Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Lumen Technologies Inc. Korab filed a vulnerability report with Lumen demonstrating how a simple spoofed email could be used to disrupt Internet service for banks, telecommunications firms and even government entities. Based in Monroe, La., “This would effectively cut off Internet access for the impacted IP address blocks.”

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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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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

In January 2018, GovPayNet was acquired by Securus Technologies , a Carrollton, Texas- based company that provides telecommunications services to prisons and helps law enforcement personnel keep tabs on mobile devices used by former inmates. We will continue to evaluate security and access to all systems and customer records.”.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

MARCH 9, 2023

Category Awareness, News, Case Study As one of the world’s fastest-growing industries, telecommunication has become a highly vulnerable target for cybersecurity threats. The Industry Information technology's ability to connect and communicate has become integral to our society here in the digital age. What can be done?

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 14, 2020

To be sure, there are significant security improvements in 5G over 4G­in encryption, authentication, integrity protection, privacy, and network availability. The technology will quickly become critical national infrastructure, and security problems will become life-threatening. But the enhancements aren't enough.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 8, 2023

With an intuitive, unified API, Sandwich empowers developers to embed the cryptographic algorithms of their choice directly into their applications and to change them as technologies and threats evolve – without rewriting code. A broad range of U.S. Air Force, the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), the U.S.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 15, 2024

ModuleInstaller was designed to drop at least four files: a legitimate and signed application used to sideload a malicious library, a.config manifest embedded in the program as a resource and required by the next stage to properly load additional modules, a malicious library, and an encrypted payload. without an extension).

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Digital Shadows

MARCH 17, 2025

VPN Infrastructures Allure for Threat Actors PNs have become a fundamental part of network security for organizations worldwide, enabling secure remote access to systems, encrypting sensitive data during transmission, and protecting internal networks from unauthorized access. 3 Whats Behind its Enduring Popularity?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Sandworm (aka BlackEnergy and TeleBots ) has been active since 2000, it operates under the control of Unit 74455 of the Russian GRU’s Main Center for Special Technologies (GTsST). In September 2022, Sandworm has been observed impersonating telecommunication providers to target Ukrainian entities with malware.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

The researchers observed threat actors exploiting CVE-2024-36401 in attacks aimed at IT service providers in India, technology companies in the U.S., government entities in Belgium, and telecommunications companies in Thailand and Brazil.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Faced with an increasing brain drain of smart people fleeing the country, Russia floats a new strategy to address a worsening shortage of qualified information technology experts: Forcing tech-savvy people within the nation’s prison population to perform low-cost IT work for domestic companies. ” SEPTEMBER.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The p opular ProtonMail end-to-end encrypted email service and ProtonVPN VPN service have been blocked by the Russian government this week. This week the Russian government has blocked the ProtonMail end-to-end encrypted email service and ProtonVPN VPN service. ” states Proton Technologies.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 8, 2021

MORPHEUS chip: unhackable because of 'encryption churn'? Austin calls this encryption churn and says it prevents reverse engineering, which sophisticated hackers sometimes use. More than 500 security researchers had the chance to win tens-of-thousands of dollars in bounties if they could break through the encryption churn.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2024

Positive Technologies researchers reported that a cybercrime gang called ExCobalt targeted Russian organizations in multiple sectors with a previously unknown Golang-based backdoor known as GoRed. The backdoor serializes, encrypts, archives, and sends the collected data to a designated server that stores compromised data.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 31, 2022

However, he failed to provide a statement on whether the company paid any ransom to free up the data from encryption. . Kirk Saville, the spokesperson for Hannes Brand, confirmed the news and said that the situation was brought under control within no time.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The group focuses on government departments that are involved in foreign affairs, technology, and telecommunications. The malware supports advanced encryption and obfuscation techniques to complicate malware analysis and hide its operations. The communication relies on GZIP-compressed and AES-GCM-encrypted messages.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

This includes administrative, physical, and technical safeguards like encryption and access controls. Recent updates to HIPAA regulations may address new technologies and evolving threats in the healthcare industry. Recent amendments to the CFAA may include updates to address new cybercrime techniques and technological advancements.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The threat actors used certificates from Nvidia and Kuwait Telecommunications Company to sign their malware; the former was already leaked, but we’re not sure how they got their hands on the latter. The ransomware – use of Kuwait Telecommunications Company signing certificate. 96eabcc77a6734ea8587599685fbf1b4.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

.” The attackers use the version.dll DLL to load FoggyWeb which is stored in the encrypted file Windows.Data.TimeZones.zh-PH.pri. The loader uses the custom Lightweight Encryption Algorithm (LEA) routine to decrypt the backdoor directly in the memory. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Researchers from Trend Micro, while monitoring the activity of the China-linked threat actor Earth Lusca , discovered an encrypted file hosted on a server under the control of the group. It consists of two components, the loader and the encrypted main payload. The backdoor uses AES-ECB encryption for C2 communications.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 15, 2022

Other targets include Brazil’s Ministry of Health (MoH) and Brazilian telecommunications operator Claro. Since they appear to be succeeding, Lapsus$ announced that they are looking to recruit insiders employed at telecommunications, software and gaming companies, among other technology businesses.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 13, 2021

This is where many of the year’s most exciting upcoming releases of handsets are often announced – alongside tablets, wearables, and other innovative technology. That, however, is changing and as such many telecommunications providers are expressing interest in migrating their operations.

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The Security Ledger

JANUARY 19, 2022

But when it comes to phenomena like online security, encryption and digital identities, some of the trend lines evident at the end of 2021 are a bit easier to extend into the future. We invited technology and digital identity veteran Dean Coclin from DigiCert into the Security Ledger studios to give us his thoughts.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Symantec spotted a previously unknown nation-state actor, tracked as Harvester, that is targeting telecommunication providers and IT firms in South Asia. Sectors targeted include telecommunications, government, and information technology (IT). At this time, the APT group is mostly targeting organizations in Afghanistan.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 11, 2024

How often does trade compliance nestle up to cybersecurity and other technology organizations? Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), identifies foreign parties that are restricted from receiving certain items, technologies, and software without a license. This list, maintained by the U.S.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 27, 2023

” Since then the group has expanded its range of activities to include targeting organizations providing cable telecommunications, email, and tech services, and partnering with the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group. Stop malicious encryption. The service is used by criminal gangs called affiliates who actually carry out attacks.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The encryption method used by the second layer differs for each sample. The configuration block is followed by an encrypted PE payload that starts at the entry point offset after decryption with the custom algorithm. Second stage – shellcode. The second stage payload consists of heavily obfuscated shellcode as can be seen below.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Security services and tools include anti-DDoS , SOCaaS , web application firewalls (WAF), data encryption , and more. Other features include applying secure socket layer (SSL) or transport layer security (TLS) and AES-256 encryption. Also Read: Best Encryption Software & Tools for 2021. EnterpriseDB.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 10, 2021

While the highest price was $95,000 for an Asian telecommunications service provider. Technology and telecommunications companies are among the most common victims and often command higher prices. The price for network access can range quite a bit. The average price was $9,640, but the median was $3,000.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Subscriber authentication and privacy are among the most critical data in telecommunication networks. As the industry looks forward to ubiquitous 5G implementation worldwide, we see this technology's usage at core networks as a path towards a virtualized infrastructure users can trust.”.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Several months later, I learned about how Dragos had spotted a new threat group called “HEXANE” targeting oil and gas companies in the Middle East as well as telecommunications providers in the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa. I think it’s important to point out that cyber-attacks could have resulted from a variety of weaknesses.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Russia’s telecommunications watchdog Roskomnadzor has instituted administrative proceedings against Facebook and Twitter after they refused to store data of Russian users on servers located in the country. This week the Russian government has blocked the ProtonMail end-to-end encrypted email service and ProtonVPN VPN service.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 13, 2021

While Morse code may seem like ancient communication technology to some, it does have a few practical uses in the modern world. Let’s look at the campaign, and then we’ll get into the novel use of an old technology. ASCII codes represent text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devices.

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Jane Frankland

JUNE 25, 2024

And at the heart of this much to do transformation lies the disruptive potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) – an evolving technology that’s set to be embedded everywhere, grow at a CAGR of 36.6% and be worth around $2 trillion by 2030. I’m partnering with Intel® again as they know tech like no other.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

If you are unfamiliar GITEX, it is an acronym for Gulf Information Technology Exhibition. What makes it especially interesting is that it is a mix of leading-edge technology, as well as progressive ideas. Customers were interested in all the portfolios of encryption, MFA, data protection, and access management.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Thales 2023 Data Threat Report: The Increased Telco Cybersecurity Challenges in the 5G Era madhav Tue, 09/12/2023 - 05:15 Telecommunications firms have always faced a unique set of security challenges. Securing investments and technology is not just about deploying preventive or responsive controls.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Talos reported that these DNS hijacks also paved the way for the attackers to obtain SSL encryption certificates for the targeted domains (e.g. mail.cyta.com.cy: Cyta telecommunications and Internet provider, Cyprus. owa.gov.cy: Microsoft Outlook Web Access for Government of Cyprus. Let’s take a closer look at one example.

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