CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Encryption and data backup. Data encryption is a protection strategy that renders data useless even when an intruder accesses it. Encrypting all your company’s sensitive data and private information ensures that it’s protected from data breaches. They protect your electronic devices and accounts from hackers.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2021

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued an alert to warn that the Mamba ransomware is abusing the DiskCryptor open source tool to encrypt entire drives. Mamba ransomware is one of the first malware that encrypted hard drives rather than files that was detected in public attacks. ” reads the alert published by the FBI.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 2, 2023

So, what we need to cover for peace of mind when we do get rid of our old devices are backups , so you don't lose your data when you get rid of your device, and scrubbing , so that usable data isn't left on the device. You can specify the files and settings that you want to back up and how often you want to perform a backup.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Small farms, large producers, processors and manufacturers, and markets and restaurants are particularly exposed to ransomware attacks. The good news is in the latter attack the victims restored its backups. Avoid reusing passwords for multiple accounts. Disable unused remote access/RDP ports and monitor remote access/RDP logs.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2022

The ransomware was involved in attacks aimed at technology and healthcare, defense contractors, educational institutions, manufacturers, companies across Europe, the United States, and Canada. To each encrypted file, it appends a randomized nine-digit hexadecimal number as an extension. ” reads the joint advisory. “The

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Malwarebytes

MAY 8, 2023

The LockBit macOS samples analyzed by Malwarebytes seem ineffective due to being unsigned, not accounting for TCC/SIP restrictions, and being riddled with bugs, like buffer overflows, causing premature termination when executed on macOS. Money Message uses advanced encryption techniques and leaves a ransom note called "money_message.log."

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Hacker Combat

JUNE 2, 2022

The factory specializes in manufacturing, consumer electronics, medical devices, and industrial operations. Based in Tijuana, Mexico, near the California border, the facility is an electronics manufacturing giant employing 5,000 people. To detect attacks, scan all emails and conduct regular data backups. using the LockBit 2.0

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2023

“The department had reverted to its backup system, radio, to dispatch officers in response to 911 calls instead of its computer assisted dispatch system. FBI and CISA believe this variant, which uses its own custom-made file encryption program, evolved from earlier iterations that used “Zeon” as a loader.” reads the alert.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2022

DEV-0950 group used Clop ransomware to encrypt the network of organizations previously infected with the Raspberry Robin worm. The experts noticed that threat actors tracked as DEV-0950 used Clop ransomware to encrypt the network of organizations previously infected with the worm. exe to execute a malicious command.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 23, 2021

This is the act of exfiltrating sensitive data from the victim network before the encryption stage of the attack[1]. A manufacturer of rubber parts in Korea. . A luxury gas fireplace manufacturer in New Zealand . A manufacturer of mechanical-electrical alternators in Italy . An insurance company in Puerto Rico. .

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 1, 2023

To prevent unwanted access and protect data in transit, wireless connections must be secured with strong authentication procedures, encryption protocols, access control rules, intrusion detection and prevention systems, and other security measures. As a result, wireless networks are prone to eavesdropping, illegal access and theft.

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2021

The audio equipment manufacturer Bose Corporation said it was the victim of a ransomware attack that took place earlier this year, on March 7. The audio maker confirmed that it did not pay any ransom and recovered the encrypted files from its backups with the support of third-party cybersecurity experts. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 13, 2023

Some of these organizations are considered vital infrastructure such as local governments, financial companies, healthcare organizations, energy firms, and technology manufacturers. Stop malicious encryption. Create offsite, offline backups. Keep backups offsite and offline, beyond the reach of attackers.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 17, 2023

Editor-in-chief Uwe Ralf Heer reported that a well-known cybercriminal group encrypted its systems and left ransom demands, but did not specify further. The attackers leaked files including backup archives, financial documents, research papers, and student spreadsheets. In France one gang, LockBit, recorded three.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 30, 2024

Next, the IT team sets up access controls and data encryption methods, followed by network security configuration and cloud activities monitoring. Data encryption : Ensure that your data is safe in transit and at rest to prevent unauthorized access. To protect data, it uses encryption, access controls, monitoring, and audits.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 10, 2021

Synology also recommends enabling auto block and account protection. Synology also advises users to enable Snapshot to keep their NAS safe from encryption-based ransomware. This performs a regular, off-site backup. There is no reason for StealthWorker, or other botnets, to pass up on other manufacturer’s devices.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 2, 2022

Double-extortion attacks, which include data exfiltration in addition to encryption, are rising even faster at 117% year-over-year. Ransomware attacks increased by 80% year-over-year, accounting for all ransomware payloads observed in the Zscaler cloud. Double extortion ransomware increased by 117%. Deploy inline data loss prevention.

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Spinone

MARCH 10, 2019

Data is irreversibly encrypted and cannot be retried without either paying the ransom, or restoring backups of the data prior to the ransomware encryption. government entities as well as organizations in energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water, aviation, and critical manufacturing sectors.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2022

Such attacks typically entail business, manufacturing, ecologic, or economic disciplines that drop beyond the standard bounds of a fraud. Bot traffic to mobile applications account for a huge chunk of all bot traffic worldwide. Verify that there are no software injection, encryption, and authentication attacks. Source . .

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2021

According to open-source reporting, since August 2020, DarkSide actors have been targeting multiple large, high-revenue organizations, resulting in the encryption and theft of sensitive data. Implement regular data backup procedures . 3 ],[ 4 ]” reads the joint alert. 3 ],[ 4 ]” reads the joint alert.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 1, 2023

For most implants, the threat actor uses similar implementations of DLL hijacking (often associated with ShadowPad malware) and memory injection techniques, along with the use of RC4 encryption to hide the payload and evade detection. libssl.dll or libcurl.dll was statically linked to implants to implement encrypted C2 communications.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Since March, the attackers have been trying to conduct multistage attacks on large corporate networks of medical labs, banks, manufacturers, and software developers in Russia. The operators use a suite of custom tools with the ultimate goal of encrypting files in the infected system and holding it for a ransom of about $50,000.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

To this end, some impressive technology has been created to combat the technological side of the issue, to keep hackers and similar bad actors from accessing data and account privileges they shouldn’t. For businesses small and large, target factors like age are replaced by type of industry and the sort of data they might contain.

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Centraleyes

JANUARY 21, 2024

Important entities” include manufacturing, food, waste management, and postal services. Own Your Risks: Ensure Ownership and Foster Responsibility Ensure clear governance and accountability over risk ownership. Essential entities ” span sectors such as energy, healthcare, transport, and water.

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Architect Security

JANUARY 25, 2021

Website backups? Policy and procedure for data destruction must take into account Legal and Financial data holds and retention periods. Even if a hard drive is encrypted, the data it stores may not be. Policy around data classification is going to dictate certain aspects of how that data must be treated. An employee’s laptop?

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Major research efforts on how to detect these IEDs and detonate them harmlessly, or to infiltrate and disrupt bomb manufacturing, were referred by the idiom “Left of Boom.” Backup all critical data at least daily, and preferably more often, to offline storage and protected with MFA and immutable encryption.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

I’m not exaggerating: A s ecure cloud backup solution can save hours, days, months and years of your team’s work. That said, empower your employees with an effective and simple Data Loss Protection solution , allowing Automated backup and restore, deletion control , smooth migration, version control , activity reports, etc.,

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NetSpi Executives

APRIL 27, 2024

Attempt access to file and SQL servers with privileged accounts. In addition to encrypting data and holding it hostage, ransomware attackers also upload valuable data to other systems on the internet. Rather than stealthily copying the data, ransomware attackers may upload the data quickly to a website via FTP using SSH encryption.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

As with most cyberextortionists lately, the Cuba gang encrypts victims’ files and demands a ransom in exchange for a decryption key. Industry affiliation does not seem to be a factor: victims have included retailers, financial and logistical services, government agencies, manufacturers, and others.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 9, 2022

In a FLASH publication issued by the FBI in coordination with DHS/CISA, the FBI says it has identified at least 52 organizations across 10 critical infrastructure sectors affected by RagnarLocker ransomware, including organizations in the critical manufacturing, energy, financial services, government, and information technology sectors.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 13, 2022

The supply chain, already stretched to a breaking point, suffered additional misfortunes across multiple industries, from agriculture and manufacturing to technology and utilities. However, in a clear bid for the supply chain jugular, threat actors also zeroed in on manufacturing, technology, utilities (including oil), and agriculture.

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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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ForAllSecure

MAY 30, 2023

However, the rank and file of Conti were in Ukraine, had a different opinion, and decided to speak up against Conti in and in favor of Ukraine in a Twitter account named Conti Leaks. The account owner wrote: “My comments are coming from the bottom of my heart which is breaking over my dear Ukraine and my people.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 29, 2021

And the crane manufacturer has assured that most of the digital disruption related repercussions faced by its branches worldwide will be solved by this weekend. The company that operates with its products in almost 30 countries has made it official that its email systems were the worst hit in the file encrypting malware related attack.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Whether it is synchronized files from on-premises to cloud environments or the risk of encryption of cloud email, ransomware is a real threat to your data. As is often the case, the cost of restoring files from backups can amount to more than paying the ransom. Backups aren’t working. Why do businesses pay the ransom?

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Then you want to add extra protection around your most critical data, in the form of zero trust access tools and high-integrity data backups. If threat actors can steal or encrypt highly sensitive information, their victims may be more willing to pay a higher ransom. Further reading: Best Backup Solutions for Ransomware Protection.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Once dropped, Ryuk uses AES-256 to encrypt files and an RSA public key to encrypt the AES key.". Patch operating systems, software, and firmware as soon as manufacturers release updates. Regularly change passwords to network systems and accounts and avoid reusing passwords for different accounts.

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