Schneier on Security

JULY 26, 2024

The cause: a cryptographic key underpinning Secure Boot on those models that was compromised in 2022. The repository included the private portion of the platform key in encrypted form. The repository was located at [link] and it’s not clear when it was taken down.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2024

. — and charged him with stealing at least $800,000 from five victims between August 2022 and March 2023. Urban allegedly went by the nicknames “ Sosa ” and “ King Bob, ” and is believed to be part of the same crew that hacked Twilio and a slew of other companies in 2022.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

But critics say the move is little more than a public relations stunt that will do nothing to help countless early adopters whose password vaults were exposed in a 2022 breach at LastPass. Still, Palant and others impacted by the 2022 breach at LastPass say their account security settings were never forcibly upgraded.

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Bleeping Computer

JANUARY 24, 2023

GoTo (formerly LogMeIn) is warning customers that threat actors who breached its development environment in November 2022 stole encrypted backups containing customer information and an encryption key for a portion of that data. [.]

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Anton on Security

MARCH 3, 2022

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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Digital Shadows

MARCH 17, 2025

Key Findings Even years after their disclosure, VPN-related vulnerabilities like CVE-2018-13379 and CVE-2022-40684 remain essential tools for attackers, driving large-scale campaigns of credential theft and administrative control. Editors note: This report was authored by Gautham Ashok & Alexa Feminella. Rated CVSS 9.8,

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Daniel Miessler

DECEMBER 24, 2022

It started back in August of 2022 as a fairly common breach notification on a blog, but it, unfortunately, turned into more of a blog series. After initiating an immediate investigation, we have seen no evidence that this incident involved any access to customer data or encrypted password vaults. Actually, some data was lost.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2025

authorities seized $23M in crypto linked to a $150M Ripple wallet theft, experts believe the incident is linked to the 2022 LastPass breach. authorities seized $23M in crypto tied to a $150M Ripple hack, suspected to have been carried out by hackers from the 2022 LastPass breach. ” reads the complaint. ” However.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 21, 2022

Key Findings: MY2022, an app mandated for use by all attendees of the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing, has a simple but devastating flaw where encryption protecting users’ voice audio and file transfers can be trivially sidestepped. Citizen Lab examined the app and found it riddled with security holes.

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Cisco Security

JANUARY 18, 2023

When EMA asked many of the same questions in an updated survey of 204 technology and business leaders toward the end of 2022, they found that nearly all the conclusions in the 2018/2019 report still hold true today.

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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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Joseph Steinberg

JULY 20, 2022

There is little doubt that quantum computing will ultimately undermine the security of most of today’s encryption systems , and, thereby, render vulnerable to exposure nearly every piece of data that is presently protected through the use of encryption. Such an attitude is not alarmist – it is reality, whether we like it or not.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 16, 2022

The weak Canon keys are tracked as CVE-2022-26351. 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 creation date for the all the weak keys was 2020 or later.

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The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

LastPass, which in December 2022 disclosed a severe data breach that allowed threat actors to access encrypted password vaults, said it happened as a result of the same adversary launching a second attack on its systems.

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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. 15, 2022, LastPass said an investigation into the August breach determined the attacker did not access any customer data or password vaults.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In the previous publication ‘ Tracking down LODEINFO 2022, part I ‘, we mentioned that the initial infection methods vary in different attack scenarios and that the LODEINFO shellcode was regularly updated for use with each infection vector. In this article, we discuss improvements made to the LODEINFO backdoor shellcode in 2022.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 2, 2024

The decryptor works for victims whose files were encrypted between November 2022 and December 2023. The decryptor, called Black Basta Buster, exploits a flaw in the encryption algorithm used in older versions of the Black Basta group’s ransomware. Stop malicious encryption.

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Anton on Security

JUNE 10, 2022

There are people buying their first SIEM in 2022. There are people adopting virtualization in 2022. There are people moving to “next-gen” firewalls (a great innovation of 2005) in 2022. But why not just accept that in 2022, SIEM = SIEM + SOAR + UEBA ? Pretty much every SIEM vendor is a SIEM/SOAR/UEBA vendor.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In March 2022, we observed a Microsoft Word file that was used as the infection vector in some attacks. The second part will provide technical analysis of the LODEINFO backdoor and the related shellcode for each version of the backdoor with the latest LODEINFO IoCs and related information discovered in 2022. 2022-06-14 03:47:04.A

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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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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

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. “We’ve found someone who can crack the encryption.” Then came the unlikely call from an FBI agent. “Don’t pay,” the agent said.

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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

MARCH 10, 2025

The Qilin ransomware group has been active since at least 2022 but gained attention in June 2024 for attacking Synnovis , a UK governmental service provider for healthcare. The group typically employs double extortion, stealing and encrypting victims data, then threatening to expose it unless a ransom is paid.

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Joseph Steinberg

JUNE 9, 2022

According to published reports, immediately after discovering the unauthorized encryption of data by ransomware on some district computers, technology personnel shut down the districtwide computer system, and commenced an investigation along with outside cybersecurity experts.

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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. NIST was poised to make final algorithm selections in 2022, with a plan to have a draft standard available for public comment in 2023.

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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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2025

The reverse shell issued a challenge by sending an encrypted string using a hard-coded certificate. Lumen experts also mentioned another variant of cd00r, codenamed SEASPY , that was used in a campaign targeting Barracuda Email Security Gateway (ESG) appliances that dates back in 2022.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 6, 2024

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

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 8, 2023

More alarmingly, the company said it appears attackers first started exploiting the flaw in October 2022. If they’re going for data ransoming, they’re encrypting the data itself — not the machines.” “Barracuda’s recommendation at this time is full replacement of the impacted ESG.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2025

3 cyberattack led to unauthorized access, file withdrawals, and encryption of critical applications. “Preliminary investigations indicate that threat actors unlawfully accessed the Companys network, encrypted critical applications, and exfiltrated certain files. The company reported to the SEC that a Feb.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The botnet is comprised of two complementary activity clusters, the experts believe it has been active since at least February 2022. In early July and August of 2022, the researchers noticed several Cisco RV320s , DrayTek Vigor routers , and NETGEAR ProSAFEs that were part of the botnet.

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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. Enhancing security measures: Immediate steps were taken to bolster security, including updating access controls, enhancing encryption protocols, and conducting comprehensive security audits to identify and address potential vulnerabilities.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 31, 2022

The flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-0609, was exploited by two separate North Korean hacking groups. The exploit kit would AES encrypt each stage, including the clients’ responses with a session-specific key. North Korean hackers have been exploiting a zero-day in Chrome. Additional stages were not served if the previous stage failed.

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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. Expect to see more investments in privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) such as encryption, anonymization, and data masking. In 2025, more attention will be given to developing quantum-resistant encryption techniques.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2025

The researchers state that the threat is a relatively new malware family with early samples going back to March 2022. Upon execution, the spyware retrieves an encrypted configuration from Firebase Firestore, controlling activation and the C2 server address. ” reads the report published by the researchers.

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