Emerging nations more open to cryptocurrency, see long-term potential
Emerging markets are more open towards cryptocurrency than developed...
Researchers Devise Attack for Stealing Data During Homomorphic Encryption
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed what they claim is the first successful side-channel attack on an emerging security technology called homomorphic encryption, which allows operations to...
Daxin Espionage Backdoor Ups the Ante on Chinese Malware
Via node-hopping, the espionage tool can reach computers that aren’t even connected to the internet.
The Daxin malware is taking aim at hardened government networks around the world, according to...
Conti Ransomware Decryptor, TrickBot Source Code Leaked
The decryptor spilled by ContiLeaks won’t work with recent victims. Conti couldn’t care less: It’s still operating just fine. Still, the dump is a bouquet’s worth of intel.
The pro-Ukraine...
Companies’ Code Leaking More Passwords and Secrets
Organizations leaked more than 6 million passwords, API keys, and other sensitive data — collectively known as development "secrets" — in 2021, doubling the number from the previous year,...
Hackers Begin Weaponizing TCP Middlebox Reflection for Amplified DDoS Attacks
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks leveraging a new amplification technique called TCP Middlebox Reflection have been detected for the first time in the wild, six months after the...
RCE Bugs in Hugely Popular VoIP Apps: Patch Now!
The flaws are in the ubiquitous open-source PJSIP multimedia communication library, used by the Asterisk PBX toolkit that’s found in a massive number of VoIP implementations.
Some of the world’s...
Cybersecurity needs to improve if IoT is to thrive
By the end of 2021, there were an estimated 10 billion or so IoT devices active around the world. With this figure predicted to grow by around 150,000 per...
