Interesting research paper. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here.
Read moreThe Misaligned Incentives for Cloud Security
May 28 2021
Russia’s Sunburst cyberespionage campaign, discovered late last year, impacted more than 100 large companies and US federal agencies, including the Treasury, Energy, Justice, and Homeland Security departments. A...
Read moreThe Story of the 2011 RSA Hack
May 27 2021Really good long article about the Chinese hacking of RSA, Inc. They were able to get copies of the seed values to the SecurID authentication token, a harbinger of...
Read moreNew Disk Wiping Malware Targets Israel
May 26 2021Apostle seems to be a new strain of malware that destroys data. In a post published Tuesday, SentinelOne researchers said they assessed with high confidence that based on the code...
Read moreAIs and Fake Comments
May 24 2021
This month, the New York state attorney general issued a report on a scheme by “U.S. Companies and Partisans [to] Hack Democracy.” This wasn’t another attempt by Republicans...
Read moreMake sure they’re dead. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines...
Read moreDouble-Encrypting Ransomware
May 21 2021
This seems to be a new tactic:
Emsisoft has identified two distinct tactics. In the first, hackers encrypt data with ransomware A and then re-encrypt that data with ransomware...
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Bizarro Banking Trojan
May 20 2021
Bizarro is a new banking trojan that is stealing financial information and crypto wallets.
…the program can be delivered in a couple of ways — either via malicious links...
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Apple Censorship and Surveillance in China
May 19 2021Good investigative reporting on how Apple is participating in and assisting with Chinese censorship and surveillance.
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