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The Clock To Q-Day Is Ticking: InfoSec Global and Thales Provide Collaborative Path to Quantum Readiness

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

To counter HNDL, migrating critical systems to Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) provides encryption and authentication methods resistant to an attack from a cryptographically relevant quantum computer (CRQC). Encryption Thales | Cloud Protection & Licensing Solutions More About This Author > Schema In the U.S.,

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Deadglyph, a very sophisticated and unknown backdoor targets the Middle East

Security Affairs

In 2016, researchers from the non-profit organization CitizenLab published a report that describes a campaign of targeted spyware attacks carried out by the Stealth Falcon. “Notably, the only component on system’s disk as a file is the initial component, which is in the form of a Dynamic Link Library (DLL).

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North Korea-linked Lazarus APT uses a Mac variant of the Dacls RAT

Security Affairs

The group is considered responsible for the massive WannaCry ransomware attack, a string of SWIFT attacks in 2016, and the Sony Pictures hack. The Mac version uses the same AES key and IV as the Linux variant to encrypt and decrypt the config file. “Both Mac and Linux variants use the WolfSSL library for SSL communications.

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JSWorm: The 4th Version of the Infamous Ransomware

Security Affairs

JSWorm encrypts all the user files appending a new extension to their name. During the encryption phase, the ransomware creates an HTML Application “JSWRM-DECRYPT.hta” in each folder it encounters. The malware encrypts all the files whose extension is not present in the list. Figure 3: Extensions excluded from encryption.

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Taking down Gooligan: part 2 — inner workings

Elie

This is the second post of a series dedicated to the hunt and takedown of Gooligan that we did at Google, in collaboration with Check Point, in November 2016. This file is encrypted with a hardcoded [XOR encryption] function. Encrypting malicious payload is a very old malware trick that has been used by. first post.

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Taking down Gooligan: part 2 — inner workings

Elie

This is the second post of a series dedicated to the hunt and takedown of Gooligan that we did at Google, in collaboration with Check Point, in November 2016. This file is encrypted with a hardcoded [XOR encryption] function. Encrypting malicious payload is a very old malware trick that has been used by. first post.

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Microsoft addresses CVE-2020-0601 flaw, the first issue ever reported by NSA

Security Affairs

Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for January 2020 address a total of 49 vulnerabilities in various products, including a serious flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-0601, in the core cryptographic component of Windows 10, Server 2016 and 2019 editions. The flaw, dubbed ‘NSACrypt’ and tracked as CVE-2020-0601, resides in the Crypt32.dll