SecureList

APRIL 18, 2022

Kaspersky experts have found a vulnerability in the Yanluowang encryption algorithm and created a free decryptor to help victims of this ransomware with recovering their files. Geography of the Yanluowang attacks, December 4th, 2021 – April 8th, 2022 ( download ). The encryption code for big files. Yanluowang description.

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Webroot

MAY 31, 2024

What is Internet Safety Month? Each June, the online safety community observes Internet Safety Month as a time to reflect on our digital habits and ensure we’re taking the best precautions to stay safe online. Regularly scan your devices for malware and avoid clicking on suspicious links or downloading unknown files.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 19, 2021

“Suddenly the victim notices they have a couple of petabytes of data to restore over the Internet, and they realize that even with their fast connections it’s going to take three months to download all these backup files. We have backups, the data is there, but the application to actually do the restoration is encrypted.’

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2025

Kaspersky researchers discovered a mass malware campaign spreading SilentCryptoMiner by disguising it as a tool to bypass internet restrictions. com to distribute an infected archive, which had over 40,000 downloads. Its configuration is Base64-encoded and encrypted with AES-CBC. Attackers used the malicious site gitrok[.]com

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

This type of cyberextortion predated Trojans, which encrypt the victim’s files. New ransomware modifications, Q3 2023 — Q3 2024 ( download ) Number of users attacked by ransomware Trojans Despite the decrease in new variants, the number of users encountering ransomware has increased compared to the second quarter. 2 China 0.95

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

I use end-to-end-encrypted (E2EE) messaging for a reason. Keep threats off your mobile devices by downloading Malwarebytes for iOS , and Malwarebytes for Android today. Im not oblivious to the many users that would be better off with such a service, but Im not so sure theyd appreciate it.

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Identity IQ

AUGUST 19, 2023

7 Internet Safety Tips for Safer Internet Browsing IdentityIQ With the internet, we can access vast amounts of information with only a click or tap. This year, the total number of internet users worldwide reached 5.18 And as immense as the internet is, so are the risks. Many threats lurk in its corners.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 26, 2024

The experts pointed out that this Mirai variant has been modified to use improved encryption algorithms. The malware maintains persistence using a cron job that downloads a shell script from “hailcocks[.]ru.” TheMiraivariant incorporates ChaCha20 and XOR decryption algorithms. ” reads the analysis published by Akamai.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2020

An attacker could use $300 worth of off-the-shelf equipment to eavesdrop and intercept signals from satellite internet communications. The academic researcher James Pavur, speaking at Black Hat 2020 hacking conference , explained that satellite internet communications are susceptible to eavesdropping and signal interception.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

What Is Encryption Key Management? To keep data safe, it is encrypted and decrypted using encryption keys. Types of Encryption Keys. There are two main types of encryption keys : symmetric and asymmetric. Symmetric key encryption uses a single key to both encrypt and decrypt data. brooke.crothers.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 4, 2021

percent of all malware detected on networks of WatchGuard Technologies customers in the second quarter came over encrypted connections, raising the security risk for the 80 percent of such organizations that lack processes for decrypting and scanning HTTPS traffic for threats. Malware in Encrypted Traffic. A surprising 91.5

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

I want a "secure by default" internet with all the things encrypted all the time such that people can move freely between networks without ever needing to care about who manages them or what they're doing with them. Now let's try the mobile app: What's the encryption story there?

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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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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

7 Tips to Follow for Safer Internet Day IdentityIQ The 20 th annual Safer Internet Day is taking place on Feb. Safer Internet Day is a campaign that aims to educate the public on internet safety and encourage everyone to take part in creating a safer internet. Why is Safer Internet Day Important?

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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

MARCH 28, 2021

The group looks for attacks on Exchange systems using a combination of active Internet scans and “honeypots” — systems left vulnerable to attack so that defenders can study what attackers are doing to the devices and how. Shadowserver found more than 21,000 Exchange Server systems that had the Babydraco backdoor installed.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 21, 2021

Related: Why PKI will endure as the Internet’s secure core. And PKI , of course, is the behind-the-scenes authentication and encryption framework on which the Internet is built. In some workflows, the user downloads an app called IDNow AutoIdent and types in a verification code sent by DigiCert.

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Joseph Steinberg

MAY 9, 2022

According to a report published by The Washington Post , downloads by Russians of the 10 most popular VPN applications jumped from fewer than 15,000 per day just before the Russian invasion of Ukraine to a current figure of over 300,000 a day – even reaching as high as 475,000 per day at one point during the current military campaign.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 13, 2018

Internet censors have a new strategy in their bid to block applications and websites: pressuring the large cloud providers that host them. Today's Internet largely reflects the dominance of a handful of companies behind the cloud services, search engines and mobile platforms that underpin the technology landscape.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 21, 2021

From January through March 2021, TLS concealed 45 percent of the malware Sophos analysts observed circulating on the Internet; that’s double the rate – 23 percent – seen in early 2020, Dan Schiappa, Sophos’ chief product officer, told me in a briefing. How TLS works is that there is an encryption point and a decryption point.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 5, 2022

As an enterprise security team, you could restrict internet access at your egress points, but this doesn’t do much when the workforce is remote. If the data is online, then it’s accessible to bad actors and just waiting to be encrypted for ransom. In short, anything accessible from the internet should be given extra attention.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The first centers on targeting healthcare organizations that offer consultations over the Internet and sending them booby-trapped medical records for the “patient.” First spotted in mid-August 2022 , Venus is known for hacking into victims’ publicly-exposed Remote Desktop services to encrypt Windows devices.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

VCPI) provides IT consulting, Internet access, data storage and security services to some 110 nursing homes and acute-care facilities in 45 states. Typically, the initial infection stems from a booby-trapped email attachment that is used to download additional malware — such as Trickbot and Emotet. Milwaukee, Wisc.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Very frequently, code published on the Internet serves as a source of inspiration for software developers whenever they need to implement a project feature, they often check whether the code they need is already available online. It contains a PreBuildEvent attribute, which instructs the payload to execute at project build time.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 14, 2020

Since the internet, especially the "internet of things," is expected to rely heavily on 5G infrastructure, potential Chinese infiltration is a serious national security threat. To be sure, there are significant security improvements in 5G over 4G­in encryption, authentication, integrity protection, privacy, and network availability.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2022

You also don’t want unscrupulous individuals to download your content in bulk or re-host it on their own websites without permission. As every computer security professional knows, if anything is on the Internet, it’s subject to increasingly sophisticated attacks. A big concern on Wikipedia is vandalism. What can you do about it?

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 23, 2024

At issue is a well-known security and privacy threat called “ namespace collision ,” a situation where domain names intended to be used exclusively on an internal company network end up overlapping with domains that can resolve normally on the open Internet. SSL/TLS certs). He then learned the.ad Trouble is, any organization that chose a.ad

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

“What we discovered is that TeamTNT has been scanning for a misconfigured Docker Daemon and deploying alpine, a vanilla container image, with a command line to download a shell script (k.sh) to a C2 server (domain: whatwill[.]be “Breaking the cryptographic encryption is considered “Mission: Impossible”. be on IP 93[.]95[.]229[.]203).”

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 10, 2023

Some browsers will automatically download and install new security updates, but the protection from those updates usually only happens after you restart the browser. “We rely on BitLocker and full-disk encryption tools to keep our files and data safe in the event a laptop or device is stolen. Speaking of APT groups, the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

This post seeks to document the extent of those attacks, and traces the origins of this overwhelmingly successful cyber espionage campaign back to a cascading series of breaches at key Internet infrastructure providers. federal civilian agencies to secure the login credentials for their Internet domain records. That changed on Jan.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2021

The malicious shell scripts used by Shlayer and Bundlore are usually malvertising-focused adware bundlers using shell scripts in the kill chain to download and install an adware payload. Bash scripts invoking encrypted Zip file. Figure 4: Bash script invoking encrypted zip file. Figure 2: Fake flash player installation.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 31, 2025

The cyberthreat landscape of 2024 was rife with increasingly sophisticated threats, and encryption played a pivotal rolea staggering 87.2% billion attempted encrypted attacks, a clear demonstration of the growing risk posed by cybercriminals leveraging encryption to evade detection. of threats were hidden in TLS/SSL traffic.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 29, 2021

For years, Apple has marketed its iPhone as the more secure, more private option when compared to other smart phones, which do not, by default, include an end-to-end encrypted messaging app, warn users repeatedly about app location requests, or provide a privacy-forward Single Sign-On feature.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

A new banking trojan dubbed maxtrilha (due to its encryption key) has been discovered in the last few days and targeting customers of European and South American banks. After that, the malware creates persistence, disables Internet Explorer security settings to facilitate the download of the 2nd stage from the Internet.

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SecureList

MARCH 13, 2025

The attackers used ProxyLogon to execute a command to download and launch CobInt on the server. Command and Control After exploiting the business automation platform server, attackers downloaded and installed the PhantomJitter backdoor. r Download and extract archive remotely. -p An example download link is: hxxp://45[.]156[.]21[.]148:8443/winuac.exe

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Tor enhances privacy by directing internet traffic through a minimum of three randomly chosen routers, or nodes. During this process user data is encrypted before it reaches the destination via the exit node, ensuring a user’s activities and IP address remain confidential and secure. Only visit HTTPS-encrypted websites.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

If you have to connect to the internet using a public network, do so with a virtual private network. VPNs encrypt data , making it much harder to intercept when transmitted through a shared or suspect internet connection. SSLs ensure all data is encrypted. Think twice before downloading shopping apps.

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