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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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

Those secrets collectively have a code name—ECI, for exceptionally compartmented information—and almost never appear in the documents. 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.

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Adam Shostack

AUGUST 5, 2018

Congratulations to the 2016 winners ! Dan Geer, Chief Information Security Officer at In-Q-Tel; Lance J.

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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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Security Affairs

JULY 26, 2021

The “No More Ransom” website is an initiative launched in 2016 by the National High Tech Crime Unit of the Netherlands’ police, Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre, Kaspersky and McAfee to help victims of ransomware retrieve their encrypted data without having to pay the criminals. ” reads the post published by the EUROPOL.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2024

The ZIP archives contain a compressed executable payload that, if executed, will start the encryption process with LockBit Black ransomware. The emails sent in the April campaign contain ZIP attachments and were sent by the same addresses, “JennyBrown3422[@]gmail[.]com,” com,” and “Jenny[@]gsd[.]com.”

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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.” Please see this KB for more information. ” continues Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2022

TrickBot is a popular banking Trojan that has been around since October 2016, its authors have continuously upgraded it by implementing new features. In January, the FBI officially linked the Diavol ransomware operation to the infamous TrickBot gang , the group that is behind the TrickBot banking trojan.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2021

The ransomware encrypts files on the targeted systems using the “ cuba” extension. The Hancitor downloader has been active since at least 2016 for dropping Pony and Vawtrak. The FBI discourages paying the ransom because there is no guarantee to recover the encrypted files.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2022

The ransomware encrypts files on the targeted systems using the “.cuba” The Hancitor downloader has been active since at least 2016 for dropping Pony and Vawtrak. .” Its operators have a data leak site, where they post exfiltrated data from their victims who refused to pay the ransom. cuba” extension.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2022

Diavol encrypts files solely using an RSA encryption key, and its code is capable of prioritizing file types to encrypt based on a pre-configured list of extensions defined by the attacker. “The FBI has not yet observed Diavol leak victim data, despite ransom notes including threats to leak stolen information.”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 22, 2024

On 17 October 2024, European Union Member States must adopt and publish the measures necessary to comply with the Network and Information Security Directive (NIS2). Supply chain security. Network and information systems security. Cryptography and encryption. Business continuity/crisis management.

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SC Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

Most cryptographers believe that the sheer power of quantum computing will be capable of tearing through many of the existing public key encryption algorithms, like RSA or Diffie-Hellman, that underpin most computer hardware and software today. It could also threaten some symmetric key algorithms, though not to nearly the same extent.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2024

Members of the ExCobalt group have been active since at least 2016, the researchers believe that the group is linked to the notorious Cobalt Gang. The backdoor serializes, encrypts, archives, and sends the collected data to a designated server that stores compromised data.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

According to his LinkedIn profile , Schulte worked for the NSA for five months in 2010 as a systems engineer, after this experience, he joined the CIA as a software engineer and he left the CIA in November 2016. Schulte was identified a few days after WikiLeaks started leaking the precious dumps.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

In 2016, researchers from the non-profit organization CitizenLab published a report that describes a campaign of targeted spyware attacks carried out by the Stealth Falcon. The remaining components are encrypted and stored within a binary registry value.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2021

According to the researchers, the Smominru botnet has been active at least since 2016 and at the time of its discovery infected more than 526,000 Windows computers. “For protection against quick analysis and against static extraction with regular expressions, the substitute values are encrypted. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2020

The Dharma ransomware first appeared on the threat landscape in February 2016, at the time experts dubbed it Crysis. In November 2016, the master decryption keys for Crysis were released online, victims of CrySis versions 2 and 3 were able to recover their files.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Karma ransomware is a new threat that was first spotted in June of 2021, it is important to distinguish it from a different threat with the same name that is active since 2016. Sentinel Labs experts have analyzed the new Karma ransomware and speculate it represents an evolution of the Nemty ransomware operation.

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Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2019

In October, Kaspersky revealed that the CVE-2018-8453 vulnerability has been exploited by the APT group tracked as FruityArmor , a cyber-espionage group that was first observed in 2016 while targeting activists, researchers, and individuals related to government organizations. Further details, including IoCs, are reported in the analysis.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2021

Between 2014 and 2016 the group used a new custom malware dubbed Carbanak that is considered a newer version of Anunak. Starting from 2016 the group developed a new custom malware using Cobalt Strike, a legitimate penetration testing framework. Hladyr also controlled the organization’s encrypted channels of communication.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2019

Yahoo is continuously trying to settle a lawsuit on the massive data breach over the period of 2013 to 2016. million settlement with millions of people whose email addresses and other personal information were stolen in the largest data breach in history”. This time Yahoo could pay $117.5

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Security Affairs

JULY 26, 2021

The attack abuses the Encrypting File System Remote (EFSRPC) protocol, which is used to perform maintenance and management operations on encrypted data that is stored remotely and accessed over a network.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 28, 2021

The files are then held for ransom and the victim is threatened by data loss, because of the encryption, and leaking of the exfiltrated data. Files are encrypted with a combination of AES-256 and RSA-4096 via the Microsoft CryptoAPI , as per CrowdStrike. Earlier versions appended the.CONTI extension to encrypted files.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2019

The company discovered on September 30 that a secondary database was exposing customer information from July 2, 2016. Exposed records include user’s email addresses, usernames and encrypted passwords, fortunately, no financial data was collected by the company.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2023

” The researchers pointed out that the Mirai variant like IZ1H9 and V3G4 will first initialize an encrypted string table and then retrieve the strings through an index. However, the persistent security concerns surrounding these devices cannot be ignored. The Mirai botnet, discovered back in 2016, is still active today.

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2019

Bad news for citizens of Kazakhstan, the government is beginning to intercept all the encrypted traffic, and to do it, it is forcing them to install a certificate. The Kazakhstan government is beginning to intercept all the encrypted traffic and to do it is forcing users in the country to install a certificate. ” states Tele2.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act applied these safeguards to electronic health record (EHR) technology. As web and mobile apps became the norm, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a 2016 guidance around health applications. Apply encryption. Data-in-transit.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 20, 2023

This is because despite claims of rock solid security, sensitive data was being stored in publicly accessible Amazon Web Service buckets. According to the complaint, the data in the storage buckets was not encrypted, no monitoring was taking place with regard to who was accessing it, and there were no access restrictions in place either.

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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2019

Marriott International has bought Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide in 2016 for $13 billion. According to the company, hackers accessed to the Starwood’s guest reservation system since 2014 and copied and encrypted the information. The brand includes St. ” reads the statement published by the ICO.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Table 1: Information about JSWorm 4.0.2 JSWorm encrypts all the user files appending a new extension to their name. Unlike other ransomware, the extension is composed by many fields, reporting the information the user needs to move on the ransom payment phase. Figure 3: Extensions excluded from encryption.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2022

A Mandiant’s report attributed the string of attacks against the SWIFT banking system to the APT38, including the hack of Vietnam’s TP Bank in 2015, Bangladesh’s central bank in 2016, Taiwan’s Far Eastern International in 2017, Bancomext in Mexico in 2018, and Banco de Chile in 2018. ” reads the analysis published by Trellix.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

“We found dozens of related samples that had been appearing in the wild since 2016 and had been deployed in various application marketplaces including Google Play.” Experts observed around 300 infection attacks on Android devices in India, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Indonesia since 2016. Android version, installed apps). .

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2021

Once infected a system, the ransomware informed victims that their files were encrypted demanded the payment of a Bitcoin ransom to decrypt them. TrickBot is a popular banking Trojan that has been around since October 2016, its authors have continuously upgraded it by implementing new features.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2024

The cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2016, according to the CrowdStrike researchers it is using a very sophisticated toolset. If the implant is active, a specially crafted empty TCP packet is returned, accompanied by information regarding the host’s responsiveness.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The Sweden government is going to authorize law enforcement agencies into using spyware to spy on suspects’ devices, the malicious code allows agents to read encrypted communications, to track their movements, exfiltrate data and spy on them via built-in microphone and camera. ” reads the official announcement. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2019

The Cerber ransomware was first spotted in 2016, it was offered in the criminal underground as a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS). “For example, when encrypting files FuxSocy will skip files whose file path contain certain strings. Experts also noticed that the FuxSocy Encryptor only encrypts a portion of the files.

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