Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

On Wednesday February 21, 2024, Change Healthcare—a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group—experienced serious system outages due to a cyberattack. Stop malicious encryption. Create offsite, offline backups. Keep backups offsite and offline, beyond the reach of attackers.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Stop malicious encryption. Create offsite, offline backups. Keep backups offsite and offline, beyond the reach of attackers. You can learn more about the threat of big game ransomware like LockBit and ALPHV in our 2024 State of Malware report. Use EDR or MDR to detect unusual activity before an attack occurs.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 8, 2022

The NIST contest began in 2016, with the goal of improving general encryption and digital signatures. The four new security standards selected by NIST will become part of a quantum-safe cryptography standard released as soon as 2024. Also read: Encryption: How It Works, Types, and the Quantum Future.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 10, 2024

It was attacked on Wednesday February 21, 2024, by a criminal “affiliate” working with the ALPHV ransomware group, which led to huge disruptions in healthcare payments. Stop malicious encryption. Create offsite, offline backups. Keep backups offsite and offline, beyond the reach of attackers.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Stop malicious encryption. Create offsite, offline backups. Keep backups offsite and offline, beyond the reach of attackers. Living off the Land is one of six cyberthreats that resource-constrained IT teams need to be ready to combat in 2024, covered in our 2024 State of Malware report.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 10, 2024

It was attacked on Wednesday February 21, 2024, by a criminal “affiliate” working with the ALPHV ransomware group, which led to huge disruptions in healthcare payments. Stop malicious encryption. Create offsite, offline backups. Keep backups offsite and offline, beyond the reach of attackers.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

pic.twitter.com/m00VFWkR9Z — National Crime Agency (NCA) (@NCA_UK) February 20, 2024 But the real treat was an updated version of the LockBit website that returned it to something resembling its former self. Stop malicious encryption. Create offsite, offline backups. However, some crucial details had changed.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The company has expanded its end-to-end encryption to 23 of iCloud data categories that include cloud backups, notes, and photos along with Apple Music Sing, and Freeform. The company is also looking forward to allow alternative apps stores be loaded onto iPhones as per the European Union requirements upcoming in the year 2024.

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SecureList

APRIL 15, 2024

They generated a custom version of the ransomware, which used the aforementioned account credential to spread across the network and perform malicious activities, such as killing Windows Defender and erasing Windows Event Logs in order to encrypt the data and cover its tracks. In this article, we revisit the LockBit 3.0

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 6, 2024

The story starts on February 21, 2024, when an ALPHV affiliate attacked Change Healthcare , one of the largest healthcare technology companies in the USA. Stop malicious encryption. Create offsite, offline backups. Keep backups offsite and offline, beyond the reach of attackers.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 6, 2021

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. To those who go for more premium plans, a site backup plan of up to 200GB keeps the data continuity intact at the time of disasters.

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SC Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

Most cryptographers believe that the sheer power of quantum computing will be capable of tearing through many of the existing public key encryption algorithms, like RSA or Diffie-Hellman, that underpin most computer hardware and software today. It could also threaten some symmetric key algorithms, though not to nearly the same extent. “We

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 25, 2024

On April 11, 2024, Leicester City Council in the United Kingdom fell victim to a major cyberattack that crippled many of its systems and services. The cybercriminals encrypted critical data and systems across the council's networks, severely hampering its ability to operate and provide services to residents.

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Centraleyes

JANUARY 3, 2024

These measures encompass incident management, strengthening supply chain security, enhancing network security, improving access control, and implementing encryption strategies. Defining policies and procedures for the use of cryptography and, when relevant, encryption. Developing a comprehensive plan for managing security incidents.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Research firm Gartner forecasts that by 2024, a cyberattack will damage critical infrastructure that a member of the G20 intergovernmental forums will reciprocate with a declared physical attack. Here, we share 4 ways CIOs can effectively protect their company data against the rising tide of ransomware. Configure Endpoint Management .

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

Encryption and the development of cryptography have been a cornerstone of IT security for decades and remain critical for data protection against evolving threats. While cryptology is thousands of years old, modern cryptography took off in the 1970s with the help of the Diffie-Hellman-Merkle and RSA encryption algorithms.

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Centraleyes

JANUARY 21, 2024

National Implementation Deadline: Member states are mandated to incorporate the provisions of the NIS2 directive into their national laws by October 17, 2024. Following approval by the Council of Ministers, NIS2 was officially published in the EU Official Journal on December 27, 2022, and came into force on January 16, 2023.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 12, 2024

Log data protection: Encrypted channels and access controls ensure security and compliance. Log Security & Access Management Log security and access management include securing log data via encryption and access controls, as well as ensuring that only authorized users can view or alter logs. You can unsubscribe at any time.

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SecureList

JANUARY 31, 2024

We do not expect rapid changes in the industrial cyberthreat landscape in 2024. 1 scourge of industrial enterprises in 2024. However, they can learn to mitigate the impact more effectively (for example, through better securing the most confidential data, and with proper backup and incident response plans).

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

And the 2FA backup code? Thinking that would also be exactly what it looked like, I'd screen grabbed it when enabling 2FA: Now, using the same bcrypt hash checker as I did for the password, here's what I found: What I just don't get is if you're going to return the 2FA secret anyway, why bother bcrypting the backup code?

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 25, 2024

The attack and its aftermath is a reminder that big game ransomware remains the preeminent cyberthreat to organisations of all sizes, and the tactics it describes will be familiar to anyone who has read the Big Game Ransomware section of our 2024 State of Malware report. Stop malicious encryption. Create offsite, offline backups.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 23, 2021

While experts don’t know when or where a quantum computer will emerge that can break most forms of classical encryption, most agree that enterprises will need to replace their encryption protocols well in advance of that day. billion operations.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

In fact, it’s widely believed that today threat actors are even saving encrypted content so they can break it later using quantum computers. Rather, over time the difficulty and time required to break encrypted files and communications will continue to decrease, and the risk of using pre-quantum algorithms will keep increasing.

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Pen Test Partners

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Use AES encryption. Encrypt in transit. Legal Frameworks EU Cyber Resilience Act The EU is introducing new regulations on products with “digital elements” [link] with the expectation that this will become law in 2024. Confidentiality stops someone from reading the content of a message: Figure 8: Encryption and decryption.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The NCA will reach out to victims based in the UK in the coming days and weeks, providing support to help them recover encrypted data. All other servers with backup blogs that did not have PHP installed are unaffected and will continue to give out data stolen from the attacked companies.

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