Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Researchers discovered a vulnerability tracked as CVE-2019-14899 that can be exploited to hijack active TCP connections in a VPN tunnel. The experts explained that in this way, it is possible to hijack active connections within the VPN tunnel. ” reads the advisory published by the experts.

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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. We don't know exactly what was stolen and how it affects VPN security.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2024

Since 2011, Wang and his co-conspirators had been distributing malware through malicious VPN applications, including MaskVPN, DewVPN, PaladinVPN, ProxyGate, ShieldVPN, and ShineVPN. The FBI has published information at fbi.gov/911S5 to help identify and remove 911 S5’s VPN applications from your devices or machines.

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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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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

Between 2016 and 2018, the malware strain SamSam made brute force RDP attacks an integral part of its attacks on several public organizations. By exploiting weak server vulnerabilities, the Iran-based hackers were able to gain access, move laterally, encrypt IT systems, and demand ransom payment. Examples of Notable RDP Attacks.

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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. Use a VPN to protect your online security and privacy.

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Adam Levin

MAY 19, 2021

In 2018, Experian settled a class-action lawsuit for $22 million. . Use a VPN that you pay for: Having a VPN can make it much harder to steal your data and prevent identity theft. It does this through encryption, making life difficult for malicious actors. Takeaways .

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The data covered a period from 2018 to 2021. The online driver app logs contained a staggering one terabyte of data, including location details, IPs, whether a driver used a VPN service, and even the device battery status. Tokens usually serve as digital keys to user accounts.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Antivirus and security giant Avast and virtual private networking (VPN) software provider NordVPN each today disclosed months-long network intrusions that — while otherwise unrelated — shared a common cause: Forgotten or unknown user accounts that granted remote access to internal systems with little more than a password.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2020

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 1, 2023

To prevent unwanted access and protect data in transit, wireless connections must be secured with strong authentication procedures, encryption protocols, access control rules, intrusion detection and prevention systems, and other security measures. As a result, wireless networks are prone to eavesdropping, illegal access and theft.

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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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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

agarwal_mohit) January 5, 2018. I think the URL is right but it seems inaccessible from other countries: [link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) January 9, 2018. Blocking legitimate users is part of that problem, blocking users wanting to protect their traffic with a VPN is another: This has been there for the past year now.

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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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Malwarebytes

JUNE 3, 2022

My files were encrypted and inaccessible and the only readable document remaining was a ransom note asking for money. A video of Kanye West from 2018 purportedly revealed that the rapper and producer’s iPhone passcode was 000000. Do use a VPN on public WiFi connections. Lo and behold, the attachment contained ransomware.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

The ransomware encrypted most of the company servers and workstations. The REvil ransomware gang is one of the most active groups, in the past, the operators have targeted Pulse Secure and Citrix VPN and enterprise gateway systems as entry points. and Elexon electrical middleman.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

27, 2018, Cisco’s Talos research division published a write-up outlining the contours of a sophisticated cyber espionage campaign it dubbed “ DNSpionage.” Talos reported that these DNS hijacks also paved the way for the attackers to obtain SSL encryption certificates for the targeted domains (e.g.

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Anton on Security

JUNE 10, 2022

To further illustrate this point, one of the innovations sandbox participants showed the slide that mentioned that the VPN market alone today is larger than the entirety of all cloud security markets, defined broadly and loosely, and then rounded upwards. There are people moving to “next-gen” firewalls (a great innovation of 2005) in 2022.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

17, unknown attackers launched a ransomware strain known as Ryuk inside VCPI’s networks, encrypting all data the company hosts for its clients and demanding a whopping $14 million ransom in exchange for a digital key needed to unlock access to the files. At around 1:30 a.m.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 17, 2018

link] — Nodestack (@NodestackUK) April 12, 2018. Often, you'll see this pattern play out ad nauseam as the organisation involved takes the shotgun approach of blasting their message out over and over again: When you look for a VPN, you really want to be confident they're responsible, ethical and behave in a professional manner.

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SiteLock

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

million in 2018 to 15.4 Website Backup: Website backups help customers encrypt a snapshot of their website’s important files, folders, and databases. Virtual Private Network (VPN): VPNs establish a secure connection for your customers, routing their data traffic through an encrypted channel. million in 2023.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2021

The threat actors are actively exploiting the following vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiOS: CVE-2018-13379 ; CVE-2020-12812 ; CVE-2019-5591. CISA and FBI have observed attacks carried out by APT actors that combined two the CVE-2018-13379 and CVE-2020-1472 flaws.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 28, 2021

The files are then held for ransom and the victim is threatened by data loss, because of the encryption, and leaking of the exfiltrated data. Files are encrypted with a combination of AES-256 and RSA-4096 via the Microsoft CryptoAPI , as per CrowdStrike. Earlier versions appended the.CONTI extension to encrypted files.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2019

Facebook is paying teens $20 a month to use its VPN app, called Facebook Research, that monitors their activity via their mobile devices. Facebook is paying teens $20 a month to use its VPN app, called Facebook Research, that monitors their activity via the mobile devices. ” reads the report published by Techcrunch.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

At the 2018 Winter Olympic Games held in PyeongChang, for instance, cyber criminals leveraged a previously unknown family of malware called Olympic Destroyer to attack the Games’ servers just before the opening ceremony. Unfortunately, digital criminals are also closely following the buzz surrounding this tournament.

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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. Open Systems.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Vicarius Vulnerability management 2022 Private Dragos ICS and OT security 2021 Private Safeguard Cyber Risk management 2021 Private CyberGRX Risk management 2019 Private Signifyd Fraud protection 2018 Private RedOwl Security analytics 2015 Acquired: Forcepoint. Accel Investments. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The second half of 2018 saw a drop in the number of malicious programs downloaded via browsers reaching its minimum at less than 5%, while in the first half of 2019 only every 19 th download was initiated via means other than email. In 2018, their number grew to 3.6%, while in H1 2019 saw an unusual rise of up to 27.8%.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 28, 2021

Ransomware: Encryption, Exfiltration, and Extortion. Ransomware perpetrators of the past presented a problem of availability through encryption. Detect Focus on encryption Assume exfiltration. Whether it’s a VPN , firewall , or remote access server, unauthorized entry via network gateways is a problem.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 22, 2023

Malwarebytes Privacy VPN can encrypt your connection when using public WiFi, and it can block companies and websites from seeing your IP address and location to identify who you are, where you live, or what you’re doing on the Internet. I'd like to see more people grasping for that." Tune in today. Alec Muffett.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2021

The folks monitoring bank website flows to figure out how to defeat multi-factor encryption? Emails and attachments were encrypted, and chat in a private messaging server was also locked down. Multiple VPN services made use of around the world are the final anonymous splashes of icing on a very large cake.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2020

The Zyxel Cloud CNM SecuManager is a comprehensive network management software that provides an integrated console to manage security gateways including the ZyWALL USG and VPN Series. This allows an attacker to MITM and decrypt the encrypted traffic.” and 3.1.1 – last updated in November 2018.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In November 2021, the FBI disclosed a FatPipe VPN exploit that enabled backdoor access via web shells. Despite initial suspicions, encrypted communications with specific keys linked the attacks to the previous ones, indicating an organized effort.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 10, 2022

To further illustrate this point, one of the innovations sandbox participants showed the slide that mentioned that the VPN market alone today is larger than the entirety of all cloud security markets, defined broadly and loosely, and then rounded upwards. RSA 2018: Not As Messy As Before? Somehow that fact blew my mind!

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SecureWorld News

JULY 28, 2020

According to the Flash report, this threat is believed to have existed since 2016, with several encounters since the June 2020 incident: In July 2018, an employee of a US pharmaceutical company with business interests in China downloaded the Baiwang Tax Control Invoicing software program from baiwang.com.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2020

Last year, ransomware operators matured considerably, having joined Big Game Hunting and going beyond file encryption. After a relative lull in 2018, the year of 2019 saw ransomware returning at full strength, with the number of ransomware attacks having grown by 40 percent in 2019 year-on-year. Big Game Hunting. Game-changer.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 23, 2021

This is the act of exfiltrating sensitive data from the victim network before the encryption stage of the attack[1]. Inject the adversary-crafted code into the svchost.exe process (T1055.002: Process Injection: Portable Executable Injection), and the beginning of the encryption process. References. “LockBit 2.0, Accessed: Aug.

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