Webroot

MARCH 15, 2021

Drafted by the Internet Engineering Task Force (ITEF) in 1998, it became an Internet Standard in 2017. IP addresses, those numbers assigned to every internet-connected device, or node, were designed to contain 32 bits. On the other hand, IPv6 is based on 128-bit encryption. IPv6 has been a long time coming.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The internet has drawn comparisons to the Wild West, making ransomware the digital incarnation of a hold-up. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received 3,729 ransomware complaints in 2021, representing $49.2 Prevalence. million in adjusted losses. Victims have two equally unattractive choices to resolve the situation.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 5, 2018

In this blog post, I’ll discuss how healthcare enterprises can not only meet these challenges, but go beyond compliance to best practice to secure their data and their reputations. 92% are leveraging IoT devices, which may include internet-connected heart-rate monitors, implantable defibrillators and insulin pumps. Regulations.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

PKI is an asymmetric system, using two keys to encrypt communications; public and private keys. A Public key is used to encrypt data, whether that be on the user’s browser, data, or part of a message to be sent. If an organization wants a secure website that uses encryption, then a certificate needs to be obtained.

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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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Krebs on Security

APRIL 22, 2019

For example, RevCode’s website touted the software’s compatibility with all “ crypters ,” software that can encrypt, obfuscate and manipulate malware to make it harder to detect by antivirus programs. The first advertisements in hacker forums for the sale of WebMonitor began in mid-2017.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 19, 2017

As 2017 draws to a close, the trends and innovations that will shape the technology industry over the coming weeks, months and years were brought into sharper focus over the course of the last twelve months. The post Established and emerging technologies to watch out for in 2018 appeared first on Data Security Blog | Thales e-Security.

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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 8, 2019

You can learn a little more about what FAIR and the Open Group are doing in this regard in one of my previous blogs ). The Pennsylvania Supreme Court determined that an employer has a common law duty to use reasonable care to safeguard employees’ personal information stored on an internet-accessible computer system > (Dittman v.

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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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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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Security Boulevard

JULY 6, 2022

Foxblade was developed and launched by the same group associated with Russian military intelligence that launched the NotPetya attack against Ukraine in 2017, Microsoft says. But Russian cyber tactics in the war have differed from those in the NotPetya attack against Ukraine in 2017. Brooke Crothers. Threat Intelligence. UTM Medium.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 5, 2018

billion , which is more than what was raised during the entirety of 2017. There are many steps that people can take to keep their wallets secure such as using multi-factor authentication, implementing a strong anti-virus solution and storing cryptocurrency of significant value on a physical device that isn’t connected to the internet.

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

These credentials are used in a credential stuffing or password spraying attack against the victim’s remote services, such as webmail or other internet reachable mail services. 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.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

In addition, the malware saves the configuration data as a registry key encrypted in RC4: HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionGameConfig – Description. In order to create a covert channel, the malware encrypts forwarded traffic using trivial binary encryption. Encryption routine. ThreatNeedle loader.

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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. 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. They just sit and wait.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2019

As usual, the mail conveys malicious Excel files exploiting the popular CVE-2017-11882 vulnerability to run an executable retrieved from a malicious website, previously compromised by the attackers. It abuses a vulnerability of the “ pkgmgr.exe” Windows tool; many resources related to this exploit are publicly available on the internet.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2019

LimeRAT is a powerful Remote Administration Tool publicly available to any internet user, it is an open-source project freely available on Github. com”, is well known: this email appears in another AdWind/JRat malicious campaign dated back in 2017, suggesting this malicious actor is active for a long time. 1986[@gmail[.com”,

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

This is confirmed by related discussions in various blogs, with the users reporting that they immediately tried checking what photographs they had “stolen” The links were not functional at the time the “complaints” were discovered, but in all likelihood, they had previously linked to malicious files or phishing programs.

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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. Encryption/Decryption. There are some exciting advances in Java Cryptography since version 8, and also in the cryptographic community at large since we last spoke about this in Encryption/Decryption. Symmetric Encryption.

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SecureList

MAY 6, 2021

Since Moriya is a passive backdoor intended to be deployed on a server accessible from the internet, it contains no hardcoded C&C address and relies solely on the driver to provide it with packets filtered from the machine’s overall incoming traffic. All traffic passed on the channel is encoded with a simple encryption scheme.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2019

A survey of local media reports by Recorded Future tallied 38 ransomware attacks against cities in 2017, rising to 53 attacks in 2018. However, the operational imperatives in today’s world of internet-centric commerce often boil down to survival math, especially for SMBs. This column originally appeared on Avast Blog.).

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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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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. They interact with each other through internet handles, paying for services with cryptocurrency. Access sellers.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Hackers may use a keylogger to capture sensitive information, including payment details and login credentials of victims, or they may leverage a screen grabber to capture internet activity. Ransomware programs gain access to a computer’s file system and execute a payload to encrypt all data. The data is neither stolen nor manipulated.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The attackers exploited several vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office, including CVE-2017-8570 , CVE-2017-11882 , and CVE-2018-0802. The group also targeted entities in other sectors, including Government agencies, Telco, Internet service providers, manufacturing, entertainment, and companies in the healthcare industry.

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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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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

According to security firm Gemini Advisory, the Fin7 hacker group stole data on more than five million credit and debit cards that had been used at HBC credit card terminals beginning in May 2017. Point-to-point encryption: P2PE and tokenization, Miles said, are the one-two punch of an approach to card data security called data devaluation.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 8, 2018

In many organizations, the proliferation of encryption deployments has been directly proportional to the rise in disparate key repositories—and associated key management headaches. In the years that followed, the use of encryption has seen dramatic growth, which has only served to intensify the need for a standard like KMIP.

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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. After opening the URL distributed on the email body, a ZIP file is then downloaded from the Internet. Background of Latin American Trojans. The next diagram demonstrates how Javali trojan banker works.

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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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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. So does encrypting ransomware. bank SWIFT code, branch name, etc).

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

In their blog, DarkSide’s creators heaped the blame on third-party operators. Also seen in Q2 was the similar vulnerability CVE-2017-11882 , which causes a buffer overflow on the stack in the same component. For the cybercriminals, this sudden notoriety proved unwelcome. Local threats.

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LRQA Nettitude Labs

APRIL 16, 2024

Unfortunately, when the PuTTY developers repurposed this DSA implementation for ECDSA in 2017, they made an oversight. As such, the ECDSA signatures are encrypted before transmission in this context, so an attacker cannot get access to the signatures needed for this attack through passive network sniffing.

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Kali Linux

MARCH 28, 2023

Domain The team knew how much BackTrack was growing in popularity, and as they did not switch the project name when using Ubuntu, it was time to create its own place on the Internet. If you want even more, you can look at at the original blog posts, as well as watch some talks about it: BackTrack Reborn – Kali Linux Kali Linux 1.0

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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. Could this attack take place over the internet? Table of Contents. Background. What are Infusion Pumps? Project Motivation.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 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. In November and December 2020, two public blog posts were published about this campaign.

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