SecureList

MAY 16, 2023

Download the full version of the report (PDF) Kaspersky Incident Response in various regions and industries In 2022, 45.9% Key trends in 2022: initial attack vectors and impact In 2022, attackers most often penetrated organizations’ infrastructure by exploiting various vulnerabilities in public-facing applications (42.9%).

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 26, 2022

The threat actor was also able to copy a backup of customer vault data from the encrypted storage container which is stored in a proprietary binary format that contains both unencrypted data, such as website URLs, as well as fully-encrypted sensitive fields such as website usernames and passwords, secure notes, and form-filled data.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

technology companies during the summer of 2022. stole at least $800,000 from at least five victims between August 2022 and March 2023. 2022 that an intrusion had exposed a “limited number” of Twilio customer accounts through a sophisticated social engineering attack designed to steal employee credentials.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 6, 2024

What made this market attractive for cybercriminals was that they could buy data sorted by region and account balance with advanced filtering options. The law enforcement investigation started in 2022 when investigators were able to track very specific information used by scammers to the specialized marketplace.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Also Read: 4 Best Antivirus Software of 2022. Scheduled scans Encryption Identity theft protection. It even provides more privacy than secured WiFi connections because it encrypts the connection to protect private information and prevent session hijacking. Also Read: Best Enterprise VPN Solutions for 2022. Back to top.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Ride sharing app Uber shared those details after quashing the rumors speculated in the New York Times that the attack was conducted by a lone hacker who wanted a humongous share of ransomware to unlock the systems from encryption. The post Uber data breach 2022 Update on Lapsus$ Ransomware appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

What Is Encryption Key Management? Fri, 11/18/2022 - 18:19. To keep data safe, it is encrypted and decrypted using encryption keys. Types of Encryption Keys. There are two main types of encryption keys : symmetric and asymmetric. Symmetric key encryption uses a single key to both encrypt and decrypt data.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Facebook (now Meta) moved towards more privacy for its users as well, providing end-to-end encrypted backups in WhatsApp and removing the facial recognition system in its entirety from Facebook. While we hope 2022 will be the last pandemic year, we do not think the privacy trends will reverse.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Thanks to your readership and support, I was able to spend more time in 2022 on some deep, meaty investigative stories — the really satisfying kind with the potential to affect positive change. Some of that work is highlighted in the 2022 Year in Review review below. A single bitcoin is trading at around $45,000.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2022

If you created an online account to manage your tax records with the U.S. account and share the experience here. account). We take a defense-in-depth approach, with partitioned networks, and use very sophisticated encryption scheme so that when and if there is a breach, this stuff is firewalled,” Hall said.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The Mylobot malware includes more than 1,000 hard-coded and encrypted domain names, any one of which can be registered and used as control networks for the infected hosts. BHProxies has authored 129 posts on Black Hat World since 2012, and their last post on the forum was in December 2022. million from private investors.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 7, 2022

They earned the highest score among providers named "Customer's Choice" in Gartner's 2022 "Voice of the Customer” Security Awareness Computer-Based Training report. The solution includes cloud sandboxing technology, preventing zero-day threats, and full disk encryption capability for enhanced data protection. Get started today!

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

As we near the end of 2022, IT professionals look back at one of the worst years on record for incidents. During 2022 over 65% of organizations expected security budgets to expand. It is this type of failure in credential management that bad actors leverage to gain access to accounts, and data. Third-Party/Supply Chain Risk.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

“They allegedly used the Phobos malware to encrypt information on the networks, blocking the companies from accessing the data unless a ransom was paid and a decryption key was provided by the gang. Generation of target list of extensions and folders to encrypt. ” reported the website Nation Thailand.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 12, 2024

On July 12, 2024, AT&T disclosed a data security incident that occurred in 2022. The disclosure of this information—following the leak of Social Security numbers, names, email and mailing addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, account numbers, and passcodes—is a clear violation of personal privacy and trust," Guccione said.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Privileged accounts are among an organization’s biggest cybersecurity concerns. These accounts give admins control over data, applications, infrastructure and other critical assets that average system users don’t have permission to access or change. What is Privileged Access Management (PAM)? Enter Privileged Access Management (PAM).

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 20, 2023

3CX hired incident response firm Mandiant , which released a report on Wednesday that said the compromise began in 2022 when a 3CX employee installed a malware-laced software package distributed via an earlier software supply chain compromise that began with a tampered installer for X_TRADER , a software package provided by Trading Technologies.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This is our latest installment, focusing on activities that we observed during Q3 2022. We can confirm a Maui ransomware incident in 2022, but we would expand their “first seen” date from the reported May 2021 to April 15, 2021, and the geolocation of the target to Japan and India. The most remarkable findings.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 17, 2022

Congratulations to our 2022 winners – and to the hundreds more who have made our top cybersecurity product lists. Abnormal Security’s core product utilizes behavioral AI to block malicious email attacks, with add-ons for account takeover prevention, productivity enhancement, and mailbox automation. Winner : Micro Focus.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Cryptocurrency prices were dropping from the end of 2021 and throughout the first half of 2022. Cybercriminals pay neither for equipment, nor for electricity, which is rather expensive in 2022. In this report we analyze cryptojacking activity in the first three quarters of 2022, and provide some relevant statistics and insights.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

These days, users need an ever-growing number of online accounts to stay connected with their friends, colleagues, and employers. With these tools, all passwords for an account are stored in a unique, encrypted vault only accessible using a key that the individual user possesses. Best Password Manager Tools.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 26, 2022

This article looks at 15 of the best network monitoring tools and what to consider when evaluating monitoring solutions in 2022. Best Networking Monitoring Tools for 2022. AES-256 encryption for data at rest and TLS v1.2 Read more : Best SIEM Tools of 2022. Also read: Top Cybersecurity Startups to Watch in 2022.

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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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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 16, 2024

By 2027, 75% of employees are expected to acquire or modify technology outside of ITs control, up from 41% in 2022. Verizons Data Breach Investigations Report showed that 74% of security breaches involve a human element, with system administrators and developers accounting for most of these errors.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

IT threat evolution in Q3 2022. IT threat evolution in Q3 2022. IT threat evolution in Q3 2022. Nevertheless, in our APT predictions for 2022 , we noted that more attackers would reach the sophistication level required to develop such tools. Non-mobile statistics. Mobile statistics. Targeted attacks. Other malware.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 8, 2022

The global cost of ransomware has risen from $325 million to $20 billion from 2016 to 2021, and on average, only 65% of encrypted data was restored after a ransom was paid. Zerto’s automated failover and failback is said to recover encrypted files, virtual machine (VM) applications, sites, and data within minutes of when an infection occurs.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2023

xyz pic.twitter.com/VLhISark8Y — Goldwave (@OGoldwave) March 13, 2023 The variant employed in the campaign supports a more sophisticated encryption method of byte remapping and a monthly rotation of the C2 server. #ViperSoftX is back, doesn't look like much has changed. c2 arrowlchat[.]com ” concludes the report.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

This in turn allowed them to access the data, despite this data being encrypted.” That FBI warrant came on the heels of an investigation published by security firm FireEye , which examined an Iranian-based network of inauthentic news sites and social media accounts aimed at the United States., and other western audiences.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 3, 2023

com , registered in May 2022. 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. The name on the WHMCS account was Shmuel Orit Alon , from Kidron, Israel.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Ensure enterprise data transfers remain in native cloud accounts and are protected at rest. Security functionality for DLP, discovery, encryption, and digital rights management. Encryption at rest or managed in real-time with certified FOPS 140-2 Level 3 KMS. Encryption and tokenization. Identify account takeovers.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2023

A new ransomware strain named Rorschach ransomware supports the fastest file-encrypting routine observed to date. The researchers conducted five separate encryption speed tests in a controlled environment (with 6 CPUs, 8192MB RAM, SSD, and 220000 files to be encrypted), limited to local drive encryption only.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Finally, we will make some forecasts about financial attacks in 2022. This ransomware is controlled by command line parameters and can either retrieve an encryption key from the C2 or an argument at launch time. Some companies have gone entirely virtual, and an account takeover could cause severe harm to their business or sales.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 2, 2022

The Atlas VPN report said the number of new Linux malware samples collected soared by 646% from the first half of 2021 to the first half of 2022, from 226,334 samples to nearly 1.7 Windows still leads overall due to its commanding market share, accounting for 41.4 million malware samples in the first half of 2022.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 11, 2022

The EDN concealment function hides and denies access to local files, folders, mapped network or cloud shares, local privileged accounts, and removable storage, preventing attackers from seeing and targeting them. It can find signs of ransomware, even in encrypted files. The solution can expose use of stolen credentials.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

A glimpse inside Black Basta Active since 2022, Black Basta has built a reputation for high-profile attacks using double-extortion tactics. The group typically encrypts victims data, threatening to leak it unless a hefty ransom is paid. In 2022, the Conti ransomware group collapsed after its internal communications were exposed.

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Anton on Security

APRIL 13, 2023

. — this makes shared fate such a HUGE need, to be sure; and, yes, this means that we have work to do in this area ] Specifically, “ Weak passwords accounted for nearly half of observed incidents in the fourth quarter of 2022” Also, “ the rise in API compromise in Q3 maintained course, being a factor in nearly 1/5th of incidents” [A.C.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Vicarius Vulnerability management 2022 Private Dragos ICS and OT security 2021 Private Safeguard Cyber Risk management 2021 Private CyberGRX Risk management 2019 Private Signifyd Fraud protection 2018 Private RedOwl Security analytics 2015 Acquired: Forcepoint. AllegisCyber Investments. NightDragon.

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