Malwarebytes

JANUARY 6, 2025

A US chain of dental offices known as Westend Dental LLC denied a 2020 ransomware attack and its associated data breach, instead telling their customers that data was lost due to an accidentally formatted hard drive. In October 2020, Westend Dental was attacked by the Medusa Locker ransomware group.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 17, 2020

Encryption is a cornerstone of digital commerce. Related: A ‘homomorphic-like’ encryption solution We know very well how to encrypt data in transit. And we’ve mastered how to encrypt — and decrypt — data at rest. PKI is the authentication and encryption framework on which the Internet is built.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 16, 2022

The creation date for the all the weak keys was 2020 or later. Böck also found four vulnerable PGP keys, typically used to encrypt email, on SKS PGP key servers. Printer users can use the keys to generate a Certificate Signing Request. The weak Canon keys are tracked as CVE-2022-26351.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Peter is an IT manager for a technology manufacturer that got hit with a Russian ransomware strain called “ Zeppelin ” in May 2020. He’d been on the job less than six months, and because of the way his predecessor architected things, the company’s data backups also were encrypted by Zeppelin. ” they wrote.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 2, 2021

The amount of data in the world topped an astounding 59 zetabytes in 2020, much of it pooling in data lakes. They outlined why something called attribute-based encryption, or ABE, has emerged as the basis for a new form of agile cryptography that we will need in order to kick digital transformation into high gear.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The ransomware encrypted the lab results of 15 million Canadians, and personally identifiable information (PII) of 8.6 The privacy commissioners of both British Columbia and Ontario finished writing a report about the incident in 2020 but LifeLabs managed to hold that up in court for four years. million people was stolen.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2024

has charged a Chinese national for hacking thousands of Sophos firewall devices worldwide in 2020. has charged the Chinese national Guan Tianfeng (aka gbigmao and gxiaomao) for hacking thousands of Sophos firewall devices worldwide in 2020. The malware stole data and encrypted files to block remediation attempts.

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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

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

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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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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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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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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Evgenii Ptitsyn and others allegedly ran an international hacking scheme since November 2020, deploying Phobos ransomware to extort victims. Ptitsyn reportedly sold the ransomware on darknet forums under aliases like “derxan” and “zimmermanx,” enabling other criminals to encrypt data and demand ransom.

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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