Abstract: Cryptography, as both an art and a science, employs specific terminology to secure messages, including plaintext, ciphertext, encryption, decryption, and keys. The encryption process ...

Microsoft is killing off an obsolete and vulnerable encryption cipher that Windows has supported by default for 26 years following more than a decade of devastating hacks that exploited it and ...

A ransomware variant favored by a pro-Russia hacktivist group is back on the scene with a new version that has a fatal flaw — it keeps artifacts that allow victims to decrypt their files. VolkLocker ...

New research has uncovered exploitation primitives in the .NET Framework that could be leveraged against enterprise-grade applications to achieve remote code execution. WatchTowr Labs, which has ...

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Cipher Mining on Friday announced it had upped the price of its convertible debt offering. The Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin miner revealed a $3 billion AI hosting deal on Thursday, backstopped by Google.

A decryptor for the FunkSec ransomware has been developed and made avaliable to download for free by researchers at antivirus provider Avast. Ladislav Zezul, a malware researcher at Avast’s parent ...

The Japanese police have released a Phobos and 8-Base ransomware decryptor that lets victims recover their files for free, with BleepingComputer confirming that it successfully decrypts files. Phobos ...