Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Stealth Falcon is a nation-state actor active since at least 2012, the group targeted political activists and journalists in the Middle East in past campaigns. The remaining components are encrypted and stored within a binary registry value.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2019

In June 2018, experts at Kaspersky were investigating attacks against government and military entities in South and Southeast Asian countries, The experts tracked the campaign as EasternRoppels, they speculate it may have started as far back as 2012. According to the experts, the backdoor might have been active since at least 2012. . “We

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2021

Shadowsocks is a free and open-source encryption protocol project, widely used in China to circumvent Internet censorship. It was created in 2012 by a Chinese programmer named “ clowwindy “, and multiple implementations of the protocol have been made available since.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2020

The expert Bob Diachenko has discovered an unsecured Elasticsearch install belonging to a UK security firm that contained 5 billion records of data leaked in previous incidents that took place between 2012 and 2019. ” wrote Security Discovery’s researcher Bob Diachenko.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2021

The analysis of the file revealed that it includes the encrypted and compressed PlugX payload. Aro.dat is, in fact, an encrypted and compressed PlugX payload.” Aro.exe is likely part of the “ ARO 2012 advanced repair and optimization tool,” which is a freely available tool that claims to fix Windows registry errors.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In 2012, the company was targeted by another cyber attack that was classified as “heavy” and of “exceptional quality.” In In January 2021, a ThyssenKrupp subsidiary was a victim of a ransomware cyberattack that caused the encryption of its servers and employee workstations.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2019

. “However, when we encountered Asruex in a PDF file, we found that a variant of the malware can also act as an infector particularly through the use of old vulnerabilities CVE-2012-0158 and CVE-2010-2883 , which inject code in Word and PDF files respectively.” ” reads the report published by Trend Micro. EBSS section.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2020

DeathStalker is a hack-for-hire group discovered by Kaspersky, it has been targeting organizations worldwide, mainly law firms and financial entities, since 2012. The cyber mercenaries group known as DeathStalker has been using a new PowerShell backdoor in recent attacks.

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Security Affairs

MAY 31, 2022

SideWinder has been active since at least 2012, the group main targeted Police, Military, Maritime, and the Naval forces of Central Asian countries. The URLs used for C2 communications for these domains are split into two parts: The Installer module contains the first part of the URL which is the C2 server domain name in encrypted form.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2020

The expert Bob Diachenko has discovered an unsecured Elasticsearch install belonging to the security firm Keepnet Labs that contained 5 billion records of data leaked in previous incidents that took place between 2012 and 2019. ” wrote Security Discovery’s researcher Bob Diachenko.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

. “At the present time, no damage has been done, nor are there any indications that data has been stolen or modified,” This isn’t the first attack suffered by the company, in 2012, the company was targeted by another cyber attack that was classified as “heavy” and of “exceptional quality.”. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Stealth Falcon is a nation-state actor active since at least 2012, the group targeted political activists and journalists in the Middle East in past campaigns. The attacks have been conducted from 2012 until 2106, against Emirati journalists, activists, and dissidents. .”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

“However, instead of sending it in cleartext, the client deploys a symmetric AES encryption for any communication over the WebSocket for the first exchange, as no shared secret is established yet, and the AES encryption will generate a default key for this first exchange. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The file downloaded from this censorship free file hosting is actually a chunk of 125KB random looking bytes, suggesting it would likely be some binary payload protected with strong encryption. Figure 4: Piece of the encrypted file downloaded from “share.]dmca.]gripe”. Figure 9: C2 connection.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Below is the list of vulnerabilities exploited by V3G4: CVE-2012-4869 : FreePBX Elastix Remote Command Execution Vulnerability Gitorious Remote Command Execution Vulnerability CVE-2014-9727 : FRITZ!Box Unlike most Mirai variants, the V3G4 variant uses different XOR encryption keys for string encryption.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2022

The Tropic Trooper APT has been active at least since 2012, it was first spotted by security experts at Trend Micro in 2015, when the threat actors targeted government ministries and heavy industries in Taiwan and the military in the Philippines. The collected information is formatted and sent to the C&C server.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The vision of the CDM program, created in 2012, is that all federal networks should be continuously scanned to identify and respond to threats and breaches. Along the way, I highlight where and why industry best practices for encryption, policy and access controls can be applied. I follow that path down to where that data is stored.

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Security Affairs

MAY 16, 2023

MustangPanda has been active since at least 2012, it targeted American and European entities such as government organizations, think tanks, NGOs , and even Catholic organizations at the Vatican. The communications are encrypted using a custom or modified encryption scheme that is based on Substitution-Permutation Network.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2021

The CVE-2021-20021 and CVE-2021-20022 flaws were discovered by FireEye’s Mandiant team on March 26, 2021 while investigating an attack against one of its customers using an instance of SonicWall’s Email Security (ES) application running on a Windows Server 2012 installation.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2024

Initially, these attacks involved malicious software that encrypts a victim’s data, rendering it inaccessible until a ransom is paid to the attackers. RaaS : Mirroring the Legitimate SaaS Models In mid-2012, the ransomware ecosystem evolved with the introduction of Reveton , the first Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

In June 2018, experts at Kaspersky were investigating attacks against government and military entities in South and Southeast Asian countries, The experts tracked the campaign as EasternRoppels, they speculate it may have started as far back as 2012. This C2 encrypts data with the same key as the C&C requests.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2020

SideWinder, a group that has been active since 2012, is a known threat and has reportedly targeted military entities’ Windows machines. Collected data is encrypted using RSA and AES encryption algorithms, then it is sent to the C&C server. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

Information security products , services, and professionals have never been in higher demand, making for a world of opportunities for cybersecurity startups. GitGuardian is a developer favorite offering a secrets detection solution that scans source code to detect certificates, passwords, API keys, encryption keys, and more.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Researchers shared technical details of NSA Equation Group’s Bvp47 backdoor Sophos linked Entropy ransomware to Dridex malware. Are both linked to Evil Corp? worth of NFTs from tens of OpenSea users Trickbot operation is now controlled by Conti ransomware.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 28, 2020

In late March 2014, two teams of security researchers independently started fuzz testing OpenSSL, an open source utility that encrypts traffic from a web browser to a server and forms the basis of trusted transactions online. In 2012, a change was made to OpenSSL-- that change allowed for Heartbleed to exist. through 1.0.1f

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ForAllSecure

JULY 28, 2020

In late March 2014, two teams of security researchers independently started fuzz testing OpenSSL, an open source utility that encrypts traffic from a web browser to a server and forms the basis of trusted transactions online. In 2012, a change was made to OpenSSL-- that change allowed for Heartbleed to exist. through 1.0.1f

Encryption 52

Encryption Retail Software Banking 52

ForAllSecure

JULY 28, 2020

In late March 2014, two teams of security researchers independently started fuzz testing OpenSSL, an open source utility that encrypts traffic from a web browser to a server and forms the basis of trusted transactions online. In 2012, a change was made to OpenSSL-- that change allowed for Heartbleed to exist. through 1.0.1f

Encryption 52

Encryption Retail Software Banking 52

CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification is considered to be the gold standard in information security. Those doors lead to many different types of positions and opportunities, thus making the information security community dynamic and multifaceted.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2019

File name: control MD5: c4463d6ae741d4fb789bd0895fafebee SHA1: c8866ca1012dfabf5ad131cfeea0036dacb433e6 Creation time: 2012-09-21 09:56:09 First submission on VT: 2019-02-19 23:26:41. This temp file is the Ammyy RAT encrypted file, which will be decrypted and renamed at a later stage ( wsus.exe ). About the author Pedro Tavares.

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NopSec

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Remember Shamoon, the malware that disabled some 35,000 computers at one of the world’s largest oil companies in 2012? Modern variants of ransomware, called crypto ransomware, entomb the files stored on a hard drive using strong encryption. It gives the example of Hacking Team, based in Italy, and Vupen Security, based in France.

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Kali Linux

MARCH 28, 2023

In information security (infosec) there is the need to be on the latest version. Being a system administrator, a patch could contain a security update to stop a vulnerability. Moving to Rolling Overall, the feedback received for Kali 2.0 was positive, and it was a success.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 2, 2022

Anyone who has anyone in the information security community is usually melting under the hot Nevada sun. Gosh, there must be 20 or more villages at DEFCON if you want to learn radio if you want to learn tampering with seals if you want to learn encryption, if you want to learn you name it. You turn it off and back on again.

Hacking 40

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2025

The cyber espionage group has been active since at least 2012 and has been using the Sagerunex backdoor since at least 2016. The variants are designed to gather, encrypt, and exfiltrate target host information to a remote server controlled by the attacker.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

I’m Robert Vamosi and in this episode I’m talking about our right to repair, how some high tech companies might want to limit that right, and how there’s a group of information security professionals who are volunteering their free time to fight for those rights in local legislation.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

I’m Robert Vamosi and in this episode I’m talking about our right to repair, how some high tech companies might want to limit that right, and how there’s a group of information security professionals who are volunteering their free time to fight for those rights in local legislation.

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