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Breaking the Zeppelin Ransomware Encryption Scheme

Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

“If we can recover the RSA-512 Public Key from the registry, we can crack it and get the 256-bit AES Key that encrypts the files! . “If we can recover the RSA-512 Public Key from the registry, we can crack it and get the 256-bit AES Key that encrypts the files!” ” they wrote. Technical details.

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UK Government to Launch PR Campaign Undermining End-to-End Encryption

Schneier on Security

JANUARY 18, 2022

Rolling Stone is reporting that the UK government has hired the M&C Saatchi advertising agency to launch an anti-encryption advertising campaign. Presumably they’ll lean heavily on the “think of the children!” ” rhetoric we’re seeing in this current wave of the crypto wars.

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Google advertisements turning into malware spreading platforms

CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 24, 2023

The next time when you search for a software download on the Google search engine, be cautious, as the software might also bring in new trouble as malware or might strictly act as a source to malware spread that can steal data and encrypt all the information on the web.

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Ransomware hackers adopting Intermittent Encryption

CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

According to a study conducted by security firm SentinelOne, ransomware spreading hackers are adopting a new encryption standard named ‘Intermittent Encryption’ while targeting victims. Intermittent Encryption is nothing but locking down files on a partial note and at a great speed that also helps in being detected.

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Security of Solid-State-Drive Encryption

Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Interesting research: " Self-encrypting deception: weaknesses in the encryption of solid state drives (SSDs) ": Abstract: We have analyzed the hardware full-disk encryption of several SSDs by reverse engineering their firmware. This challenges the view that hardware encryption is preferable over software encryption.

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Ragnar Locker ransomware gang advertises Campari hack on Facebook

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Ragnar Locker Ransomware operators have started to run Facebook advertisements to force their victims into paying the ransom. In November 2019, ransomware operators have started adopting a new double-extortion strategy first used by the Maze gang that sees threat actors also stealing unencrypted files before encrypting infected systems.

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Ransomware Groups Turn to Intermittent Encryption to Speed Attack Times

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

To accelerate the ransomware encryption process and make it harder to detect, cybercriminal groups have begun using a new technique: intermittent encryption. Intermittent encryption allows the ransomware encryption malware to encrypt files partially or only encrypt parts of the files. Others are automated.

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Zoom now supports end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) calls

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The Video conferencing platform Zoom announced the implementation of end-to-end encryption (E2EE) and its availability starting next week. The popular Video conferencing platform Zoom announced the availability of the end-to-end encryption (E2EE) starting next week. ” reads the post published by the company. Pierluigi Paganini.

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German encrypted email service Tutanota suffers DDoS attacks

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The popular encrypted email service Tutanota was hit with a series of DDoS attacks this week targeting its website fist and its DNS providers later. Encrypted email service, Tutanota suffered a series of DDoS attacks that initially targeted the website and later its DNS providers. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Trojan Shield, the biggest ever police operation against encrypted communications

Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2021

Trojan Shield operation: The FBI and Australian Federal Police ran an encrypted chat platform that was used by crime gangs and intercepted their communications. The FBI and Australian Federal Police (AFP) ran an encrypted chat platform that was used by crime gangs and intercepted their communications.

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Security Analysis of Threema

Schneier on Security

JANUARY 19, 2023

We provide an extensive cryptographic analysis of Threema, a Swiss-based encrypted messaging application with more than 10 million users and 7000 corporate customers. Threema developers advertise it as a more secure alternative to Meta’s WhatsApp messenger.

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IBM releases open-source toolkits implementing FHE to process data while encrypted

Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2020

IBM has released open-source toolkits implementing fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) that allow researchers to process data while it’s still encrypted. IBM has released open-source toolkits implementing fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), which allows researchers to process encrypted data without having access to the actual data.

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LockBit 2.0, the first ransomware that uses group policies to encrypt Windows domains

Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2021

ransomware is now able to encrypt Windows domains by using Active Directory group policies. ransomware that encrypts Windows domains by using Active Directory group policies. After ransomware ads were banned on hacking forum, the LockBit operators set up their own leak site promoting the latest variant and advertising the LockBit 2.0

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Snake Ransomware isolates infected Systems before encrypting files

Security Affairs

JULY 5, 2020

Experts spotted recent samples of the Snake ransomware that were isolating the infected systems while encrypting files to avoid interference. The Snake ransomware kills processes from a predefined list, including ICS-related processes, to encrypt associated files. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Some Fortinet products used hardcoded keys and weak encryption for communications

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Researchers at SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab discovered multiple issues in several security products from Fortinet, including hardcoded key and encryption for communications. “The messages are encrypted using XOR “encryption” with a static key.” Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Let’s Encrypt CA is revoking over 3 Million TLS certificates due to a bug

Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2020

Let’s Encrypt is going to revoke over 3 million certificates today due to a flaw in the software used to verify users and their domains before issuing a certificate. A bug in Let’s Encrypt’s certificate authority (CA) software, dubbed Boulder, caused the correct validation for some certificates. Pierluigi Paganini.

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BLURtooth flaw allows attacking Bluetooth encryption process

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

versions are affected by the vulnerability dubbed BLURtooth which allows hackers to defeat Bluetooth encryption. The vulnerability could be exploited by attackers to overwrite or lower the strength of the pairing key, defeating the protocol encryption. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Five Eyes nations plus India and Japan call for encryption backdoor once again

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Members of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance once again call for tech firms to engineer backdoors into end-to-end and device encryption. The statements reinforce the importance of the encryption in protecting data, privacy, and IP, but highlights the risks of abusing it for criminal and terrorist purposes. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Ragnar Ransomware encrypts files from virtual machines to evade detection

Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2020

Ransomware encrypts from virtual machines to evade antivirus. Ragnar Locker deploys Windows XP virtual machines to encrypt victim’s files, the trick allows to evaded detection from security software. Mounting all the shared drives to encrypt. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Ryuk Ransomware evolution avoid encrypting Linux folders

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Experts spotted a new strain of the Ryuk Ransomware that was developed to avoid encrypting folders commonly seen in *NIX operating systems. Kremez noticed that the ransomware doesn’t encrypt folders that are associated with *NIX operating systems. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Zoom Faces More Legal Challenges Over End-to-End Encryption

Threatpost

AUGUST 13, 2020

The video-conferencing specialist has yet to roll out full encryption, but it says it's working on it.

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Consumer Watchdog Sues Zoom Over Encryption Statements

SecureWorld News

AUGUST 13, 2020

The non-profit consumer advocacy group just announced that it is suing Zoom Video Communications, Inc for violating the District of Columbia Consumer Protection Procedures Act (DCCPPA), which prohibits unlawful trade practices and false advertising. End-to-end encryption. What did Zoom allegedly lie about?

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How to get back files encrypted by the Hacked Ransomware for free

Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2019

The Hacked Ransomware was first spotted in 2017, it appends.hacked extension to the encrypted files and includes ransom notes in Italian, English, Spanish, and Turkish. In 2018, the popular malware researcher Michael Gillespie discovered a weakness in the encryption process that allowed the expert to create a decryption tool.

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Russian govn blocked Tutanota service in Russia to stop encrypted communication

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Tutanota , the popular free and open-source end-to-end encrypted email software, has been blocked by Russian authorities. The popular free and open-source end-to-end encrypted email service Tutanota has been blocked in Russia on Friday evening. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Police credit “unlocked” SKY ECC encryption for organized crime bust

Malwarebytes

MARCH 11, 2021

The police stated they were able to make these arrests because they were able to intercept and read messages on encrypted phones provided by SKY ECC. Sky ECC advertises itself as “most secure messaging platform you can buy”, and has around 170,000 users worldwide. Unlocked encryption. SKY ECC website.

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GCHQ implements World War II cipher machines in encryption app CyberChef

Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2019

UK intelligence agency GCHQ released emulators for World War II cipher machines (Enigma, Typex and The Bombe) that can be executed in the encryption app CyberChef. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Sodinokibi ransomware uses MS API to encrypt open and locked files

Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2020

Researchers warn of a new feature implemented in the Sodinokibi ransomware, the threat can now encrypt open and locked files. The Sodinokibi ransomware (REvil) continues to evolve, operators implemented a new feature that allows the malware to encrypt victim’s files, even if they are opened and locked by another process.

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Kr00k Wi-Fi Encryption flaw affects more than a billion devices

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

This serious flaw, assigned CVE-2019-15126, causes vulnerable devices to use an all-zero encryption key to encrypt part of the user’s communication.” ” Experts pointed out that the vulnerability does not reside in the Wi-Fi encryption protocol, instead, the issue is related to the way some chips implemented the encryption.

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STOP ransomware encrypts files and steals victim’s data

Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2019

” One of the variants analyzed by BleepingComputer encrypts data and appends the.promorad extension to encrypted files, then it creates ransom notes named _readme.txt as shown below. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. exe and executed it. promos.promoz.puma.rumba.tro.

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Facebook spied on Snapchat users to get analytics about the competition

Malwarebytes

MARCH 28, 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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Sonicwall warns of a spike in the number of attacks involving encrypted malware and IoT malware

Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2019

According to experts at Sonicwall, scanning of random ports and the diffusion of encrypted malware are characterizing the threat landscape. Most of the attacks targeted non-standard ports and experts observed a spike in the number of encrypted malware. million encrypted malware attacks, +27% over the previous year. .”

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DeathRansom ransomware evolves encrypting files, but experts identified its author

Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2020

DeathRansom was considered fake ransomware due to the fact that it did not implement an effective encryption process, but now things are changing. DeathRansom is a ransomware family that was initially classified as a joke because it did not implement an effective encryption scheme. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Slack Launched Encryption Key Addon For Businesses

Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2019

Slack announced today to launch encryption keys that will help businesses to protect their data. Slack announced today to launch encryption keys that will help businesses to protect their data. Slack announced today to launch encryption keys that will help businesses to protect their data.

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Mollitiam Industries is the Newest Cyberweapons Arms Manufacturer

Schneier on Security

JUNE 23, 2021

Its spyware is also said to be equipped with a keylogger, which means every keystroke made on an infected device — including passwords, search queries and messages sent via encrypted messaging apps — can be tracked and monitored.

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Apple Mail stores parts of encrypted emails in plaintext DB

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

The Apple Mail app available on macOS stores leave s a portion of users encrypted emails in plaintext in a database called snippets. The Apple expert Bob Gendler discovered that the Apple Mail app available on macOS stores leaves a portion of users encrypted emails in plaintext in a database called snippets. ” continues the post.

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Guest Blog: End-to-End Data Encryption with Data Reduction from Thales & Pure Storage

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 13, 2019

At the 2019 RSA Conference, Pure Storage and Thales introduced Vormetric Transparent Encryption for Efficient Storage – the IT and security industries’ first end-to-end data encryption framework that realizes storage array data reduction. Storage Costs of Encrypted Data.

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Malvertising Is a Cybercrime Heavyweight, Not an Underdog

SecureWorld News

MARCH 29, 2024

The concept of the term "malvertising" (a portmanteau of "malicious advertising") suggests an overlap with ads, albeit dodgy ones, and therefore fuels the fallacy that its impact hardly goes beyond frustration. This interference is a major catalyst for double extortion that involves both a breach and data encryption.

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Researchers Quietly Cracked Zeppelin Ransomware Keys

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

He’d been on the job less than six months, and because of the way his predecessor architected things, the company’s data backups also were encrypted by Zeppelin. “We’ve found someone who can crack the encryption.” Then came the unlikely call from an FBI agent. “Don’t pay,” the agent said.

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AvosLocker ransomware now targets Linux systems, including ESXi servers

Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2022

AvosLocker is the latest ransomware that implemented the capability to encrypt Linux systems including VMware ESXi servers. AvosLocker expands its targets by implementing the support for encrypting Linux systems, specifically VMware ESXi servers, Bleeping computed reported. ” reported BleepingComputer. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Encryption – A Feasible Savior against Prevalent Privacy Issues in Business Communication

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2019

Even though encryption should be taken seriously by businesses of all sizes, only a small fraction of the corporate sector puts their back on it. Why is Encryption a Feasible Option against Digital Threats? Encryption plays an integral role in securing the online data as well as its integrity. Final Thoughts.

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What is End-to-End Encryption?

Dark Reading

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Many services advertise E2EE, but not all of them actually offer it.

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Victims of ThunderX ransomware can recover their files for free

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

Researchers developed a decryptor for the ransomware after they have discovered a bug in the encryption process implemented by the threat. This decryptor can recover for free files encrypted by the current version of the ThunderX ransomware that appends the .tx_locked tx_locked extension to the filename of the decrypted files.

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Police seize DoubleVPN data, servers, and domain

Malwarebytes

JUNE 30, 2021

A coordinated effort between global law enforcement agencies—led by the Dutch National Police—shut down a VPN service that was advertised on cybercrime forums. The VPN company promised users the ability to double- and triple-encrypt their web traffic to obscure their location and identity.

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Magniber ransomware gang now exploits Internet Explorer flaws in attacks

Bleeping Computer

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Magniber ransomware gang is now using two Internet Explorer vulnerabilities and malicious advertisements to infect users and encrypt their devices. [.].

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Breaking the Zeppelin Ransomware Encryption Scheme

UK Government to Launch PR Campaign Undermining End-to-End Encryption

Trending Sources

Google advertisements turning into malware spreading platforms

Ransomware hackers adopting Intermittent Encryption

Security of Solid-State-Drive Encryption

Ragnar Locker ransomware gang advertises Campari hack on Facebook

Ransomware Groups Turn to Intermittent Encryption to Speed Attack Times

Zoom now supports end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) calls

German encrypted email service Tutanota suffers DDoS attacks

Trojan Shield, the biggest ever police operation against encrypted communications

Security Analysis of Threema

IBM releases open-source toolkits implementing FHE to process data while encrypted

LockBit 2.0, the first ransomware that uses group policies to encrypt Windows domains

Snake Ransomware isolates infected Systems before encrypting files

Some Fortinet products used hardcoded keys and weak encryption for communications

Let’s Encrypt CA is revoking over 3 Million TLS certificates due to a bug

BLURtooth flaw allows attacking Bluetooth encryption process

Five Eyes nations plus India and Japan call for encryption backdoor once again

Ragnar Ransomware encrypts files from virtual machines to evade detection

Ryuk Ransomware evolution avoid encrypting Linux folders

Zoom Faces More Legal Challenges Over End-to-End Encryption

Consumer Watchdog Sues Zoom Over Encryption Statements

How to get back files encrypted by the Hacked Ransomware for free

Russian govn blocked Tutanota service in Russia to stop encrypted communication

Police credit “unlocked” SKY ECC encryption for organized crime bust

GCHQ implements World War II cipher machines in encryption app CyberChef

Sodinokibi ransomware uses MS API to encrypt open and locked files

Kr00k Wi-Fi Encryption flaw affects more than a billion devices

STOP ransomware encrypts files and steals victim’s data

Facebook spied on Snapchat users to get analytics about the competition

Sonicwall warns of a spike in the number of attacks involving encrypted malware and IoT malware

DeathRansom ransomware evolves encrypting files, but experts identified its author

Slack Launched Encryption Key Addon For Businesses

Mollitiam Industries is the Newest Cyberweapons Arms Manufacturer

Apple Mail stores parts of encrypted emails in plaintext DB

Guest Blog: End-to-End Data Encryption with Data Reduction from Thales & Pure Storage

Malvertising Is a Cybercrime Heavyweight, Not an Underdog

Researchers Quietly Cracked Zeppelin Ransomware Keys

AvosLocker ransomware now targets Linux systems, including ESXi servers

Encryption – A Feasible Savior against Prevalent Privacy Issues in Business Communication

What is End-to-End Encryption?

Victims of ThunderX ransomware can recover their files for free

Police seize DoubleVPN data, servers, and domain

Magniber ransomware gang now exploits Internet Explorer flaws in attacks

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