Approachable Cyber Threats

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Let’s first look at how companies store passwords. When you set a password on a website, the company puts it through an encryption algorithm. For example, if your password was “hello” it might be stored as 2cf24dba5fb0a30e26e83b2ac5b9e29e1b161e5c1fa7425e73043362938b9824 and if your password was “Helloworld!”

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

alerted customers to the incident, disabling security questions and forcing them to take a mulligan on their passwords—requiring a reset of passwords for all accounts. and action required in relation to your account password with our Callaway, Odyssey, Ogio, and/or Callaway Golf Preowned sites.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2020

CERT France is warning of a new wave of attacks using Pysa ransomware (Mespinoza) that is targeting local governments. CERT France cyber-security agency is warning about a new wave of ransomware attack that is targeting the networks of local government authorities. locked to the filename of the encrypted files.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

The government says Urban went by the aliases “ Sosa ” and “ King Bob ,” among others. Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication. A booking photo of Noah Michael Urban released by the Volusia County Sheriff. According to an Aug.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 27, 2021

In the latest example of a supply chain attack, cybercriminals delivered malware to customers of the business password manager Passwordstate by breaching its developer’s networks and then deploying a fraudulent update last week, said Passwordstate’s maker, Click Studios.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 17, 2021

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a flash alert warning of an increase in PYSA ransomware attacks targeting government entities, educational institutions, private companies and the healthcare sector in the US and the UK. Implement network segmentation.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 7, 2021

The first few entries talked about architectural details , Cryptographically Secure Random Number Generators , encryption/decryption , and message digests. Password being such a central piece of any authentication-based system, every developer would be involved with it at some point in his or her career. Later we looked at What???s

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

It seems like not a day goes by where we don’t hear about a local government cyberattack. Indeed, from 911 call centers to public schools , cyberattacks on local governments are as common as they are devastating. Just how often do threat actors attack local governments? said daily. said daily. Table of Contents.

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Adam Levin

AUGUST 31, 2018

Air Canada is advising customers to reset their passwords on their mobile application after detecting a potential data breach of customer records. million users to reset their passwords. “We Due to the large volume, some customers may experience a delay in the process to change their passwords,” the airline added. 22-24, 2018.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 11, 2024

Mercenary spyware is used by governments to target people like journalists, political activists, and similar targets, and involves the use of sophisticated tools like Pegasus. While the NSO Group claims to only sell to “government clients,” we have no reason to take its word for it. Use strong and unique passwords online.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 25, 2024

The NCSC expects that by 2025, GenAI and large language models (LLMs) will make it difficult for everyone, regardless of their cybersecurity posture, to assess whether an email or password reset request is genuine, or to identify phishing, spoofing, or other social engineering attempts. Stop malicious encryption.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 12, 2023

A data breach typically means the company must notify customers and local law enforcement, often government agencies like the FTC, or Health and Human Services, or others. Ransomware uses encryption (typically a good thing) to make your business information un-available. still available for you to use.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 6, 2019

Ten years ago, I could have given you all sorts of advice about using encryption, not sending information over email, securing your web connections, and a host of other things­ -- but most of that doesn't matter anymore. Don't reuse passwords for anything important -- ­and get a password manager to remember them all.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 23, 2021

In an April 23 blog , the firm claimed to have digital evidence that Australian company ClickStudios suffered a breach, sometime between April 20 and April 22, which resulted in the attacker dropping a corrupted update to its password manager Passwordstate. The malicious code tries to contact [a URL] in order to retrieve a encrypted code.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 24, 2018

This is why you need to install one of the below encrypted messaging apps and encrypted calling apps. Signal This is an end-to-end encrypted voice calling iPhone encryption app. Created by the open-source encryption software group Open Whisper Systems, the app also offers end-to-end encrypted text messaging.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2022

While no plaintext passwords or financial data was stolen, the hack did expose answers to security questions. Experts believe Yahoo was using outdated, easy-to-crack encryption, which led to the attack. The attack is a good reminder of how critical strong encryption is in protecting your website users. government agencies.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The disclosure comes almost a year after Citrix acknowledged that digital intruders had broken in by probing its employee accounts for weak passwords. It is perhaps best known for selling virtual private networking (VPN) software that lets users remotely access networks and computers over an encrypted connection.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 5, 2022

The Chinese government is well known for its censorship– and frequent harassment and intimidation of foreign journalists. ’ This firewall even goes as far as to block the latest versions of the encryption service TLS (v1.3) Password leaks are commonplace. Employees often reuse passwords between other services and accounts.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 11, 2018

For example, many instant-messaging services now encrypt messages by default. Although encryption can help secure your data, it may also prevent law enforcement agencies from protecting your data. Encryption serves a valuable purpose. I support strong and responsible encryption. We know encryption can include safeguards.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2021

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued an alert to warn that the Mamba ransomware is abusing the DiskCryptor open source tool to encrypt entire drives. Mamba ransomware is one of the first malware that encrypted hard drives rather than files that was detected in public attacks. ” reads the alert published by the FBI.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2021

Among many other benefits, a VPN encrypts these files and keeps the online activity private by masking a user’s real IP address. Here are the different ways in which a VPN elevates cybersecurity: Encryption. Encryption technology in VPNs helps conceal the user’s data. Wi-Fi encryption. Anti-malware/ phishing.

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Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

No matter how many letters, numbers, or special characters you give them and no matter how many times you change them, passwords are still @N0T_FUN! Using strong passwords and a password manager 2. Past When the use of passwords began, they were a “good enough” method to control user access to digital systems.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 5, 2024

Strong encryption protects data securely from unauthorized access, but the specific algorithms that qualify as strong encryption change over time as computing power increases and researchers develop new ways to break encryption. What Makes an Encryption Algorithm Strong?

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Encryption uses mathematical algorithms to transform and encode data so that only authorized parties can access it. What Encryption Is and How It Relates to Cryptology The science of cryptography studies codes, how to create them, and how to solve them. How Does Encryption Process Data? How Does Encryption Process Data?

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The username, password, user’s IP address and current timestamp are stored in a file at C:WindowsTempaf397ef28e484961ba48646a5d38cf54.db.ses. Then the result of the command is encrypted and returned to the operator. Most of the victims were government organizations in Malaysia, Mongolia, Indonesia, and the Philippines.

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Zigrin Security

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Espionage and Political Motives In some cases, hackers may target organizations or governments for espionage or political reasons. State-sponsored hacking is a growing concern, with governments using cyberattacks to gather intelligence, disrupt infrastructure, or compromise national security.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Apple's messaging app, iMessage, already uses end-to-end encryption so that messages can only be read by the sender and recipients. In what can be considered another step towards a password-less future , Security Keys for Apple ID will give users the choice to use third-party hardware security keys. 3 new features.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

An unknown threat actor is targeting government organizations with the PureCrypter downloader, Menlo Security firm reported. Menlo Labs researchers uncovered an unknown threat actor is using the PureCrypter downloader in attacks aimed at government entities. The malware uses an XOR algorithm to encrypt its config file.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 4, 2021

In two of the intrusions, the attackers made off with the forums’ user databases, including email and Internet addresses and hashed passwords. On Tuesday, someone dumped thousands of usernames, email addresses and obfuscated passwords on the dark web apparently pilfered from Mazafaka (a.k.a. ” On Feb.

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Hacker Combat

APRIL 6, 2022

Ransomware attacks targeting governments, businesses, hospitals, and private individuals are rising. You are neither safe on your private nor public network, as ransomware can encrypt your files and hold them hostage. When you open an infected file that seemingly appears safe, ransomware executes its process by encrypting data.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 16, 2022

In February 2019, a threat actor was able to access millions of email addresses and passwords. The passwords are said to have been protected by “weak encryption”, an absolute security no-no. Stored SSNs and password reset answers in clear text , alongside millions of unencrypted names and physical addresses.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 19, 2022

To prove it, researchers from SafeBreach purchased a €600 license from the anti-malware firm to collect over 1,000,000 usernames and passwords stored on the cloud based database of the said company. The post Details on VirusTotal Hacking appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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IT Security Guru

JUNE 30, 2021

Using the same password for all software applications increase the chances of cybercriminals learning an individual’s log-in credentials and gaining unauthorized access – resulting in data theft, identity theft and other harm. Single Sign-On (SSO) is a solution that combats password fatigue. fewer requests to reset passwords).

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

The Government Accountability Office released a report detailing last year’s massive Equifax data breach and how hackers were able to infiltrate the company’s systems to gain access to the personal information of at least 145.5 million individuals. The misconfiguration went unnoticed for 10 months. Read the report here.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Background This problem really came to a head when the internet rapidly grew from a government project to a major medium for electronic commercial transactions. Then, in turn, they can digitally sign that message and use that secret to set up an encrypted session to send it back and then both parties can communicate bidirectionally securely.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2020

The attacker also obtained free encryption certificates for escrow.com from Let’s Encrypt. In cases where passwords are used, pick unique passwords and consider password managers. 49 (that domain is hobbled here because it is currently flagged as hosting a phishing site).

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

This is why data encryption is the most vital key to cloud security. Encrypted data cannot be accessed in a readable format, even if it is intercepted while in transfer online. 65% of those surveyed also recognize that encryption is the most effective security control for cloud data.

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