eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Encryption uses mathematical algorithms to transform and encode data so that only authorized parties can access it. What Encryption Is and How It Relates to Cryptology The science of cryptography studies codes, how to create them, and how to solve them. How Does Encryption Process Data? How Does Encryption Process Data?

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SecureList

MAY 19, 2023

From the WmiPrvSE.exe process, it makes a backup of the VFS file, copying mods.lrc to mods.lrs. Encryption and communication As we have mentioned above, two modules (Crypton.dll and Internet.dll) are bundled with every installation of the CloudWizard framework. module execution results) is encrypted with a combination of AES and RSA.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 10, 2022

Observed since: October 2017 Ransomware note: readme.txt Ransomware extension: dihlxbl Kill Chain: Being Distributed via Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome (Korean users) Sample hash: 06ea8f2b8b70b665cbecab797125733f75014052d710515c5ca2d908f3852349. Use double authentication when logging into accounts or services. Mitigations.

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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. Government Accountability Office (GAO) data, 13 of the 16 agencies involved in the study reported a total cost savings of $291 million from using cloud services.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 15, 2021

If you account for the unknown attacks that were never reported, the true number is likely 10 to 20 times greater, Levin estimated. Kacey Sensenich, chief technology officer at Rockingham County Schools (25 schools, 11,691 students in the 2019-2020 school year), ran up against an Emotet trojan infection in December 2017.

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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 Q3 2017, SiteLock discovered alarming cybercrime trends that will likely affect websites for months to come. That’s not all: cybercriminals attempted to compromise more websites in Q3 2017 than in the previous quarter, increasing their attempted attacks by 16 percent. In Q2 2017, backdoors accounted for 23 percent of malware files.

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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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Elie

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The findings presented in this post were originally presented at Blackhat USA 2017 in a talk entitled “Tracking desktop ransomware payments end-to-end.” This undercounting is due to the fact that we only take into account the bitcoin transactions that we can directly trace back to the ransomware binaries we know of, as explained in the.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2018

The campaign appears as targeted and well-planned, crooks targeted several enterprises and encrypted hundreds of PC, storage and data centers in each infected company. ” The HERMES ransomware was first spotted in October 2017 when it was involved in a targeted attack against the Far Eastern International Bank (FEIB) in Taiwan.

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

After obtaining a valid account, they use this account to access the victim’s VPN, Citrix or another remote service that allows access to the network of the victim. Information regarding these remotes services is taken from the mailbox, cloud drive, or other cloud resources accessible by the compromised account.

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Errata Security

AUGUST 4, 2019

These are the things I worry about: backup before you go update before you go correctly locking your devices with full disk encryption correctly configuring WiFi Bluetooth devices Mobile phone vs. Stingrays USB Backup Traveling means a higher chance of losing your device. I deal with this on my MacBook by having two accounts.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

As you can see in the chart below from Statista, data breaches rose more than tenfold between 2005 and 2017. Now think about the type of data you enter when you create a new account on a website. In 2013, Yahoo was the target of what is still the largest breach of data in history, with over 3 billion accounts getting compromised.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

According to Constella, this email address was used in 2010 to register an account for a Dmitry Yurievich Khoroshev from Voronezh, Russia at the hosting provider firstvds.ru. 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. Image: Shutterstock.

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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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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

According to statistics from the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report , complaints to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have been rising since 2017. Often, a scammer will simply target the people in a company and fool them into giving up their personal details, account passwords, and other sensitive information and gain access that way.

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SecureList

JANUARY 13, 2022

In some cases, we saw what looked like the compromise of an existing registered company and the subsequent use of its resources such as social media accounts, messengers and email to initiate business interaction with the target. We found they generally stick to CVE-2017-0199, using it again and again before trying something else.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The Global State of Information Security Survey 2017 suggests that companies should look into deploying threat detection tools and processes (including monitoring and analyzing security intelligence information), conducting vulnerability and threat assessments, penetration tests and security information, and event management (SIEM) tools.

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Elie

MARCH 10, 2018

fake phone verified accounts. , from Check Point, at Botconf in December 2017, on the subject. tokens are the de facto standard for granting apps and devices restricted access to online accounts without sharing passwords and with a limited set of privileges. This APK embedded a secondary hidden/encrypted payload.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2022

If you created an online account to manage your tax records with the U.S. account and share the experience here. account). Perhaps in light of that 2017 megabreach, many readers will be rightfully concerned about being forced to provide so much sensitive information to a relatively unknown private company.

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Elie

MARCH 10, 2018

fake phone verified accounts. , in December 2017, on the subject. tokens are the de facto standard for granting apps and devices restricted access to online accounts without sharing passwords and with a limited set of privileges. This APK embedded a secondary hidden/encrypted payload. study of HTTPS interception. ,

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

ValidCC, circa 2017. SPR claims his site lost access to a significant inventory — more than 600,000 unsold stolen payment card accounts. “As a result, we lost the proxy and destination backup servers,” SPR explained. The database is in the hands of the police, but it’s encrypted.”

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Spinone

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

2017 was another year of continuous progress and achievement for Spinbackup. Google Team Drives Backup Spinbackup was the world’s first vendor to introduce backup and recovery features for Google Team Drives.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In the first week of January, the pharmaceutical giant Merck quietly settled its years-long lawsuit over whether or not its property and casualty insurers would cover a $700 million claim filed after the devastating NotPetya cyberattack in 2017.

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Spinone

JULY 8, 2020

An extremely important compliance regulation today is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)? While it has stopped doing this circa 2017, there is nothing to prevent Google from doing this again in the future with a free G Suite plan.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Ransomware protection is ultimately important as it smart and advanced type of malware is on the rise, with cases increasing by a shocking 6,800% in 2017. When the virus infects a computer, Ransomware encrypts all files on it and those stored at cloud storages such as Google Drive , One Drive, Dropbox are not an exclusion.

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 2, 2019

SIM-jacking or SIM swap fraud will increase: This sophisticated attack allows a hacker to steal your cell phone number and with that, any account associated with it. As the exchange rates for cyptocurrencies continue to decline, ransomware attack on investors will become less profitable.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Whether it is synchronized files from on-premises to cloud environments or the risk of encryption of cloud email, ransomware is a real threat to your data. As is often the case, the cost of restoring files from backups can amount to more than paying the ransom. How much can ransomware cost your business? Eternal Blue is a U.S.

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Spinone

JANUARY 27, 2019

This includes such critical capabilities as backing up mission critical data, controlling data locality of both production and backup data. One of the worst data breaches in history happened in 2017 with the Equifax data breach. This can certainly include the location of data backups.

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Spinone

JANUARY 20, 2020

Some estimates of the damages exceed one billion dollars, taking into account data loss, service outages, disrupted operations, and recovery. In this article, we will take a detailed look at how ransomware works, how your data can be corrupted and encrypted by it, and what you can do to decrease this probability as much as possible!

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Spinone

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Effective Cloud to Cloud Backups One of the most effective means of cybersecurity that often is overlooked is backups. Backups in themselves are a security mechanism. Backups also protect against intentional damage to data caused by a disgruntled employee or an attacker. This can protect against accidental damage to data.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 21, 2020

Furthermore, 50% encountered ransomware and other malware; 29% reported incidents of data getting exposed; 25% had accounts compromised; and 17% dealt with incidents of crypto-jacking. These protocols need to be accounted for. Your recent white paper shows it’s still at as high a level as in 2017?

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Spinone

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This might be your boss, or somebody from HR, IT, or accounting departments. Instead of making itself known by encrypting files and displaying a ransom note, ransomware quietly stays in your system and scans the network for other vulnerabilities. It encrypts your files and displays a typical ransom note.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Security services and tools include anti-DDoS , SOCaaS , web application firewalls (WAF), data encryption , and more. Other features include applying secure socket layer (SSL) or transport layer security (TLS) and AES-256 encryption. Also Read: Best Encryption Software & Tools for 2021. EnterpriseDB.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In 2017, more than 300,000 WordPress websites were affected by a malicious plugin that allowed an attacker to place embedded hidden links on victim websites. By obtaining sensitive authentication access, attackers can break into the vendor network or user account. Bots and Botnets. How to Defend Against a Keylogger.

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SecureList

MAY 12, 2021

To ensure that their ability to restore encrypted files would never be questioned, they cultivated an online presence, wrote press releases and generally made sure their name would be known to all potential victims. Botmasters and account resellers are tasked with providing initial access inside the victim’s network.

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McAfee

AUGUST 24, 2021

Braun Infusomat system were released in 2017. This is even more important since we are working on a software released in 2017. The backup archive can then be downloaded for later restore of the settings. These models and the corresponding software for the B.

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