The China-linked threat actor known as Sharp Panda has expanded their targeting to include governmental organizations in Africa and the Caribbean as part of an ongoing cyber espionage campaign. "The campaign adopts Cobalt Strike Beacon as the payload, enabling backdoor functionalities like C2 communication and command execution while minimizing the exposure of their custom … [Read more...] about Chinese Espionage Group Targets Africa & Caribbean Govts
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Experts Discover Flaw in U.S. Govt’s Chosen Quantum-Resistant Encryption Algorithm
Mar 06, 2023Ravie LakshmananEncryption / Cybersecurity A group of researchers has revealed what it says is a vulnerability in a specific implementation of CRYSTALS-Kyber, one of the encryption algorithms chosen by the U.S. government as quantum-resistant last year. The exploit relates to "side-channel attacks on up to the fifth-order masked implementations of CRYSTALS-Kyber … [Read more...] about Experts Discover Flaw in U.S. Govt’s Chosen Quantum-Resistant Encryption Algorithm