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The coronavirus outbreak has disrupted business operations across all industry verticals. Apart from revenue uncertainties in the near future, some businesses are expected to face difficulties even after the economy revives from the pandemic.

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Regional landscape: North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, South America, Middle East & Africa, South East Asia

Product types: Disk Encryption, File/folder Encryption, Database Encryption, Communication Encryption and Cloud Encryption

Applications spectrum: Financial, Electric Power, Government, IT, Transport, Education and Others

Competitive outlook: The major players covered in Commercial Encryption Software are:, Dell, Sophos, IBm, Eset, Pkware, Gemalto, Thales E-Security, Microsoft, Mcafee, Symantec, Zhongfu, Trend Micro, Venustech, Sangfor Technologies Inc., Cryptomathic, FEITIAN and Stormshield

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Encryption and cryptography are no longer niche technologies solving marginal problems.

Encrypt everything, everywhere, all the time should be common sense for every organization, but its still far from being realised or accepted.

Security measures are often inhibitors of business, and certainly slow them down significantly. This is especially true of legacy hardware solutions for cryptographic key management and protection that typically involve a lengthy procurement and integration process, and do not have the flexibility of modern virtualized environments. These solutions can also be very expensive, affecting the businesss ability to be cost-effective.

In order to address todays computing and security needs, we need cryptographic solutions that remove the burden from the administrator and developer, are both easy to use and manage, and work in every environment. Virtualized environments are the norm, and it is time for cryptographic infrastructure to catch up.

The ubiquity of cryptography brings many business, operational and security challenges. Businesses today need to be able to react quickly to changing needs and roll out new solutions as fast as possible.

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The importance of hardware security is ever-growing, and designers are continually developing new ways to implement such measures. What is on-the-fly RAM encryption, and what problems can it solve?

For the longest time, attacks on devices often came from a software point of view whereby an attacker would use code exploits, or bugs in an OS to gain access to sensitive data. While hardware attacks have existed for as long as hardware has been around, they were far rarer than their software counterparts. A classic example of a simple hardware attack on older Windows machines is when an attacker can reboot the machine, gain entry into the Windows boot menu, and start-up in an admin account with full privileges. While some may consider this an OS exploit (which it is), it requires access to the physical computer. This type of attack is known as a side-channel attack as it bypasses security measures without needing to interact with them.

However, the increase of IoT devices sees a whole new range of hardware attacks thanks to poor design and high payoffs. But hardware attacks are often about gaining entry to protected data or taking control of software via the use of hardware. These types of attacks are particularly difficult to stop as software-based security can do very little against them. Software is not real and cannot affect the world outside it, whereas hardware is real. As a result, designers have begun integrating hardware security into CPUs, SoCs, microcontrollers, and boards to protect devices from hardware attacks.

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The hardware security field is still in its infancy (when compared to software security), but has already made leaps and bounds. The most basic form of hardware security comes in the form of tamper pins which detect when an attacker has attempted to demount an IC. Once identified, a software subroutine can be called, which could be made to wipe all internal data. Another form of hardware security comes in the form of cryptographic accelerators which are special units that perform specialised encryption algorithms. These units are immutable, and as a result, can defend against hardware attacks that may try to monitor buses. But one emerging technology that could see use in the future is the use of on-the-fly RAM encryption. What does this do, and what attacks can it defend against?

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Random Access Memory, or RAM, is an area of memory in a computer that is used to hold temporary data. However, the term temporary is incredibly loose, as RAM is used to keep everything from running programs to sensitive data. Because of this, many CPUs deploy privilege levels that prevent an application from accessing the RAM of other processes. Therefore, an operation launched by an attacker cannot peek into the RAM contents of a bank app and obtain usernames, passwords, and additional personal information. However, RAM is incredibly weak against hardware attacks, and attackers can get around privilege levels using such an attack.

When RAM is turned off, it loses the contents of its memory, but this can take minutes depending on its temperature. To make matters worse, most processors do not wipe RAM when rebooting which means that a computer which is quickly turned off and on forces it to reboot, but preserves the contents of RAM. Therefore, an attacker can reduce the temperature of RAM (using compressed air), increase the longevity of the memory, load a custom OS on a flash drive, and have it dump the contents of RAM (which are now entirely unprotected), and store it into a text file. Since RAM can be used to hold private keys, passwords, and much more, the attacker has a wealth of potentially sensitive information with minimal effort. How can such a system be protected against?

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One method to protect against such an attack is to implement on-the-fly RAM encryption. While this is still incredibly rare in the industry (but does exist), the contents of RAM are encrypted meaning that even if an attacker can dump the contents into a file, the results would be encrypted. Specialised cryptographic accelerators can load bytes from RAM and decode them in real-time for the CPU to read.

The use of memory encryption requires the use of a private key that should change on each boot of the CPU. Storing this key in RAM would be counter-intuitive, which is why such a system could utilise internal registers instead. The advantage of this is that most CPUs reset all their registers when they first boot meaning that an attacker could not retrieve the encryption key used to encrypt the RAM. However, on-the-fly encryption does have its shortfalls; the strong the encryption the longer it takes to read from RAM. This is also problematic for systems needing DMA as all data needs to be encrypted/decrypted before being transferred.

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On-the-fly encryption of RAM could provide future systems with high-degrees of security that not only prevent processes from accessing areas of RAM that they shouldnt but wouldnt even be able to decode the data if they did. However, it may be a form of protection that is far too complex for most applications, including IoT, where price and size are essential.

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Artist Rendering of the BCT YAM-4 (Photo: BusinessWire)

Loft Orbital awarded a contract to small satellite manufacturer Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT) to develop and build the YAM-4 spacecraft bus for the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and Honeywells Quantum Encryption and Science Satellite (QEYSSat) mission, BCT announced August 5.

BCT will build the satellite using its new X-SAT Venus-Class bus design, which can carry payloads up to 90 kg. Financial details of the contract were not disclosed.

The CSA named Honeywell its prime contractor for QEYSSat in a $30 million dollar deal signed in June 2019. The QEYSSat mission aims to demonstrate the use of Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) encryption technology for secure online communications on Earth. QKD creates encryption codes that are designed to be unbreakable, allowing for more secure quantum computing.

Having a secure communication infrastructure is critical in this day and age. Our foundational support of the YAM-4 spacecraft will make the access to space for this type of demonstration less expensive and quicker to launch, allowing Canadian scientists to study how QKD behaves in space, BCT President and CEO George Stafford said in a statement.

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This year has been a bumper year for ransomware and its operators. Ransomware gangs are demanding millions; if those millions are not paid in time, then data stolen before encryption is either released to the public or sold to the highest bidder. Big names in the cybercriminal underground have returned with an entirely new ransomware familynamely Evil Corp and its new creation WastedLocker. Not only is there a return to form for old hands, but new ransomware strains also seem to be bursting up like mushrooms after a spell of rain. NetWalker and Exorcist immediately come to mind. The latter is the subject of this article.

Discovered in late July by MalwareHunterTeam, the Exorcist ransomware is so new to the scene that information on it had been incredibly sparse. That was until Leandro Velasco published an article shedding much of the codes mysteryand in great depth. The article is a must-read for anybody wanting a technical analysis of the ransomware. In providing a brief overview of Exorcist, it seems to be distributed via a Pastebin PowerShell script that runs in memory. The script takes from lessons learned by Sodinokibi affiliates and is based on the Invoke-ReflectivePEInjection.ps1 script, further optimized to include a function that passes a base64 executable into the main function of the script. It is also possible that the script is generated by the no-longer-supported Empire framework.

The code itself is not obfuscatedwhile common practice with other types of malware, it is often not deemed necessary for ransomware by its developers. Part of the reason for this is that the encryption process is in itself very noisy and once that begins, any pretense of stealth is quickly forgotten and speed is the main requirement. Some ransomware strains do obfuscate their code, but it is not an unwritten rule that all malware be obfuscated.

The malwares first operation is to check the geolocation of the infected machine, which is done by checking the language and keyboard layout of the machine in question. If the result is any of the nations that make up the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)which includes many of the nations that made up the Eastern Block during the Cold War and now still have close ties to Russiathe malwares operations are immediately stopped. Why this is done is discussed in greater depth in the second part of this article.

Screenshot of a ransom demanding message displayed by Exorcist ransomware:

If the geolocation check returns a nation not making up a part of the CIS, the ransomware executes several commands that disable and remove system backups. The commands will also look to terminate any system processes that may prevent encryption of certain file types. This is followed by the malware writing the public encryption key and the private key, as well as the file extension used to disk. Before encryption occurs, the malware will extract information including the username, hostname, OS version and keyboard layout and send those to a server under the attackers control. Once this is complete encryption begins utilizing multiple threads to drastically decrease the time to encrypt data. Finally, the wallpaper of the system is changed and the ransom note is dropped.

If you feel that you may have suddenly become a victim of Exorcist, there are a few tell-tale signs. First, the wallpaper announcing youve become a victim reads as follows:

ENCRYPTEDREAD decrypt.htafile for details

When the ransom note is opened it will read:rnyZoV DecryptAll your data has been encrypted with Exorcist Ransomware.Do not worry: you have some hours to contact us and decrypt your data by paying a ransom.To do this, follow instructions on this web site: hxxp://217.8.117.26/payAlso, you can install Tor Browser and use this web site: hxxp://4dnd3utjsmm2zcsb.onion/payIMPORTANT: Do not modify this file, otherwise you will not be able to recover your data!

Your authorization key:

An authorization key will be provided by the attacker once the ransom is paid. However, to find out what the ransom is the victim needs to download a Tor browser and visit the address provided. It is unclear if the ransom amount is fixed at 5000 USD in Bitcoin or changes from victim to victim, depending on what the attacker perceives they can pay. The website reads as follows:Exorcist RansomwareOrderIf the payment isnt made until 2020-07-25 10:33:57, decryptor price will be increased 3 times

Whats the matter?All your files have been encrypted with Exorcist Ransomware.

The only way to decrypt them back is to buy Exorcist Decryption Tool.

The price is 5000$

It will scan all your network and check all encrypted files and decrypt them.

We accept Bitcoin (BTC) cryptocurrencies.

To be sure we have the decryptor and it works you can use Free Decrypt and decrypt only one file for free. But the only file you can decrypt is image (PNG, JPG, BMP), maximum size 3 MB, because they are usually not valuable.

Instruction:You need to create a crypto wallet. You can read more about crypto wallets here: hxxps://bit.ly/379vYBtLearn how to buy cryptocurrency (Bitcoin). Some links where you can find information here:Bitcoin: hxxps://bit.ly/38nohHMCopy the wallet number from the address field (depending on what you have chosen) and transfer the necessary amount of cryptocurrency to it. You can read more about translations here: hxxps://bit.ly/36br2dKAfter paying the ransom, your files will be decrypted and you will be able to continue your work.

IMPORTANT: When transferring funds, carefully check the details to avoid errors and loss of funds. Your files will be decrypted only when transferring funds to our wallet.

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PaymentDecryptor price: 5000$Pay in Bitcoin:bc1qyzjj2hrjr3sspjwj9ckd02fz8kmynj9xkjrkgv0.561799 BTCWhen funds reach one of these addresses, you automatically get decryption tool.

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Performing a search at the time of writing on the provided address in the ransom note reveals that no funds have been transferred to this address as of yet. Given how new the ransomware is, this is not a surprise. Further, no victims have announced publicly that they have fallen victim to Exorcist to the best of this writers knowledge. It may be that Exorcist has not seen wide distribution yet, as it may still be in development or slowly ramping up operations.

While there seem to be no active campaigns making headlines at the moment, this is probably not likely to last. One bit of news that emerged recently is that a hacker released a list of IP addresses for more than 900 Pulse Secure VPN enterprise servers. The list published in plaintext also included several usernames and passwords. The release was made on a Russian underground hacker forum, which is known to have multiple ransomware gangs contributing and actively posting. The list includes Sodinokibi, NetWalker, Lockbit, Avaddon, Makop and importantly for the purposes of this article Exorcist. In general, the forum is used by the gangs to hire more developers or affiliates tasked with distributing the ransomware.

The reason why the dump of Pulse Secure VPN credentials would make headlines is that many of the above-mentioned gangs have actively been targeting known vulnerabilities in VPNs to compromise an enterprise network. As the dump was done free of charge and in plain text, those using unpatched VPN products should be worried enough to patch them as a matter of priorityit may be that in the near future major enterprises will be seeing the Exorcists wallpaper and ransom note and be visiting their website.

The main reason why the developers behind Exorcist and several other malware families tend to not want to infect computers in Russia, its neighbors, and the countrys interest in the geopolitical stage is that the Russian government turns a blind eye to cybercrime conducted by nationals, as long as Russia and its interests are not targeted. This is why a quick internet search will reveal cybercriminals wanted in the U.S. or Europe posing in front of luxury cars bought with the proceeds from their criminal activity.

Further, it seems to be the case that rather than bringing these people to justice, Russian Intelligence will employ their expertise to supplement their own cyber warfare and cyber espionage operations. These rumors began some 20 years ago and recent events seem to prove they were closer to reality, further supported by skilled coders in the CIS and their earning potential. For many, it is far more lucrative to hack and be approached by the intelligence agencies in question than to work within the IT sector. Since immunity seems to be granted to hackers as long as they leave Russian interests alone, becoming a hacker seems to be more of a logical financial decision than the perceived view by most of society as hackers being social pariahs.

This scenario was further confirmed in 2019 when the Russian government passed laws that enabled the creation of a self-contained internet modeled after the one implemented successfully in China. A report published investigating the new law and its expected effects believed that the law would help further flame the flames of cybercrime, whether state-sponsored or independent, financially motivated hackers, and further the status quo mentioned above. The funny thing is the law would make it easier to crack down on hackers within Russian borders; however, attacks on Russias rivals such as the U.S. are seen as serving Russian interests even if done by cybercriminals.

An article about the relationship between the Russian government and its hackers, as well as hackers in neighboring states, concluded:

The availability of highly skilled and technically well-versed individuals also presents a pool of potential proxies that can be mobilized at a moments notice. Often, people will mobilize themselves and take political action in support of the government, as has happened in Estonia in 2007 and in Ukraine since 2014. Governments differ in their ability to catalyze such activity and the extent to which they are in a position to merely endorse, orchestrate, or actively direct their outcomes. In countries where public institutions and the states ability to exercise control have deteriorated, it is an uphill battle to break the increasingly entrenched incentive structures reinforcing existing proxy relationships. Meanwhile, the controversy over law enforcement cooperation, including mutual legal assistance and extradition, shows the limits of international cooperation and external influence. The phenomenon described in this chapter is therefore a cautionary tale of the potential pitfalls when a state significantly weakens or collapses and the consequences that will reverberate for decades to come.

For those tasked with defending networks against Exorcist and other ransomware gangs, expecting those who committed the crime to be arrested and brought to book is a pipe dream. Rather, the focus should be to do everything possible to prevent the attack in the first place.

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