SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

While quantum power poses risks to traditional encryption, it also opens the door to revolutionary cybersecurity advancements that could redefine how we protect data, detect threats, and secure critical infrastructure.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 27, 2019

-based Synoptek is a managed service provider that maintains a variety of cloud-based services for more than 1,100 customers across a broad spectrum of industries , including state and local governments, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, media, retail and software. A now-deleted Tweet from Synoptek on Dec.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Note 1- Since 1828, the said France-based company has been serving several business sectors such as Agri Foods, Marine supply, Building and Infrastructure, and Manufacturing. Note 3- Ransomware is a kind of malware that encrypts a database until a ransom is paid.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The government says Russian national Artur Sungatov used LockBit ransomware against victims in manufacturing, logistics, insurance and other companies throughout the United States. In addition, the Japanese Police, supported by Europol, have released a recovery tool designed to recover files encrypted by the LockBit 3.0

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SecureList

APRIL 23, 2025

The campaign, dubbed “Operation SyncHole”, has impacted at least six organizations in South Korea’s software, IT, financial, semiconductor manufacturing, and telecommunications industries, and we are confident that many more companies have actually been compromised. All traffic is encrypted with the generated AES key.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2022

The list of victims includes manufacturing organizations, banks, schools, and event and meeting planning companies. The Holy Ghost ransomware appends the file extension.h0lyenc to filenames of encrypted files. MSTIC linked DEV-0530 to another North Korean-based group tracked as PLUTONIUM (aka DarkSeoul or Andariel ).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Conti Ransomware operating from Russia is known to first steal the information from the targeted database and then encrypt it entirely until a ransom is paid. If the victim fails to pay the ransom in cryptocurrency, they then sell the stolen data on the dark web.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 4, 2022

DNS encryption. DNS encryption plugs a gap that makes it easy to track the websites you visit. DNS encryption restores your privacy by making it impossible for anything other than the DNS resolver to read and respond to your queries. FIDO2 is a specification that uses public key encryption for authentication.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

Android malware targets over 200 mobile financial and cryptocurrency applications, including Paypal Business , Revolut , Barclays , UniCredit , CapitalOne UK , HSBC UK , Santander UK , TransferWise , Coinbase , and paysafecard. . ” reads the analysis published by Cybereason. By analyzing HTTP packets in EventBot Version 0.0.0.1,

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Ransomware is a kind of malware that allows the hacker to steal data and then encrypt a database until a ransom is paid. NOTE- Australian government is planning to impose a ban on cryptocurrency as it will help curb the spread of ransomware crime certainly. And might increase the ransom from $60m per target to $145m.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 24, 2022

And studies have revealed that the newly developed file-encrypting malware is using an Open-source password management library for encryption and is having capabilities of remaining anonymous, ex-filtrate data, and having abilities to give control to remote servers. The third is something astonishing to read!

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 2, 2022

Foxconn, an electronics manufacturer from Mexico, has released a press statement that it was hit by Lockbit ransomware in the last week of May and is recovering data through a business continuity plan. NOTE 1- Lockbit usually demands a ransom in double-digit figures of millions and that too in Bitcoins cryptocurrency.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 27, 2023

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced that it has successfully taken down the HIVE ransomware network, an international cybercrime ring that had been responsible for stealing and encrypting the data of more than 1,500 companies from 80 different countries.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

The threat actor specializes in encrypting and then deleting its targets’ data, which suggests that the group’s primary objective is to cause as much damage as possible. Head Mare post on X Head Mare has targeted a variety of industries, including government, energy, transportation, manufacturing and entertainment.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2024

The FBI is inviting victims of LockBit ransomware to come forward because it has obtained over 7,000 LockBit decryption keys that could allow them to recover their encrypted data for free. The NCA reached out to victims based in the UK providing support to help them recover encrypted data.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In a security blog about Octo Tempest Microsoft states: “Octo Tempest monetized their intrusions in 2022 by selling SIM swaps to other criminals and performing account takeovers of high-net-worth individuals to steal their cryptocurrency.” Stop malicious encryption.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In wider action coordinated by Europol, two LockBit actors have been arrested this morning in Poland and Ukraine, over 200 cryptocurrency accounts linked to the group have been frozen.” The NCA will reach out to victims based in the UK in the coming days and weeks, providing support to help them recover encrypted data.

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Webroot

JANUARY 7, 2022

Stealth ransomware attacks, which would deploy all the necessary elements to control, exfiltrate and encrypt key assets of an organization but do not execute until there is no alternative, will likely continue to proliferate,” says Matt Aldridge, principal solutions consultant at Carbonite + Webroot. Cryptocurrency.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In wider action coordinated by Europol, two LockBit actors have been arrested this morning in Poland and Ukraine, over 200 cryptocurrency accounts linked to the group have been frozen.” The NCA will reach out to victims based in the UK in the coming days and weeks, providing support to help them recover encrypted data.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

As of April 28, the site mentioned nine companies primarily from aviation, financial, education and manufacturing industries. As of April 28, the website offers to download data for free from 9 mainly US companies from the aviation, financial, education, manufacturing, and logistics companies which refused to pay the ransom.

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Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2023

Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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SecureList

MAY 12, 2021

To ensure that their ability to restore encrypted files would never be questioned, they cultivated an online presence, wrote press releases and generally made sure their name would be known to all potential victims. They interact with each other through internet handles, paying for services with cryptocurrency.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Since March, the attackers have been trying to conduct multistage attacks on large corporate networks of medical labs, banks, manufacturers, and software developers in Russia. The operators use a suite of custom tools with the ultimate goal of encrypting files in the infected system and holding it for a ransom of about $50,000.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

A new piece of malware dubbed QSnatch is infecting thousands of NAS devices manufactured by the Taiwanese vendor QNAP. DDoS attack, cryptocurrency miner, data harvesting). Security experts warn of a new piece of malware dubbed QSnatch that already infected thousands of QNAP NAS devices worldwide. Call-home at specific intervals.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 1, 2023

For most implants, the threat actor uses similar implementations of DLL hijacking (often associated with ShadowPad malware) and memory injection techniques, along with the use of RC4 encryption to hide the payload and evade detection. libssl.dll or libcurl.dll was statically linked to implants to implement encrypted C2 communications.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

It also turned out that the motherboards infected in all known cases came from just two manufacturers. VileRAT is a Python implant, part of an evasive and highly intricate attack campaign against foreign exchange and cryptocurrency trading companies. It’s also unclear how the attackers managed to deliver the malware.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

According to the 2021 IBM Threat Force Intelligence Index , Manufacturing was the industry most likely to be attacked last year, comprising 23.2% One particularly potent emergent technology for scammers is blockchain and the related cryptocurrency and NFTs. of cyber attacks IBM handled.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 8, 2023

Their combined 48 leaked victims last month were across a range of industries, mainly centered around manufacturing, logistics, and services. The agencies have reason to believe cryptocurrency ransom payments from such operations support DPRK's "national-level priorities and objectives." Stop malicious encryption.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

The Internet of Things devices create a rapidly growing network of connected objects that frequently were manufactured without taking the security issues into consideration; so additional data protection or encryption can not be implemented. Cyber Crime Impact?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

The purpose of the script is to optimize the mining module by querying the information about the CPU through the reading of the “ /proc/cpu ” and when the manufacturer is retrieved the script provides to add some specific registry values depending by the vendor through the Model-Specific Register utility “ wrmsr ”. This is the “ Stage 1 ”.

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Responsible Cyber

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Example: A manufacturing company must adhere to OSHA regulations to maintain workplace safety, while a bank ensures compliance with Basel III to manage risk. This involves measures like encrypting sensitive data and allowing users to control how their data is used. Regulatory compliance is not optionalits the cost of doing business.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The US, manufacturing sector, and professional, scientific, and technical services (PSTS) sector are primary targets amidst an overall increase in ransomware attacks. Additionally, securing internal documents with encrypted storage and using safe file-sharing platforms is crucial, especially when sharing externally.

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Expect to see more investments in privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) such as encryption, anonymization, and data masking. Quantum Computings Impact on Cybersecurity Quantum computing, although still in its early stages, poses a future threat to current encryption standards.

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SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

The manufacturer of the mobile device preloads an adware application or a component with the firmware. This is not a supply chain attack , but a premeditated step on the part of the manufacturer for which it receives extra profits. Another example of the partnership is so-called preinstall. Statistics. Number of installation packages.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 15, 2023

Oftentimes this is credential data, but it can be any data that may have financial value to an adversary; this includes paid online service accounts, cryptocurrency wallets, instant messenger, or email contacts lists, etc. Key Mystic Stealer functions include its ability to extract data from web browsers and cryptocurrency wallets.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Whether it is synchronized files from on-premises to cloud environments or the risk of encryption of cloud email, ransomware is a real threat to your data. Ransom payments are generally demanded in the form of untraceable cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin. This includes the Billtrust and German manufacturer, Pilz, ransomware infections.

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NetSpi Executives

APRIL 27, 2024

Victims pay ransomware adversaries for decryption keys through cryptocurrency, such as Bitcoin. In addition to encrypting data and holding it hostage, ransomware attackers also upload valuable data to other systems on the internet. Ransomware adversaries hold the data hostage until a victim pays the ransom.

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