Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The tool encrypts data before exfiltrate it to a command-and-control server. The IP address of one of the C2 servers used by the surveillance tool has been linked to Wuhan Chinasoft Token Information Technology Co., a Chinese tech company founded in 2016 with fewer than 50 employees. ” concludes the report.

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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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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.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

billion in 2016, for instance. LW: Will any of the big initiatives we heard about at RSA 2021 and Black Hat 2021 – such as advanced encryption, advanced application security and advanced cloud-security frameworks – ultimately remove much of the responsibility for data security from the individual consumer? LW: Anything else?

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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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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Faced with an increasing brain drain of smart people fleeing the country, Russia floats a new strategy to address a worsening shortage of qualified information technology experts: Forcing tech-savvy people within the nation’s prison population to perform low-cost IT work for domestic companies. Notice that nobody seems to be wearing shoes.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 8, 2022

Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology. The NIST contest began in 2016, with the goal of improving general encryption and digital signatures. Quantum technology is accelerating—and with it, the quantum threat. Also read: Encryption: How It Works, Types, and the Quantum Future.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The SiteLock research team has investigated the types of attacks WordPress users can expect in 2016. Attackers will continue to exploit vulnerable WordPress installs to serve spam or redirect unsuspecting users to malicious sites in 2016. Let’s take a look…. Continued Spam Attacks. Brute Force Attacks. Ransomware. Defacements.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 13, 2018

Today's Internet largely reflects the dominance of a handful of companies behind the cloud services, search engines and mobile platforms that underpin the technology landscape. The Russians might not like that Telegram is encrypted, but odds are good that they can simply break the encryption. Signal, since 2016.

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SC Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

National Institute for Standards and Technology headquarters in Maryland. A years-long project by the federal government to develop new “post-quantum” cryptography standards will be finalized later this year, according to an official at the National Institute for Standards and Technology.

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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

DECEMBER 4, 2021

. “The FBI has identified, as of early November 2021 that Cuba ransomware actors have compromised at least 49 entities in five critical infrastructure sectors, including but not limited to the financial, government, healthcare, manufacturing, and information technology sectors.”

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SecureList

OCTOBER 7, 2021

After encryption, the contents of the folders look as follows: the cybercriminals’ e-mail address and the victim’s ID are added to the beginning of each file, followed by the original name and extension, and then the extension added by the ransomware. Encrypted files and a note from the attackers. Crysis ransom note.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

First its Akamai Technologies that hit the news headlines for acquiring Israel-based startup Guardicore. After purchasing the company, Akamai Technologies is planning to beef up its cloud offerings and assist businesses in combating ransomware attacks. Thus, it helps block ransomware attacks spreading from one app to other.

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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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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2024

Positive Technologies researchers reported that a cybercrime gang called ExCobalt targeted Russian organizations in multiple sectors with a previously unknown Golang-based backdoor known as GoRed. Members of the ExCobalt group have been active since at least 2016, the researchers believe that the group is linked to the notorious Cobalt Gang.

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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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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 23, 2022

Coming to the employee details, names, their IDs, hackers accessed email access credentials in the file-encrypting malware attack. About 495,398 students and 57,158 employee records belonging to the 2015-2016 and 2018-2019 school years were leaked in the attack.

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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. Minimize the AD attack surface.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 14, 2021

That data does not include the content of any WhatsApp user’s messages or calls , as the company’s end-to-end encryption remains intact, and WhatsApp has repeatedly promised that its message security will not be compromised. They had been in place since 2016. pic.twitter.com/6qDnzQ98MP — WhatsApp (@WhatsApp) January 12, 2021.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 21, 2025

To help you cut through the noise, weve curated a list of 20 top cybersecurity technology providers that stand out for their innovation, impact, and effectiveness. IBM: Best for Advanced Encryption 13 $233.91 IBM Best for advanced encryption Headquarters: Armonk, New York Founded: 1911 Annual Revenue: $61.9 Visit CrowdStrike 6.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In 2016, alleged Asian threat actors targeted ThyssenKrupp to steal company secrets. The investigators speculated the attack was carried out by a group of professional hackers from Southeast Asia that were interested in the technological know-how and research activities of the company.

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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. This is similar to the frequent disclosure of S3 buckets, available publicly with no encryption, that happened throughout 2019 and 2020,” Zheng said. Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 23, 2019

If you’re like millions of other Americans, your TV is connected to the Internet and uses technology generated from the nation’s power grid. Disruptions to Ukraine’s power system in 2015 and 2016 were attributed to a cyberattack and led to power outages affecting hundreds of thousands of people. The Rising Threat.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The group operated under the control of the GRU’s Main Centre of Special Technologies (aka ‘GTsST’ or field post number 74455). The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election. It resulted in a fifth of Kyiv losing power for an hour.

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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 22, 2020

New EU restrictions could force companies to change data transfer practices and adopt more advanced data encryption methods. The 2016 agreement enabled trans-Atlantic commercial data transfers, but the court said U.S. Then evaluate and deploy practical and highly scalable quantum-safe technologies that are available today.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Additionally, McKinsey pointed out that investment in virtual care and digital health fueled innovation, finding that venture capital firms tripled investments in digital health technologies in 2020 as compared to 2017. Apply encryption. Encryption for HIPAA-compliant apps includes both data-in-transit and data-at-rest.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 31, 2021

A Cyber Attack on one of the technology suppliers to Canada Post has reportedly resulted in the leak of information of more than 950,000 customers. Unconfirmed sources say that the firm was hit by a ransomware attack where hackers infiltrated the database, stole a portion of data, and then encrypted the database until a ransom is paid. .

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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. Once launched, the ransomware iterates through a list of files and encrypts them with an encryption algorithm, with the. 024BTC (~$720 USD as of June 2022).

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2019

Nor has anyone accepted accountability for encrypting any of the fresh flows of data, whether in transit or at rest. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) spent four years hammering out a framework for arriving at an appropriate level of IoT security, issuing NIST Special Publication 800–160 , in late 2016.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2020

In a few days back, the MalwareMustDie team’s security researcher unixfreaxjp has published a new Linux malware analysis of Fbot that has focused on the decryption of the last encryption logic used by its bot client. This wave is a significant timeline as a technology step-up for DDoS botnet and IoT malware development.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

As a leading VC, BVP offers budding companies plenty to consider, with a set of roadmaps and tools for today’s technologies and market complexities. Company Sector Year Status Verodin Cybersecurity analytics 2018 Acquired by FireEye Kenna Security Risk management 2018 Acquired by Cisco PhishMe Incident response 2016 Acquired: P.E.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In 2016, alleged Asian threat actors targeted ThyssenKrupp to steal company secrets. The investigators speculated the attack was carried out by a group of professional hackers from Southeast Asia that were interested in the technological know-how and research activities of the company. Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Forcepoint has added to its CASB offerings with technology acquisitions from Imperva and Bitglass. For the Forrester Wave for Cloud Security Gateways, Imperva was a Contender in 2016 and 2017, and Forcepoint was a Strong Performer in 2021. Security functionality for DLP, discovery, encryption, and digital rights management.

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