Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2020

Ueland said after hearing about the escrow.com hack Monday evening he pulled the domain name system (DNS) records for escrow.com and saw they were pointing to an Internet address in Malaysia — 111.90.149[.]49 The attacker also obtained free encryption certificates for escrow.com from Let’s Encrypt.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Ghost ransomware actors, identified as operating from China, have been targeting unpatched systems and stolen credentials to infiltrate networks, encrypt data, and demand ransom payments. Report ransomware incidents to the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) , CISA, or MS-ISAC. Develop and test ransomware response plans.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 24, 2020

On December 23, 2019, unknown attackers began contacting customer support people at OpenProvider , a popular domain name registrar based in The Netherlands. 23, 2019, the e-hawk.net domain was transferred to a reseller account within OpenProvider. ” Dijkxhoorn shared records obtained from OpenProvider showing that on Dec.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The company sells "TIME AI," "the world's first dynamic 'non-factor' based quantum AI encryption software," "utilizing multi-dimensional encryption technology, including time, music's infinite variability, artificial intelligence, and most notably mathematical constancies to generate entangled key pairs."

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

This post seeks to document the extent of those attacks, and traces the origins of this overwhelmingly successful cyber espionage campaign back to a cascading series of breaches at key Internet infrastructure providers. federal civilian agencies to secure the login credentials for their Internet domain records. That changed on Jan.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 1, 2020

As KrebsOnSecurity noted in 2019 , Vaughn’s identity was revealed by following the trail of clues from a gaming website he used that later got hacked. That is, until early January 2019, when news broke that hackers had broken into the servers of computer game maker BlankMediaGames and made off with account details of some 7.6

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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. A machine-translated ad for ransomware source code from Putinkrab on the Russian language cybercrime forum UFOlabs in 2019. Cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 finds that pin@darktower.ru

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Ptitsyn reportedly sold the ransomware on darknet forums under aliases like “derxan” and “zimmermanx,” enabling other criminals to encrypt data and demand ransom. Phobos operation uses a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model, it has been active since May 2019.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2019

OTA -- over-the-air updates) were stored in a publicly accessible AWS S3 bucket that also lacked TLS encryption (CVE-2019-16270, CVE-2019-16274). Unauthenticated web server: a web server running Android OS on port 8080 discloses all whiteboards stored locally on the device (CVE-2019-16271).

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Encryption scrambles data to make it unreadable to those without decryption keys. Proper use of encryption preserves secrecy and radically lowers the potential damage of a successful cybersecurity attack. Encryption algorithm types will provide an overview of the mathematical algorithms used to encrypt data (AES, RSA, etc.),

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Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2019

Microsoft releases Patch Tuesday security updates for June 2019 that address 88 vulnerabilities in Windows OS and other products. The flaws were disclosed by the researcher SandboxEscaper over the past weeks, below the list of the issue: CVE-2019-0973 CVE-2019-1053 CVE-2019-1064 CVE-2019-1069. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Cisco Security

MARCH 16, 2021

Hiding internet activity strengthens privacy—but also makes it easier for bad actors to infiltrate the network. In fact, 63% of threats detected by Cisco Stealthwatch in 2019 were in encrypted traffic. Privacy suffers when people can snoop on your internet activity and sell your data. DoH prevents both of these problems.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

19, Apex was alerted that its systems had been infected with a destructive strain of ransomware that encrypts computer files and demands payment for a digital key needed to unscramble the data. “When they encrypt the data, that happens really fast,” he said. Roswell, Ga. on Tuesday, Feb. More than a week later on Jan.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Encrypted flash drives, essentially secure storage on a stick, are a proven technology that has been readily available for at least 15 years. And yet today there is a resurgence in demand for encrypted flash drives. And yet today there is a resurgence in demand for encrypted flash drives.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 26, 2019

iLnkP2p is bundled with millions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, including security cameras and Webcams, baby monitors, smart doorbells, and digital video recorders. “In reality, enumeration of these prefixes has shown that the number of online devices was ~1,517,260 in March 2019.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

As per usual, most of the critical flaws — those that can be exploited by malware or miscreants without any help from users — reside in Microsoft’s Web browsers Edge and Internet Explorer. Of course, if the target has Adobe Reader or Acrobat installed, it might be easier for attackers to achieve that log in.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 24, 2022

2019/12/23 - 45[.]138[.]96[.]206. 2019/12/12 - 107[.]175[.]217[.]162. 2019/10/07 - 96[.]9[.]252[.]156. 2019/09/04 - 96[.]9[.]252[.]156. 2019/07/15 - 91[.]214[.]71[.]139. Related responding IPs for hxxp://decryptor[.]top 156): 2021/07/12 - 45[.]9[.]148[.]108. 2020/09/18 - 185[.]193[.]127[.]162. 2020/09/15 - 185[.]193[.]127[.]162.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

In 2019, a cybersecurity firm demonstrated security risks that could allow an attacker to disrupt engine readings and altitude on an aircraft. Hilderman Many components and systems within an aircraft can exchange data and communicate with each other or with the external internet. There was another warning from the U.S.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 13, 2021

Data Encryption Shields the Energy Sector Against Emerging Threats. According to a Siemens/Ponemon report , in 2019, 56% of gas, wind, water and solar utilities around the world experienced at least one cyberattack that caused a shutdown or loss of operational data. Encryption. Wed, 01/13/2021 - 09:42.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 14, 2020

Since the internet, especially the "internet of things," is expected to rely heavily on 5G infrastructure, potential Chinese infiltration is a serious national security threat. To be sure, there are significant security improvements in 5G over 4G­in encryption, authentication, integrity protection, privacy, and network availability.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 17, 2021

NTT Research opened its doors in Silicon Valley in July 2019 to help nurture basic research in three subject areas that happen to be at the core of digital transformation: quantum physics, medical informatics and cryptography. More about these paradigm shifters below.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 16, 2020

organizations between January 2013 and July 2019. Once inside a network, they move laterally to locate and encrypt mission-critical systems; a ransom demand for a decryption key follows. Bresman “There was a big uptick in Q3 and Q4 2019, not just in the U.S., Ransomware hacking groups extorted at least $144.35 million from U.S.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

Launched in 2008, privnote.com employs technology that encrypts each message so that even Privnote itself cannot read its contents. Other Privnote phishing domains that also phoned home to the same Internet address as pirwnote[.]com The real Privnote, at privnote.com. And it doesn’t send or receive messages. com include privnode[.]com

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

According to a report from Protenus and DataBreaches.net, over 41 million patient records were breached in 2019, almost tripling healthcare industry breaches from the prior year. The largest privacy incident was reported in 2019 at American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA), a third-party billing and collections company.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

GandCrab dissolved in July 2019, and is thought to have become “ REvil ,” one of the most ruthless and rapacious Russian ransomware groups of all time. Semen-7907 registered at Tunngle from the Internet address 31.192.175[.]63 63 , which is in Yekaterinburg, RU. Constella reports that tretyakov-files@yandex.ru

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2020

Experts at cyber security firm Cypher conducted a study on Portuguese domains during 2019 and concluded that Emotet and Ryuk were the most active threats. Emotet , the most widespread malware worldwide and Ryuk , a ransomware type, are growing threats and real concerns for businesses and internet users in 2020.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 3, 2023

Searching on ubsagency@gmail.com in Constella Intelligence shows the address was used sometime before February 2019 to create an account under the name “ SammySam_Alon ” at the interior decorating site Houzz.com. SammySam_Alon registered at Houzz using an Internet address in Huntsville, Ala. 68.35.149.206).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

In 2019, Meta disclosed that it had inadvertently stored some users’ passwords in plaintext on its internal systems, without encrypting them. Facebook Lite is a simplified version of Facebook primarily used in regions with limited internet connectivity. without cryptographic protection or encryption).”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The attackers first create a user in the administrator group, then use it to encrypt the content of the NAS. “It is important to note that there is a free decryptor for files locked with an older version (before July 17th, 2019) of eCh0raix ransomware. The malicious code appends.encrypt extension to filenames of encrypted files.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2021

The eCh0raix ransomware has been active since at least 2019, when eExperts from security firms Intezer and Anomali separately discovered sample of the ransomware targeting Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices. The malicious code appends.encrypt extension to filenames of encrypted files.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2022

which was renamed to NortonLifeLock in 2019 (LifeLock is now included in the Norton 360 service). “The key to the wallet is encrypted and stored securely in the cloud. ” Norton 360 is owned by Tempe, Ariz.-based based NortonLifeLock Inc. In 2017, the identity theft protection company LifeLock was acquired by Symantec Corp.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 7, 2021

Through the network, if, for instance, a home WiFi network shuts down, the Amazon smart devices connected to that home network will still be able to function, as they will be borrowing internet connectivity from neighboring products. link] — Whitney Merrill (@wbm312) May 30, 2021.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2019

In the first four months of 2019 alone, some 22 attacks have been disclosed. days in Q2 2019, as compared to 7.3 days in Q1 2019. However, the operational imperatives in today’s world of internet-centric commerce often boil down to survival math, especially for SMBs. mayors attending the U.S. Talk more soon.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2022

. “Ransomware and brute-force attacks have been widely targeting all networking devices, and the most vulnerable victims will be those devices exposed to the Internet without any protection. “Check whether your NAS is exposed to the Internet.” ” states the security advisory published by the company.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Related: The shared burden of securing the Internet of Things. Company networks must support endless permutations of users and apps, both on-premises and in the Internet cloud. One new approach that is showing a lot of promise cropped up in late 2019. Fast forward to the 21 st Century’s third decade.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 3, 2019

On one side is law enforcement, which wants to be able to break encryption, to access devices and communications of terrorists and criminals. Pervasive surveillance capitalism­ -- as practiced by the Internet companies that are already spying on everyone -- ­matters. The Crypto Wars have been waging off-and-on for a quarter-century.

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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. The above-mentioned AIDS Trojan hailing from the distant pre-Internet era was the progenitor of the trend, but its real-world impact was close to zero. pharma giant ExecuPharm.

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