Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 27, 2022

Thu, 04/28/2022 - 06:15. A conventional computer would need 300 trillion years to break RSA encryption – considered the gold standard for Public Key Encryption (PKE). In the hands of the enemy, a quantum computer capable of destroying RSA- encrypted data would have devastating effects on our critical infrastructure and economy.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2022

In January 2022, researchers at Kaspersky ICS CERT uncovered a series of targeted attacks on military industrial enterprises and public institutions in Afghanistan and East Europe. China-linked threat actors targeted dozens of industrial enterprises and public institutions in Afghanistan and Europe.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2023

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. government institutions, and about 250 Ukrainian victims. ” reads the joint advisory. ” continues the advisory.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2023

CISA and ENISA enhance their Cooperation CISA adds Qlik bugs to exploited vulnerabilities catalog Report: 2.6 CISA and ENISA enhance their Cooperation CISA adds Qlik bugs to exploited vulnerabilities catalog Report: 2.6

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Quantum computers can launch attacks that break asymmetric cryptography, rendering the entire PKI-based encryption method obsolete. Therefore, governments and organizations, such as NIST, are racing to become cryptographically quantum resilient. Quantum-resistant Security?

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Thanks to your readership and support, I was able to spend more time in 2022 on some deep, meaty investigative stories — the really satisfying kind with the potential to affect positive change. Some of that work is highlighted in the 2022 Year in Review review below.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2024

The ColdRiver APT (aka “ Seaborgium “, “Callisto”, “Star Blizzard”, “TA446”) is a Russian cyberespionage group that has been targeting government officials, military personnel, journalists and think tanks since at least 2015. When the victims opens the PDF, an encrypted text is displayed.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

After Merck filed its $700 million claim, the pharmaceutical giant’s insurers argued that they were not required to cover the malware’s damage because the cyberattack was widely attributed to the Russian government and therefore was excluded from standard property and casualty insurance coverage as a “hostile or warlike act.”

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

A cryptanalytic attack is one where unauthorized actors breach a cryptographic security system through exhaustive searches for information related to the encryption scheme. Cryptanalysts or malicious actors can use basic information about the cryptographic scheme, plaintext, or ciphertext to decipher encrypted communications.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

A cryptanalytic attack is one where unauthorized actors breach a cryptographic security system through exhaustive searches for information related to the encryption scheme. Cryptanalysts or malicious actors can use basic information about the cryptographic scheme, plaintext, or ciphertext to decipher encrypted communications.

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IT Governance

MARCH 11, 2024

Glosbe dictionary exposes almost 7 million records The multilingual online dictionary Glosbe left a MongoDB instance unsecured last year, exposing nearly 7 million users’ information, including personal data, encrypted passwords and social media identifiers. billion in cyber crime losses in 2023 – a 22% increase on 2022’s figures.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In the case of double-extortion ransomware attacks, malware is used to not only encrypt the victim’s data but also exfiltrate sensitive files, such as customer information, which attackers then threaten to release publicly. What do these two malware attacks have in common?

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ForAllSecure

JULY 6, 2022

Initially ransomware was targeting home users to encrypt your holiday pictures, pay us 200 bucks to get your pictures back. Hypponen: It's not the same amount of reward the Reward for Justice program is offering for terrorists so US government is taking cyber criminals know as seriously as a threat as they take terrorism.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

I worked at NSA both as a contractor and in the military for about 15 years, building those implants, building these exploits to do some of these attacks that we are currently talking about. Kyle was doing this for the government, doing this for the good of a nation. Hanslovan: Yeah, so my background was in offensive cyber operations.

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