Centraleyes

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Expect to see more investments in privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) such as encryption, anonymization, and data masking. Quantum Computings Impact on Cybersecurity Quantum computing, although still in its early stages, poses a future threat to current encryption standards.

Cybersecurity

Hacker's King

DECEMBER 24, 2024

As the digital landscape evolves, cybersecurity remains a critical concern for businesses, governments, and individuals alike. Quantum Computing Threats While quantum computing offers immense potential, it also poses a serious risk to traditional encryption methods.

Cybersecurity

Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

While secure boot has hardware components, an SBOM would at least improve awareness of what the manufacturer is shipping. Second, the Pledge should require that the manufacturer creates, maintains and shares a high level threat model showing product trust boundaries and external dependencies. What does due care mean?

Manufacturing

SecureWorld News

JANUARY 16, 2025

Ensure compliance with regulations When IT support processes fail to align with manufacturing needs, the consequences are significant: Staying informed: Governments and industry bodies frequently update regulations to address emerging threats. Companies must monitor these changes and ensure compliance to avoid legal penalties.

Energy and Utilities

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 11, 2025

The threat landscape presents a serious and persistent challenge for governments, businesses, critical infrastructure, and individuals alike. These measures include encryption and access controls, maintain strong data governance practices, and automate compliance reporting.

Risk

SecureList

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Mobile statistics Targeted attacks New APT threat actor targets Russian government entities In May 2024, we discovered a new APT targeting Russian government organizations. Two months later, in July 2024, CloudSorcerer launched further attacks against Russian government organizations and IT companies.

Energy and Utilities

IT Security Guru

MARCH 26, 2025

Until the last ten years or so, we would largely categorise robots as reactive with mostly industrial applications in areas like manufacturing or warehousing. At an individual level, this will change how we interact with each other as citizens, with our governments, perform our jobs and consume goods and services.

Cybersecurity

SecureList

APRIL 23, 2025

The campaign, dubbed “Operation SyncHole”, has impacted at least six organizations in South Korea’s software, IT, financial, semiconductor manufacturing, and telecommunications industries, and we are confident that many more companies have actually been compromised. All traffic is encrypted with the generated AES key.

Malware

SecureList

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

However, P8 contains many built-in functions and redesigns of the communication protocol and encryption algorithm, making it a well-designed and powerful espionage platform. Most of the infections were still at financial institutions in Vietnam, with one victim active in the manufacturing industry.

Malware

Security Boulevard

AUGUST 11, 2025

The threat landscape presents a serious and persistent challenge for governments, businesses, critical infrastructure, and individuals alike. These measures include encryption and access controls, maintain strong data governance practices, and automate compliance reporting.

Risk

Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

government is urging software makers to adopt secure application-development practices that help prevent buffer overflow attacks. American Scientist) Quantum and the Threat to Encryption (SecurityWeek) Quantum Computing Advances in 2024 Put Security In Spotlight (Dark Reading) Quantum computing could threaten cybersecurity measures.

Banking

Digital Shadows

MARCH 17, 2025

VPN Infrastructures Allure for Threat Actors PNs have become a fundamental part of network security for organizations worldwide, enabling secure remote access to systems, encrypting sensitive data during transmission, and protecting internal networks from unauthorized access. This threat hunt identifies accounts at risk of this attack vector.

VPN

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.

Banking

Security Boulevard

MARCH 21, 2025

NCSC) FBI Warns of Increasing Threat of Cyber Criminals Utilizing Artificial Intelligence (FBI) 4 - Groups call for IoT end-of-life disclosure law Manufacturers of internet-of-things (IoT) devices should be required by law to disclose the products theyre no longer supporting, so that customers are aware of the security risks those products pose.

Risk

SecureWorld News

JULY 10, 2025

Manufacturing and logistics firms, increasingly digitized and AI-driven, are acutely at risk: state-aligned hackers are "infiltrating the digital arteries of commerce" from ports to payment systems. Nation-state actors have experimented with implanting backdoors on hardware components during manufacturing—a nightmare scenario for detection.

Manufacturing

GlobalSign

JULY 25, 2025

User Authentication Mobile Device Authentication Machine and Server Authentication Client Certificates Digitally sign documents and encrypt sensitive emails. This, in turn, enables secure authentication and encryption of all incoming and outgoing data exchanges. What are DSPM and PKI? Why Integrate DSPM With PKI?

Risk

Security Boulevard

MAY 2, 2025

Cyber Risks (Government Technology) Nation-State Hackers Leverage Zero-Day Vulnerabilities to Penetrate MITRE Cybersecurity Research Network (CPO Magazine) 4 - How to implement secure practices for cloud services In a move to boost the U.S. Tenable was one of the 68 original signatories of the pledge.

Cybersecurity

Penetration Testing

JUNE 9, 2025

ShadowPad, a privately sold modular malware platform, was used in a global campaign spanning June 2024 to March 2025, compromising victims in manufacturing, government, finance, telecom, and research. The cluster included a notable intrusion into a South Asian government IT provider.

Penetration Testing

Centraleyes

AUGUST 7, 2025

It establishes certification expectations based on the type of federal data a contractor handles and outlines the assessment paths (self-assessment, third-party review, or government-led audit) that must be followed. Encryption controls require FIPS-validated cryptography for all CUI. Which CMMC Level Applies to You?

Passwords

SecureList

MARCH 13, 2025

Final goal: file encryption As in previous attacks , they encrypted data using variants of LockBit 3.0 (for For each host, it runs rclone.exe to transfer files from the device to an SFTP server through a SOCKS proxy. for Windows systems) and Babuk (for NAS devices). 360nvidia[.]com; com; 45.156.27[.]115

Energy and Utilities

Jane Frankland

JANUARY 12, 2025

Double extortion ransomware is now a preferred techniquea devastating one-two punch where attackers not only encrypt a companys data but also steal sensitive information. Quantum-resistant cryptography will also emerge as a critical investment as quantum technology poses new risks to conventional encryption standards.

Cybersecurity

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 12, 2025

SafeNet eToken Fusion NFC PIV serves as both a FIDO security key, and a PIV Token ( Personal Identity Verification ), empowering organizations to adopt FIDO authentication for secured access to modern web applications while maintaining certificate-based authentication for legacy resources and operations such as digital signatures or file encryption.

Passwords

SecureList

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Its primary targets have been military and government entities in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, China and Nepal. It uses the CPUID instruction to obtain information about the processor manufacturer. APP_DLL_URL URL used to download the encrypted payload. It uses GlobalMemoryStatusEx to determine the size of RAM memory.

Malware

Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Last month, the UK government demanded that Apple weaken the security of iCloud for users worldwide. But the British law is written in a way that requires Apple to give its government access to anyone, anywhere in the world. In that mode, a majority of your data is end-to-end encrypted. Google offers the feature as well.

Computers and Electronics

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

China-linked APT group Salt Typhoon (also known as FamousSparrow and GhostEmperor ) and has been active since at least 2019 and targeted government entities and telecom companies. The group exfiltrated device configs via TFTP/FTP, exposing weakly encrypted passwords, SNMP credentials, and network details for further reconnaissance.

Telecommunications

The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

It requires technical innovation to mesh with supporting security standards and emerging government regulations much quicker and smoother than has ever happened in the Internet era. It requires manufacturers to address vulnerabilities, provide security updates, and notify users of incidents promptly. This, indeed, is what’s happening.

IoT

Webroot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

A pivotal moment came when the FBI obtained over 7,000 decryption keys, allowing victims to unlock their encrypted data for free. Despite these setbacks, LockBit attempted to maintain its operations, quickly adapting by changing encryption methods and shifting its leak site strategy.

Malware

SecureWorld News

AUGUST 13, 2025

High-performance computers interpret radar and lidar feeds, Alexa pipes playlists through 5G modems, over-the-air (OTA) updates patch bugs while the vehicle sits in the driveway—and that's before we get to systems governing assisted or automated driving. Those same conveniences, however, widen the door for cybercriminals.

Cyber threats

SecureWorld News

MAY 29, 2025

According to an FBI alert , t he campaign, active since April 2025, primarily targets current and former federal and state government officials and their contacts. The FBI has issued a critical alert regarding a sophisticated cyber campaign in which malicious actors are impersonating senior U.S. Leighton added.

Scams

GlobalSign

JULY 16, 2025

User Authentication Mobile Device Authentication Machine and Server Authentication Client Certificates Digitally sign documents and encrypt sensitive emails. Why PKI is Essential in Machine Identity Access Management (IAM) Jun 10, 2025 Managing machine identities has become a critical part of enterprise security.

IoT

GlobalSign

JULY 14, 2025

User Authentication Mobile Device Authentication Machine and Server Authentication Client Certificates Digitally sign documents and encrypt sensitive emails. The cost of solutions like these is miniscule compared to that of in-house development and can be the difference between a major breach or minor security incident.

Insurance

SecureWorld News

MARCH 5, 2025

This article explores how the latest tariffs could reshape cybersecurity for enterprises, cybersecurity vendors, and government agencies. Additionally, China dominates the supply of rare-earth minerals used in semiconductors, networking equipment, and encryption hardware. and other countries. "It During the previous U.S.-China

Cyber Risk

Centraleyes

MAY 26, 2025

As the regulatory authority for the European Union, EASA sets the standards that govern everything from aircraft design to operational protocols. This means that security protocols, encryption standards, and intrusion prevention measures are not afterthoughts but foundational elements. What is EASA?

Cybersecurity

Security Boulevard

MARCH 3, 2025

The UK will neither confirm nor deny that its killing encryption The Verge This is not US-related, but certainly important enough to follow as it may have ramifications in the US in the form of setting precedent. The manufacturer (Hirsch) does not plan a security fix.

Surveillance

GlobalSign

JUNE 25, 2025

User Authentication Mobile Device Authentication Machine and Server Authentication Client Certificates Digitally sign documents and encrypt sensitive emails. As part of the EU’s digital transformation, recent regulations are encouraging manufacturers to issue CoCs in electronic form.

Manufacturing

The Last Watchdog

JULY 30, 2018

One sliver of the $90 billion, or so, companies are expected to spend this year on cybersecurity products and services is an estimated $85 million they will shell out for encrypted flash drives. We discussed why encrypted flash drives have become established as a must-have portable business tool in the digital age. Park: Exactly.

Encryption

Schneier on Security

MARCH 30, 2021

Researchers write that the RAT is constantly on the lookout for “any activity of interest, such as a phone call, to immediately record the conversation, collect the updated call log, and then upload the contents to the C&C server as an encrypted ZIP file.” This is a sophisticated piece of malware.

Malware