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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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 14, 2023

August 12 , 2023 Ford Auto’s TI Wi-Fi Vulnerability The Internet of Things (IoT) continues to expand and become a threat to connected businesses. Admins can either disconnect vulnerable PLCs from possible internet connections or upgrade to CODESYS V3 v3.5.19.0.

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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. Collective appetite for this enterprization will definitely be a hot topic on the digital transformation agenda.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Security experts with Unit 42 at Palo Alto Networks have discovered new variants of the Mirai and Gafgyt IoT malware targeting enterprises. Both botnets appear very interesting for two main reasons: The new Mirai variant targets the same Apache Struts vulnerability exploited in the 2017 Equifax data breach. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 5, 2018

In an effort to meet compliance requirements – and with an eye towards cutting costs – the healthcare industry has turned its attention towards embracing digitally transformative technologies, including cloud, big data, Internet of Things and containers. respondents reported using these technologies with sensitive data.

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2020

The hackers targeted unnamed companies in software development, e-commerce, and an internet service provider around the world, including Poland, Germany, Turkey, Korea, Japan, and India. The Windows version of MATA is composed of a loader used to load an encrypted next-stage payload and the orchestrator module (“lsass.exe”).

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2020

Justice Department today criminally charged a Canadian and a Northern Ireland man for allegedly conspiring to build botnets that enslaved hundreds of thousands of routers and other Internet of Things (IoT) devices for use in large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. ” Shwydiuk, a.k.a.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 2, 2020

The first campaign likely began in early 2014 and continued until mid-2017, while the second started in late 2018 and was still active in late 2019. These are encrypted with the actor’s public key and sent to their infrastructure over HTTPS. CISA and NCSC have identified two campaigns of activity for QSnatch malware.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. All of your files are encrypted with RSA-2048 and AES-128 ciphers.” Attackers will inform the victim that their data is encrypted. IMPORTANT INFORMATION !!! Screenshot example.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2020

These are encrypted with the actor’s public key and sent to their infrastructure over HTTPS. The first campaign likely began in early 2014 and continued until mid-2017, while the second started in late 2018 and was still active in late 2019. Webshell functionality for remote access.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2019

TP-Link addressed a critical zero-day vulnerability ( CVE-2017-7405 ) in its TP-Link Archer routers that could be exploited by attackers to remotely take their control over LAN via a Telnet connection without authentication. “This is a zero-day flaw that was not previously reported and can affect both home and business environments.”

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SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

If the victim organization is slow to pay up, even though its files are encrypted and some of its confidential data has been stolen, the attackers additionally threaten to carry out a DDoS attack. IoT attacks. IoT threat statistics. New additions to the ransomware arsenal. Trojan-Downloader.Shell.Agent.p.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Ransomware was proliferated in 2016 and 2017 and then seemed to be on the decline. However, the company suggests cybercriminals will target less common and more vulnerable victims, such as individuals with high net values and connected devices (IoT). million Texas cities have refused to pay the ransom 12.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 23, 2021

A 2017 agency letter to participating entities encouraged cybersecurity as part of development plans but did not require it. As noted by the OIG, hospitals failing to implement proper cybersecurity controls on medical devices connected to the hospital network, the internet, and other medical devices are increasing risks to patient safety.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The botnet was able to exploit an older vulnerability in unpatched EdgeMarc Enterprise Session Border Controllers (ESBCs) that is tracked as CVE-2017-6079. It also uses TLS encryption to block attempts to intercept the network traffic and analysis of the malware, the researchers wrote. Appliances Left Unpatched.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

EternalBlue is a Windows exploit created by the US National Security Agency (NSA) and used in the 2017 WannaCry ransomware attack. Imagine a large organization with a network infrastructure comprising multiple interconnected systems, including servers, workstations, and IoT devices. What is the EternalBlue vulnerability?

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

There are many different ways to safeguard your organization’s sensitive data from a breach, including encryption, data erasure, data masking, and data resiliency. Inadequate data encryption and security measures such as passwords and multi-factor authentication.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In 2017, more than 300,000 WordPress websites were affected by a malicious plugin that allowed an attacker to place embedded hidden links on victim websites. Always change the default passwords for any IoT devices you install before extended use. with no internet. Bots and Botnets. Examples of Botnet Malware Attacks.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2019

Mirai malware first appeared in the wild in 2016 when the expert MalwareMustDie discovered it in massive attacks aimed at Internet of Things (IoT) devices. which allows it to attack a wider range of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, Since the code of the Mirai botnet was leaked online many variants emerged in the threat landscape.

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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

AUGUST 12, 2021

Also seen in Q2 was the similar vulnerability CVE-2017-11882 , which causes a buffer overflow on the stack in the same component. Lastly, we spotted an attempt to exploit the CVE-2017-8570 vulnerability, which, like other bugs in Microsoft Office, permits the execution of arbitrary code in vulnerable versions of the software.

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SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

An intelligence team later discovered that HermeticRansom only superficially encrypts files, and ones encrypted by the ransomware can be decrypted. RUransom malware was discovered in March, which was created to encrypt files on computers in Russia. IoT attacks. IoT threat statistics. Verdict. %*.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The former threatened files accessible from the internet over SMB protocol and protected by a weak account password. Threats that target NAS remain prominent, so we recommend keeping these devices inaccessible from the internet to ensure maximum safety of your data. IoT attacks. IoT threat statistics. Verdict. %*.

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SecureList

JUNE 7, 2023

Most prolific groups This section looks at ransomware groups that engage in so-called “double extortion”, that is stealing confidential data in addition to encrypting it. CVE-2017-0199 that allows using MS Office to load malicious scripts. CVE-2017-8570 that allows loading malicious HTA scripts into the system.

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2018

Security experts are warning of an intensification of attacks powered by two notorious IoT botnets, Mirai and Gafgyt. The campaign leverages two different encryption schemes, the bot propagates only via exploits and prevents further infection of compromised devices through dropping packets received on certain ports using iptables.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 17, 2021

And after I was done, so that all happened, and I was able to reproduce this 2017 bug and mosquito. Vamosi: With the internet of Things, it seems that we just keep bringing old protocols like MQTT and languages like erlang forward because we have new uses for them but meantime they weren't designed for those things.

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SecureList

AUGUST 15, 2022

This might have been a test build, as the sample did not encrypt any files, but these events may herald the impending return of REvil. Kaspersky researchers found a way to recover files encrypted by the Yanluowang ransomware and released a decryptor for all victims. IoT attacks. IoT threat statistics. AdWare.OSX.Amc.e

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The way individual Microsoft Office vulnerabilities are ranked by the number of detections does not change much with time: the first positions are still shared by CVE-2018-0802 and CVE-2017-8570 , with another popular vulnerability CVE-2017-11882 not far behind. IoT attacks. IoT threat statistics. Verdict. %*.

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SecureList

MAY 26, 2021

70% of Internet user computers in the EU experienced at least one Malware-class attack. IoT attacks. IoT threat statistics. The share of malware type in the total number of malicious programs downloaded to IoT devices following a successful attack. Main figures. Backdoor.Linux.Agent.bc. Backdoor.Linux.Mirai.cw.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

At any rate, the ransom attacks on VoIP providers were limited to DDoS, while REvil primarily does data encryption, although the group does not shrink from other methods of putting pressure on companies. The fate of the WireX botnet operator , who attacked an international hotel chain in 2017, is a little more hazy.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

A token acts as an electronic cryptographic key that unlocks the device or application, usually with an encrypted password or biometric data. Two-factor authentication is also being deployed for mobile security and by Internet of Things companies such as Nest to secure IoT devices. Rise of multi-factor authentication.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Recently, NIST has been taking a closer look at the Internet of Things (IoT), inviting input on practical risks organizations face as they move into the age of connected devices. Put simply, trust is critical to the IoT. There are really four categories of threats introduced into organizations with IoT use.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Most prolific groups This section looks at ransomware groups that engage in so-called “double extortion”, that is, stealing and encrypting confidential data. IoT attacks IoT threat statistics In Q3 2023, the distribution of devices attacking Kaspersky traps using the Telnet and SSH protocols did not change significantly.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

Series A SenseOn 2017 London, UK 61 $26.4 Series A GitGuardian 2017 Paris, France 63 $56.0 GitGuardian is a developer favorite offering a secrets detection solution that scans source code to detect certificates, passwords, API keys, encryption keys, and more. Series A Isovalent 2017 Mountain View, CA 48 $29.0

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 21, 2023

However, hacking did not always involve computers or networks, and its history is much older than the internet era. The virus was created by Bob Thomas, a programmer at BBN Technologies, and it spread through the ARPANET, the precursor to the modern internet. In 1971, the first computer virus, known as the Creeper virus , was released.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2022

The vendor’s Secure SD-WAN product sits under Barracuda’s Network Protection solutions alongside zero trust access, industrial security for OT and IoT networks , and SASE. Networking and IT giant Cisco is an undisputed leader in the secure SD-WAN solution space. Features: Cisco SD-WAN. Open Systems.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Satori DataSecOps 2021 Private BluBracket Software supply chain 2021 Private Cape Privacy Data security 2021 Private ZecOps Digital forensics 2019 Private SecurityScorecard Risk ratings 2017 Private Carbon Black Security software 2015 Acquired: VMware AVG Antivirus software 2015 Acquired: Avast. ForgePoint Capital.

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