Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

ArbiterSports, a software provider for several sports leagues including the NCAA, announced that it had averted a ransomware attack in July 2020, but despite blocking the attempt to encrypt their systems, the company discovered that a database backup had been accessed prior to the attack.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 4, 2021

percent of all malware detected on networks of WatchGuard Technologies customers in the second quarter came over encrypted connections, raising the security risk for the 80 percent of such organizations that lack processes for decrypting and scanning HTTPS traffic for threats. Malware in Encrypted Traffic. A surprising 91.5

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The antivirus server was later encrypted in the attack). Over 30,000 machines were running Windows 7 (out of support since January 2020). Antivirus software triggered numerous alerts after detecting Cobalt Strike activity but these were not escalated. There was a lack of effective patching (updates, bug fixes etc.)

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Bleeping Computer

JUNE 1, 2022

In 2020, ransomware actors spent an average of 230 hours to complete their attacks and 1637.6 The duration of ransomware attacks in 2021 averaged 92.5 hours, measured from initial network access to payload deployment. hours in 2019. [.].

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 8, 2022

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. Twenty-six advanced to Round 2 in 2019, and seven (plus another eight alternates) were announced as Round 3 finalists in 2020.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2021

Facebook says the data was collected before 2020 when it changed things to prevent such information from being scraped from profiles. 2020) was not in HaveIBeenPwned, but then again Facebook claims to have more than 2.7 A cybercrime forum ad from June 2020 selling a database of 533 Million Facebook users. According to a Jan.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2023

pic.twitter.com/YJavUu53v3 — vx-underground (@vxunderground) October 7, 2023 BleepingComputer was able to verify with the help of the popular malware researcher Michael Gillespie that that source code is legitimate and is related to the first version of the ransomware that was employed in 2020.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

I want a "secure by default" internet with all the things encrypted all the time such that people can move freely between networks without ever needing to care about who manages them or what they're doing with them. Now let's try the mobile app: What's the encryption story there? We still have a way to go!

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Anton on Security

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Skills, Not Tiers” “Beware: Clown-grade SOCs Still Abound”” “Revisiting the Visibility Triad for 2020” Top 5 posts with the most Medium fans : “Security Correlation Then and Now: A Sad Truth About SIEM” “Beware: Clown-grade SOCs Still Abound” “Can We Have “Detection as Code”?” New Paper: “Future of the SOC: SOC People?—?Skills,

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

It is perhaps best known for selling virtual private networking (VPN) software that lets users remotely access networks and computers over an encrypted connection. 10, 2020, Citrix disclosed additional details about the incident. But in a letter sent to affected individuals dated Feb. 13, 2018 and Mar.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 11, 2021

.” Another curious bug fixed this month is CVE-2020-24587 , described as a “Windows Wireless Networking Information Disclosure Vulnerability.” “This patch fixes a vulnerability that could allow an attacker to disclose the contents of encrypted wireless packets on an affected system,” he said.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

” Image: Coveware Q3 2020 report. ” Ransomware victims who pay for a digital key to unlock servers and desktop systems encrypted by the malware also are relying on hope, Wosar said, because it’s also not uncommon that a decryption key fails to unlock some or all of the infected machines.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. LastPass disclosed that criminal hackers had compromised encrypted copies of some password vaults, as well as other personal information.

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Anton on Security

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Skills, Not Tiers”” “Beware: Clown-grade SOCs Still Abound” “Revisiting the Visibility Triad for 2020” “Why is Threat Detection Hard?” “Top 2020 Anton’s Security Blog Quarterly Q3 2021 was originally published in Anton on Security on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 30, 2020

Newer, chip-based cards employ a technology known as EMV that encrypts the account data stored in the chip. The technology causes a unique encryption key — referred to as a token or “cryptogram” — to be generated each time the chip card interacts with a chip-capable payment terminal. .

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The epidemic went truly mainstream with the release of CryptoLocker back in 2013, and it has since transformed into a major dark web economy spawning the likes of Sodinokibi, Ryuk, and Maze lineages that are targeting the enterprise on a huge scale in 2020. File encryption 2013 – 2015. pharma giant ExecuPharm.

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Anton on Security

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Skills, Not Tiers”” “ New Paper: “Future of the SOC: Forces shaping modern security operations” ” “ Beware: Clown-grade SOCs Still Abound ” “Revisiting the Visibility Triad for 2020” “Stop Trying to Take Humans Out of SOC … Except … Wait… Wait… Wait…” “Why is Threat Detection Hard?” “A

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 2, 2023

j/5551112222 Zoom has an option to include an encrypted passcode within a meeting invite link, which simplifies the process for attendees by eliminating the need to manually enter the passcode. And to illustrate the persistence of some of these Zoom links, Archive.org says several of the links were first created as far back as 2020 and 2021.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 13, 2020

For the past year, a site called Privnotes.com has been impersonating Privnote.com , a legitimate, free service that offers private, encrypted messages which self-destruct automatically after they are read. And it doesn’t send and receive messages. Creating a message merely generates a link. ” But that’s not the half of it.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 1, 2022

Shouting “Glory for Ukraine,” the Contileaks account has since published additional Conti employee conversations from June 22, 2020 to Nov. 22, 2020, the U.S. Plus, he somehow encrypted the config, i.e. he had an encoder and a private key, plus uploaded it all to the admin panel. On Sunday, Feb. 428 hospitals.”

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In March 2020, KrebsOnSecurity alerted Swedish security giant Gunnebo Group that hackers had broken into its network and sold the access to a criminal group which specializes in deploying ransomware. He declined to comment on the particulars of the extortion incident.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2024

Among those was the encrypted messaging app Signal , which said the breach could have let attackers re-register the phone number on another device for about 1,900 users. LastPass said criminal hackers had stolen encrypted copies of some password vaults, as well as other personal information.

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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. Introduction.

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Anton on Security

MARCH 3, 2022

Skills, Not Tiers”” “Beware: Clown-grade SOCs Still Abound” “Revisiting the Visibility Triad for 2020” “Why is Threat Detection Hard?” “A 2020 Anton’s Security Blog Quarterly Q1 2022 was originally published in Anton on Security on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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The Hacker News

MAY 31, 2022

An "aggressive" advanced persistent threat (APT) group known as SideWinder has been linked to over 1,000 new attacks since April 2020.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) November 23, 2020 What appears to have happened is that in order to address "security vulnerabilities on the plug", TP-Link issued a firmware update that killed the HA integration. Looks like @tplinkuk broke it with a firmware update which will now break a bunch of stuff around the house.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

The other is a publicly disclosed bug in Microsoft’s Bitlocker encryption technology ( CVE-2018-8566 ) that could allow an attacker to get access to encrypted data. Adobe said it plans to end support for the plugin in 2020.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 21, 2021

From January through March 2021, TLS concealed 45 percent of the malware Sophos analysts observed circulating on the Internet; that’s double the rate – 23 percent – seen in early 2020, Dan Schiappa, Sophos’ chief product officer, told me in a briefing. How TLS works is that there is an encryption point and a decryption point.

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 6, 2020

Personal Info Of 20 Million Users Leaked: That’s 1.2TB Data” [link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) July 20, 2020 VPNs are a great example of where a tool can be used to enhance security and privacy but often, they fall short of delivering on the promise.

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

Like many other high-profile ransomware groups, OnePercent both encrypts and steals corporate data, threatening victims to release or auction the information if the ransom is not paid. The ransomware group has been active since at least November 2020 and has hit companies in the United States.

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SecureList

JUNE 17, 2021

The ransomware is coded in Python and compiled to an executable using PyInstaller; it supports two encryption modes: one generated dynamically and one using a hardcoded key. Code analysis revealed an amateurish development cycle and a possibility to recover files encrypted with Black Kingdom with the help of the hardcoded key.

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Anton on Security

AUGUST 19, 2022

Skills, Not Tiers”” “Beware: Clown-grade SOCs Still Abound” “Stop Trying to Take Humans Out of SOC … Except … Wait… Wait… Wait…” “Revisiting the Visibility Triad for 2020” “Why is Threat Detection Hard?” “A “New Paper: “Future of the SOC: SOC People?—?Skills,

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

But aside from some special cases and unique circumstances, that’s not how encryption systems are exploited in practice. I wrote this in my book, Data and Goliath : The problem is that encryption is just a bunch of math, and math has no agency. This essay originally appeared in the May 2020 issue of IEEE Computer.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The experts exploited the vulnerability to reconstruct encryption keys and developed a decryptor that allows victims of the Rhysida ransomware to recover their encrypted data for free. Rhysida ransomware employed a secure random number generator to generate the encryption key and subsequently encrypt the data.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2024

The Akira ransomware operators implement a double extortion model by exfiltrating victims’ data before encrypting it. Earlier versions of the ransomware were written in C++ and the malware added the.akira extension to the encrypted files. The attackers mostly used Cisco vulnerabilities CVE-2020-3259 and CVE-2023-20269.

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SecureBlitz

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In 2020, the digital landscape witnessed a cunning maneuver by the infamous Astaroth malware. Cisco Talos researchers first uncovered this devious strategy, revealing that Astaroth embedded encrypted and […] The post Astaroth malware uses YouTube channel descriptions for hacks appeared first on SecureBlitz Cybersecurity.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2022

SFile ransomware (aka Escal), has been active since 2020 , it was observed targeting only Windows systems. Some variants of the ransomware append the English name of the target company to the filenames of the encrypted files. “The SFile ransomware uses the Mbed TLS library, RSA-2048 and AES-256 algorithms for file encryption.

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