SecureList

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Its primary targets have been military and government entities in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, China and Nepal. APP_DLL_URL URL used to download the encrypted payload. The library acts as a loader that retrieves an encrypted payload dropped by ModuleInstaller, decrypts it and loads it in memory.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2024

has charged a Chinese national for hacking thousands of Sophos firewall devices worldwide in 2020. has charged the Chinese national Guan Tianfeng (aka gbigmao and gxiaomao) for hacking thousands of Sophos firewall devices worldwide in 2020. The malware stole data and encrypted files to block remediation attempts.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 18, 2025

government is aligning two foundational privacy and cybersecurity frameworks. NIST first published the PFW in 2020, with the goal of helping organizations mitigate the privacy risks associated with the processing of personal data in their computer systems. Use modern encryption standards. This week, the U.S.

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SecureList

JULY 17, 2025

In a recent incident response (IR) case, we discovered highly customized malware targeting Exchange infrastructure within government environments. We suspect that the vulnerability exploited in the Exchange attack may be related to CVE-2020-0688. The module accepts the following socket communication commands.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 14, 2025

President Trump last week revoked security clearances for Chris Krebs , the former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) who was fired by Trump after declaring the 2020 election the most secure in U.S. telecommunications providers.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 19, 2025

In security terms, that’s the equivalent of encrypting sensitive data while also attaching the secret key needed to view the information. government employees. government employees. If a foreign government had known even part of his name from a list of confirmed CIA officers, his cover would have been blown.”

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The Incident response analyst report provides insights into incident investigation services conducted by Kaspersky in 2020. In 2020, the pandemic forced companies to restructure their information security practices, accommodating a work-from-home (WFH) approach. Geography of incident responses by region, 2020.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 17, 2020

Encryption is a cornerstone of digital commerce. Related: A ‘homomorphic-like’ encryption solution We know very well how to encrypt data in transit. And we’ve mastered how to encrypt — and decrypt — data at rest. PKI is the authentication and encryption framework on which the Internet is built.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

It is perhaps best known for selling virtual private networking (VPN) software that lets users remotely access networks and computers over an encrypted connection. 10, 2020, Citrix disclosed additional details about the incident. But in a letter sent to affected individuals dated Feb. 13, 2018 and Mar.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

NetWalker ransomware operators continue to be very active, according to McAfee the cybercrime gang has earned more than $25 million since March 2020. McAfee researchers believe that the NetWalker ransomware operators continue to be very active, the gang is believed to have earned more than $25 million since March 2020. reads the alert.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2021

The FBI revealed that foreign hackers compromised the network of a local US municipal government by exploiting flaws in an unpatched Fortinet VPN. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reported that an APT group had breached the network of a local US municipal government by exploiting vulnerabilities in an unpatched Fortinet VPN.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 1, 2020

Related: What we’ve learned from the massive breach of Capitol At RSA 2020 , I learned about how one of the routine daily chores all large organizations perform — data governance — has started to emerge as something of a cybersecurity multiplier. A robust data archiving strategy puts data into tiers, Lahiri says.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 1, 2021

The group conducts cyber espionage operations to target government entities mainly in South Korea. On December 2020, KISA (Korean Internet & Security Agency) provided a detailed analysis about the phishing infrastructure and TTPs used by Kimsuky to target South Korea. Victimology. One of the lures used by Kimsuky named “???

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 1, 2022

The records also provide insight into how Conti has dealt with its own internal breaches and attacks from private security firms and foreign governments. Shouting “Glory for Ukraine,” the Contileaks account has since published additional Conti employee conversations from June 22, 2020 to Nov. 22, 2020, the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Labor Department’s inspector general said this week that roughly $100 million in fraudulent unemployment insurance claims were paid in 2020 to criminals who are already in jail. A new report (PDF) from the Labor Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) found that from March through October of 2020, some $3.5

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Russia-linked APT Turla has hacked into the systems of an undisclosed European government organization according to Accenture. According to a report published by Accenture Cyber Threat Intelligence (ACTI), Russia-linked cyber-espionage group Turla has hacked into the systems of an undisclosed European government organization.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

After eavesdropping on yet another encrypted messaging service for five months, law enforcement agencies decided to shut down the service that was popular among members of organized crime groups. Exclu Exclu was an app marketed as an end-to-end-encrypted messaging service and users paid €500 (roughly $540) for three months' use.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2023

A cyberespionage campaign, tracked as Stayin’ Alive, targeted high-profile government and telecom entities in Asia. The APT group was discovered in June 2022 by Kaspersky which linked it to a series of attacks aimed at high-profile entities in Europe and Asia since at least December 2020. Is it linked to ToddyCat APT?

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In March 2020, KrebsOnSecurity alerted Swedish security giant Gunnebo Group that hackers had broken into its network and sold the access to a criminal group which specializes in deploying ransomware. The company has operations in 25 countries, more than 4,000 employees, and billions in revenue annually.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

Related: What local government can do to repel ransomware Ransomware came into existence in 1989 as a primitive program dubbed the AIDS Trojan that was spreading via 5.25-inch 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.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2021

China-linked APT group Cycldek is behind an advanced cyberespionage campaign targeting entities in the government and military sector in Vietnam. China-linked APT group LuckyMouse (aka Cycldek, Goblin Panda , Hellsing, APT 27, and Conimes) is targeting government and military organizations in Vietnam with spear-phishing.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 17, 2022

For some time, many local government officials did not recognize the risk of behaviors in which they were engaged. Then, 2020 happened and much of that changed. The Texas attack showed that what once was thought to be a big city problem is leaving every local government vulnerable, and attacks are on the rise.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2021

billion in 2020. ransomware-as-a-service gang actually includes a solicitation for insiders in the desktop wallpaper left behind on systems encrypted with the malware. – Government entities. Image: FBI. For example, the Lockbit 2.0 “Would you like to earn millions of dollars? – Canada. – Australia.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

The government says Urban went by the aliases “ Sosa ” and “ King Bob ,” among others. Among those was the encrypted messaging app Signal , which said the breach could have let attackers re-register the phone number on another device for about 1,900 users. On July 28 and again on Aug.

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Anton on Security

MARCH 3, 2022

Skills, Not Tiers”” “Beware: Clown-grade SOCs Still Abound” “Revisiting the Visibility Triad for 2020” “Why is Threat Detection Hard?” “A 2020 Anton’s Security Blog Quarterly Q1 2022 was originally published in Anton on Security on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 2, 2020

and foreign government organizations. and foreign government organizations. “As of June 2020, the FBI has received notifications of Netwalker ransomware attacks on U.S. and foreign government organizations, education entities, private companies, and health agencies by unidentified cyber actors.”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 12, 2022

The Advanced Persistent Group (APT) group linked to another Tehran-based threat activists group dubbed Cobalt Illusion APT35 is seen distributing file-encrypting malware that straightly wipes out files if the victim cannot pay the ransom on time. Note- Ransomware is a kind of malware that encrypts a database until a ransom is paid.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 7, 2020

According to the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project , “illicit trafficking of tobacco is a multibillion-dollar business today, fueling organized crime and corruption [and] robbing governments of needed tax money. government to secure Davies’ extradition, but he appears to have slipped away once again.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2020

The popular US government contractor Electronic Warfare Associates (EWA) has suffered a ransomware attack , the news was reported by ZDNet. L ast week, the US government contractor Electronic Warfare Associates (EWA) has suffered a ransomware attack that also infected its web servers. EWA Technologies Inc.,

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

DBS is a joint venture by the Seychelles government and some shareholders including Bank, Caisse Francaise de Cooperation, European Investment Bank, DEG, Standard Chartered Bank, and Barclays Bank. . DBS bought back Barclays’ share and Government purchased the shares of DEG, hence, increasing its shareholding to 60.50%.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Tyler Technologies has finally decided to paid a ransom to obtain a decryption key and recover files encrypted in a recent ransomware attack. In June 2020, the same ransomware was employed in an attack on the Texas Department of Transportation , in September it infected the systems at the IPG Photonics high-performance laser developer.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2024

Government agencies revealed that Akira ransomware has breached over 250 entities worldwide and received over $42 million in ransom payments. The Akira ransomware operators implement a double extortion model by exfiltrating victims’ data before encrypting it. It was this first time that the operators adopted this tactic.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2022

SFile ransomware (aka Escal), has been active since 2020 , it was observed targeting only Windows systems. Some variants of the ransomware append the English name of the target company to the filenames of the encrypted files. “The SFile ransomware uses the Mbed TLS library, RSA-2048 and AES-256 algorithms for file encryption.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In another news related to cyber attack, France Cyber Security authorities have detected that the United States SolarWinds cyber attack could have been launched on its infrastructure in 2017 that remained undetected till 2020 or until security firm FireEye revealed it to the world.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2020

Netwalker was recently employed is several attacks against businesses and government agencies, including Toll Group and the Champaign Urbana Public Health District (CHUPD) (Illinois) attacks. Upon the execution of the script, the executable is saved to %Temp%qeSw.exe and launched to start the encryption of the files.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 19, 2021

News is out that the file encrypting malware has targeted over 600 touch screen units that were installed at a cost of £17 million across 420 trail stations in the North of England. Arriva Rail North was the earlier owner of Northern till Feb 2020 and from March of the same year the train service operations were taken over by the government.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2020

PaloAlto Networks experts warn of malicious Coronavirus themed phishing campaigns targeting government and medical organizations. Recently organizations in healthcare, research, and government facilities have been hit by Coronavirus-themed attacks that deployed multiple malware families, including ransomware and information stealers (i.e.

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