Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Extortionist Crypto-Locking Hackers Keep Hitting Healthcare Sector, Experts Report Once ransomware hackers get inside a healthcare sector organization's systems, three out of four attackers will also maliciously encrypt data, says security firm Sophos.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In 2018, Australia passed the Assistance and Access Act, which—among other things—gave the government the power to force companies to break their own encryption. Examples include certain source code, encryption, cryptography, and electronic hardware. We in the encryption space call that last one “ nerd harder.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The Glove Stealer malware exploits a new technique to bypass Chrome’s App-Bound encryption and steal browser cookies. The malware bypasses Chrome’s App-Bound Encryption by utilizing the IElevator service, a method that was disclosed in October 2024. Gen Digital observed phishing campaigns distributing the Glove Stealer.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The court found that end-to-end encryption is essential to preserving the right to privacy in digital communication systems.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 5, 2022

Quantum Computers That Use Atom-Level States of Uncertainty Are a Matter of Time The National Institute of Standards and Technology today announced a first group of encryption algorithms designed to withstand the assault of a future quantum computer. Selection of the four algorithms comes after six years of evaluation by the U.S.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 15, 2024

EDITED TO ADD: Good article : One – ML-KEM [PDF] (based on CRYSTALS-Kyber) – is intended for general encryption, which protects data as it moves across public networks. My recent writings on post-quantum cryptographic standards. NIST plans to select one or two of these algorithms by the end of 2024.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 28, 2024

Matthew Green wrote a really good blog post on what Telegram’s encryption is and is not.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

From Russia with Love Group Boasted of Removing Decryptor from Somnia Ransomware Russian hackers are on a campaign to maliciously encrypt the files of Ukrainian victims - but unlike other ransomware groups, doing so without the possibility of offering a decryptor.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Encryption scrambles data to make it unreadable to those without decryption keys. Proper use of encryption preserves secrecy and radically lowers the potential damage of a successful cybersecurity attack. Encryption algorithm types will provide an overview of the mathematical algorithms used to encrypt data (AES, RSA, etc.),

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Enter attribute-based encryption ( ABE ) an advanced type of cryptography that’s now ready for prime time. ABE makes it much more difficult to fraudulently decrypt an asset in its entirety; it does this by pulling user and data attributes into the encryption picture — in a way that allows decryption to be flexible.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Rust-Based Ransomware Employs Aggressive Anti-Detection Tactics Operators of a Russian-speaking ransomware group launched a new encryptor with enhanced measures for defeating cyber defenders including wiping logs, disrupting backup systems and stopping decryption without insiders knowledge.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The headline is pretty scary: “ China’s Quantum Computer Scientists Crack Military-Grade Encryption.” ” No, it’s not true. This debunking saved me the trouble of writing one. It all seems to have come from this news article , which wasn’t bad but was taken widely out of proportion.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 27, 2020

Navigation and Smartwatch Company Stops Short of Using Term 'Ransomware' Garmin acknowledged Monday that a "cyberattack" that encrypted several of its systems led to outages that affected several of the company's fitness and aviation products along with knocking its homepage and customer service centers offline.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 2, 2021

Industrial-Scale Cocaine Lab' Seizure Traces to Users of Defunct EncroChat Service Former customers of the now-defunct encrypted communications service EncroChat, which was infiltrated by police last year, continue to get busted, including members of a crime syndicate that operated "an industrial-scale cocaine laboratory" in the Netherlands, Europol (..)

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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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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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Schneier on Security

APRIL 24, 2023

The Bill provides no explicit protection for encryption, and if implemented as written, could empower OFCOM to try to force the proactive scanning of private messages on end-to-end encrypted communication services – nullifying the purpose of end-to-end encryption as a result and compromising the privacy of all users.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 17, 2023

BianLian Is Not Double Trouble Anymore, Says US CISA The BianLian ransomware group is abandoning malicious encryption in favor of pure extortion, warns the U.S. top cybersecurity agency. A major likely factor in BianLian's shift was cybersecurity firm Avast's January release of a free decryptor.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Apple announced PQ3 , its post-quantum encryption standard based on the Kyber secure key-encapsulation protocol, one of the post-quantum algorithms selected by NIST in 2022. There’s a lot of detail in the Apple blog post , and more in Douglas Stabila’s security analysis. I am of two minds about this.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Kawin Boonyapredee on Why Organizations Should Take Post-Quantum Threats Seriously Quantum computing has been evolving for decades and holds immense promise. Companies have invested billions of dollars in this technology, which will eventually solve complex business problems.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Romanians Allegedly Ran 'CyberSeal,' 'Dataprotector' and 'Cyberscan' Services Europol has arrested two Romanians for allegedly selling services - including malware encryption - that helped cybercriminals circumvent antivirus tools.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 21, 2021

In the first, hackers encrypt data with ransomware A and then re-encrypt that data with ransomware B. The other path involves what Emsisoft calls a “side-by-side encryption” attack, in which attacks encrypt some of an organization’s systems with ransomware A and others with ransomware B.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 4, 2022

Researchers have found a major encryption flaw in 100 million Samsung Galaxy phones. Here are the details: As we discussed in Section 3, the wrapping key used to encrypt the key blobs (HDK) is derived using a salt value computed by the Keymaster TA. GSM needs a new nonce for every encryption.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 6, 2021

National Security Agency has released guidance on how the Defense Department, other federal agencies and the contractors that support them should replace obsolete encryption protocols that can enable cyber intrusions. Agency Recommends Replacement of Old TLS and SSL Protocols The U.S.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 8, 2021

FBI Developed Smartphone-Based Platform as Honeypot for Criminals Thousands of suspected criminals have been relying on the "Anom" encrypted communications platform to coordinate their efforts.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 12, 2022

After way too many years, Apple is finally encrypting iCloud backups : Based on a screenshot from Apple, these categories are covered when you flip on Advanced Data Protection: device backups, messages backups, iCloud Drive, Notes, Photos, Reminders, Safari bookmarks, Siri Shortcuts, Voice Memos, and Wallet Passes.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Also: Improving Private-Public Collaboration, ISMG'S Africa Summit Four editors at Information Security Media Group analyze private-public partnerships today, preview ISMG's upcoming cybersecurity summit in Africa and discuss the increasing use of intermittent or partial encryption by ransomware gangs as a means to extort money from victims faster. (..)

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 15, 2021

Agency Describes How DoH Can Help Prevent Eavesdropping The NSA has released guidance on how organizations can adopt encrypted domain name system protocols to prevent eavesdropping and manipulation of DNS traffic.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 6, 2020

Web Conferencing Provider Blames Routing of Keys via China on Scaling-Up Error Zoom, responding to research that identified encryption and infrastructure shortcomings in its audio and video conferencing software, has promised to further revamp its security controls.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 19, 2020

Law Enforcement Leaders Say Encryption Delayed Terrorist Investigation; Apple Pushes Back Although FBI technicians were able to gain access to data in two iPhones belonging to a Saudi national who killed three U.S.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The cryptocurrency fintech startup Prime Trust lost the encryption key to its hardware wallet—and the recovery key—and therefore $38.9 It is now in bankruptcy. I can’t understand why anyone thinks these technologies are a good idea.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 5, 2023

government bill aimed at protecting children from online harassments by weakening encryption. Proposed Online Safety Bill Is 'Doomed to Fail,' Academics Say in an Open Letter Over five dozen British academics joined a widening group of technology firms and privacy groups in criticizing a U.K.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 30, 2021

New paper: “ Encrypted Cloud Photo Storage Using Google Photos “: Abstract: Cloud photo services are widely used for persistent, convenient, and often free photo storage, which is especially useful for mobile devices.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Police Seize Drugs, Firearms and 4M Euros in Raids on Exclu Users and Operators Police in multiple European countries carried out raids against the operators and users of the Exclu encrypted chat app, arresting four dozen individuals.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

Encryption and the development of cryptography have been a cornerstone of IT security for decades and remain critical for data protection against evolving threats. While cryptology is thousands of years old, modern cryptography took off in the 1970s with the help of the Diffie-Hellman-Merkle and RSA encryption algorithms.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

To accelerate the ransomware encryption process and make it harder to detect, cybercriminal groups have begun using a new technique: intermittent encryption. Intermittent encryption allows the ransomware encryption malware to encrypt files partially or only encrypt parts of the files. Others are automated.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2022

A bug in the message encryption mechanism used by Microsoft in Office 365 can allow to access the contents of the messages. Researchers at the cybersecurity firm WithSecure discovered a bug in the message encryption mechanism used by Microsoft in Office 365 that can allow to access message contents due. ” concludes WithSecure.

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