Digital Shadows

MARCH 17, 2025

Key Findings Even years after their disclosure, VPN-related vulnerabilities like CVE-2018-13379 and CVE-2022-40684 remain essential tools for attackers, driving large-scale campaigns of credential theft and administrative control. Editors note: This report was authored by Gautham Ashok & Alexa Feminella. Rated CVSS 9.8,

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 2, 2024

The decryptor works for victims whose files were encrypted between November 2022 and December 2023. The decryptor, called Black Basta Buster, exploits a flaw in the encryption algorithm used in older versions of the Black Basta group’s ransomware. Stop malicious encryption. Prevent intrusions.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. 15, 2022, LastPass said an investigation into the August breach determined the attacker did not access any customer data or password vaults.

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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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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Their trepidation is focused on the potential undermining of a core security component of classical computing systems: encryption. Their median prediction for when PQC will become a necessity was 2022, just three years from now. To its credit, the global cybersecurity community is not asleep on this. But that’s not the crucial issue.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2025

In the 2022 campaigns, threat actors used European Union reports on the conflict in Ukraine and Ukrainian government reports as lures. Rolling XOR Key: Utilized for encrypting communications with the command-and-control (C2) server, with key sizes varying among variants. ” concludes the report.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 8, 2023

More alarmingly, the company said it appears attackers first started exploiting the flaw in October 2022. ” Rapid7 ‘s Caitlin Condon called this remarkable turn of events “fairly stunning,” and said there appear to be roughly 11,000 vulnerable ESG devices still connected to the Internet worldwide.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

What Is Encryption Key Management? Fri, 11/18/2022 - 18:19. To keep data safe, it is encrypted and decrypted using encryption keys. Types of Encryption Keys. There are two main types of encryption keys : symmetric and asymmetric. Symmetric key encryption uses a single key to both encrypt and decrypt data.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In March 2022, we observed a Microsoft Word file that was used as the infection vector in some attacks. The second part will provide technical analysis of the LODEINFO backdoor and the related shellcode for each version of the backdoor with the latest LODEINFO IoCs and related information discovered in 2022. 2022-06-14 03:47:04.A

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

We no longer rely on the Internet just for entertainment or chatting with friends. Governments in many countries push for easier identification of Internet users to fight cybercrime, as well as “traditional” crime coordinated online. What will be the consequences of these processes?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Looking ahead to what Cybereason and our customers need to be aware of for 2022, it’s important to keep those things in mind, but let us consider the broader threat landscape—and what we are seeing in terms of emerging attacks and current threat research—to identify key risks that defenders need to prepare for. 2022 Cybersecurity Predictions.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

As we near the end of 2022, IT professionals look back at one of the worst years on record for incidents. During 2022 over 65% of organizations expected security budgets to expand. From internet providers to manufacturers, this continues to be an issue. In 2022 we witnessed several third-party supply chain breaches.

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SecureList

MAY 11, 2022

Ahead of the Anti-Ransomware Day, we summarized the tendencies that characterize ransomware landscape in 2022. In the report, we analyze what happened in late 2021 and 2022 on both the technological and geopolitical levels and what caused the new ransomware trends to emerge. Conti needs this path to encrypt the system.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Encryption scrambles data to make it unreadable to those without decryption keys. Proper use of encryption preserves secrecy and radically lowers the potential damage of a successful cybersecurity attack. Encryption algorithm types will provide an overview of the mathematical algorithms used to encrypt data (AES, RSA, etc.),

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Threat actors targeted tens thousands of unauthenticated Redis servers exposed on the internet as part of a cryptocurrency campaign. The tool is not designed to be exposed on the Internet, however, researchers spotted tens thousands Redis instance publicly accessible without authentication. ” warns Censys. ” warns Censys.

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Zero Day

JUNE 6, 2025

The hackers say that the dates of birth and social security numbers were originally encrypted but have since been decrypted and are now visible in plain text. Based on an analysis by cybersecurity news platform Hackread , the data contains dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, street addresses, and even social security numbers.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 23, 2022

They require integrity, authentication, trusted identity and encryption. Then the Internet took off and trusting the connection between a user’s device and a web server became of paramount importance. This was the main topic of discussion recently at DigiCert Security Summit 2022. Failure is not an option. Trust is under siege.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 28, 2022

Here are five steps to preserve health care data security in 2022. Rising Internet of Things (IoT) and remote health care adoption mean there’s a higher risk attackers could use one seemingly insignificant entry point to gain critical information. Encrypt Data at All Points. Health Care Data Security Is Essential in 2022.

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SecureList

MAY 28, 2025

Introduction Zanubis is a banking Trojan for Android that emerged in mid-2022. The threat actors behind Zanubis continue to refine its code adding features, switching between encryption algorithms, shifting targets, and tweaking social engineering techniques to accelerate infection rates.

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SecureList

JULY 28, 2022

This is our latest installment, focusing on activities that we observed during Q2 2022. We identified a Windows variant of this sample using the same string encryption algorithm, internal modules, and functionalities. They are designed to highlight the significant events and findings that we feel people should be aware of.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Smallstep launched in April 2022 with $26 million in funding, including a seed round of $7 million led by boldstart ventures with participation from Accel Partners , Bain Capital Ventures and Upside Partnership, LLC., Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The first centers on targeting healthcare organizations that offer consultations over the Internet and sending them booby-trapped medical records for the “patient.” First spotted in mid-August 2022 , Venus is known for hacking into victims’ publicly-exposed Remote Desktop services to encrypt Windows devices.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2022

VPNs encrypt data streams and protect endpoints from unauthorized access, essentially by requiring all network communications to flow over a secured pipe. I had the chance at Black Hat 2022 to visit with Rajiv Pimplaskar, CEO at Dispersive , an Alpharetta, GA-based supplier of advanced cloud obfuscation technology.

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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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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

ignite the ‘Internet of Everything’ Yet, as 2022 ends, trust in digital services is a tenuous thing. DigiCert’s 2022 State of Digital Trust Survey polled 1,000 IT professional and 400 consumers and found that lack of digital trust can drive away customers and materially impact a company’s bottom line.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 7, 2022

To help you find the best endpoint security solutions in the market, Cybersecurity Insiders has compiled the essential list of the best endpoint security vendors in 2022. The post BEST ENDPOINT SECURITY SOLUTIONS FOR 2022 appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders. LEARN MORE. LEARN MORE.

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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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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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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Security functionality for DLP, discovery, encryption, and digital rights management. McAfee’s MVISION Cloud claims the “largest and most accurate registry of cloud services,” AI and machine learning functionality, DLP, encryption and more. Encryption and tokenization. Lookout Features. McAfee Features.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 11, 2022

According to Gartner analyst Lawrence Pingree, attackers must “trust” the environment they insert their malware into and the web applications and services they attack over the internet. Decoys mimic hosts running operating systems as well as IoT (Internet of Things) hosts. It can find signs of ransomware, even in encrypted files.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. SocksEscort[.]com com , is what’s known as a “SOCKS Proxy” service.

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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. Other Privnote phishing domains that also phoned home to the same Internet address as pirwnote[.]com The real Privnote, at privnote.com. And it doesn’t send or receive messages. com include privnode[.]com

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SecureList

APRIL 23, 2025

We immediately took action by communicating meaningful information to the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KrCERT/CC) for rapid action upon detection, and we have now confirmed that the software exploited in this campaign has all been updated to patched versions. The software has since been updated with patched versions.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 15, 2022

Also read: Top Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) Solutions for 2022. Data is encrypted with Azure Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) and never commingled with another customer’s data. BlackBerry UEM securely enables the Internet of Things (IoT) with complete endpoint management and policy control for devices and apps.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Vicarius Vulnerability management 2022 Private Dragos ICS and OT security 2021 Private Safeguard Cyber Risk management 2021 Private CyberGRX Risk management 2019 Private Signifyd Fraud protection 2018 Private RedOwl Security analytics 2015 Acquired: Forcepoint. AllegisCyber Investments. Insight Partners.

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Webroot

JANUARY 7, 2022

In particular, we witnessed an increase in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and a surge in the usage of the internet of things (IoT). Criminals can extort their targets based on the impending threat of ransomware without ever having to encrypt or exfiltrate the data. What to expect in 2022?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2022

Researchers from MalwareHunterteam first spotted the ransomware family, once encrypted a file, the ransomware appends the ‘. nightsky ‘ extension to encrypted file names. In early January, threat actors started targeting VMware Horizon systems exposed on the Internet. ” reads an update published by Microsoft.

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