Malwarebytes

JUNE 3, 2022

Welcome to Internet Safety Month, a once-a-year event in which you, the public, are told that anywhere between three and 30 different best practices will simplify your approach to staying safe online. This year, then, for Internet Safety Month, we’re packaging our advice a little differently. Don’t make it easy for criminals.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2019

In the not too distant future, each one of us will need to give pause, on a daily basis, to duly consider how we purchase and use Internet of Things devices and services. more than the $646 billion spent in 2018. Nor has anyone accepted accountability for encrypting any of the fresh flows of data, whether in transit or at rest.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2020

Ueland said after hearing about the escrow.com hack Monday evening he pulled the domain name system (DNS) records for escrow.com and saw they were pointing to an Internet address in Malaysia — 111.90.149[.]49 The attacker also obtained free encryption certificates for escrow.com from Let’s Encrypt.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Homomorphic encryption has long been something of a Holy Grail in cryptography. Related: Post-quantum cryptography on the horizon For decades, some of our smartest mathematicians and computer scientists have struggled to derive a third way to keep data encrypted — not just the two classical ways, at rest and in transit.

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Joseph Steinberg

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Today, October 21, marks the first ever organized Global Encryption Day, dedicated to spreading awareness of the importance of utilizing encryption to protect sensitive information, both when it is in transit (e.g., online chat messages going over the Internet between you and your significant other) and when it is at rest (e.g.,

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Ghost ransomware actors, identified as operating from China, have been targeting unpatched systems and stolen credentials to infiltrate networks, encrypt data, and demand ransom payments. Report ransomware incidents to the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) , CISA, or MS-ISAC. Develop and test ransomware response plans.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

This post seeks to document the extent of those attacks, and traces the origins of this overwhelmingly successful cyber espionage campaign back to a cascading series of breaches at key Internet infrastructure providers. federal civilian agencies to secure the login credentials for their Internet domain records. That changed on Jan.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

New research indicates that half of all phishing scams are now hosted on Web sites whose Internet address includes the padlock and begins with “[link]. That’s up from 25 percent just one year ago, and from 35 percent in the second quarter of 2018. A live Paypal phishing site that uses [link] (has the green padlock).

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. LastPass disclosed that criminal hackers had compromised encrypted copies of some password vaults, as well as other personal information.

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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. The above-mentioned AIDS Trojan hailing from the distant pre-Internet era was the progenitor of the trend, but its real-world impact was close to zero.

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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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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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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 26, 2024

The experts pointed out that this Mirai variant has been modified to use improved encryption algorithms. The new Mirai malware variant also targetsthe TP-Link flaw CVE-2023-1389 and the vulnerability CVE-2018-17532 affecting Teltonika RUT9XX routers. TheMiraivariant incorporates ChaCha20 and XOR decryption algorithms.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

19, Apex was alerted that its systems had been infected with a destructive strain of ransomware that encrypts computer files and demands payment for a digital key needed to unscramble the data. “When they encrypt the data, that happens really fast,” he said. Roswell, Ga. on Tuesday, Feb. More than a week later on Jan.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

” Among the Apophis Squad’s targets was encrypted mail service Protonmail , which reached out to this author last year for clues about the identities of the Apophis Squad members after noticing we were both being targeted by them and receiving demands for money in exchange for calling off the attacks.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Researcher Ron Guilmette discovered that Spammy Bear was able to hijack thousands of these dormant domains for spam simply by registering free accounts at GoDaddy and telling the company’s automated DNS service to allow the sending of email with those domains from an Internet address controlled by the spammers. 22 story. 31 and Feb.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 21, 2021

At the time, in the spring of 2018, only 25 percent of commercial websites used HTTPS; today adoption is at 98 percent and rising. TLS is a component of the Public Key Infrastructure, or PKI , the system used to encrypt data, as well as to authenticate individual users and the web servers they log onto. Decryption bottleneck.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 22, 2019

In a writeup on WebMonitor published in April 2018 , researchers from security firm Palo Alto Networks noted that the product has been primarily advertised on underground hacking forums, and that its developers promoted several qualities of the software likely to appeal to cybercriminals looking to secretly compromise PCs.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 23, 2024

At issue is a well-known security and privacy threat called “ namespace collision ,” a situation where domain names intended to be used exclusively on an internal company network end up overlapping with domains that can resolve normally on the open Internet. Alas, in 2018, the.llc TLD was born and began selling domains. SSL/TLS certs).

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The revelations came as evidence surfaced suggesting that two rival VPN services, TorGuard and VikingVPN, also experienced breaches that leaked encryption keys. Monday's statement went on to say TorGuard didn't remove the compromised server until early 2018. torguardvpnaccess.com was stolen. The theft happened in a 2017 server breach.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Victims get infected via phishing emails containing a malicious document that exploits a vulnerability in the formula editor ( CVE-2018-0802 ) to download and execute malware code. dat Encrypted VBShower backdoor AppCache028732611605321388.log:AppCache0287326116053213889292.vbs See below for the infection pattern.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

When government agencies and international intelligence groups pooled together resources to gather user data, the VPN’s encryption seemed like the light at the end of the tunnel. On the 6th of December 2018, a law that is a direct attack on internet users’ privacy was agreed to by both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 27, 2018

pic.twitter.com/KiaGNKhaig — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) March 1, 2018. I'm like yo my credit cards and financial information your entering into this internet system isn't even fully encrypted. pic.twitter.com/NphRX2dnCv — Geoffrey Huntley (@GeoffreyHuntley) March 27, 2018.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 25, 2020

Privacy and security advocates may be forced to battle it out on the Senate floor to stop a newly introduced bill that will help law enforcement get past encryption. New backdoor bill in Congress hits encryption debate head on. The question: should encrypted communication be out of law enforcement's reach?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Cloud computing has gone mainstream for many enterprises, and the Internet of Things (IoT) is changing how both industrial and consumer-oriented companies do business. Looking to the new year however, which trends will come to define our industry in 2018 and beyond? Shift towards micro-services. Resurrection of established tech.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Hilderman Many components and systems within an aircraft can exchange data and communicate with each other or with the external internet. Software gaps Similarly, the availability of onboard Wi-Fi services has become increasingly common in commercial aircraft so passengers can stay connected to the internet even during a long flight.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Even as enterprises across the globe hustle to get their Internet of Things business models up and running, there is a sense of foreboding about a rising wave of IoT-related security exposures. We live in a world where we have nearly three Internet-connected devices for every human on the planet. Scaling your security measures.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2020

The Shadowserver Foundation is a nonprofit security organization working altruistically behind the scenes to make the Internet more secure for everyone. The researchers scanned the Internet for printers that are exposing their Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) port online. and printers (or print servers).

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 1, 2022

In order to extract value from the Internet, data sprawl first must get reined in. Concentric got its start in 2018 to help companies solve data sprawl — from the data security and governance perspective – and has grown to 50 employees, with $22 million in venture capital backing. This has always been the case.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 3, 2023

In January 2019, Houzz acknowledged that a data breach exposed account information on an undisclosed number of customers, including user IDs, one-way encrypted passwords, IP addresses, city and ZIP codes, as well as Facebook information. SammySam_Alon registered at Houzz using an Internet address in Huntsville, Ala. 68.35.149.206).

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The list includes Amazon (banned in 2018), Google (2018), Microsoft (2022), and Cloudflare (2015). As I explained in the blog DNS hijacks: what to look for , DNS is the phonebook of the internet to the effect that the input is a name and the output is a number. They are also known as content distribution networks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 21, 2021

Back in 2018, almost two-thirds of the small businesses suffered from cyber security attacks. . With a VPN like Surfshark to encrypt your online traffic and keep it protected against any security breach, your valuable data isn’t going to get compromised easily anytime soon. Protecting your data is very simple. Backup data on Cloud .

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 4, 2022

According to Forbes, “the first half of 2018 was marked by an increase in API-related data breaches, with the 10 largest companies reporting the loss of 63 million personal records.” This can be compounded by certain enterprises using the Internet of Things (IoT) that don’t have good security.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Invariably, Internet of Things (IoT) strategies form the backbone of those efforts. Just recently, researchers found that a popular Internet of Things real-time operating system – FreeRTOS, run by AWS – was riddled with serious vulnerabilities. The goal is then to analyse it and take impactful action.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2021

million Windows systems between 2018 and 2020. The software includes illegal Adobe Photoshop 2018, a Windows cracking tool, and several cracked games.” million entries) Opera (2 million entries) Internet Explorer/Microsoft Edge (1.3 Researchers from NordLocker have discovered an unsecured database containing 1.2-terabyte

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 23, 2022

In Germany, already covered by GDPR, the newly-agreed-upon government is reportedly considering the addition of a “ right to encryption ,” which, depending on how it is defined, could be the first of its kind, and a much-needed defense against other international efforts, like in Australia, to weaken encryption through regulation.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 7, 2021

This ransomware became active at the back end of 2018 and remains current. After encryption, the contents of the folders look as follows: the cybercriminals’ e-mail address and the victim’s ID are added to the beginning of each file, followed by the original name and extension, and then the extension added by the ransomware.

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