Pen Test Partners

OCTOBER 31, 2023

With the default configuration of these printers, it’s possible to retrieve these credentials in an encrypted format without authenticating to the printer. A vulnerability in the encryption process of these credentials means that you can decrypt them with responses from the web interface. This is the IV for the encryption algorithm.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Overview Recently, we decided to perform some reverse engineering of the SonicWall NSv appliance to identify any potential remote code execution vulnerabilities within the appliance. We were able […] The post Analyzing the SonicWall Custom Grub LUKS Encryption Modifications appeared first on Praetorian.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

North Korea-linked Lazarus group is using new KandyKorn macOS Malware in attacks against blockchain engineers. North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group were spotted using new KandyKorn macOS malware in attacks against blockchain engineers, reported Elastic Security Labs. ” reads the report. ” concludes the report.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The post AI and Quantum Computing Threaten Encryption and Data Security appeared first on Security Boulevard. The combination of AI and quantum computing in the wrong hands are enough of a security concern to give pause to even the most experienced technologists.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2023

Researchers detailed a fully undetectable (FUD) malware obfuscation engine named BatCloak that is used by threat actors. Researchers from Trend Micro have analyzed the BatCloak, a fully undetectable (FUD) malware obfuscation engine used by threat actors to stealthily deliver their malware since September 2022. and FileObfuscation.cs.

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Heimadal Security

MARCH 1, 2023

As a result of another attack on LastPass’s systems, the company disclosed a severe data breach in December 2022 that allowed threat actors to access encrypted password vaults.

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The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

LastPass, which in December 2022 disclosed a severe data breach that allowed threat actors to access encrypted password vaults, said it happened as a result of the same adversary launching a second attack on its systems.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 16, 2024

Stop Ransomware in its Tracks With CipherTrust Transparent Encryption Ransomware Protection madhav Wed, 04/17/2024 - 05:22 Our last blog Ransomware Attacks: The Constant and Evolving Cybersecurity Threat described the ever dangerous and evolving cybersecurity threat of ransomware. Because ransomware does not care about your data.

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The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The first-ever Linux variant of the Clop ransomware has been detected in the wild, but with a faulty encryption algorithm that has made it possible to reverse engineer the process.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Microsoft announced that its Microsoft Defender for Endpoint helped to block a large-scale hacking campaign carried out by Akira ransomware operators (tracked by Microsoft as Storm-1567) The attack took place in early June 2023 and aimed at an industrial engineering organization.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

To accelerate the ransomware encryption process and make it harder to detect, cybercriminal groups have begun using a new technique: intermittent encryption. Intermittent encryption allows the ransomware encryption malware to encrypt files partially or only encrypt parts of the files. Others are automated.

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SecureList

APRIL 18, 2022

Kaspersky experts have found a vulnerability in the Yanluowang encryption algorithm and created a free decryptor to help victims of this ransomware with recovering their files. This is necessary to make files used by other programs available for encryption. The encryption code for big files. Yanluowang description.

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The Hacker News

JULY 24, 2023

Most modern consumer messaging platforms (including Google Messages) support end-to-end encryption, but users today are limited to communicating with contacts who use the same platform," Giles Hogben, privacy engineering

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 16, 2024

Stop Ransomware in its Tracks With CipherTrust Transparent Encryption Ransomware Protection madhav Wed, 04/17/2024 - 05:22 Our last blog Ransomware Attacks: The Constant and Evolving Cybersecurity Threat described the ever dangerous and evolving cybersecurity threat of ransomware. Because ransomware does not care about your data.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The hackers rely heavily on social engineering tactics to distribute the malware. Education on verifying app downloads, MFA, advanced threat detection, encrypted communications, and tighter mobile device management controls can all contribute to protecting users.

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

It’s known as “intermittent encryption” and researchers from Sophos recently discovered Lockfile encrypts alternate bundles of 16 bytes in a document to stay hidden. This novel approach helps the ransomware to avoid triggering a red flag because the new encryption method looks statistically very similar to the unencrypted original.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Researchers found several vulnerabilities in third-party encryption software that is used by multiple storage devices from major vendors. Researcher Sylvain Pelissier has discovered that the DataVault encryption software made by ENC Security and used by multiple vendors is affected by a couple of key derivation function issues.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2021

Recently emerged LockFile ransomware family LockFile leverages a novel technique called intermittent encryption to speed up encryption. Sophos researchers discovered that the group is now leveraging a new technique called “intermittent encryption” to speed up the encryption process.

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SecureList

MARCH 9, 2023

At least two different stealers, Rhadamanthys and RedLine, were abusing the search engine promotion plan in order to deliver malicious payloads to victims’ machines. Threat actors then pay to promote the website in the search engine in order to push it to the top search results. 114/docs/[RandomChars].txt.

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SecureList

APRIL 18, 2022

Kaspersky experts have found a vulnerability in the Yanluowang encryption algorithm and created a free decryptor to help victims of this ransomware with recovering their files. This is necessary to make files used by other programs available for encryption. The encryption code for big files. Yanluowang description.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 1, 2022

One of the new features he hopes to add to Twitter, sooner rather than later, is end-to-end encryption for direct messages (DMs). During the meeting, Musk also mentioned Signal, the encrypted chat app that is run as a non-profit. He says he spoke with the company's creator, Moxie Marlinspike, who is "potentially willing to help out.".

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Hiring Data Recycling Security Engineers Smart? Organizations today still have a massive problem with phishing attacks, ransomware, account takeaways, and social engineering. Enabling DLP and encryption on every outbound email would be a fantastic place to help stop data exfiltration. Being secure is everything! Probably not.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 8, 2021

Intel Labs announced an initiative funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to create hardware that accelerates how computers process homomorphic encryption. Homomorphic encryption addresses a weakness in normal encryption – that being, the need for data to be decrypted before a computer can perform operations.

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Dark Reading

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Cryptocurrency apps were the most high risk for exposing sensitive information, a reverse-engineering study shows.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 7, 2018

Last month, Wired published a long article about Ray Ozzie and his supposed new scheme for adding a backdoor in encrypted devices. The public key goes into the processor and the device, and is used to encrypt whatever user key encrypts the data. It's a weird article. Writing in Lawfare, Alan Z.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 17, 2022

The value of Key Rotation and Re-encryption. To meet various compliance requirements and reduce the risk of your most sensitive data getting compromised you may want to consider changing the encryption key used to protect this data. Thales refers to this changing of encryption keys as “Key rotation” or “Rekey”. Re-encryption.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 4, 2022

Researchers have found a major encryption flaw in 100 million Samsung Galaxy phones. We reversed-engineered and provide a detailed description of the cryptographic design and code structure, and we unveil severe design flaws. The post Samsung Encryption Flaw appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A new Linux variant of the Clop ransomware has been observed in the wild, the good news is that its encryption algorithm is flawed. The researchers noticed that the encryption algorithm implemented in the ELF executable is flawed and can allow victims to decrypt locked files without paying a ransom. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2022

Hive ransomware operators have improved their file-encrypting module by migrating to Rust language and adopting a more sophisticated encryption method. The most important change in the latest Hive variant is the encryption mechanism it adopts. ” reads the post published by Microsoft. ” continues Microsoft. .

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 22, 2022

So You Think You Are Protected With Cloud Native Encryption? Segregation of duties applies also to how you handle encryption and cryptographic key management for protecting your sensitive data stored in cloud storage such as the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes. Understanding encryption in Amazon EBS.

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Security researchers have found a way to extract a global encryption key that was hardcoded in the CPUs of several Siemens programmable logic controller (PLC) product lines, allowing them to compromise their secure communications and authentication.

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Adam Shostack

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

I’ve signed onto a letter to the European Commission on end to end encrypted communications.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 19, 2023

In this blog, we’ll tackle encrypting AWS in transit and at rest. This can occur due to data leakage through faulty apps or systems, by laptops or portable storage devices being lost, by malicious actors breaking through security defenses, by social engineering attacks, or by data being intercepted in man-in-the-middle attacks.

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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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Identity IQ

JUNE 1, 2023

The Rise of AI Social Engineering Scams IdentityIQ In today’s digital age, social engineering scams have become an increasingly prevalent threat. Social engineering scams leverage psychological manipulation to deceive individuals and exploit the victims’ trust. This was a 3% increase compared to the previous year.

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Fox IT

OCTOBER 12, 2021

This blog will be a technical deep-dive into CyberArk credential files and how the credentials stored in these files are encrypted and decrypted. I discovered it was possible to reverse engineer the encryption and key generation algorithms and decrypt the encrypted vault password. Introduction.

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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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