Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2021

The FBI has issued an alert to warn about an increase in PYSA ransomware attacks on education institutions in the US and UK. The FBI has issued Tuesday an alert to warn about an increase in PYSA ransomware attacks against education institutions in the United States and the United Kingdom. locked to the filename of the encrypted files.

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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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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 ” concludes the report.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 27, 2022

The post BSidesTLV 2022 – Rani Hod’s ‘How Not To Encrypt Your Files’ appeared first on Security Boulevard. Our thanks to BSidesTLV for publishing their outstanding conference videos on the organization's YouTube channel.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2024

In particular, ransomware, which encrypts users’ data and demands a cryptocurrency ransom for their release or to avoid a dataleak, is becoming increasingly prevalent, causing financial and operational damage to individuals and businesses worldwide. Education improves awareness” is his slogan.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 5, 2021

A developer published via GitHub a proof-of-concept (POC) ransomware program featuring strong compatibility with the post-exploitation tool Cobalt Strike, open-source coding, and extensionless encryption. Another interesting feature: the ransomware doesn’t append extensions to the files it encrypts. Tracking the traction of new code.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Permalink The post USENIX Security ’23 – Domien Schepers, Aanjhan Ranganathan, Mathy Vanhoef – ‘Framing Frames: Bypassing Wi-Fi Encryption By Manipulating Transmit Queues’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2024

The Akira ransomware has been active since March 2023, the threat actors behind the malware claim to have already hacked multiple organizations in multiple industries, including education, finance, and real estate. The Akira ransomware operators implement a double extortion model by exfiltrating victims’ data before encrypting it.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 10, 2024

Permalink The post USENIX Security ’23 – Rosetta: Enabling Robust TLS Encrypted Traffic Classification in Diverse Network Environments with TCP-Aware Traffic Augmentation appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 31, 2022

Additionally, the Security BSides Dublin organization has slated their eponymous Security BSides Dublin 2022 confab at the The Convention Centre Dublin ( CCD ) on 2022/03/19. The post Security BSides Dublin 2021 – Rob Slade’s ‘Homomorphic Encryption’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Cybersecurity researchers from Kookmin University and the Korea Internet and Security Agency (KISA) discovered an implementation vulnerability in the source code of the Rhysida ransomware. Rhysida ransomware employed a secure random number generator to generate the encryption key and subsequently encrypt the data.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 19, 2022

Our thanks to Security BSides London for publishing their tremendous videos from the Security BSides London 2021 Conference on the organization’s YouTube channel. The post Security BSides London 2021 – Eva Summerfield’s ‘When Encryption Fails’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 13, 2021

Our thanks to Security BSides Dublin for publishing their outstanding videos on the organization's YouTube channel. The post Security BSides Dublin 2021 – Rob Slade’s ‘Homomorphic Encryption’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The ransomware was originally written in Go language and was employed in attacks aimed at healthcare and education sectors in countries like Thailand and Indonesia. The Rust variant has also been seen using intermittent encryption, one of the emerging tactics that threat actors use today for faster encryption and detection evasion.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The Vice Society ransomware group has adopted new custom ransomware, with a strong encryption scheme, in recent intrusions. SentinelOne researchers discovered that the Vice Society ransomware gang has started using a custom ransomware that implements a robust encryption scheme, using NTRUEncrypt and ChaCha20-Poly1305 algorithms.

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2023

“During the run, the ransomware generates a symmetric encryption key using CryptGenRandom() , which is the random number generator implemented by Windows CryptoAPI. Files are encrypted by Chacha 2008 ( D. “The symmetric key is encrypted by the RSA-4096 cipher and appended to the end of the encrypted file.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Our thanks to Security BSides Delaware for publishing their well-crafted videos from the Security BSides Delaware 2021 conference on the Organization’s’ YouTube channel. The post Security BSides Delaware 2021 – Rob Slade’s ‘Homomorphic Encryption’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 21, 2022

Become familiar with the standards that affect your industry, such as GDPR, CCPA, SOX, HIPAA, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS), Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) and Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA). Educate employees.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2024

The ransomware was involved in attacks aimed at technology and healthcare, defense contractors, educational institutions, manufacturers, companies across Europe, the United States, and Canada. To each encrypted file, it appends a randomized nine-digit hexadecimal number as an extension.

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Adam Shostack

AUGUST 5, 2018

Dan Geer, Chief Information Security Officer at In-Q-Tel; Lance J. LaPadula, Co-author of the Bell-LaPadula Model of Computer Security; and William Hugh Murray, Pioneer, Author and Founder of the Colloquium for Information System Security Education (CISSE). Congratulations to the 2016 winners !

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

Thus, it can be difficult for even small enterprises to keep up with information security and data privacy compliance. Sometimes, however, information security, data privacy, and IT compliance overall are people problems more than they are pure data problems. Security, Privacy and Compliance Can Conflict.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2023

The encryptor uses a combination of ECDH on Curve25519 (asymmetric encryption) and Chacha20 (symmetric encryption) to encrypt files. The researchers discovered that the samples contain a self-delete mechanism which is invoked once the victim’s device is encrypted. ” reads the analysis published by Uptycs.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In the early afternoon of Friday 12 May 2017, the media broke the news of a global computer security attack carried out through a malicious code capable of encrypting data residing in information systems and demanding a ransom in cryptocurrency to restore them, the Wannacry ransomware. Cryptolocker and exploit components.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2023

The principle behind the initiative is simple, ransomware actors initially gain access to the target organization, then they take some time before stealing or encrypting data. The time-lapse between initial access to a network and the encryption of the systems can last from hours to days. ” concludes the announcement.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 3, 2023

As we rely increasingly on digital technologies for our work, communication, entertainment, and education, we also expose ourselves to more and more cyber risks. Cyberattacks can devastate individuals, businesses, and even nations, affecting our privacy, security, and economy. How prepared are we to deal with them? million by 2022.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 16, 2023

These safeguards, when combined with adherence to security best practices and standards, establish a strong security architecture for public cloud environments. Data Encryption Public cloud providers implement strong encryption mechanisms to protect data at rest, and users should enable encryption for data in transit as well.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 23, 2022

Shifting Risk and Business Environment Demand creates a Shift in Security Strategies. The continued high ranking of cloud as a target demonstrates a lack of maturity in cloud data security with limited use of encryption, perceived or experienced multi-cloud complexity and the rapid growth of enterprise data. 2021 Report.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Lorimor’s ‘Whose Encryption Key Is This? It’s A Secret To Everybody’ appeared first on Security Boulevard. Our sincere thanks to BSidesLV for publishing their outstanding conference videos on the organization's YouTube channel.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2023

According to government experts, the Royal ransomware attacks targeted numerous critical infrastructure sectors including, manufacturing, communications, healthcare and public healthcare (HPH), and education. The Royal ransomware can either fully or partially encrypt a file depending on its size and the ‘-ep’ parameter.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2023

One of the encryptors developed by Lockbit, named ‘locker_Apple_M1_64’, can encrypt files of Mac systems running on the Apple silicon M1. The thesis is supported also by the presence in the encryptor of a list of sixty-five Windows file extensions and filenames that will be excluded from encryption.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 23, 2022

Breaching education. The data accessed by criminals, stretching from 2015 to 2019, included a variety of information potentially including: Name School CPS email Employee ID number Battelle for Kids username. All forms of education are an increasingly popular place to be for ransomware criminals. Encrypt and back it up.

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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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SC Magazine

MARCH 29, 2021

Similarly, companies need to have the assurance that their security team maintains the skills needed to protect systems and data. FINALIST | BEST PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION PROGRAM. labor market. FINALIST | BEST PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION PROGRAM.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The Akira ransomware has been active since March 2023, the threat actors behind the malware claim to have already hacked multiple organizations in multiple industries, including education, finance, and real estate. Like other ransomware gangs, the group has developed a Linux encryptor to target VMware ESXi servers.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2021

Harris Federation is a multi-academy trust of 50 primary and secondary academies in and around London educating more than 36,000 students. “A ransomware attack means that cyber-criminals have accessed our IT systems and encrypted, or hidden, their contents.” All the phone calls were being redirected to mobile phones.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2023

According to the “ The State of Ransomware in the US: Report and Statistics 2022 ” report published by Emsisoft, the number of ransomware attacks against government, education and healthcare sector organizations is quite similar to the number of attacks in previous years. which paid a $500,000 ransom. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2023

According to government experts, the Royal ransomware attacks targeted numerous critical infrastructure sectors including, manufacturing, communications, healthcare and public healthcare (HPH), and education. The Royal ransomware is written in C++, it infected Windows systems and deletes all Volume Shadow Copies to prevent data recovery.

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