Google Study Quantifies Ransomware Profits
A ransomware study released Google revealed the malware earned criminals $25 million over the past two years.
Cryptography
Tor Project Opens Bounty Program To All Researchers
The Tor Project is launching a public bug bounty program to encourage security researchers to responsibly report issues they find in the software.
Free Certs Come With a Cost
Leading certificate authority Let’s Encrypt is facing criticism that its rapid growth and eagerness to encrypt internet communications is happening at a cost.
Researchers have spotted malicious email campaigns using Zip archives to spread NemucodAES ransomware and the Kovter click-fraud Trojan, simultaneously distributing both pieces of malware.
The key to decrypt the original Petya ransomware has been reportedly released by the ransomware’s author.
Certificate authority Let’s Encrypt said this week it will begin offering wildcard certificates in 2018.
GnuPG recently patched cryptographic library Libgcrypt, preventing a local side-channel attack; something that could have allowed full key recovery for RSA-1024.
Researchers have found links between the BlackEnergy APT group and threat actors behind the ExPetr malware used in last month’s global attacks.
The global outbreak of the Petya/ExPetr malware wasn’t a ransomware attack, it was wiper malware aimed to sabotage, according to experts.
Mobile ransomware attacks spike in the first quarter of 2017, growing three and a half times compared to the previous year.
