Webroot

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Most notably, Akira ransomware targeted Cisco virtual private network (VPN) products to breach corporate networks, steal data, and encrypt it. A unique partial encryption approach allows the threat actor to choose a specific percentage of data in a file to encrypt. Lockbit 3.0,

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Security Boulevard

MAY 15, 2023

Telegram has become an increasingly significant platform in the realm of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) investigations by 2023, providing valuable insights into cybercriminal activities and other threat indicators. The post Telegram and OSINT Investigations: An Essential Platform in 2023 appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 9, 2023

Known ransomware attacks by gang, May 2023 This isn't the first time this year a gang has overhauled LockBit and climbed to the top spot on our monthly charts. The gang's blog suggests it's open to targeting businesses of all sizes, so long as they aren't located in "Latin America, Africa, or other colonized countries." A new norm?

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

30, 2023 NGINX Ingress Controller for Kubernetes Flaws Can Lead to Credential Theft Type of Attack: Path sanitization bypass and injection vulnerabilities discovered in the NGINX Ingress controller can allow for credential theft, arbitrary command execution, and critical data access. CVE-2023-5044 (Code Injection): This CVSS score 7.6

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 19, 2023

But in cybersecurity, dwell time is the time between bad actors’ initial break in and the attack itself, when target data is encrypted. Even bad actors abide by ROI Ransomware began purely from an encryption perspective. First, the modus operandi was to encrypt and hold data for ransom. Ready to step up your defensive game?

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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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Graham Cluley

JULY 6, 2023

Security researchers have developed a free decryption tool for files that have been encrypted since the Akira ransomware first emerged in March 2023. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog. There's good news for any business that has fallen victim to the Akira ransomware.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 4, 2023

ENISA 2023 Threat Landscape Report: Key Findings and Recommendations madhav Tue, 12/05/2023 - 05:36 The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) recently released its annual Threat Landscape Report for 2023. Ensure you maintain offline, encrypted data backups that are regularly tested, following your backup procedures.

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SecureList

MAY 11, 2023

Although early 2023 saw a slight decline in the number of ransomware attacks, they were more sophisticated and better targeted. A few months after last year’s blog post came out, we stumbled across a new multi-platform ransomware family, which targeted both Linux and Windows. In 2022, Kaspersky solutions detected over 74.2M

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SecureList

JANUARY 18, 2023

Last year, the cybersecurity of corporations and government agencies was more significant than ever before, and will become even more so in 2023. The trend for personal data leaks grew rapidly in 2022 and will continue into 2023. The number of posts in those blogs grew in 2022, both in open sources and on the dark web.

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Anton on Security

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

This is my completely informal, uncertified, unreviewed and otherwise completely unofficial blog inspired by my reading of our seventh Threat Horizons Report ( full version ) that we just released ( the official blog for #1 report , my unofficial blogs for #2 , #3 , #4 , #5 , #6 , #7 and #8 ).

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Heimadal Security

MAY 18, 2023

A new ransomware operation has been observed hacking Zimbra servers to steal emails and encrypt files. In March 2023, a ransomware operation dubbed MalasLocker began encrypting Zimbra servers, with victims reporting encrypted emails in both BleepingComputer and Zimbra forums.

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NopSec

JULY 28, 2023

Good news for blog content, but less so for production networks. Seriously, who is using ColdFusion in 2023? On the hardware side of the spectrum, researchers discovered that AMD Zen2 CPUs are vulnerable to a memory dump vulnerability that could result in unintended disclosure of neat things like encryption keys and passwords.

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BH Consulting

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Cloud security was also a theme in Microsoft’s ‘Cybersecurity Trends in Ireland 2023’ report. Meta is rolling out end-to-end encryption across its Facebook and Messenger platforms, used by more than a billion people. Sign up here The post Security Roundup December 2023 appeared first on BH Consulting.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 7, 2023

Here are the latest threats and advisories for the week of April 7, 2023. Rorschach Ransomware: One of the Fastest and Most Sophisticated Strains Yet Cybersecurity researchers have found a new ransomware strain called Rorschach that is extraordinarily sophisticated and faster at encrypting data than any other documented strain.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2023

Recently, VIPRE Security Group published their Email Security in 2023 report , where they shared insights on the development of email-based threats and how they can impact organizations. What Can We Expect in 2023? This can be done using encryption. It’s not likely to stop there. 1 There will be more remote work-based attacks.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2023

patrickwardle cc @cyb3rops pic.twitter.com/SMuN3Rmodl — MalwareHunterTeam (@malwrhunterteam) April 15, 2023 The discovery is disconcerting and demonstrates the effort of the group to expand its operation targeting also Apple systems. Anyway, the archive in which this sample was included shown bundled date as March 20.

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Webroot

APRIL 5, 2024

From 2018 to 2023, healthcare data breaches have increased by 93 percent. Memorial Hermann balances user experience with encryption Email encryption keeps sensitive medical data safe and organizations compliant. Unfortunately, providers will skip it if the encryption tool is difficult to use.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 5, 2023

Between June 2022 and May 2023, there were 190 known ransomware attacks against educational institutions, and many more that went unreported and unrecorded. We’ll spend the rest of this blog breaking down attacks on education by gangs, countries, and which gangs attack which countries the most. million in 2022.

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Heimadal Security

JUNE 29, 2023

In May and June 2023, 8Base, a previously undetected ransomware threat, experienced a significant increase in its operations after remaining under the radar for over a year. According to a report by VMware, 8Base employs encryption and “name-and-shame” tactics to coerce victims into paying ransoms.

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Heimadal Security

MAY 8, 2023

Researchers spotted a new ransomware operation in March 2023. It is called Akira and targets businesses worldwide, breaching corporate networks, stealing and encrypting data.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 12, 2023

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday for July 2023 includes nine critical flaws, and five are actively being exploited. ” The July 2023 fixes include updates for 130 vulnerabilities, a significant increase from last month’s total of 78. . Notably, one of those five remains unpatched at this point. Here are the details.

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BH Consulting

JULY 13, 2023

And for anyone with a non-technical background who’s interested in getting started in cybersecurity, Lance Spitzner of SANS has published a useful blog. MORE Why moves to break end-to-end encryption are misguided, and hurt us all. Sign up here The post Security Roundup July 2023 appeared first on BH Consulting.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 21, 2019

Thales’s SafeNet Data Protection on Demand and SafeNet Trusted Access solutions have won the gold award in the Encryption and Identity and Access Management categories of the 2019 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 2, 2024

While the “prediction season” gains momentum, it's pivotal to reflect on the high impact of the 2023 cybersecurity landscape. Let's delve into the rewind of 2023, exploring five influential trends and threats that molded the cyberthreat landscape and are poised to resonate throughout enterprises in 2024.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2023

On March 29th 2023, CrowdStrike published a blog outlining a supply chain attack leveraging the 3CXDesktopApp - a softphone application from 3CX. We observed infections dating back to February 2023 for both the Windows as well as the MacOS variant of the Trojanized 3CXDesktopApp installers. If it does, it exits.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 21, 2023

Ernst and Young NOTE- Microsoft has confirmed the presence of Clop ransomware suspects, linked to Russian intelligence behind the incident and reaffirmed that health organizations and financial institutions could be the next target of the notorious file encrypting malware spreading gang that is into double extortion.

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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. LastPass disclosed that criminal hackers had compromised encrypted copies of some password vaults, as well as other personal information.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 23, 2023

Ivanti has published a security blog post about a vulnerability in Ivanti Sentry, formerly MobileIron Sentry. Ivanti Sentry is a gateway technology that allows organizations to manage, encrypt, and protect traffic between mobile devices and backend systems. The CVE patched in this update is CVE-2023-38035 , which has a CVSS score of 9.8

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

And, as promised, the beta version was made available for download in the Play Store on Friday November 17, 2023. But only one day after the release of the beta, Texts.com published a blog titled Sunbird / ‘Nothing Chats’ is Not Secure. – Nothing Chats is not end-to-end encrypted.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 23, 2023

In July 2023, we observed a malvertising campaign that lured potential victims to a fraudulent site for a Windows IT management tool. The original blog post from enSilo (now Fortinet) also notes that its author may have been using email to spread malicious attachments.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2024

The new program is made up of three categories of services for the affiliates: paid, free, and another for the individuals without a program who only want to sell or publish data on their blog (PYV service).” is written in Go, it was announced in November 2023. ” Stmx_GhostLocker member affiliate working model.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2023

Cisco Talos researchers recently discovered a new ransomware operation called RA Group that has been active since at least April 22, 2023. A sample of the ransomware analyzed by Talos is written in C++ and was compiled on April 23, 2023. The ransomware supports intermittent encryption to speed up the encryption process.

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NetSpi Technical

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

As we were preparing our slides and tools for our DEF CON Cloud Village Talk ( What the Function: A Deep Dive into Azure Function App Security ), Thomas Elling and I stumbled onto an extension of some existing research that we disclosed on the NetSPI blog in March of 2023.

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SecureList

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 2023, for instance, there was a significant rise in posts offering login credentials and passwords for various personal and work accounts. To be more specific, in 2023, the volume of malware log files containing compromised user data and posted for free on the dark web surged by almost 30% compared to 2022.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 13, 2023

Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC): Three Easy Ways to Prepare madhav Fri, 04/14/2023 - 06:05 The infamous Y2K “disaster” was successfully averted because people paid heed and prepared well in advance. As mentioned in a colleague’s previous blog , Thales Luna Network HSM has already been successfully incorporated in PQC use cases.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

According to a September 20, 2023 joint advisory from the FBI and the U.S. Within this timeframe, Snatch threat actors exploited the victim’s network moving laterally across the victim’s network with RDP for the largest possible deployment of ransomware and searching for files and folders for data exfiltration followed by file encryption.”

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