CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2023

The next feature is the “Device Verification” feature, which will bar cyber criminals from hacking into an account to send unwanted messages or inject mobile device malware. The post WhatsApp introduces new mobile security features appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2020

It is not the first time that threat actors attempt to exploit the interest of the gamers into new video games like has happened with mobile versions of the popular Fortnite back in 2028. RC4 algorithm with hardcoded key (in this example – "21983453453435435738912738921") is used for encryption. "CyberPunk2077.sfx.exe"

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Bleeping Computer

APRIL 21, 2021

Software developed by data extraction company Cellebrite contains vulnerabilities that allow arbitrary code execution on the device, claims Moxie Marlinspike, the creator of the encrypted messaging app Signal. [.].

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SecureBlitz

APRIL 10, 2024

While WhatsApp employs encryption to protect your messages, hackers constantly devise new methods to exploit vulnerabilities and […] The post WhatsApp Hacked: Update Your WhatsApp Now appeared first on SecureBlitz Cybersecurity.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 24, 2018

When you use your mobile device, you expect some level of privacy. Cyber hacking is a billion-dollar industry and will only get larger. Not to mention, there is a trending increase in sophisticated mobile threats. This is why you need to install one of the below encrypted messaging apps and encrypted calling apps.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 13, 2020

When it comes to securing mobile computing devices, the big challenge businesses have long grappled with is how to protect company assets while at the same time respecting an individual’s privacy. Reacting to the BYOD craze , mobile security frameworks have veered from one partially effective approach to the next over the past decade.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2024

The Black Basta ransomware gang claimed to have hacked the UK water utility Southern Water, a major player in the UK water industry. In early January, independent security research and consulting team SRLabs discovered a vulnerability in Black Basta ransomware’s encryption algorithm and exploited it to create a free decryptor.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

German Federal Office for Information Security is launching an investigation into the cybersecurity of certain Chinese mobile phones. German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) is launching an investigation into the cybersecurity of mobile phones of certain Chinese manufacturers. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Both are popular messaging tools in Iran.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2022

The SOVA Android banking trojan was improved, it has a new ransomware feature that encrypts files on Android devices, Cleafy researchers report. The malware encrypts the files inside the infected devices using an AES algorithm and renaming them with the extension “.enc”. SecurityAffairs – hacking, SOVA Android banking malware).

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

Sources close to the investigation tell KrebsOnSecurity the accused was a key member of a criminal hacking group blamed for a string of cyber intrusions at major U.S. Multiple security firms soon assigned the hacking group the nickname “ Scattered Spider.” 9, 2024, U.S. technology companies during the summer of 2022.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 14, 2022

It's a mad scramble to figure out what information was stolen or encrypted, who could be behind the attack, how to notify customers their private information could be impacted—the list goes on and on. In this case, T-Mobile had to make a decision on how to act after hackers stole data of roughly 30 million customers.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2021

Trojan Shield operation: The FBI and Australian Federal Police ran an encrypted chat platform that was used by crime gangs and intercepted their communications. The FBI and Australian Federal Police (AFP) ran an encrypted chat platform that was used by crime gangs and intercepted their communications.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 25, 2021

Thanks to a couple of milestone hacks disclosed at the close of 2020 and start of 2021, they will forever be associated with putting supply-chain vulnerabilities on the map. Similarly, the SolarWinds and Mimecast hacks are precursors of increasingly clever and deeply-damaging hacks of the global supply chain sure to come.

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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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2021

WhatsApp made available end-to-end encrypted chat backups on iOS and Android to prevent anyone from accessing user chats. WhatsApp is rolling out end-to-end encrypted chat backups on both iOS and Android devices, the move aims at implementing an optional layer of security to protect backups stored on Google Drive or iCloud cloud storage.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

It was just a few short years ago that the tech sector, led by Google, Mozilla and Microsoft, commenced a big push to increase the use of HTTPS – and its underlying TLS authentication and encryption protocol. Related: Why Google’s HTTPS push is a good thing At the time, just 50 % of Internet traffic used encryption.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 1, 2024

A new Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) threat called "darcula" is taking advantage of encrypted mobile messaging services to unleash a wave of sophisticated smishing attacks targeting organizations across more than 100 countries.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Less than a week ago, security researcher Nitish Shah directed KrebsOnSecurity to an open database on the Web that allowed anyone to query up-to-the-minute mSpy records for both customer transactions at mSpy’s site and for mobile phone data collected by mSpy’s software. The database required no authentication.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Facebook announced it will allow WhatsApp users to encrypt their message history backups in the cloud. Facebook will continue to work to protect the privacy of WhatsApp users and announced that it will allow users to encrypt their message history backups in the cloud. SecurityAffairs – hacking, E2EE). Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Each time we use a mobile app or website-hosted service, digital certificates and the Public Key Infrastructure ( PKI ) come into play — to assure authentication and encrypt sensitive data transfers. This is a fundamental component of Digital Trust – and the foundation for securing next-gen digital connections.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

“The Cybereason Nocturnus team is investigating EventBot, a new type of Android mobile malware that emerged around March 2020. The malware also downloads the Command-and-control (C2) URLs, C2 communication is encrypted using Base64, RC4, and Curve25519. . ” reads the analysis published by Cybereason. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Researchers demonstrated how crooks could hack Diebold Nixdorf’s Wincor Cineo ATMs to bypass black-box attack protections and withdraw cash. In this attack, a black-box device, such as a mobile device or a Raspberry, is physically connected to the ATM and is used by the attackers to send commands to the machine.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Related: How Russia uses mobile apps to radicalize U.S. It foreshadowed how encryption would come to be used as a foundation for Internet commerce – by companies and criminals. Today companies face a challenge of identifying and deflecting encrypted traffic leveraged by malicious actors. The Creeper Virus (1971).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 28, 2020

Asian media firm E27 has been hacked by a hacking group identifying themselves as “Korean Hackers” and “Team Johnwick”that asked for a “donation” to provide information on the vulnerabilities they have exploited in the attack. .” SecurityAffairs – hacking, E27). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2024

The company designs and develops digital imaging products for use in mobile phones, laptops, netbooks and webcams, security and surveillance cameras, entertainment, automotive and medical imaging systems. In early January, the Cactus ransomware group claimed to have hacked Coop, one of the largest retail and grocery providers in Sweden.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2020

Crooks sometimes damage their mobile devices to destroy evidence, NIST tests forensic methods for getting data from damaged mobile phones. Criminals sometimes damage their mobile phones in an attempt to destroy evidence. These include hacking tools, albeit ones that may be lawfully used as part of a criminal investigation.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2020

.” According to the company, attackers accessed personal details of the users, including names, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, and also encrypted passwords. The company confirmed that the an investigation into the hack is still ongoing. SecurityAffairs – hacking, LiveAuctioneers ). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Encrypted messaging app Signal denied claims of an alleged zero-day flaw in its platform after a responsible investigation. The popular encrypted messaging app Signal denied claims of an alleged zero-day vulnerability in its platform. “PSA: we have seen the vague viral reports alleging a Signal 0-day vulnerability.

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Threatpost

AUGUST 13, 2020

Rare attack on cellular protocol exploits an encryption-implementation flaw at base stations to record voice calls.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2023

McAfee Mobile Research Team discovered a new Android backdoor dubbed Xamalicious that can take full control of the device and perform fraudulent actions. The authors also implemented different obfuscation techniques and custom encryption to avoid detection.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 28, 2023

Cryptography: Dive into the world of cryptography, studying symmetric and asymmetric encryption, digital signatures, and cryptographic algorithms. Explore topics like key management, secure communication protocols, and encryption in different contexts.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2024

The sophisticated mobile spyware has resurfaced after several months of inactivity, the new version of LightSpy, dubbed “F_Warehouse”, supports a modular framework with extensive spying capabilities. “The Loader initiates the process by loading both the encrypted and subsequently decrypted LightSpy kernel.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Trend Micro researchers reported that a Magecart group has hacked the websites of two hotel chains to inject scripts targeting Android and iOS users. However, we found that the same link could also download a different script when we requested it from mobile devices like Android or iOS phones.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

In an ironic twist, the accused — who had fairly well separated his real life identity from his online personas — appears to have been caught after a gaming Web site he frequented got hacked. 12, the U.S. Justice Department announced the arrest of Timothy Dalton Vaughn , a 20-year-old from Winston-Salem, N.C.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The source code of Cerberus was released in September 2020 on underground hacking forums after its operators failed an auction. According to the experts, ERMAC is operated by threat actors behind the BlackRock mobile malware. ERMAC differs from Cerberus in the usage of different obfuscation techniques and Blowfish encryption algorithm.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 17, 2021

Brent Waters, a rock star computer scientist at the University of Texas, enthusiastically accepted a distinguished scientist post to continue his award-winning studies on a couple of breakthrough areas of cryptography: attribute-based encryption and functional encryption. More about these paradigm shifters below.

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