Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2023

“APT28 has been known to access vulnerable routers by using default and weak SNMP community strings, and by exploiting CVE-2017-6742 (Cisco Bug ID: CSCve54313) as published by Cisco.” SNMP v2 doesn’t support encryption and so all data, including community strings, is sent unencrypted.” ” continues the advisory.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Cybersecurity firm Positive Technologies found 88 new IAB sales on dark web marketplaces in the first quarter of 2020, compared to just three in all of 2017. It’s far easier to steal and encrypt sensitive data when someone else manages the first and hardest step in the breach process. As IABs continue to grow, so will ransomware.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2021

Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) attributes this campaign with high confidence to ZINC, a DPRK-affiliated and state-sponsored group, based on observed tradecraft, infrastructure, malware patterns, and account affiliations.” Attackers used Twitter profiles for sharing links to a blog under their control ( br0vvnn[.]io

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Recently, security researcher Fabian Wosar opened a dedicated Jabber account for disgruntled cybercriminals to reach out anonymously and he stated that there was a high level of response. Challenge: Using a PHP stack+MYSQL+Bootstrap, code a standard ransomware operators’ blog in THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE with the following pages: 1) About us.

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Elie

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

This blog post shed light on the inner workings of the ransomsphere economics and exposes which cybercriminal groups are the biggest earners. This is the second blog post in my series about ransomware economics. previous blog post about our methodology. The first post. final post. You can check out the slides.

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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

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

” states a blog post published on The Information. “If Instagram were storing passwords with the right encryption technology, this type of flaw shouldn’t be possible, according to Chet Wisniewski, principal research scientist at security firm Sophos.” ” continues The Information. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 1, 2018

Using the same exploit, hackers released the NotPetya attack in June 2017 which infected computers in over 100 countries worldwide. According to our recent Global Encryption Trends Study , 67% of organizations cite data discovery as one of the biggest areas of challenge when deploying encryption.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

In May 2017, the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA) rolled out its Cyber Security Framework mandating detailed data security rules, including a requirement to encrypt and containerize business data in all computing formats. This column originally appeared on Avast Blog.). Cyber hygiene isn’t difficult.

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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The 2017 bill, the first of its kind, will be fully implemented as of March 1st, 2019. Leading up to that date, companies have had to meet several milestones including hiring a CISO, encrypting all its non-public consumer data and enabling multi-factor authentication. Visit our dedicated landing page here.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 31, 2023

This blog was jointly written with Alejandro Prada and Ofer Caspi. It has been historically associated with malicious activity performed by threat actors, APT groups (like in this Mandiant report from 2017), or government attacks (in this report by Unit42 in 2017). in March 2023, which is the most current version.

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Elie

OCTOBER 13, 2017

This blog post exposes the cybercriminal groups that dominate the ransomware underworld, and analyzes the reasons for their success. This is the third and final blog post of my series on ransomware economics. In 2017, Cerber overtook Locky as the king of the hill, thanks to its innovative affiliate business model.

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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

out of 5 stars on Chrome web store, 9 out of 10 pairs of participants failed to complete the assigned task of exchanging encrypted emails, i.e. 90% failure rate. The most common mistake that repeatedly occurred in all of these studies [13,14,15] was to encrypt a message with the sender’s public key. This type of scheme (e.g., [8,9])

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2019

billion IoT devices in use as of 2017, half are consumer gadgets, like smart TVs, speakers, watches, baby cams and home thermostats; much of the rest is made up of things like smart electric meters and security cameras in corporate and government use. This column originally appeared on Avast Blog.).

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Webroot

MARCH 15, 2021

Drafted by the Internet Engineering Task Force (ITEF) in 1998, it became an Internet Standard in 2017. On the other hand, IPv6 is based on 128-bit encryption. Device manufacturers, too, should look to account for accelerated IPv6 adoption when it comes to securing their products. IPv6 has been a long time coming.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 17, 2018

— SignNow (@signnow) September 6, 2017. Having watched this pattern play out over the years, the offending Twitter accounts do seem to eventually realise that the strategy is either ineffective or simply pisses too many people off and cease the spam after a little while. It's the same deal - targeted spam.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2019

The Necurs botnet was not active for a long period at the beginning of 2017 and resumed its activity in April 2017 when it was observed using a new technique to avoid detection. ” reads a blog post published by the firm. ” continues the blog post. “At times, they’ve been known to be inactive for weeks.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

group_a : from 2016 to August 2017 2. group_b : from August 2017 to January 2018 3. Indeed during the group_a, the main observed delivery techniques where about Phishing (rif.T1193) and Valid Accounts (rif.T1078). Many techniques have been used since August 2017 such as: Command Line Interface (rif. T1027), WebShell (rif.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In this blog, we’ll discuss what cyberattacks are, the most common types of attacks your website is likely to face, and most importantly, how you can prevent them. You’ve likely read about high-profile cyberattacks in the headlines after a major data breach, such as the Equifax breach in 2017. What is a cyberattack? Ransomware.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

According to Gartner, by 2020, more than 25% of identified enterprise attacks will involve IoT , though IoT is expected to account for only 10% of IT security budgets. Given the importance of PKI and digital certificates in the age of the IoT, I wanted to share some findings from our 2017 Global PKI Trends Study.

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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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The Last Watchdog

JULY 25, 2019

Meanwhile, details of Alexsey Belan’s Russian-backed escapades came to light in March 2017 when the FBI indicted Belan and three co-conspirators in connection with hacking Yahoo to pilfer more than 500 million email addresses and gain deep access to more than 30 million Yahoo accounts. presidential elections.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

If you have a blog on your site, pay special attention to the comment section; attackers often use it to flood a site with nefarious or irrelevant links, which damages your reputation and your site’s domain authority. Once these critical files are encrypted, you’ll get an alert notifying you that decryption will occur once you pay a ransom.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2020

This vulnerability was addressed in Dec 2017 in the 4.14 ” reads a blog post published by Stone. Collected data is encrypted using RSA and AES encryption algorithms, then it is sent to the C&C server. Experts warn it could potentially allow to fully compromise the device. LTS kernel [1], AOSP android 3.18

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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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SecureList

MARCH 30, 2021

A month later, we discovered new activities from A41APT that utilized modified and updated payloads, and that’s what we cover in this blog. Encrypted Ecipekac Layer II loader (shellcode). Encrypted Ecipekac Layer IV loader (shellcode). 2017-02-24 15:47:04. size of encrypted data. Ecipekac Layer I loader.

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SecureList

MARCH 28, 2023

Although we have written about a similar malware attack in 2017 in one of our blogposts , the technique is still very relevant today as it doesn’t have any perfect solution from the perspective of operating system design. It all started from banking trojans focused on specific banks and replacing bank account numbers in the clipboard.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 20, 2017

I try the "report abuse" feature (the closest thing I could find to a contact form) except that error'd out because I allegedly had an account with them and wasn't logged on (I later learned that someone else had created an account using my email address). — Michael Kan (@Michael_Kan) February 28, 2017.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

KeyPlug is a modular backdoor with the capability of communicating to its server via several network communication protocols set in its XOR-encrypted embedded configuration block. Where CVE-2017-0261 was used before, CVE-2017-11228 replaces it. Other interesting discoveries.

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Elie

MARCH 17, 2018

in December 2017. This file is encrypted with a hardcoded [XOR encryption] function. This encryption is used to escape the signatures that detect the code that Gooligan borrows from previous malware. Encrypting malicious payload is a very old malware trick that has been used by. As this post builds on the.

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Elie

MARCH 17, 2018

in December 2017. This file is encrypted with a hardcoded [XOR encryption] function. This encryption is used to escape the signatures that detect the code that Gooligan borrows from previous malware. Encrypting malicious payload is a very old malware trick that has been used by. As this post builds on the.

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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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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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SecureList

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Contact us to lose your money or account! In 2020, Bitcoin blackmailers stuck to their old scheme, demanding that their victims transfer money to a certain account and threatening adversity for failure to meet their demands. Viewing the file required entering the password to the recipient’s corporate email account.

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