Tag: encryption
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WhatsApp flaw allowed discovery of the 3.5 billion mobile numbers registered to the platform
Tags: api, attack, bug-bounty, business, china, cloud, dark-web, data, data-breach, encryption, flaw, government, mobile, phishing, phone, privacy, spam, technology, vulnerability, windowsHey there You are using WhatsApp, marks this as one of the most embarrassing weaknesses yet in the world’s most widely-used communication app.The vulnerability was in WhatsApp’s contact discovery mechanism, the foundation of how this and many similar apps work. When WhatsApp is installed, it asks for permission to match mobile numbers in a user’s…
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Benchmarking optimizes Kraken ransomware encryption
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/benchmarking-optimizes-kraken-ransomware-encryption
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Benchmarking optimizes Kraken ransomware encryption
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/benchmarking-optimizes-kraken-ransomware-encryption
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Yurei Ransomware: Encryption Mechanics, Operational Model, and Data Exfiltration Methods
A newly identified ransomware group, Yurei, has emerged as a significant threat to organizations worldwide, with confirmed attacks targeting entities in Sri Lanka and Nigeria across multiple critical industries. First publicly identified in early September 2025, Yurei operates a traditional ransomware-as-extortion model, infiltrating corporate networks, encrypting sensitive data, destroying backup systems, and leveraging a dedicated…
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India’s new data privacy rules turn privacy compliance into an engineering challenge
Tags: ai, automation, backup, cloud, compliance, data, encryption, india, monitoring, nist, privacy, saas, toolArchitectural changes required: Analysts point out that meeting erasure deadlines and purpose-based storage limits will require deeper architectural changes.”Architectural changes include deploying encryption, masking, and tokenization for secure storage, implementing consent managers, and integrating erasure standards like NIST 800-88 or IEEE 2883 for IT asset sanitization,” Mahapatra said. “Cloud-native architectures with granular data classification and…
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Gipfel in Berlin Europa strebt digitale Souveränität an
Am 18. November 2025 findet der Summit on European Digital Sovereignty in Berlin statt.Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz (CDU) und Frankreichs Präsident, Emmanuel Macron, haben sich angekündigt zum Treffen der Digitalminister und IT-Fachleute in Berlin. Rund 900 Teilnehmer werden beim Europäischen Gipfel zur Digitalen Souveränität am Dienstag erwartet. Was lange Zeit ein Nischenthema für IT-Fachleute war, steht inzwischen…
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TDL 009 – Inside DNS Threat Intelligence: Privacy, Security Innovation
Tags: access, apple, attack, automation, backup, best-practice, business, ceo, cisco, ciso, cloud, computer, control, corporate, country, crime, cybersecurity, data, dns, encryption, finance, firewall, government, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, jobs, law, linkedin, malicious, marketplace, middle-east, monitoring, msp, network, office, privacy, regulation, risk, service, software, strategy, threat, tool, windows, zero-trustSummary Inside DNS Threat Intelligence: Privacy, Security & Innovation In this episode of the Defenders Log, host David Redekop speaks with Tim Adams, the founder of the protective DNS resolver Scout DNS. Tim shares his origin story, explaining how he transitioned from a wireless network integrator to building his own DNS solution. He saw a…
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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Refresh Your Akira Defenses Now, CISA Says, as OWASP Revamps Its App Sec Top 10 Risks
Tags: access, advisory, ai, antivirus, application-security, attack, authentication, backup, business, chatgpt, cisa, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, corporate, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, encryption, endpoint, exploit, finance, firewall, flaw, framework, germany, group, guide, healthcare, infrastructure, injection, Internet, iot, law, malware, mfa, mitigation, phishing, privacy, programming, ransomware, resilience, risk, service, soc, software, supply-chain, tactics, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityLearn why you should revise your Akira ransomware protection plans. Plus, find out what’s new in OWASP’s revamped Top 10 Web Application Risks list. Also, find out about agentic AI’s cognitive degradation risk. And get the latest on AI security trends and CISO compensation. Key takeaways CISA and other agencies are urging organizations, especially in…
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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Refresh Your Akira Defenses Now, CISA Says, as OWASP Revamps Its App Sec Top 10 Risks
Tags: access, advisory, ai, antivirus, application-security, attack, authentication, backup, business, chatgpt, cisa, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, corporate, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, encryption, endpoint, exploit, finance, firewall, flaw, framework, germany, group, guide, healthcare, infrastructure, injection, Internet, iot, law, malware, mfa, mitigation, phishing, privacy, programming, ransomware, resilience, risk, service, soc, software, supply-chain, tactics, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityLearn why you should revise your Akira ransomware protection plans. Plus, find out what’s new in OWASP’s revamped Top 10 Web Application Risks list. Also, find out about agentic AI’s cognitive degradation risk. And get the latest on AI security trends and CISO compensation. Key takeaways CISA and other agencies are urging organizations, especially in…
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Kraken ransomware benchmarks systems for optimal encryption choice
The Kraken ransomware, which targets Windows, Linux/VMware ESXi systems, is testing machines to check how fast it can encrypt data without overloading them. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/kraken-ransomware-benchmarks-systems-for-optimal-encryption-choice/
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Kerberoasting im Jahr 2025: So schützen Sie Ihre Servicekonten
Tags: encryptionWerbung Kerberoasting bleibt ein hartnäckiges Problem für IT-Profis und ermöglicht Angreifern, ihre Attacken bis in die höchsten Ebenen eines Active Directory (AD) auszuweiten. Mit starken Passwörtern, Verschlüsselung und klaren Sicherheitsrichtlinien können Administratoren Cyberkriminelle jedoch stoppen, bevor sie überhaupt beginnen. Der … First seen on borncity.com Jump to article: www.borncity.com/blog/2025/11/14/kerberoasting-im-jahr-2025-so-schuetzen-sie-ihre-servicekonten/
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How Rapid AI Adoption Is Creating an Exposure Gap
Tags: access, ai, attack, best-practice, breach, business, cloud, compliance, control, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, encryption, exploit, framework, identity, nist, risk, risk-assessment, risk-management, service, strategy, threat, tool, vulnerabilityAs organizations rush to deploy AI, enterprise defenses are struggling to keep up. This blog explores the emerging AI exposure gap, the widening divide between innovation and protection, and what security leaders can do to close it. Key takeaways: The AI exposure gap is widening as most organizations adopt AI faster than they can secure…
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Book Review: The Business of Secrets
The Business of Secrets: Adventures in Selling Encryption Around the World by Fred Kinch (May 24, 2004) From the vantage point of today, it’s surreal reading about the commercial cryptography business in the 1970s. Nobody knew anything. The manufacturers didn’t know whether the cryptography they sold was any good. The customers didn’t know whether the…
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Kerberoasting in 2025: How to protect your service accounts
Kerberoasting attacks let hackers steal service account passwords and escalate to domain admin, often without triggering alerts. Specops Software shares how auditing AD passwords, enforcing long unique credentials, and using AES encryption can shut these attacks down early. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/kerberoasting-in-2025-how-to-protect-your-service-accounts/
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Unlocking Cloud Security: Introducing the New AWS Key Rotation Feature in CipherTrust Cloud Key Management
Tags: access, automation, cloud, compliance, container, control, cyber, cyberattack, data, encryption, finance, framework, GDPR, HIPAA, infrastructure, PCI, risk, service, software, strategy, threat, toolUnlocking Cloud Security: Introducing the New AWS Key Rotation Feature in CipherTrust Cloud Key Management madhav Thu, 11/13/2025 – 05:12 How Automated Key Management Empowers Customers and Elevates Data Protection Encryption Scotti Woolery-Price – Partner Marketing Manager, Thales More About This Author > How Automated Key Management Empowers Customers and Elevates Data Protection In today’s…
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Zero-day exploits hit Cisco ISE and Citrix systems in an advanced campaign
Tags: access, attack, authentication, cisco, citrix, credentials, defense, encryption, endpoint, exploit, identity, infrastructure, monitoring, network, risk, service, tactics, threat, update, zero-daypatch-gap exploitation technique is a hallmark of sophisticated threat actors who closely monitor security updates and quickly weaponize vulnerabilities.”Amazon did not immediately respond to CSO’s queries on why it’s sharing information about the zero-day exploits months after.After gaining access, the actor deployed a tailor-made web shell disguised as the “IdentityAuditAction” component of Cisco ISE. It…
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Unlocking Cloud Security: Introducing the New AWS Key Rotation Feature in CipherTrust Cloud Key Management
Tags: access, automation, cloud, compliance, container, control, cyber, cyberattack, data, encryption, finance, framework, GDPR, HIPAA, infrastructure, PCI, risk, service, software, strategy, threat, toolUnlocking Cloud Security: Introducing the New AWS Key Rotation Feature in CipherTrust Cloud Key Management madhav Thu, 11/13/2025 – 05:12 How Automated Key Management Empowers Customers and Elevates Data Protection Encryption Scotti Woolery-Price – Partner Marketing Manager, Thales More About This Author > How Automated Key Management Empowers Customers and Elevates Data Protection In today’s…
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Introduction to REST API Security FireTail Blog
Tags: access, api, application-security, authentication, best-practice, business, cloud, control, data, data-breach, ddos, detection, encryption, finance, firewall, group, identity, infrastructure, monitoring, network, password, radius, risk, service, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityNov 11, 2025 – Jeremy Snyder – A common analogy for APIs is that they are LEGO blocks, or more specifically, APIs are the little studs and slots that allow you to attach LEGO pieces to each other and build something bigger than any individual piece. The LEGO pieces in this analogy would be individual…
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Introduction to REST API Security FireTail Blog
Tags: access, api, application-security, authentication, best-practice, business, cloud, control, data, data-breach, ddos, detection, encryption, finance, firewall, group, identity, infrastructure, monitoring, network, password, radius, risk, service, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityNov 11, 2025 – Jeremy Snyder – A common analogy for APIs is that they are LEGO blocks, or more specifically, APIs are the little studs and slots that allow you to attach LEGO pieces to each other and build something bigger than any individual piece. The LEGO pieces in this analogy would be individual…
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Encryption, Encoding and Hashing Explained
What is Encoding? Encoding is a process of transforming the data into different parameters to enhance its compatibility, usefulness, and to transmit it through various systems and applications. Therefore, the main purpose of encoding is not security for data but rather compatibility that makes data readable and intelligible to as many computer systems as possible.Read…
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Öffentliche Verwaltung im Visier von Cyberspionen
Tags: access, alphv, bsi, cyberattack, cybercrime, encryption, germany, governance, government, infrastructure, lockbit, microsoft, open-source, phishing, qr, service, vulnerabilityLaut BSI haben es Cyberspione aktuell besonders auf die öffentliche Verwaltung abgesehen.Cyberspione haben es in Deutschland derzeit besonders auf die öffentliche Verwaltung abgesehen. Das geht aus dem aktuellen Lagebericht des Bundesamtes für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) hervor. Eine nennenswerte Anzahl von Geschädigten gab es demnach auch in den Sektoren Verteidigung, Rechtspflege, öffentliche Sicherheit und…
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LLM side-channel attack could allow snoops to guess what you’re talking about
Encryption protects content, not context First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/11/11/llm_sidechannel_attack_microsoft_researcher/
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New Attacks Against Secure Enclaves
Encryption can protect data at rest and data in transit, but does nothing for data in use. What we have are secure enclaves. I’ve written about this before: Almost all cloud services have to perform some computation on our data. Even the simplest storage provider has code to copy bytes from an internal storage system…
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New Attacks Against Secure Enclaves
Encryption can protect data at rest and data in transit, but does nothing for data in use. What we have are secure enclaves. I’ve written about this before: Almost all cloud services have to perform some computation on our data. Even the simplest storage provider has code to copy bytes from an internal storage system…
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New Attacks Against Secure Enclaves
Encryption can protect data at rest and data in transit, but does nothing for data in use. What we have are secure enclaves. I’ve written about this before: Almost all cloud services have to perform some computation on our data. Even the simplest storage provider has code to copy bytes from an internal storage system…
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New Whisper-Based Attack Reveals User Prompts Hidden Inside Encrypted AI Traffic
Microsoft researchers have unveiled a sophisticated side-channel attack targeting remote language models that could allow adversaries to infer conversation topics from encrypted network traffic. Despite end-to-end encryption via Transport Layer Security (TLS), the attack exploits patterns in packet sizes and timing to classify the subject matter of user prompts sent to AI chatbots. The research…
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New Whisper-Based Attack Reveals User Prompts Hidden Inside Encrypted AI Traffic
Microsoft researchers have unveiled a sophisticated side-channel attack targeting remote language models that could allow adversaries to infer conversation topics from encrypted network traffic. Despite end-to-end encryption via Transport Layer Security (TLS), the attack exploits patterns in packet sizes and timing to classify the subject matter of user prompts sent to AI chatbots. The research…
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AI chat privacy at risk: Microsoft details Whisper Leak side-channel attack
Microsoft uncovered Whisper Leak, a side-channel attack that lets network snoopers infer AI chat topics despite encryption, risking user privacy. Microsoft revealed a new side-channel attack called Whisper Leak, which lets attackers who can monitor network traffic infer what users discuss with remote language models, even when the data is encrypted. The company warned that…
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Microsoft Uncovers ‘Whisper Leak’ Attack That Identifies AI Chat Topics in Encrypted Traffic
Microsoft has disclosed details of a novel side-channel attack targeting remote language models that could enable a passive adversary with capabilities to observe network traffic to glean details about model”¯conversation”¯topics despite encryption protections under certain circumstances.This leakage of data exchanged between humans and”¯streaming-mode language models could pose serious risks to First seen on thehackernews.com Jump…
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Gesundheitswesen: Erpressungen auf Höchststand, Stress bei den Teams
Schwachstellen und Kapazitätsprobleme sind die Hauptursachen für Ransomware-Angriffe im Gesundheitswesen, wobei die Verschlüsselung von Daten auf ein Fünfjahrestief gesunken ist. Gleichzeitig sind die Lösegeldforderungen und -zahlungen zurückgegangen, während die Angreifer vermehrt auf reine Erpressungsangriffe setzen. Die Belastung der IT- und Cybersicherheitsteams ist gestiegen, was sich in erhöhtem Druck, Angst und Stress äußert. In der aktuellen……