Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2020

The attacker also obtained free encryption certificates for escrow.com from Let’s Encrypt. In cases where passwords are used, pick unique passwords and consider password managers. 49 (that domain is hobbled here because it is currently flagged as hosting a phishing site).

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 23, 2021

LastPass is password management software that’s been popular among business and personal users since it was initially released in 2008. Like other password managers, LastPass provides a secure vault for your login credentials, personal documents, and other sensitive information. When it was acquired by LogMeIn Inc.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 8, 2019

Related: Marriott reports huge data breach Ever thought about encrypting the data held on a portable storage device? Launched as a one-man operation in 2007, DataLocker has grown into a leading manufacturer of encrypted external drives, thumb drives, flash drives and self-encrypting, recordable CDs and DVDs.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2021

Trojan Shield operation: The FBI and Australian Federal Police ran an encrypted chat platform that was used by crime gangs and intercepted their communications. The FBI and Australian Federal Police (AFP) ran an encrypted chat platform that was used by crime gangs and intercepted their communications.

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Zero Day

JUNE 6, 2025

The hackers say that the dates of birth and social security numbers were originally encrypted but have since been decrypted and are now visible in plain text. Also: Massive data breach exposes 184 million passwords for Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and more Individually, any one of those pieces of data can be exploited by the wrong people.

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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. 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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SecureBlitz

JUNE 16, 2023

Password is an encryption on a device, software or website to restrict unauthorized users from accessing your files or data pic.twitter.com/nSkfwDsAV2 — SecureBlitz Cybersecurity Blog (@secureblitz) November 25, 2019 In our increasingly interconnected world, passwords have become the primary line of defense for our online presence.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2019

Experts observed the STOP ransomware installing the Azorult password-stealing Trojan to steal account credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, and more. The STOP ransomware made the headlines because it is installing password-stealing Trojans on the victims’ machines. ” reads a blog post published by Bleepingcomputer.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Top domain name registrars NetworkSolutions.com , Register.com and Web.com are asking customers to reset their passwords after discovering an intrusion in August 2019 in which customer account information was accessed. A spokesperson for Web.com later clarified that the company does not believe customer passwords were accessed.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2020

Group-IB , a Singapore-based cybersecurity company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks, found out that the year of 2019 was marked by ransomware evolution and was dominated by increasingly aggressive ransomware campaigns, with its operators resorting to more cunning TTPs, reminding those of APT groups to get their victims shell out.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 26, 2019

A map showing the distribution of some 2 million iLinkP2P-enabled devices that are vulnerable to eavesdropping, password theft and possibly remote compromise, according to new research. “In reality, enumeration of these prefixes has shown that the number of online devices was ~1,517,260 in March 2019.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Encryption scrambles data to make it unreadable to those without decryption keys. Proper use of encryption preserves secrecy and radically lowers the potential damage of a successful cybersecurity attack. Encryption algorithm types will provide an overview of the mathematical algorithms used to encrypt data (AES, RSA, etc.),

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 10, 2021

The company does not believe the botnet is exploiting vulnerabilities in its software, it’s simply going after weak or default passwords using brute force guessing. In this case, if a password is guessed successfully, the device is infected with malware that will carry out additional attacks on other devices. StealthWorker.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

used the password 225948. Pin was active on Opensc around March 2012, and authored 13 posts that mostly concerned data encryption issues, or how to fix bugs in code. A machine-translated ad for ransomware source code from Putinkrab on the Russian language cybercrime forum UFOlabs in 2019. and admin@stairwell.ru Image: Ke-la.com.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 3, 2019

I’ve seen numerous attack campaigns targeting this region come to the surface in 2019 alone. DarkMatter confirmed as much in its Cyber Security Report: June 2019 when it found that approximately 90 percent of UAE-based enterprises exhibited outdated software, credential problems in the form of weak/exposed passwords and insecure protocols.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 23, 2024

This infection scheme was originally described back in 2019 and has changed only slightly from year to year. dat Encrypted VBShower backdoor AppCache028732611605321388.log:AppCache0287326116053213889292.vbs Sample VBShower Cleaner content VBShower::Backdoor The backdoor’s payload is contained encrypted within a DAT file.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

alerted customers to the incident, disabling security questions and forcing them to take a mulligan on their passwords—requiring a reset of passwords for all accounts. and action required in relation to your account password with our Callaway, Odyssey, Ogio, and/or Callaway Golf Preowned sites.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

You are often required to provide your email address, date of birth, first and last name, and a password. In 2014 eBay announced that over 145 million users’ information had been stolen, including names, addresses, date of birth, and passwords. According to the 2019 Verizon Security Report , 34% of breaches involved internal actors.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 16, 2022

CafePress waited seven months to publicly disclose a 2019 breach, and only did so after it had been reported in the news. In February 2019, a threat actor was able to access millions of email addresses and passwords. The passwords are said to have been protected by “weak encryption”, an absolute security no-no.

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Adam Levin

JUNE 1, 2020

Leaked information included names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, encrypted passwords, and IP addresses. Leaked information included names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, encrypted passwords, and IP addresses. The post Joomla CMS Discloses Data Leak appeared first on Adam Levin.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Some of the vulnerabilities exploited by the botnets are CVE-2015-2051 , CVE-2019-10891 , CVE-2022-37056 , and CVE-2024-33112. The malware’s configuration, including its C2 server domain and a unique string, is encrypted using the ChaCha20 algorithm. ” reads the report published by Fortinet.

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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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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The attackers first create a user in the administrator group, then use it to encrypt the content of the NAS. “It is important to note that there is a free decryptor for files locked with an older version (before July 17th, 2019) of eCh0raix ransomware. The malicious code appends.encrypt extension to filenames of encrypted files.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2020

DeathRansom was considered fake ransomware due to the fact that it did not implement an effective encryption process, but now things are changing. DeathRansom is a ransomware family that was initially classified as a joke because it did not implement an effective encryption scheme. ru website. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

government — along with a number of leading security companies — recently warned about a series of highly complex and widespread attacks that allowed suspected Iranian hackers to siphon huge volumes of email passwords and other sensitive data from multiple governments and private companies. That changed on Jan. Contacted on Feb.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

It’s best to do your banking and shopping at home, but if you have to use public Wi-Fi, consider using a VPN (virtual private network) that encrypts your activity. Change your passwords. If you’re using the same password across a number of accounts, you are more vulnerable to cyber criminals. On top of that, 80.5% Bottom line.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Among the Twilio customers targeted was encrypted messaging service Signal , which relied on Twilio to provide phone number verification services. DigitalOcean severs ties with Mailchimp after that incident , which briefly prevented the hosting firm from communicating with its customers or processing password reset requests.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

According to a report from Protenus and DataBreaches.net, over 41 million patient records were breached in 2019, almost tripling healthcare industry breaches from the prior year. The largest privacy incident was reported in 2019 at American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA), a third-party billing and collections company.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 17, 2019

It can be your login and password to your Office 365 or G Suite or some other information. Instead of making itself known by encrypting files and displaying a ransom note, ransomware quietly stays in your system and scans the network for other vulnerabilities. It encrypts your files and displays a typical ransom note.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 3, 2023

Searching on ubsagency@gmail.com in Constella Intelligence shows the address was used sometime before February 2019 to create an account under the name “ SammySam_Alon ” at the interior decorating site Houzz.com.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 7, 2021

According to our data, its main vector of distribution is cracking RDP passwords. Encrypted files and a note from the attackers. For encryption, the program uses the AES symmetric algorithm with a 128-bit key in ECB mode (simple substitution mode) from the CryptoPP cryptographic library. Technical file created by BigBobRoss.

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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. “ “The password database was leaked shortly before the attack. The malicious code appended the extension.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2020

The eCh0raix ransomware was appeared in the threat landscape in June 2019 by experts at security firms Intezer and Anomali. The ransomware, tracked by Intezer as “ QNAPCrypt ” and “ eCh0raix ” by Anomali, is written in the Go programming language and uses AES encryption to encrypt files. The malicious code appends .encrypt

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 17, 2019

Data breaches are at an epidemic level with healthcare organizations experiencing the highest attack rate compared to any other industry studied according to the new Thales 2019 Data Threat Report-Healthcare Edition. They’re counting on the fact that only 38% or less of healthcare organizations encrypt data. A password can be updated.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 2, 2020

“Two of the most common vulnerabilities exploited by actors using Netwalker are Pulse Secure VPN (CVE-2019-11510) and Telerik UI (CVE-2019-18935).” “Two of the most common vulnerabilities exploited by actors using Netwalker are Pulse Secure VPN (CVE-2019-11510) and Telerik UI (CVE-2019-18935).”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2021

The eCh0raix ransomware has been active since at least 2019, when eExperts from security firms Intezer and Anomali separately discovered sample of the ransomware targeting Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices. The malicious code appends.encrypt extension to filenames of encrypted files.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 8, 2025

A SQL Server database backup for a ManageEngines ADSelfService Plus product had been recovered and, while the team had walked through the database recovery, SQL Server database encryption was in use. So the mission is clear: we need to understand SQL Server Encryption before we can hope to retrieve this data in cleartext.

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