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Incognito Darknet Market Mass-Extorts Buyers, Sellers

Krebs on Security

Borrowing from the playbook of ransomware purveyors, the darknet narcotics bazaar Incognito Market has begun extorting all of its vendors and buyers, threatening to publish cryptocurrency transaction and chat records of users who refuse to pay a fee ranging from $100 to $20,000. An extortion message currently on the Incognito Market homepage.

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Cryptanalysis of ENCSecurity’s Encryption Implementation

Schneier on Security

ENCSecurity markets a file encryption system, and it’s used by SanDisk, Sony, Lexar, and probably others. Despite it using AES as its algorithm, it’s implementation is flawed in multiple ways—and breakable. The moral is, as it always is, that implementing cryptography securely is hard.

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Don’t Let Encryption Become A Double-Edged Sword That Undermines Zero Trust CyberSecurity

Joseph Steinberg

It is no secret that cybersecurity professionals universally recommend that people, businesses, and governments employ strong encryption as one of several methods of protecting sensitive information.

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UK Government to Launch PR Campaign Undermining End-to-End Encryption

Schneier on Security

Rolling Stone is reporting that the UK government has hired the M&C Saatchi advertising agency to launch an anti-encryption advertising campaign. Presumably they’ll lean heavily on the “think of the children!” ” rhetoric we’re seeing in this current wave of the crypto wars.

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Another Story of Bad 1970s Encryption

Schneier on Security

The Dutch intelligence service has been able to read encrypted communications from dozens of countries since the late 1970s thanks to a microchip, according to research by de Volkskrant on Thursday. Philips, together with Siemens, built an encryption machine in the late 1970s. Philips helped the ministry and the intelligence service.

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Dark web threats and dark market predictions for 2024

SecureList

Number of posts offering RedLine logs, 2022–2023 Last year, we released an in-depth study on MaaS, offering detailed insights into the market landscape and the complexity of toolsets used by attackers. The dark market is already replete with such services. Some of these offers are very popular on underground forums.

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Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Has Quantum Encryption Policy

Schneier on Security

At least one presidential candidate has a policy about quantum computing and encryption. One: fund quantum-resistant encryption standards. Unlike many far more pressing computer security problems, the market seems to be doing this on its own quite nicely.). It has two basic planks. Note: NIST is already doing this.)