Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2022

prompts users to choose a multi-factor authentication (MFA) option. When the MFA option is verified, the system produces a one-time backup code and suggests you save that in a safe place in case your chosen MFA option is unavailable the next time you try to use a service that requires ID.me. After confirmation, ID.me

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

“Upon gaining an initial foothold into a telecommunications organization or network service provider, PRC state-sponsored cyber actors have identified critical users and infrastructure including systems critical to maintaining the security of authentication, authorization, and accounting. Enforce MFA on all VPN connections [ D3-MFA ].

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 6, 2023

Notable Ransomware Attacks CryptoLocker ushered in the modern ransomware age in 2013, and in 2017, the devastating WannaCry and NotPetya ransomware attacks raised the threat’s profile significantly. Multifactor authentication (MFA) can protect critical applications and devices, as can zero trust security principles.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2019

” Experts recommend to have secure working backup procedures, in case of attack, victims could simply recover data from a backup. 2017- NotPetya leveraged the EternalBlue exploit to spread to vulnerable systems. 2017 – anti-Israel & pro-Palestinian data wiper dubbed IsraBye that is spread as a ransomware.

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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. Challenges toward post-quantum cryptography: confidentiality and authentication. Machine identity is essential for security.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 7, 2021

As recently as 2017, a tiny amount of GMail users made use of its two-step options. Make yourself some backup codes, print them off, put them somewhere safe in case you lose master password access. If you use a Google account, it may soon be mandatory to sign up to Google’s two-step verification program.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2022

The NCSC is investigating recent cyber attacks against entities in Ukraine making parallelism with other attacks preciously attributed to Moscow, such as NotPetya (2017) and cyber attacks against Georgia. . improve access controls and enabling multi-factor authentication;? check that backups and restore mechanisms are working;?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In the early afternoon of Friday 12 May 2017, the media broke the news of a global computer security attack carried out through a malicious code capable of encrypting data residing in information systems and demanding a ransom in cryptocurrency to restore them, the Wannacry ransomware.

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Malware Computers and Electronics Encryption Ransomware 92

Hot for Security

MARCH 29, 2021

River City Media (RCM) is a US-based email marketing company that made headlines in March 2017 after exposing 1.4 billion individual records online due to an improperly configured backup. Who is River City Media, and what information was exposed in the breach?

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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. But this is easier said than done.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 8, 2023

DNS communicates in plain text and, without modification, DNS assumes that all information it receives is accurate, authentic, and authoritative. To protect the protocol, best practices will add additional protocols to the process that encrypt the DNS communication and authenticate the results. Local backups for quick access.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 9, 2024

Just like in 2017, when thousands of customers defected from small package delivery company TNT Express (now owned by FedEx) to DHL in the aftermath of the $10 billion NotPetya cyberattack, it's likely most of them will not return to Change.

Healthcare 96

Healthcare Computers and Electronics Insurance Hacking 96

Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2023

or face the risk of authenticated users (think of standard e-commerce customers) achieving total control of websites by exploiting Broken Access Control — the most severe of OWASP’s Top 10 risks. Cybersecurity firm Sucuri has been tracking Balada Injector activity since 2017 but has only recently given this long-running campaign its name.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2022

Enforce multifactor authentication for all remote access to ICS networks and devices whenever possible. Maintain known-good offline backups for faster recovery upon a disruptive attack, and conduct hashing and integrity checks on firmware and controller configuration files to ensure validity of those backups.

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 2, 2019

Cryptocurrency retreat will make ransomware less profitable: The gold rush for bitcoin and similar currencies went hand-in-hand with a plague of ransomware: Bitcoin’s peak at close to $20,000 in value in 2017 coincided with a 400% increase in ransomware attacks.

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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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Ransomware Phishing Accountability Technology 71

SecureWorld News

APRIL 4, 2022

Before leakware came doxware, which was popular in 2016 and 2017. These cybersecurity practices include using unique passwords, multi-factor authentication (MFA), data backups, secure Wi-Fi networks, and anti-virus software. Sometimes, leakware is used in tandem with a ransomware attack to up the ante.

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Digital transformation Ransomware Phishing Small Business 78

SC Magazine

MARCH 15, 2021

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. 11 of 2017, Sensenich began observing signs of abnormal network behavior. And so as long as Google wants to hold it, why not?”.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 15, 2018

The Cloud is one of the most rapidly growing computing technologies of modern times and global spending on cloud technologies is expected to reach $250 billion by 2017. In fact, data stored in the cloud is just as susceptible to loss or corruption as data stored on traditional media, and it is vital to have a secure backup plan in place.

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IT Security Guru

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

and up to $100m (due to the Russian NotPetya attacks in 2017) provoked insurers to tighten terminology on ‘state actor’ attacks to further limit their risk exposure, while simultaneously raising premiums. The growth in ransomware attacks is to blame for the rapid premium hike. How is cyber insurance changing? The former resulted in a $1.4b

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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. To safeguard ourselves against any chosen cipher text attacks, we should only be focused on using Authenticated Encryption schemes. authenticated encryption schemes: AES-GCM and ChaCha20-Poly1305. Java offers two??authenticated

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Encryption Authentication Architecture Engineering 82

Spinone

OCTOBER 13, 2020

As is often the case, the cost of restoring files from backups can amount to more than paying the ransom. National Security Agency tool that was leaked by the hacker group “Shadow Brokers” in 2017. Backups aren’t working. Ransomware today can actually look for backup files along with user data.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 8, 2020

It's not always legit, mind you, and I invest a great deal of effort in establishing the authenticity of an alleged breach before loading it into Have I Been Pwned (HIBP). A couple of days later and without response, I sought the support of Tefo Mohapi , a journalist in South Africa I worked with on the massive Master Deeds breach in 2017.

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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. Taking a look at the Equifax breach discovered in July of 2017, initial reports showed that Social Security Numbers, birth dates, addresses, and driver’s license numbers were accessed.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 25, 2022

This attack framework was described in great depth in December 2017 by Mandiant in their report " Attackers Deploy New ICS Attack Framework 'Triton' and Cause Operational Disruption to Critical Infrastructure. The White House also released a FACT SHEET: Act Now to Protect Against Potential Cyberattacks.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 8, 2022

BitPaymer, first seen in 2017 targeting UK hospitals, is somewhat unique in that it uses a unique encryption key, ransom note, and contact information for each operation. Offline backups. Offline Backups Ransomware is a highly profitable industry , and most APTs have realized this. Among them are: Removal from network access.

Social Engineering 72

Social Engineering Backups Malware Ransomware 72

SecureList

MAY 19, 2023

From the WmiPrvSE.exe process, it makes a backup of the VFS file, copying mods.lrc to mods.lrs. The module’s configuration includes OAuth tokens required for cloud storage authentication. While searching through older telemetry data, we were able to identify multiple installers that were used from 2017 to 2020.

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Encryption Malware Internet Internet 96

Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

The earliest and longest lasting intrusion by this threat we observed, was at a company in the semiconductors industry in Europe and started early Q4 2017. The threat used valid accounts against remote services: Cloud-based applications utilizing federated authentication protocols. Credential access (TA0006). Account discovery (T1087).

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

From a GUI enterprise manager to advanced logical replication, backup and recovery, and a migration toolkit, EDB is a go-to vendor for all Postgre database administrators. For control access, authorization grants users least privilege while the Azure Active Directory manages authentication at the database level.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2022

The first traditional cybersecurity vendor featured is Barracuda Networks, with consistent recognition for its email security , next-generation firewalls ( NGFW ), web application security , and backups. Features: Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Secure SD-WAN. Open Systems. Features: Open Systems Secure SD-WAN and SASE.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

For example, if your bank verifies that you are indeed who you say you are by asking you for your date of birth yet that's appeared in a data breach, how sound is it as a knowledge-based authentication (KBA) attribute?

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 21, 2020

Your recent white paper shows it’s still at as high a level as in 2017? For example, this could be adding protection to servers where it might have been absent in the past, or implementing multi-factor authentication for all your externally facing accounts and services. LW: Shifting gears a bit, what’s going on with ransomware?

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McAfee

AUGUST 24, 2021

CVE-2021-33885 – Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity (CVSS 9.7). CVE-2021-33882 – Missing Authentication for Critical Function (CVSS 8.2). Braun Infusomat system were released in 2017. This is even more important since we are working on a software released in 2017. Braun on January 11, 2021.

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Computers and Electronics Authentication Software Risk 145

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 22, 2020

According to the TechTarget Network , HSMs are used to provision cryptographic keys for critical functions such as encryption, decryption and authentication for the use of applications, identities and databases (taken from whatis). Use Cases of Hardware Security Modules. To find out more, sign up for DPoD cloud HSM services.

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Encryption Marketing Software Architecture 144

Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Parrot TDS is the fake update malware campaign, active since 2017, that works by injecting malicious JavaScript code into poorly secured content management systems CMS (i.e. Use two-factor authentication whenever possible, especially on sensitive accounts such as those used for banking. Case 5: Parrot TDS fake updates malware.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This type of rootkit was developed as a proof of concept in 2006, but in 2017, researcher Joseph Connelly designed nested virtual machine rootkit CloudSkulk as part of his Masters degree work at Boise State University. using strong authentication. The rootkit does not have to modify the kernel to subvert the operating system.

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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. When a scenario like that occurs, it’s important to have triage and backup procedures in place to minimize the overall damage a cyber attack can deal to your business.

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