Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2019

Mirai malware first appeared in the wild in 2016 when the expert MalwareMustDie discovered it in massive attacks aimed at Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The malware’s command center is hidden to make takedowns a more complicated process. Since the code of the Mirai was leaked online many variants emerged in the threat landscape. .

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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. In my view, implementing a segmented zero-trust architecture can help isolate external data from internal corporate data, mitigating the risk of cross-contamination," Schultz continued.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 23, 2021

Encrypted user vaults were not jeopardized, but there was still a considerable risk that hackers could gain access using the compromised data if users didn’t change their passwords again. Reports of less severe vulnerabilities surfaced in 2016, 2017, 2019, and 2021. LastPass pricing.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 8, 2024

presidential election, the 2016 election interference, and ongoing concerns about cyber threats have highlighted the critical need for election security measures. There is also much evidence from the 2016 U.S. Specific to the E2E-V voting systems, homomorphic encryption enables the tallying of votes without revealing individual votes.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2019

Mirai malware first appeared in the wild in 2016 when the expert MalwareMustDie discovered it in massive attacks aimed at Internet of Things (IoT) devices. A variant discovered last year was leveraging an open-source project to target multiple architectures, including ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, and x86.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The Operation Transparent Tribe was first spotted by Proofpoint Researchers in Feb 2016, in a series of espionages operations against Indian diplomats and military personnel in some embassies in Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan. release () architectures = platform. Introduction. system () releases = platform. dll http[://awsyscloud[.com/E@t!aBbU0le8hiInks/D/3500/p2ehtHero0paSth3end.dll.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 26, 2022

Today, both outsiders with the right social engineering skills and disgruntled personnel pose risks to sensitive data when network architectures fail to implement microsegmentation and advanced network traffic analysis (NTA). Detection for signature-less, insider, and encrypted malware threats. billion in 2016. Exeon Analytics.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2024

The cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2016, according to the CrowdStrike researchers it is using a very sophisticated toolset. The cybersecurity firm added that the threat actors show an in-depth knowledge of telecommunication network architectures. GTPDOOR also supports authentication and encryption mechanisms.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 21, 2025

IBM: Best for Advanced Encryption 13 $233.91 Through strategic acquisitions such as Splunk (2023), Isovalent, Lightspin, Oort, and Working Group Two, Cisco has expanded its capabilities in network detection and response (NDR), cloud security, and zero-trust architectures. Cisco: Best for Integrated Network Security 16 $242.51

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2023

Upon executing the script, it would download and execute the proper bot clients for the specific Linux architectures: hxxp://185.225.74[.]251/armv4l ” The researchers pointed out that the Mirai variant like IZ1H9 and V3G4 will first initialize an encrypted string table and then retrieve the strings through an index.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 25, 2023

It comes equipped with a built-in TOR network tunnel for communication with command servers, along with update and delivery functionality through trusted services such as GitLab, GitHub, and Bitbucket, all using custom encrypted archives. This architectural approach is a hallmark of APT malware.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 22, 2018

In 2016, I provided predictions in an article entitled The (Immediate) Future of Ransomware. Instead of ransomware going away, ransomware has actually increased by 750% since 2016. TrustLook stipulates that 38% of ransomware victims pay ransom , resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars in payouts in 2016 and 2017.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 18, 2022

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has selected the first collection of encryption tools designed to withstand the assault of a future quantum computer, which might compromise the security employed to preserve privacy in the digital systems we rely on. Thales innovates in crypto-research.

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SecureList

JANUARY 23, 2023

What threats security operations centers will face in 2023 Ransomware will increasingly destroy data instead of encrypting it Cyberspace reflects the global agenda, and geopolitical turbulence influences the attack surface. This gives SOC a goal: to enhance the SOC team, architecture, and operations for better performance.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Encryption, firewalls, and secure access controls are just a few of the measures that banks implement to ensure customer data remains protected. End-to-End Encryption Data encryption ensures that even if cybercriminals intercept sensitive data, they cannot read or use it.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 8, 2022

The global cost of ransomware has risen from $325 million to $20 billion from 2016 to 2021, and on average, only 65% of encrypted data was restored after a ransom was paid. Druva’s metadata-centric architecture supports management and security of data in the cloud with long-term retention, and regulatory compliance.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2019

They are not aiming servers with x32 or x64 architecture but the router devices that runs on Linux too.” On the MMD blog. is still possible to read “I am quite active in supporting the team members of this project, so recently almost everyday I reverse ELF files between 5-10 binaries. But what are the machine info and how are they collected?

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

In 2016, $91 million was spent on IoT endpoint security solutions. The resultant synergy has been optimal visibility into ICS networks through an adaptive edge monitoring architecture alongside Cisco’s existing security stack. TLS, encryption, Auth0) Are there embedded or built-in IoT security requirements to address exposure?

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Brute-force attacks on services that use SSH, a more advanced protocol that encrypts traffic, can yield similar outcomes. User files were encrypted, with the device’s interface displaying a ransom note demanding payment of 0.03 Cybercriminals seek exploits for zero-day vulnerabilities in IoT devices. BTC to recover the data.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Trickbot (aka TrickLoader or Trickster), is a successor of the Dyre banking Trojan that was active from 2014 to 2016 and performed man-in-the-browser attacks in order to steal banking credentials. Trickbot was first discovered in October 2016. Downloaded modules are encrypted, and can be decrypted with the Python script below.

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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.” IMPORTANT INFORMATION !!!

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Since 2016, more than 4,000 ransomware attacks have happened daily. The data is stored in a proprietary write-once, read-many immutable snapshot-based architecture (called Delphix Data Vault ), which provides stringent security features to prevent any data changes or deletions, not even by administrators. It’s 100% automated. .

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 20, 2022

The number of successful ransomware attacks, which encrypt computers until victims pay the attackers to unlock their data, surged last year. This eliminates the requirement for a fixed IT architecture in a centralized data center. The design of the system architecture was deeply flawed, and that is also considered a misconfiguration.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Microsoft Azure Microsoft Hyper-V 2016/2019 R2/2019 VMware ESXi up to 7.0 Prices are not generally published for higher end hardware or virtual appliances. Virtual Appliance supports most major virtualization options: Amazon AWS (EC2) KVM on CentOS 7.7. Ubuntu 18.04, and Ubuntu 20.04

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Spinone

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Cloud computing has fundamentally transformed the business paradigm: according to Morgan Stanley 2016 CIO Survey, 30% of all applications will be migrated to the Public Cloud by 2018. Source: Morgan Stanley 2016 CIO Survey Organizations now need to collaborate and communicate more effectively with customers, partners and employees.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

I work at a Fortune 100 Media and Entertainment company operating within the Information Security Architecture and Engineering group on the Cloud Security Services team. I also work with my team on leading risk assessments, authoring position papers, security architecture evaluations, and associated risk discovery activities.

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

We observed in the process dump the exfiltration of data on the system, such as OS, Processor (architecture), Domain, Username, etc. 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. Figure 6 ATT&CK technique comparison.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 27, 2022

A broad range of options and obfuscation architectures are available to significantly inhibit tracking and analysis of stolen funds. Not all obfuscation architectures are discussed here. A Variety of Services Provide Threat Actors With Anonymity When Transfering Crypto Assets.

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Kali Linux

MARCH 28, 2023

Move from “Debian stable” to “Debian testing” 5 months later, January 2016 Kali become a rolling distribution with Kali 2016.1. ARM - multi architecture Since BackTrack 4, the option was there for ARM support. We also setup dedicated build boxes, on various different architecture (as we wanted to support ARM).

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Adoption of Adaptive Security Architecture It’s no longer sufficient to install a firewall and the latest antivirus software and hope for the best. A major attack already took place in November 2016, when £2.5 It’s impossible to stay ahead of hackers and cyber criminals all the time.

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Spinone

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Ledger Technologies for Regulatory Reporting and Compliance Blockchain is practically immutable due to four key characteristics of its architecture, which help eliminate the risk of fraudulent transactions: Data is stored in decentralized locations. Leading offshore firm Appleby admitted it was the victim of a hack in 2016.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

So it gives you a lot of fertile ground to work on, as compared with the mostly heavily encrypted SSL, TLS web components that a lot of websites and apps use. One of the open source protocols that crashed most often was BusyBox what could happen with a vulnerability in BusyBox in 2016.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

So it gives you a lot of fertile ground to work on, as compared with the mostly heavily encrypted SSL, TLS web components that a lot of websites and apps use. One of the open source protocols that crashed most often was BusyBox what could happen with a vulnerability in BusyBox in 2016.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

In 2016, researchers from the non-profit organization CitizenLab published a report that describes a campaign of targeted spyware attacks carried out by the Stealth Falcon. The Deadglyph’s architecture is composed of cooperating components, a native x64 binary and other.NET assembly.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

For example, the 2016 DDoS attack on the Dyn managed domain name service (DNS) caused the DNS service to fail to respond to legitimate DNS inquiries and effectively shut down major sites such as PayPal, Spotify, Twitter, Yelp, and many others. Edge DNS server prevents DDoS impact on DNS servers by moving DNS to a distributed edge service.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The most remarkable findings In early 2023, we discovered an ongoing attack targeting government entities in the APAC region by compromising a specific type of a secure USB drive, which provides hardware encryption. StrongyPity (aka PROMETHIUM) is a Turkish-speaking threat actor known to have been active since at least 2012.

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