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Who’s Behind the Botnet-Based Service BHProxies?

Krebs on Security

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. BHProxies has authored 129 posts on Black Hat World since 2012, and their last post on the forum was in December 2022. The website BHProxies[.]com

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The Internet is Held Together With Spit & Baling Wire

Krebs on Security

And virtually all IRRs have disallowed its use since at least 2012, said Adam Korab , a network engineer and security researcher based in Houston. “LEVEL 3 is the last IRR operator which allows the use of this method, although they have discouraged its use since at least 2012,” Korab told KrebsOnSecurity.

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LimeRAT malware delivered using 8-year-old VelvetSweatshop trick

Security Affairs

In malspam attacks, attackers could encrypt the Excel file by setting up a password, then when the victims receive the email, hackers trick them into opening the attachment using a password included in the content of the message. Excel attempts to decrypt and open the file and run any macros it contains.

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Padlocks, Phishing and Privacy; The Value Proposition of a VPN

Troy Hunt

I want a "secure by default" internet with all the things encrypted all the time such that people can move freely between networks without ever needing to care about who manages them or what they're doing with them. Now let's try the mobile app: What's the encryption story there?

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SHARED INTEL: How ransomware evolved from consumer trickery to deep enterprise hacks

The Last Watchdog

Although most people think of ransomware as a dodgy application that encrypts data and holds it for ransom, the concept is much more heterogeneous than that. The Archiveus Trojan from 2006 was the first one to use RSA cipher, but it was reminiscent of a proof of concept and used a static 30-digit decryption password that was shortly cracked.

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GovPayNow.com Leaks 14M+ Records

Krebs on Security

14, KrebsOnSecurity alerted GovPayNet that its site was exposing at least 14 million customer receipts dating back to 2012. E-commerce sites can mitigate such leaks by using something other than easily-guessed or sequential record numbers, and/or encrypting unique portions of the URL displayed to customers upon payment.

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How Did Authorities Identify the Alleged Lockbit Boss?

Krebs on Security

used the password 225948. Pin was active on Opensc around March 2012, and authored 13 posts that mostly concerned data encryption issues, or how to fix bugs in code. The ransomware encrypts files in parts in various places: the larger the file size, the more parts there are. and admin@stairwell.ru