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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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. An SSM document can provide an attacker an initial foothold into the victim’s environment and sometimes even grant a view into the account’s deployment processes, resources, and backup procedures.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 21, 2022

Despite all the emphasis around the shift from SHA-1 to SHA-2, 35% of websites were still utilizing SHA-1 certificates as of November 2016, according to research from Venafi in 2017. Post-Quantum Encryption Algorithms Announced. It is especially urgent to replace SHA-1 wherever it is used for digital signatures. Anastasios Arampatzis.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 8, 2022

The NIST contest began in 2016, with the goal of improving general encryption and digital signatures. Also read: Encryption: How It Works, Types, and the Quantum Future. And for encryption, the problem is just as much thought as it is raw power. Quantum technology is accelerating—and with it, the quantum threat.

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SC Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

Most cryptographers believe that the sheer power of quantum computing will be capable of tearing through many of the existing public key encryption algorithms, like RSA or Diffie-Hellman, that underpin most computer hardware and software today. It could also threaten some symmetric key algorithms, though not to nearly the same extent.

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SiteLock

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

First discovered in 2016, Petya ransomware is a family of encrypting malware that targets Microsoft Windows-based computer systems. When the user tries to access the data, a ransom note appears with a red skull and crossbones on the screen, saying that the disk has been encrypted. Call law enforcement.

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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.” Offline Backups.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2022

If you wake up one morning and find that all of your files are encrypted along with a ransom note demanding a Bitcoin payment — you just may have been hit with QNAPCrypt. QNAPCrypt exploits a vulnerability in QNAP NAS running HBS 3 (Hybrid Backup Sync) to allow remote attackers to log in to a device. How it works. Cheers extension.

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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. BlackByte Ransomware Protection Steps.

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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

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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

JSWorm encrypts all the user files appending a new extension to their name. Moreover, in the ransom note there is also a backup email, “ symmetries0@tutanota.com” , to ensure availability in case of blacklisting. During the encryption phase, the ransomware creates an HTML Application “JSWRM-DECRYPT.hta” in each folder it encounters.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Formed around 2016 to defend Ukraine’s cyberspace against Russian interference, the UCA used a public exploit for CVE-2023-22515 to gain access to Trigona infrastructure. Stop malicious encryption. Create offsite, offline backups. Keep backups offsite and offline, beyond the reach of attackers.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 10, 2019

That is why Spin Technology (Spinbackup), a cloud-to-cloud backup and cybersecurity solutions provider, released Ransomware Protection for Office 365 ! The launch of the Office 365 Ransomware Protection solution is a part of our continuous mission to provide clients with access to high-performance cloud backup and security technologies.

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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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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. These cybersecurity practices include using unique passwords, multi-factor authentication (MFA), data backups, secure Wi-Fi networks, and anti-virus software.

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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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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

In 2016, 4.8 Always encrypt the data using strong algorithms, and ensure your website application uses hashing for stored passwords. Keep a backup of the stored data separate from your website’s server. billion records containing personal data were compromised as a result of data breaches. One data breach costs an average of $3.8

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Elie

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Ransomware revenue exploded in 2016. As can be seen in the chart above, which plots ransomware revenue over time, 2016 was a turning point. For example, in 2016 Locky used the Necur botnet to scale its spread via spam email campaigns to hundreds of millions of emails daily. Bitcoin fee forces people to pay twice.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Before we dive into the specific cybersecurity concerns, let us remind you about the attack that took place in October 2016. As an example, we could use communications between systems that are not properly encrypted. Improper encryption. Hackers or other malicious sources can intercept poorly encrypted communications on the web.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Details included names, addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth and encrypted passwords, all of which could be used to access other accounts belonging to these users. The breach was not fully disclosed until September 2016. In June 2016, the Twitter and Pinterest accounts of Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, were vandalized.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

Encryption and the development of cryptography have been a cornerstone of IT security for decades and remain critical for data protection against evolving threats. While cryptology is thousands of years old, modern cryptography took off in the 1970s with the help of the Diffie-Hellman-Merkle and RSA encryption algorithms.

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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. With 3000 servers in 160 locations and 94 countries, ExpressVPN boasts its military-grade encryption and leak-proofing features, including a kill switch and unlimited bandwidth for clients.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

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. NeroWolfe seems to have abandoned all of his forum accounts sometime in 2016. In November 2016, an exploit[.]ru Cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 finds that pin@darktower.ru

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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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Spinone

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Microsoft rolled out the Advanced Security Management platform in 2016 for Office 365 environments. Spinbackup provides the total solution for public cloud backups and security. The verdict is simple – Office 365 backup with Spinbackup is a much more secure and resilient solution when compared to Office 365 without Spinbackup.

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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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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. This APK embedded a secondary hidden/encrypted payload. What makes Gooligan special is its weaponization of OAuth tokens, something that was never observed in mainstream crimeware before.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 5, 2023

Most states require strong data privacy controls, which typically include encrypting any sensitive personal information of staff and students. According to GAO , thousands of K–12 students had their personal information compromised in data breaches between 2016 and 2020. Secure data storage is also a requirement of FERPA.

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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. This APK embedded a secondary hidden/encrypted payload. What makes Gooligan special is its weaponization of OAuth tokens, something that was never observed in mainstream crimeware before.

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Spinone

MAY 15, 2018

The General Data Protection Regulation ( GDPR ) (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) is a regulation by which the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union, and the European Commission intend to strengthen and unify data protection for all individuals within the European Union. GDPR Overview. Why Important for Personal Data Protection?

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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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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The problem is that the vulnerability also affects ColdFusion 2016 and ColdFusion 11 installations, which have reached end-of-life (EOL) and are no longer supported with security patches. Stop malicious encryption. Create offsite, offline backups. Keep backups offsite and offline, beyond the reach of attackers.

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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. Over 300 different organizations were targeted by 29,000 phishing kits in 2016, allowing cybercriminals to imitate several reputable websites.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

” The employees who kept things running for RSOCKS, circa 2016. Among the Twilio customers targeted was encrypted messaging service Signal , which relied on Twilio to provide phone number verification services. In 2016, while the U.S. Notice that nobody seems to be wearing shoes. ” SEPTEMBER. Even though U.S.

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