Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

First spotted in mid-August 2022 , Venus is known for hacking into victims’ publicly-exposed Remote Desktop services to encrypt Windows devices. Encrypting sensitive data wherever possible. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warned that Venus ransomware attacks were targeting a number of U.S. healthcare organizations.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

Among those was the encrypted messaging app Signal , which said the breach could have let attackers re-register the phone number on another device for about 1,900 users. LastPass said criminal hackers had stolen encrypted copies of some password vaults, as well as other personal information. On July 28 and again on Aug.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 13, 2020

Almost all of these include encryption certificates (start with “[link] and begin with the subdomains “apple.” While maps-icloud[.]com com is not a particularly convincing phishing domain, a review of the Russian server where that domain is hosted reveals a slew of far more persuasive links spoofing Apple’s brand.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

. “We take a defense-in-depth approach, with partitioned networks, and use very sophisticated encryption scheme so that when and if there is a breach, this stuff is firewalled,” he said. We encrypt all that stuff down to the file level with keys that rotate and expire every 24 hours.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 8, 2020

biz , a long-running virtual private networking (VPN) service marketed to cybercriminals who are looking to anonymize and encrypt their online traffic by bouncing it through multiple servers around the globe. Samuil is the handle used by the proprietor of multi-vpn[.]biz Have a Coke and a Molotov cocktail. Image: twitter.com/multivpn.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 23, 2024

When Caturegli discovered an encryption certificate being actively used for the domain memrtcc.ad, the domain was still available for registration. Caturegli said many organizations no doubt viewed a domain ending in.ad He then learned the.ad

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

Launched in 2008, privnote.com employs technology that encrypts each message so that even Privnote itself cannot read its contents. The real Privnote, at privnote.com. And it doesn’t send or receive messages. Creating a message merely generates a link.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The Mylobot malware includes more than 1,000 hard-coded and encrypted domain names, any one of which can be registered and used as control networks for the infected hosts. But according to a new report from BitSight , the Mylobot botnet’s main functionality has always been about transforming the infected system into a proxy.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

The [link] part of the address merely signifies that the data being transmitted back and forth between your browser and the site is encrypted and can’t be read by third parties. Nor is it any sort of testimonial that the site has been security-hardened against intrusion from hackers.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

We will hide your IP address, encrypt all your traffic, secure all your sensitive information (passwords, mail credit card details, etc.) . “The best way to secure the transmissions of your mobile device is VPN,” reads HideIPVPN’s description on the Apple Store. form [sic] hackers on public networks.”

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 16, 2020

To that end, he said, it makes perhaps the most sense to focus on new domain registrations that have encryption certificates tied to them, since the issuance of an SSL certificate for a domain is usually a sign that it is about to be put to use.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The database is in the hands of the police, but it’s encrypted.” . “As a result, we lost the proxy and destination backup servers,” SPR explained. “Besides, now it’s impossible to open and decrypt the backend.

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