Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2025

Lumen Technologies researchers reported that the J-magic campaign targets Juniper routers with a custom backdoor using a passive agent based on the cd00r variant (an open-source backdoor by fx ). Earliest evidence dates to September 2023, but the experts have yet to determine the initial access method.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Vaibhav Narayanam, who is the Director of Corporate Development & Venture Investments at ServiceNow, invests in a variety of technologies. But for 2023, cybersecurity will be a “key pillar” of the company’s focus – particularly data compliance and protection. See our picks for the Top Cybersecurity Startups. Ransomware.

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Cybersecurity Risk Technology Ransomware 145

Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Sometime in 2023, she offered Hezbollah a deal on one of the products her firm sold: the rugged and reliable AR924. But, to ensure maximum damage, the blast could also be triggered by a special two-step procedure required for viewing secure messages that had been encrypted. In practice, that meant using both hands.

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Marketing Technology IoT Engineering 292

CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

By Stephanie Benoit Kurtz, Lead Faculty for the College of Information Systems and Technology at University of Phoenix. Organizations continue to invest in technology at a record pace; however still continue to be at risk. As we look forward to 2023 a number of emerging trends are top security areas that executives should focus.

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Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 4, 2023

Zero Trust Network Architecture, on the other hand, is not conceptual; it refers to an actual information technology architecture – including hardware, software, data, and workflow – that employs the principles of Zero Trust in its design so as to enforce a Zero Trust model. This post is sponsored by Perimeter 81.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 16, 2025

With the increasing reliance on digital technologies for operational efficiency, this sector has become a prime target for sophisticated cyber and physical threats. A report from 2023 revealed that 67% of energy and utility companies faced ransomware attacks, with many incidents exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities.

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Energy and Utilities IoT Artificial Intelligence Backups 109

SecureList

MAY 11, 2023

Although early 2023 saw a slight decline in the number of ransomware attacks, they were more sophisticated and better targeted. Finally, other groups like Clop ramped up their activities over the course of last year, reaching their peak in early 2023 as they claimed to have hacked 130 organizations using a single zero-day vulnerability.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Encryption uses mathematical algorithms to transform and encode data so that only authorized parties can access it. What Encryption Is and How It Relates to Cryptology The science of cryptography studies codes, how to create them, and how to solve them. How Does Encryption Process Data? How Does Encryption Process Data?

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Big game attacks extort vast ransoms from organizations by holding their data hostage—either with encryption, the threat of damaging data leaks, or both. The report reveals that, awash with money, the number of known Big Game attacks surged by 68% in 2023, thanks to Ransomware-as-a-Service groups like LockBit and ALPHV.

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Ransomware Cybercrime Malware Social Engineering 121

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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SecureList

JANUARY 23, 2023

The first part of this report is devoted to the most current threats any SOC is likely to face in 2023. They are closely intertwined with the threats looming over corporations in 2023, as only an effectively organized team can safeguard business against rapidly evolving malware and attack methods.

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Government Media Social Engineering Ransomware 123

Krebs on Security

APRIL 20, 2023

In late March 2023, 3CX disclosed that its desktop applications for both Windows and macOS were compromised with malicious code that gave attackers the ability to download and run code on all machines where the app was installed. The researchers said this was the first time Lazarus had been spotted deploying malware aimed at Linux users.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2024

But the Dark Angels didn’t even have a victim shaming site until April 2023. Some of the more notable victims listed on Dunghill Leak include the global food distribution firm Sysco , which disclosed a ransomware attack in May 2023 ; and the travel booking giant Sabre , which was hit by the Dark Angels in September 2023.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 3, 2023

3, 2023 — Vaultree, a cybersecurity leader pioneering Fully Functional Data-In-Use Encryption (FFDUE), today announces a strategic integration with Tableau, a renowned platform for data visualization and business intelligence. Vaultree is also thrilled to announce its sponsorship at Black Hat USA 2023.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2025

The Rhysida ransomware group has been active since May 2023. The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. In September 2024, Port of Seattle confirmed that the Rhysida ransomware group was behind the cyberattack.

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SecureList

JANUARY 18, 2023

Last year, the cybersecurity of corporations and government agencies was more significant than ever before, and will become even more so in 2023. The trend for personal data leaks grew rapidly in 2022 and will continue into 2023. Cloud technology and compromised data sourced on the dark web to become popular attack vectors.

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Media Social Engineering Ransomware Hacking 139

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 11, 2023

The first Microsoft Patch Tuesday of 2023 is an important one to start of the year with. ended January 10, 2023. The actively exploited vulnerability is listed as CVE-2023-21674. Another interesting one, albeit only for those that use BitLocker, is CVE-2023-21563 , a BitLocker security feature bypass vulnerability.

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B2B Encryption VPN Software 98

Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In November there were 457 total ransomware victims, making it the most active month for ransomware gangs in 2023 so far besides May. The top stories of the month include ALPHV’s shutdown, an increased focus on the healthcare sector, and high-profile attacks on Toyota, Boeing, and more using a Citrix Bleed vulnerability (CVE-2023-4966).

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Ransomware Healthcare Encryption Backups 102

SecureList

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

In March 2023, researchers at ESET discovered malware implants embedded into various messaging app mods. It encrypts data with AES-256 in CBC mode before sending and decrypts server responses with AES-128 in CBC mode. With this key, it encrypts the data, pre-compressed with ZSTD. In both cases, the keys are hard-coded constants.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2025

As of February 2025, Medusa developers and affiliates have impacted over 300 victims from a variety of critical infrastructure sectors with affected industries including medical, education, legal, insurance, technology, and manufacturing.” The attackers are also spotted manually disabling and encrypting virtual machines.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 13, 2023

Known ransomware attacks by gang, June 2023 Comparing June to the earlier months of the year, we notice several shifts in ransomware activity. But while it was clear earlier on that attackers were actively exploiting CVE-2023-34362, it was only a few days later that it became clear that Cl0p was behind the attacks.

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Ransomware Manufacturing Data breaches Encryption 98

The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Yet IoE, at this nascent stage, holds much promise to tilt us towards a utopia where technology helps to resolve our planet’s most intractable problems. This was the theme of Infineon Technologies’ OktoberTech 2023 conference, which I had the privilege of attending at the Computer History Museum in the heart of Silicon Valley.

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Jane Frankland

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The report explores major findings and this year it put a spotlight on the complexity of the cybersecurity landscape, which is intensified by geopolitical tensions, emerging technologies, supply chain interdependencies, and cybercrime sophistication. Nation-states and geopolitical tensions are increasingly fuelling modern cyber threats.

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Cyber Risk CISO Risk Encryption 130

eSecurity Planet

MAY 24, 2023

At a high level, DKIM enables an organization to provide encryption hash values for key parts of an email. Using public-private encryption key pairs, receiving email servers can compare the received email hash value against the received hash value to validate if any alterations took place in transit. How Do Mailservers Verify DKIM?

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Technology DNS Encryption Authentication 103

Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 19, 2023

It’s a thrilling time to work in cybersecurity, but new technology and unprecedented opportunities also present us with extraordinary challenges. But in cybersecurity, dwell time is the time between bad actors’ initial break in and the attack itself, when target data is encrypted. Ready to step up your defensive game?

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Cybersecurity Encryption Ransomware Backups 126

eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

30, 2023 NGINX Ingress Controller for Kubernetes Flaws Can Lead to Credential Theft Type of Attack: Path sanitization bypass and injection vulnerabilities discovered in the NGINX Ingress controller can allow for credential theft, arbitrary command execution, and critical data access. CVE-2023-5044 (Code Injection): This CVSS score 7.6

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Software Education Ransomware Firmware 113

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 8, 2023

Thales 2023 Data Threat Report: Sovereignty, Transformation, and Global Challenges madhav Tue, 05/09/2023 - 05:30 Despite the economic and geopolitical instability in 2022, enterprises continued to invest in their operations and digital transformation. This article highlights the key findings of the report.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Persistent ransomware threats, increasing risk to critical infrastructure, state-sponsored activity, more bad actors, and new, disruptive technologies are the five cyber threat narratives noted in the National Cyber Threat Assessment 2023-2024 recently released by the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security.

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Digital Shadows

MARCH 17, 2025

VPN Infrastructures Allure for Threat Actors PNs have become a fundamental part of network security for organizations worldwide, enabling secure remote access to systems, encrypting sensitive data during transmission, and protecting internal networks from unauthorized access. Rated CVSS 9.8,

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SecureList

APRIL 7, 2025

The contents of the TCESB CSV fully match the CSV data in the EDRSandBlast version of August 13, 2022, while the original malware commit of October 6, 2023 adds lines that are missing in the TCESB resource. Our analysis of the tool code found that the data in the payload file is encrypted using AES-128.

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Software Encryption Malware Firmware 95

eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Encrypts critical email exchanges to protect the security of information during transmission. One of its most notable characteristics is its ability to effortlessly mix advanced technology with user-friendly interfaces, making cybersecurity accessible to everybody. Offers the ability to encrypt emails to protect private correspondence.

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Software Phishing Mobile Threat Detection 132

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. 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.

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Social Engineering Mobile Passwords Cybercrime 359

The Last Watchdog

JUNE 7, 2023

I learned about this at RSA Conference 2023 from company Co-founder and CEO Phani Nagarjuna , who explained how Circle extends the use of encryption keys fused to biometrics and decentralizes where copies of the keys are stored. For a full drill down, give the accompanying podcast a listen.

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Authentication Encryption Passwords Internet 188

CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 13, 2023

Ransomware attacks via email: Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts an organization’s data, holding it hostage until a ransom is paid. Email encryption: Encrypting sensitive emails protects the confidentiality of their contents during transit and storage.

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Phishing Encryption Education Small Business 111

SecureWorld News

MARCH 9, 2023

The 2023 Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. China's cyber pursuits and its industry's export of related technologies increase the threats of aggressive cyber operations against the U.S. web content—that Beijing views as threatening to the CCP's hold on power, and the expansion of technology-driven authoritarianism globally.

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Technology Cybercrime Ransomware Government 97

Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

2023 was an explosive year for ransomware. Through thec onsistenciess and evolutions over the last year, one fact remains clear: 2023 broke records with its total number of 4475 ransomware attacks, a 70% increase from 2022. Here are five key takeaways from the ransomware world in 2023.

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Ransomware Education Social Engineering Manufacturing 83

CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Joe Biden and his administration seems be on a forward thinking gear for quantum technology linked cyber attacks leading to data breaches. And from May 2023, they need to follow guidelines prescribed for migration by Office of Management and Budget (OMB). isn’t it? .

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