Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

At a first sight, the office document had an encrypted content available on OleObj.1 Those objects are real Encrypted Ole Objects where the Encrypted payload sits on “EncryptedPackage” section and information on how to decrypt it are available on “EncryptionInfo” xml descriptor. Stage1: Encrypted Content.

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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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Anton on Security

JUNE 10, 2022

A password manager claimed “zero trust for passwords” while a SIEM/UEBA vendor promised to reveal all zero trust secrets (I bet they use VPN internally…). Data security : it has happened for a few years, but somehow data security (whether encryption or DLP or some new space) has been less noisy lately, nobody seems to be disrupting it.

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Duo's Security Blog

AUGUST 16, 2021

“There are primarily three ways you can authenticate someone: with their username and password, with two-factor authentication, and with a company-supplied device that you can trace. Enforcing security requirements such as OS updates and disk encryption help organizations set a baseline for healthy and compliant devices.

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Authentication Data breaches Encryption Retail 93

SecureWorld News

MARCH 21, 2023

In 2013, extortionists added encryption to their genre and started locking down victims' files instead of screens or web browsers. In 2019, crooks shifted their focus to enterprises and pioneered in stealing data in addition to encrypting it, which turned these raids into an explosive mix of blackmail and breaches.

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

Credential theft and password spraying to Cobalt Strike. This adversary starts with obtaining usernames and passwords of their victim from previous breaches. 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.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2019

billion IoT devices in use as of 2017, half are consumer gadgets, like smart TVs, speakers, watches, baby cams and home thermostats; much of the rest is made up of things like smart electric meters and security cameras in corporate and government use. This column originally appeared on Avast Blog.).

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Internet Internet IoT Energy and Utilities 189

CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 31, 2023

This blog was jointly written with Alejandro Prada and Ofer Caspi. It has been historically associated with malicious activity performed by threat actors, APT groups (like in this Mandiant report from 2017), or government attacks (in this report by Unit42 in 2017). in March 2023, which is the most current version.

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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 Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Object-3 exploiting CVE-2017-11882. If you are familiar with CVE-2017-11882, you might notice it immediately, but if you aren’t you might take a look to HERE (for the exploit generation) to HERE (for an example) and HERE (for CVE original disclosure). Everything looks like real except for the third object included into the Excel file.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In this blog, we’ll discuss what cyberattacks are, the most common types of attacks your website is likely to face, and most importantly, how you can prevent them. You’ve likely read about high-profile cyberattacks in the headlines after a major data breach, such as the Equifax breach in 2017. What is a cyberattack? Ransomware.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 10, 2022

A password manager claimed “zero trust for passwords” while a SIEM/UEBA vendor promised to reveal all zero trust secrets (I bet they use VPN internally…). Data security : it has happened for a few years, but somehow data security (whether encryption or DLP or some new space) has been less noisy lately, nobody seems to be disrupting it.

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VPN Marketing Firewall Passwords 113

SecureList

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

KeyPlug is a modular backdoor with the capability of communicating to its server via several network communication protocols set in its XOR-encrypted embedded configuration block. Lazarus Group delivered additional malware such as a keylogger and password-dumping tool to collect more information. Other interesting discoveries.

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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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Troy Hunt

APRIL 17, 2018

In the case above, HostGator was being taken to task for storing passwords in a retrievable fashion (i.e. — SignNow (@signnow) September 6, 2017. UK Based, Free Let's Encrypt SSL, starting at just £50 a year. not as a strong cryptographic hash), and rightly so too. It's the same deal - targeted spam.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

If you have a blog on your site, pay special attention to the comment section; attackers often use it to flood a site with nefarious or irrelevant links, which damages your reputation and your site’s domain authority. Once these critical files are encrypted, you’ll get an alert notifying you that decryption will occur once you pay a ransom.

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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. used the password 225948. The ransomware encrypts files in parts in various places: the larger the file size, the more parts there are. and admin@stairwell.ru

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

We assume that those who called the numbers were asked to provide the login and password for the service that the scammers were imitating, or to pay for some diagnostics and troubleshooting services. Viewing the file required entering the password to the recipient’s corporate email account. Reputation, bitcoins or your life?

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Here I had 13m of their customer records (including plain text passwords, thank you very much) that someone had sent me. — Michael Kan (@Michael_Kan) February 28, 2017. link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) July 29, 2017. Doing the Right Thing is (Often) Hard. Yes you do! I've seen this, it's not pretty.

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Elie

MARCH 10, 2018

from Check Point, at Botconf in December 2017, on the subject. tokens are the de facto standard for granting apps and devices restricted access to online accounts without sharing passwords and with a limited set of privileges. This APK embedded a secondary hidden/encrypted payload. Oren Koriat. You can get the slides.

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Elie

MARCH 10, 2018

in December 2017, on the subject. tokens are the de facto standard for granting apps and devices restricted access to online accounts without sharing passwords and with a limited set of privileges. This APK embedded a secondary hidden/encrypted payload. final post. This series of posts is modeled after the talk I gave with.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2019

Stealer and CryptoStealer module to steal cryptocurrency wallets and saved passwords. The malware command and control infrastructure abuses the Pastebin service to ensure resilience, in fact the malware dynamically retrieves the real C2 destination address from a pastie over an encrypted HTTPS channel. C2 retrieval. 1986[@gmail[.com”,

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Many analyses over the past few years taught that attackers love re-used code and they prefer to modify, obfuscate and finally encrypt already known code rather than writing from scratch new “attacking modules”. Actually I did see this code few times related to manual attacks back in 2017. Set WinHttpReq = CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP")

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Malware Computers and Electronics Penetration Testing Cyber Attacks 74

Elie

MARCH 31, 2019

Password Checkup. Password checkup allows users to check, in a privacy-preserving manner, whether their username and password matches one of the more than 4B+ credentials exposed by third-party data breaches of which Google is aware. Password Checkup help users mitigate this threat through a one-click, install and forget.

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Passwords Data breaches Accountability Internet 87

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Krebs wrote for The Washington Post between 1995 and 2009 before launching his current blog KrebsOnSecurity.com. ICYMI, Equifax forced to pull offline a huge database of consumer data guarded only by credentials "admin/admin" [link] — briankrebs (@briankrebs) September 13, 2017. Bruce Schneier | @schneierblog.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Additionally, McKinsey pointed out that investment in virtual care and digital health fueled innovation, finding that venture capital firms tripled investments in digital health technologies in 2020 as compared to 2017. Since malicious actors target ePHI, simply requiring a username and password may not be enough. Apply encryption.

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Healthcare Mobile Technology Encryption 104

Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2020

The final ZIP archive may be encrypted and in some cases also protected by a password – credits ESET. According to ESET , “ Grandoreiro has been active at least since 2017 targeting Brazil and Peru, expanding to Mexico and Spain in 2019. “. Figure 16: Latenbot (2017) and Grandoreiro (2020) C2-traffic similarities.

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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. A password-protected RAR archive (random password).

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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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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. WastedLocker Ransomware.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 17, 2018

According to research by one law firm, pre-GDPR regulatory fines had almost doubled , on average, between 2017 and 2018, up from £73,191 to £146,412. Heathrow Airport was fined £120,000 when it lost a USB stick containing non-encrypted and sensitive data. Checkbox mentality.

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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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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.

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

In their blog, DarkSide’s creators heaped the blame on third-party operators. There appeared the new Qlocker family, which packs user files into a password-protected 7zip archive, plus our old friends ech0raix and AgeLocker began to gather steam. For the cybercriminals, this sudden notoriety proved unwelcome. are still current.

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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. br uolhost.]com.]br

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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. There are a few password-protected areas for user facing systems, but not as many for the behind-the-scenes internal systems. Background.

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Computers and Electronics Authentication Software Risk 145

Cisco Security

AUGUST 28, 2023

In some instances, it was possible to observe clear-text LDAP bind attempts which disclosed which organization the device belonged to or direct exposure of the username and password combination through protocols such as POP3, LDAP, HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) or FTP. Cleartext passwords and usernames disclosed in traffic.

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