Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2022

Slack is resetting passwords for approximately 0.5% of its users after a bug exposed salted password hashes when users created or revoked a shared invitation link for their workspace. Slack announced that it is resetting passwords for about 0.5% The post Slack resets passwords for about 0.5% Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2023

GoTo is notifying customers that its development environment was breached in November 2022, attackers stole customers’ backups and encryption key. The security breach was disclosed in November 2022, but at the time the company was not able to determine the impact on its customers’ data. ” continues the notice.

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SecureList

APRIL 18, 2022

Kaspersky experts have found a vulnerability in the Yanluowang encryption algorithm and created a free decryptor to help victims of this ransomware with recovering their files. Geography of the Yanluowang attacks, December 4th, 2021 – April 8th, 2022 ( download ). The encryption code for big files. Yanluowang description.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Resilient Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) and Strong Passwords. Tue, 10/04/2022 - 05:20. Use strong passwords. The 2022 Thales Consumer Digital Trust Index data , based on an Opinium survey conducted in 11 countries with more than 21K participants, attempts to answer these questions.

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Duo's Security Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

But conventional protection solutions, like password security, fall short when it comes to efficacy. We have a lot of thoughts on passkeys – some of which we’ve shared in other posts in this passkey blog series – and today we’re going to explore how passkeys stack up against passwords from the perspective of cloud platforms.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2023

xyz pic.twitter.com/VLhISark8Y — Goldwave (@OGoldwave) March 13, 2023 The variant employed in the campaign supports a more sophisticated encryption method of byte remapping and a monthly rotation of the C2 server. #ViperSoftX is back, doesn't look like much has changed. c2 arrowlchat[.]com ” concludes the report.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 6, 2021

If anyone wants their online activity to be secure and private, password usage helps them in doing so; as it blocks unauthorized access to a service and access to personal information. So, all the data that is moving to & from the website to the servers is encrypted, making it tough for the hackers get is a sniff of what is going on.

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SecureList

APRIL 18, 2022

Kaspersky experts have found a vulnerability in the Yanluowang encryption algorithm and created a free decryptor to help victims of this ransomware with recovering their files. Geography of the Yanluowang attacks, December 4th, 2021 – April 8th, 2022 ( download ). The encryption code for big files. Yanluowang description.

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Anton on Security

JUNE 10, 2022

There are people buying their first SIEM in 2022. There are people adopting virtualization in 2022. There are people moving to “next-gen” firewalls (a great innovation of 2005) in 2022. But why not just accept that in 2022, SIEM = SIEM + SOAR + UEBA ? A firewall management vendor claimed to “simplify zero trust.”

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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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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 11, 2022

Slack, the workplace communication platform, has notified some of its users that their hashed passwords have been subject to exposure for the last five years. The flaw exposed hashed passwords of users when creating or revoking shared invitation links for workspaces. Hashed passwords could still be revered by brute force methods.

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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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SecureList

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In the previous publication ‘ Tracking down LODEINFO 2022, part I ‘, we mentioned that the initial infection methods vary in different attack scenarios and that the LODEINFO shellcode was regularly updated for use with each infection vector. In this article, we discuss improvements made to the LODEINFO backdoor shellcode in 2022.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 21, 2022

Introduction: KoreLogic's Crack Me if You Can (CMIYC) is one of the oldest as most established password cracking competitions. Contest Overview: At a high level the contest consisted of cracking a variety of encrypted files, each of which would have individual hashes to crack.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 1, 2022

Maybe there are backups, but those have been encrypted by ransomware too. The last thing they need is several email breaches due to weak passwords or other security concerns. Encrypt and back up your data. Keep your data encrypted whenever possible, and back up your files regularly. Switching to Plan B.

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Cisco Security

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

NetWitness and Cisco released the third annual Findings Report from the RSA Conference® 2022 Security Operations Center (SOC). The findings report addresses several security topics, including: Encrypted vs. Unencrypted network traffic. Cleartext Usernames and Passwords. Firepower Encrypted Visibility Engine (EVE).

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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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SecureList

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This is our latest installment, focusing on activities that we observed during Q3 2022. We can confirm a Maui ransomware incident in 2022, but we would expand their “first seen” date from the reported May 2021 to April 15, 2021, and the geolocation of the target to Japan and India. The most remarkable findings.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 13, 2022

On May 5, 2022, it said it would implement passwordless support in Android and Chrome and the latest annoncement about passkeys is an important step in that journey. Passkeys are a replacement for passwords. Although they share four letters, passkeys are nothing like passwords. Sounds good, right? Shift of responsibility.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2023

On November 30, 2022, password manager LastPass informed customers of a cybersecurity incident following unusual activity within a third-party cloud storage service. While LastPass claims that users’ passwords remain safely encrypted, it admitted that certain elements of customers’ information have been exposed.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Facebook (now Meta) moved towards more privacy for its users as well, providing end-to-end encrypted backups in WhatsApp and removing the facial recognition system in its entirety from Facebook. While we hope 2022 will be the last pandemic year, we do not think the privacy trends will reverse.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 21, 2022

” Also read: Cybersecurity Employment in 2022: Solving the Skills Gap. As of mid-2022, the cost is $381 USD. As of mid-2022, the cost is $249. . As of mid-2022, the cost is $749 USD. As of mid-2022, the cost of the exam is $575 for ISACA members and $760 for non-members. . CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker).

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Webroot

OCTOBER 14, 2022

In other words, 2022 has been an eventful year in the threat landscape, with malware continuing to take center stage. The 6 Nastiest Malware of 2022. 2022 was no different. 2022 was no different. With that, here are the 6 Nastiest Malware of 2022. Here are this year’s wicked winners.

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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. MEGA does not have access to your password or your data. Key hierarchy.

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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. Implement regular backups of all data to be stored as air-gapped, password-protected copies offline. The post Ransomware: March 2022 review appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

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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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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). Mitigations.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2023

According to HIBP, the records in the database contain names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, usernames, and passwords stored as unsalted SHA-256 hashes. The company attempted to downplay the security breach by telling Have I Been Pwned that threat actors only had access to encrypted passwords. ” reported HIBP.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 10, 2022

There are people buying their first SIEM in 2022. There are people adopting virtualization in 2022. There are people moving to “next-gen” firewalls (a great innovation of 2005) in 2022. But why not just accept that in 2022, SIEM = SIEM + SOAR + UEBA ? A firewall management vendor claimed to “simplify zero trust.”

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Kali Linux

AUGUST 1, 2022

This first post will cover enabling Full Disk Encryption (FDE) on a Raspberry Pi, part two will cover remotely connecting to it, and finally, part three will cover debugging issues we ran into while making these posts, so others can learn how to do so as well.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 3, 2023

The password management company LastPasss notified customers in late December about a recent security incident. The notice was posted as an update of the security incident previously reported in August of 2022, which also was updated and covered on November 30, 2022. It also generates strong passwords.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 1, 2022

LastPass, a password management service offering company, has disclosed that it has suffered a data breach in an attack that might be linked to the August data leak where hackers stole vital information from the servers of the said company.

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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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Anton on Security

APRIL 13, 2023

because of the security of the GCP platform most compromises in the cloud are simply from lack of passwords, poor password strength, reused and leaked credentials, or straightforwardly misconfigured software ” [ A.C. — this make all the jokes about it being ‘so 1980s’ but this is the reality today. You can have fun in the cloud!

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 24, 2022

Plex, an American Streaming platform, has officially sent out email notifications to all its users urging them to change their passwords. Prima facie states that a portion of personal info, such as usernames, emails, and encrypted passwords, could have been accessed by the hackers. billion in July 2022. .

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