Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Chinese researchers used a D-Wave quantum computer to crack a 22-bit encryption key, which can be used as a cautionary tale for what may lie ahead with future quantum systems but doesn't threaten the classical encryption being widely used today.

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The Hacker News

MAY 30, 2025

A new malware campaign is distributing a novel Rust-based information stealer dubbed EDDIESTEALER using the popular ClickFix social engineering tactic initiated via fake CAPTCHA verification pages.

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NetSpi Technical

MARCH 10, 2025

This led to an analysis of the software and how it stored encrypted passwords, giving the red team the ability to recover the stored passwords and use them to access other systems. TL;DR an attacker with access to a Web Help Desk backup file may be able to recover some of the encrypted passwords stored within it.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 14, 2025

Kev Breen at Immersive points to an interesting flaw ( CVE-2025-21210 ) that Microsoft fixed in its full disk encryption suite Bitlocker that the software giant has dubbed “exploitation more likely.” Unpatched.ai was also credited with discovering a flaw in the December 2024 Patch Tuesday release ( CVE-2024-49142 ).

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 2, 2024

An intentionally placed backdoor in xz Utils, an open-source compression utility, was pretty much accidentally discovered by a Microsoft engineer—weeks before it would have been incorporated into both Debian and Red Hat Linux. The cybersecurity world got really lucky last week. modified the way the software functions.

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Google Security

MAY 23, 2025

Posted by Craig Gidney, Quantum Research Scientist, and Sophie Schmieg, Senior Staff Cryptography Engineer Google Quantum AI's mission is to build best in class quantum computing for otherwise unsolvable problems. This is a 20-fold decrease in the number of qubits from our previous estimate , published in 2019.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 10, 2025

The LSI overcomes these restraints by implementing an NTT-created AI inference engine. This engine reduces computational complexity while ensuring detection accuracy, improving computing efficiency using interframe correlation and dynamic bit-precision control. Additionally, NTT researchers are collaborating with NTT DATA, Inc.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2024

The Mad Liberator ransomware group has been active since July 2024, it focuses on data exfiltration instead of data encryption. Mad Liberator employs social engineering techniques to gain access to the victim’s environment, specifically targeting organizations using remote access tools like Anydesk.

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Centraleyes

APRIL 10, 2025

The most commonly used methods for securing cardholder data are tokenization and encryption. This blog will explore the differences between PCI DSS tokenization vs. encryption, how each method fits into PCI compliance, and the associated PCI DSS encryption requirements and tokenization practices. What Is Encryption?

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 7, 2025

Each participant in the call has a specific role, including: -The Caller: The person speaking and trying to social engineer the target. A tutorial shared by Stotle titled “Social Engineering Script” includes a number of tips for scam callers that can help establish trust or a rapport with their prey. ”

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Daniel Miessler

DECEMBER 24, 2022

After initiating an immediate investigation, we have seen no evidence that this incident involved any access to customer data or encrypted password vaults. I have friends on LastPass and other password manager company security teams, and I know them to be great engineers and great security teams. Actually, some data was lost.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 8, 2022

Current quantum computers are still toy prototypes, and the engineering advances required to build a functionally useful quantum computer are somewhere between a few years away and impossible. Fun fact: Those three algorithms were broken by the Center of Encryption and Information Security, part of the Israeli Defense Force.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 2, 2023

These company-specific Zoom links, which include a permanent user ID number and an embedded passcode, can work indefinitely and expose an organization’s employees, customers or partners to phishing and other social engineering attacks. Image: @Pressmaster on Shutterstock.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 7, 2021

In the process of doing so, I encountered a small snag: The FSB’s website said in order to communicate with them securely, I needed to download and install an encryption and virtual private networking (VPN) appliance that is flagged by at least 20 antivirus products as malware. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Image: Wikipedia.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 24, 2020

In the case of e-hawk.net, however, the scammers managed to trick an OpenProvider customer service rep into transferring the domain to another registrar with a fairly lame social engineering ruse — and without triggering any verification to the real owners of the domain. ” REGISTRY LOCK.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Then came another call, this one allegedly from security personnel at Trezor , a company that makes encrypted hardware devices made to store cryptocurrency seed phrases securely offline. This process, he explained, essentially self-selects people who are more likely to be susceptible to their social engineering schemes. [It

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 28, 2025

Ransomware attacks typically involve tricking victims into downloading and installing the ransomware, which copies, encrypts, and/or deletes critical data on the device, only to be restored upon the ransom payment. Traditionally, the primary target of ransomware has been the victims device.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2020

The attacker also obtained free encryption certificates for escrow.com from Let’s Encrypt. The employee involved in this incident fell victim to a spear-fishing or social engineering attack. 49 (that domain is hobbled here because it is currently flagged as hosting a phishing site).

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2025

Two of the images were fake, one of them contained an encrypted payload, the other a DLL used to decrypt and launch the malicious code when the victim clicked the link. These tricks make it hard for analysis tools to trace how the malware operates, significantly complicating reverse engineering. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2024

A Case-Control Study to Measure Behavioral Risks of Malware Encounters in Organizations PyPI Python Library “aiocpa” Found Exfiltrating Crypto Keys via Telegram Bot Bootkitty: Analyzing the first UEFI bootkit for Linux Hudson Rock Announces First Comprehensive Infostealers AI Bot: CavalierGPT Gaming Engines: An Undetected Playground for (..)

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

I had the opportunity to sit down with DigiCert’s Jason Sabin , Chief Technology Officer and Avesta Hojjati , Vice President of Engineering to chew this over. Enter the concept of “ cryptographic agility ” — a reference to the rise of a new, much more flexible approach to encrypting digital assets.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Large enterprises should put testing quantum-resistant encryption on their roadmaps. As quantum computers grow, current encryption methods like RSA and ECC may soon become vulnerable," said Kip Boyle , vCISO, Cyber Risk Opportunities LLC. Taking these steps can save both time and resources in the long run."

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2024

Among those was the encrypted messaging app Signal , which said the breach could have let attackers re-register the phone number on another device for about 1,900 users. LastPass said criminal hackers had stolen encrypted copies of some password vaults, as well as other personal information.

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SecureList

MAY 28, 2025

The threat actors behind Zanubis continue to refine its code adding features, switching between encryption algorithms, shifting targets, and tweaking social engineering techniques to accelerate infection rates. Communication with the C2 API was encrypted with RC4 using a hardcoded key and Base64-encoded.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The elephant in the (server) room We've all seen the headlines: AI is taking over, deepfakes are fooling the masses, quantum computing will break encryption! Because no firewall, no AI-powered SOC, no quantum-proof encryption will save you if your employees keep clicking phishing emails, because let's face it. So what do we do?

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

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. Cybersecurity awareness and incident response Train employees to recognize phishing attempts and social engineering.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The only way to protect against BLURtooth attacks is to control the environment in which Bluetooth devices are paired, in order to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks, or pairings with rogue devices carried out via social engineering (tricking the human operator). However, patches are expected to be available at one point.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 8, 2025

NSO Group reverse engineered WhatsApp’s software and developed its own software and servers to send messages to victims via the WhatsApp service that contained malware.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Quantum computing advances are making traditional encryption obsolete, and adversaries are stockpiling data for future decryption. FIPS-203 enables legal PQC deployment, prompting CISOs to overhaul encryption strategies. Organizations face rising risks of AI-driven social engineering and personal device breaches.

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Joseph Steinberg

OCTOBER 4, 2023

While some messaging systems now offer end-to-end encryption that prevents the providers of such services from decrypting messages , metadata – including who communicated with whom and when and where – is still available to governments. Of course, no encryption method is perfect.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2025

. “Cloaks attack strategy involves acquiring network access through Initial Access Brokers (IABs) or social engineering methods such as phishing, malvertising, exploit kits, and drive-by downloads disguised as legitimate updates like Microsoft Windows installers.”

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

Google plans to add end-to-end encryption to Authenticator is a bit of a jaw-dropper. How did you roll out a feature that copies super-sensitive data to the cloud and not encrypt it? These systems are big and complex, and security is a wierd niche, and so building security into engineering processes is hard.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 13, 2020

For the past year, a site called Privnotes.com has been impersonating Privnote.com , a legitimate, free service that offers private, encrypted messages which self-destruct automatically after they are read. And it doesn’t send and receive messages. Creating a message merely generates a link. ” But that’s not the half of it.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

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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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 17, 2021

In very short order, NTT Research assembled a who’s who of physicists, electrical engineers, neuroscientists, data scientists, computer scientists and mathematicians eager to port over their pet projects and rev up new ones. More about these paradigm shifters below. There was no hard sell needed to attract this level of talent, Gomi told me.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 8, 2025

Called Xanthorox AI, the tool was first spotted earlier this year on darknet forums and encrypted chat groups, where its being marketed as the killer of WormGPT and all EvilGPT variants. It features a live web scraper tool that pulls data from over 50 search engines for real-time reconnaissance.

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IT Security Guru

MARCH 26, 2025

I recall my first job as a Chocolate Engineer in the mid 90s where I was wowed by robotic packaging systems and couldnt even imagine then how we now apply robots to achieve huge efficiency and quality advances across our industries today. The sheer number of instances of public key encryption in use today is impossible to quantify.

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