Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Avast spotted a new IoT botnet, tracked as Torii, that appears much more sophisticated and stealth of the numerous Mirai variants previously analyzed. Security researchers spotted a new IoT botnet, tracked as Torii, that appears much more sophisticated and stealth of the numerous Mirai variants previously analyzed. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 25, 2018

This morning we announced, in tandem with our partner 451 Research, the Global Edition of the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report. For each technology area, encryption or encryption-related technologies were the requirement. Encrypt the data. Encryption was rated as the most effective tool for protecting data (77%).

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2019

The drivers of IoT-centric commerce appear to be unstoppable. Count on the wide deployment of IoT systems to continue at an accelerated rate. There are already more IoT devices than human beings on the planet, according to tech industry research firm Gartner. more than the $646 billion spent in 2018.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Cloud computing has gone mainstream for many enterprises, and the Internet of Things (IoT) is changing how both industrial and consumer-oriented companies do business. Looking to the new year however, which trends will come to define our industry in 2018 and beyond? Shift towards micro-services. Resurrection of established tech.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

According to statistica the number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices connected will rise to 23 billion this year. From industrial machinery and intelligent transportation to health monitoring and emergency notification systems, a broad range of IoT devices are already being deployed by enterprises.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 4, 2018

From cloud computing , to mobile devices to digital payments and the emerging applications of the IoT, organizations are re-shaping how they do business. But to do that you must believe that the data is going to be protected and that the organization is protecting you – and that requires secure infrastructure and encryption.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 21, 2021

At the time, in the spring of 2018, only 25 percent of commercial websites used HTTPS; today adoption is at 98 percent and rising. TLS is a component of the Public Key Infrastructure, or PKI , the system used to encrypt data, as well as to authenticate individual users and the web servers they log onto. Decryption bottleneck.

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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. This wave is a significant timeline as a technology step-up for DDoS botnet and IoT malware development.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2018

In a move to blanket the Internet with encrypted website traffic, Google is moving forward with its insistence that straggling website publishers adopt HTTPS Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). Related: How PKI can secure IoT. W3Techs’ June 2018 survey shows that 35 percent of the top 10 million websites have adopted it.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 31, 2018

According to our 2018 Global Data Threat Report , 67% of enterprises have been breached, with that percentage rate growing every year. Also with the increase in cloud, mobile, and IoT devices, a whole new generation of attack surfaces are vulnerable to hackers. Data breaches are the new normal.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Security experts with Unit 42 at Palo Alto Networks have discovered new variants of the Mirai and Gafgyt IoT malware targeting enterprises. “These developments suggest these IOT botnets are increasingly targeting enterprise devices with outdated versions.” Securi ty Affairs – IoT botnet, Mirai). ” . .

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The malware stole data and encrypted files to block remediation attempts. “The malware that exploited the vulnerability discovered by Guan was designed to steal information from infected computers and to encrypt files on them if a victim attempted to remediate the infection. ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 25, 2020

Privacy and security advocates may be forced to battle it out on the Senate floor to stop a newly introduced bill that will help law enforcement get past encryption. New backdoor bill in Congress hits encryption debate head on. The question: should encrypted communication be out of law enforcement's reach?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 23, 2018

John Grimm, Thales eSecurity’s Senior Director of IoT Security Strategy, recently spoke with CyberWire’s Dave Bittner about key findings and trends from Thales eSecurity’s 2018 Global Encryption Trends Study. A sampling of John’s comments: The lynchpin of any good encryption system is how well you protect the key.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 4, 2022

According to Forbes, “the first half of 2018 was marked by an increase in API-related data breaches, with the 10 largest companies reporting the loss of 63 million personal records.” This can be compounded by certain enterprises using the Internet of Things (IoT) that don’t have good security.

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Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2019

it first appeared oi the threat landscape in late 2018 when the bot was spread by exploiting a ThinkPHP remote code execution vulnerability after the exploit code was made publicly available. The Miori bot targets IoT devices having SSH and Telnet services exposed online and that are poorly secured. ” concludes Trend Micro.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 28, 2022

IoT and Machine Identity Management in Financial Services. How is IoT changing the financial sector? IoT has already positively impacted the financial sector and will only continue to in the future. The most notable and well-documented example of investment in the IoT infrastructure has been by retail banks.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Muhstik botnet leverages known web application exploits to compromise IoT devices, now it targeting Oracle WebLogic, Drupal. Muhstik is a botnet that is known to use web application exploits to compromise IoT devices, it has been around for at least 2018.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2019

PaloAlto Networks researchers discovered a new variant of the infamous Mirai botnet is targeting IoT devices belonging to businesses. Researchers at PaloAlto Networks spotted a new variant of the infamous Mirai botnet is targeting IoT devices belonging to businesses. SecurityAffairs – Mirai, IoT). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 5, 2018

Key Findings from the 2018 Global Encryption Trends Study. No core technologies are more fundamental to data protection than encryption and key management. We’ve just released the results from our Global Encryption Trends Study which once again show positive growth in the use of encryption across a wide variety of use cases.

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Security Affairs

JULY 27, 2020

In December 2018, security experts from Trend Micro discovered that some machine-to-machine (M2M) protocols can be abused to attack IoT and industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems. Change the default username and passwords for all network devices, especially IoT devices.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2020

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Silverfort is the brainchild of a band of colleagues who toiled together in the encryption branch of Unit 8200 , the elite cybersecurity arm of the Israeli military. I met with Kovetz and Silverfort’s VP of Market Strategy, Dana Tamir, at Black Hat USA 2018. For a full drill down, please listen to the accompanying podcast.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The huge trove of data was discovered by Bob Diachenko from cybersecurity firm Hacken, most of the records were encrypted, but 689,272 records were stored in plaintext. The expert located the database by using IoT search engines such as Shodan and BinaryEdge.io. The archive included 2,332,115 records containing encrypted data (i.e.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 19, 2018

I was just reviewing last year’s trip report and thinking about how it was full of “IoT”, “Blockchain”, and of course “Digital Transformation”. Just to double check that my perception wasn’t false, I just did a search on “IoT” and only two Gartner sessions had that term in the title. I could keep this blog going—but I will spare you.

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2020

According to the experts from Kaspersky that first analyzed the framework, the MATA campaign has been active at least since April of 2018. “The first artefacts we found relating to MATA were used around April 2018. This comprehensive framework is able to target Windows, Linux and macOS operating systems.” cls and k_3872.cls,

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2019

The most severe flaws disclosed by Sierra are an OS command-injection vulnerability tracked as CVE-2018-4061 (CVSS score 9.1) and an unrestricted file upload vulnerability tracked as CVE-2018-4063 (CVSS score 9.1). The CVE-2018-4063 vulnerability is classified as an unrestricted upload of file with dangerous type.

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2021

Researchers at IoT security firm Armis discovered an authentication bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-22779 and dubbed ModiPwn, that affects some of Schneider Electric ’s Modicon PLCs. “Armis researchers discover a critical vulnerability in Schneider Electric Modicon PLCs. . ” reads the advisory published by SA.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The hacking tools developed by the US cyber spies can target mobile devices, desktop computers, and IoT devices such as routers and smart TVs. In middle May 2018, both The New York Times and The Washington Post , revealed the name of the alleged source of the Vault 7 leak , the man who passed the secret documents to Wikileaks.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 1, 2023

To prevent unwanted access and protect data in transit, wireless connections must be secured with strong authentication procedures, encryption protocols, access control rules, intrusion detection and prevention systems, and other security measures. As a result, wireless networks are prone to eavesdropping, illegal access and theft.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2019

Mirai malware first appeared in the wild in 2016 when the expert MalwareMustDie discovered it in massive attacks aimed at Internet of Things (IoT) devices. which allows it to attack a wider range of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, Since the code of the Mirai botnet was leaked online many variants emerged in the threat landscape.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

At the 2018 Winter Olympic Games held in PyeongChang, for instance, cyber criminals leveraged a previously unknown family of malware called Olympic Destroyer to attack the Games’ servers just before the opening ceremony. Unfortunately, digital criminals are also closely following the buzz surrounding this tournament.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2019

Mirai malware first appeared in the wild in 2016 when the expert MalwareMustDie discovered it in massive attacks aimed at Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Satori , Masuta , Wicked Mirai , JenX , Omni, and the OMG are just the last variants appeared online in 2018. ” concludes the post.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

It also uses TLS encryption to block attempts to intercept the network traffic and analysis of the malware, the researchers wrote. Casey Ellis, founder and CTO at crowdsource cybersecurity vendor Bugcrowd, noted that the CVE-2017-6079 vulnerability was found in May 2017 and the patch made available about 18 months later, in December 2018.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Invariably, Internet of Things (IoT) strategies form the backbone of those efforts. Enormous quantities of data can be generated by and collected from a wide variety of IoT devices. The diversity of IoT devices and lack of standardisation also poses challenges. The goal is then to analyse it and take impactful action.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

It seems everything smart is hackable, with IoT startups sometimes repeating security mistakes first made decades ago. The next day I cut the string, There's a parallel here to IoT light bulbs that change colors. And what then are the tools and knowledge that you need to get started hacking IoT devices. Funny thing.

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