Approachable Cyber Threats

JULY 19, 2022

RFID uses electromagnetic fields in the form of radio waves to establish communication links between an RFID tag or transmitter and an RFID reader or receiver. Pieces of information are transmitted through the link that the reader uses to establish authenticity of the tag or transmitter and authorize access. Is RFID secure?

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 30, 2023

Xloader implements different obfuscation methods and several encryption layers to protect critical parts of code and data from analysis. The developers behind this malware family continue to update the code with improved obfuscation and encryption layers with each new version that is released. Important Xloader 4.3 ConfigObj fields.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 2, 2018

Similar small electronics exist in the keyless entry fobs to newer-model cars and the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags used to locate boxes in vast warehouses. All of these gadgets are inexpensive to make and will fit nearly anywhere, but common encryption methods may demand more electronic resources than they possess.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 3, 2023

So, as a part of this collaboration the Harmony Endpoint solution from Check Point will be integrated into Intel vPro’s AI and ML driven threat detection tech allowing CPUs manufactured by the silicon wafer making giant analyze pre-detect data encryption commands in the digital attack flow.

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Software Ransomware Manufacturing Encryption 120

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Google TAG researchers discovered that threat actors leveraged a zero-day vulnerability in macOS in a watering hole campaign aimed at delivering malware to users in Hong Kong. “To protect our users, TAG routinely hunts for 0-day vulnerabilities exploited in-the-wild. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

A Cookie Theft malware was employed in phishing attacks against YouTube creators, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) warns. According to Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) researchers, who spotted the campaign, the attacks were launched by multiple hack-for-hire actors recruited on Russian-speaking forums. .

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Interestingly, the attack was later tagged to be a ransomware attack where the criminals who hacked the database were paid by Blackbaud, a handsome sum to gain back the data from encryption. The post Cyber Attack on Labour Party UK leaks sensitive data appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 31, 2021

A researcher said Wednesday that two malicious commits that were added to the PHP web development programming language’s official Git server earlier this week may have been prevented if the maintainers had enabled signed commits (encryption) on the server. Malicious commits happen when malicious code gets placed into the refresh.

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Encryption Software Media Risk 60

Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2023

The attackers obtained encrypted passwords from NetScaler ADC configuration files, and the decryption key was stored on the ADC appliance. Update on CVE-2023-3519 vulnerable IPs: we now tag 15K Citrix IPs as vulnerable to CVE-2023-3519. Most of the servers are located in the United States and Germany.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 31, 2021

A researcher said Wednesday that two malicious commits that were added to the PHP web development programming language’s official Git server earlier this week may have been prevented if the maintainers had enabled signed commits (encryption) on the server. Malicious commits happen when malicious code gets placed into the refresh.

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Encryption Software Media Risk 56

CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 15, 2022

New legislation Bill C-26 will also block companies from using the products and services from companies that have been tagged as high-risk suppliers, like Huawei, which has been banned by United States and 7 other countries across the world. Note- Ransomware is a kind of malware that encrypts files until a ransom is paid.

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Cyber Attacks Ransomware Encryption Malware 138

CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 27, 2021

The file encrypting malware group has also released a decryption key for zero cost to help victims clean up their databases. So, after REvil, Darkside, and Conti Ransomware groups, it is the time for Ragnarok to get itself tagged to the list of ransomware groups that have officially shut their operations in 2021.

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2021

Upon execution, the ransomware enumerates files on all drives and network shares and attempt to encrypt them, experts noticed that the encryption algorithm used is the same as the one of the other Vega variants. Last month experts spotted a new variant of the ransomware on a hacker forum allowing buyers to opt how to use the malware.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 30, 2021

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 13, 2022

While the price tag of these violations was shocking, the compliance failure was not. Many of these instant messaging platforms are secure, even offering end-to-end encryption, so the lack of security is not necessarily in the apps themselves. These views were echoed in a CFTC release as well.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 19, 2021

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

This will help me later in the case I will be able to obtain a firmware that eventually is encrypted (i.e. Firmware Analysis: Passed the initial shock, I thought the data inside the dump would have been still encrypted in some way. RFID Feature: One clue still left (from a hardware security POV) was about the RFID tag.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 24, 2023

At a high level, DKIM enables an organization to provide encryption hash values for key parts of an email. Using public-private encryption key pairs, receiving email servers can compare the received email hash value against the received hash value to validate if any alterations took place in transit.

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Technology DNS Encryption Authentication 78

Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Android 14 developer preview highlights multiple security improvements One in nine online stores are leaking your data, says study New ESXiArgs encryption routine outmaneuvers recovery methods TrickBot gang members sanctioned after pandemic ransomware attacks Update now! Apple patches vulnerabilities in MacOS and iOS Update now!

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NetSpi Technical

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

I quickly realised that this might help us overcome the barrier for two reasons: The go templates in this dropper generator already had the code to encrypt and decrypt an embedded base64 payload. 0; //div tag used for download userAction.href=blobUrl; userAction.download="{{.OutputFile}}"; Golang is very easy to compile to Wasm.

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Cisco Security

MAY 17, 2021

For years, Cisco has been a pioneer in tag-based policies with our firewall support of Security Group Tags (SGTs) and other Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) attributes. Now, with the dynamic attribute connector, we also leverage Azure, VMware, and AWS tags. Presenting dynamic attributes with Threat Defense 7.0,

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Network Security Firewall VPN Encryption 98

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 1, 2023

To prevent unwanted access and protect data in transit, wireless connections must be secured with strong authentication procedures, encryption protocols, access control rules, intrusion detection and prevention systems, and other security measures. As a result, wireless networks are prone to eavesdropping, illegal access and theft.

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Wireless Encryption Authentication IoT 89

Malwarebytes

MARCH 18, 2022

The Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has shared their observations about a group of cybercriminals called Exotic Lily. Among these interested parties TAG found the Conti and Diavol ransomware groups. The RaaS will provide the encryption software, the contact and leak sites, and negotiate the ransom with the victim.

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Ransomware Malware Social Engineering Media 87

SecureList

MAY 23, 2022

An attacker that can carry out a MitM attack will be able to overwrite tag statuses, the program being downloaded to the device, or authentication data. Since authentication data is encrypted with a preset symmetric key, the attacker could decrypt an intercepted target (device) password.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2024

Google TAG researchers warn that COLDRIVER is evolving tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs), to improve its detection evasion capabilities. Recently, TAG has observed COLDRIVER delivering custom malware via phishing campaigns using PDFs as lure documents. When the victims opens the PDF, an encrypted text is displayed.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 1, 2020

While we stopped the attack as it was occurring, the actors launched malware that encrypted a limited number of servers within the School of Medicine, making them temporarily inaccessible. Its reasoning: "The data that was encrypted is important to some of the academic work we pursue as a university serving the public good.".

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 27, 2018

If you are a tech pro and you want to go deeper on HTTPS, have a browse back through the dozens of posts on the SSL tag or go and watch 3 and a half hours of Pluralsight training on the subject. Next, you'll see that this is all very Cloudflare-centric and you may be wondering "why not use Let's Encrypt instead?"

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

The skimmer loads dynamically to avoid static malware scanners and uses unique encryption parameters for each victim to obfuscate the malicious code.” The Baka loader works by dynamically adding a script tag to the current page that loads a remote JavaScript file. ” reads the alert published by VISA.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

tag='></a> <a href='/blog?tag='></a> tag='></a> <a href='/blog?tag='></a> tag='></a> 2020 was a year of unprecedented challenge for anyone working in public sector cybersecurity. <a href='/blog?tag='></a> Featured: .

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Some teams choose to use tags, so they are able to rapidly search for items. Encryption has become fundamental for data destinations and in passage. Sometimes encryption is built into websites and programs – some examples include HTTPS and email encryption, but this is not enough to thwart every scammer's assault on data.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Data captured by the skimmer is base64 encoded and encrypted using ROT13 cipher. The skimmer uses an image GET request, but unlike other skimmers instead of loading and then immediately removing the image tag, Pipka sets the onload attribute of the image tag.

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eCommerce Accountability Advertising Cybercrime 78

CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 10, 2022

NOTE- Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) believes that malware access broker “Exotic Lilly” has acted as a mediator to ransomware gangs like Conti and REVIL and is seen selling access to them for money. And from here, the ransomware gangs buy the data, to launch more file-encrypting malware attacks. .

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Ransomware Retail Cyber Attacks Malware 79

Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2019

The initial WMI PowerShell scripts observed in different attacks were using different hardcoded command and control (C&C) IP addresses, different encryption keys, salt for encryption and different active hours. “The page contains embedded commands that are encrypted with an encryption key, also embedded into the page.

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Encryption Government Advertising Cyber Attacks 72

Security Boulevard

MAY 24, 2021

tag=Data Security'>Data Security</a> <a href='/blog?tag=Data tag=Data Breach'>Data Breach</a> <a href='/blog?tag=Information This can be achieved by email encryption or, where there are large volumes of data through a managed file transfer (MFT) solution. <a href='/blog?tag=Data Featured: .

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Google Security

APRIL 30, 2024

Since 2013, Chromium has been applying the CRYPTPROTECT_AUDIT flag to DPAPI calls to request that an audit log be generated when decryption occurs, as well as tagging the data as being owned by the browser. For DPAPI decrypts, the OperationType will be SPCryptUnprotect.

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Passwords Malware Encryption System Administration 90

The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Make sure to use common, understandable labels and data value tags for your data. Encrypting data on corporate devices can prevent hackers from accessing sensitive information. Often, it is the first time a company has a common definition of data. If teams have different naming conventions, data inventory can be a confusing process.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2019

” The policy explains users can disable all location services entirely with one swipe (by navigating to Settings > Privacy > Location Services, then switching “Location Services” to “off”).

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