Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Networking software giant Citrix Systems says malicious hackers were inside its networks for five months between 2018 and 2019, making off with personal and financial data on company employees, contractors, interns, job candidates and their dependents. But in a letter sent to affected individuals dated Feb. 13, 2018 and Mar.

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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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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2021

Acer is the world’s 6th-largest PC vendor by unit sales as of January 2021, it has more than 7,000 employees (2019) and in 2019 declared 234.29 financial spreadsheets, bank documents and communications) as proof of the hack. SecurityAffairs – hacking, ransoware). billion in revenue. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

In November 2019, ransomware operators have started adopting a new double-extortion strategy first used by the Maze gang that sees threat actors also stealing unencrypted files before encrypting infected systems. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Ragnar Locker ransomware). 9, on Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. “Additionally, we are able to determine the exact seq and ack num bers by counting encrypted packets and/or examining their size. SecurityAffairs – CVE-2019-14899 , hacking).

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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. File encryption 2013 – 2015. It emerged in September 2013 and paved the way for hundreds of file-encrypting menaces that have splashed onto the scene ever since.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2021

The threat actors are actively exploiting the following vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiOS: CVE-2018-13379 ; CVE-2020-12812 ; CVE-2019-5591. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Fortinet VPN). The post APT hacked a US municipal government via an unpatched Fortinet VPN appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2020

Let’s Encrypt is going to revoke over 3 million certificates today due to a flaw in the software used to verify users and their domains before issuing a certificate. A bug in Let’s Encrypt’s certificate authority (CA) software, dubbed Boulder, caused the correct validation for some certificates.

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Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2019

According to experts at Sonicwall, scanning of random ports and the diffusion of encrypted malware are characterizing the threat landscape. The situation is better in the first half of 2019, when SonicWall recorded 4.8 The situation is better in the first half of 2019, when SonicWall recorded 4.8 billion attacks.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Phobos variants are usually distributed by the SmokeLoader , but in 8Base campaigns, it has the ransomware component embedded in its encrypted payloads. 8base” file extension for encrypted documents, a circumstance that suggested a possible link to the 8Base group or the use of the same code-base for their ransomware.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2020

Security experts have found a malicious app in the Google Play that exploits the recently patched CVE-2019-2215 zero-day vulnerability. Earlier October, Google Project Zero researchers Maddie Stone publicly disclosed a zero-day vulnerability , tracked as CVE-2019-2215 , in Android. ” reads a blog post published by Stone.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

A high-severity hardware vulnerability, dubbed Kr00k , in Wi-Fi chips manufactured by Broadcom and Cypress expose over a billion devices to hack. This serious flaw, assigned CVE-2019-15126, causes vulnerable devices to use an all-zero encryption key to encrypt part of the user’s communication.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2020

Ransomware encrypts from virtual machines to evade antivirus. Ragnar Locker deploys Windows XP virtual machines to encrypt victim’s files, the trick allows to evaded detection from security software. Mounting all the shared drives to encrypt. SecurityAffairs – Ragnar Locker ransomware, hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2021

National Security Agency (NSA) warned that Russia-linked APT group tracked Sandworm Team were exploiting a critical vulnerability ( CVE-2019-10149 ) in the Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) software since at least August 2019. In September 2019 , Exim maintainers released an urgent security update, Exim version 4.92.3,

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Times have changed because anti-virus was not focused on at all and there was little on encryption. There were literally hundreds of IoT devices on display that you could hack. The packet hacking village was also fantastic. One could show up without a laptop and just start hacking away (i.e.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

The threat of bad actors hacking into airplane systems mid-flight has become a major concern for airlines and operators worldwide. Back in 2015, a security researcher decided to make that very point when he claimed to have hacked a plane , accessed the thrust system, and made it fly higher than intended.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Experts spotted a new strain of the Ryuk Ransomware that was developed to avoid encrypting folders commonly seen in *NIX operating systems. Kremez noticed that the ransomware doesn’t encrypt folders that are associated with *NIX operating systems. 2019-12-21: #Ryuk #Ransomware as V2.EXE ” reported BleepingComputer.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2023

The MegaCortex ransomware first appeared on the threat landscape in May 2019 when it was spotted by security experts at Sophos. Since November 2019, MegaCortex operators started adopting double extortion tactics. The decryptor also supports the “Scan Entire System” mode which allows users to search for all encrypted files.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2020

The source code of the infamous Dharma ransomware is now available for sale on two Russian-language hacking forums. The source code of one of the most profitable ransomware families, the Dharma ransomware , is up for sale on two Russian-language hacking forums. ” concluded ZDNet. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2019

Dragonblood researchers found two new weaknesses in WPA3 protocol that could be exploited to hack WPA3 protected WiFi passwords. A group of researchers known as Dragonblood (Mathy Vanhoef and Eyal Ronen ) devised new methods to hack WPA3 protected WiFi passwords by exploiting two new vulnerabilities dubbed Dragonblood flaws.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2019

Microsoft releases Patch Tuesday security updates for June 2019 that address 88 vulnerabilities in Windows OS and other products. The flaws were disclosed by the researcher SandboxEscaper over the past weeks, below the list of the issue: CVE-2019-0973 CVE-2019-1053 CVE-2019-1064 CVE-2019-1069. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In our recently launched 2019 Data Threat Report-Global Edition , we found that 97% of enterprises are using sensitive data within digitally transformative technology but, only 30% are encrypting that data. His session , “Kubernetes Deployments: How Not to Get Hacked” will be held on Tuesday, March 5, from 10:20 – 11:00 a.m.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 15, 2019

I was really looking forward to participating in RSA 2019 and it was a great event. I have always evangelized that you can either bring your own encryption or bring your own key to the cloud…as both provide a higher security posture than subscribing to KMS, and will ensure encrypted workloads in the cloud are doing their job without risk.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2021

At this time, it is not clear how threat actors compromised the QNAP devices, some users claim that attackers exploited a flaw in the Photo Station software to hack them. The attackers first create a user in the administrator group, then use it to encrypt the content of the NAS. SecurityAffairs – hacking, ech0raix). and 1.0.6).”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

One of the two flaws in Chrome addressed by Google, CVE-2019-13720, was exploited in a campaign that experts attribute to Korea-linked threat actors. Reported by banananapenguin on 2019-10-12[$TBD][ 1019226 ] High CVE-2019-13720: Use-after-free in audio. reads the advisory published by Google.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Justice Department today unsealed indictments against four Chinese officers of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) accused of perpetrating the 2017 hack against consumer credit bureau Equifax that led to the theft of personal data on nearly 150 million Americans. in 2019 , according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 12, 2020

The attack requires physical access to the computer, but it's pretty devastating : On Thunderbolt-enabled Windows or Linux PCs manufactured before 2019, his technique can bypass the login screen of a sleeping or locked computer -- and even its hard disk encryption -- to gain full access to the computer's data. Intel responds.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 24, 2018

Cyber hacking is a billion-dollar industry and will only get larger. trillion dollar issue by 2019. Based on the “Key findings from the Global State of Information Security® Survey 2017” by PricewaterhouseCoopers , over 28 percent of respondents have become the victims of mobile hacking. Read on to learn more.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

In an ironic twist, the accused — who had fairly well separated his real life identity from his online personas — appears to have been caught after a gaming Web site he frequented got hacked. 12, the U.S. Justice Department announced the arrest of Timothy Dalton Vaughn , a 20-year-old from Winston-Salem, N.C.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2019

According to a report published by cyber security firm Sixgill data for over 23 million payment card were on offer in underground forums in the first half of 2019. . The following graph shows that three trading posts accounted for 64 percent of the cards on offer during the first half of 2019. . AMEX accounted for 12 percent. .

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 25, 2020

Specifically, it says, “The [link] ensures that you are connecting to the official website… ” Here’s the deal: The [link] part of an address (also called “Secure Sockets Layer” or SSL) merely signifies the data being transmitted back and forth between your browser and the site is encrypted and cannot be read by third parties.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 3, 2020

There's a vulnerability in Wi-Fi hardware that breaks the encryption : The vulnerability exists in Wi-Fi chips made by Cypress Semiconductor and Broadcom, the latter a chipmaker Cypress acquired in 2016. Eset has named the vulnerability Kr00k, and it is tracked as CVE-2019-15126.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 29, 2019

A great way to mitigate some of the risks associated with cloud or multi-cloud environments is to deploy encryption solutions. In fact, 38% of organizations’ security concerns with cloud environments would be alleviated with data encryption at the service provider level. The importance of encryption cannot be overstated.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2019

eyeDisk features AES 256-bit encryption for your iris pattern.” “We develop our own iris recognition algorithm so that no one can hack your USB drive even [if] they have your iris pattern. Advised public disclosure date 9 th May 2019 – no response 8th May final chase before disclosure 9 th May disclosed.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2019

UK intelligence agency GCHQ released emulators for World War II cipher machines (Enigma, Typex and The Bombe) that can be executed in the encryption app CyberChef. link] #GCHQ100 pic.twitter.com/t2ixVE6j7H — GCHQ (@GCHQ) March 14, 2019. We even tested them against the real thing! Try them out for yourself! Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Like all ransomware, this is a type of malware that, once introduced into an organization, encrypts the data and then requires the victim to pay a ransom in order to decrypt it. Encrypted file structure ransomware BlackCat / ALPHV: [ORIGINAL_FILENAME].[ORIGINAL_extension].specific/different Black The LockBit 3.0 ORIGINAL_extension].specific/different

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Researchers from Trend Micro, while monitoring the activity of the China-linked threat actor Earth Lusca , discovered an encrypted file hosted on a server under the control of the group. It consists of two components, the loader and the encrypted main payload. The backdoor uses AES-ECB encryption for C2 communications.

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