implemented in the Sodinokibi ransomware, the threat can now encrypt open and locked files. The Sodinokibi ransomware (REvil) continues to evolve, operators implemented a new feature that allows the malware to encrypt victim’s files, even if they are opened and locked by another process.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

This serious flaw, assigned CVE-2019-15126, causes vulnerable devices to use an all-zero encryption key to encrypt part of the user’s communication.” ” Experts pointed out that the vulnerability does not reside in the Wi-Fi encryption protocol, instead, the issue is related to the way some chips implemented the encryption.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2019

” One of the variants analyzed by BleepingComputer encrypts data and appends the.promorad extension to encrypted files, then it creates ransom notes named _readme.txt as shown below. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. exe and executed it. promos.promoz.puma.rumba.tro.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The idea is that they wouldn’t touch the cryptography, but instead eavesdrop on communications and systems before encryption or after decryption. It’s substantially the same group that wrote a similar paper about key escrow in 1997, and other “exceptional access” proposals in 2015.

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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.

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Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2019

According to experts at Sonicwall, scanning of random ports and the diffusion of encrypted malware are characterizing the threat landscape. Most of the attacks targeted non-standard ports and experts observed a spike in the number of encrypted malware. million encrypted malware attacks, +27% over the previous year. .”

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Marriott said the intruders encrypted information from the hacked database (likely to avoid detection by any data-loss prevention tools when removing the stolen information from the company’s network), and that its efforts to decrypt that data set was not yet complete.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 23, 2021

In 2015, police departments worldwide started finding ATMs compromised with advanced new “shimming” devices made to steal data from chip card transactions. Secret Service for 12 years until 2015. As it happens, KrebsOnSecurity wrote about that particular shimmer back in August 2015. “MasterCard in the U.K.

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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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2023

While LastPass claims that users’ passwords remain safely encrypted, it admitted that certain elements of customers’ information have been exposed. To read this article in full, please click here

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

The Apple Mail app available on macOS stores leave s a portion of users encrypted emails in plaintext in a database called snippets. The Apple expert Bob Gendler discovered that the Apple Mail app available on macOS stores leaves a portion of users encrypted emails in plaintext in a database called snippets. ” continues the post.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 8, 2022

The idea is to standardize on both a public-key encryption and digital signature algorithm that is resistant to quantum computing, well before anyone builds a useful quantum computer. NIST is an old hand at this competitive process, having previously done this with symmetric algorithms (AES in 2001) and hash functions (SHA-3 in 2015).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2019

million to allow victims to access encrypted data. million to allow victims to access encrypted data. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. million to allow towns to access encrypted data appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini. The post Texas attackers demand $2.5

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

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. File encryption 2013 – 2015. It emerged in September 2013 and paved the way for hundreds of file-encrypting menaces that have splashed onto the scene ever since.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2019

Even though encryption should be taken seriously by businesses of all sizes, only a small fraction of the corporate sector puts their back on it. Why is Encryption a Feasible Option against Digital Threats? Encryption plays an integral role in securing the online data as well as its integrity. Final Thoughts.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Like all ransomware, this is a type of malware that, once introduced into an organization, encrypts the data and then requires the victim to pay a ransom in order to decrypt it. Encrypted file structure ransomware BlackCat / ALPHV: [ORIGINAL_FILENAME].[ORIGINAL_extension].specific/different Black The LockBit 3.0 ORIGINAL_extension].specific/different

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 5, 2022

We allude to this kind of risk in our 2015 “ Keys Under Doormats ” paper: Third, exceptional access would create concentrated targets that could attract bad actors. But imagine how this kind of thing could be abused with a law enforcement encryption backdoor. And the data, of course, isn’t very secure.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

Researchers developed a decryptor for the ransomware after they have discovered a bug in the encryption process implemented by the threat. This decryptor can recover for free files encrypted by the current version of the ThunderX ransomware that appends the .tx_locked tx_locked extension to the filename of the decrypted files.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2021

Like other ransomware gangs, Lorenz operators also implement double-extortion model by stealing data before encrypting it and threatening them if the victim doesn’t pay the ransom. Lorenz sends the name of the infected system to a C2 before encrypting the file. Lorenz places a header before the encrypted file instead.

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