Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2020

The source code of the infamous Dharma ransomware is now available for sale on two Russian-language hacking forums. The source code of one of the most profitable ransomware families, the Dharma ransomware , is up for sale on two Russian-language hacking forums. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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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. is a security-fix release. SecurityAffairs – hacking, encryption ). The post OpenSSL to fix the second critical flaw ever appeared first on Security Affairs. ” reads the announcement. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2024

The ZIP archives contain a compressed executable payload that, if executed, will start the encryption process with LockBit Black ransomware. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, Phorpiex botnet) com,” and “Jenny[@]gsd[.]com.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2023

The UK government wants to give more surveillance powers to its intelligence agencies proposing changes to the Investigatory Powers Act ( IPA ), which was first introduced in 2016. The British government demanded firms providing messaging services of clearing security features with the Home Office before releasing them to customers.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Olsen, the Assistant Attorney General for National Security; and James Smith, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today that JOSHUA ADAM SCHULTE was sentenced to 40 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Jesse M.

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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

Those secrets collectively have a code name—ECI, for exceptionally compartmented information—and almost never appear in the documents. 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.

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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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, No More Ransomware).

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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.” Please see this KB for more information.

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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

JUNE 10, 2022

The ransomware encrypts files on the targeted systems using the “.cuba” The Hancitor downloader has been active since at least 2016 for dropping Pony and Vawtrak. .” Please vote for Security Affairs and Pierluigi Paganini in every category that includes them (e.g. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Cuba ransomware).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In 2016, alleged Asian threat actors targeted ThyssenKrupp to steal company secrets. In January 2021, a ThyssenKrupp subsidiary was a victim of a ransomware cyberattack that caused the encryption of its servers and employee workstations. SecurityAffairs – ThyssenKrupp, hacking ). Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Diavol ransomware). The post Emsisoft releases free decryptor for the victims of the Diavol ransomware appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2022

Diavol encrypts files solely using an RSA encryption key, and its code is capable of prioritizing file types to encrypt based on a pre-configured list of extensions defined by the attacker. “The FBI has not yet observed Diavol leak victim data, despite ransom notes including threats to leak stolen information.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The popular cross-platform encrypted messaging service Signal has been chosen by the European Commission for its communications. The European Commission has decided to adopt for its staff the popular cross-platform encrypted messaging service Signal for its communications. ” reported the Politico. ” reported the Politico.

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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 remaining components are encrypted and stored within a binary registry value.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2021

Between 2014 and 2016 the group used a new custom malware dubbed Carbanak that is considered a newer version of Anunak. Starting from 2016 the group developed a new custom malware using Cobalt Strike, a legitimate penetration testing framework. Hladyr also controlled the organization’s encrypted channels of communication.”

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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. “The queried LDAP attributes relate to usual credential information gathering (e.g. SecurityAffairs – hacking, APT29). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Like other ransomware operations, BlackMatter also set up its leak site where it publishes data exfiltrated from the victims before encrypting their system. BlackMatter then remotely encrypts the hosts and shared drives as they are found. SecurityAffairs – hacking, BlackMatter ransomware). Minimize the AD attack surface.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Karma ransomware is a new threat that was first spotted in June of 2021, it is important to distinguish it from a different threat with the same name that is active since 2016. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Karma ransomware). “Diving in deeper, some samples show that the ChaCha20 algorithm has been swapped out for Salsa20. .”

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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. If the implant is active, a specially crafted empty TCP packet is returned, accompanied by information regarding the host’s responsiveness.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2022

A Mandiant’s report attributed the string of attacks against the SWIFT banking system to the APT38, including the hack of Vietnam’s TP Bank in 2015, Bangladesh’s central bank in 2016, Taiwan’s Far Eastern International in 2017, Bancomext in Mexico in 2018, and Banco de Chile in 2018. SecurityAffairs – hacking, APT38).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2021

According to the researchers, the Smominru botnet has been active at least since 2016 and at the time of its discovery infected more than 526,000 Windows computers. “For protection against quick analysis and against static extraction with regular expressions, the substitute values are encrypted. ” 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.” Recently the Vietnam-linked cyberespionage carried out hacking campaigns against Chinese entities to collect intelligence on the COVID-19 crisis.

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Security Affairs

JULY 26, 2021

The attack abuses 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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, SolarWinds). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2023

” 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. However, the persistent security concerns surrounding these devices cannot be ignored. The Mirai botnet, discovered back in 2016, is still active today.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Here are the top Twitter accounts to follow for the latest commentary, research, and much-needed humor in the ever-evolving information security space. Security enthusiast and Linux evangelist Binni Shah consistently offers valuable tutorials, guides, and insights for the cybersecurity community. Street @jaysonstreet.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

In this episode, Jack Cable talks about hacking the Qlocker ransomware and briefly interrupting its payment system. He also talks about his infosec journey hacking cryptocurrencies, joining the Digital Defense Service and CISA, and helping secure the 2020 presidential election… all before the age of 22. Would you use it?

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

In this episode, Jack Cable talks about hacking the Qlocker ransomware and briefly interrupting its payment system. He also talks about his infosec journey hacking cryptocurrencies, joining the Digital Defense Service and CISA, and helping secure the 2020 presidential election… all before the age of 22. Would you use it?

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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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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. The group is considered responsible for the massive WannaCry ransomware attack, a string of SWIFT attacks in 2016, and the Sony Pictures hack.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2022

IoT devices can spy on people, steal data, or bring down vast swathes of the internet, as happened in 2016 when Mirai malware infiltrated devices such as baby monitors and refrigerators and locked them into a botnet for the Dyn cyberattack. A VPN router automatically connects to VPN servers, and any traffic will be automatically encrypted.

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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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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. million settlement with millions of people whose email addresses and other personal information were stolen in the largest data breach in history”.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2023

The attackers obtained encrypted passwords from NetScaler ADC configuration files, and the decryption key was stored on the ADC appliance. The threat actors attempted to move laterally to a domain controller, but CISA pointed out that network-segmentation controls for the appliance blocked movement.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2022

The Donot Team has been active since 2016, it focuses on government and military organizations, ministries of foreign affairs, and embassies in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and other South Asian countries. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Donot Team). ” continues the report. ” the researchers concluded.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2021

SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter). The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 335 appeared first on Security Affairs. ransomware hit Israeli defense firm E.M.I.T. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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