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QNAP data storage devices hit by a massive ransomware campaign

CyberSecurity Insiders

To all those who are using QNAP storage devices for backup or file sharing purposes, here’s an alert that needs your attention. It is learnt that the massive file encrypting malware campaign started on April 19th,2021 when victims took help of the technology forums to know more about the ransomware. BTC for each file.

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Security Blueprints of Many Companies Leaked in Hack of Swedish Firm Gunnebo

Krebs on Security

In August, Gunnebo said it had successfully thwarted a ransomware attack, but this week it emerged that the intruders stole and published online tens of thousands of sensitive documents — including schematics of client bank vaults and surveillance systems. He declined to comment on the particulars of the extortion incident.

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SHARED INTEL: Threat actors add a human touch to boost effectiveness of automated attacks

The Last Watchdog

They’ll take more manual steps to encrypt servers, exfiltrate data – or do both. And then, instead of encrypting one or two or ten machines, they’ll encrypt everything.” Next, they encrypted servers in the most painful way possible, thus motivating companies to pay tens of thousands of dollars for a decryption key.

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IaaS Security: Top 8 Issues & Prevention Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

Breaking Encryption Encryption is a key security solution for both at-rest and in-transit data protection. Vulnerabilities in encryption techniques, on the other hand, or bad key management policies, might expose data to prospective intrusions. Attackers may try to exploit these flaws to decode and access sensitive data.

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Top 10 Malware Strains of 2021

SecureWorld News

ForrmBook is capable of key logging and capturing browser or email client passwords, but its developers continue to update the malware to exploit the latest Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVS), such as CVE-2021-40444 Microsoft MSHTML Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. physically disconnected) backups of data. Enforce MFA.

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Privacy predictions 2022

SecureList

Citizens, for their part, are increasingly concerned with surveillance capitalism , a lack of anonymity and dependence on online services. Facebook (now Meta) moved towards more privacy for its users as well, providing end-to-end encrypted backups in WhatsApp and removing the facial recognition system in its entirety from Facebook.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Never Mess With A Hacker

ForAllSecure

In a moment I’ll share a couple of travel stories from a well-known hacker, one who took creepy surveillance technology and flipped it around. Sometimes you can use surveillance tools in your favor. First, he encrypts confidential data on his hard drive then transmits the encrypted files to secure cloud servers around the world.