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Evaluating the NSA's Telephony Metadata Program

Schneier on Security

The second emerged in June 2018 when the NSA announced the purging of three years' worth of CDR records for "technical irregularities." Second, we show how the architecture of modern telephone communications might cause collection errors that fit the reported reasons for the 2018 purge.

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Ghost Ransomware a Persistent Global Threat to Critical Infrastructure

SecureWorld News

Ghost ransomware actors, identified as operating from China, have been targeting unpatched systems and stolen credentials to infiltrate networks, encrypt data, and demand ransom payments. Persistent exploitation of legacy systems One of the most alarming aspects of Ghost ransomware is its focus on legacy IoT and OT environments.

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Sodin Ransomware includes exploit for Windows CVE-2018-8453 bug

Security Affairs

Kaspersky experts discovered that Sodinokibi, aka Sodin, Ransomware currently also exploits the CVE-2018-8453 vulnerability to elevate privileges in Windows. To escalate privileges, Sodin leverages the vulnerability in win32k.sys, then it executes of two shellcode options contained in the Trojan body depending on the processor architecture.

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The NSA Says that There are No Known Flaws in NIST’s Quantum-Resistant Algorithms

Schneier on Security

In 2018, in an essay titled “ Cryptography After the Aliens Land ,” I wrote: …there is always the possibility that those algorithms will fall to aliens with better quantum techniques. It took us a couple of decades to fully understand von Neumann computer architecture.

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Experts Fear Crooks are Cracking Keys Stolen in LastPass Breach

Krebs on Security

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. LastPass disclosed that criminal hackers had compromised encrypted copies of some password vaults, as well as other personal information.

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What Is Encryption? Definition, How it Works, & Examples

eSecurity Planet

Encryption uses mathematical algorithms to transform and encode data so that only authorized parties can access it. What Encryption Is and How It Relates to Cryptology The science of cryptography studies codes, how to create them, and how to solve them. How Does Encryption Process Data? How Does Encryption Process Data?

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IronHusky updates the forgotten MysterySnail RAT to target Russia and Mongolia

SecureList

To us, this observed choice of victims wasn’t surprising, as back in 2018, we wrote that IronHusky, the actor related to this RAT, has a specific interest in targeting these two countries. This file is encrypted with a single-byte XOR and is loaded at runtime. Allows reading files, managing services, and spawning new processes.

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