Lenny Zeltser

MAY 3, 2019

campaigns from around 2016. Use encrypted chat for sensitive discussions. Many of the attack tactics involved elements of social engineering–persuasion tactics that take advantage of human psychology to trick victims into taking actions that have aided the adversaries. Similar dynamics apply to other countries.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2018

On Friday, Starwood Properties, which merged with Marriott in 2016, disclosed as many as 500 million people who made reservations at their hotels may have had their personal information accessed in a breach that lasted as long as four years. How could a breach like this continue for four years? Satya Gupta, CTO and Co-founder, Virsec: Gupta.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Hackers aren’t only coders — they’re also social engineers. Ransomware is a term used to describe viruses that encrypt all the files on a user’s computer and hold them hostage for a fee. One major virus — the WannaCry ransomware — nearly shut down the British health care system in 2016.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2021

Back in 2016, we saw the emergence of a botnet mainstay called TrickBot. Money mules and spear phishing are thrown into the mix alongside social engineering and international theft of money, personal, and confidential information. The folks monitoring bank website flows to figure out how to defeat multi-factor encryption?

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Active since 2014, in 2016, the group decided to give up ATM malware and focus all of their attacks on PoS systems, targeting the core of the payment industry. During the carnival of 2016, a Brazilian bank realized that their ATMs had been hacked, with all the cash contained in those machines stolen. Initial infection vector.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The startup manages an open source project for key management, authorization enforcement policies, and end-to-end encryption. This helps to explain the rise of social engineering attacks , especially with phishing. Before that, he founded AppNeta (acquired by SolarWinds in 2016) and was a founding engineer at eJonesPulse.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

In November 2021, an unauthorized third party called a Robinhood customer support employee and, through social engineering , gained access to the company’s customer support systems. Between 2016 and 2018, the malware strain SamSam made brute force RDP attacks an integral part of its attacks on several public organizations.

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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.

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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

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. That’s why in 2023 we can expect the echoes of cyberwarfare to continue reverberating.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1970-1995 — Kevin Mitnick — Beginning in 1970, Kevin Mitnick penetrates some of the most highly-guarded networks in the world, including Nokia and Motorola, using elaborate social engineering schemes, tricking insiders into handing over codes and passwords, and using the codes to access internal computer systems.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Cybercriminals use social engineering techniques to convince users to click on malicious links or extract archives. The main functionality of the malware is to encrypt data on the computer and make ransom demands. “It is wort h noting that schemes with password-protected or attached archives, and delayed activation etc.

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McAfee

AUGUST 26, 2020

Early variants of ransomware merely locked individual computers, sometimes even without encryption, thus preventing single user access. Criminals got clever with social engineering by masquerading the ransomware as a law enforcement agency (perhaps the FBI) and making accusations that illegal files are on the system.

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NopSec

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Crypto-ransomware systematically encrypts files that are stored locally or on accessible network file shares, using strong cryptographic algorithms. The ransomware determines what files to encrypt by their file type, with office documents – docx,xlsx,pptx, photographs, and video files – almost always targeted.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Ransomware authors are coming up with sophisticated social engineering tactics to steal confidential information, personal data, access credentials to restricted resources, and information that has commercial value. Identification of the damaged (encrypted) files. Detection of the ransomware attack source.

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SecureList

JANUARY 13, 2022

BlueNoroff is the name of an APT group coined by Kaspersky researchers while investigating the notorious attack on Bangladesh’s Central Bank back in 2016. This lets them mount high-quality social engineering attacks that look like totally normal interactions. PROCESS_ID. #. DLL_FILE_SIZE. DLL_FILE_DATA.

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SecureList

JULY 28, 2022

We identified a Windows variant of this sample using the same string encryption algorithm, internal modules, and functionalities. For instance, back in 2016, Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned following an extensive email leak from WikiLeaks. Final thoughts.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The attackers compress stolen files into encrypted and password-protected ZIP archives. In 2016, the group began to focus all its activities on PoS systems. The group delivers its malware using social engineering. Other malware. Prilex: the pricey prickle credit card complex.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The ransomware itself doesn’t handle data exfiltration but relies on these tools to steal data before encryption. RansomHub uses the Elliptic Curve Encryption algorithm Curve 25519 to lock files with a unique public/private key pair for each compromised individual.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Crypto ransomware encrypts the data on your computer or in the cloud. However, you can not use encrypted data. Encrypting ransomware is much harder to deal with, as you can not get access to your data simply by switching devices or finding a way to pass a screen lock. Petya was a reason behind many attacks during 2016 and 2017.

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Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The ransomware attack copied and encrypted 60 GB of internal information, including ID cards, internal memos, and hospital call logs. AvosLocker uses a customized version of the AES algorithm with a 256 block size, adding the unique.avos extension to encrypted files.

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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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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The ransomware itself doesn’t handle data exfiltration but relies on these tools to steal data before encryption. RansomHub uses the Elliptic Curve Encryption algorithm Curve 25519 to lock files with a unique public/private key pair for each compromised individual.

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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. VoIP phishing and impersonation also victimized millions of corporate employees across the world , contributing to an even greater cyber threat.

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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. As soon as Kali 2.0 was out of the door, the Kali team knew what they had to do.

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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. Criminals may utilize all sorts of social engineering approaches, as well as technical exploits, in order to deliver their ransomware into their intended targets. Hospitals and schools are frequent targets.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

If the US government dictating iPhone encryption design sounds ok to you, ask yourself how you'll feel when China demands the same. — Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) February 17, 2016. " — Paul Asadoorian (@securityweekly) June 7, 2016. He is currently an Associate Professor at John Hopkins University.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 25, 2019

Russia’s tradecraft A lot of dots have been connected recently with respect to Russia’s cyber spying, initially thanks to Barack Obama’s leveling of sanctions on Russia for interfering in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections. presidential elections. WannaCry leveraged copies of cyber weapons stolen from the NSA. Talk more soon.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In 2016, the Mirai botnet attack left most of the eastern U.S. Phishing and Social Engineering. Phishing and social engineering are a type of email attack that attempts to trick users into divulging passwords, downloading an attachment or visiting a website that installs malware on their systems. with no internet.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Cybercriminals often leverage social engineering tactics like phishing and spear-phishing to propagate sophisticated malware. Ransomware programs gain access to a computer’s file system and execute a payload to encrypt all data. Unfortunately, most of the data it encrypted was lost for good due to faulty code.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2021

Cybercriminals often leverage social engineering tactics like phishing and spear-phishing to propagate sophisticated malware. Ransomware programs gain access to a computer’s file system and execute a payload to encrypt all data. Unfortunately, most of the data it encrypted was lost for good due to faulty code.

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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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ForAllSecure

APRIL 21, 2023

Mitnick was known for his social engineering skills, which he used to trick employees into divulging sensitive information or passwords. One of the most notable developments in the early 2010s was the rise of ransomware, a type of malware that encrypts a victim's files and demands payment in exchange for the decryption key.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 8, 2025

It was developed in 1993, in the unfortunate days when DES was the standard encryption algorithm, so thats what Microsoft used to generate the response, as described in the diagrambelow: As shown above, the clients password is transformed into an NT hash, which is the MD4 hash of the Unicode-encoded password, to be used as the DES encryption key.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 7, 2025

In ADFS 2016, wehave: ClientTLS PRT PKeyAuth The method of Device Authentication is controlled in part by the Set-AdfsGlobalAuthenticationPolicy PowerShell commandlet: Set-AdfsGlobalAuthenticationPolicy DeviceAuthenticationMethod All Out of the box, ADFS 2012 only supports ClientTLS. b64encode(ctx).decode("utf-8"), header_decoded = base64.urlsafe_b64decode(header

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NopSec

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Modern variants of ransomware, called crypto ransomware, entomb the files stored on a hard drive using strong encryption. In April 2016, it sent out USB flash drives to its 37,000 members. Ransomware Ransomware is a type of virus that impairs the use of a computer or damages the files stored on it unless a ransom is paid.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 28, 2022

Matt Nelson ( @enigma0x3 ) originally wrote about offensive SCCM back in 2016 and released his PowerSCCM project, along with Will Schroeder ( @harmj0y ), Jared Atkinson ( @jaredcatkinson ), and Matt Graeber ( @mattifestation ). Note that this blob is different from the one above because it was encrypted with a different DPAPI masterkey.

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