Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

[no description provided] Congratulations to the 2016 winners ! Dan Geer, Chief Information Security Officer at In-Q-Tel; Lance J.

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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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

National Security Agency (NSA) Equation Group. The name “ Bvp47 ” comes form numerous references to the string “Bvp” and the numerical value “0x47” used in the encryption algorithm. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, backdoor).

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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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Authentication Malware Advertising Hacking 144

Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2024

Cado Security Labs recently became aware that Cerber ransomware is being deployed into Confluence servers via the CVE-2023-22518 exploit. Cerber has been active since at least 2016, most recently it was involved in attacks against Confluence servers. ” continues the report. 0” at startup and “/tmp/log.1”

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Experts pointed out that it is the first critical vulnerability patched in toolkit since September 2016. is a security-fix release. SecurityAffairs – hacking, encryption ). The post OpenSSL to fix the second critical flaw ever appeared first on Security Affairs. ” reads the announcement. “OpenSSL 3.0.7

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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.

Cybersecurity 100

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The tool encrypts data before exfiltrate it to a command-and-control server. The IP address of one of the C2 servers used by the surveillance tool has been linked to Wuhan Chinasoft Token Information Technology Co., a Chinese tech company founded in 2016 with fewer than 50 employees.

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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

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

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

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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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.

Technology 139

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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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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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Data breaches Small Business Advertising Cryptocurrency 106

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

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

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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Malware Advertising Marketing Hacking 141

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

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 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.

Cryptocurrency 131

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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.

Healthcare 129

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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

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

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.

Passwords 92

Passwords Advertising Mobile Encryption 92

Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2020

In a few days back, the MalwareMustDie team’s security researcher unixfreaxjp has published a new Linux malware analysis of Fbot that has focused on the decryption of the last encryption logic used by its bot client. And will discuss the mysteries that can be seen after Fbot has been detected. The background before Fbot Mirai variant.

DDOS 145

DDOS IoT Malware Advertising 145

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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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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Data breaches Data privacy Advertising Encryption 93

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

MAY 9, 2020

The group is considered responsible for the massive WannaCry ransomware attack, a string of SWIFT attacks in 2016, and the Sony Pictures hack. The Mac version uses the same AES key and IV as the Linux variant to encrypt and decrypt the config file. It was the first malware linked to the Lazarus group that targets Linux systems.

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2019

Experts discovered that since December 2016, the APT15 group has been using the previously undocumented backdoor dubbed Okrum. We first detected Okrum, through ESET telemetry, in December 2016; it targeted diplomatic missions in Slovakia, Belgium, Chile, Guatemala and Brazil throughout 2017.” ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Attackers employed a custom tunneling tool to achieve this, it forwards client traffic to the server, the malware encrypts the traffic using trivial binary encryption. The group is considered responsible for the massive WannaCry ransomware attack, a string of SWIFT attacks in 2016, and the Sony Pictures hack.

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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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Cybercrime Telecommunications DNS Technology 117

Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2021

” The VBA self-decoding technique is not a novelty, the threat actor is using it since 2016. The shellcode injected into Notepad.exe process downloads an encrypted payload from [link] which is a link to a Google Drive containing RokRat. A malicious macro is encoded within another that is dynamically decoded and executed.

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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.

Computers and Electronics 128

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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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