Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2019

Experts observed the STOP ransomware installing the Azorult password-stealing Trojan to steal account credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, and more. Experts observed the ransomware also installing the dreaded Azorult password-stealing Trojan on victim’s machine to steal account credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, documents and more.

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Adam Levin

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has employed a similar approach after discovering hundreds of accounts linked to Russian troll farms after the 2016 election. For one instance, Facebook’s WhatsApp platform provides a simple work-around: Because it is encrypted, any content forwarded would not be visible to these “war rooms.”.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2021

“According to this actor, he had originally intended to send his targets—all senior-level executives—phishing emails to compromise their accounts, but after that was unsuccessful, he pivoted to this ransomware pretext,” Hassold wrote. Indeed, perhaps this enterprising Nigerian scammer is just keeping up with current trends.

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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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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 28, 2020

27, a popular fraud bazaar known as Joker’s Stash began selling card data from “a new huge nationwide breach” that purportedly includes more than 30 million card accounts issued by thousands of financial institutions across 40+ U.S. On the evening of Monday, Jan.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 30, 2021

Signal—the private, end-to-end encrypted messaging app that surged in popularity in recent months —once again reminded criminal investigators that it could not fully comply with a legal request for user records and communications because of what it asserts as a simple, unchanging fact: The records do not exist on Signal’s servers.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 25, 2024

BitLocker is a Windows security feature that encrypts entire drives. Affected systems are running Windows 10 and 11 or one of the server versions (Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008.).

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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.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2021

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued an alert to warn that the Mamba ransomware is abusing the DiskCryptor open source tool to encrypt entire drives. Mamba ransomware is one of the first malware that encrypted hard drives rather than files that was detected in public attacks. ” reads the alert published by the FBI.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Credit cards offer markedly better fraud protections than debit cards , which connect directly to your bank account. Virtual credit cards similarly allow online shoppers to mask their financial accounts. Many financial institutions offer free transaction alerts that notify you when charges hit your account. Look for the lock.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2024

Cerber has been active since at least 2016, most recently it was involved in attacks against Confluence servers. Financially motivated threat actors created an admin account to deploy the Effluence web shell plugin and execute arbitrary commands on the vulnerable server. ” states Cado Security. ” continues the report.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

billion in 2016, for instance. 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. billion in 2017; Avast acquired AVG for $1.3

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Malwarebytes

MAY 14, 2021

WhatsApp told users last week that there was no need for alarm regarding an upcoming privacy policy deadline, as users who refuse to accept the privacy policy will not have their accounts deleted—they will just have their apps rendered useless, eventually incapable of receiving calls and messages. They had been in place since 2016.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Marriott International has bought Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide in 2016 for $13 billion. According to the company, hackers accessed to the Starwood’s guest reservation system since 2014 and copied and encrypted the information. According to the U.K.’s The brand includes St.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2020

Facebook shared details about a long-running ad-fraud campaign that’s been ongoing since 2016 targeting Facebook users with SilentFade malware. The social network giant revealed that malware has a Chinese origin and allowed hackers to siphon $4 million from users’ advertising accounts.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

Summary: Yahoo believes that "state-sponsored actors" compromised all of their users accounts between 2013 and 2014. What was compromised: b ank account numbers, bank statements, mortgage and tax records, social security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and driver license images. Adult FriendFinder Networks data breach (2016).

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SecureList

OCTOBER 7, 2021

After encryption, the contents of the folders look as follows: the cybercriminals’ e-mail address and the victim’s ID are added to the beginning of each file, followed by the original name and extension, and then the extension added by the ransomware. Encrypted files and a note from the attackers. Crysis ransom note.

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2021

The attack abuse the Encrypting File System Remote (EFSRPC) protocol, which is used to perform maintenance and management operations on encrypted data that is stored remotely and accessed over a network. Here is one another way we use to elicit machine account auth via MS-EFSRPC. link] — topotam (@topotam77) July 18, 2021.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 29, 2021

It does this by performing an NTLM relay attack that does not rely on the Microsoft’s Print System Remote Protocol (MS-RPRN) API but instead uses the EfsRpcOpenFileRaw function of the Microsoft Encrypting File System Remote Protocol (MS-EFSRPC) API. Vulnerable systems. ” New mitigation details.

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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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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. Marriott International has bought Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide in 2016 for $13 billion. ” reads the data breach notification published by Marriot.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In 2016, alleged Asian threat actors targeted ThyssenKrupp to steal company secrets. The confidential information accessed by the attackers included the SSN and bank account information of employees. This isn’t the first time that the company was the victim of a cyber attack.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

APT29 along with APT28 cyber espionage group was involved in the Democratic National Committee hack and the wave of attacks aimed at the 2016 US Presidential Elections. Then the attacker can write an arbitrary number of bytes to any file on the file system, posing as the victim account. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2021

a text instead of an account number), but it takes special attention to notice the change of a long string of random numbers and letters to a very similar looking string, such as cryptowallet addresses.” Encryption used is a very simple ROT cipher, where the key is set to -1.” ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

“We found dozens of related samples that had been appearing in the wild since 2016 and had been deployed in various application marketplaces including Google Play.” Experts observed around 300 infection attacks on Android devices in India, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Indonesia since 2016. Android version, installed apps). .

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SC Magazine

MAY 11, 2021

Visitors arrive at the cloud pavilion of Amazon Web Services at the 2016 CeBIT digital technology trade fair in Hanover, Germany. SSM documents are private by default, but developers can share them with other AWS accounts or publicly. Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

According to his LinkedIn profile , Schulte worked for the NSA for five months in 2010 as a systems engineer, after this experience, he joined the CIA as a software engineer and he left the CIA in November 2016. Schulte was identified a few days after WikiLeaks started leaking the precious dumps. ” continues the AP.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Attackers employed a custom tunneling tool to achieve this, it forwards client traffic to the server, the malware encrypts the traffic using trivial binary encryption. Next, the attackers logged in to the web interface using a privileged root account. ” states the report published by Kaspersky.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

It's the address on Aadhaar's Twitter account , it's the first result on a Google search and time and time again, it's promoted as the site people should go to before doing anything else Aadhaar related. But as I've written before, there's a lot more to HTTPS than simply redirecting all the traffic ).

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 17, 2018

pic.twitter.com/ZJSDF2VMzv — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) November 23, 2016. Having watched this pattern play out over the years, the offending Twitter accounts do seem to eventually realise that the strategy is either ineffective or simply pisses too many people off and cease the spam after a little while.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2019

Yahoo is continuously trying to settle a lawsuit on the massive data breach over the period of 2013 to 2016. million for the settlement of 3 billion hacked accounts. Unluckily, Yahoo faced three massive data breaches in the year between 2013 to 2016. This time Yahoo could pay $117.5

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Believed to be of Iranian origin , it is known to use four methods of encryption— AES , Salsa20, ChaCha, and RSA—but because it encrypts all non-critical system files, it’s slower compared to other RaaS offerings. No one else will encrypted with my ransomware and i feel better now.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Wendy's (2015-2016): The restaurant chain experienced a significant breach affecting over 1,000 locations, with customer payment card data compromised. Dunkin' Donuts (2015-2018): The company faced multiple credential stuffing attacks that led to unauthorized access to customer accounts. Requirement 7.2.5: Requirement 8.6:

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2018

I have a Yahoo email account, I’ve shopped at Home Depot and Target , my father was in the military and had a security clearance, which included a dossier on his family, archived at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management , I’ve had insurance coverage from Premera Blue Cross and I’ve stayed at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The ransomware encrypts files on compromised Windows host systems, including physical and virtual servers, the advisory noted, and the executable leaves a ransom note in all directories where encryption occurs, including ransom payment instructions for obtaining a decryption key. CVE-2017-0144 : Similar to CVE-2017-0145.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2019

Nor has anyone accepted accountability for encrypting any of the fresh flows of data, whether in transit or at rest. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) spent four years hammering out a framework for arriving at an appropriate level of IoT security, issuing NIST Special Publication 800–160 , in late 2016.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2020

In a few days back, the MalwareMustDie team’s security researcher unixfreaxjp has published a new Linux malware analysis of Fbot that has focused on the decryption of the last encryption logic used by its bot client. Figure 1 – Vamp’s account on Twitter). The background before Fbot Mirai variant.

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