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Lazarus targets blockchain engineers with new KandyKorn macOS Malware

Security Affairs

North Korea-linked Lazarus group is using new KandyKorn macOS Malware in attacks against blockchain engineers. North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group were spotted using new KandyKorn macOS malware in attacks against blockchain engineers, reported Elastic Security Labs. ” reads the report. ” concludes the report.

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Encryption: How It Works, Types, and the Quantum Future

eSecurity Planet

Encryption and the development of cryptography have been a cornerstone of IT security for decades and remain critical for data protection against evolving threats. While cryptology is thousands of years old, modern cryptography took off in the 1970s with the help of the Diffie-Hellman-Merkle and RSA encryption algorithms.

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Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

One of those is Mark Sokolovsky , a 26-year-old Ukrainian man who operated the popular “ Raccoon ” malware-as-a-service offering; Sokolovsky was busted in March after fleeing Ukraine’s mandatory military service orders. ” SEPTEMBER.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking the Art of Invisibility

ForAllSecure

Operational Security is typically a military process. It's a process of protecting critical information through encryption and being aware of the potential for eavesdropping on conversations. And well it's not impossible to decipher where those transactions on the blockchain came from. Why use TOR instead of Firefox or chrome?

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Tales From A Ransomware Negotiator

ForAllSecure

” Over the next few weeks, chats from encrypted Telegram, and other communications were leaked. And so, a lot of times once the encryption occurs, that's really the final stage. They found what they believed to be sensitive data and then they perform the encryption. Of the of the incident. What's the first step?

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Voting Systems

ForAllSecure

Vamosi: PKI, or Public Key Infrastructure, works with two keys: a public key, which may be available on a website, and a private key, which is known only between a client and a server, and unless those two keys match, there’s no encryption or decryption. They're calling it a blockchain. It's not a true blockchain.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Voting Systems

ForAllSecure

Vamosi: PKI, or Public Key Infrastructure, works with two keys: a public key, which may be available on a website, and a private key, which is known only between a client and a server, and unless those two keys match, there’s no encryption or decryption. They're calling it a blockchain. It's not a true blockchain.