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US authorities have indicted Black Kingdom ransomware admin

Security Affairs

“The ransomware either encrypted data from victims computer networks or claimed to take that data from the networks. Black Kingdom ransomware was first spotted in late February 2020 by security researcher GrujaRS , the ransomware encrypts files and appends the.DEMON extension to filenames of the encrypted documents.

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Incident response analyst report 2020

SecureList

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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Russia-linked group Nebulous Mantis targets NATO-related defense organizations

Security Affairs

The RAT supports advanced evasion techniques, including living-off-the-land ( LOTL ) tactics and encrypted command and control (C2) communications. opendnsapi.net), and uses IPFS to retrieve encrypted modules. Since mid-2022, theyve deployed RomCom via spear-phishing for espionage, lateral movement, and data theft.

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Let’s Encrypt CA is revoking over 3 Million TLS certificates due to a bug

Security Affairs

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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NIST’s Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards

Schneier on Security

The idea is to standardize on both a public-key encryption and digital signature algorithm that is resistant to quantum computing, well before anyone builds a useful quantum computer. Twenty-six advanced to Round 2 in 2019, and seven (plus another eight alternates) were announced as Round 3 finalists in 2020.

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Which is the Threat landscape for the ICS sector in 2020?

Security Affairs

The Kaspersky ICS CERT published a report that provided details about the threat landscape for computers in the ICS engineering and integration sector in 2020. Kaspersky ICS CERT published a report that provided details about the threat landscape for ICS engineering and integration sector in 2020. In H2 2020, 39.3%

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The source code of the 2020 variant of HelloKitty ransomware was leaked on a cybercrime forum

Security Affairs

pic.twitter.com/YJavUu53v3 — vx-underground (@vxunderground) October 7, 2023 BleepingComputer was able to verify with the help of the popular malware researcher Michael Gillespie that that source code is legitimate and is related to the first version of the ransomware that was employed in 2020.