Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The attackers are targeting Edgewater Networks’ devices by exploiting the CVE-2017-6079 vulnerability with a relatively unique mount file system command. ” reads the analysis published by Qihoo 360. se) to analyze the connections from the infected devices.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

During their active period (2017 - 2021), more than 600 victims worldwide were extorted, some of them up to double-digit millions. Stop malicious encryption. Create offsite, offline backups. Keep backups offsite and offline, beyond the reach of attackers. Use EDR or MDR to detect unusual activity before an attack occurs.

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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. Cryptolocker and exploit components.

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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. Post-Quantum Encryption Algorithms Announced. Challenges toward post-quantum cryptography: confidentiality and authentication. SHA-1 Deprecation.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The government says Snatch used a customized ransomware variant notable for rebooting Microsoft Windows devices into Safe Mode — enabling the ransomware to circumvent detection by antivirus or endpoint protection — and then encrypting files when few services are running. Details after contacting on jabber: truniger@xmpp[.]jp.”

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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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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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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.” Offline Backups.

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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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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

Although most people think of ransomware as a dodgy application that encrypts data and holds it for ransom, the concept is much more heterogeneous than that. File encryption 2013 – 2015. It emerged in September 2013 and paved the way for hundreds of file-encrypting menaces that have splashed onto the scene ever since.

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SiteLock

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

First discovered in 2016, Petya ransomware is a family of encrypting malware that targets Microsoft Windows-based computer systems. Although it made its debut in 2016, Petya ransomware gained worldwide recognition in 2017 when a new variant was introduced in the Ukraine that led to $10 billion in damages through a colossal cyber-attack.

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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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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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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. These cybersecurity practices include using unique passwords, multi-factor authentication (MFA), data backups, secure Wi-Fi networks, and anti-virus software.

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Spinone

AUGUST 6, 2018

Updated: August, 06, 2018 Spinbackup is the world’s first vendor to introduce Google Team Drives backup and recovery features. Spinbackup comes to the rescue again, introducing Automated Daily Backup for Google Team Drives! Spinbackup comes to the rescue again, introducing Automated Daily Backup for Google Team Drives!

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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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

This file acts as downloader in the infection chain, using a series of hard-coded server addresses, It heavily rely on obfuscation and encryption to avoid the antimalware detection. Shade encrypts all the user files using an AES encryption scheme. Background of the infected machine, after encryption phase. Conclusions.

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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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IT Security Guru

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The hacker group encrypted Travelex’s network and made copies of 5GB of personal data. For two months during 2017, the American credit bureau Equifax was subject to a massive data theft, where information relating to millions of customers was stolen. Travelex reportedly paid around $2.3M

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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.” Even Locky, the arch-dominant ransomware author in 2016, barely lasted a year before being subsumed by Cerber and its affiliate model in 2017. final post. You can check out the slides.

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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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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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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. Perform regular backups.

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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. Mitigations. Source: IC3.gov.

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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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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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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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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. SSL Certificates.

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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. However there are some gotchas.

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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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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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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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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. The adversary compresses and encrypts the data by using WinRAR from the command-line.

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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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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

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. “Cryptolockers made a lot of noise in the press, but lazy system administrators don’t make backups after that. Cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 finds that pin@darktower.ru

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SecureList

JANUARY 13, 2022

We found they generally stick to CVE-2017-0199, using it again and again before trying something else. We assess that the BlueNoroff group’s interest in cryptocurrency theft started with the SnatchCrypto campaign that has been running since at least 2017. Malware infection. Infection chain #2. Weaponized Word document.

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Elie

MARCH 10, 2018

from Check Point, at Botconf in December 2017, on the subject. This APK embedded a secondary hidden/encrypted payload. SnapPea Kingroot straightforward weaponization led to a rather unusual infection vector: its authors resorted to backdooring the backup application SnapPea to be able to infect victims. Oren Koriat.

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