SecureList

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In 2020: The share of spam in email traffic amounted to 50.37%, down by 6.14 In 2020, Bitcoin blackmailers stuck to their old scheme, demanding that their victims transfer money to a certain account and threatening adversity for failure to meet their demands. The share of spam in global email traffic in 2020 was down by 6.14

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Cisco Security

MARCH 16, 2021

Hiding internet activity strengthens privacy—but also makes it easier for bad actors to infiltrate the network. In fact, 63% of threats detected by Cisco Stealthwatch in 2019 were in encrypted traffic. Privacy suffers when people can snoop on your internet activity and sell your data. DoH prevents both of these problems.

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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

AUGUST 10, 2020

An attacker could use $300 worth of off-the-shelf equipment to eavesdrop and intercept signals from satellite internet communications. The academic researcher James Pavur, speaking at Black Hat 2020 hacking conference , explained that satellite internet communications are susceptible to eavesdropping and signal interception.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2020

In March 2020, The Ministry of Telecommunications (MoTC) issued a directive to all operators in Myanmar with a secret list of 230 sites to be blocked due to the nature of the content; adult content and fake news. In April 2020, Telenor complied with the directive and blocked ALL sites on the block list. Original post at: [link].

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The state of stalkerware in 2020 (PDF). Kaspersky’s data shows that the scale of the stalkerware issue has not improved much in 2020 compared to the last year: The number of people affected is still high. In total, 53,870 of our mobile users were affected globally by stalkerware in 2020. Main findings.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Quantum computers can launch attacks that break asymmetric cryptography, rendering the entire PKI-based encryption method obsolete. As technology becomes capable of defeating a higher proportion of current and legacy security efforts, cybersecurity in 2020 will be defined by the need to stand out. National Initiatives in 2020.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 5, 2021

Cybercriminals are increasingly leveraging fileless malware, cryptominers and encrypted attacks, targeting users both at remote locations as well as corporate assets behind the traditional network perimeter.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 11, 2021

On deck this month are patches to quash a wormable flaw, a creepy wireless bug, and yet another reason to call for the death of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) web browser. ” Another curious bug fixed this month is CVE-2020-24587 , described as a “Windows Wireless Networking Information Disclosure Vulnerability.”

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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 4, 2024

Launched in 2008, privnote.com employs technology that encrypts each message so that even Privnote itself cannot read its contents. There is no indication these are the real names of the phishers, but the names are useful in pointing to other sites targeting Privnote since 2020. The real Privnote, at privnote.com. net , privatenote[.]io

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 25, 2020

Privacy and security advocates may be forced to battle it out on the Senate floor to stop a newly introduced bill that will help law enforcement get past encryption. New backdoor bill in Congress hits encryption debate head on. The question: should encrypted communication be out of law enforcement's reach?

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 3, 2021

For example, budding and professional criminals are using commercially available encryption, Secure Messaging Applications (SMAs), and decentralized messaging apps, which usually comes with a crypto wallet, to manage their own data and mask their identities and communications. And the NCA has been monitoring them year on year.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2021

For instance, many smart home and internet-of-things devices are rarely updated, and Wi-Fi security is the last line of defense that prevents someone from attacking these devices. ” Summarizing, the design flaws discovered by the expert are: CVE-2020-24588 : aggregation attack (accepting non-SPP A-MSDU frames).

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

26, 2023 — The Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2Coalition) launched the VPN Trust Initiative (VTI) in 2020 to establish a baseline for how virtual private network (VPN) providers should operate. We protect innovation and the continued growth of the Internet’s infrastructure which is essential to the global economy.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 13, 2020

For the past year, a site called Privnotes.com has been impersonating Privnote.com , a legitimate, free service that offers private, encrypted messages which self-destruct automatically after they are read. And it doesn’t send and receive messages. Creating a message merely generates a link. ” But that’s not the half of it.

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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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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. The internet of things (IoT) is widening the sphere of physical security as smart devices connected to business systems via the internet may be located outside of established secure perimeters.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 5, 2022

Well, the stats are even scarier with over 50% increase in ransomware attacks in 2021, compared to 2020. As an enterprise security team, you could restrict internet access at your egress points, but this doesn’t do much when the workforce is remote. In short, anything accessible from the internet should be given extra attention.

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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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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

And all of that is on a computer, on a network, and attached to the Internet. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who has been working with Internet security. But aside from some special cases and unique circumstances, that’s not how encryption systems are exploited in practice. Cryptography has similar vulnerabilities.

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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. Attacks Look Familiar to Researchers.

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

New research from Sophos finds 46% of malware communicating with a remote system over the Internet is utilizing TLS encryption to conceal communications and evade detection. That is more than a 100% increase in TLS-based malware communications compared to 23% in 2020, according to Sophos telemetry analysis.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 15, 2021

Phishing activity doubled in 2020, largely due to the pandemic and remote work, and continued to climb in the first month of 2021. The numbers Agari has discovered are quite staggering: "Agari found that the average amount requested in wire transfer BEC attacks increased 14 percent from $75,000 in Q4 2020 to $85,000 in Q1 2021.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 27, 2021

“It picked up steam in mid-2020, growing the average ransom to $65,000 last year, up from $18,800 in 2019.” million last summer in exchange for a digital key needed to unlock files encrypted by the ransomware. Each build is unique, in that the malware is inside the script – it is not downloaded from the internet.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Government Accountability Office in 2020 about increasing risk due to connected aircraft technology developments. Hilderman Many components and systems within an aircraft can exchange data and communicate with each other or with the external internet. There was another warning from the U.S. And those incidents may only be increasing.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Threat actors are using a malicious Internet Information Services (IIS) Server module, dubbed Owowa, to steal Microsoft Exchange credentials. The module was most likely compiled between late 2020 and April 2021. Then the result of the command is encrypted and returned to the operator. “Owowa is a C#-developed.NET v4.0

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The government says Snatch used a customized ransomware variant notable for rebooting Microsoft Windows devices into Safe Mode — enabling the ransomware to circumvent detection by antivirus or endpoint protection — and then encrypting files when few services are running. 63 , which is in Yekaterinburg, RU.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2021

Accenture security researchers published an analysis of the latest Hades campaign, which is ongoing since at least December 2020. . The attack chain begins with attacks to internet-facing systems via Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) or Virtual Private Network (VPN) using legitimate credentials. ” concludes the report.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 14, 2021

Conti is known as a malware spreading gang that indulges in double extortion( data steal before encryption) until a ransom is paid. And if the victim fails to bow down to the demands, then the data that is stolen before encryption is sold on the dark web. .

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 5, 2022

With how vastly the internet has become embedded in our day-to-day lives, cyberattacks such as ransomware can cause costly disruptions. According to the Harvard Business Review, the amount of money paid to ransomware hackers increased by 300% from 2020 to 2021. This is after ransomware attacks rose 500% from 2019 to 2020.

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Spinone

MARCH 17, 2018

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a term used to describe the network of interconnected electronic devices with “smart” technology. billion “things” connected to the Internet , a 30% increase from 2015. billion “things” connected to the Internet , a 30% increase from 2015.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The group was first seen in November 2020 and typically uses the double extortion method of both stealing and encrypting data. A security update to patch the vulnerability was available on October 25, 2023, but as of October 30, there were still 3,329 internet-exposed servers using a version vulnerable to exploitation.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2021

According to the latest figures (PDF) released by the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), the reported losses from BEC scams continue to dwarf other cybercrime loss categories, increasing to $1.86 billion in 2020. Image: FBI. For example, the Lockbit 2.0 “Would you like to earn millions of dollars?

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2021

The Java-based STRRAT RAT was distributed in a massive spam campaign, the malware shows ransomware-like behavior of appending the file name extension.crimson to files without actually encrypting them. This RAT is infamous for its ransomware-like behavior of appending the file name extension.crimson to files without actually encrypting them.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2020

The University of Utah admitted having paid a $457,059 ransom after the ransomware attack that took place on July 19, 2020, that infected systems on the network of the university’s College of Social and Behavioral Science [CSBS]). ” According to the University, the ransomware encrypted only 0.02% of the data stored on its servers.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The botnet uses the WSS (WebSocket over TLS) protocol for C2 communication to circumvent the typical Mirai traffic detection and provide secure encrypted communication for command and control. “Two zero days, 12 remote access functions for the router, encrypted traffic protocol, and infrastructure IP that that moves around. .”

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