Tag: encryption
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‘Secure email’: A losing battle CISOs must give up
End-to-end encryption remains elusive: Email continues to be the dominant electronic communication tool today because it is well understood, relatively easy to use, and relatively inexpensive. By and large, businesses have approved email for sending confidential information, and we often convince ourselves that it is secure, can be secured with third-party tools, or it’s “good…
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RSA and Bitcoin at BIG Risk from Quantum Compute
PQC PDQ: Researchers find we’ll need 20 times fewer qubits to break conventional encryption than previously believed. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/05/quantum-rsa-20x-gidney-richixbw/
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AI, Quantum and the Evolving Threat Landscape: Key Findings from the Thales 2025 Data Threat Report
Tags: ai, api, attack, authentication, awareness, breach, cloud, compliance, computing, control, crypto, cryptography, data, encryption, guide, malicious, malware, mfa, nist, passkey, phishing, privacy, programming, ransomware, regulation, risk, software, strategy, threat, tool, vulnerabilityAI, Quantum and the Evolving Threat Landscape: Key Findings from the Thales 2025 Data Threat Report madhav Tue, 05/27/2025 – 04:40 The Thales 2025 Data Threat Report reveals a critical inflection point in global cybersecurity. As the threat landscape grows more complex and hostile, the rapid adoption of generative AI is amplifying both opportunity and…
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Nur fünf Prozent der Unternehmen verfügen über quantensichere Verschlüsselung
Es gibt eine deutliche Lücke zwischen der internen Wahrnehmung im Unternehmen und der tatsächlichen Vorbereitung auf Quantencomputing-Bedrohungen. Die Marktstudie von DigiCert zeigt, dass zwar 69 Prozent der Unternehmen das Risiko durch Quantencomputer für die Sicherheit aktueller Verschlüsselungsstandards erkennen, aber nur fünf Prozent tatsächlich quantensichere Kryptografie implementiert haben. Demnach rechnen 46,4 Prozent der befragten Organisationen mit……
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3 Critical Pillars of Cyber-Resilience
Encryption, collaboration, and AI can help organizations build up essential protection against ransomware. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/three-critical-pillars-of-cyber-resilience
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Survey Surfaces Limited Amount of Post Quantum Cryptography Progress
A survey of 1,042 senior cybersecurity managers in the U.S., the United Kingdom and Australia finds only 5% have implemented quantum-safe encryption, even though 69% recognize the risk quantum computing poses to legacy encryption technologies. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/05/survey-surfaces-limited-amount-of-post-quantum-cryptography-progress/
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LLM03: Supply Chain FireTail Blog
Tags: ai, compliance, cyber, data, encryption, exploit, LLM, malicious, mitigation, monitoring, open-source, organized, privacy, risk, service, software, strategy, supply-chain, training, update, vulnerabilityMay 21, 2025 – Lina Romero – LLM03: Supply Chain 20/5/2025 Excerpt The OWASP Top 10 List of Risks for LLMs helps developers and security teams determine where the biggest risk factors lay. In this blog series from FireTail, we are exploring each risk one by one, how it manifests, and mitigation strategies. This week,…
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Ransomware-Bande BlackBasta hat neuen Malware-Favoriten
Modularität für verschiedene Zwecke: Die Malware Skitnet verfügt über separate Plug-ins umAnmeldeinformationen zu sammeln,Berechtigungen auszuweiten,sich im Netzwerk lateral zu bewegen undRansomware bereitzustellen.Sie nutzt die Programmiersprachen Rust und Nim, um eine verdeckte Reverse Shell über das DNS-Protokoll zu realisieren. Dadurch ist eine unauffällige C2-Kommunikation möglich.Zusätzlich verwendet Skitnet Verschlüsselung, manuelles Mapping und dynamische API-Auflösung, um nicht entdeckt…
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New Phishing Attack Uses AES Malicious npm Packages to Office 365 Login Credentials
Fortra’s Suspicious Email Analysis (SEA) team uncovered a highly sophisticated phishing campaign targeting Microsoft Office 365 (O365) credentials. Unlike typical phishing attempts, this attack stood out due to its intricate use of modern technologies and developer infrastructure. The threat actors employed a multi-layered strategy involving AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) encryption, malicious npm (Node Package Manager)…
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Novel Phishing Attack Combines AES With Poisoned npm Packages
Researchers discovered a phishing attack in the wild that takes multiple well-tread technologies like open source packages and AES encryption and combines them. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/novel-phishing-attack-combines-aes-npm-packages
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Skitnet malware: The new ransomware favorite
Tags: access, api, awareness, cybersecurity, data, detection, dns, encryption, malware, phishing, powershell, programming, ransomware, risk, rust, tool, trainingMalware employs advanced obfuscation: According to a Prodaft description, Skitnet uses Rust and Nim programming languages to execute a stealthy reverse shell over DNS, which is a method of covert C2 Communication using the DNS protocol instead of HTTP or other typical channels.Additionally, the malware leverages encryption, manual mapping, and dynamic API resolution to evade…
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Your Data, Your Responsibility: Securing Your Organization’s Future in the Cloud
Tags: access, ai, application-security, attack, best-practice, breach, business, cloud, compliance, control, cyberattack, data, data-breach, dora, encryption, finance, framework, gartner, GDPR, google, ibm, infrastructure, international, mfa, network, PCI, phishing, privacy, regulation, risk, saas, service, strategy, threatYour Data, Your Responsibility: Securing Your Organization’s Future in the Cloud madhav Tue, 05/20/2025 – 04:37 Cloud adoption has fundamentally changed the way businesses operate, offering scalability, agility, and cost efficiencies that were unimaginable just a decade ago. But with this shift comes a necessary conversation: the cloud can also introduce complex security risks without…
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Why EU encryption policy needs technical and civil society input
Tags: encryptionIn this Help Net Security interview, Full Professor at University of Leuven, unpacks the European Commission’s encryption agenda, urging a balanced, technically informed … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/05/19/bart-preneel-university-of-leuven-eu-encryption-policy/
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Bitlocker-Verschlüsselung über Bitpixie (CVE-2023-21563) ausgehebelt
Die von Microsoft für Windows verwendete Bitlocker-Verschlüsselung für Datenträger lässt sich über die Bitpixie-Schwachstelle (CVE-2023-21563) per Software aushebeln, wenn gewisse Randbedingungen gelten. Ein Sicherheitsforscher hatn gezeigt, wie sich der Master-Key, bei fehlender Pre-Boot-Authentifizierung unter Windows binnen Minuten, ohne Hardware-Hack, aus … First seen on borncity.com Jump to article: www.borncity.com/blog/2025/05/18/windows-bitlocker-verschluesselung-ueber-bitpixie-cve-2023-21563-ausgehebelt/
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Preparing for the post-quantum era: a CIO’s guide to securing the future of encryption
Here’s why CIOs must lead post-quantum cryptography adoption in 2025 to secure digital assets and future-proof organizations. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/quantum-computing-cio-pqc-preparation-2025/
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Xerox Launches April 2025 Security Patch for FreeFlow Print Server v2
Xerox has launched its April 2025 Security Patch Update for the FreeFlow Print Server v2 running on Windows 10, addressing over 40 critical vulnerabilities while introducing stricter encryption protocols for secure file transfers. The update, detailed in Security Bulletin XRX25-009, targets production printers like the iGen5 Press, Baltoro HF, and Brenva HD, reinforcing system integrity…
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CISA Warns of TeleMessage Vuln Despite Low CVSS Score
Though the app claims to use end-to-end encryption, hackers have reportedly accessed archived data on the app’s servers via a new vulnerability. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/cisa-warns-telemessage-vuln-low-cvss-score
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China-Nexus Nation State Actors Exploit SAP NetWeaver (CVE-2025-31324) to Target Critical Infrastructures
Tags: access, api, apt, attack, authentication, backdoor, backup, breach, business, china, cloud, control, cve, cyber, data, data-breach, detection, dns, encryption, endpoint, espionage, exploit, finance, firewall, fortinet, google, government, group, infection, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, ivanti, linux, malicious, malware, mandiant, military, network, open-source, programming, rat, remote-code-execution, reverse-engineering, risk, rust, sap, service, strategy, tactics, threat, tool, update, vmware, vpn, vulnerability, windows, zero-dayExecutive Summary EclecticIQ analysts assess with high confidence that, in April 2025, China-nexus nation-state APTs (advanced persistent threat) launched high-temp exploitation campaigns against critical infrastructure networks by targeting SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer. Actors leveraged CVE-2025-31324 [1], an unauthenticated file upload vulnerability that enables remote code execution (RCE). This assessment is based on a publicly…
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Encrypt AI, Protect Your IP: DataKrypto Tackles the LLM Security Crisis While Redefining What Encryption Should Be!
Talking to Luigi Caramico, Founder, CTO, and Chairman of DataKrypto, a company that’s fundamentally reshaping how we think about encryption. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/05/encrypt-ai-protect-your-ip-datakrypto-tackles-the-llm-security-crisis-while-redefining-what-encryption-should-be/
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Sicherheit ist mehr als Verschlüsselung: Drei Tipps, wie Unternehmen ihre Kommunikation sicherer machen
Der aktuelle Signal-Leak der US-Regierung zeigt ein grundsätzliches Problem: Sicherheit in der Kommunikation ist nicht nur äußerst wichtig, sondern auch sehr komplex. Wird sie missachtet, entstehen Image- und Vertrauensverluste oder finanzielle oder Wettbewerbsrisiken. Wie können sich Unternehmen schützen und vorbereiten? Was sollten sie beachten? Wildix, Anbieter von Unified Communications as a Service, gibt drei Praxistipps……
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Quantum encryption adoption still severely lacking
Tags: encryptionFirst seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/quantum-encryption-adoption-still-severely-lacking
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Florida bill requiring encryption backdoors for social media accounts has failed
The bill would have required social media companies create encryption backdoors to allow access to users’ private information. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2025/05/09/florida-bill-requiring-encryption-backdoors-for-social-media-accounts-has-failed/
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Mamona ransomware lowers the bar with offline encryption
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/news/mamona-ransomware-lowers-the-bar-with-offline-encryption
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Just 5% of Enterprises Have Deployed Quantum-Safe Encryption
DigiCert survey finds only 5% of global businesses are using post-quantum cryptography First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/just-5-enterprises-quantumsafe/
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Why the Finance Sector Must Lead the Shift to Post-Quantum Cryptography
Quantum computing is not some far-off theory anymore, and the threat to today’s encryption is real with the clock running for organizations to be resilient. And for banks and finance organizations sitting on mountains of sensitive data, the urgency to prepare for post-quantum cryptography (PQC) is growing. With Q-day (the day a powerful quantum computer……
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Quantum supremacy: Cybersecurity’s ultimate arms race has China way in front
Tags: ai, authentication, automation, backup, banking, breach, business, china, ciso, computing, control, crypto, cryptography, cybersecurity, data, encryption, finance, government, healthcare, identity, infrastructure, jobs, military, ml, nist, risk, service, skills, technology, threat, update, vulnerability, zero-dayThe DeepSeek/Qwen factor: What we learned from recent AI advances, such as DeepSeek and Qwen, that caught the world by surprise is that China’s technology is much more advanced than anyone anticipated. I’d argue that this is a leading indicator that China’s quantum computing capabilities are also in absolute stealth-mode development and ahead of the…
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Dating app Raw exposed users’ location data and personal information
The app claims it uses end-to-end encryption, but spilled its users’ dating preferences and granular location data to the open web. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2025/05/02/dating-app-raw-exposed-users-location-data-personal-information/