Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 20, 2023

2024 Tech and Cybersecurity Forecast: Navigating New Frontiers in Business madhav Thu, 12/21/2023 - 05:15 People always want to comprehend what the future brings. 2024 promises to be a pivotal year, bringing transformative advancements and new challenges in tech and cybersecurity. The same is true for today’s business leaders.

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NetSpi Executives

MARCH 26, 2024

While most people may imagine mainframe computers to be an antiquated world of massive machinery, tape spools, and limited possibilities, they actually receive widespread use today in 2024 as the backbone infrastructure that allows billions of financial transactions to occur daily on a global scale.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2024

Researchers with cybersecurity firm Horizon3’s Attack Team published technical details of the recently disclosed vulnerability CVE-2024-0204 impacting Fortra GoAnywhere MFT. Fortra GoAnywhere Managed File Transfer is a comprehensive solution for secure file transfer, data encryption, and compliance management.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

As we look to 2024, we believe that the consumer threat landscape will be heavily influenced by political, cultural, and technological events and trends. Unfortunately, this ambiguity sets the stage for an anticipated increase in charity-related scams in 2024. Malicious clones of the banned apps may rise to fill the void in 2024.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 6, 2024

Paris, France, March 7th, 2024, Cyberwire Company Open Sources FHE Libraries to Build Privacy-Preserving Blockchain and AI Applications for the First Time. Investment secured to bring Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) to the fore, giving developers the ability to address data privacy challenges across blockchain and AI use cases.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 6, 2024

API Security in 2024: Imperva Report Uncovers Rising Threats and the Urgent Need for Action madhav Thu, 03/07/2024 - 04:56 APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) are the backbone of modern digital innovation. Encryption Lebin Cheng | VP, API Security More About This Author > Schema Cybersecurity has always been a team game.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 31, 2024

ESG Research Unearths Critical Insights for Future-Proofing Encryption and Key Management madhav Thu, 02/01/2024 - 05:14 Encryption and key management are critical defenses against data breaches and cyber threats in the evolving digital landscape. This trend underscores the growing reliance on encryption as a primary safeguard.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 5, 2022

United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has acknowledged a group of encryption tools that have the potential to endure cyber attacks launched from quantum computers. To counter such issues, NIST has selected 4 encryption algorithms that have the potential to withstand the digital attacks from quantum computers.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 11, 2024

And even though the gang claims they did not encrypt the hospital’s files, that didn’t leave the hospital unharmed. Or what ransomware gangs probably call a classic case of “no encryption, no problem” for creating havoc. Several surgeries were moved to later dates and outpatient radiology appointments were canceled.”

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Released today, the Malwarebytes State of Malware 2024 report takes a deep dive into the latest developments in the world of cybercrime. We have seen news of ChatGPT leaking user’s information and law enforcement asking for backdoors in encryption routines.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 6, 2024

API Security in 2024: Imperva Report Uncovers Rising Threats and the Urgent Need for Action madhav Thu, 03/07/2024 - 04:56 APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) are the backbone of modern digital innovation. They drive seamless connectivity, enable rapid development, and power countless business-critical applications.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 11, 2024

On March 20, 2024, we reported how the data of over 70 million people was posted for sale on an online cybercrime forum. However, AT&T denied (both in 2021 and in March, 2024) that the data came from its systems. Weirdly enough, in the data breach notification, AT&T says the date of discovery of the breach was March 26, 2024.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 31, 2024

ESG Research Unearths Critical Insights for Future-Proofing Encryption and Key Management madhav Thu, 02/01/2024 - 05:14 Encryption and key management are critical defenses against data breaches and cyber threats in the evolving digital landscape. This trend underscores the growing reliance on encryption as a primary safeguard.

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Bleeping Computer

JANUARY 11, 2024

Microsoft has released a PowerShell script to automate updating the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) partition in order to fix CVE-2024-20666, a vulnerability that allowed for BitLocker encryption bypass. [.]

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Centraleyes

JANUARY 4, 2024

Termed ‘Q-Day,’ the point at which quantum computers could break existing encryption algorithms looms on the horizon. Quantum Threat Landscape Quantum computing, with its potential to unravel established encryption standards, poses a dual dilemma.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 1, 2024

Sality is known for its ability to evade detection by antivirus software through encryption and obfuscation techniques. Follow HYAS on LinkedIn Follow HYAS on X Read last week's report: HYAS Threat Intel Report - March 25, 2024 Sign up for the NEW (and free!) Want more threat intel on a weekly basis?

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Despite advance warnings that a root certificate provided by Let’s Encrypt would expire on September 30, users reported issues with a variety of services and websites once that deadline hit. An SSL certificate is a digital certificate that authenticates a website’s identity and enables an encrypted connection. So what happened?

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 8, 2024

The new year brought few new vulnerabilities, and only Ivanti Endpoint Manager (EPM) and Kyber, the quantum resistant encryption algorithm, publicized new vulnerabilities or fixes. January 3, 2024 52% of Exposed SSH Servers Vulnerable to Terrapin Attack Type of attack: Secure Shell (SSH) vulnerability enables prefix truncation attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

February 19, 2024 Microsoft Exchange Servers Vulnerable to Privilege Escalation Attacks Type of vulnerability: Critical severity privilege escalation vulnerability. The problem: CVE-2024-21410 allows remote attackers to carry out NTLM relay attacks on Microsoft Exchange Servers, providing them with privileged access.

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Centraleyes

APRIL 8, 2024

Data-centric Protection Data-centric protection includes encryption, masking, fine-grained access controls, and integration with third-party tools, such as Active Directory (AD)/LDAP. The post Best 5 Privacy Management Tools for 2024 appeared first on Centraleyes.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Today, Malwarebytes released its 2024 State of Malware report, detailing six cyberthreats that resource-constrained IT teams should pay attention to in 2024. Big game attacks extort vast ransoms from organizations by holding their data hostage—either with encryption, the threat of damaging data leaks, or both. READ THE REPORT

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2024

The Black Basta ransomware group added Southern Water to the list of victims on its Tor data leak site and threatened to leak the stolen data on February 29, 2024. SRLabs analyzed the encryption algorithm used by the ransomware and discovered a specific weakness in the variant used by the gang around April 2023. southernwater.co[.]uk

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2024

The data breach occurred on January 24, 2024, and was discovered on January 25 when GHC-SCW identified unauthorized access to its network. “The attacker attempted to encrypt GHC-SCW’s system but was unsuccessful.” The organization disclosed a data breach after a ransomware attack, the incident impacted 533,809 individuals.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 28, 2024

That’s according to a court document filed March 23, 2024. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a standard security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a server and a client. Whenever someone asks a question about Snapchat, the answer is usually that because their traffic is encrypted we have no analytics about them.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2024

Fortra warns customers of a new authentication bypass vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-0204 (CVSS score 9.8), impacting the GoAnywhere MFT (Managed File Transfer) product. Fortra GoAnywhere Managed File Transfer is a comprehensive solution for secure file transfer, data encryption, and compliance management.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2024

The group focuses on internet-facing services, in at least one instance the group exploited the vulnerability CVE-2024-21887 in Ivanti Connect Secure VPN. The malware uses AES encryption for C2 communication, however, depending on the transmitted data, RSA may also be utilized.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 10, 2024

The Compliance Countdown – A Roadmap Through Phases 1 & 2 madhav Thu, 04/11/2024 - 05:17 While compliance mandates can sometimes feel burdensome, PCI DSS 4.0 Let's break down the key steps you should be taking right now to meet the 31 March 2024 deadline and explore ways to streamline your compliance efforts for the long term.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

According to DigiCert’s 2024 State of Digital Trust Survey results, released today , companies proactively pursuing digital trust are seeing boosts in revenue, innovation and productivity. Now comes survey findings that could perhaps help to move things in the right direction. Conversely, organizations lagging may be flirting with disaster.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Kondratyev is also charged (PDF) with three criminal counts arising from his alleged use of the Sodinokibi (aka “ REvil “) ransomware variant to encrypt data, exfiltrate victim information, and extort a ransom payment from a corporate victim based in Alameda County, California. “My god, who needs me?,”

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 4, 2024

On April 2, 2024, Jackson County tweeted that it had identified significant disruptions within its IT systems, “potentially attributable to a ransomware attack” Jackson County is one of 114 counties in Missouri, with a population of approximately 718,000 people, mostly in Kansas City. Stop malicious encryption.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 10, 2024

The Compliance Countdown – A Roadmap Through Phases 1 & 2 madhav Thu, 04/11/2024 - 05:17 While compliance mandates can sometimes feel burdensome, PCI DSS 4.0 Let's break down the key steps you should be taking right now to meet the 31 March 2024 deadline and explore ways to streamline your compliance efforts for the long term.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2024

Unit 42 researchers observed another large-scale campaign that peaked on January 29, 2024, threat actors used a spam email localized and the subject line has the pattern of Factura/Rechnung/invoice####. “The JScript file then drops a Base64-encrypted file and a batch file. ” reads the report published by Palo Alto Networks.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

9, 2024, U.S. Among those was the encrypted messaging app Signal , which said the breach could have let attackers re-register the phone number on another device for about 1,900 users. LastPass said criminal hackers had stolen encrypted copies of some password vaults, as well as other personal information.

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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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

link] pic.twitter.com/z91nfnGYAQ — Dominic Alvieri (@AlvieriD) February 19, 2024 The Cactus ransomware operation has been active since March 2023, Kroll researchers reported that the ransomware strain is notable for the use of encryption to protect the ransomware binary. Cactus Ransomware has just posted Schneider Electric.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

How Thales and Red Hat Protect Telcos from API Attacks madhav Thu, 02/22/2024 - 04:55 Application programming interfaces (APIs) power nearly every aspect of modern applications and have become the backbone of today’s economy. Encryption ensures the data itself cannot be accessed, even if intercepted during a “Man-in-the-Middle” attack.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 20, 2024

However, AT&T denies (both in 2021 and, now, in 2024) that the data came from its systems, telling BleepingComputer that it’s seen no evidence of a breach. Fast forward three years and another threat actor calling themselves MajorNelson has leaked what they say is the same data.

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