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Report: No ‘Eternal Blue’ Exploit Found in Baltimore City Ransomware

Krebs on Security

For almost the past month, key computer systems serving the government of Baltimore, Md. have been held hostage by a ransomware strain known as “ Robbinhood.” But new analysis suggests that while Eternal Blue could have been used to spread the infection, the Robbinhood malware itself contains no traces of it.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Fuzzing Crypto

ForAllSecure

Cryptocurrency is a digital currency designed to work as a medium of monetary exchange through transactions on a computer network and is not reliant on any central authority, such as a government or bank, to uphold or maintain it. For some people, crypto means cryptography. For others, it means cryptocurrency.