Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2023

Experts warn of phishing attacks that are combining the use of compromised Microsoft 365 accounts and.rpmsg encrypted emails. Trustwave researchers have observed threat actors using encrypted RPMSG attachments sent via compromised Microsoft 365 accounts in a phishing campaign aimed at stealing Microsoft credentials.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 15, 2024

SideWinder’s most recent campaign schema Infection vectors The SideWinder attack chain typically starts with a spear-phishing email with an attachment, usually a Microsoft OOXML document (DOCX or XLSX) or a ZIP archive, which in turn contains a malicious LNK file. Some infection routines do not check the architecture.

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Fox IT

DECEMBER 10, 2024

One of the most popular requests has been the capability to use Dissect in combination with common disk encryption methods like Microsoft’s BitLocker or its Linux equivalent LUKS. Please check the updated documentation on the Dissect Docs page for more information. With the release of Dissect version 3.17

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SecureList

OCTOBER 31, 2022

multiple encryption for C2 communication with ancient crypto algorithm. The encryption function used to send data was also modified, making it even more complicated. The second key is used by the Vigenere cipher to encrypt the base64 encoded header (url-safe replaced padding from “=” to “ ”). and v0.6.5,

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 4, 2022

The NSA’s 58-page Network Infrastructure Security Guidance (PDF) is more of a catalog of network security best practices, based on principles of zero trust and segmentation , following up on brief January guidance (PDF) on segmentation that discussed the Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture (image below). Limit and encrypt VPNs.

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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. LastPass disclosed that criminal hackers had compromised encrypted copies of some password vaults, as well as other personal information.

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Pen Test Partners

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

When it comes to compliance, the list of documentation and evidence pieces is broad. To help weve created a checklist of the key documents broken down per control to help you navigate PCI and ensure youve covered all bases. Update regularly : Review and update documents periodically to align with changing compliance requirements.

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SecureList

MARCH 21, 2023

The archive, in turn, contained two files: A decoy document (we discovered PDF, XLSX and DOCX versions) A malicious LNK file with a double extension (e.g.,pdf.lnk) The archive, in turn, contained two files: A decoy document (we discovered PDF, XLSX and DOCX versions) A malicious LNK file with a double extension (e.g.,pdf.lnk)

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Although financial data, such as credit card numbers and expiration dates, are protected by encryption implemented in RES 3700 POS systems, threat actors could use another downloadable module to decrypt the contents of the database. ” continues the analysis. persistent loader unpacks and loads the next stage of the main module.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

.” According to the experts, the attackers have good knowledge about the internal architecture of the targeted platform. To avoid detection of malicious functionalities, the authors encrypted all suspicious-looking strings with the Corrected Block TEA (XXTEA) cipher and then running Base64 encoding. .

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SecureList

JANUARY 6, 2025

Depending on the configuration, it may use the SCHANNEL security package, which supports SSL and TLS encryption on Windows. rar" "<<ip in the network>>c$Users<<user name>>Documents" "<<ip in the network>>c$Users<<user name>>Desktop" rar.exe a -v100M idata001.rar

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

However, P8 contains many built-in functions and redesigns of the communication protocol and encryption algorithm, making it a well-designed and powerful espionage platform. The access management software facilitates access to the encrypted partition of the drive. There are also some changes to the victimology.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Amnesty International has not documented human rights violations by NilePhish directly linked to FinFisher products.” It extracts the binary for the relevant architecture in /tmp/udev2 and executes it. ” reads the Amnesty’s report. Like its Mac OS counterpart, FinSpy for Linux is also obfuscated using LLVM-Obfuscator.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2021

The malware also allows attackers to capture screenshots and exfiltrate stolen documents to the attackers’ server. The malware also implements ransomware behavior, it is able to encrypt files and display a ransom note. states the report published by Kaspersky.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 25, 2021

Adding to it was an increase in ransomware attacks that was witnessed in the said time frame as hackers were seen using TLS traffic to induce malicious content particularly manually deployed ransomware content like droppers, loaders, and document based installers such as Zloader, GoDrop and BazarLoader.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

We noticed that the TTP of the group is almost the same leveraging a weaponized document with a fake certificate of request of an Indian public fund. The document presents itself as a request for a DSOP FUND (Defence Services Officers Provident Fund ). Figure 1: Piece of the malicious document employed in the Op.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 10, 2023

The framework also supports the implementation of security concepts such as encryption, digital signatures, and authentication. PKI is composed of these key components: Public and private keys : The public key is used for encryption, and the corresponding private key is for decryption. 

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 15, 2023

The most effective way to ensure data security is through encryption and proper key management. Key Management as a Service (KMaaS) allows companies to manage encryption keys more effectively through a cloud-based solution instead of running the service on physical, on-premises hardware.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

According to Nothing, Sunbird’s architecture provides a system to deliver a message from one user to another without ever storing it at any point in its journey. Which is not what Nothing promised: All Chats messages are end-to-end encrypted, meaning neither we nor Sunbird can access the messages you’re sending and receiving.

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SecureList

JULY 6, 2022

It can also emulate the interactions between multiple processors (on multiprocessor devices), each of which can have its own architecture and firmware. It supports x86, x86_64, ARM, ARM64, MIPS, and 8086 architectures and various executable file formats. Qiling is an advanced multi-platform framework for emulating executable files.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 3, 2022

This advanced custom Rat is mainly the work of a threat actor that targets Russian entities by using lures in archive file format and more recently Office documents leveraging the Follina vulnerability. The earliest versions of this Rat was typically archived into a zip file pretending to be a document specific to a Russian group.

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

Communication with the server can take place either over raw TCP sockets encrypted with RC4, or via HTTPS. In the vast majority of the incidents we discovered, FoundCore executions were preceded by the opening of malicious RTF documents downloaded from static.phongay[.]com Andariel adds ransomware to its toolset.

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Centraleyes

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Reporting and Documentation: Easily generate compliance reports and maintain necessary documentation for audits and regulatory reviews. Implement Strong Data Encryption Practices Data encryption is a fundamental practice in protecting sensitive information from unauthorized access.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Of course, developers cannot be held responsible for all vulnerabilities, but they usually have privileged accounts and even direct access to sensitive documents and pipes, which makes them increasingly attractive targets. The document lists concrete measures to reduce the risk: Generate architecture and design documents.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Google’s cloud security is well regarded (and the company has shared some documentation of its security architecture and practices too). The sheer difficulty is one reason that vulnerability management as a service (VMaaS) and similar services have been gaining traction among security buyers.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

A multi-layered approach is required to reduce exposure to ransomware attacks and also to recover encrypted data more quickly and effectively. Citrix Content Collaboration captures versions of files in real time to ensure that a clean version is always available to replace a file that has been encrypted by ransomware.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2021

The malware also allows attackers to capture screenshots and exfiltrate stolen documents to the attackers’ server. The malware also implements ransomware behavior, it is able to encrypt files and display a ransom note. ” states the report published by Kaspersky. ” Kaspersky concludes.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

.” According to the experts, the attackers have good knowledge about the internal architecture of the targeted platform. To avoid detection of malicious functionalities, the authors encrypted all suspicious-looking strings with the Corrected Block TEA (XXTEA) cipher and then running Base64 encoding. .

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Spinone

MARCH 19, 2020

Encryption is one of the tried and true security mechanisms for keeping data secure and private both on-premises and in the cloud. It allows masking data with mathematical algorithms that scramble the data so that it is unreadable without the encryption key. However, there is a weakness with traditional encryption techniques.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 8, 2024

LoanDepot has confirmed that the cyber incident involved unauthorized third-party access to certain systems, resulting in the encryption of data. If so, they will have to disclose this in their next 8K report and document their security processes in their 10K at the end of the year."

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Thats the message from Europols new document Quantum Safe Financial Forum - A call to action which urges the European financial sector to prioritize adopting post-quantum cryptography. However, the financial sector wont be able to go through this journey unassisted. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.)

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The steps 7 and 8 from Figure 2, the malware obtains some details from the infected machine and report them to the C2 server, including the version of the Operating System (OS), architecture, the name of the installed antivirus and EDRs, computer name, and the victim’s geolocation. The next diagram demonstrates how Javali trojan banker works.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The Loki modification inherited various techniques from Havoc to complicate analysis of the agent, such as encrypting its memory image, indirectly calling system API functions, searching for API functions by hashes, and more. The Havoc agent used Daniel Bernstein’s original magic number , 5381, but in Loki, this was replaced with 2231.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 13, 2024

Thales is pioneering the design of these future network architectures, both for ground-based network elements and for the space-based components needed to share cryptographic keys over long distances. To help our customers unravel this massive undertaking, Thales has been preparing for this moment for well over a decade.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Encryption protects data both in transit and at rest. Compliance and Audit Tools: Compliance and audit tools like GRC assist companies in adhering to applicable rules and industry standards by ensuring that security policies are followed and compliance is audited and documented.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Last week, SentinelOne researchers discovered a decoy documents advertising positions for the popular cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com. The dropper launches the decoy PDF file, a 26 page document containing all vacancies at Crypto.com, and wipes the Terminal’s current savedState (“com.apple.Terminal.savedState”).

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 7, 2024

It covers encryption, identity and access management, network segmentation, and intrusion detection systems. Presentation layer: Utilizes encryption and data formatting standards to ensure data confidentiality and integrity throughout processing and storage.

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