Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2023

GoTo is notifying customers that its development environment was breached in November 2022, attackers stole customers’ backups and encryption key. We also have evidence that a threat actor exfiltrated an encryption key for a portion of the encrypted backups.” ” continues the notice.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2021

To my mind, this just reinforces the need to remove mobile phone numbers from all of your online accounts wherever feasible. The HaveIBeenPwned project, which collects and analyzes hundreds of database dumps containing information about billions of leaked accounts, has incorporated the data into his service. According to a Jan.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 8, 2022

One of the biggest problems in the cybercrime section of the report relates to backups. Specifically: The lack of backups when dealing with hacking incidents. Backups in Brazil: An uphill struggle. Backups are an essential backstop that can help against several forms of attack, as well as mistakes and mishaps.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

They sent me a file with 207k scraped records and a URL that looked like this: [link] But they didn't send me my account, in fact I didn't even have an account at the time and if I'm honest, I had to go and look up exactly what Spoutible was. And the 2FA backup code? nZNQcqsEYki", Oh wow!

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Schneier on Security

MAY 6, 2019

Ten years ago, I could have given you all sorts of advice about using encryption, not sending information over email, securing your web connections, and a host of other things­ -- but most of that doesn't matter anymore. Enable two-factor authentication for all important accounts whenever possible.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 24, 2020

That file shows an image of the Saudi Arabian flag and Swedish flags and arrived with an encrypted downloader. Because the downloader was encrypted this delayed or further prevented "study of the code delivered along with the video.". That's where that state-sponsored malware is going to be found.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 14, 2018

The EFAIL attacks exploit vulnerabilities in the OpenPGP and S/MIME standards to reveal the plaintext of encrypted emails. The attacker changes an encrypted email in a particular way and sends this changed encrypted email to the victim. Why is anyone using encrypted e-mail anymore, anyway?

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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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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

That transaction included credentials to a Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) account apparently set up by a Gunnebo Group employee who wished to access the company’s internal network remotely. Five months later, Gunnebo disclosed it had suffered a cyber attack targeting its IT systems that forced the shutdown of internal servers. .”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2022

In August password management software firm LastPass disclosed a security breach, threat actors had access to portions of the company development environment through a single compromised developer account and stole portions of source code and some proprietary technical information. The backup contains both unencrypted data (i.e.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 26, 2023

Backup codes, keys, and seed phrases are important if you lose access to multifactor authentication (MFA) methods or are otherwise completely locked out of your accounts. There are many methods to store backup codes, keys, and seed phrases. TABLE OF CONTENTS Importance of backup codes, keys, seed phrases 1.

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Bleeping Computer

APRIL 26, 2023

Google is bringing end-to-end encryption to Google Authenticator cloud backups after researchers warned users against synchronizing 2FA codes with their Google accounts. [.]

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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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Malwarebytes

MAY 3, 2023

Following criticism, Google has decided to bring end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to its Google Authenticator cloud backups. The search giant recently introduced a feature that allows users back up two-factor authentication ( 2FA ) tokens to the cloud, but the lack of encryption caused some commentators to warn people off using it.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 9, 2019

A great many iNSYNQ’s customers are accountants, and when the company took its network offline on July 16 in response to the ransomware outbreak, some of those customers took to social media to complain that iNSYNQ was stonewalling them. “For these infections hackers take sometimes days, weeks, or even months to encrypt your data.”

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Sophos cybersecurity researchers have discovered a Python-based ransomware operation that escalated from a compromised corporate network to encrypted virtual machines in just three hours. These instructions are used to list all VMs and shut them down, necessary for starting the encryption. Faster Encryption Means Higher Risk.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 8, 2020

This includes pivoting from or converting a single compromised Microsoft Windows user account to an administrator account with greater privileges on the target network; the ability to sidestep and/or disable any security software; and gaining the access needed to disrupt or corrupt any data backup systems the victim firm may have.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 30, 2023

However, data is as vulnerable as it is valuable, and World Backup Day on Friday, March 31st, is a welcome reminder of the need to have a well thought out data protection strategy in place. The campaign began in 2011 as World Backup Month and was changed to World Backup Day later.

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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

DECEMBER 1, 2021

A recently disclosed FBI training document shows how much access to the content of encrypted messages from secure messaging services US law enforcement can gain and what they can learn about your usage of the apps. All of them are messaging apps that promise end-to-end encryption for their users. Pen Register: No capability.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The government says Snatch used a customized ransomware variant notable for rebooting Microsoft Windows devices into Safe Mode — enabling the ransomware to circumvent detection by antivirus or endpoint protection — and then encrypting files when few services are running. ru account and posted as him.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Data backup services. Microsoft Active Directory accounts and passwords. Battery backup systems. Battery backup systems. Encryption certificates. By all accounts, this was a comprehensive goof: The Orvis credentials file even contained the combination to a locked safe in the company’ server room.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Phobos variants are usually distributed by the SmokeLoader , but in 8Base campaigns, it has the ransomware component embedded in its encrypted payloads. 8base” file extension for encrypted documents, a circumstance that suggested a possible link to the 8Base group or the use of the same code-base for their ransomware.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2021

” Jacob Cloran is co-founder of Decimal , a company that does accounting for small businesses, many of whom rely on PEOs affected by the PrismHR outage. A notice from the PEO working with some of Cloran’s clients stated that PrismHR was in the process of rebuilding its entire system from data backups in a new environment.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2020

Last week a member of the Joomla Resources Directory (JRD) team left an unencrypted full backup of the JRD site ( resources.joomla.org ) on an unsecured Amazon Web Services S3 bucket operated by the company. “JRD full site backups (unencrypted) were stored in a third-party company Amazon Web Services S3 bucket.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 12, 2023

Think about your bank account, it is very important for you to know that when you deposit a check into your account the right amount is deposited. Ransomware uses encryption (typically a good thing) to make your business information un-available. still available for you to use.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The attacks frequently targeted small and tribal casinos, encrypting servers and the personally identifying information (PII) of employees and patrons.” The threat actors sent victims a phone number in a phishing attempt, often related to pending charges on their accounts. ” reported the PIN.

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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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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 6, 2021

It is essential to ensure that all accounts are protected with strong passwords. To this day, a significant amount of people still use the password across multiple accounts, which makes it much simpler for a cybercriminal to compromise a password and take over accounts. Keep an eye out for phishing emails.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

According to Constella, this email address was used in 2010 to register an account for a Dmitry Yurievich Khoroshev from Voronezh, Russia at the hosting provider firstvds.ru. Pin was active on Opensc around March 2012, and authored 13 posts that mostly concerned data encryption issues, or how to fix bugs in code. Image: Shutterstock.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 29, 2019

They went back in, recovered the system again, but this time changed the passwords for every privileged account in the AD. Maersk’s 150 or so domain controllers were programmed to sync their data with one another, so that, in theory, any of them could function as a backup for all the others.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The idea is that if the original file is damaged, breaks, is stolen , or suffers any other problem, then the backups survive the issue. Where do we put our backups? One of the most important backup stumbling blocks is figuring out where to place the files being copied. Do people backup their backups?

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Servers are encrypted with “ locked” file extensions on files. You have the disaster recovery (DR) site, backups, and storage area network (SAN) snapshots. As you try each one, that pit in your stomach grows as you experience the worst feeling in IT: the realization you have no backup for recovery. Remember those?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2020

The City of Lafayette, Colorado, USA, has been forced to pay $45,000 because they were unable to restore necessary files from backup. Now the City of Lafayette admitted they were a victim of a ransomware attack that encrypted its systems and confirmed that opted to pay a $45,000 ransom to receive a decryption tool to recover its files.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2021

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued an alert to warn that the Mamba ransomware is abusing the DiskCryptor open source tool to encrypt entire drives. Mamba ransomware is one of the first malware that encrypted hard drives rather than files that was detected in public attacks. ” reads the alert published by the FBI.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Investigations made by the law enforcement agency state that the ransomware gang has so far targeted financial sector based companies and have stolen millions of files, including banking transactions, customer details, contact information, and other such details before encrypting the files.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

SPR claims his site lost access to a significant inventory — more than 600,000 unsold stolen payment card accounts. “As a result, we lost the proxy and destination backup servers,” SPR explained. The database is in the hands of the police, but it’s encrypted.” “We don’t know anything!,”

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