Malwarebytes

APRIL 6, 2023

contains encrypted malicious code—meaning it cannot be read plainly. also contains two hard-coded download URLs, both served on the malicious domain infoamanewonliag[.]online. The same IP also hosts the illicit domain the payloads were downloaded from. Its purpose is to load another JS script called update.js

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 21, 2022

In October 2020, Formbook was rebranded as Xloader and some significant improvements were introduced, especially related to the command and control (C2) network encryption. Download and execute additional binaries. In this blog post, we perform a detailed analysis of Xloader’s C2 network encryption and communication protocol.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 28, 2022

The key observations are: Obfuscated Excel macros used to download and run the Emotet loader. Encrypted Emotet payload embedded in loader’s.rsrc section. Macro Downloads and Executes Emotet Loader. It then tries to execute the downloaded Emotet loader using regsvr32.exe Encrypted Emotet payload in the PE.rsrc section.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

New encryption routine Victims have reported a new variant of the encryptor that no longer leaves large chunks of data unencrypted. The decryption tool uses the large and therefore mostly non-encrypted flat files, where the virtual machine's disk data is stored, to recover the VMs. This makes recovery next to impossible.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2023

xyz pic.twitter.com/VLhISark8Y — Goldwave (@OGoldwave) March 13, 2023 The variant employed in the campaign supports a more sophisticated encryption method of byte remapping and a monthly rotation of the C2 server. #ViperSoftX is back, doesn't look like much has changed. c2 arrowlchat[.]com ” continues the report.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 20, 2021

Telegram made it official that it has offered a security fix to non-encrypted chats that were previously vulnerable to cyber attacks through manipulated bots. Although all messages are encrypted on Telegram, the MTProto encryption is not available by default, as users need to opt-in for the end-to-end encryption.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Royal Ransomware operators added support for encrypting Linux devices and target VMware ESXi virtual machines. The Royal Ransomware gang is the latest extortion group in order of time to add support for encrypting Linux devices and target VMware ESXi virtual machines. The malware changes the extension of the encrypted files to ‘.royal’.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

ESET researchers discovered a new downloader, dubbed DePriMon, that used new “Port Monitor” methods in attacks in the wild. . The new DePriMon downloader was used by the Lambert APT group, aka Longhorn, to deploy malware. The second stage installs itself and loads the third stage using an encrypted, hardcoded path.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 23, 2022

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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Krebs on Security

JUNE 23, 2021

When the ATM is no longer in use, the skimming device remains dormant, storing the stolen data in an encrypted format. ” Investigators wanted to look at the data stored on the shimmer, but it was encrypted. But the data dump from the shimmer was just encrypted gibberish.” THE DOWNLOAD CARDS.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Don't Encrypt Everything; Protect Intelligently. And though you likely cannot calculate exactly how much data your organization holds; you know it is going to be a big and costly problem to “Encrypt Everything.”. Encrypting everything is time intensive because of explosive data growth. Thu, 11/11/2021 - 09:30.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 4, 2021

percent of all malware detected on networks of WatchGuard Technologies customers in the second quarter came over encrypted connections, raising the security risk for the 80 percent of such organizations that lack processes for decrypting and scanning HTTPS traffic for threats. Malware in Encrypted Traffic. A surprising 91.5

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Threatpost

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Downloads of files like images may be banned if they use HTTP connections - even if they are available from an HTTPS website.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 26, 2022

Open Source Sabotage and Encryption Efficacy Emerge as Tactics in Ukraine Resistance. As a dependency, node-ipc is automatically downloaded and incorporated into other libraries, including ones that have over one million weekly downloads, according to Ars Technica. Ukrainians get serious about encryption. brooke.crothers.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

“What we discovered is that TeamTNT has been scanning for a misconfigured Docker Daemon and deploying alpine, a vanilla container image, with a command line to download a shell script (k.sh) to a C2 server (domain: whatwill[.]be “Breaking the cryptographic encryption is considered “Mission: Impossible”. be on IP 93[.]95[.]229[.]203).”

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Encryption Cybercrime Hacking Malware 96

Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2024

The attackers use the web shell to download and run the primary Cerber payload. As such, the data the ransomware is able to encrypt is limited to files owned by the confluence user. It will of course succeed in encrypting the datastore for the Confluence application, which can store important information.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Threat actors are distributing the GravityRAT remote access trojan masqueraded as an end-to-end encrypted chat application named SoSafe Chat. Threat actors are distributing the GravityRAT RAT masqueraded as an end-to-end encrypted chat application named SoSafe Chat. in) used by the attackers. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SiteLock

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

If you happen to visit a website that’s been compromised, your computer can quickly be infected by cyber criminals implementing a popular drive-by download attack. Here, we’ll look at what a drive-by download is, types of attacks, and how to stay protected this holiday season. What Is A Drive-By Download? Ransomware.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 22, 2021

If exploited, cyberattackers could bypass security products; install programs; view, change, encrypt or delete data; or create new accounts with more extensive user rights. Look for your printer here , and download the patch if there is one. It carries an 8.8 out of 10 rating on the CVSS scale, making it high-severity.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 25, 2024

BitLocker is a Windows security feature that encrypts entire drives. And the affected systems are very likely to have Device Encryption enabled. Keep threats off your devices by downloading Malwarebytes today. Some Windows users may see a BitLocker Recovery screen after applying the Microsoft patch Tuesday updates.

Encryption 81

Encryption Firmware Accountability Risk 81

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 1, 2021

Protecting Sensitive Data with Luna Key Broker for Microsoft Double Key Encryption. Thales has integrated its Luna HSMs with DKE for Microsoft 365, which work together to enable organizations to protect their most sensitive data while maintaining full control of their encryption keys. Thu, 04/01/2021 - 14:04.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2019

In the last weeks, the Cybaze -Yoroi ZLAB investigated a new APT28 campaign leveraging the Zepakab Downloader. Sha256 e6e93c7744d20e2cac2c2b257868686c861d43c6cf3de146b8812778c8283f7d Threat Zepakab/Zebrocy Downloader ssdeep 12288:QYV6MorX7qzuC3QHO9FQVHPF51jgcSj2EtPo/V7I6R+Lqaw8i6hG0:vBXu9HGaVHh4Po/VU6RkqaQ6F. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Hope yours has been amazing too, see you from home next week 😊 References LastPass has added an update re their recent security incident (if keychains have been downloaded - even fully encrypted ones - that's bad news) Personally, I quite like the public view count on all tweets (if you dislike it just purely because it was introduced (..)

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 21, 2022

China is mandating that athletes download and use a health and travel app when they attend the Winter Olympics next month. Citizen Lab examined the app and found it riddled with security holes.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2019

The Hacked Ransomware was first spotted in 2017, it appends.hacked extension to the encrypted files and includes ransom notes in Italian, English, Spanish, and Turkish. In 2018, the popular malware researcher Michael Gillespie discovered a weakness in the encryption process that allowed the expert to create a decryption tool.

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Encryption Hacking Ransomware Advertising 95

Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2019

. “When we first covered the DJVU variant of the STOP Ransomware being distributed by fake software cracks in January, we noted that when the malware was executed it would download various components that are used to perform different tasks on a victim’s computer.” ” reads a blog post published by Bleepingcomputer.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The attackers exploited the Log4Shell remote code execution vulnerability to download a.NET binary from a remote server that encrypts the files on the target machine and adds the extension.khonsari to each file. NOT MODIFY OR DELETE THIS FILE OR ANY ENCRYPTED FILES. IF YOU DO, YOUR FILES MAY BE UNRECOVERABLE.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 26, 2023

That is because the JS validator implements its own layer of encryption for C2 communications, using the NaCl library. The encryption algorithm used is based on public-key cryptography. Thus, to obtain the malicious attachment file, we had to retrieve two components: The ciphertext of the attachment; The AES key used to encrypt it.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 15, 2023

Simply download Dropblock today from the App Store or from the Google Play Store to get 5GB of secure blockchain storage for free. Dropblock uses patented data encryption and artificial intelligence (AI) technology, developed by Web3 data storage specialists, OmniIndex. How does Dropblock’s secure blockchain storage work?

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Xamalicious relies on social engineering to gain accessibility privileges, then it connects to C2 to evaluate whether or not to download a second-stage payload. The authors also implemented different obfuscation techniques and custom encryption to avoid detection.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 3, 2018

Large data scale breaches have led an increasing number of companies to embrace comprehensive encryption strategies to protect their assets. According to our 2018 Global Encryption Trends Study , 43% of respondents report that their organization has an encryption strategy they apply across the enterprise, compared with 15% in 2005.

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The Hacker News

MAY 19, 2023

The packages – named nodejs-encrypt-agent and nodejs-cookie-proxy-agent – were collectively downloaded approximately 1,200 times and were available for more than two months before they were identified and taken down. ReversingLabs, which broke

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2023

This then downloads the valid signed Malicious 3CX MSI installer and the Affected 3CX MAC Application as required in the form of an update package on the victim's machine as shown in the screenshot below. dll which contains the encrypted second stage payload. dll which contains a second stage encrypted payload.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The attack chain starts with a downloader module on a victim’s server in the form of a standalone executable format and a DLL. The DLL downloader is run by the Exchange IIS worker process w3wp.exe. Attackers used a modified EfsPotato exploit to target proxyshell and PetitPotam flaws as an initial downloader.

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The Hacker News

JANUARY 23, 2024

Two malicious packages discovered on the npm package registry have been found to leverage GitHub to store Base64-encrypted SSH keys stolen from developer systems on which they were installed.

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Encryption 81

NetSpi Technical

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The aim is to bypass traditional detections for file downloads on the wire, such as a HTTP(S) GET request to an external domain for /maliciousmacro.doc. The file now formatted back into its original and executable form, is presented to the user as though it was an ordinary file download. Golang is very easy to compile to Wasm.

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2023

ReversingLabs discovered two malicious packages, respectively named nodejs-encrypt-agent and nodejs-cookie-proxy-agent, in the npm package repository containing an open-source info-stealer called TurkoRat. The nodejs-encrypt-agent was discovered due to name and version discrepancies noticed by the researchers while scanning the repository.

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