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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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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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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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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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

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. In August 2020, ThyssenKrupp System Engineering was hit by the Mount Locker ransomware group.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

Chatting with Snowden on an encrypted IM connection, I joked that the NSA cafeteria menu probably has code names for menu items. Transferring files electronically is what encryption is for. I told Greenwald that he and Laura Poitras should be sending large encrypted files of dummy documents back and forth every day.

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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 22, 2024

of internet traffic, while good bots accounted for 19.4% This trend remained constant from 2016 to 2018. Although some bad bot use cases, such as content scraping and account takeover, are prevalent across different sectors, others, like scalping, usually impact specific industries like online retail and entertainment (ticketing).

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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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

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.

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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

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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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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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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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The European Union enacted the Network and Information System (NIS) regulation in July 2016 with the intention of ensuring a specific level of security for networks and information systems belonging to critical and sensitive infrastructures in EU member states. The use of cryptography and encryption. Tue, 11/29/2022 - 06:08.

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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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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 7, 2022

This particular scheme had been rumbling along since “at least” 2016, and the accused individual worked in the publishing industry. According to the FBI, multiple fake email accounts were created, impersonating real people in the publishing space. Be aware though that some forms of encryption are more secure than others.

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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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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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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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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

AUGUST 6, 2023

Reptile Rootkit employed in attacks against Linux systems in South Korea New PaperCut flaw in print management software exposes servers to RCE attacks A cyberattack impacted operations of multiple hospitals in several US states Married couple pleaded guilty to laundering billions in cryptocurrency stolen from Bitfinex in 2016 Malicious packages in (..)

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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. Encryption and communication As we have mentioned above, two modules (Crypton.dll and Internet.dll) are bundled with every installation of the CloudWizard framework.

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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 22, 2020

New EU restrictions could force companies to change data transfer practices and adopt more advanced data encryption methods. Beyond this we also have Payment Card Industry (PCI) standards, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the California Data Privacy Act (CCPA) and much more. Tue, 12/22/2020 - 10:08.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

accounts and other important data were targeted, Yahoo! Some experts believe this massive breach played a role in the 2016 presidential election, as well as various other political and governmental offices around the globe. Top Financial Services Encryption Threats and Insight from a Former Hacker! Encryption Digest #65].

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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 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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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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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

It is responsible for a number of high-profile attacks, including the massive 2016 NotPetya ransomware attack on the Ukrainian power grid that left a quarter of a million people without power. Trickbot is one of the most notorious and successful cybercrime organizations in the world.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2021

Once infected a system, the ransomware informed victims that their files were encrypted demanded the payment of a Bitcoin ransom to decrypt them. TrickBot is a popular banking Trojan that has been around since October 2016, its authors have continuously upgraded it by implementing new features. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 19, 2022

Jigsaw made its first appearance in 2016. After encrypting all files, Thanos also deletes itself, making detection and recovery “almost impossible” for the victim. Zagala used the PayPal account of this relative to receive his illicit ransomware earnings. ” Jigsaw v2 and Thanos are Zagala’s creations.

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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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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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Hot for Security

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

One major allegation brought forth by the FTC is that, since at least 2016, Zoom misled users by claiming it offered ‘end-to-end, 256-bit encryption’ when in fact it provided a lower level of security. Alleged negligence and deception towards end users.

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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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