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

MARCH 22, 2021

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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Malwarebytes

MAY 24, 2021

In just the past year, free VPN for Android apps have exposed the data of as many as 41 million users, revealing consumers’ email addresses, payment information, clear text passwords, device IDs, and more. All these people that work on [the VPN service], nobody is going to do it for free. There is no best free VPN for Android.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2021

Below the list of the top stories of 2020. BleepingComputer researchers confirmed that Garmin has received the decryption key to recover their files encrypted with the WastedLocker Ransomware. November 22 – Threat actor shared a list of 49,577 IPs vulnerable Fortinet VPNs. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Top stories 2020).

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SC Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

Kaspersky reported how recent attacks against a series of European industrial networks were accomplished at a vulnerability in Fortinet’s FortiGate VPN. Kaspersky is the first to report how those attacks were accomplished: a vulnerability in Fortinet’s FortiGate VPN. Alexxsun / CC BY-SA 4.0 ).

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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. Advertising Practices: Given the complexity and different use cases for VPNs, claims must not mislead.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2022

Europol this week announced the shutdown of VPNLab, a VPN service that is very popular in the cybercrime ecosystem. An international operation conducted by law enforcement bodies from 10 countries took down VPNLab.net, a VPN service provider that is very popular in the cybercrime ecosystem. Europol said. Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 has forced enterprises of all sizes and industries to adopt new work approaches that keep employees safe at home while ensuring productivity and security. Many organizations have used VPNs for years to provide seamless connectivity without compromising security for employees who travel or work remotely.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Wazawaka has since “lost his mind” according to his erstwhile colleagues, creating a Twitter account to drop exploit code for a widely-used virtual private networking (VPN) appliance, and publishing bizarre selfie videos taunting security researchers and journalists. Wazawaka, a.k.a. Matveev, a.k.a. “Orange,” a.k.a.

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Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Example 2: Using a VPN. A lot of people are confused about VPNs. If you log in at the end website you’ve identified yourself to them, regardless of VPN. VPNs encrypt the traffic between you and some endpoint on the internet, which is where your VPN is based. This is true. So, probably not a win.

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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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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 8, 2020

” From other classified ads he posted in August and September 2020, it seems clear Dr. Samuil’s team has some kind of privileged access to financial data on targeted companies that gives them a better idea of how much cash the victim firm may have on hand to pay a ransom demand. . “This helps everyone involved to save time.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2021

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. It does indeed encrypt files. pic.twitter.com/POYlPYGjsz — MalwareTech (@MalwareTechBlog) March 21, 2021.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 12, 2025

IPVanish and NordVPN are VPN solutions that offer customers multiple pricing options, a mobile VPN, and various privacy features. IPVanish is an affordable VPN with multiple support channels, including phone. Ive compared both VPNs, including their plans and features, to help you decide which is better for you.

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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. “You can provide us accounting data for the access to any company, for example, login and password to RDP, VPN, corporate email, etc. Image: FBI.

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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. Consider installing and using a VPN. ” reads the alert. public health organization.

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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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The Last Watchdog

JULY 30, 2021

Then a global pandemic came along and laid bare just how brittle company VPNs truly are. Criminal hackers recognized the golden opportunity presented by hundreds of millions employees suddenly using a company VPN to work from home and remotely connect to an array of business apps. Two sweeping trends resulted: one bad, one good.

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Adam Levin

MAY 19, 2021

Experian, 2020: A data breach impacted 24 million Experian customers, plus almost 800,000 businesses in South Africa. Use a VPN that you pay for: Having a VPN can make it much harder to steal your data and prevent identity theft. It does this through encryption, making life difficult for malicious actors.

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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. pic.twitter.com/0gykQl53Ft — Under the Breach (@underthebreach) April 23, 2020. . pic.twitter.com/0gykQl53Ft — Under the Breach (@underthebreach) April 23, 2020. – The company is traded on NASDAQ.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2020

The helicopter maker Kopter was hit by LockBit ransomware, the attackers compromised its internal network and encrypted the company’s files. Kopter Group is Switzerland-based company that was founded in 2007 that was acquired by Leonardo in April 2020. ” reported ZDNet.

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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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Krebs on Security

APRIL 20, 2023

Mandiant found the earliest evidence of compromise uncovered within 3CX’s network was through the VPN using the employee’s corporate credentials, two days after the employee’s personal computer was compromised. Microsoft Corp.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 24, 2020

13, 2020, which was the date the fraudsters got around to changing the domain name system (DNS) settings for e-hawk.net. As a result, having DNSSEC enabled for its domains bought E-HAWK an additional 48 hours or so with which to regain control over its domain before any encrypted traffic to and from e-hawk.net could have been intercepted.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 6, 2021

Gangs spreading LockBit ransomware are reportedly bribing employees of corporate companies to enter their computer network and compromise it with file encrypting malware. This includes managerial level employees, network admins, and some employees supervising physical security operations as well.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Computers are secure than smart phones – If that was the case, then why the former encountered more malware attacks in the year 2020-21 and why is that the latter is not been used for only communications. For instance, the year 2020 revelation of Pegasus malware developed by the NSO Group of Israel.

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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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SecureList

JUNE 17, 2021

The ransomware is coded in Python and compiled to an executable using PyInstaller; it supports two encryption modes: one generated dynamically and one using a hardcoded key. Code analysis revealed an amateurish development cycle and a possibility to recover files encrypted with Black Kingdom with the help of the hardcoded key.

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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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eSecurity Planet

JULY 3, 2021

Enter VPN technology. One longtime cybersecurity solution for small teams up to global enterprise networks is virtual private networks (VPN). VPNs offer clients an encrypted access channel to remote networks through a tunneling protocol and can obfuscate the client’s IP address. Top VPN products. Encrypt.me.

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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. Free decryptor. Free decryptor. FBI description of Avaddon.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 7, 2021

After encryption, the contents of the folders look as follows: the cybercriminals’ e-mail address and the victim’s ID are added to the beginning of each file, followed by the original name and extension, and then the extension added by the ransomware. Encrypted files and a note from the attackers. Introduction.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2020

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

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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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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. Security through a VPN. Wi-Fi encryption. Anti-malware/ phishing.

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SecureList

MARCH 30, 2021

The actor leveraged vulnerabilities in Pulse Connect Secure in order to hijack VPN sessions, or took advantage of system credentials that were stolen in previous operations. Log of the hijacking VPN session from DESKTOP-A41UVJV. A41APT is a long-running campaign with activities detected from March 2019 to the end of December 2020.

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