Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2022

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. . “INCONTROLLER represents an exceptionally rare and dangerous cyber attack capability. To nominate, please visit:?

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

To get this information, they’ll target sites you might not expect, such as blogs, small businesses and non-profits. Why Would a Cybercriminal Target a Blog? A small blog might seem like a random target, but not to cybercriminals. Use a website scanner to find SEO spam, vulnerabilities and malware on your website or blog.

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Small Business eCommerce Computers and Electronics Backups 52

Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

Perform regular data backup procedures and maintain up-to-date incident response and recovery procedures. sections “The Underdogs – Best Personal (non-commercial) Security Blog” and “The Tech Whizz – Best Technical Blog”). Disable external management capabilities and set up an out-of-band management network [ D3-NI ].

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Telecommunications Authentication Passwords Accountability 95

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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Pentester Academy

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Introduction In May 2017, a worldwide ransomware attack infamously known as WannaCry was set in motion. This ransomware made use of the EternalBlue , an exploit of Microsoft’s implementation of their SMB protocol, released by The Shadow Brokers hacker group in April 2017, to gain access to remote Windows machines in most cases.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Once it gets in the websites, it uploads a copy of the executable code: using this approach the malware keeps creating backup copies to increase its resiliency to takeovers. Analyzing other 2017’s threat reports, we noticed the address did not changed over time, different story for the email address. Ransomware Onion website.

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Ransomware Encryption Malware Advertising 75

Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

All of this process is completely transparent and open to the public: my written testimony will be made available publicly 48 hours before the hearing (I'll re-post it on this blog too), the whole things will be broadcast live on the day and members of the public can attend in person if they wish (ping me if you're in the area and plan on coming).

Data breaches 203

Data breaches InfoSec Backups IoT 203

Security Boulevard

JANUARY 21, 2022

In 2017, Formbook’s panel source was leaked, and subsequently, the threat actor behind Xloader moved to a different business model. Previous blog posts have analyzed various aspects of Formbook and Xloader’s obfuscation. In this blog post, we perform a detailed analysis of Xloader’s C2 network encryption and communication protocol.

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Encryption Malware Backups Passwords 126

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Additionally, you might have to rebuild some or all of your website from scratch if you don’t have a clean, recent backup to restore your site. Over 15 percent of malware attacks in Q4 2017 sought to exploit visitors for these resources. Q: If I get hacked, can’t I just upload the backup of my site? My website isn’t popular.

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Malware Backups Engineering Small Business 52

Daniel Miessler

DECEMBER 24, 2022

It started back in August of 2022 as a fairly common breach notification on a blog, but it, unfortunately, turned into more of a blog series. That’s the natural place for core functionality, which I wrote about in 2017. If you follow Information Security at all you are surely aware of the LastPass breach situation.

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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. observed Q2 2017 Cobalt Strike v3.12, observed Q3 2018 Cobalt Strike v3.14, observed Q2 2019. com Q4 2017 – Q4 0218 – C2 domain UsMobileSos[.]com slim.min.js

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Elie

MARCH 10, 2018

from Check Point, at Botconf in December 2017, on the subject. While those families are clearly related code-wise, we can't ascertain whether the same actor is behind all of them, because a lot of the shared features were extensively discussed in Chinese blogs. This series of posts is modeled after the talk I gave with. Oren Koriat.

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Malware Adware Accountability Backups 107

McAfee

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Some of the more notable cybersecurity breaches you may remember are Equifax back in 2017, Adobe in 2013, and Zynga (the company that makes Words with Friends) in 2019. The company should also perform frequent backups of key data and shut off old servers and virtual machines that aren’t being used anymore.

Cybersecurity 61

Cybersecurity Government Risk Penetration Testing 61

Elie

MARCH 10, 2018

in December 2017, on the subject. While those families are clearly related code-wise, we can't ascertain whether the same actor is behind all of them, because a lot of the shared features were extensively discussed in Chinese blogs. final post. discusses Gooligan various monetization schemas and its takedown. Oren Koriat.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

was used to register at least six domains, including a Russian business registered in Khoroshev’s name called tkaner.com , which is a blog about clothing and fabrics. “Cryptolockers made a lot of noise in the press, but lazy system administrators don’t make backups after that.

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Ransomware Cybercrime Accountability Malware 237

Spinone

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Ransomware Examples WannaCry was one of the major headliners in 2017. Petya was a reason behind many attacks during 2016 and 2017. In 2017, every 40 seconds someone got a ransomware infection. Follow the basic rules + use a backup to recover your data in the case of an attack + use ransomware prevention tools.

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Ransomware Cybersecurity Backups Social Engineering 52

Veracode Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

In 2017, we started a blog series talking about how to securely implement a crypto-system in java. would be broken and the worst world won't even have a fully vetted backup plan. Support for ChaCha20-Poly1305, promising backup plan for AES-GCM Authenticated Encryption. It takes two to ChaCha (Poly) - CloudFlare Blog Post.

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Encryption Authentication Architecture Engineering 82

Security Boulevard

MARCH 25, 2022

If you work there, skip this blog and go read their report first! 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. CISA/FBI and the New Era of Transparency.

Education 64

Education Government Malware Financial Services 64

McAfee

AUGUST 24, 2021

For a brief overview please see our summary blog here. 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. Table of Contents. Background. What are Infusion Pumps?

Computers and Electronics 145

Computers and Electronics Authentication Software Risk 145

Cisco Security

APRIL 29, 2021

As WAN services became more critical, businesses had to invest in expensive redundant links of which the secondary link was sitting idle designed as a backup link in case of a primary link failure. Cisco acquired Viptela, a leading SD-WAN provider in 2017. The rise of Cloud Computing. Why Cisco Viptela?

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Internet Internet Banking Backups 126

ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Vamosi: You’ve undoubtedly seen Kim Crawly’s work; her byline appears on a number of blogs from a number of different outlets. So for instance in 2017 during the whole WannaCry, and NotPetya phenomenon. Vamosi: WannaCry and NotPetya were ransomware campaigns in 2017. available wherever books are sold.

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Penetration Testing InfoSec Cyber Attacks Education 52

ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Vamosi: You’ve undoubtedly seen Kim Crawly’s work; her byline appears on a number of blogs from a number of different outlets. So for instance in 2017 during the whole WannaCry, and NotPetya phenomenon. Vamosi: WannaCry and NotPetya were ransomware campaigns in 2017. available wherever books are sold.

Penetration Testing 52

Penetration Testing InfoSec Cyber Attacks Education 52

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 22, 2020

Back in 2017, the company launched DPoD, a one-stop marketplace of cloud-based HSM, key management, and encryption solutions. The solution also helps to distribute workloads between on-premises and cloud-based environments, and to maintain a real-time, cloud-based backup of an organization’s cryptographic objects.

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Encryption Marketing Software Architecture 144

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. Backup G Suite – Backing up your G Suite environment containing protected health information (PHI) is critical to protecting PHI and other business-critical data from data loss.

Encryption 52

Encryption Backups Accountability Ransomware 52

Cisco Security

APRIL 29, 2021

As WAN services became more critical, businesses had to invest in expensive redundant links of which the secondary link was sitting idle designed as a backup link in case of a primary link failure. Cisco acquired Viptela, a leading SDWAN provider in 2017. The rise of Cloud Computing. Why Cisco Viptela?

Internet 86

Internet Internet Banking Backups 86

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.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

With many companies improving their incident response and ability to restore services through the use of backups, it is possible that the intentional breach of data is actually the more impactful side of a double extortion attack; according to research from 2022, the average cost of a data breach was USD 4.35

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Cyber threats Ransomware Media Data breaches 52

SecureList

MAY 12, 2021

In this regard, darknet forum offers have not changed much compared to 2017. If the victim decides not to pay their ransom, the REvil operators will start publishing the sensitive data of the attacked company on the.onion Happy Blog site. An example of a post on REvil’s blog that includes data stolen from the victim.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 14, 2018

Do note that I'm writing this before loading those 3 breaches; that'll happen immediately after I publish this blog post and they'll each reference it. I'm handed a 10GB MySQL backup file with 512k unique email addresses titled csgo_20171128.sql Level 1: Published Security Contact Info. sql which allegedly came from opencsgo.com.

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Data breaches Passwords Accountability Media 151

Troy Hunt

JANUARY 8, 2020

This is a blog post about disclosure, specifically the difficulty with doing it in a responsible fashion as the reporter whilst also ensuring the impacted organisation behaves responsibly themselves. He also wrote about the other betting operators implicated in the database backups and how there appeared to be a common thread across them.

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Data breaches Backups Firewall Hacking 309

Fox IT

MAY 4, 2021

In 2017, yet another new version was detected in the wild with a number of major modifications compared to the previous main variant: Rebranded RM loader (called RM3 ) Used exotic PE file format exclusively designed for this banking malware Modular architecture Network communication reworked New modules. Backup controllers.

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