SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Recent progress has sparked discussions, but current capabilities are still far from threatening encryption standards like 2048-bit RSA. It is essential to understand the risks posed by quantum computing, as future advancements could compromise today's encrypted data, opening new opportunities for threat actors.

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Joseph Steinberg

JULY 20, 2022

There is little doubt that quantum computing will ultimately undermine the security of most of today’s encryption systems , and, thereby, render vulnerable to exposure nearly every piece of data that is presently protected through the use of encryption. Such an attitude is not alarmist – it is reality, whether we like it or not.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 16, 2021

The most pervasive wisdom about preventing damage from ransomware is to backup systems, but that alone may not be enough. The most pervasive wisdom about preventing damage from ransomware is to backup systems. So in an era of increased concern about ransomware, is solving the ransomware scourge as simple as investing in some backups?

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Backup has in some sense always been about the security of data. In the event of a data loss or disaster, you could turn to your backup to retrieve the data. But these days, backup must do much more. “Or worse, what if your multiple copies or backups are also all bad?” Key Features of Ransomware Backup.

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The Hacker News

AUGUST 12, 2022

Social media company Meta said it will begin testing end-to-end encryption (E2EE) on its Messenger platform this week for select users as the default option, as the company continues to slowly add security layers to its various chat services. "If

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 8, 2019

No matter how reliant we ultimately become on cloud storage and streaming media, it’s hard to image consumers ever fully abandoning removable storage devices. Related: Marriott reports huge data breach Ever thought about encrypting the data held on a portable storage device? Jay Kim, co-founder and CEO DataLocker, did.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 28, 2022

Some of the new trends in data crimes, such as data leak, threat of data exposure and shaming techniques have ignited the media attention, though other, potentially even more devastating are still not widely discussed, which we’ll attempt to correct here. Breaking The Myths: Storage, Backup, And Data Recoverability.

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Spinone

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

When someone asks you about the best ransomware protection , the first thing you’ll probably come up with is a backup. After all, backup is the only security practice that actually can get your infected data back. Ransomware can infect backups. Can Ransomware Encrypt Backups? But there is a problem.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Business media assets have become exceptionally valuable intellectual property for brands in recent years. Data breaches that compromise proprietary media content can be financially frustrating at best, and completely shatter an organization's reputation at worst. What are digital media assets?

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Social media misuse. Its a top-end, true all-in-one offering based on a new platform that combines antivirus, password manager, identity protection, VPN, backup, and parental controls. This is where data encryption and automated backups come in. Changes that you make on your files are reflected in the backup ones.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 9, 2019

A great many iNSYNQ’s customers are accountants, and when the company took its network offline on July 16 in response to the ransomware outbreak, some of those customers took to social media to complain that iNSYNQ was stonewalling them. “For these infections hackers take sometimes days, weeks, or even months to encrypt your data.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Then came another call, this one allegedly from security personnel at Trezor , a company that makes encrypted hardware devices made to store cryptocurrency seed phrases securely offline. “No one gets arrested,” Daniel enthused to Junseth in the May 7 podcast, which quickly went viral on social media.

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Security Affairs

JULY 16, 2019

Media File Jacking – Security researchers at Symantec demonstrated how to manipulate media files that can be received via WhatsApp and Telegram Android apps. “The security flaw, dubbed “Media File Jacking”, affects WhatsApp for Android by default, and Telegram for Android if certain features are enabled.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. CISA adds Windows and Qualcomm bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Three new Ivanti CSA zero-day actively exploited in attacks Ukrainian national pleads guilty in U.S.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 1, 2025

Whereas early phishing scams arrived almost entirely through emails, modern phishing scams can reach victims through malicious websites, text messages, social media, and even mobile app downloads. Social media account hacks are not only a risk to content creatorstheyre a risk to any business with a legitimate online audience.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 2, 2025

GB in a non-password-protected nor encrypted, but publicly exposed database. ” Keep your children safe from nudify services We’ve seen many cases where social media and other platforms have used the content of their users to train their AI. It may continue to exist in caches, backups, and snapshots.

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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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Webroot

APRIL 11, 2025

Phishing emails and text messages: Phishing schemes can happen through emails, texts or social media. Warning signs of tax scams Unexpected communications claiming to be from IRS: The IRS will never ask for sensitive information or payment via email, phone, text or social media. mail only , never by phone, text or email!

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2021

Last month, a security researcher showed how easy it was to abuse services aimed at helping celebrities manage their social media profiles to intercept SMS messages for any mobile user. So remove the phone number as a backup for your email account, and ensure a more robust second factor is selected for all available account recovery options.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2021

(QNAP), a leading computing, networking and storage solution innovator, today issued a statement in response to recent user reports and media coverage that two types of ransomware (Qlocker and eCh0raix) are targeting QNAP NAS and encrypting users’ data for ransom. ” read the advisory published by the vendor.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Secure backup Keeps your critical files safe from data loss or ransomware attacks. Browser protection Keeps you safe while you browse and shop online, surf the web, and connect on social media. From online shopping and banking to remote work and social media, most of us spend a significant portion of our lives connected.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2023

A new ransomware strain named Rorschach ransomware supports the fastest file-encrypting routine observed to date. The researchers conducted five separate encryption speed tests in a controlled environment (with 6 CPUs, 8192MB RAM, SSD, and 220000 files to be encrypted), limited to local drive encryption only.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 23, 2024

dat Encrypted VBShower backdoor AppCache028732611605321388.log:AppCache0287326116053213889292.vbs Sample VBShower Cleaner content VBShower::Backdoor The backdoor’s payload is contained encrypted within a DAT file. Encrypted VBShower backdoor VBShower::Launcher goes through several stages to decrypt the backdoor.

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Errata Security

JANUARY 28, 2020

The report says: analysis revealed that the suspect video had been delivered via an encrypted downloader host on WhatsApp’s media server. Due to WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption , the contents of the downloader cannot be practically determined. Now let's talk about "end-to-end encryption".

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 1, 2021

A recently disclosed FBI training document shows how much access to the content of encrypted messages from secure messaging services US law enforcement can gain and what they can learn about your usage of the apps. All of them are messaging apps that promise end-to-end encryption for their users. Pen Register: No capability.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

In this episode, we discuss the UK governments demand for Apple to create a secret backdoor for accessing encrypted iCloud backups under the Investigatory Powers Act and its potential global implications on privacy.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2021

Multiple media, citing people familiar with the matter, reported that the company had initially refused to pay the ransom. The New York Rime reported that Colonial Pipeline paid the hackers almost $5 million worth of cryptocurrency to receive a decryption key that allowed it to restore the encrypted files. ” reported the NYT.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 12, 2022

Screens then started to display a ransom demand, which said files had been encrypted by the NetWalker ransomware virus. Tony Mendoza, Senior Director of Enterprise Business Solutions at Spectra Logic, laid out the details of the attack at the annual Fujifilm Recording Media USA (FRMA) Conference in San Diego late last month.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Data backup. The first is high-integrity, air-gapped data backups , which is the quickest and cheapest way to recover from an attack. The focus is on recovering deleted and encrypted files as quickly as possible. Also offers virtual disk repair, database repair, backup file repair, deleted file recovery. Proven Data.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Publicly releasing data- Most of the ransomware gangs like REvil and Conti first steal data from the victim database and then lock it down with encryption until a ransom is paid; to pressurize the victim with the threat of releasing the stolen data on the dark web.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Once gained the foothold in the target network, the attackers will attempt lateral movements to elevate the privileges and search for high-value machines to encrypt (i.e. backup servers, network shares, servers, auditing devices). PowerShell) to easily deploy tooling or ransomware.

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Spinone

MARCH 6, 2020

Ransomware threat continues to grow, and ransomware strains like Ryuk and Sodinokibi prove that even backups can be attacked and encrypted. Let’s find out when ransomware can infect backups and, more importantly, how to ensure backup data is safe from ransomware. When Can Backups Become Infected?

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In traditional on-site backup systems security is mainly a physical concern – ensuring data is backed up in more than one location in case of hardware loss or failure and restricting access to the physical backup media to only trusted employees. In cloud backup, security concerns are different.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The government says Snatch used a customized ransomware variant notable for rebooting Microsoft Windows devices into Safe Mode — enabling the ransomware to circumvent detection by antivirus or endpoint protection — and then encrypting files when few services are running. Details after contacting on jabber: truniger@xmpp[.]jp.”

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

That’s a crazy long time for an independent media outlet these days, but then again I’m bound to keep doing this as long as they keep letting me. Tank, seen here performing as a DJ in Ukraine in an undated photo from social media. KrebsOnSecurity turns 13 years old today. ” SEPTEMBER.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 5, 2022

The media paid close attention to ransomware attacks last year, as they had a significant impact on Colonial Pipeline, the nation’s largest fuel distributor, and JBS, the nation’s largest meat distributor. Back up your data and secure your backups in an offline location. I think you may have heard of it, isn’t the news full of it?

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