Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2022

Hive ransomware operators have improved their file-encrypting module by migrating to Rust language and adopting a more sophisticated encryption method. The most important change in the latest Hive variant is the encryption mechanism it adopts. ” reads the post published by Microsoft. ” continues Microsoft. .

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

technology companies during the summer of 2022. stole at least $800,000 from at least five victims between August 2022 and March 2023. 2022 that an intrusion had exposed a “limited number” of Twilio customer accounts through a sophisticated social engineering attack designed to steal employee credentials.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 28, 2022

Here are five steps to preserve health care data security in 2022. Encrypt Data at All Points. Another crucial step in securing health care data is encrypting it. HIPAA doesn’t necessarily require encryption, but it is a helpful step in maintaining privacy, as it renders information virtually useless to anyone who intercepts it.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In 2022, 88% of users relied on chatbots when interacting with businesses. Authentication and authorization vulnerabilities: Weak authentication methods and compromised access tokens can provide unauthorized access. This helps them improve their performance over time by gaining data from interactions. These tools saved 2.5

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 1, 2022

Maybe there are backups, but those have been encrypted by ransomware too. ” At the very least, 2 Factor Authentication (2FA) is needed here. Encrypt and back up your data. Keep your data encrypted whenever possible, and back up your files regularly. Switching to Plan B. Are the email addresses secure?

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Malwarebytes

MAY 6, 2022

April 2022 was most notable for the emergence of three new ransomware-as-a-service ( RaaS ) groups— Onyx , Mindware , and Black Basta —as well as the unwelcome return of REvil , one of the world’s most notorious and dangerous ransomware operations. Ransomware attacks in April 2022. Known ransomware attacks in April 2022 by country.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 17, 2022

Enhance your security posture by detecting risks on authenticator devices. Thu, 03/17/2022 - 09:46. Not only are mobile devices used as end points to access corporate mail and other enterprise applications, they are also frequently used as authentication devices. Anonymous (not verified). Continuous Risk Detection.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

What Are the Best Use Cases for Symmetric vs Asymmetric Encryption? Tue, 09/20/2022 - 17:00. Symmetric Encryption. In symmetric encryption , the sender and receiver use a separate instance of the same key to encrypt and decrypt messages. It cannot be used to ensure the integrity and/or authenticity.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 17, 2022

Enhance your security posture by detecting risks on authenticator devices. Thu, 03/17/2022 - 09:46. Not only are mobile devices used as end points to access corporate mail and other enterprise applications, they are also frequently used as authentication devices. Anonymous (not verified). Continuous Risk Detection.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 11, 2022

In this March 2022 ransomware review, we go over some of the most successful ransomware incidents based on both open source and dark web intelligence. Use double authentication when logging into accounts or services. For those already infected, Ransomware Rollback can help recover encrypted files within 72 hours of the attack.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 2, 2022

Ransomware attacks increased by yet another 80% between February 2021 and March 2022, based on an analysis of ransomware payloads seen across the Zscaler cloud. Double-extortion attacks, which include data exfiltration in addition to encryption, are rising even faster at 117% year-over-year. Deploy inline data loss prevention.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 10, 2022

In this February 2022 ransomware review, we go over some the most successful ransomware incidents based on both open source and dark web intelligence. Observed since: February 2022 Ransomware note: read_me.html Ransomware extension: <original file name> [vote2024forjb@protonmail[.]com].encryptedJB SFile (Escal).

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 15, 2022

Meta Digs in Heels on Encryption. Fri, 04/15/2022 - 17:15. 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? brooke.crothers.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 26, 2022

Five Hot Security and Privacy Topics You Need To Understand in 2022. Thu, 01/27/2022 - 06:13. The Cloud Trust Paradox: Keeping Control of Data & Encryption Keys in the Cloud. When it comes to encryption keys, security best practice is all about control and separation between encrypted data at rest and the keys.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Following a successful debut in November 2022, Matter is picking up steam, Nelson told me. Matter works much the way website authentication and website traffic encryption gets executed. DMARC is a robust email authentication protocol that has been around for more than a decade. Consumer awareness is growing and evolving.

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SecureList

AUGUST 15, 2022

IT threat evolution in Q2 2022. IT threat evolution in Q2 2022. IT threat evolution in Q2 2022. While fileless malware is nothing new, the way the encrypted shellcode containing the malicious payload is embedded into Windows event logs is. Yanluowang ransomware: how to recover encrypted files. Mobile statistics.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 11, 2023

The Most Popular Data Security Webinars of 2022: Sovereignty, Cloud Security and Compliance Top the List. Throughout 2022, Thales hosted more than 40 webinars on a wide variety of cybersecurity topics, including, cloud security, data sovereignty, compliance, data threat trends, and rethinking approaches to role-based authentication.

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Fox IT

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The adversary exploited the R1Soft server software via CVE-2022-36537 [1] [2] , which is a vulnerability in the ZK Java Framework that R1Soft Server Backup Manager utilises. Further research by us indicates that world-wide exploitation of R1Soft server software started around the end of November 2022.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 5, 2022

OpenSSL Patches New Bug Targeting Encryption [Lessons from Heartbleed]. Thu, 05/05/2022 - 12:26. C VE-2022-0778 is described as an infinite loop DoS attack discovered by Google vulnerability researcher Tavis Ormandy. Encryption must be encrypted. Schrems II: Modernized Contractual Clauses and End-to-End Encryption.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 23, 2022

They require integrity, authentication, trusted identity and encryption. Protocols and policies setting new parameters for trusted connections are being hammered out and advanced encryption, authentication and data protection solutions are being ramped up. Related: Leveraging PKI to advance electronic signatures.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 22, 2022

MEGA, the cloud storage provider and file hosting service, is very proud of its end-to-end encryption. All your data on MEGA is encrypted with a key derived from your password; in other words, your password is your main encryption key. The MEGA client derives an authentication key and an encryption key from the password.

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McAfee

OCTOBER 26, 2021

What cyber security threats should enterprises look out for in 2022? Skilled engineers and security architects from McAfee Enterprise and FireEye offer a preview of how the threatscape might look in 2022 and how these new or evolving threats could potentially impact the security of enterprises, countries, and civilians.

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BH Consulting

AUGUST 9, 2022

Many professionals agree multi-factor authentication (MFA) can improve security, but a recent discovery showed that it’s no panacea either. It’s now accepting applications to start in September 2022. A detailed primer on end-to-end encryption for those writing public policy. To MFA or not to MFA, that is the question.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 6, 2022

About the only consensus on cybersecurity in 2022 is that things will get uglier, but in what ways? Here are some of the more interesting predictions for 2022 we’ve seen from cybersecurity researchers. Here are some of the more interesting predictions for 2022 we’ve seen from cybersecurity researchers.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 8, 2022

The global cost of ransomware has risen from $325 million to $20 billion from 2016 to 2021, and on average, only 65% of encrypted data was restored after a ransom was paid. Zerto’s automated failover and failback is said to recover encrypted files, virtual machine (VM) applications, sites, and data within minutes of when an infection occurs.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

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. “We’ve found someone who can crack the encryption.” Then came the unlikely call from an FBI agent. “Don’t pay,” the agent said.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2024

“The security assessment was provided in September 2022 to the Brocade support through Dell but it was rejected by Brocade because it didn’t address the latest version of SANnav.” The following vulnerabilities, discovered by the security researcher Pierre Barre , impact all versions up to 2.3.0 ” wrote Barre.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 17, 2023

From the report: "This machine was compromised on December 16, 2022. In this case, the session cookie was an authentication token, described in the report as a "2FA-backed SSO session" cookie. In this case, the session cookie was an authentication token, described in the report as a "2FA-backed SSO session" cookie.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 20, 2023

In looking back at 2022, it isn’t that nothing else happened in data privacy—it’s that nothing else like this has happened for a long time. Here’s a look at what happened in privacy in 2022. ” The US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Those promises, one investigation found, were shaky.)

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

Password management solution LastPass shared more details about the security breach that the company suffered in August 2022. The company revealed that the threat actor had access to its network for four days in August 2022. Our investigation revealed that the threat actor’s activity was limited to a four-day period in August 2022.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 20, 2022

Tue, 06/21/2022 - 05:17. The recently released 2022 Thales Cloud Security Study, conducted by 451 Research, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence , offers some key takeaways and insights into both the security challenges and complexities of operating in the cloud, especially multi-cloud environments. Cloud First, Security Second?

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Apple's messaging app, iMessage, already uses end-to-end encryption so that messages can only be read by the sender and recipients. A hardware security key uses public-key encryption to authenticate a user, and is much harder to defeat than other forms of authentication, such as passwords, or codes sent by SMS or generated by apps.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Bleeping Computer reports that individuals behind Venus ransomware are breaking into “publicly exposed Remote Desktop services”, with the intention of encrypting any and all Windows devices. Since at least August 2022, Venus has been causing chaos and has become rather visible lately. Do not rename encrypted files.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2022

This issue was reported by an independent security researcher and disclosed to Slack on 17 July 2022. The company states that the bug affected all users who created or revoked shared invitation links between 17 April 2017 and 17 July 2022. Slack announced that it is resetting passwords for about 0.5%

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 23, 2022

Thu, 03/24/2022 - 05:00. The 2022 Thales Data Threat Report, based on data from a survey of almost 2,800 respondents from 17 countries across the globe, illustrates these trends and changes. 2022 Report. 2022 Report. 2022 Report. 17% of respondents said that more than 50% of their sensitive cloud data is encrypted.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The OpenSSL project has issued security updates to address a couple of high-severity vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786 , in its cryptography library. ” reads the advisory published by the CVE-2022-3786. SecurityAffairs – hacking, encryption). The flaws impact versions 3.0.0 through 3.0.6

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 8, 2023

All enterprises need to have more observability and control over how encryption is managed across their systems, and ensuring that all applications leverage the best possible cryptography is a key aspect of improving cybersecurity posture,” said Nadia Carlsten, Vice President of Product at SandboxAQ. A broad range of U.S.

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