Mar 29, 2024NewsroomReverse Engineering / RFID Security Security vulnerabilities discovered in Dormakaba's Saflok electronic RFID locks used in hotels could be weaponized by threat actors to forge keycards and stealthily slip into locked rooms. The shortcomings have been collectively named Unsaflok by researchers Lennert Wouters, Ian Carroll, rqu, BusesCanFly, Sam Curry, … [Read more...] about Dormakaba Locks Used in Millions of Hotel Rooms Could Be Cracked in Seconds
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Hackers Using Cracked Software on GitHub to Spread RisePro Info Stealer
Mar 16, 2024NewsroomMalware / Cybercrime Cybersecurity researchers have found a number of GitHub repositories offering cracked software that are used to deliver an information stealer called RisePro. The campaign, codenamed gitgub, includes 17 repositories associated with 11 different accounts, according to G DATA. The repositories in question have since been taken down by … [Read more...] about Hackers Using Cracked Software on GitHub to Spread RisePro Info Stealer
Rhysida Ransomware Cracked, Free Decryption Tool Released
Feb 12, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Data Recovery Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered an "implementation vulnerability" that has made it possible to reconstruct encryption keys and decrypt data locked by Rhysida ransomware. The findings were published last week by a group of researchers from Kookmin University and the Korea Internet and Security Agency (KISA). "Through a … [Read more...] about Rhysida Ransomware Cracked, Free Decryption Tool Released
Crypto theft from Exodus and Bitcoin wallets through cracked macOS apps
Using cracked games or apps to spread malware is one of cybercriminals’ oldest tricks. Incredible as it may sound, gullible victims who believe in Robin Hoods and consider downloading cracked software and games from pirating websites to be absolutely safe still exist in 2024. The type of threat itself may be old, but malicious actors keep coming up with new ways of … [Read more...] about Crypto theft from Exodus and Bitcoin wallets through cracked macOS apps
Google Identifies 34 Cracked Versions of Popular Cobalt Strike Hacking Toolkit in the Wild
Google Cloud last week disclosed that it identified 34 different hacked release versions of the Cobalt Strike tool in the wild, the earliest of which shipped in November 2012. The versions, spanning 1.44 to 4.7, add up to a total of 275 unique JAR files, according to findings from the Google Cloud Threat Intelligence (GCTI) team. The latest version of Cobalt Strike is version … [Read more...] about Google Identifies 34 Cracked Versions of Popular Cobalt Strike Hacking Toolkit in the Wild
Single-Core CPU Cracked Post-Quantum Encryption Candidate Algorithm in Just an Hour
A late-stage candidate encryption algorithm that was meant to withstand decryption by powerful quantum computers in the future has been trivially cracked by using a computer running Intel Xeon CPU in an hour's time. The algorithm in question is SIKE — short for Supersingular Isogeny Key Encapsulation — which made it to the fourth round of the Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) … [Read more...] about Single-Core CPU Cracked Post-Quantum Encryption Candidate Algorithm in Just an Hour
Israeli Researcher Cracked Over 3500 Wi-Fi Networks in Tel Aviv City
Over 70% of Wi-Fi networks from a sample size of 5,000 were hacked with "relative ease" in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, highlighting how unsecure Wi-Fi passwords can become a gateway for serious threats to individuals, small businesses, and enterprises alike. CyberArk security researcher Ido Hoorvitch, who used a Wi-Fi sniffing equipment costing about $50 to collect 5,000 … [Read more...] about Israeli Researcher Cracked Over 3500 Wi-Fi Networks in Tel Aviv City
UNIX Co-Founder Ken Thompson’s BSD Password Has Finally Been Cracked
A 39-year-old login password of Ken Thompson, the co-creator of the UNIX operating system among, has finally been cracked that belongs to a BSD-based system, one of the original versions of UNIX, which was back then used by various computer science pioneers.In 2014, developer Leah Neukirchen spotted an interesting "/etc/passwd" file in a publicly available source tree of … [Read more...] about UNIX Co-Founder Ken Thompson’s BSD Password Has Finally Been Cracked