CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 18, 2022

Last week the infosec community was hit with news about a new Windows 0-day vulnerability, Follina. Up-to-date endpoint protection and antivirus software on remote and in-office endpoints that can detect and remove malware that gets into the system. A reliable and comprehensive backup and recovery strategy.

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SecureList

MAY 19, 2023

Over the years, the infosec community has discovered multiple APTs operating in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict region – Gamaredon, CloudAtlas , BlackEnergy and many others. From the WmiPrvSE.exe process, it makes a backup of the VFS file, copying mods.lrc to mods.lrs.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 3, 2023

For example, if a connection to a corporate system originates from an unfamiliar computer or remote location, InfoSec tools may block this operation. Support for various types of backups, including forever incremental hypervisor backups and the full synthetic mode of data storage. What is preventing the rapid adoption of SDL?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 11, 2021

Ransomware campaigns such as WannaCry and Petya attacks made this malware type a top threat to all organizations worldwide. Preventing malware intervention is cheaper and easier than dealing with it once the invasion completes. Be it health care or information security, it reasonably attempts to take actions in advance.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 14, 2021

One look at all the ransomware attacks from the past few years, and it’s clear that crypto-malware actors are attempting to maximize their financial gain. We’ve observed these threat groups using multiple techniques to profit even more off their victims than in years past. Here are a few tactics that stood out to us.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 23, 2024

This concealed their attack until the environment was encrypted and backups were sabotaged. RansomHub offered an enticing deal, keeping just 10% of attack profits for malware developers and leaving affiliates with 90%. They further targeted the organization’s backup solutions, encrypting on-premises backups and deleting cloud backups.

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Pentester Academy

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

According to Microsoft : A highly evasive malware delivery technique that leverages legitimate HTML5 and JavaScript features, is increasingly used in email campaigns that deploy banking malware, remote access Trojans (RATs), and other payloads related to targeted attacks. Command: Step 5: The web server is all set.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The confidentiality, integrity, and availability of it all -- you know, the classic CIA triad in infosec. And that could be things like you said, like unpatched platforms where somebody could get on a device, or maybe even supply chain concerns where the vendor is hacked and there's malware preloaded on these devices.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The confidentiality, integrity, and availability of it all -- you know, the classic CIA triad in infosec. And that could be things like you said, like unpatched platforms where somebody could get on a device, or maybe even supply chain concerns where the vendor is hacked and there's malware preloaded on these devices.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The confidentiality, integrity, and availability of it all -- you know, the classic CIA triad in infosec. And that could be things like you said, like unpatched platforms where somebody could get on a device, or maybe even supply chain concerns where the vendor is hacked and there's malware preloaded on these devices.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

If you’re running edge detection, if your scanning your networks, even occasionally rebooting your servers these activities will remove some running malware, yet the bad actors somehow return and remain persistent. Stealth malware. Hence we talk alot about Advanced Persistent Threats. Special coding tricks?

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DoublePulsar

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Three of the victims are cybersecurity vendors, and I suspect they may have access to another larger infosec vendor that they haven’t disclosed. Even Wordpress backups, as apparently people build CRMs on Wordpress nowadays (I’m old). They will do light recon on the network for things like backup systems.

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Herjavec Group

JULY 20, 2021

Every month one of HG’s experts will provide advice and insights based on their extensive experience in the infosec industry. Ransomware” is a weaponized type of malware and viruses specially crafted by cybercriminals that uses encryption to lock up an organization’s critical information assets and sensitive data.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

She is an impressive force within the infosec world. Unlike other malware, ransom not only infected machines, it encrypted all the data, then asked for a ransom to decrypt them. Sometimes the decryption worked, sometimes it didn’t, creating headaches for system admins worldwide who didn’t have good backups in place.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

She is an impressive force within the infosec world. Unlike other malware, ransom not only infected machines, it encrypted all the data, then asked for a ransom to decrypt them. Sometimes the decryption worked, sometimes it didn’t, creating headaches for system admins worldwide who didn’t have good backups in place.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2022

They also had a piece of malware called killdisk position on the systems so that when the systems rebooted, it would kick off deleting all the files and deleting all the systems. It was a masterful piece of malware, carefully crafted to achieve a specific goal. Historically with InfoSec it's been Hey, the sky is falling.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

He also talks about his infosec journey hacking cryptocurrencies, joining the Digital Defense Service and CISA, and helping secure the 2020 presidential election… all before the age of 22. And he's right Ransomware is malware that blocks access to the data on a computer until a sum of money is paid. Would you use it?

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

He also talks about his infosec journey hacking cryptocurrencies, joining the Digital Defense Service and CISA, and helping secure the 2020 presidential election… all before the age of 22. And he's right Ransomware is malware that blocks access to the data on a computer until a sum of money is paid. Would you use it?

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