Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The Hive ransomware operators have developed a new variant of their malware that can encrypt Linux and FreeBSD. ESET researchers discovered a new Hive ransomware variant that was specifically developed to encrypt Linux and FreeBSD. 1/6 pic.twitter.com/dBw0E5pj6r — ESET research (@ESETresearch) October 29, 2021.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

To accelerate the ransomware encryption process and make it harder to detect, cybercriminal groups have begun using a new technique: intermittent encryption. Intermittent encryption allows the ransomware encryption malware to encrypt files partially or only encrypt parts of the files. Others are automated.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Increasingly, when ransomware successfully infiltrates and encrypts a large company’s data, they pay the ransom, which comes as a surprise to many. For instance, when Colonial Pipeline was hit by a ransomware attack in 2021 and shut down operations, the company paid a $4.4 million ransom to recover its business systems.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 2, 2021

As we’ve seen with major attacks like Kaseya and Colonial Pipeline, cybercriminals have continued to innovate, developing new tools and tactics to encrypt and exfiltrate data. On average, 80 percent of organizations are using up to 10 separate cybersecurity solutions, primarily anti-virus and anti-spam on devices and on-premise backup tools.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

First spotted in mid-August 2022 , Venus is known for hacking into victims’ publicly-exposed Remote Desktop services to encrypt Windows devices. Tripwire’s tips for all organizations on avoiding ransomware attacks include: Making secure offsite backups. Encrypting sensitive data wherever possible. ” .

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2025

Since its emergence in 2021, Medusa has targeted over 300 victims across various critical infrastructure sectors, including medical, education, legal, insurance, technology, and manufacturing. Attackers employ a double extortion strategy, encrypting victim data and threatening to publicly release it if the ransom is unpaid.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2022

Which are the cyber attacks of 2021 that had the major impact on organizations worldwide in terms of financial losses and disruption of the operations? Colonial Pipeline ( May 2021 ) – The Colonial Pipeline facility in Pelham, Alabama, was hit by a cybersecurity attack in May and its operators were forced to shut down its systems.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Encrypt "non-public" data both at rest and in motion or use effective alternative compensating controls for information at rest if approved by the CISO in writing. The feasibility of encryption and effectiveness of the compensating controls shall be reviewed by the CISO at least annually.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

As employees around the world continue to work from home, 2021 is shaping up to be another year of record highs in terms of malicious online activity. Once the criminals have domain credentials, they can disable security and/or tamper with backups. How IT will Prevail in 2021. What is the cyber-demic? Classify your data.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Security services and tools include anti-DDoS , SOCaaS , web application firewalls (WAF), data encryption , and more. Other features include applying secure socket layer (SSL) or transport layer security (TLS) and AES-256 encryption. Also Read: Best Encryption Software & Tools for 2021. EnterpriseDB.

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SecureList

MAY 12, 2021

To ensure that their ability to restore encrypted files would never be questioned, they cultivated an online presence, wrote press releases and generally made sure their name would be known to all potential victims. For a more detailed overview we chose two of the most noteworthy Big Game Hunting ransomware in 2021. Technical details.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2025

“Medusa is a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) variant first identified in June 2021. Medusa operators leverage legitimate remote access tools like AnyDesk, Atera, and Splashtop, alongside RDP and PsExec, to move laterally and locate files for exfiltration and encryption. ” reads the joint advisory.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

All of your files are encrypted with RSA-2048 and AES-128 ciphers.” ” Or you might see a readme.txt stating, “Your files have been replaced by these encrypted containers and aren’t accessible; you will lose your files on [enter date] unless you pay $2500 in Bitcoin.” Offline Backups.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 22, 2022

So You Think You Are Protected With Cloud Native Encryption? According to industry surveys, like the IBM 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report, a very high percentage of data breaches occur because attackers are abusing system privileges. Understanding encryption in Amazon EBS. Fri, 04/22/2022 - 09:54. Use AWS managed key.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers recently published lessons learned from the disruptive and costly ransomware attack in May 2021 on Ireland’s public health system. Ireland’s Health Service Executive (HSE), which operates the country’s public health system, got hit with Conti ransomware on May 14, 2021.

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SecureList

MARCH 12, 2024

Profile of participants and applications We collected the data from a sample of the application security assessment projects our team completed in 2021–2023. Mitigation: do not store files containing sensitive data, such as passwords or backups, in web application publish directories.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The attacks spotted by Cisco Talos were carried out by a Babuk ransomware affiliate tracked as Tortilla that has been active since at least July 2021. 229 @58_158_177_102 @sugimu_sec pic.twitter.com/LcuNw88fOo — TG Soft (@VirITeXplorer) October 14, 2021. The ransomware maybe born from the leaked #Babuk code.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2022

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. SFile ransomware (aka Escal), has been active since 2020 , it was observed targeting only Windows systems.

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SecureList

JUNE 1, 2023

Since it is impossible to inspect modern iOS devices from the inside, we created offline backups of the devices in question, inspected them using the Mobile Verification Toolkit’s mvt-ios and discovered traces of compromise. Install MVT Once the backup is ready, it has to be processed by the Mobile Verification Toolkit.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2021

14, 2021 Twitter post from Under the Breach’s Alon Gal , the 533 million Facebook accounts database was first put up for sale back in June 2020, offering Facebook profile data from 100 countries, including name, mobile number, gender, occupation, city, country, and marital status. billion active monthly users. According to a Jan.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Microsoft February 2021 Patch Tuesday addresses 56 vulnerabilities, including a flaw that is known to be actively exploited in the wild. The CVE-2021-1732 zero-day is an elevation of privilege issues that resides in the Windows Win32k component. ” reads a blog post published by Microsoft.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 28, 2021

We look at three RSAC 2021 sessions and some of the most daunting vulnerabilities presented by the SANS Institute, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and Varonis Systems. Also Read: And the Winner of the 2021 RSA Innovation Contest is… SANS: Five dangerous new attack techniques and vulnerabilities.

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Webroot

APRIL 21, 2021

According to the 2021 Webroot BrightCloud® Threat Report, each of these threat types saw significant fluctuations as people all over the world shifted to working, studying, and doing everything else online. More businesses are adopting robust backup and disaster recovery plans to remain resilient in the face of downtime, planned or unplanned.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The Forrester Wave for ICS Security Solutions released earlier this month for Q4 2021 placed Cisco atop the ICS/OT security industry. Read more: Top Application Security Vendors for 2021. TLS, encryption, Auth0) Are there embedded or built-in IoT security requirements to address exposure? Cisco Features. What Are IoT Devices?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2022

The threat actors behind the attacks were exploiting an improper authorization vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-28799 , that could allow them to log in to a NAS device. “A A ransomware campaign targeting QNAP NAS began the week of April 19th, 2021. The malicious code appends.encrypt extension to filenames of encrypted files.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2021

(QNAP), a leading computing, networking and storage solution innovator, today issued a statement in response to recent user reports and media coverage that two types of ransomware (Qlocker and eCh0raix) are targeting QNAP NAS and encrypting users’ data for ransom. qlocker @QNAP_nas — Jack Cable (@jackhcable) April 22, 2021.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2021

In all the attacks the ransomware encrypting files on the infected systems and in one of the security incidents threat actors compromised a system used to control the SCADA industrial equipment. In July 2021, cyber actors used remote access to introduce ZuCaNo ransomware onto a Maine-based WWS facility’s wastewater SCADA computer.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

The cybersecurity firm Bitdefender has released a free decryptor to allow LockerGoga ransomware victims to recover their encrypted files without paying a ransom. In order to decrypt the files, users have to provide the path containing pairs of clean-encrypted files. ” reads the announcement published by the security firm.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 9, 2021

Security researchers from Kaspersky have found evidence that the file encrypting malware has disrupted at least two of the industrial process by encrypting servers related to control and management of the manufacturing equipment.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

A pivotal moment came when the FBI obtained over 7,000 decryption keys, allowing victims to unlock their encrypted data for free. Despite these setbacks, LockBit attempted to maintain its operations, quickly adapting by changing encryption methods and shifting its leak site strategy.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 8, 2022

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) providing details on the top malware strains of 2021. The top malware strains in 2021 included remote access Trojans (RATs), banking Trojans, information stealers, and ransomware.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Cyber criminals may damage, destroy, steal, encrypt, expose, or leak data as well as cause harm to a system. The 2022 SonicWall Cyber Threat Report found that all types of cyberattacks increased in 2021. Encrypted threats spiked 167%, ransomware increased 105%, and 5.4 Also read: Best Antivirus Software of 2022. Ransomware.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Point-in-time backup and recovery of contacts, email, calendars and files. Lets organizations encrypt messages and leverage the cloud to spool email if mail servers become unavailable. Integrated data loss prevention and email encryption. The post Top Secure Email Gateway Solutions for 2021 appeared first on eSecurityPlanet.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

And the bad news is that few of the servers severely affected, making the staff to suspend any data transfers and backups to maintain data continuity.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Mitigating Ransomware Attacks – Decoupling Encryption Keys From Encrypted Data. Once the hackers gain an inside entry in an organisation’s IT systems, they deploy a file-encrypting malware known as ransomware. Some ransomware selectively seeks out sensitive data and will only encrypt those files. Wed, 11/25/2020 - 05:55.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Examining backups What we decided to do next was to use iTunes backups of the devices as a substitute for complete device images. We used the excellent tooling from libimobiledevice to acquire the backups, and inspected them by building a timeline of events with the Mobile Verification Toolkit. WIFI OUT: 0.0 - WWAN IN: 76281896.0,

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 11, 2021

However, when revisiting these metrics, we noticed that this changed in the beginning of 2021. What’s interesting in revisiting this data over an 18-month span is that while the number of endpoints didn’t rise dramatically in 2021, comparing each month to the overall averages, the amount of DNS activity did. Deleting backups.

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