Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2021

ransomware-as-a-service gang actually includes a solicitation for insiders in the desktop wallpaper left behind on systems encrypted with the malware. “You can provide us accounting data for the access to any company, for example, login and password to RDP, VPN, corporate email, etc. For example, the Lockbit 2.0 – Canada.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2025

Details in our flash alert on CATALYST: [link] pic.twitter.com/oRHQzzIph8 — PRODAFT (@PRODAFT) June 6, 2025 The Qilin ransomware group has been active since at least August 2022 but gained attention in June 2024 for attacking Synnovis , a UK governmental service provider for healthcare.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2025

CISA adds Aviatrix Controllers vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog ESET detailed a flaw that could allow a bypass of the Secure Boot in UEFI systems Russia-linked APT Star Blizzard targets WhatsApp accounts Prominent US law firm Wolf Haldenstein disclosed a data breach Clop Ransomware exploits Cleo File Transfer flaw: dozens (..)

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2022

It extends beyond the Deep & Dark Web to: unindexed Web forums, messaging boards, and marketplaces, encrypted messaging systems, and code repositories. For example, a hospital that suffered a ransomware attack in 2021, had credentials to its VPN offered for sale in an underground market eight days prior to the attack.

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Hacker's King

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Tools like firewalls, antivirus software, and encryption help safeguard information. Key Cybersecurity Tools and How They Protect Your Data Before addressing the tracking aspect, it's important to understand the core components of cybersecurity: Encryption : Encryption scrambles data so that only authorized individuals can read it.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The biggest target is the Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) sector, according to the advisory. "As Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have issued a joint cybersecurity advisory with information about "Daixin Team," a cybercrime group actively targeting U.S. businesses with ransomware and data extortion operations.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 20, 2023

3CX says it has more than 600,000 customers and 12 million users in a broad range of industries, including aerospace, healthcare and hospitality. Mandiant found the compromised 3CX software would download malware that sought out new instructions by consulting encrypted icon files hosted on GitHub.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 31, 2021

Source: BleepingComputer) Chinese cyber espionage hackers continue to target Pulse Secure VPN devices. Source: BBC News) Canada Post hit by data breach after supplier ransomware attack. Source: The Hacker News) Studying the manipulation of security headers in browser extensions.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The experts exploited the vulnerability to reconstruct encryption keys and developed a decryptor that allows victims of the Rhysida ransomware to recover their encrypted data for free. Rhysida ransomware employed a secure random number generator to generate the encryption key and subsequently encrypt the data.

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Google Security

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Our approach focuses on: Minimizing your data footprint, by shrinking the amount of personally identifiable data altogether De-identifying data, with a range of anonymization techniques so it’s not linked to you Restricting data access using technologies like end-to-end encryption and secure enclaves.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 11, 2021

The FBI states that is has received notifications of unidentified cyber actors using Avaddon ransomware against US and foreign private sector companies, manufacturing organizations, and healthcare agencies. Avaddon ransomware performs an encryption in offline mode using AES-256 + RSA-2048 to encrypt files. Free decryptor.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2019

Even though encryption should be taken seriously by businesses of all sizes, only a small fraction of the corporate sector puts their back on it. It didn’t only affect the financial datasets of business sectors but also the medical records maintained by healthcare institutions such as hospitals. Final Thoughts.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The most popular options include virtual private network (VPN) or remote desktop protocol (RDP). VPN works by initiating a secure connection over the internet through data encryption. One downside of using a VPN connection involves vulnerability. One downside of using a VPN connection involves vulnerability.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2024

The BlackSuit ransomware has targeted various critical infrastructure sectors, including commercial facilities, healthcare, government, and manufacturing. of incidents), exploiting vulnerabilities in public-facing applications and using initial access provided by access brokers and harvesting VPN credentials from stealer logs.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

According to the CISA’s report , Iranian hackers from an unnamed APT group are employing several known web shells, in attacks on IT, government, healthcare, financial, and insurance organizations across the United States. The malware used by the threat actors includes the ChunkyTuna, Tiny, and China Chopper web shells.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2024

The Qilin ransomware group has been active since at least 2022 but gained attention in June 2024 for attacking Synnovis , a UK governmental service provider for healthcare. The group typically employs “double extortion,” stealing and encrypting victims’ data, then threatening to expose it unless a ransom is paid.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 19, 2023

History of Hive Ransomware Hive typically goes after nonprofits, retailers, energy providers, healthcare facilities, and others in similar spaces. Once trapped, Hive allows its victims to contact a customer service representative through a fake ‘customer service’ link provided at the time of encryption.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The FBI, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have issued a joint advisory about DAIXIN Team, a fledgling ransomware and data exfiltration group that has been targeting US healthcare. The DAIXIN leak site.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Healthcare and Public Health sector with ransomware. businesses, mainly in the Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) Sector, with ransomware operations. The Daixin Team group gains initial access to victims through virtual private network (VPN) servers. The threat actors obtained the VPN credentials through phishing attacks.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 23, 2022

In Germany, already covered by GDPR, the newly-agreed-upon government is reportedly considering the addition of a “ right to encryption ,” which, depending on how it is defined, could be the first of its kind, and a much-needed defense against other international efforts, like in Australia, to weaken encryption through regulation.

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SecureList

MAY 25, 2021

Several versions were released as part of each “rebranded” variant that altered different aspects of the code, renamed file extensions, cryptographic schemes and encryption keys. The files are encrypted using a custom modification of a Blowfish cipher with a 256-bit key. The encrypted data is written over the original.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2024

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SecureList

JUNE 15, 2022

Complex attacks almost invariably feature several phases, such as reconnaissance, initial access to the infrastructure, gaining access to target systems and/or privileges, and the actual malicious acts (data theft, destruction or encryption, etc.). Request for access to corporate VPN. Access type: VPN. Access type: VPN.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

The attackers successfully compromised more than a dozen organizations across multiple industries, including technology, energy, healthcare, education, finance and defense. According to Microsoft DEV-0322 is an APT group based in China, which employed commercial VPN solutions and compromised consumer routers in their attacker infrastructure.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Use a VPN to Protect Online Communications. With this new mobility, organizations should make it a requirement for all employees to use a virtual private network (VPN) on their work devices, ensuring company assets and communications are secure. Top 3 online security tips for remote workers.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 6, 2023

Have targeted numerous critical infrastructure sectors including manufacturing, communications, healthcare, and education. Royal ransomware leak site The Initial Access Brokers that cater to Royal are reported to gain initial access and source traffic by harvesting virtual private network (VPN) credentials from stealer logs.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Some of these organizations are part of vital infrastructures; such as local governments, financial companies, healthcare organizations, energy firms; and technology manufacturers. According to its website, it caters to more than 3,000 organizations, mostly those with more than 10,000 employees and 1B USD in revenue. Reset credentials.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 5, 2023

Avoid sites where you need to login, sites with sensitive info (banking, healthcare, etc.), Use a VPN with strong encryption. And if you have to, be thoughtful of the fact that they are indeed, public. and especially stay away from making purchases over an unsecured connection.

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IT Security Guru

MAY 5, 2022

In an ideal world, and increasingly in reality, any system or application that contains critical information such as banking information, healthcare, or corporate enterprise intellectual property are protected with multifactor.? Even sending them across supposedly encrypted services like WhatsApp isn’t advisable.?

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

Encryption will regularly be used to protect the data from interception. In the broadest sense, defense in depth uses: Data security : protects data at rest and in transit such as encryption, database security, message security, etc. Encryption Security teams should no longer assume that networks are safe. of their network.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 10, 2024

Data Security Encryption Compliance Cloud Security Ollie Omotosho | Director, Global Strategic Partnerships More About This Author > With the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) post-quantum cryptographic standard expected to be published this summer, companies need to start navigating the migration to quantum-safe cryptography.

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SecureList

MAY 12, 2021

To ensure that their ability to restore encrypted files would never be questioned, they cultivated an online presence, wrote press releases and generally made sure their name would be known to all potential victims. The malware sample has an encrypted configuration block with many fields, which allow attackers to fine-tune the payload.

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Identity IQ

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The methods used by cybercriminals in 2023 varied with cyberattacks, physical attacks, and system errors targeting everything from critical infrastructure to manufacturing to healthcare databases. Businesses faced constant threats with phishing scams , malware , and other tactics. But the numbers alone tell only part of the story.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Specializing in seed and Series A opportunities, the San Francisco-based firm has an extensive consumer, enterprise, and healthcare investments portfolio. Insight’s portfolio goes beyond cybersecurity, serving IT verticals in data, fintech, healthcare, and logistics. Insight Investments. New Enterprise Associates (NEA).

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 9, 2021

The entry point to the system was a Virtual Private Network (VPN) account. If you’re using a VPN and expose anything sensitive inside the VPN, you should implement strong authentication that includes at least two authentication factors (something you know, something you have, something you are). But that’s not enough either.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Thales provides Double Key Encryption for Microsoft 365 and Client-Side Encryption for Google Workspace. Accenture enables customer migration to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) by leveraging Thales CipherTrust Cloud Key Management to maintain complete HYOK control of the encryption keys securing their sensitive data.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

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