Breaking VeraCrypt containers

VeraCrypt is a de-facto successor to TrueCrypt, one of the most popular cryptographic tools for full-disk encryption of internal and external storage devices. VeraCrypt employs a newer and more secure format for encrypted containers and significantly expands the number of supported encryption algorithms and hash functions. Learn how to break VeraCrypt containers with distributed password attacks.

VeraCrypt Encryption
Full-disk encryption tools employ one-way hash functions to protect the binary data encryption key with the password. When attacking an encrypted container, the expert must either know the exact combination of the cipher and hash function or try all of their possible combinations. If the expert makes the wrong choice of a hash function or cipher, the data will not be decrypted even if the correct password is known.

👉 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2020/03/breaking-veracrypt-containers/

#veracrypt #encryption #dataprotection #cryptocontainer

New Elcomsoft System Recovery 7.2 and Forensic Disk Decryptor 2.11 are available: macOS encryption and VeraCrypt support

We updated Elcomsoft System Recovery and Elcomsoft Forensic Disk Decryptor. Elcomsoft System Recovery can now create a bootable flash drive allowing experts boot macOS computers and extract data required to launch attacks on full-disk encryption. Elcomsoft Forensic Disk Decryptor receives support for VeraCrypt volumes.

👉 https://www.elcomsoft.com/news/737.html

#veracrypt #apfs #hfs #encryption #cryptocontainer #hiddendisks #macOS #fulldiskencryption #passwords #pgpwde

Elcomsoft breaks VeraCrypt containers, expands cloud support with Microsoft Azure deployment

Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery 4.20 helps forensic experts gain effective access to even more encrypted and locked evidence. The update adds support for VeraCrypt containers and introduces the ability to deploy on-demand cloud instances in Microsoft Azure. In addition, the update adds support for FileVault 2 encrypted volumes located on APFS-formatted partitions, and offers ultra-fast attacks for Tally Vault passwords.

👉 https://www.elcomsoft.com/news/739.html

Download EDPR 4.20 Release Notes 📝

#VeraCrypt #cryptocontainer #encryption #password #microsoftazure #passwordrecovery #apsf #tallyvault #GPU #itsecurity #systempasswords #passwordmanager #FileVault2 #1password #dashlane #lastpass #keepas

Password Reuse vs. Master Password: Two Sides of Password Managers

Password managers or password reuse? This is the question faced by most consumers. Reusing a password or its minor variations for different accounts has never been a good idea, yet in today’s world of online everything the rate of password reuse reaches astonishing values. Using a password manager helps reduce password reuse, supposedly offering increased security. In this article, we’ll perform forensic analysis of some of the most common password managers.

👉 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2020/04/password-reuse-vs-master-password-two-sides-of-password-managers/

by Oleg Afonin

#cryptocontainer #encryption #password #passwordrecovery #apsf #GPU #itsecurity #systempasswords #passwordmanager #1password

Elcomsoft Encrypted Disk Hunter discovers encrypted disk volumes on live systems

Elcomsoft expands its range of forensic products with a new portable tool. Elcomsoft Encrypted Disk Hunter is a free command-line tool to help experts quickly discover the presence of encrypted volumes when performing live system analysis. TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt, BitLocker, PGP WDE, FileVault2, and LUKS are supported.

👉 https://www.elcomsoft.com/news/757.html

#encrypteddisk #cryptocontainer #truecrypt #veracrypt #pgp #filevault2 #luks #bitlocker #windows #macos #linux

Live System Analysis: Discovering Encrypted Disk Volumes

The wide spread of full-disk encryption makes live system analysis during incident response a challenge, but also an opportunity. A timely detection of full-disk encryption or a mounted crypto container allows experts take extra steps to secure access to encrypted evidence before pulling the plug. What steps are required and how to tell if the system is using full-disk encryption? “We have a tool for that”.

👉 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2020/07/live-system-analysis-discovering-encrypted-disk-volumes/

#fde #encrypteddisks #cryptocontainer #bitlocker #truecrypt #pgp #luks #filevault #forensictool

Elcomsoft adds LUKS encryption support

We updated Elcomsoft Forensic Disk Decryptor, Elcomsoft System Recovery and Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery with support for Linux partitions protected with LUKS encryption. The tools work together to identify encrypted partitions, extract encryption metadata and launch a full-scale, GPU-accelerated attack on the encryption password.

📝 Release Notes (PDF)

👉 https://www.elcomsoft.com/news/760.html

#LUKS #Linux #fde #diskencryption #cryptocontainer #forensictools #passwords #passwordrecovery