SecureList

OCTOBER 15, 2024

SideWinder, aka T-APT-04 or RattleSnake, is one of the most prolific APT groups that began its activities in 2012 and was first publicly mentioned by us in 2018. Some infection routines do not check the architecture. APP_DLL_URL URL used to download the encrypted payload. org/735e3a_download?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2019

Palo Alto Networks researchers discovered a new variant of the Mirai malware that is targeting more processor architectures than previous ones. Mirai botnet continues to be one of the most dangerous malware in the threat landscape, experts at Palo Alto Networks discovered a new variant that targets more processor architectures than before.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The 2018 State of IoT Security study took a poll of 700 organizations in the US, UK, Germany, France and Japan and found IoT is well on its way to be to be woven into all facets of daily business operations. The most common security practices in place at top-tier enterprises were: •Encryption of sensitive data. Tiered performances.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2019

. “MDS may allow a malicious user who can locally execute code on a system to infer the values of protected data otherwise protected by architectural mechanisms.” “Refer to the MDS table in Deep dive: CPUID Enumeration and Architectural MSRs for a list of processors that may be affected by MDS.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 3, 2018

Large data scale breaches have led an increasing number of companies to embrace comprehensive encryption strategies to protect their assets. According to our 2018 Global Encryption Trends Study , 43% of respondents report that their organization has an encryption strategy they apply across the enterprise, compared with 15% in 2005.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 8, 2021

MORPHEUS chip: unhackable because of 'encryption churn'? Austin calls this encryption churn and says it prevents reverse engineering, which sophisticated hackers sometimes use. Undefined semantics are nooks and crannies of the computing architecture—for example the location, format, and content of program code.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Muhstik is a botnet that is known to use web application exploits to compromise IoT devices, it has been around for at least 2018. The bot includes exploits for Oracle WebLogic Server vulnerabilities CVE-2019-2725 and CVE-2017-10271 , and the Drupal RCE flaw tracked as CVE-2018-7600. y/pty2 hxxp://167.99.39.134/.x/pty3.

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SecureList

MAY 13, 2025

Cobalt Strike’s execute-assembly feature, introduced in 2018, allowed for.NET assembly injection into a newly created process. Header contains information about the architecture, timestamp, number of sections and symbols, and other metadata. Its microservice architecture makes it easy to add arbitrary server-side functionality.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Dunkin' Donuts (2015-2018): The company faced multiple credential stuffing attacks that led to unauthorized access to customer accounts. Earl Enterprises (2018-2019): The parent company of restaurant chains like Planet Hollywood and Buca di Beppo suffered a 10-month-long data breach affecting millions of customers. Subway U.K.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Mythic Framework In 2018, developer Cody Thomas created his own open-source framework called Apfell for post-exploitation of compromised macOS systems. Both versions use the same algorithms for data encryption: first, the collected information is encrypted with the AES algorithm, then encoded with base64.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2019

The GreyEnergy implant is also known as “FELIXROOT” backdoor: FireEye researchers published a technical article on July 2018 about a spear-phishing campaign trying to deliver the malware to undisclosed targets. The entire malware architecture is modular and very difficult to neutralize. and “KdfrJKN”. Figure 8 – POST body.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Technical components: Website architecture must be reconfigured to ensure that search engines see multiple language versions of your website properlyas different subsets, not as duplicates. For example, encrypt transaction details and add verification steps to secure and approve the exchange between your platform and the customer.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

According to experts from Avast, the Torii bot has been active since at least December 2017, it could targets a broad range of architectures, including ARM, MIPS, x86, x64, PowerPC, and SuperH. The Torii IoT botnet stands out for the largest sets of architectures it is able to target. ” reads the analysis published by Avast.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2019

Satori , Masuta , Wicked Mirai , JenX , Omni, and the OMG are just the last variants appeared online in 2018. “Likewise, the server remains running despite discovery, network traffic can masquerade as legitimate and remains encrypted, and it may not necessarily be blacklisted due to other possible legitimate uses for Tor.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In 2018, Uber had to pay a high price of $148 million for exposing the personal information of 57 million people worldwide – including driver’s license information – after trying to pay the ransom and keep things quiet. Keeping crucial.env files secure is essential, as they could be used to compromise services and applications.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2022

Already a leading SD-WAN pick, the HPE subsidiary boosted its market position with acquisitions of security vendor Cape Networks in 2018 and WAN specialist Silver Peak Systems in 2020. Launched in 2002 and specializing in wireless networking , Aruba Networks’ success led to its acquisition by Hewlett-Packard in 2015.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 8, 2020

A packet would come into their cloud, it would get depacketized and de-encrypted, and all networking and security functions would be performed in parallel before getting resent out across the cloud.”. The co-founders were certainly well-positioned to rethink both networking and security.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2019

Satori , Masuta , Wicked Mirai , JenX , Omni, and the OMG botnet are just the last variants appeared online in 2018. A variant discovered last year was leveraging an open-source project to target multiple architectures, including ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, and x86. The new Mirai variant targets embedded devices (i.e.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2019

Vanunu explained at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, that the vulnerabilities were responsibly disclosed in 2018, but remained exploitable for a long time. ” WhatsApp encrypts every message, picture, call, video or any other type of content that could be sent in a conversation and allows only the recipient to decrypt it.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 6, 2022

The economics of 5G require a new software-based architecture such as SASE to automate the deployment, provisioning, and operations at scale. Single-pass parallel processing architecture is available. Encrypted tunneling is available via private or public gateways, placed locally for low-latency secure connections.

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2020

Experts noticed that the PipeMon backdoor was signed with a certificate belonging to a video game company that was already hacked by Winnti in 2018. Experts noticed that modules are stored encrypted on disk at the same location with inoffensive-looking names.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The second stage in the Crypto.com variant is a bare-bones application bundle named “WifiAnalyticsServ.app”, it mirrors the same architecture employed in the Coinbase campaign. This has been a long-running theme going as far back as the AppleJeus campaigns that began in 2018. ” concludes the report.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

A key principle of a Zero Trust architecture, as defined in NIST SP 800-207 , is that no network is implicitly trusted. Hence, all network traffic “must be encrypted and authenticated as soon as practicable.” This includes traffic between devices, containers, APIs and other cloud workloads. Machine identity is essential for security.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 8, 2024

This approach also protects the integrity of the entire voting process, from casting to tallying, by allowing independent verification of results through a public bulletin board that contains anonymous encrypted votes. Each vote is encrypted when cast, and the encrypted votes are combined using the homomorphic properties.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 25, 2023

It comes equipped with a built-in TOR network tunnel for communication with command servers, along with update and delivery functionality through trusted services such as GitLab, GitHub, and Bitbucket, all using custom encrypted archives. This architectural approach is a hallmark of APT malware.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Fundamentals of API Security API security includes a range of tactics such as strict authentication and authorization methods, data encryption technologies, and strong access controls. A secure API architecture serves as a strong foundation for all that, designed with security in mind.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 2, 2024

In Part 1, we explored early versions of SmokeLoader, from its initial rudimentary framework to its adoption of a modular architecture and introduction of encryption and obfuscation. SmokeLoader version 2017 also updated the network communication to use two different static RC4 keys to encrypt the requests and decrypt the responses.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2019

” Scranos implements a modular architecture, with many components in the early stage of development. According to the experts, the operation is in a consolidation stage, first samples date back to November 2018, with a massive spike in December and January. The data sent to the C2 is encrypted with AES.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

The Outlaw Hacking Group was first spotted by TrendMicro in 2018 when the cyber criminal crew targeted automotive and financial industries. Based on our findings, there are some similarities in both techniques and architectures with another cybercrime group, which appeared in the wild around 2012, most probably Romanian.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

The list of vulnerabilities exploited by the Capesand EK includes CVE-2018-4878 (Adobe Flash), along with CVE-2018-8174 and CVE-2019-0752 (Internet Explorer). The information is AES encrypted with a pre-generated API key inside a configuration file. ” continues the analysis. ” states Trend Micro.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 28, 2018

Results from the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report. Source – Dataset for 2018 Thales Data Threat Report. In the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report , one fact that came through very clearly is that SaaS usage by enterprises is high, and so is their use of SaaS with sensitive data. Source – Dataset for 2018 Thales Data Threat Report.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 23, 2018

Gartner predicts that the worldwide public cloud services market will grow 17 percent in 2018 to $287.8 Multi-tenancy is an architecture in which a single instance of software serves multiple customers, or tenants. billion, up from $246.8 billion in 2017.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Security firms such as Proofpoint and Eset analyzed other samples of the same threat targeting the Australian landscape back in May 2018 and, more recently, in Italy. exe process according to the architecture of the compromised host. In the last weeks, a new variant of the infamous Danabot botnet hit Italy. Technical Analysis.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 19, 2022

For security teams to move at the speed of cloud they will have to invest in new approaches that not only equip users but manage and protect data at massive scale: Data volumes are slated to reach 175 zettabytes in 2025 , up from just 33 zettabytes in 2018.

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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.” IMPORTANT INFORMATION !!!

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Cloud expenditure average is up 59% compared to 2018, while cloud security services are expected to grow by 14% in 2020. All your critical data must be encrypted and anonymised. Ensure that all your data is correctly protected, and you separate encrypted data and the keys used to protect it. Encryption. Protect your keys.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 10, 2021

Encryption: Keep Your Secrets Secret. Therefore encryption and hashing passwords, confidential data, and connection strings are of the utmost importance. . Encryption is almost universally employed as a data protection technique today and for a good reason. Also Read: Best Encryption Tools & Software for 2021 .

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