SecureWorld News

JANUARY 27, 2023

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced that it has successfully taken down the HIVE ransomware network, an international cybercrime ring that had been responsible for stealing and encrypting the data of more than 1,500 companies from 80 different countries.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Encryption uses mathematical algorithms to transform and encode data so that only authorized parties can access it. What Encryption Is and How It Relates to Cryptology The science of cryptography studies codes, how to create them, and how to solve them. How Does Encryption Process Data? How Does Encryption Process Data?

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SecureList

DECEMBER 12, 2023

To find out, in 2022 we created a list of 700 companies worldwide from different industries: industrial, telecommunication, financial, retail, and others. According to the source of origin, we divide all compromised accounts into three categories: Public leakages that are freely distributed within cybercriminal society.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The threat actors used certificates from Nvidia and Kuwait Telecommunications Company to sign their malware; the former was already leaked, but we’re not sure how they got their hands on the latter. The ransomware – use of Kuwait Telecommunications Company signing certificate. 96eabcc77a6734ea8587599685fbf1b4.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 15, 2022

It was the Expresso Twitter account that the hackers used to bait the organization to demonstrate their control over the company's IT infrastructure. Other targets include Brazil’s Ministry of Health (MoH) and Brazilian telecommunications operator Claro. Impresa owns the country's largest TV channel and newspaper, SIC and Expresso.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 26, 2018

Personal details of 37,000 Eir customers exposed after the theft of a laptop, including names, email addresses, phone numbers and account numbers. Eir, the fixed, mobile and broadband telecommunications company of Ireland, has suffered a data breach this week.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 12, 2021

The upcoming updates on SharePass will also allow you to send account credentials, QR codes, JSON structured data and other types of information. The messages you send are encrypted on the client side so the content is visible only by you and the recipient intended to read it. Encrypted Emails. Don’t Rely on Telecommunication.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The directive relied heavily on the discretion of individual member states, and lacked the accountability required. NIS2 broadens the scope of NIS by adding new industries, such as telecommunications, postal services, social media platforms, and public administration, which includes state and provincial government agencies.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

There are many different ways to safeguard your organization’s sensitive data from a breach, including encryption, data erasure, data masking, and data resiliency. Mismanagement of user accounts – using admin privileges to upgrade user access may result in a data breach for personal profit or copying files with customer information.

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Pen Test Partners

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Additionally, any unique passwords generated for products must avoid simplicity, such as incremental counters or information easily linked to the device, unless encrypted or hashed using industry-recognised secure methods. What does non-compliance look like?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2020

In March 2020, The Ministry of Telecommunications (MoTC) issued a directive to all operators in Myanmar with a secret list of 230 sites to be blocked due to the nature of the content; adult content and fake news. The block page uses the domain “ urlblocked.pw ” registered the 26th of March 2020 with a free Let’s encrypt certificate.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Chris Vaughan, VP of Technical Account Management at Tanium, said this: "The telecommunications sector in Iran is almost entirely state-owned, so it's not surprising that anti-government groups like this are trying to use tools such as Telegram to avoid state censorship. police department. regional transportation company. "In

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SecureList

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The traffic originated from a suspicious library loaded into the memory of a domain controller server and registered as a Windows password filter, which has access to plain-text passwords to administrative accounts. The files were designed to be executed in a pre-defined order, and some of them were AES128-encrypted.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

are subject to laws such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (the HITECH Act), as well as regulations such as the Clinical Laboratory Improvements Amendments (CLIA). Healthcare Data Privacy Laws. Health data and patient data in the U.S.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 27, 2018

I'm like yo my credit cards and financial information your entering into this internet system isn't even fully encrypted. Here's the bigger issue that concerns me in both the Telstra and Optus cases: the security of our telecommunication accounts is increasingly paramount these days.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2024

New York City based Sisense has more than 1,000 customers across a range of industry verticals, including financial services, telecommunications, healthcare and higher education. “If they are hosting customer data on a third-party system like Amazon, it better damn well be encrypted,” Weaver said.

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IT Security Guru

AUGUST 17, 2023

A nationwide loss of power could create a ripple effect, causing disruption to internet telecommunications, water, sewage, fuel and gas supplies. Secure accounts and passwords can make a significant difference in keeping an organisation safe from unauthorised intruders or even malicious insiders.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 22, 2021

Yet, there are some key concerns that telecommunication providers need to be aware of if they are going to successfully implement this next generation of connectivity, as well as inspire trust in customers. Estimations from the GSMA predict that by 2025, 5G will account for 21% of total mobile connections , with around 1.8

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Security Affairs

JUNE 2, 2019

4 SPTA provides such obligation only for providers of telecommunications services such as Swisscom or UPC.” Furthermore, ProtonMail’s end-to-end encryption means we cannot be forced by a court to provide unencrypted message contents.” ” continues the post. ” reads the blog post.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 3, 2022

The LAPSUS$ group is a relative newcomer to the ransomware scene, but it has made a name for itself by bringing down big targets like Impresa, the largest media conglomerate in Portugal, Brazil’s Ministry of Health, and Brazilian telecommunications operator Claro. Hacked back?

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SecureList

MARCH 30, 2021

Encrypted Ecipekac Layer II loader (shellcode). Encrypted Ecipekac Layer IV loader (shellcode). Please note that the Ecipekac Layer III loader module is embedded in the encrypted Layer II loader. size of encrypted data. Encrypted payload (SodaMaster) by RC4. Set value as RC4 key for the encrypted C2 communication.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

The group has targeted a variety of industries, including financial, government, energy, chemical, and telecommunications, and has largely focused its operations within the Middle East. Indeed during the group_a, the main observed delivery techniques where about Phishing (rif.T1193) and Valid Accounts (rif.T1078).

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Talos reported that these DNS hijacks also paved the way for the attackers to obtain SSL encryption certificates for the targeted domains (e.g. mail.cyta.com.cy: Cyta telecommunications and Internet provider, Cyprus. Review accounts with registrars and other providers. mail.petroleum.gov.eg: Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Internal Revenue Service website for months: Anyone seeking to create an account to view their tax records online would soon be required to provide biometric data to a private company in Virginia — ID.me. A single bitcoin is trading at around $45,000. ” SEPTEMBER. Uber blames LAPSUS$ for the intrusion.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 24, 2022

2 ] The threat actor leveraged a set of misconfigured Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) accounts that enabled it to enroll a new device for MFA and to access the victim network. In a post made in a Telegram group - allegedly run by the actor - the adversary recruits employees working at telecommunication, technology, or software companies.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 24, 2020

Instead, they only found a suspicious video file sent to Bezos on May 1, 2018 that "appears to be an Arabic language promotional film about telecommunications." That file shows an image of the Saudi Arabian flag and Swedish flags and arrived with an encrypted downloader.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The attacker can then define an admin account, setting the home directory to the root of C: drive. With user account credentials, attackers had a suite of email, documents, and data at their fingertips. Create a system of accountability by segregating roles for authorizing, approving, and monitoring code signatures. Encryption.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The G Suite Admin can then immediately log in to their Spinbackup account and be able to see the list of encrypted files, and either restore all of them with one click, if the “Auto-recovery” mode is on (Spinbackup automatically blocks Google Drive for PC application and recovers all encrypted files), or manually in case the mode is off.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2019

Security experts at FireEye uncovered a DNS hijacking campaign that is targeting government agencies, ISPs and other telecommunications providers, Internet infrastructure entities, and sensitive commercial organizations in the Middle East, North Africa, North America and Europe. ” reads the report published by FireEye.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Furthermore, we could see that the actor was mostly focused on South East Asian targets, with outliers in Egypt, Afghanistan and Ethiopia which included several governmental entities and telecommunication companies. Initial stage comprised of encrypted PowerShell code that is decrypted based on an attacker-provided AES key during run time.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 19, 2022

Now, the mobile app required for all attendees of the games, MY2022, has been found to have a "simple but devastating flaw" in its encryption protecting the user's personal information, according to a report from CitizenLab. We found that MY2022 transmits non-encrypted data to 'tmail.beijing2022.cn' Vulnerabilities in the Olympics app.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

On the basis that they are a Cybersecurity company, the most plausible explanation is that a legitimate user account or an automated source code commit user (non-human user, system or application user) account was compromised. Potential user account compromise.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2020

telecommunications provider TalkTalk. ’s National Crime Agency (NCA) interviewed a suspect in connection with the Dyn attack, but ultimately filed no charges against the youth because all of his digital devices had been encrypted. In 2015, then 15-year-old Sterritt was involved in the high-profile hack against U.K. ”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

If any potentially hazardous characters must be allowed as input, be sure that you implement additional controls like output encoding, secure task specific APIs, and accounting to use that data throughout the application. All administrative and account management functions must be at least as secure as the primary authentication mechanism.

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SecureList

MAY 12, 2021

To ensure that their ability to restore encrypted files would never be questioned, they cultivated an online presence, wrote press releases and generally made sure their name would be known to all potential victims. Botmasters and account resellers are tasked with providing initial access inside the victim’s network.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 26, 2022

AES-256 encryption for data at rest and TLS v1.2 Spun off from the telecommunications vendor JDS Uniphase in 2015, Viavi Solutions is a newer name, but it has four-plus decades of IT services experience. Auvik Features. LogicMonitor. Read more : Best Identity and Access Management (IAM) Solutions for 2022. VIAVI Solutions.

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SecureList

MAY 11, 2023

The second-largest category of cases consisted of compromised accounts and malicious emails. Legitimate code-signing certificates, such as Nvidia’s leaked certificate and Kuwait Telecommunication Company’s certificate were used to sign a malicious driver which was then used in wiper attacks against Albanian organizations.

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