Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2021

Microsoft Security Intelligence researchers uncovered a malware campaign that is spreading a remote access trojan (RAT) tracked as STRRAT. This RAT is infamous for its ransomware-like behavior of appending the file name extension.crimson to files without actually encrypting them. Researchers noticed that STRRAT version 1.5

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The Hacker News

MAY 21, 2021

This RAT is infamous for its ransomware-like behavior of appending the file name extension.crimson to files without actually encrypting them," the Microsoft Security Intelligence team said in a

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 25, 2025

Thales' data security platform supports both structured and unstructured data, spanning relational databases, NoSQL systems, and cloud-native services to seamlessly provide security across disparate data assets and diverse environments. The Thales approach spans three main areas: protection, monitoring, and compliance.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2020

pic.twitter.com/Q3BMs7fSvx — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) May 27, 2020. Learn how to build organizational security hygiene to prevent human-operated attacks: [link] — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) May 27, 2020. The ransom note contains the payment instructions.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 21, 2025

Three Keys to Modernizing Data Security: DSPM, AI, and Encryption andrew.gertz@t Tue, 01/21/2025 - 14:56 Organizations worldwide face a perfect storm of increasing and ever-evolving cyber threats. A DSPM moves the needle with integrated capabilities and comprehensive encryption.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2022

Researchers from MalwareHunterteam first spotted the ransomware family, once encrypted a file, the ransomware appends the ‘. nightsky ‘ extension to encrypted file names. link] — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) January 11, 2022. trendmrcio[.]com, rogerscorp[.]org, sophosantivirus[.]ga, nvidialab[.]us,

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Hot for Security

MAY 21, 2021

This RAT is infamous for its ransomware-like behavior of appending the file name extension.crimson to files without actually encrypting them,” said the Microsoft Security Intelligence team on Twitter. Attackers used compromised email accounts to launch the email campaign.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Protecting the confidentiality and integrity and of warehoused data and ensuring that access is controlled is vital to keeping that data secure. Moreover, encryption keys must be protected and managed in a trusted manner for security and compliance with regulations.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 4, 2021

It is an industry-leading enterprise key management solution that enables organizations to centrally manage encryption keys, provide granular access controls and configure security policies. CipherTrust Transparent Encryption delivers data-at-rest encryption, privileged user access controls and detailed data access audit logging.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Data Security: Thales provides data security through encryption, key management, access control and security intelligence across devices, processes, platforms and environments. It will now be bringing those solutions with it to GITEX 2019.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Get TTPs and protection info: [link] — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) October 14, 2022. Once deployed, the Prestige ransomware drops a ransom note named “README.txt” in the root directory of each drive it encrypts. ” concludes the report.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Thales offers vendor-independent encryption and key management services. Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) is an encryption key management system that allows enterprises to encrypt their data and retain control and management of their encryption keys. However, some BYOK plans upload the encryption keys to the CSP infrastructure.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 20, 2022

By utilizing a structured mix of network and endpoint monitoring, behavioral analysis, Machine Learning tools, and threat intelligence, Heimdal’s XDR/SOC acts as a central hub for security intelligence, gathering and dynamically comparing input from multiple sources (endpoints, networks, cloud workloads) to detect threats faster and ramp up response (..)

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Deriving the singular algorithms required to accomplish this heavy lifting is a tall order and couldn’t happen without the evolution of big data; today, it’s technically possible and economically feasible to store this extensive amount of data and apply processing power to extract security intelligence from it.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 27, 2019

The answer is a full-court press of encryption. Whether your employees plan on accessing anything tournament-related through the month of March or not, remind them to be cognizant of what they’re opening and make sure your organization has implemented the proper encryption technology to keep you out of foul trouble.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 8, 2024

It limits administrators' control over security activities and encryption keys, supporting two-factor authentication. Imperva Data Security Fabric DAM simplifies auditing for various platforms, including cloud-hosted databases. Data at rest must be protected through encryption or tokenization.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 18, 2023

Domino has been seen in attacks since at least February 2023 according to researchers at IBM Security Intelligence. Along with gathering “basic system information”, it receives an encrypted payload once the initial system data has been sent to the command and control center.

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Cisco Security

MAY 6, 2021

They also offer minimal security alerts driven by heuristic analysis which rely on detecting already known indicators of compromise. These can give a satisfactory performance but may miss new advanced threats and cannot identify threats hiding within encrypted traffic. Not anymore. What do we do? .

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

The most significant barrier to visibility is encryption. Although encryption helps to protect data from interception, encrypted traffic needs to be decrypted for IDS or IPS to inspect and analyze the contents. After all, these solutions can only take action on packets they can inspect. Diverse Local Networks.

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Webroot

JANUARY 7, 2022

“In 2022, the widespread growth of mobile access will increase the prevalence of mobile malware, given all of the behavior tracking capabilities,” says Grayson Milbourne, security intelligence director, Carbonite + Webroot, OpenText companies.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 30, 2021

Encrypt sensitive traffic using Transport Layer Security (TLS). Not all APIs require encryption, but always use TLS when an API exchanges login credentials, credit card, social security, banking, health, or other sensitive information. ” These same intelligence feeds can be used to understand API abuse.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 7, 2021

Experience has shown that to secure a PKI and maintain the integrity of the certificates, extraordinary caution should be taken to protect the root key. Using encryption and high assurance key protection will help protect your organization from breach, and should your data be compromised, hackers will not have access to your encrypted data.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Thales offers vendor-independent encryption and key management services. Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) is an encryption key management system that allows enterprises to encrypt their data and retain control and management of their encryption keys. However, some BYOK plans upload the encryption keys to the CSP infrastructure.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 14, 2022

We urge customers to upgrade to the latest version or apply recommended mitigations: [link] — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) June 11, 2022. IDR seen both Linux (multiple victims got git files encrypted) & Windows user victims already from different countries. Has Windows & Linux versions.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 30, 2020

To ease these burdens, SECaaS and SOCaaS vendors have emerged as cloud-based security as a service that can collect, analyze, and correlate your information from diverse systems and applications — turning former headaches into actionable information security intelligence. Security as a Service (SECaaS) .

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

From our perspective at Thales eSecurity, the answers are about trust and protecting your data in the platform through encryption and tokenization , identity and access management , security intelligence logs , and so forth. This is the missing piece.

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Webroot

APRIL 21, 2021

Believed to have been started by the Maze ransomware group , the data extortion trend involves not just encrypting business’ data and holding it for ransom, but in fact threatening to expose the compromised data if the victims refuses to pay. One of the newer trends we saw in ransomware was that of data extortion.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 23, 2021

And its encryption capabilities are limited to reporting on the status of Windows BitLocker. SentinelOne does lack some helpful features, such as full-disk encryption, VPN, mobile support, and web content filtering. As a whole, the Cisco suite is a powerful zero trust security solution.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Google describes Security Center as a security analytics and best practice recommendations utility that enables G Suite administrators to operate G Suite environments much more intelligently and with greater visibility. This helps administrators to take a more proactive approach to security intelligence.

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Spinone

JULY 8, 2020

When thinking about making Gmail email compliant with HIPAA, organizations need to use end-to-end encryption for email communications. This ensures that information contained in emails is secured as it is transmitted across the Internet. Google does offer S/MIME email encryption.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 5, 2021

Illumio’s workload and endpoint security platforms fit nicely into the zero trust space, and with its microsegmentation and whitelisting abilities, the company says it can even prevent the spread of ransomware. Good automation and management features give Illumio’s Adaptive Security Platform broad appeal. Learn more about Illumio.

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Centraleyes

JULY 8, 2024

From the NIST Cybersecurity Framework to specialized guidance on encryption and risk management, NIST’s resources provide invaluable support for compliance professionals seeking to align with industry best practices and regulatory requirements.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 15, 2023

This could include vulnerability scanners , configuration assessment tools, or security intelligence platforms. Depending on your organization and its security needs, this could involve running vulnerability scans on all your assets or prioritizing certain assets based on their potential exposure and importance.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 29, 2022

As a whole, the Cisco suite is a powerful zero trust security solution. Firepower NGFWs provide advanced malware protection, security intelligence, sandboxing, DDoS mitigation, and a next-generation intrusion prevention system. It offers real-time threat protection and searchable cloud encryption to protect data at rest.

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NopSec

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Crypto-ransomware systematically encrypts files that are stored locally or on accessible network file shares, using strong cryptographic algorithms. The ransomware determines what files to encrypt by their file type, with office documents – docx,xlsx,pptx, photographs, and video files – almost always targeted.

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SC Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

Their strategy is to establish a reputation for reliability among potential victims to reassure target organizations that once a ransom has been paid the criminal gang will release the necessary encryption to get the system up and running again, even providing them with any necessary support services.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Beyond Identity Identity management 2020 Private Expel Managed security service 2016 Private Tigera Zero trust for K8s 2016 Private Intrinsic Application security 2016 Acquired: VMware HackerOne Penetration testing 2015 Private Virtru Data encryption 2014 Private Cloudflare Cloud infrastructure 2010 NYSE: NET.

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