Encryption

STOP (Djvu) Ransomware: Ransom For Your Shady Habits!

With almost 200 extensions, STOP (djvu) ransomware can be said to be 2019’s most active and widespread ransomware. Although this ransomware was active a year before, it started its campaign aggressively in early 2019. To evade detection, it has been continuously changing its extensions and payloads. For earlier infections, data recovery was easier if the […]

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January 15, 2020
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Exploit Fully Breaks SHA-1, Lowers the Attack Bar

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January 9, 2020
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New SHA-1 Attack

There’s a new, practical, collision attack against SHA-1: In this paper, we report the first practical implementation of this attack, and its impact on real-world security with a PGP/GnuPG impersonation attack. We managed to significantly reduce the complexity of collisions attack against SHA-1: on an Nvidia GTX 970, identical-prefix collisions can now be computed with a complexity of 261.2rather than264.7,…

January 8, 2020
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Cyber Attacks are the Norm

By Babur Nawaz Khan, Product Marketing, A10 NetworksAs we 2019, its time to have a look at the year 2020 and what it would have in store for enterprises.Since we are in the business of securing our enterprise customers’ infrastructures, we keep a close…

December 31, 2019
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Security Vulnerabilities in the RCS Texting Protocol

Interesting research: SRLabs founder Karsten Nohl, a researcher with a track record of exposing security flaws in telephony systems, argues that RCS is in many ways no better than SS7, the decades-old phone system carriers still used for calling and texting, which has long been known to be vulnerable to interception and spoofing attacks. While using end-to-end encrypted internet-based tools…

December 16, 2019
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