Security Boulevard

MAY 4, 2022

Elon Musk Wants End-to-End Encryption for Twitter Direct Messages: Too soon or Too Late? Twitter DMs should have end to end encryption like Signal, so no one can spy on or hack your messages,” Musk said in a tweet. E2EE encrypts data between a sender and receiver so that no third party can access it. brooke.crothers.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

A simple search could show you plenty. Type your name and address in a search bar and see what comes up. If you’re like most people, your search results turned up dozens of sites with your information on them. And maybe the search you did on yourself made you a little uneasy. All it takes is your name and address. .

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2022

For instance, the The Last Watchdog article you are reading uses a CMS to store posts, display them in an attractive manner, and provide search capabilities. Wikipedia uses a CMS for textual entries, blog posts, images, photographs, videos, charts, graphics, and “ talk pages ” that help its many contributors collaborate. Gierlinger.

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

In this blog I want to show you how you can operationalize the data linked to this alert in MVISION Insights together with your investigation and protection capabilities to better protect your organization against this threat. You can also use your Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) or SIEM solution to search for the presence of IOCs.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Google search results for “ FOR RESTORE SEND 0.1 Upon visiting their website webmasters have been met with an alarming message: SITE ENCRYPTED. Continue reading Fake Ransomware Infection Spooks Website Owners at Sucuri Blog. Starting this past Friday we have seen a number of websites showing a fake ransomware infection.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Every time you send a mobile payment, search for airline flight prices, or book a restaurant reservation - you are using an API. In this blog, we will explain the unique data security challenges for Telcos and three ways how both Thales and Red Hat can help them protect against future API attacks.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 23, 2023

Since the malware's obfuscation and encryption features have been recently documented by other researchers, we will focus on two of its web delivery methods, namely the use of malicious ads and search engine poisoning. The following search result appeared on Google: The domain advancedscanner[.]link

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 25, 2024

Many Google services, including Google search, are also either restricted or heavily censored in mainland China. In this blog post, we share more information about the malicious ads and payloads we have been able to collect. where searches are said to be uncensored. Malicious ads Visitors to google.cn

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 16, 2021

According to a statement and videos released today, the Ukrainian Cyber Police charged six defendants with various computer crimes linked to the CLOP gang, and conducted 21 searches throughout the Kyiv region. CLOP’s victim shaming blog on the deep web.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2023

On March 29th 2023, CrowdStrike published a blog outlining a supply chain attack leveraging the 3CXDesktopApp - a softphone application from 3CX. dll which contains the encrypted second stage payload. dll which contains a second stage encrypted payload. msi” which is signed on March 13, 2023. If it does, it exits.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 25, 2022

This blog will highlight the most recent changes to the ransomware and how Conti improved file encryption, introduced techniques to better evade security software, and streamlined the ransom payment process. Start encryption using the specified path as the root directory. Size parameter for large file encryption.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

Among those was the encrypted messaging app Signal , which said the breach could have let attackers re-register the phone number on another device for about 1,900 users. 12 blog post , the attackers used their access to Mailchimp employee accounts to steal data from 214 customers involved in cryptocurrency and finance.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 4, 2020

Since launching version 2 of Pwned Passwords with the k-anonymity model just over 2 years ago now, the thing has really gone nuts (read that blog post for background otherwise nothing from here on will make much sense). The anonymity value is that from my perspective running the service, all I know is that someone is searching for "21bd1".

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2022

Internet search engine Censys reported a new wave of DeadBolt ransomware attacks targeting QNAP NAS devices. Internet search engine Censys reported that QNAP devices were targeted in a new wave of DeadBolt ransomware attacks. Once encrypted the content of the device, the ransomware appends. Source DarkFeed Twitter.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Pervasive encryption: Most application and Internet traffic is now encrypted by default, making it much harder to secure the network from malicious traffic. Inspecting encrypted traffic adds significant latency—sometimes cutting application performance literally in half.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Threat actors have bought an advert that impersonates Cisco's brand and is displayed first when performing a Google search. We are releasing this blog to warn users about this threat as the malicious ad has been online for almost one week.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2022

SolarMarker is mainly delivered through search engine optimization (SEO) manipulation to trick users into downloading malicious documents. The SolarMarker backdoor communicates with the C2 server through the encrypted channel. The RAT is also used to deliver other malicious payloads on the infected devices. To nominate, please visit:?

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2022

It extends beyond the Deep & Dark Web to: unindexed Web forums, messaging boards, and marketplaces, encrypted messaging systems, and code repositories. Once vetted and accepted, threat hunters will go into these message boards and communities and search for anything connected to your business, for example: •Corporate login credentials.

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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.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Coyote does not implement any code obfuscation and only uses string obfuscation with AES encryption. Encrypted string table building To retrieve a specific string, it calls a decryption method with the string index as a parameter. The decryption method works by creating a table of base64-encoded data.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2022

NB65 extension to the encrypted file’s names. If you’re searching for someone to blame for your current situation look no further than Vladimir Putin,” reads the NB65 ransomware note shared by BleepingComputer. The experts noticed that unlike the original version of the Conti ransomware, NB65 version appends the.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 2, 2020

But it may also signal that ransomware purveyors are searching for new ways to profit from their crimes as victim businesses struggle just to keep the lights on during the unprecedented economic slowdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. . A partial screenshot from the REvil ransomware group’s Dark Web blog.

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Webroot

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

As the holiday season draws near, shoppers are eagerly searching for gifts online. Antivirus is a software program that is specifically designed to search, prevent, detect and remove software viruses before they have a chance to wreak havoc on your devices. Even businesses large and small are not immune to the dark forces at work.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Every time you send a mobile payment, search for airline flight prices, or book a restaurant reservation - you are using an API. In this blog, we will explain the unique data security challenges for Telcos and three ways how both Thales and Red Hat can help them protect against future API attacks.

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2022

.” Since January, DeadBolt ransomware operators are targeting QNAP NAS devices worldwide , its operators claim the availability of a zero-day exploit that allows them to encrypt the content of the infected systems. Once encrypted the content of the device, the ransomware appends. To nominate, please visit:? Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2022

BlackCat (aka ALPHV) Ransomware gang introduced an advanced search by stolen victim’s passwords, and confidential documents. They introduced an advanced search by stolen victim’s passwords, and confidential documents leaked in the TOR network. Additional info is available in the post published by Resecurity on its blog: [link].

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 4, 2021

There was no padlock, which meant that the traffic between you and the website wasn’t encrypted, and so it was vulnerable to being snooped on or changed. But random blogs? People would often say that it wasn’t really dangerous if blogs or information sites weren’t using HTTPS. Information portals? Not so much.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2022

The experts discovered that the attackers are hiding encrypted shellcode containing the next-stage malware as 8KB pieces in event logs. The dropper searches the event logs for records with category 0x4142 (“AB” in ASCII) and having the Key Management Service as a source. which contains Cobalt Strike and Silent Break.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

DLL search order hijacking method. One of the two files that are initially dropped uses the DLL search order hijacking technique to gain persistence. They all use the same search order to find a DLL. This file is the encrypted backdoor that gets decrypted and executed by the malicious version.dll. Stay safe, everyone!

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

Chatting with Snowden on an encrypted IM connection, I joked that the NSA cafeteria menu probably has code names for menu items. A technician from the Guardian got a search capability working while I was there, and I spent some time with it. Transferring files electronically is what encryption is for. Answer: your name.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2023

The instances of the Merdoor backdoor analyzed by the researchers only differ for the embedded and encrypted configuration, which includes C2 communication method, service details, and the installation directory. The experts reported that the backdoor is injected into the legitimate processes perfhost.exe or svchost.exe.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. With quantum computing looming in the not-so-distant future, the way that we think about encryption will need to evolve. However, the complex math behind creating encryption keys is no match for the power of quantum computers.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 13, 2023

During the past month, we have observed an increase in the number of malicious ads on Google searches for “Zoom”, the popular piece of video conferencing software. In this blog post, we chose to highlight two cases: Case #1 is about a new loader which we have not seen mentioned publicly before called HiroshimaNukes.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 21, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Some teams choose to use tags, so they are able to rapidly search for items. Encryption has become fundamental for data destinations and in passage. You will have to determine what storage system best aligns with your interests, needs, and the safety features you desire.

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The main goal of BlackMatter is to encrypt files in the infected computer and demand a ransom for decrypting them. BlackMatter searching for functions. Instead of searching for module names it will check for hashes precalculated with a ROT13 algorithm. The modules needed are “kernel32.dll” dll” and “ntdll.dll”.

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The main goal of BlackMatter is to encrypt files in the infected computer and demand a ransom for decrypting them. BlackMatter searching for functions. Instead of searching for module names it will check for hashes precalculated with a ROT13 algorithm. The modules needed are “kernel32.dll” dll” and “ntdll.dll”.

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Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2023

KeePass encrypts the data using a master key or master password that you need to provide in order to access the stored information. ” “The POC application searches the dump for these patterns and offers a likely password character for each position in the password.” ” reads the post published by the Vdohney.

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