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NPM, encryption, and the challenges ahead: Part 1 of 2

Kentik

It’s interesting to observe how encryption and network performance monitoring (NPM) have evolved over time. Once you saw a person’s password to any given application, you knew they were generally using the same one for all of their other applications — email, the ticketing system, the FTP and Novell servers, etc.

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EP147: The Ultimate API Learning Roadmap

ByteByteGo

10 Essential Components of a Production Web Application It all starts with CI/CD pipelines that deploy code to the server instances. After DNS resolution, the requests reach the app servers. Load balancers and reverse proxies (such as Nginx & HAProxy) distribute user requests evenly across the web application servers.

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Cato CTRL Threat Research: Unmasking Hellcat – Not Your Average Ransomware Gang

CATO Networks

Among the leaked data were 75,000 unique email addresses and full names of Schneider Electric employees and customers. They posted root access to the university’s server for sale on dark web forums for the low cost of $1,500 USD. The group offered root access to the companys server for $500 USD. billion USD.

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Tips to Protect Against Ransomware

Akins IT

Cryptolocker hackers have targeted the US and UK by emailing it out and it has been associated with spammers, password theft, backdoor Trojans, and may also find its way to your computer through a download or ad-click. Email Filtering: You may be able to filter emails that contain .EXE

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The malware threat landscape: NodeStealer, DuckTail, and more

Engineering at Meta

Since the browser encrypts the user’s information before storing it, the malware performs the following steps to decrypt the user data: It will read the encrypted_key from the “Local State” file, Base64 decode it, and retrieve the decryption key by using the win32crypt Node.js This C2 server URL is hard-coded into the malware.

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The Horrors of Ransomware and the Mid-market Enterprise

CATO Networks

A paralegal opened up a phishing email attachment and her, anti-virus protected, PC disk was maliciously encrypted by Cryptowall malware. The ransomware has to connect to its C2 (Command and Control) server to get the encryption key pair generated and the public key delivered to the machine.

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WannaCry II: How to Stop NotPetya Infections with the Cato Cloud

CATO Networks

Attackers allegedly planted the malware in the companys update servers. The machine is then forced to reboot, encrypting the files and locking the computer. The mailboxes that were used by the attackers have been disabled by the email provider. Figure 2: The email account used by NotPetya has been blocked. A total of 3.8

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