iNSYNQ Ransom Attack Began With Phishing Email

A ransomware outbreak that hit QuickBooks cloud hosting firm iNSYNQ in mid-July appears to have started with an email phishing attack that snared an employee working in sales for the company, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. It also looks like the intruders spent roughly ten days rooting around...

What Happens When Victims Pay Ransomware Attackers?

For many hackers around the globe, ransomware infections have become a lucrative business. Although these types of malware samples have been around for years now, they continue to spur success - and high monetary profits - for attackers. In fact, according to a statement from U.S. Deputy Attorney...

Armor - Tool Designed To Create Encrypted macOS Payloads Capable Of Evading Antivirus Scanners

Armor is a simple Bash script designed to create encrypted macOS payloads capable of evading antivirus scanners. Below is an example gif of Armor being used with a simple Netcat payload. A Netcat listener is started on port 4444. The "payload.txt" file is read and shown to contain a simple Bash...

First-Ever Ransomware Found Using 'Process Doppelgänging' Attack to Evade Detection

Security researchers have spotted the first-ever ransomware exploiting Process Doppelgänging, a new fileless code injection technique that could help malware evade detection. The Process Doppelgänging attack takes advantage of a built-in Windows function, i.e., NTFS Transactions, and an outdated...

Bad Rabbit Linked to ExPetr/Not Petya Attacks

A link has been confirmed between the Bad Rabbit ransomware outbreak detected yesterday in major organizations in Russia and Ukraine and this summer’s ExPetr/Not Petya attacks. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab said there are “clear ties” between the two attacks though one major piece of the puzzle is...

It's Not Exactly Open Season on the iOS Secure Enclave

The black box that is Apple’s iOS Secure Enclave may have been pried open, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s open season on iPhones and iPads worldwide. Yesterday’s public disclosure of the decryption key for the Secure Enclave Processor firmware does indeed allow white and black hats to pok...

Decryption Key to Original Petya Ransomware Released

The master key to the original version of the Petya ransomware – not to be confused with the latest and massive Petya/ExPetr outbreak that swept through the Ukraine and parts of Europe last month – has been released, allowing all the victims of previous Petya attacks to unscramble their encrypted...

Private Decryption Key For Original Petya Ransomware Released

Rejoice Petya-infected victims! The master key for the original version of the Petya ransomware has been released by its creator, allowing Petya-infected victims to recover their encrypted files without paying any ransom money. But wait, Petya is not NotPetya. Do not confuse Petya ransomware with...

Original Author of Petya Ransomware is Back & He Wants to Help NotPetya Victims

The author of original Petya ransomware is back. After 6 months of silence, the author of the now infamous Petya ransomware appeared today on Twitter to help victims unlock their files encrypted by a new version of Petya, also known as NotPetya. "We're back having a look in NotPetya," tweeted...

Leakage Of Decryption Key

nifi is susceptible to information disclosure. The vulnerability exists because running the encrypt-config.sh script allows the boostrap process RunNiFi.java to leak the sensitive property decryption key in 1 in the plaintext in boostrap.conf 2 in the process invocation...

Los Angeles College Pays Hackers $28,000 Ransom To Get Its Files Back

Ransomware has turned on to a noxious game of Hackers to get paid effortlessly. Once again the heat was felt by the Los Angeles Valley College LAVC when hackers managed to infect its computer network with ransomware and demanded US$28,000 payment in Bitcoins to get back online. The cyber-attack...

This Ransomware Unlocks Your Files For Free If You Infect Others

Is your PC infected with Ransomware? Either pay the ransom amount to the attacker or spread the infection further to get the decryption keys. Yes, this new technique has been employed by cyber criminals with the latest round of ransomware threat, dubbed Popcorn Time. Initially discovered by...

Master Decryption Key Released for TeslaCrypt Ransomware

The criminals behind the TeslaCrypt ransomware have closed up shop and publicly released the master decryption key that unlocks files encrypted by the malware. The news is significant given the investment and constant innovation devoted to TeslaCrypt, which has been one of the most active...

Encrypted Smartphone Network Seized by Dutch Police for Criminal Investigation

On Tuesday, the Dutch Police arrested a 36-year-old man, Danny Manupassa, on suspicion of money laundering and involvement in selling encrypted smartphones to criminals. Manupassa owns a company called Ennetcom, which provides customized Blackberry Phones with the secure PGP-encrypted network...

BlackBerry CEO Defends Lawful Access Principles, Supports Phone Hack

BlackBerry’s CEO made the company’s stance on lawful access requests clear this week and is defending actions to provide Canadian law enforcement with what it needed to decrypt communications between devices. The company’s CEO John Chen penned a statement on Monday, reiterating that one of...

How to Decrypt Petya Ransomware for Free

Ransomware has grown rapidly over the past few years and is now one of the most common threats on the Internet. These attacks have become increasingly aggressive, often leaving victims with little choice but to pay a ransom to recover critical and sensitive data. However, victims of Petya...

CVE-2016-1360

Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution LMS through 4.2.5 uses the same database decryption key across different customers' installations, which allows local users to obtain cleartext data by leveraging console connectivity, aka Bug ID CSCuw85390...

Design/Logic Flaw

Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution LMS through 4.2.5 uses the same database decryption key across different customers' installations, which allows local users to obtain cleartext data by leveraging console connectivity, aka Bug ID CSCuw85390...

CVE-2016-1360

Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution LMS through 4.2.5 uses the same database decryption key across different customers' installations, which allows local users to obtain cleartext data by leveraging console connectivity, aka Bug ID CSCuw85390...

Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution Default Decryption Key Vulnerability

A vulnerability in Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution LMS could allow an authenticated, local attacker to decrypt and access data fields in LMS databases that are used to manage devices in Cisco networks. The vulnerability is due to the presence of a default database decryption key that is share...