Malwarebytes

MARCH 28, 2024

The document mentions Facebook’s so-called In-App Action Panel (IAAP) program, which existed between June 2016 and approximately May 2019. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a standard security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a server and a client. Onavo was a VPN-like research tool that Facebook acquired in 2013.

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 9, 2020

To date, the company can confirm that whilst there has been some data encryption, there is no evidence that structured personal customer data has been encrypted. This strain of ransomware was used in many of 2019’s most newsworthy ransomware campaigns, including concurrent attacks on 22 Texas municipalities.

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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

APRIL 24, 2020

The crew has published images of the data they claim to have stolen before encrypting the systems at the company. Experts from BadPackets pointed out that attackers might have exploited the Pulse Secure VPN CVE-2019-11510 to compromise the company. – Seachange has over 50,000,000 subscribers.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2021

According to Varonis and RiskBased, over 4 billion records were illegally accessed through data breaches in 2019. Security through a VPN. Among many other benefits, a VPN encrypts these files and keeps the online activity private by masking a user’s real IP address. Wi-Fi encryption. Anti-malware/ phishing.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2019

Even though encryption should be taken seriously by businesses of all sizes, only a small fraction of the corporate sector puts their back on it. Why is Encryption a Feasible Option against Digital Threats? Encryption plays an integral role in securing the online data as well as its integrity. Final Thoughts.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The p opular ProtonMail end-to-end encrypted email service and ProtonVPN VPN service have been blocked by the Russian government this week. This week the Russian government has blocked the ProtonMail end-to-end encrypted email service and ProtonVPN VPN service.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 5, 2024

Strong encryption protects data securely from unauthorized access, but the specific algorithms that qualify as strong encryption change over time as computing power increases and researchers develop new ways to break encryption. What Makes an Encryption Algorithm Strong?

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Malwarebytes

MAY 11, 2021

It has been around since 2019 and in June of 2020 it got some real traction due to a malspam campaign. Avaddon ransomware performs an encryption in offline mode using AES-256 + RSA-2048 to encrypt files. When encrypted the files get the.avdn extension. When encrypted the files get the.avdn extension.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It includes integration of Glyptodon Enterprise into Keeper Security’s zero-trust and zero-knowledge security and encryption architecture, resulting in a highly-secure, agentless remote access platform, without the need of a virtual private network (VPN). “In

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

The malware has been active at least since August 2019, over the months the NetWalker ransomware was made available through a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model attracting criminal affiliates. “Since 2019, NetWalker ransomware has reached a vast number of different targets, mostly based in western European countries and the US.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

At the time of the attack, the ransomware operators published images of the data they claim to have stolen before encrypting the systems at the company. BadPackets reported that SeaChange had a Pulse Secure VPN server ( [link] ) vulnerable to CVE-2019-11510 from April 24, 2019 until March 24, 2020.

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SecureList

JULY 5, 2021

Some of the victims have reportedly been compromised through a popular MSP software which led to encryption of their customers. The total number of encrypted businesses could run into thousands. The group’s activity was first observed in April 2019 after the shutdown of GandCrab, another now-defunct ransomware gang.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

According to the experts, the SockDetour backdoor has been in the wild since at least July 2019. ” Once SockDetour is injected into the process’s memory, it hijacks legitimate processes’ network sockets to establish an encrypted C2 channel, then it loads an unidentified plugin DLL file retrieved from the server.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

The malware has been active at least since August 2019, over the months the NetWalker ransomware was made available through a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model attracting criminal affiliates. “Since 2019, NetWalker ransomware has reached a vast number of different targets, mostly based in western European countries and the US.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

OCTOBER 16, 2020

During the COVID-19 pandemic for example, you may use a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to connect to your organization’s network as if you’re sitting in the office, or you might use Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) to connect to your computer that’s now collecting dust on your office desk. VPNs continue to be problematic as well.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 8, 2021

But a security researcher and Tor node operator going by Nusenu told The Record this week that they observed a pattern in some of these Tor relays with no contact information, which they first noticed in 2019 and have traced back as far as 2017. Use end-to-end encryption. Use a VPN. Exit nodes. Stay safe, everyone!

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 24, 2020

On December 23, 2019, unknown attackers began contacting customer support people at OpenProvider , a popular domain name registrar based in The Netherlands. 23, 2019, the e-hawk.net domain was transferred to a reseller account within OpenProvider. ” Dijkxhoorn shared records obtained from OpenProvider showing that on Dec.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Financially motivated threat actors are using Cookie Theft malware in phishing attacks against YouTube creators since late 2019. a demo for anti-virus software, VPN, music players, photo editing or online games) to hijack the channel of YouTube creators. Below are the job descriptions used to recruit the hackers.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

On Friday, Belorussian authorities have blocked access to the end-to-end encrypted email service ProtonMail after receiving a wave of bomb threats. We are still investigating the block and reaching out to Belarusian authorities to restore email and VPN access to our many users in the country.” “On Nov.

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IT Security Guru

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Very few people outside of the tech community had heard of SolarWinds before late 2019 when cyber criminals gained access to the SolarWinds’ network. In December 2019, the Travelex foreign exchange company was targeted by the REvil ransomware group. SolarWinds. Travelex reportedly paid around $2.3M

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 15, 2021

After all, malware detections for both consumers and businesses decreased in 2020 compared to 2019. If you just pay attention to the numbers from last year, you might get the wrong idea. That sounds like good news, but it wasn’t. Other cybersecurity news. Spanish government falls prey to Ryuk ransomware.

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SecureList

MARCH 30, 2021

In 2019, we observed an APT campaign targeting multiple industries, including the Japanese manufacturing industry and its overseas operations, that was designed to steal information. Log of the hijacking VPN session from DESKTOP-A41UVJV. Encrypted Ecipekac Layer II loader (shellcode). size of encrypted data. pcasvc.dll.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2020

2/2) Please be assured that there is no compromise of customer payment details which are encrypted and tokenized. Please be assured that there is no compromise of customer payment details, which are encrypted and tokenized.” 1/2 — NOOK (@nookBN) October 14, 2020. (2/2) Thank you for your patience.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2021

PYSA, aka Mespinoza, is a malware capable of exfiltrating data and encrypting users’ critical files and data stored on their systems. PYSA, also known as Mespinoza, was first spotted in the wild in October 2019 where it was initially used against large corporate networks. Consider installing and using a VPN.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Now that it’s September, the excitement is beginning to build in earnest for the 2019 Rugby World Cup. Japan, the host country of both the 2019 Rugby World Cup and the 2020 Summer Olympic Games, is well-aware of these previous incidents. Sports fans aren’t the only ones who are looking forward to this event.

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

NCC Group and Fox-IT observed this threat actor during various incident response engagements performed between October 2019 until April 2020. After obtaining a valid account, they use this account to access the victim’s VPN, Citrix or another remote service that allows access to the network of the victim.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Apple Mail stores parts of encrypted emails in plaintext DB. Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates fix CVE-2019-1429 flaw exploited in the wild. CVE-2019-3648 flaw in all McAfee AV allows DLL Hijacking. Tracking Iran-linked APT33 group via its own VPN networks. WhatsApp flaw CVE-2019-11931 could be exploited to install spyware.

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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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Hot for Security

MARCH 29, 2021

In February 2019, cybersecurity researchers stumbled upon an unsecured public-facing database that exposed over 800 million email addresses and associated personally identifiable information (PII), including names, gender, dates of birth, phone numbers, IP addresses, job titles and employers. In short, Verifications.io

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Malwarebytes

MAY 28, 2021

The first is Ransom.Sodinokibi , which Malwarebytes has already profiled and has been detecting since 2019.). 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. Earlier versions appended the.CONTI extension to encrypted files.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Talos reported that these DNS hijacks also paved the way for the attackers to obtain SSL encryption certificates for the targeted domains (e.g. webmail.finance.gov.lb), which allowed them to decrypt the intercepted email and VPN credentials and view them in plain text. adpvpn.adpolice.gov.ae: VPN service for the Abu Dhabi Police.

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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.

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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. The first half of 2019 saw a 10-fold increase in the number of password-protected objects, such as documents and archive files, being used to deliver malware. The revival of ransomware.

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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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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. According to the Better Business Bureau, 37.9% of all reports to the BBB Scam Tracker “were online purchase scams, up from 24.3% On top of that, 80.5% Change your passwords.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2021

An example of this can be traced back to June 2019, when an unauthorized user gained access to Quest Diagnostic’s sensitive data through a billing vendor by the name of the American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA). Another tool for limiting access to your personal information is a VPN (Virtual Private Network).

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