Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 10, 2021

In 2017, Tesla sent an over-the-air update to their Model S and X vehicles to extend maximum battery capacity and driving range, which allowed owners to drive an extra 30 miles outside the evacuation area as Hurricane Irma was bearing down on Florida. The same rings true for encryption and authentication. Security isn’t static.

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SiteLock

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Back in 2017, a ransomware outbreak paralyzed several organizations in Russia and Ukraine, with cases also occurring in Turkey, Germany, Bulgaria and Japan. Designed to encrypt and lock files, Bad Rabbit is a type of ransomware that spreads through “drive-by-attacks” where insecure websites are compromised. Here’s a hint: not much.

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IT Security Guru

AUGUST 17, 2023

Health and Social Care Systems Unfortunately, the UK has seen several cyberattacks on its healthcare infrastructure – the largest example being the widely-publicised WannaCry ransomware attack in 2017. Companies should also have security event monitoring in place to detect and block anomalous privilege escalation.

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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. Well, it did exist , but was never officially adopted because it used the same 32-bit architecture as its predecessor. IPv6 has been a long time coming.

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IT Security Guru

JULY 19, 2021

Our own research report, the State of Encrypted Attacks Report 2020 , found that there had been a 500 per cent rise in ransomware compared to 2019. It’s clear then that ransomware didn’t reach its zenith with WannaCry back in 2017 but remains a disruptive and profitable threat to business operations.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 19, 2023

Since then Portnox continued to add capabilities, launched the first cloud-native NAC in 2017, and now offers a NAC SaaS solution, Portnox Cloud. For example, encryption keys, administrator passwords, and other critical information are stored in the Azure Key Vault in FIPS 140-2 Level 2-validated hardware security modules (HSMs).

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Daniel Miessler

DECEMBER 24, 2022

After initiating an immediate investigation, we have seen no evidence that this incident involved any access to customer data or encrypted password vaults. That’s the natural place for core functionality, which I wrote about in 2017. So basically: Minor incident, but no customer data or vaults were lost.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

All of your files are encrypted with RSA-2048 and AES-128 ciphers.” ” Or you might see a readme.txt stating, “Your files have been replaced by these encrypted containers and aren’t accessible; you will lose your files on [enter date] unless you pay $2500 in Bitcoin.” IMPORTANT INFORMATION !!!

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 8, 2022

The idea is to standardize on both a public-key encryption and digital signature algorithm that is resistant to quantum computing, well before anyone builds a useful quantum computer. In 2017, NIST received eighty-two post-quantum algorithm submissions from all over the world. The second uncertainly is in the algorithms themselves.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

In 2017, North Korea-linked hackers launched WannaCry, a fast-spreading wormable ransomware likely intended to generate revenue for a regime rocked by sanctions. And allies often want to help – an important factor given the global architecture of many ransomware campaigns. Part of the problem is technical.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 27, 2022

A broad range of options and obfuscation architectures are available to significantly inhibit tracking and analysis of stolen funds. Not all obfuscation architectures are discussed here. A Variety of Services Provide Threat Actors With Anonymity When Transfering Crypto Assets.

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SecureList

MAY 6, 2021

The architecture of the Moriya rootkit. Its binary is bundled as two driver images within the DLL’s resource section, corresponding to 32- and 64-bit architectures, while in reality only one of them is written to disk. All traffic passed on the channel is encoded with a simple encryption scheme. User mode agent analysis.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Information Technology research and advisory company, Gartner, presented its top predictions for the cybersecurity industry for 2017 earlier this year. Adoption of Adaptive Security Architecture It’s no longer sufficient to install a firewall and the latest antivirus software and hope for the best.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 6, 2023

Ransomware is a type of malicious program, or malware, that encrypts files, documents and images on a computer or server so that users cannot access the data. These keys are available to the attacker, and the encryption can only be decrypted using a private key. How Does Ransomware Work?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

As per a study conducted by Tel Aviv University, a wide range of Samsung Smart Phones across multiple generations are being released into the market with a major security flaw and the concern is that vulnerability has been existing since 2017- the year when the Galaxy S8 made its first debut.

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Veracode Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

In 2017, we started a blog series talking about how to securely implement a crypto-system in java. Generic to entire Java Cryptography Architecture (JCA). Looking at what we discussed in How to Get Started Using Java Cryptography Securely post, the central theme of Java Cryptography Architecture (JCA) [11] ??defining algorithms.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 8, 2023

To protect the protocol, best practices will add additional protocols to the process that encrypt the DNS communication and authenticate the results. DNS Encryption DNS encryption can be achieved through the DNSCrypt protocol, DNS over TLS (DoT), or DNS over HTTPS (DoH). Firewalls should be hardened to close unneeded ports.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Vamosi: I mentioned that Guido started fuzzing cryptography, which is the art of encryption, and it is a well established science. And one thing that always amazes me about cryptography is that you can publicly share the algorithm for any encryption schema. It's basically 2017. It’s not a secret. Remember WEP?

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 15, 2023

Enter Mystic Stealer, a fresh stealer lurking in the cyber sphere, noted for its data theft capabilities, obfuscation, and an encrypted binary protocol to enable it to stay under the radar and evade defenses. Example Mystic Stealer constant obfuscation technique Encrypted binary custom protocol. All data is encrypted with RC4.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2019

Palo Alto Networks researchers discovered a new variant of the Mirai malware that is targeting more processor architectures than previous ones. Mirai botnet continues to be one of the most dangerous malware in the threat landscape, experts at Palo Alto Networks discovered a new variant that targets more processor architectures than before.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 22, 2020

Organizations are actively working to prevent data breaches by encrypting their sensitive information. Encryption isn’t a foolproof security measure, however. If attackers get control of an organization’s encryption keys, for instance, they can use them to decrypt its data and thereby steal its plaintext contents.

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Fox IT

JUNE 23, 2020

Evil Corp were previously associated to the Dridex malware and BitPaymer ransomware, the latter came to prominence in the first half of 2017. Hence, TA505 activity is sometimes still reported as Evil Corp activity, even though these groups have not worked together since the second half of 2017. WastedLocker Ransomware.

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2018

The FELIXROOT backdoor was first spotted by FireEye in September 2017, when attackers used it in attacks targeting Ukrainians. The documents include code to exploit known Microsoft Office vulnerabilities CVE-2017-0199 and CVE-2017-11882 to drop and execute the backdoor binary. ” reads the analysis published by FireEye.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 4, 2021

In one report from 2017, it was estimated that ransomware costs would increase globally by billions of dollars each year. However, with the emergence of new strains of ransomware that exfiltrate data prior to encrypting it, access control for accounts becomes increasingly important. The Early Models.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Applications have become more complex, their architecture better. We are yet to see what will happen to those cybercriminals who were jailed in 2016-2017 and will be released into a world where their skillsets are no longer in demand. Vulnerabilities market got a remake.

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Pen Test

OCTOBER 10, 2023

A particularly insidious new trend is the rise of "double extortion" attacks, in which cybercriminals not only encrypt an organization's data but also threaten to publicly release sensitive stolen information if the ransom is not paid. CryptoLocker, in 2013, pioneered the use of strong encryption algorithms. Don't let patching lag.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 22, 2018

TrustLook stipulates that 38% of ransomware victims pay ransom , resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars in payouts in 2016 and 2017. That encryption is highly effective. Why do criminals understand the effectiveness of encryption and we as enterprise strategists do not? For one, companies are still paying ransoms.

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SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

Further investigation of the Sunburst backdoor revealed several features that overlap with a previously identified backdoor known as Kazuar , a.NET backdoor first reported in 2017 and tentatively linked to the Turla APT group. Ransomware encrypting virtual hard disks. macOS developments.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 23, 2021

Encrypted user vaults were not jeopardized, but there was still a considerable risk that hackers could gain access using the compromised data if users didn’t change their passwords again. Reports of less severe vulnerabilities surfaced in 2016, 2017, 2019, and 2021. LastPass pricing.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The bot includes exploits for Oracle WebLogic Server vulnerabilities CVE-2019-2725 and CVE-2017-10271 , and the Drupal RCE flaw tracked as CVE-2018-7600. The payload is named “pty” followed by a number used to map the architecture. Researchers from Lacework have analyzed the attack chain implemented by the Muhstik bot.

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Kali Linux

MARCH 28, 2023

Then sign off on it, by adding our digital signatures to the packages (so it came from us and not tampered/altered by any malicious party), before uploading the package source to the build bots, which will re-compile it for every supported architecture. ARM - multi architecture Since BackTrack 4, the option was there for ARM support.

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Cisco Security

APRIL 29, 2021

Basically, it took months of planning and execution which included ordering circuits, getting connectivity up and spending hours, and sometimes days, deploying complex configurations to secure the connectivity by establishing encrypted tunnels and steering the right traffic across them. Obviously, all this work was manual. Why Cisco Viptela?

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Spinone

JULY 8, 2020

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. When thinking about making Gmail email compliant with HIPAA, organizations need to use end-to-end encryption for email communications. Google does offer S/MIME email encryption.

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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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Q: If a ransomware attack happens on your system(s) and all the data is encrypted, is it possible that the hacker has total control of your system(s), meaning administrative privileges? Since all the system data is encrypted, the hackers have admin/root privileges. With ransomware, do hackers control your system?

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Cisco Security

MAY 10, 2021

In 2017, the wiper malware NotPetya is believed to have begun its spread by leveraging the update system of the Ukrainian tax software, M.E.Doc. As an integrated security architecture that automates integrations across Cisco Security products, it greatly simplifies threat investigations and responses.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Javali trojan is active since November 2017 and targets users of financial and banking organizations geolocated in Brazil and Mexico. Criminals also used a public library called DCPCrypt – a library responsible for encrypting buffers with various algorithms. Background of Latin American Trojans.

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