Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Within six hours, the attacker began encrypting the organization’s systems. This concealed their attack until the environment was encrypted and backups were sabotaged. Once the threat actor had access to the domain administrator account, they retrieved additional files relating to backups and key network infrastructure.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The attackers first exfiltrate sensitive information from their target before launching the ransomware encryption routine. Double extortion is one of the most prevalent ransomware tactics today.

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SecureList

MAY 19, 2023

Over the years, the infosec community has discovered multiple APTs operating in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict region – Gamaredon, CloudAtlas , BlackEnergy and many others. From the WmiPrvSE.exe process, it makes a backup of the VFS file, copying mods.lrc to mods.lrs.

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McAfee

OCTOBER 31, 2021

In the past, fake social profiles were relatively easy to spot, however in the case of DPRK, the cybercriminals spent time to setting up a profile, get hooked up into the infosec scene, gain followers and connections through LinkedIn, making it more difficult than before to detect a fraudulent account. Techniques & Tactics.

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Cybercrime Government Malware Media 115

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 11, 2021

Even the most critical damages caused by ransomware are repairable as long as you have a solid backup strategy. Too many businesses cannot continue their activities until they recover the data encrypted by ransomware. Many collaborative platforms can help you recover the data encrypted by ransomware. They do it free of charge.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Under a Zero Trust policy, every user and transaction must be validated before access to an enterprise resource is granted, even for a legitimate operation like encryption. . Configuring endpoint management enables infosec teams to protect their data from being accessed from anywhere (internal or external). Improve Your SOC.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Execution Several native Windows binaries exist for generating backups of the Active Directory database and copying the deadlocked NTDS.dit file. Once the backup applications begin, a sequential process creation for VSSVC.exe (the Volume Snapshot Service) is executed by services.exe. password hashes) from Active Directory.

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Herjavec Group

JULY 20, 2021

Every month one of HG’s experts will provide advice and insights based on their extensive experience in the infosec industry. Ransomware” is a weaponized type of malware and viruses specially crafted by cybercriminals that uses encryption to lock up an organization’s critical information assets and sensitive data.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

This impact was amplified when the company decided to take down all the virtual servers infected by the ransomware and restore them from previous backups rather than comply with the attacker’s demands of a multimillion-dollar payoff. Ransomware Evolves: Encrypting Out, Bug Bounty In [July 2022]. Robyn Weisman. Code Signing.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Within six hours, the attacker began encrypting the organization’s systems. This concealed their attack until the environment was encrypted and backups were sabotaged. Once the threat actor had access to the domain administrator account, they retrieved additional files relating to backups and key network infrastructure.

Social Engineering 52

Social Engineering Engineering Accountability Backups 52

Pentester Academy

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

It targeted Microsoft Windows operating system by encrypting the data on the victim’s machine and seeking ransom in exchange for a promise to decrypt all the encrypted files and potentially undo the damage, but that’s far from the truth, as we discuss further! We need to unzip the archive to access the executable.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

She is an impressive force within the infosec world. Unlike other malware, ransom not only infected machines, it encrypted all the data, then asked for a ransom to decrypt them. Sometimes the decryption worked, sometimes it didn’t, creating headaches for system admins worldwide who didn’t have good backups in place.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

She is an impressive force within the infosec world. Unlike other malware, ransom not only infected machines, it encrypted all the data, then asked for a ransom to decrypt them. Sometimes the decryption worked, sometimes it didn’t, creating headaches for system admins worldwide who didn’t have good backups in place.

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Penetration Testing InfoSec Cyber Attacks Education 52

ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The confidentiality, integrity, and availability of it all -- you know, the classic CIA triad in infosec. Things like network encryption, certificate pinning - is this device domain joined or not? These might begin to solve problems with individual voting machines, but what about the larger problem? There's lots of different things.

Hacking 52

Hacking Mobile Software Technology 52

ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The confidentiality, integrity, and availability of it all -- you know, the classic CIA triad in infosec. Things like network encryption, certificate pinning - is this device domain joined or not? These might begin to solve problems with individual voting machines, but what about the larger problem? There's lots of different things.

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Hacking Mobile Software Technology 52

ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The confidentiality, integrity, and availability of it all -- you know, the classic CIA triad in infosec. Things like network encryption, certificate pinning - is this device domain joined or not? These might begin to solve problems with individual voting machines, but what about the larger problem? There's lots of different things.

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Hacking Mobile Software Technology 40

ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

I’m Robert Vamosi, and in this episode we’re talking about ways in which bad actors can manipulate legitimate tools to gain persistence on a site so they can steal data or encrypt it for ransom. A lot of infosec’s knowledge is either tribal -- passed on from one person to another - or can be found in books.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

He also talks about the future generation of hacking, what motivates young people today to think outside the box in a world where infosec is increasingly becoming vocational and expected. Is it the hospital, which should have had a power backup? They've been showing up at conferences, and in some infosec videos.

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DoublePulsar

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Three of the victims are cybersecurity vendors, and I suspect they may have access to another larger infosec vendor that they haven’t disclosed. Even Wordpress backups, as apparently people build CRMs on Wordpress nowadays (I’m old). They will do light recon on the network for things like backup systems.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

He also talks about his infosec journey hacking cryptocurrencies, joining the Digital Defense Service and CISA, and helping secure the 2020 presidential election… all before the age of 22. Failure to pay, and your data is encrypted forever. Would you use it? Would you help others? Usually a certain amount of Bitcoin.

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Hacking Ransomware Cryptocurrency Engineering 52

ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

He also talks about his infosec journey hacking cryptocurrencies, joining the Digital Defense Service and CISA, and helping secure the 2020 presidential election… all before the age of 22. Failure to pay, and your data is encrypted forever. Would you use it? Would you help others? Usually a certain amount of Bitcoin.

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Hacking Ransomware Cryptocurrency Engineering 52