Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 13, 2021

Data Encryption Shields the Energy Sector Against Emerging Threats. Other incidents include: The European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E) said in March 2020 it had “found evidence of a successful cyber intrusion into its office network.”. Encryption. Wed, 01/13/2021 - 09:42.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2024

The Akira ransomware operators implement a double extortion model by exfiltrating victims’ data before encrypting it. Earlier versions of the ransomware were written in C++ and the malware added the.akira extension to the encrypted files. The attackers mostly used Cisco vulnerabilities CVE-2020-3259 and CVE-2023-20269.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Threat actors are distributing the GravityRAT remote access trojan masqueraded as an end-to-end encrypted chat application named SoSafe Chat. Threat actors are distributing the GravityRAT RAT masqueraded as an end-to-end encrypted chat application named SoSafe Chat. ” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Cisco Security

MARCH 16, 2021

In fact, 63% of threats detected by Cisco Stealthwatch in 2019 were in encrypted traffic. The European Union is concerned enough that it drafted a resolution in November 2020 to ban end-to-end encryption, prompting outcry from privacy advocates. DNS message encryption (control plane) is new. No snooping, no spoofing.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 15, 2022

Meta Digs in Heels on Encryption. Government Encryption Fight. The fight for encryption can be summarized by the arguments of two sides: government and business. Both agree that encryption is useful - the question at hand is, what is the cost of using encryption? Meta Commits to Encryption. brooke.crothers.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Peter is an IT manager for a technology manufacturer that got hit with a Russian ransomware strain called “ Zeppelin ” in May 2020. He’d been on the job less than six months, and because of the way his predecessor architected things, the company’s data backups also were encrypted by Zeppelin. ” they wrote.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Encrypted flash drives, essentially secure storage on a stick, are a proven technology that has been readily available for at least 15 years. And yet today there is a resurgence in demand for encrypted flash drives. And yet today there is a resurgence in demand for encrypted flash drives.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2021

Facebook says the data was collected before 2020 when it changed things to prevent such information from being scraped from profiles. 2020) was not in HaveIBeenPwned, but then again Facebook claims to have more than 2.7 A cybercrime forum ad from June 2020 selling a database of 533 Million Facebook users. According to a Jan.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

2020 marks the launch of the Thales Data Threat Report-Global Edition for the seventh consecutive year. The 2020 Thales Data Threat Report-Global Edition indicates that we have reached a tipping point. Sage advice: encrypt everything. Yet, despite their significance, rates of data encryption and tokenization are low.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2020

DigiLocker provides an account in cloud to every Aadhaar holder to access authentic documents/certificates such as driving license, vehicle registration, academic mark sheet in digital format from the original issuers of these certificates. It also provides 1GB storage space to each account to upload scanned copies of legacy documents.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Four encryption and authentication issues in Modicon M221 PLCs were reported by Trustwave, three of which have been independently found by the security firm Claroty. This data is encrypted using a 4-byte XOR key, which is a weak encryption method.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2021

Researchers identified a vulnerability affecting the Passkey authentication in BR/EDR Secure Simple Pairing in Bluetooth Core Specifications 2.1 Once the bits composing the Passkey were identified during the same pairing session an attack could complete the authenticated pairing process with the responder. CVE-2020-26558. .”

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2021

.” Summarizing, the design flaws discovered by the expert are: CVE-2020-24588 : aggregation attack (accepting non-SPP A-MSDU frames). CVE-2020-24587 : mixed key attack (reassembling fragments encrypted under different keys). CVE-2020-26140 : Accepting plaintext data frames in a protected network.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2020

One of the most security issues is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-3382. The vulnerability can allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to bypass authentication and perform actions with admin privileges on the vulnerable device. ” reads the advisory published by Cisco.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 31, 2019

All the encryption , firewalls , cryptography, SCADA systems , and other IT security measures would be useless if that were to occur. One such measure is to authenticate the users who can access the server. This could include expensive hardware, or access to sensitive user and/or enterprise security information.

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2021

ModiPwn flaw (CVE-2021-22779) in some of Schneider Electric’s Modicon PLCs can allow attackers to bypass authentication mechanisms and take over the device. The vulnerability can allow attackers to bypass authentication mechanisms which can lead to native remote-code-execution on vulnerable PLCs.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Once a user has successfully authenticated on the OWA authentication web page, the Owawa module captures its credential. The module was most likely compiled between late 2020 and April 2021. The module verifies the successful authentication by checking that the OWA application is sending an authentication token back to the user.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

FBI is warning private industry partners of a surge in Ragnar Locker ransomware activity following a confirmed attack from April 2020. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a flash alert (MU-000140-MW) to warn private industry partners of an increase of the Ragnar Locker ransomware activity following a confirmed attack from April 2020.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 22, 2022

Going deep into the details, CafePress’s former owner, Residual Pumpkin Entity, was storing critical customer data such as social security numbers, passwords and other account related info in plain text and not with any authentication. In Sept’2020, PlanetArt acquired CafePress from its former parent company Shutterfly or Snapfish. .

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2021

Interestingly, people seem to have become more aware of the need for a secure workplace in 2020. Nexor, a service provider in the cybersecurity space, asserts that Google searches for ‘cyber defence’ surged by 126% in the first quarter of 2020. Here are the different ways in which a VPN elevates cybersecurity: Encryption.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

The missives asked users to click a link and log in at a phishing page that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page. Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication. A booking photo of Noah Michael Urban released by the Volusia County Sheriff.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 26, 2021

The Verizon DBIR 2020 report indicates that financially motivated attacks against retailers have moved away from Point of Sale (POS) devices and controllers, towards web applications. Source: Verizon DBIR 2020. Criminals use personal and financial data to impersonate customers and add apparent authenticity to a scam.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 21, 2021

From January through March 2021, TLS concealed 45 percent of the malware Sophos analysts observed circulating on the Internet; that’s double the rate – 23 percent – seen in early 2020, Dan Schiappa, Sophos’ chief product officer, told me in a briefing. How TLS works is that there is an encryption point and a decryption point.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The proof-of-concept exploit code for the Kerberos Bronze Bit attack was published online, it allows intruders to bypass authentication and access sensitive network services. The proof-of-concept exploit code for the Kerberos Bronze Bit attack, tracked as CVE-2020-17049 , was published online this week.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 15, 2022

Not everyone adopts multi-factor authentication (MFA) to secure their accounts. Many stick with simple username and password combinations despite the weaknesses of this authentication method. Passwords are the most common method of authentication. Passwordless Authentication 101. The Problem with Passwords. MFA Basics.

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Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2020

Researchers discovered two security flaws impacting Oracle’s iPlanet Web Server, tracked as CVE-2020-9315 and CVE-2020-9314, that could cause sensitive data exposure and limited injection attacks. The vulnerability could result in the leak of sensitive data, including configuration information and encryption keys. .

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 6, 2020

The 2020 Thales Data Threat Report Global Edition found that no organization is immune from data security threats, with 49% of global respondents experiencing a breach at some point and 26% having been breached in the past year. Whether it’s stored in a company’s own servers or the cloud – encryption must be used to protect sensitive data.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 25, 2021

Thanks to a couple of milestone hacks disclosed at the close of 2020 and start of 2021, they will forever be associated with putting supply-chain vulnerabilities on the map. SolarWinds subsequently disclosed to the SEC that threat actors inserted Sunburst into the Orion updates issued to customers between March and June 2020.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

A retired threat actor has returned with new attacks aimed at the cloud, containers – and encryption keys. These cybercriminals are known for their creativity and ability to target cloud environments, as they introduced new techniques in 2020 that hadn’t been seen before. Only the key is supposed to open the gate.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 14, 2021

While looking for potentially malicious implants that targeted Microsoft Exchange servers, we identified a suspicious binary that had been submitted to a multiscanner service in late 2020. The malicious module was most likely compiled between late 2020 and April 2021.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Related: Why PKI is well-suited to secure the Internet of Things PKI is the authentication and encryption framework on which the Internet is built. I had a chance to interview Brian Trzupek , DigiCert’s senior vice president of emerging markets products, at the company’s Security Summit 2020 in San Diego recently.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 11, 2021

As this specific exploit would not require any form of authentication, it’s even more appealing for attackers, and any organization using HTTP.sys protocol stack should prioritize this patch.” You’ll also note this CVE is from 2020, which could indicate Microsoft has been working on this fix for some time.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2021

This is not the first time that experts disclose vulnerabilities in EXIM software, in May 2020 the U.S. Experts announced they will not publish that exploits for now.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 2, 2020

“As of June 2020, the FBI has received notifications of Netwalker ransomware attacks on U.S. “Netwalker became widely recognized in March 2020, after intrusions on an Australian transportation and logistics company and a U.S. Use two-factor authentication with strong passwords. ” reads the alert.

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SecureList

MAY 23, 2022

In early 2020, we notified the Rockwell Automation Product Security Incident Response Team ( RA PSIRT ) of several vulnerabilities we had identified in the ISaGRAF Runtime execution environment. Since authentication data is encrypted with a preset symmetric key, the attacker could decrypt an intercepted target (device) password.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 23, 2021

CISA found that the attacker(s) had access to the enterprise’s network for nearly a year, between March 2020 and February 2021. The attacker(s) authenticated to the VPN appliance through several user accounts that did not have multi-factor authentication (MFA) enabled and were able to masquerade as legitimate teleworking employees.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2021

The FBI shared info about OnePercent Group that has been actively targeting US organizations in ransomware attacks since at least November 2020. OnePercent Group actors encrypt the data and exfiltrate it from the victims’ systems. Use multi-factor authentication with strong passphrases. Implement network segmentation. •

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