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Shining Light on Dark Power: Yet Another Ransomware Gang
Shining Light on Dark Power: Yet Another Ransomware Gang By Pham Duy Phuc and Tomer Shloman · March 23, 2023 This blog was also written by Max Kersten Another day, another ransomware gang. The Dark Power ransomware gang is new on the block, and is trying to make a name for itself. This blog dives...
Threat Round up for February 10 to February 17
Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats weve observed between Feb. 10 and Feb. 17. As with previous roundups, this post isnt meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats weve observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics,...
Threat Roundup for October 28 to November 4
Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats weve observed between Oct. 28 and Nov. 4. As with previous roundups, this post isnt meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats weve observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics,...
Threat Roundup for October 21 to October 28
Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats weve observed between Oct. 21 and Oct. 28. As with previous roundups, this post isnt meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats weve observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics,...
age and Authenticated Encryption
age is a file encryption format, tool, and library. It was made to replace one of the last remaining GnuPG use cases, but it was not made to replace GnuPG because in the last 20 years we learned that cryptographic tools work best when they are specialized and opinionated instead of flexible Swiss...
Information disclosure
A missing cryptographic steps vulnerability CWE-325 in the functions that encrypt the keytab files in FortiOS version 7.2.0, 7.0.0 through 7.0.5 and below 7.0.0 may allow an attacker in possession of the encrypted file to decipher it...
CVE-2022-35928
AES Crypt for Linux (v3.11) reads passwords/confirmations from the command line without validating input length, potentially causing buffer overruns. The issue is not present when using -p or -k, and the fix is in commit 68761851b595e96c68c3f46bfc21167e72c6a22c and will be shipped in release 3.16...
Design/Logic Flaw
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform LCM - versions 420, 430, allows an attacker with an admin privilege to read and decrypt LCMBIAR file's password under certain conditions, enabling the attacker to modify the password or import the file into another system causing high impact on...
A Microsoft Office 365 Feature Could Help Ransomware Hackers Hold Cloud Files Hostage
A "dangerous piece of functionality" has been discovered in Microsoft 365 suite that could be potentially abused by a malicious actor to mount attacks on cloud infrastructure and ransom files stored on SharePoint and OneDrive. The cloud ransomware attack makes it possible to launch file-encryptin...
QNAP QTS / QuTS Hero DEADBOLT Ransomware (QSA-22-02)
The version of QNAP QTS / QuTS Hero installed on the remote host is affected by an arbitrary code execution vulnerability which is being actively exploited by the DEADBOLT ransomware. The ransomware encrypts files, renames them with a .deadbolt extension and hijacks the login page with a ransom...
Default credentials
RunAsSpc 4.0 uses a universal and recoverable encryption key. In possession of a file encrypted by RunAsSpc, an attacker can recover the credentials that were used...
RagnarLocker ransomware gang breached 52 critical infrastructure organizations
In a FLASH publication issued by the FBI in coordination with DHS/CISA, the FBI says it has identified at least 52 organizations across 10 critical infrastructure sectors affected by RagnarLocker ransomware, including organizations in the critical manufacturing, energy, financial services,...
The Chaos Ransomware Can Be Ravaging
The Qualys Research Team has observed a new version of Chaos ransomware in development. This blog reviews the malware’s updated functionality as well as its ongoing evolution. A ransomware builder called Chaos is still actively under development. The fourth version has recently been observed bein...
LockFile Ransomware Bypasses Protection Using Intermittent File Encryption
A new ransomware family that emerged last month comes with its own bag of tricks to bypass ransomware protection by leveraging a novel technique called "intermittent encryption." Called LockFile, the operators of the ransomware have been found exploiting recently disclosed flaws such as ProxyShel...
CVE-2021-22932
An issue has been identified in the CTX269106 mitigation tool for Citrix ShareFile storage zones controller which causes the ShareFile file encryption option to become disabled if it had previously been enabled. Customers are only affected by this issue if they previously selected “Enable...
CVE-2021-22932
CVE-2021-22932 affects Citrix ShareFile storage zones controller via the CTX269106 mitigation tool, which can disable the encryption option if it had been enabled. Affected users who previously selected “Enable Encryption” and did not re-select after running CTX269106 may see encryption disabled;...
Chaos Malware: Ransomware and Wiper
An under-construction malware called Chaos has been spotted, which is being advertised on an underground forum as being available for testing. While it calls itself ransomware, an analysis revealed that it’s actually more of a wiper. According to Trend Micro researcher Monte de Jesus, Chaos has...
Citrix ShareFile storage zones controller security update
Anissuehasbeen identified intheCTX269106mitigation toolforCitrix ShareFilestorage zones controllerwhichcausestheShareFilefile encryptionoptiontobecomedisabledifit hadpreviouslybeenenabled. Customers areonlyaffected by this issue if theypreviouslyselected “Enable Encryption”in the ShareFilestorage...
Baphomet - Basic Concept Of How A Ransomware Works
This is a proof of concept of how a ransomware works, and some techniques that we usually use to hijack our files. This project is written in C using the net-core application framework 3.1.The main idea of the code is to make it as readable as possible so that people have an idea of how this type...