Search Results: Encryption

The Kraken ransomware has evolved with a rare capability to benchmark system performance before encryption, choosing between full and partial encryption to maximize impact while minimizing detection. This technical sophistication highlights the ongoing arms race in cybersecurity as ransomware operators increasingly refine their methods for maximum efficiency.

Apple's new Digital ID feature transforms your iPhone into a secure passport carrier, offering convenience at 250+ US airports while raising questions about the future of digital identity verification.

Kerberoasting hasn’t gone away—it has matured. In 2025, trivial misconfigurations in Active Directory service accounts still let attackers turn a single phished user into domain dominance. Here’s how modern offensive tradecraft really abuses Kerberos, and what serious defenders must do to harden passwords, encryption, and identity hygiene before they’re the next breach report statistic.

A critical vulnerability in Oracle's enterprise software led to the theft of sensitive financial data for nearly 10,000 Washington Post employees and contractors. The Clop ransomware group exploited the then-zero-day flaw to target multiple major organizations, highlighting systemic risks in widely used ERP systems.

A hobbyist ham radio experiment turns into a meticulous teardown of Yaesu’s proprietary firmware encryption, tracing every step from Windows updater resources to custom bit-level ciphers. This is how you go from a mysterious .exe to a loadable H8SX firmware image—and what that process tells us about vendor crypto, tooling, and device trust.

Developers discovered that Cloudflare’s WARP client on Windows quietly installs a system-level filter driver with invasive capabilities reminiscent of a rootkit—and exposes it via gRPC on localhost. The fallout is more than a single misstep: it’s a case study in how blurred lines between “optimization,” “security,” and “control” can erode trust in critical networking tools.