eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

Encryption and the development of cryptography have been a cornerstone of IT security for decades and remain critical for data protection against evolving threats. While cryptology is thousands of years old, modern cryptography took off in the 1970s with the help of the Diffie-Hellman-Merkle and RSA encryption algorithms.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Back in 2016, the primary focus of our expert was on major cybergangs that targeted financial institutions, banks in particular. This browser attack chain, popular in 2016, is no longer possible. Then and now: a comparison of how cybercrime groups looked in 2016 vs 2021. Change of targets.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 21, 2022

Xloader is an information stealing malware that is the successor to Formbook, which had been sold in hacking forums since early 2016. In October 2020, Formbook was rebranded as Xloader and some significant improvements were introduced, especially related to the command and control (C2) network encryption. Execute commands.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 3, 2022

This lawsuit settlement with Zoom begs the question how much Facebook users should get, given similar false claims of end-to-end encryption. Zoom misrepresented its end-to-end encryption Strangely, the lawsuit excludes large customers who may have suffered the most egregious violations of trust.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Zendesk discloses a data breach that took place in 2016 when a hacker accessed data of 10,000 users, including passwords, emails, names, and phone numbers. In 2016, customer service software company Zendesk suffered a security breach that exposed data of 10,000 users, including passwords, emails, names, and phone numbers.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 8, 2022

Cryptographers hate being rushed into things, which is why NIST began a competition to create a post-quantum cryptographic standard in 2016. The idea is to standardize on both a public-key encryption and digital signature algorithm that is resistant to quantum computing, well before anyone builds a useful quantum computer.

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Joseph Steinberg

APRIL 6, 2021

Ransomware comes in multiple flavors – sometimes involving far more than just the unauthorized encryption of data. This is true even in cases in which the infected devices themselves cannot have their data encrypted or stolen by the ransomware. Hospitals and schools are frequent targets.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Facebook announced it will allow WhatsApp users to encrypt their message history backups in the cloud. Facebook will continue to work to protect the privacy of WhatsApp users and announced that it will allow users to encrypt their message history backups in the cloud. ” reads the announcement published by WhatsApp.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 8, 2022

To all those who are using various communication platforms with a thought that they are encrypted and so are free from prying eyes, here’s a news piece that needs your attention. It is not true that all communication platforms with such encryption claims are operating in-real as said.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 24, 2020

Because all of the candidates still in play are essentially survivors from the initial group of submissions from 2016, there will also be future consideration of more recently developed ideas, Moody said.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2019

UK intelligence agency GCHQ released emulators for World War II cipher machines (Enigma, Typex and The Bombe) that can be executed in the encryption app CyberChef. The GCHQ released the source code of the tool on GitHub in November 2016, alongside with a demo. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. .

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 11, 2018

For example, many instant-messaging services now encrypt messages by default. Although encryption can help secure your data, it may also prevent law enforcement agencies from protecting your data. Encryption serves a valuable purpose. I support strong and responsible encryption. We know encryption can include safeguards.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

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. File encryption 2013 – 2015. It emerged in September 2013 and paved the way for hundreds of file-encrypting menaces that have splashed onto the scene ever since.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2018

million from accounts at the National Bank of Blacksburg in two separate ATM cashouts between May 2016 and January 2017. The 2016 unlimited operation against National Bank began Saturday, May 28, 2016 and continued through the following Monday. All told, the attackers managed to siphon almost $570,000 in the 2016 attack.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2019

AZORult is a data stealer that was first spotted in 2016 by Proofpoint that discovered it was it was part of a secondary infection via the Chthonic banking trojan. The post STOP ransomware encrypts files and steals victim’s data appeared first on Security Affairs. exe and executed it. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 12, 2019

The first concern was over high numbers: in both 2016 and 2017, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court issued 40 orders for collection, but the NSA collected hundreds of millions of CDRs, and the agency provided little clarification for the high numbers. For a time, the new program seemed to be functioning well.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2025

Kaspersky first documented the operations of the group in 2016. Upon execution, the spyware retrieves an encrypted configuration from Firebase Firestore, controlling activation and the C2 server address. The configuration request, sent as an encrypted JSON, controls parameters like C2 ping frequency, plugin URLs, and victim messages.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 18, 2024

The Dropbox and LinkedIn breaches, for example, occurred in 2012 before being broadly distributed in 2016 and just like those incidents, the alleged AT&T data is now in very broad circulation. The above example simply didn't have plain text entries for the encrypted data.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 8, 2023

This process has been going on since 2016, and since that time there has been a huge increase in quantum technology and an equally large increase in quantum understanding and interest. As to the long time it takes to get new encryption products to market, work on shortening it: The moral is the need for cryptographic agility.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Spooky fact : The infamous Mirai botnet attack in 2016 turned more than 600,000 IoT devices into cyber zombies, leading to one of the most significant DDoS attacks in history. Like vampires, malware strains can operate quietly, leeching data or encrypting files without warning, making ransomware and spyware infections incredibly haunting.

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Adam Levin

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has employed a similar approach after discovering hundreds of accounts linked to Russian troll farms after the 2016 election. For one instance, Facebook’s WhatsApp platform provides a simple work-around: Because it is encrypted, any content forwarded would not be visible to these “war rooms.”.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

Chatting with Snowden on an encrypted IM connection, I joked that the NSA cafeteria menu probably has code names for menu items. Transferring files electronically is what encryption is for. I told Greenwald that he and Laura Poitras should be sending large encrypted files of dummy documents back and forth every day.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The name “ Bvp47 ” comes form numerous references to the string “Bvp” and the numerical value “0x47” used in the encryption algorithm. In 2016 and 2017, the hacking group The Shadow Brokers l eaked a bunch of data allegedly stolen from the Equation Group, including many hacking tools and exploits.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

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. NeroWolfe seems to have abandoned all of his forum accounts sometime in 2016. In November 2016, an exploit[.]ru Cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 finds that pin@darktower.ru

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 28, 2024

The document mentions Facebook’s so-called In-App Action Panel (IAAP) program, which existed between June 2016 and approximately May 2019. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a standard security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a server and a client. That’s according to a court document filed March 23, 2024.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 22, 2019

For example, RevCode’s website touted the software’s compatibility with all “ crypters ,” software that can encrypt, obfuscate and manipulate malware to make it harder to detect by antivirus programs. A letter from Alex Yücel’s parents to the court in June 2016.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 25, 2024

BitLocker is a Windows security feature that encrypts entire drives. Affected systems are running Windows 10 and 11 or one of the server versions (Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008.).

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

. “To make sure that your Exchange organization is better protected against the latest threats (for example Emotet, TrickBot or WannaCry to name a few) we recommend disabling SMBv1 if it’s enabled on your Exchange (2013/2016/2019) server.” ” reads an advisory published by the Microsoft Tech Community.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 28, 2020

Many filling stations are upgrading their pumps to include more cyber and physical security — such as end-to-end encryption of card data, custom locks and security cameras. Prior to late 2016, fuel station owners in the United States had until October 1, 2017 to install chip-capable readers at their pumps.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2024

Cerber has been active since at least 2016, most recently it was involved in attacks against Confluence servers. As such, the data the ransomware is able to encrypt is limited to files owned by the confluence user. The experts pointed out that there is very little knowledge about the Linux variant of the ransomware family.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Experts pointed out that it is the first critical vulnerability patched in toolkit since September 2016. SecurityAffairs – hacking, encryption ). The OpenSSL Project announced that it is going to release updates to address a critical vulnerability in the open-source toolkit. ” reads the announcement. “OpenSSL 3.0.7

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2021

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued an alert to warn that the Mamba ransomware is abusing the DiskCryptor open source tool to encrypt entire drives. Mamba ransomware is one of the first malware that encrypted hard drives rather than files that was detected in public attacks. ” reads the alert published by the FBI.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2023

While LastPass claims that users’ passwords remain safely encrypted, it admitted that certain elements of customers’ information have been exposed.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 11, 2017

But then I started thinking about the rate of change; just since the beginning of last year, here's a bunch of really major HTTPS stuff that's happened (and this is just the ones that spring immediately to mind): Apr 2016: Let's Encrypt officially launched.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 7, 2021

After encryption, the contents of the folders look as follows: the cybercriminals’ e-mail address and the victim’s ID are added to the beginning of each file, followed by the original name and extension, and then the extension added by the ransomware. Encrypted files and a note from the attackers. Crysis ransom note.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The tool encrypts data before exfiltrate it to a command-and-control server. a Chinese tech company founded in 2016 with fewer than 50 employees. The tool is actively maintained, with increasing use of obfuscation to evade detection.

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