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Apple ordered to grant access to users’ encrypted data

Malwarebytes

Last week, an article in the Washington Post revealed the UK had secretly ordered Apple to provide blanket access to protected cloud backups around the world. The UK government has demanded to be able to access encrypted data stored by Apple users worldwide in its cloud service. This will list the devices with iCloud Backup turned on.

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Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups.

Krebs on Security

Browse the comments on virtually any story about a ransomware attack and you will almost surely encounter the view that the victim organization could have avoided paying their extortionists if only they’d had proper data backups. “It can be [that they] have 50 petabytes of backups … but it’s in a … facility 30 miles away.…

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Forging Australian Driver’s Licenses

Schneier on Security

This file is encrypted using AES-256-CBC encryption combined with Base64 encoding. A 4-digit application PIN (which gets set during the initial onboarding when a user first instals the application) is the encryption password used to protect or encrypt the licence data.

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Oops! Google accidentally deletes some users’ Maps Timeline data

Malwarebytes

If you have encrypted backups enabled, you may be able to restore your data. If you’re among those affected and you did have backups enabled, here’s how you can attempt to restore your data: Make sure you have the latest version of the Google Maps app installed on your device. Choose a backup to import your data.

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Technical Report of the Bezos Phone Hack

Schneier on Security

That file shows an image of the Saudi Arabian flag and Swedish flags and arrived with an encrypted downloader. Because the downloader was encrypted this delayed or further prevented "study of the code delivered along with the video.". That's where that state-sponsored malware is going to be found.

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Cloud Atlas seen using a new tool in its attacks

SecureList

Victims get infected via phishing emails containing a malicious document that exploits a vulnerability in the formula editor ( CVE-2018-0802 ) to download and execute malware code. It contains a formula editor exploit that downloads and runs an HTML Application (HTA) file hosted on the same C2 server.

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How to recover files encrypted by Yanlouwang

SecureList

Kaspersky experts have found a vulnerability in the Yanluowang encryption algorithm and created a free decryptor to help victims of this ransomware with recovering their files. Geography of the Yanluowang attacks, December 4th, 2021 – April 8th, 2022 ( download ). The encryption code for big files. Yanluowang description.