eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

All of your files are encrypted with RSA-2048 and AES-128 ciphers.” ” Or you might see a readme.txt stating, “Your files have been replaced by these encrypted containers and aren’t accessible; you will lose your files on [enter date] unless you pay $2500 in Bitcoin.” Offline Backups.

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SecureList

MAY 19, 2023

Some of these APTs have long been forgotten in the past – such as Prikormka ( Operation Groundbait ), discovered by ESET in 2016. From the WmiPrvSE.exe process, it makes a backup of the VFS file, copying mods.lrc to mods.lrs. The Crypton module performs encryption and decryption of all communications.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 28, 2021

The files are then held for ransom and the victim is threatened by data loss, because of the encryption, and leaking of the exfiltrated data. Files are encrypted with a combination of AES-256 and RSA-4096 via the Microsoft CryptoAPI , as per CrowdStrike. Earlier versions appended the.CONTI extension to encrypted files.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 4, 2022

It's slightly different from a standard ransomware attack—encrypting a user's files is a secondary concern. Before leakware came doxware, which was popular in 2016 and 2017. Government Accountability Office (GAO) data, 13 of the 16 agencies involved in the study reported a total cost savings of $291 million from using cloud services.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

However, all of them appear to attempt to exfiltrate victims’ data before starting the encryption process, gaining extortion power for subsequent requests. For these reasons, it has been voted as the “most loved programming language” in Stack Overflow since 2016. It first aims to stop any running VMs in ESXi.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

There have been some very high profile data breaches in the last couple of years, all of which have cost thousands of dollars of damage and a severe blow to the reputation of the company involved: In late 2014, hackers stole the account information of over 500 million Yahoo email accounts.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

With a 250% increase compared to 2016, its global damages are predicted to exceed $5 billion in 2017. Several months ago, Spinbackup, along with other backup providers, emphatically suggested that backup is the only possible solution to protect your company from enormous data loss caused by ransomware.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

With this information, cybercriminals can make fraudulent purchases, access a victim’s personal accounts, or even personal blackmail. In 2016, 4.8 Always encrypt the data using strong algorithms, and ensure your website application uses hashing for stored passwords. Never store or transmit data in clear text.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

According to Constella, this email address was used in 2010 to register an account for a Dmitry Yurievich Khoroshev from Voronezh, Russia at the hosting provider firstvds.ru. Pin was active on Opensc around March 2012, and authored 13 posts that mostly concerned data encryption issues, or how to fix bugs in code. Image: Shutterstock.

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Elie

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

This undercounting is due to the fact that we only take into account the bitcoin transactions that we can directly trace back to the ransomware binaries we know of, as explained in the. Ransomware revenue exploded in 2016. As can be seen in the chart above, which plots ransomware revenue over time, 2016 was a turning point.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 1, 2023

For most implants, the threat actor uses similar implementations of DLL hijacking (often associated with ShadowPad malware) and memory injection techniques, along with the use of RC4 encryption to hide the payload and evade detection. libssl.dll or libcurl.dll was statically linked to implants to implement encrypted C2 communications.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 3, 2021

VPNs offer clients an encrypted access channel to remote networks through a tunneling protocol and can obfuscate the client’s IP address. Even better, customer accounts are not limited to a set number of devices. offers contracts as short as a week passes up to family accounts for as long as a year. Enter VPN technology.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Ransomware was proliferated in 2016 and 2017 and then seemed to be on the decline. Hacker asked for an undisclosed sum of money Type of ransomware is unknown at this point Some data remained inaccessible after two weeks The police department had backups of business-critical data No evidence that data was lost or stolen during the attack 2.

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Elie

MARCH 10, 2018

This series of posts recounts how, in November 2016, we hunted for and took down Gooligan, the infamous Android OAuth stealing botnet. fake phone verified accounts. , tokens are the de facto standard for granting apps and devices restricted access to online accounts without sharing passwords and with a limited set of privileges.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 5, 2023

In fact, an October 2022 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found that loss of learning following a cyberattack ranged from three days to three weeks, with recovery time taking anywhere from two to nine months. Require all accounts with credentialed logins to comply with NIST standards for password policies.

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Elie

MARCH 10, 2018

This series of posts recounts how, in November 2016, we hunted for and took down Gooligan, the infamous Android OAuth stealing botnet. fake phone verified accounts. , tokens are the de facto standard for granting apps and devices restricted access to online accounts without sharing passwords and with a limited set of privileges.

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

After obtaining a valid account, they use this account to access the victim’s VPN, Citrix or another remote service that allows access to the network of the victim. Information regarding these remotes services is taken from the mailbox, cloud drive, or other cloud resources accessible by the compromised account.

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SecureList

JANUARY 13, 2022

BlueNoroff is the name of an APT group coined by Kaspersky researchers while investigating the notorious attack on Bangladesh’s Central Bank back in 2016. A compromised LinkedIn account of an actual company representative was used to approach a target and engage with them. PROCESS_ID. #. DLL_FILE_SIZE. DLL_FILE_DATA.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Cybercriminals can encrypt their backdoor files with a decoding key that only they possess, meaning, no one else has access to their malicious file. In Q2 2017, backdoors accounted for 23 percent of malware files. These attacks account for 8 percent of malware files. Why are these cyberattacks happening?

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Internal Revenue Service website for months: Anyone seeking to create an account to view their tax records online would soon be required to provide biometric data to a private company in Virginia — ID.me. ” The employees who kept things running for RSOCKS, circa 2016. A single bitcoin is trading at around $45,000.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Social engineering attacks , including phishing, spam, and viruses introduced via clickable links within e-mail affected 80% of the banking institutions in 2016. I’m not exaggerating: A s ecure cloud backup solution can save hours, days, months and years of your team’s work.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 1, 2021

A recently disclosed FBI training document shows how much access to the content of encrypted messages from secure messaging services US law enforcement can gain and what they can learn about your usage of the apps. All of them are messaging apps that promise end-to-end encryption for their users. Pen Register: No capability.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

Between 2016 and 2018, the malware strain SamSam made brute force RDP attacks an integral part of its attacks on several public organizations. By exploiting weak server vulnerabilities, the Iran-based hackers were able to gain access, move laterally, encrypt IT systems, and demand ransom payment. clinical labs company September U.S.

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Spinone

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Spinbackup for Enterprise and Education: Plans and Services Spinbackup for Enterprise was introduced in October 2016 and since then has developed numerous valuable features and attracted hundreds of companies and educational organizations throughout the world.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

When the virus infects a computer, Ransomware encrypts all files on it and those stored at cloud storages such as Google Drive , One Drive, Dropbox are not an exclusion. 96% of phishing emails sent in the third quarter of 2016 were found to be distributing Locky ransomware. This practice is known as doxing and is on the rise.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Why Ransomware is the Fastest Growing Malware Threat Since 2016, over 4,000 ransomware attacks have occurred daily. Whether it is synchronized files from on-premises to cloud environments or the risk of encryption of cloud email, ransomware is a real threat to your data. First, why is ransomware the fastest growing malware threat?

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

In 2016, $91 million was spent on IoT endpoint security solutions. As such, current IoT security solutions are a mix of standalone and bundle plans that include existing tools like EDR, encryption, IAM, EMM, and more to protect connected devices and networks. — Oleg Šelajev (@shelajev) November 10, 2016.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In 2016, the Mirai botnet attack left most of the eastern U.S. By obtaining sensitive authentication access, attackers can break into the vendor network or user account. For malicious keyloggers outside your organization, initial access to a device or user’s account would be necessary. with no internet.

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Spinone

AUGUST 10, 2018

The former blocks a computer or device and sends a message telling the victim to send money for the system to be unlocked, whilst the latter encrypts files and will require ransom in exchange for the decryption key. But in 2015-2016, this number increased by almost 400% to more than 136,500 victims.

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

At the start of the malware, it populates the list with the system’s DNS, and the OpenDNS server is only used as a backup to ensure that the C2 domain is resolved. The Winnti group was added by us since we discovered the unique encryption function in the custom backdoor and indicators of the use of the Winnti malware. asmlbigip(.)com.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In 2016, Logan Lamb, a former Oak Ridge National Laboratory researcher, found over 6 million voter registration files exposed on a state-sponsored server at Kennesaw State college in Georgia. He responsibly reported this to the Georgia Secretary of State, but the issue wasn’t really addressed until after the 2016 election.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In 2016, Logan Lamb, a former Oak Ridge National Laboratory researcher, found over 6 million voter registration files exposed on a state-sponsored server at Kennesaw State college in Georgia. He responsibly reported this to the Georgia Secretary of State, but the issue wasn’t really addressed until after the 2016 election.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 20, 2020

In 2016, Logan Lamb, a former Oak Ridge National Laboratory researcher, found over 6 million voter registration files exposed on a state-sponsored server at Kennesaw State college in Georgia. He responsibly reported this to the Georgia Secretary of State, but the issue wasn’t really addressed until after the 2016 election.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

Is it the hospital, which should have had a power backup? And, you know, I had the Twitter account ID set up in 2018. I had tweeted this video, it's pinned on our Twitter account hack, not crime. I think it was 2016. Who is responsible? Is it the power utility, which should have maintained better computer security?

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

Failure to pay, and your data is encrypted forever. And to my surprise what actually happened was instead of sending money to them it would take money from their account, so I could effectively steal money from anyone's account. Usually a certain amount of Bitcoin. And then I tried sending like negative Bitcoin.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

Failure to pay, and your data is encrypted forever. And to my surprise what actually happened was instead of sending money to them it would take money from their account, so I could effectively steal money from anyone's account. Usually a certain amount of Bitcoin. And then I tried sending like negative Bitcoin.

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SecureList

JULY 28, 2022

We identified a Windows variant of this sample using the same string encryption algorithm, internal modules, and functionalities. For instance, back in 2016, Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned following an extensive email leak from WikiLeaks. Final thoughts.

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