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El Chapo's Encryption Defeated by Turning His IT Consultant

Schneier on Security

his system's secret encryption keys in 2011 after he had moved the network's servers from Canada to the Netherlands during what he told the cartel's leaders was a routine upgrade. Impressive police work : In a daring move that placed his life in danger, the I.T. consultant eventually gave the F.B.I.

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How Did Authorities Identify the Alleged Lockbit Boss?

Krebs on Security

Pin was active on Opensc around March 2012, and authored 13 posts that mostly concerned data encryption issues, or how to fix bugs in code. 2011 said he was a system administrator and C++ coder. The ransomware encrypts files in parts in various places: the larger the file size, the more parts there are.

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IBM announces new FHE encryption standard for better data security

CyberSecurity Insiders

IBM, the technology giant that has paved way for many of the computing inventions, has announced a new encryption standard that offers confidential computing while processing data. Till date we have seen data being encrypted while in transit or at rest.

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SHARED INTEL: How ransomware evolved from consumer trickery to deep enterprise hacks

The Last Watchdog

Although most people think of ransomware as a dodgy application that encrypts data and holds it for ransom, the concept is much more heterogeneous than that. File encryption 2013 – 2015. It emerged in September 2013 and paved the way for hundreds of file-encrypting menaces that have splashed onto the scene ever since.

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Future Focused: A Safer Way to Expose Private Server Names

Cisco Security

It’s a new protocol that encrypts the DNS request to keep bad actors from discovering or altering domain names or snooping on users’ internet destinations. We’re fans: in fact, Cisco Umbrella has supported Encrypted DNS since 2011. In this analogy, the invisibility superpower is DNS over HTTPS (DoH). Here’s our vision.

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QNAP data storage devices hit by a massive ransomware campaign

CyberSecurity Insiders

It is learnt that the massive file encrypting malware campaign started on April 19th,2021 when victims took help of the technology forums to know more about the ransomware. Qlocker Ransomware is not only accessing files by encrypting them with a password protected 7Zip archives ending with.7z

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Unknown FinSpy Mac and Linux versions found in Egypt

Security Affairs

Since 2011 it was employed in attacks aimed at Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) in many countries, including Bahrain, Ethiopia, UAE, and more. The binaries are stored encrypted and obfuscated too, with a slightly different format, the AES Initialization vector being stored within the core module binary instead of in the encrypted module files.”

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