Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Facebook announced it will allow WhatsApp users to encrypt their message history backups in the cloud. Facebook will continue to work to protect the privacy of WhatsApp users and announced that it will allow users to encrypt their message history backups in the cloud. ” reads the announcement published by WhatsApp.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2020

Japanese electronics and IT giant NEC confirmed a security breach suffered by its defense business division in December 2016. The IT giant NEC confirmed that the company defense business division has suffered a security breach back in December 2016. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Back in 2016, the primary focus of our expert was on major cybergangs that targeted financial institutions, banks in particular. This browser attack chain, popular in 2016, is no longer possible. Then and now: a comparison of how cybercrime groups looked in 2016 vs 2021. Change of targets.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 28, 2024

The document mentions Facebook’s so-called In-App Action Panel (IAAP) program, which existed between June 2016 and approximately May 2019. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a standard security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a server and a client. That’s according to a court document filed March 23, 2024.

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Tech Republic Security

JUNE 15, 2016

At a session at the 2016 WWDC, Apple revealed that it would be requiring all iOS apps to use HTTPS connections through an existing feature called App Transport Security by the end of the year.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Zendesk discloses a data breach that took place in 2016 when a hacker accessed data of 10,000 users, including passwords, emails, names, and phone numbers. In 2016, customer service software company Zendesk suffered a security breach that exposed data of 10,000 users, including passwords, emails, names, and phone numbers.

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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. As such, the data the ransomware is able to encrypt is limited to files owned by the confluence user. The experts pointed out that there is very little knowledge about the Linux variant of the ransomware family.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 3, 2020

There's a vulnerability in Wi-Fi hardware that breaks the encryption : The vulnerability exists in Wi-Fi chips made by Cypress Semiconductor and Broadcom, the latter a chipmaker Cypress acquired in 2016.

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Tech Republic Security

MARCH 15, 2017

Ransomware experienced explosive growth last year, with businesses and individuals losing more than $1 billion to retrieve their encrypted information.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 18, 2024

The Dropbox and LinkedIn breaches, for example, occurred in 2012 before being broadly distributed in 2016 and just like those incidents, the alleged AT&T data is now in very broad circulation. The above example simply didn't have plain text entries for the encrypted data.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2019

UK intelligence agency GCHQ released emulators for World War II cipher machines (Enigma, Typex and The Bombe) that can be executed in the encryption app CyberChef. The GCHQ released the source code of the tool on GitHub in November 2016, alongside with a demo. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. .

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2019

AZORult is a data stealer that was first spotted in 2016 by Proofpoint that discovered it was it was part of a secondary infection via the Chthonic banking trojan. The post STOP ransomware encrypts files and steals victim’s data appeared first on Security Affairs. exe and executed it. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The name “ Bvp47 ” comes form numerous references to the string “Bvp” and the numerical value “0x47” used in the encryption algorithm. In 2016 and 2017, the hacking group The Shadow Brokers l eaked a bunch of data allegedly stolen from the Equation Group, including many hacking tools and exploits.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2023

While LastPass claims that users’ passwords remain safely encrypted, it admitted that certain elements of customers’ information have been exposed.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Experts pointed out that it is the first critical vulnerability patched in toolkit since September 2016. SecurityAffairs – hacking, encryption ). The OpenSSL Project announced that it is going to release updates to address a critical vulnerability in the open-source toolkit. ” reads the announcement. “OpenSSL 3.0.7

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

All the applications used in the campaign have the same certificate that was issued in 2016, the researchers confirmed that the extensive and targeted attacks are going on since 2016 and, until now, have remained under the radar due to the artful deception of the attackers towards their targets. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

Although most people think of ransomware as a dodgy application that encrypts data and holds it for ransom, the concept is much more heterogeneous than that. File encryption 2013 – 2015. It emerged in September 2013 and paved the way for hundreds of file-encrypting menaces that have splashed onto the scene ever since.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Schulte worked as a software developer for the CIA's cyber operations division from 2012 to 2016, where he built hacking tools for intelligence gathering. Department of Justice , an internal dispute in 2016 led to Schulte's administrator privileges being revoked. According to the U.S.

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 27, 2022

NotPetya was so named because it was similar to but different from Petya, a self-propagating ransomware virus discovered in 2016 that, unlike other nascent forms of ransomware at the time, was incapable of being decrypted.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 24, 2020

Because all of the candidates still in play are essentially survivors from the initial group of submissions from 2016, there will also be future consideration of more recently developed ideas, Moody said.

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Joseph Steinberg

APRIL 6, 2021

Ransomware comes in multiple flavors – sometimes involving far more than just the unauthorized encryption of data. This is true even in cases in which the infected devices themselves cannot have their data encrypted or stolen by the ransomware. Hospitals and schools are frequent targets.

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Tech Republic Security

JUNE 14, 2016

Apple recently announced the new Apple File System (APFS), replacing the decades-old HFS system.

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Encryption 75

Schneier on Security

JANUARY 11, 2018

For example, many instant-messaging services now encrypt messages by default. Although encryption can help secure your data, it may also prevent law enforcement agencies from protecting your data. Encryption serves a valuable purpose. I support strong and responsible encryption. We know encryption can include safeguards.

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WIRED Threat Level

JANUARY 16, 2020

In 2016, the iPhone encryption debate ended in a draw. Don't count on 2020's scuffle over the Pensacola shooter's devices to play out the same way.

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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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In 2016, alleged Asian threat actors targeted ThyssenKrupp to steal company secrets. In In January 2021, a ThyssenKrupp subsidiary was a victim of a ransomware cyberattack that caused the encryption of its servers and employee workstations. This isn’t the first time that the company was the victim of a cyber attack.

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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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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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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2018

million from accounts at the National Bank of Blacksburg in two separate ATM cashouts between May 2016 and January 2017. The 2016 unlimited operation against National Bank began Saturday, May 28, 2016 and continued through the following Monday. All told, the attackers managed to siphon almost $570,000 in the 2016 attack.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 6, 2023

Elon Musk’s Tesla has issued a press statement immediately claiming that all recordings remain anonymous and securely stored and encrypted on their servers. Technically, all vehicles manufactured by the electric car manufacturer are equipped with cameras as they assist in driving and are called self-driving or autonomous vehicles.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2022

TrickBot is a popular banking Trojan that has been around since October 2016, its authors have continuously upgraded it by implementing new features. In January, the FBI officially linked the Diavol ransomware operation to the infamous TrickBot gang , the group that is behind the TrickBot banking trojan.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 8, 2021

Researchers from Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs has have found that the new malware strain is acting similar to that of Conti Ransomware with a change that it Asymmetric encryption algorithms unlike other file encrypting malware variants.

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Security Affairs

JULY 26, 2021

The “No More Ransom” website is an initiative launched in 2016 by the National High Tech Crime Unit of the Netherlands’ police, Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre, Kaspersky and McAfee to help victims of ransomware retrieve their encrypted data without having to pay the criminals. ” reads the post published by the EUROPOL.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 8, 2021

With a multi-layered approach to endpoint protection, the ESET PROTECT Advanced solution fits small to medium-sized businesses and offers advanced EPP capabilities, full disk encryption , and an automated sandbox for dynamic threat analysis. Full Disk Encryption. Read more: 19 Best Encryption Software & Tools of 2021.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

. “To make sure that your Exchange organization is better protected against the latest threats (for example Emotet, TrickBot or WannaCry to name a few) we recommend disabling SMBv1 if it’s enabled on your Exchange (2013/2016/2019) server.” ” reads an advisory published by the Microsoft Tech Community.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Germany-based G Data CyberDefense released software designed to trick the STOP ransomware variant into believing that a targeted system has already been compromised and keeping it from encrypting files after the device has been infected. But STOP ransomware will not encrypt files anymore if the system has the vaccine.”.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 24, 2021

All these days we have seen Ransomware locking down access to systems through encryption until a ransom is paid. However, security analysts have discovered a new kind of malware named ‘Jackware’ that is 10 times more dangerous than the usual file-encrypting malware aka Ransomware.

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