Security Affairs

AUGUST 26, 2019

The name of the ransomware comes after the extension it adds to the encrypted file names, the malicious code also deletes their shadow copies to make in impossible any recovery procedure. Below the ransom note dropped by the Nemty ransomware after the encryption process is completed. SecurityAffairs – Nemty ransomware, hacking).

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2019

Even if the activity of Dridex decreased in the last couple of years, crooks continued to updates it adding new features such the support of XML scripts, hashing algorithms, peer-to-peer encryption, and peer-to-command-and-control encryption. SecurityAffairs – Dridex, hacking). ” reads the analysis published by eSentire.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Universal Health Services (UHS) is an American Fortune 500 company that provides hospital and healthcare services, in 2019, its annual revenues were $11.37 billion in 2019. “When the attack happened multiple antivirus programs were disabled by the attack and hard drives just lit up with activity. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2021

The earliest THOR sample that was spotted by the experts is dated back to August 2019. PKPLUG used a technique known as “ living off the land ” to bypass antivirus detection and target Microsoft Exchange servers. The analysis of the file revealed that it includes the encrypted and compressed PlugX payload. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2021

This ransomware encrypts data from victims with AES-256 + RSA-8192 and then demands a ~ 2 BTC ransom to get the files back. At least in one case, an attack of the ransomware resulted in a temporary shutdown of the industrial process due to servers used to control the industrial process becoming encrypted.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2020

The GandCrab was advertised in the Russian hacking community, researchers from LMNTRIX who discovered it noticed that authors was leveraging the RIG and GrandSoft exploit kits to distribute the malware. ransom amount, individual bots and encryption masks). Close of GandCrab Ransomware : 1-6-2019. million dollars per week.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2020

Unlike other ransomware strains that don’t encrypt victims in Russia and other CIS countries, Shade also targets computers in Russia and Ukraine. In fact, we stopped its distribution in the end of 2019. SecurityAffairs – Shade Ransomware, hacking). Moth of the victims belongs to high-tech, wholesale and education sectors.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 6, 2023

billion in 2019 to $815.4 Requirement 4: Less specificity on the type of encryption used means your organization is freer to follow industry best practices. Requirement 5: It is no longer sufficient to just have standard antivirus software. In fact, the U.S. billion in 2020, a 43% increase. and PCI v4.0:

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2021

According to the experts, the first infections were observed in late 2019, victims reported their files were encrypted by a strain of malware. locked to the filename of the encrypted files. SecurityAffairs – hacking, PYSA). The malicious code appended the extension. newversion file extension instead of.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2021

The loader observed by the researchers in the attacks is written in Golang and borrows the Ezuri code published on GitHub by the user guitmz in March 2019. Upon executing the code, it will ask the user the path for the payload to be encrypted and the password to be used for AES encryption to hide the malware within the loader.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

GandCrab dissolved in July 2019, and is thought to have become “ REvil ,” one of the most ruthless and rapacious Russian ransomware groups of all time. ru, which shows that a user from Yekaterinburg registered in 2019 with the name Semyon Sergeyvich Tretyakov and email address tretyakov-files@ya.ru.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

NextCry is a new ransomware that was spotted by researchers while encrypting data on Linux servers in the wild. T he name comes from the extensions the ransomware appends to the filenames of encrypted files. The malicious code targets Nextcloud instances and it is currently undetected by antivirus engines. ” said xact64.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2019

The recently released Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for June 2019 failed to address a flaw in SymCrypt , a core cryptographic function library currently used by Windows. The flaw could be exploited by malicious programs trigger a denial of service condition by interrupting the encryption service for other programs.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2020

“In July 2018, we succeeded in decrypting encrypted communication with an infected server and an external server that was performing unauthorized communication, and stored it on our internal server for information sharing with other departments used by our defense business division 27,445 files were found to have been accessed illegally.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2023

” The Lockbit gang has been active since at least 2019 and today it is one of the most active ransomware groups offering a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model. ” By protecting the code with encryption, the latest LockBit version can avoid the detection of signature-based anti-malware solutions. “LockBit 3.0

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2020

” According to the experts, the first infections were observed in late 2019, victims reported their files were encrypted by a strain of malware. locked to the filename of the encrypted files. “On one of the compromised information systems, experts found encrypted files with the extension “ newversion.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2019

link] pic.twitter.com/Tn5SoXht2A — 360 Threat Intelligence Center (@360TIC) March 18, 2019. The ransomware encrypts data on the victim’s machine and appends the.Jnec extension to the encrypted data asking a ransom 0.05 At the moment of writing, 29 antivirus engines detect JNEC.a a ransomware , hacking ).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Ransomware accounted for over half of all malicious mailings in H1 2019, Troldesh aka Shade being the most popular tool among cybercriminals. To bypass antivirus systems, hackers send out malicious emails in non-working hours with delayed activation. More than 80% of all malicious files were disguised as .zip rar archive files.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 3, 2019

We met at Black Hat 2019. They’ll take more manual steps to encrypt servers, exfiltrate data – or do both. And then, instead of encrypting one or two or ten machines, they’ll encrypt everything.” Once they were inside, they would turn off your antivirus software and the software responsible for online backups.

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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. The joint alert also states that attackers scanning also enumerated devices for the CVE-2020-12812 and CVE-2019-5591 flaws. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Fortinet FortiOS).

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2019

Researchers at Intezer have discovered a new variant of WatchBog, a Linux-based cryptocurrency mining botnet, that also includes a module to scan the Internet for Windows RDP servers vulnerable to the Bluekeep vulnerability (CVE-2019-0708). ” reads a blog post published by Intezer. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Adiantum will bring encryption on Android devices without cryptographic acceleration. 620 million accounts stolen from 16 hacked websites available for sale on the dark web. Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for February 2019 fixes IE Zero-Day. Astaroth Trojan relies on legitimate os and antivirus processes to steal data.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 2, 2021

There was no need for a password or login credentials to access the information, and the data was not encrypted. In a sampling of the player profile data, the WizCase security team found that users could spend as much as $907 on the game via in-app microtransactions in the 10,000-player sample from 2019-2020 our team observed.

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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 !!! Zero Trust.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2019

SI-LAB detected hundreds of users that were impacted by this malware between March 18th and 26th of 2019. The last days of March 2019 are making headlines due to a targeted cyber attack involving a new variant of infamous EMOTET malware. EMOTET spread in Chile targeted financial and banking services. Technical Analysis.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2019

In February 2019, SI-LAB captured multiple samples of phishing campaigns using an Office Excel document carrying a malicious Excel 4.0 This technology is stored in the Workbook OLE stream in Excel 97-2003 format which makes it very difficult to detect and parse by antivirus (AV) engines. File name: patent-2019-02-20T093A283A05-1.xls

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 22, 2021

In 2019, US authorities filed charges against EvilCorp’s alleged leaders, Maksim Yakubets and Igor Turashev, accusing them of using malware to steal millions of dollars from groups, including schools and religious organizations, in over 40 countries. Links to EvilCorp. EvilCorp is the name of a vast, international cybercrime network.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2019

In the last weeks, the Cybaze-Yoroi ZLAB investigated a new APT28 campaign discovered in January 2019. Then, all the information is encoded in Base64 and sent to the C2 through the “ connect ” function, using a SSL encrypted HTTP channel. AutoIt script’s main function.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2020

One of the last occurrences was last December 2019, where the Lampion trojan operated in a very similar way, changing only the way the malware was distributed (via AWS S3 buckets and with the first stage encoded in a highly obfuscated VBS file). SecurityAffairs – Trojan banker, hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. It emerges that email marketing giant Mailchimp got hacked.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

In 2019, we created a special alert that notifies users if stalkerware is installed on their phones. Read messages on any messenger, regardless of whether encryption is used. Year on year, stalkerware servers are either hacked or left openly unprotected so that information can be accessed and leaked online. Switch on the camera.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2019

Meanwhile, the advanced hacking collectives invest in innovation and press forward. In the first four months of 2019 alone, some 22 attacks have been disclosed. days in Q2 2019, as compared to 7.3 days in Q1 2019. 2017: WannaCry – Attackers leverage hacking tools stolen from the NSA. mayors attending the U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Shah provides her expertise in hacking, software development, and kernel development and advocates for open source initiatives. lazydocker : A simple terminal UI for both docker and docker-compose : [link] pic.twitter.com/HsK17rzg8m — Binni Shah (@binitamshah) July 1, 2019. — Jason Haddix (@Jhaddix) July 27, 2019.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 22, 2021

Antivirus vendors detect it. It enables abuses like the mobile phone hack of Hatice Cengiz , former fiancée of murdered Washington Post columnist Jamal Khoshoggi. NSO Group has also said that its tool is increasingly necessary in an era when end-to-end encryption is widely available to criminals. It erodes it.

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SecureList

APRIL 10, 2023

The offers presented in this report were published between 2019 and 2023 and were collected from the nine most popular forums for the purchase and sale of goods and services related to malware and unwanted software. It is also clear of alerts from Google Protect and built-in antivirus on devices from different vendors.

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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. In South Korea, a suspect in the GandCrab ransomware operation was arrested (this family ceased active distribution back in 2019).

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

” ― Stephane Nappo The amount of compromised data in August 2019 composed 114,686,290 breached records. Endpoint Protection: Discover how to use antivirus software, learn about malware, encryption and application control. No hacking or programming experience is needed.

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