eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 4, 2022

It’s been a couple of decades since data tapes delivered by trucks made encryption a standard enterprise cybersecurity practice. Yet even as technology has changed, sending and receiving data remains a major vulnerability, ensuring encryption’s place as a foundational security practice. What is Encryption?

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2024

New York City based Sisense has more than 1,000 customers across a range of industry verticals, including financial services, telecommunications, healthcare and higher education. “If they are hosting customer data on a third-party system like Amazon, it better damn well be encrypted,” Weaver said.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 26, 2023

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), an organization that standardizes technologies across the industry, first created TETRA in 1995. Looks like the encryption algorithm was intentionally weakened by intelligence agencies to facilitate easy eavesdropping. It’s just not a good idea.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 7, 2025

For example, in a recent attack on French corporates and government agencies, an AI-engineered malware exploited advanced techniques like COM hijacking and encrypted payloads, enabling attackers to remain undetected for extended periods, exfiltrate sensitive data, and establish long-term persistence within the network.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Named MESSAGETAP, the tool was deployed by APT41 in a telecommunications network provider in support of Chinese espionage efforts. Yet another example that demonstrates why end-to-end message encryption is so important. These operations have spanned from as early as 2012 to the present day.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 24, 2020

Instead, they only found a suspicious video file sent to Bezos on May 1, 2018 that "appears to be an Arabic language promotional film about telecommunications." That file shows an image of the Saudi Arabian flag and Swedish flags and arrived with an encrypted downloader.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 3, 2020

Encrochat took the base unit, installed its own encrypted messaging programs which route messages through the firm's own servers, and even physically removed the GPS, camera, and microphone functionality from the phone. EncroChat learned about the hack, but didn't know who was behind it.

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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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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2025

China-linked APT Weaver Ant infiltrated the network of a telecommunications services provider for over four years. The encrypted China Chopper variant, frequently used by the attackers, employed AES encryption to evade detection by Web Application Firewalls (WAFs).

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

It is perhaps best known for selling virtual private networking (VPN) software that lets users remotely access networks and computers over an encrypted connection. Citrix provides software used by hundreds of thousands of clients worldwide, including most of the Fortune 100 companies.

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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. In short, telecommunications (telecom) is a fundamental and critical component of our global infrastructure. What can be done? Read more of the ACT

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

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. “This would effectively cut off Internet access for the impacted IP address blocks.”

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Pervasive encryption: Most application and Internet traffic is now encrypted by default, making it much harder to secure the network from malicious traffic. Inspecting encrypted traffic adds significant latency—sometimes cutting application performance literally in half.

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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. But the enhancements aren't enough. The 5G security problems are threefold. First, the standards are simply too complex to implement securely. Susan Gordon, then-U.S.

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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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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 8, 2023

All enterprises need to have more observability and control over how encryption is managed across their systems, and ensuring that all applications leverage the best possible cryptography is a key aspect of improving cybersecurity posture,” said Nadia Carlsten, Vice President of Product at SandboxAQ. A broad range of U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

When government agencies and international intelligence groups pooled together resources to gather user data, the VPN’s encryption seemed like the light at the end of the tunnel. All telecoms companies will have to build tools in order to bypass their own encryption. Related: California enacts pioneering privacy law.

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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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Hacker's King

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Telnet stands for Telecommunication Network. Telnet has been largely replaced by SSH (Secure Shell) due to its lack of encryption, it’s still in use, especially in older systems or poorly secured networks. Port Version Detection with Telnet 3.Banner Banner Grabbing with Telnet 4.Operating Operating System Detection with Telnet 5.The

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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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Telecommunications giant Comcast is notifying approximately 238,000 customers impacted by the Financial Business and Consumer Solutions (FBCS) data breach. Telecommunications provider Comcast is one of the FBCS customers impacted by the incident. Starting on April 4, 2024, the agency began notifying impacted customers.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In September 2022, Sandworm has been observed impersonating telecommunication providers to target Ukrainian entities with malware. RansomBoggs encrypts files using AES-256 in CBC mode and appends the.chsch extension to the encrypted files. The key is then RSA encrypted and written to aes.bin.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

government entities in Belgium, and telecommunications companies in Thailand and Brazil. The attack starts with a shell script that downloads binaries for various architectures (ARM, MIPS, X86), extracts a command-and-control (C2) server from an encrypted configuration, and connects to it.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2021

The group also targeted a smaller subset of telecommunications firms in Africa and at least one charity organization in the Middle East. “BackdoorDiplomacy is a group that primarily targets diplomatic organizations in the Middle East and Africa, and less frequently, telecommunication companies.” ” concludes ESET.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2024

LightBasin targeted and compromised mobile telephone networks around the globe and used specialized tools to access calling records and text messages from telecommunications companies. CrowdStrike researchers reported that at least 13 telecommunication companies were compromised by since 2019.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The best all-around metric for SASE/ZT testing is QoE, as it reflects multiple underlying factors, including performance, error detection, encryption variability, overall transaction latency, and (for ZT) concurrent authentication rate. And since malware and vulnerabilities constantly change, threat models must continually evolve too.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2019

Security experts at FireEye uncovered a DNS hijacking campaign that is targeting government agencies, ISPs and other telecommunications providers, Internet infrastructure entities, and sensitive commercial organizations in the Middle East, North Africa, North America and Europe. ” reads the report published by FireEye.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The group is very sophisticated and used zero-day exploits and complex malware to conduct targeted attacks against governments and organizations in almost every industry, including financial, energy, telecommunications, and education, aerospace. The second stage installs itself and loads the third stage using an encrypted, hardcoded path.

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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

OCTOBER 4, 2023

“We are confident that all our records are fully encrypted, and we will keep customers updated on the outcome of our investigation as we work with our expert partners to establish the facts.” ” The telecommunication provider informed its customers that it has restored the impacted services in all of its markets.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The second stage payload is a heavily obfuscated shellcode, the APT group used an encryption method different for each sample. DTrack retrieves the payload by reading it from an offset within the file or by reading it from a resource within the PE binary. ” continues the analysis.

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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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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Among the Twilio customers targeted was encrypted messaging service Signal , which relied on Twilio to provide phone number verification services. Australian telecommunications giant Optus suffers a data breach involving nearly 10 million customers , including passport or license numbers on almost three million people.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) warns of GALLIUM threat group targeting global telecommunication providers worldwide. The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) warns of GALLIUM threat group targeting global telecommunication providers worldwide. ” reads the warning published by Microsoft.

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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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