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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SecureList

MAY 8, 2024

It utilizes customizable attack vectors, including deceptive tactics like a fake Windows Update screen displayed to mask the file encryption process, and employs security measures for testing purposes, such as checking for “Vaccine.txt” before executing.

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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. Good times.

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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. Create a plan for patching vulnerabilities in internet-facing systems quickly; and disable or harden remote access like RDP and VPNs. Prevent intrusions.

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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. Create a plan for patching vulnerabilities in internet-facing systems quickly; and disable or harden remote access like RDP and VPNs. Stop malicious encryption.

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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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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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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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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

Pin was active on Opensc around March 2012, and authored 13 posts that mostly concerned data encryption issues, or how to fix bugs in code. “Cryptolockers made a lot of noise in the press, but lazy system administrators don’t make backups after that. Cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 finds that pin@darktower.ru

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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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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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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Most organizations express confidence in their current status and budgets, but also expect to experience at least one data breach in 2024. Company instructions to keep hands off internal network traffic leads to internet service provider (ISP) suppression of only 1% of the 100,000 monthly outgoing DDoS attacks. globally, +19.8%

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Pen Test Partners

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Threat modeling can be applied to a wide range of things, including software, applications, systems, networks, distributed systems, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and business processes. Use AES encryption. Encrypt in transit. Encryption is important when: Sending a password. Cloud provision using PKI. Frameworks 2.1.

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