Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2025

Experts found a new version of the Banshee macOS information stealer which was enhanced with new evasion mechanisms. In August 2024, Russian crooks advertised a macOS malware called BANSHEE Stealer that can target both x86_64 and ARM64 architectures. The malicious code was advertised on cybercrime forums for $3,000 per month.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2025

“Typically, bot infections involve shell scripts that initially survey the target machine to determine its architecture and select the corresponding binary. The latest DVR-focused variant is also built on Mirai’s foundation but introduces new features like RC4 string encryption, anti-virtual machine checks, and anti-emulation tactics.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 21, 2021

If you are starting from scratch, you should identify what type of sensitive information you and your organization are in charge of safeguarding. To be data-centric, it is essential to understand where your data is being stored or where you will collect information. In addition, you should know how to quickly find this information.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

In a stunning blow to the city’s cybersecurity defenses, Columbus, Ohio, recently became the target of a massive cyberattack that exposed over half a million residents’ sensitive information. terabytes of sensitive information compromised, the breach affected approximately 500,000 residents, nearly 55% of the city’s population.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Servers are encrypted with “ locked” file extensions on files. You look for your cold replica in your DR site, but like your production servers, it has also been encrypted by ransomware. Your backups, the backup server, and all the backup storage — all encrypted by ransomware. Figure 1: Typical VLAN architecture.

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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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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

It was just a few short years ago that the tech sector, led by Google, Mozilla and Microsoft, commenced a big push to increase the use of HTTPS – and its underlying TLS authentication and encryption protocol. Related: Why Google’s HTTPS push is a good thing At the time, just 50 % of Internet traffic used encryption.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 4, 2024

To prevent anyone trying to disclose information about these channels and the fraudulent activity of their creators, the administrators disabled message forwarding, screenshots, and previews of these channels in the Telegram web-version. After that, the system reboots. Trojan.BAT.Agent.cix Trojan.BAT.Miner.id io gta-5rp.github[.]io/Windows/GTArp.zip

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 1, 2022

“Our team quickly triaged the report and determined the risk to partners to be minimal,” said Patrick Beggs , ConnectWise’s chief information security officer. ” However, LastPass maintains that its “customer passwords remain safely encrypted due to LastPass’s Zero Knowledge architecture.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2024

It first terminates processes with the same file extension as “FICORA” and then downloads and executes the malware targeting multiple Linux architectures. The malware’s configuration, including its C2 server domain and a unique string, is encrypted using the ChaCha20 algorithm. ” concludes the report.

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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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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Encryption scrambles data to make it unreadable to those without decryption keys. Proper use of encryption preserves secrecy and radically lowers the potential damage of a successful cybersecurity attack. Encryption algorithm types will provide an overview of the mathematical algorithms used to encrypt data (AES, RSA, etc.),

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SecureList

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The documents often contain information obtained from public websites, which is used to lure the victim into opening the file and believing it to be legitimate. It uses the CPUID instruction to obtain information about the processor manufacturer. App.dll starts by collecting information about installed endpoint security products.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 26, 2022

Even the most advanced and sophisticated security tools are failing to protect against ransomware and data exfiltration, according to a new report from data encryption vendor Titaniam. Raman says the emerging technology of choice to defend against data exfiltration and extortion attacks is encryption-in-use.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. LastPass disclosed that criminal hackers had compromised encrypted copies of some password vaults, as well as other personal information.

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) Expands The Zero Trust model, which focuses on verifying every person and device attempting to access a system, is gaining ground as a best practice in cybersecurity. Expect to see more investments in privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) such as encryption, anonymization, and data masking.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 16, 2025

Whether it's customer information, intellectual property, or operational insights, protecting data at rest, in motion, and in use is vital for data security. Centralized Key Management Across Any Environment Encryption is essential, but managing keys across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments is where many organizations struggle.

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SecureList

JANUARY 6, 2025

The backdoor retrieves the proxy host and port information for the current user by reading the registry key SoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionInternet SettingsProxyServer. Depending on the configuration, it may use the SCHANNEL security package, which supports SSL and TLS encryption on Windows. 0x07 Get information about drives.

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Fox IT

DECEMBER 10, 2024

One of the most popular requests has been the capability to use Dissect in combination with common disk encryption methods like Microsoft’s BitLocker or its Linux equivalent LUKS. Please check the updated documentation on the Dissect Docs page for more information. With the release of Dissect version 3.17

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SecureList

DECEMBER 18, 2024

uses Telegram as a platform to spread information about victims. A key factor in securing infrastructure is compliance with password-protection policies for access to the information security systems. Discovery At the infrastructure exploration stage, the attackers made active use of various commands to collect information.

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Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Experts in the fields of data protection and information security now look towards new technologies to make system access much more secure. If the encryption and decryption sequence is successful – when the private key fits into the public lock – the user is also the owner of the private key.

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2023

Experts warn of phishing attacks that are combining the use of compromised Microsoft 365 accounts and.rpmsg encrypted emails. Trustwave researchers have observed threat actors using encrypted RPMSG attachments sent via compromised Microsoft 365 accounts in a phishing campaign aimed at stealing Microsoft credentials.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2022

What about public information? The best practices for securing your CMS begin with these five low-hanging-fruit steps: •Make sure that your CMS platform’s access control and encryption features are turned on and configured correctly. or higher) encryption protocol, because systems using an older version of TLS are a security risk.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 31, 2025

The cyberthreat landscape of 2024 was rife with increasingly sophisticated threats, and encryption played a pivotal rolea staggering 87.2% billion attempted encrypted attacks, a clear demonstration of the growing risk posed by cybercriminals leveraging encryption to evade detection. of threats were hidden in TLS/SSL traffic.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 13, 2025

Similarly, the AI-assisted ransomware provided a high-level approach to encrypting files but lacked complete execution. Instead, security teams should prioritize behavioral analysismonitoring for unusual patterns such as unexpected file encryption, unauthorized persistence mechanisms, or anomalous network traffic.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 31, 2022

multiple encryption for C2 communication with ancient crypto algorithm. After infecting the target machine, the LODEINFO backdoor beacons out machine information to the C2, such as current time, ANSI code page (ACP) identifier, MAC address and hostname. XORed size of encrypted data. and v0.6.5, Timeline of LODEINFO releases.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Instead of using secure solutions like VPNs or Zero Trust architectures, many HMIs were directly connected to the internet, exposing them to attackers. Without strong authentication, authorization, and encryption, APIs can become additional entry points for attackers."

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SecureWorld News

MAY 21, 2025

refused to pay a $20 million ransom and instead offered the same amount as a bounty for information leading to the arrest of the hackers. In a bold response to a sophisticated insider-led data breach, Coinbase has turned the tables on cybercriminals who recently targeted the organization with ransomware.

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Cisco Security

APRIL 6, 2022

No one enjoys forking out gobs of money and spending sleepless implementation hours every few years in exchange for a shiny new box with largely the same architecture as the old one, save for maybe a slightly faster CPU. It’s All About Encryption. That said, some hardware upgrades are certainly worth it.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

.” The credentials exfiltrated by ModPipe allow operators to access database contents, including various definitions and configuration, status tables, and information about POS transactions. Other modules detailed by ESET are “ModScan 2.20,” that is used to collect additional information about the installed POS system (e.g.,

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

.” According to the experts, the attackers have good knowledge about the internal architecture of the targeted platform. To avoid detection of malicious functionalities, the authors encrypted all suspicious-looking strings with the Corrected Block TEA (XXTEA) cipher and then running Base64 encoding.

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SecureList

APRIL 17, 2025

Each of these new implants is developed in its own way, and as a result gets its own destiny while the use of some malware families is reported for decades, information about others disappears after days, months or several years. This file is encrypted with a single-byte XOR and is loaded at runtime.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 2, 2025

Attackers are not only encrypting data but also engaging in "double extortion," stealing sensitive patient information to demand higher ransoms. This reality is driving demand for IoT security solutions, cloud security posture management, and zero-trust network architectures to secure an ever-widening perimeter.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2025

Attackers exploit weak links in international data exchange systems to compromise critical infrastructure and access sensitive information. One of the most effective PETs is encryption, which secures data during transmission and storage, preventing unauthorized access.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The main reasons to rewrite malware in Rust is to have lower AV detection rates, compared to malware written in most common languages, and to target multiple architectures. The Rust variant has also been seen using intermittent encryption, one of the emerging tactics that threat actors use today for faster encryption and detection evasion.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2024

The Akira ransomware operators implement a double extortion model by exfiltrating victims’ data before encrypting it. Earlier versions of the ransomware were written in C++ and the malware added the.akira extension to the encrypted files. “Akira threat actors utilize a sophisticated hybrid encryption scheme to lock data.

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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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