Security News

Researchers Find Phishing Site Encrypted with AES (Threatpost)
2017-08-14 15:20

A phishing site seeking Apple credentials and victim payment card information is encrypted with AES, researchers at Ring 0 Labs said.

Mozilla sets up private, encrypted file sharing service for large files (Help Net Security)
2017-08-04 18:10

Mozilla has launched an online service for private sharing of encrypted files between two users. It’s called Send, and it’s meant to ensure users’ shared files do not remain online forever....

FedEx May Have Permanently Lost Data Encrypted by NotPetya (Security Week)
2017-07-20 13:54

FedEx-owned international delivery services company TNT Express is still working on restoring systems hit last month by the destructive NotPetya malware attack, but some business data may never be...

Australia to Compel Chat Apps to Hand Over Encrypted Messages (Security Week)
2017-07-14 12:05

Social media giants like Facebook and WhatsApp will be compelled to share encrypted messages of suspected terrorists and other criminals with Australian police under new laws unveiled Friday. read more

Russia threatening to ban Telegram encrypted messaging app (Help Net Security)
2017-06-26 22:02

Roskomnadzor, Russia’s communications regulator, is threatening to ban the use of popular encrypted messaging app Telegram. The request Roskomnadzor is a federal agency tasked with overseeing that...

Decryption Utility Unlocks Files Encrypted by Jaff Ransomware (Threatpost)
2017-06-14 19:26

Researchers have neutralized the latest strain of the Jaff ransomware, releasing a decryption tool for unlocking files.

OneLogin Breach Compromised Customer Data, Ability to Decrypt Encrypted Data (Threatpost)
2017-06-01 16:29

A breach at OneLogin appears to have compromised customer data, including the ability to decrypt encrypted data.

Keybase Extension Brings End-to-End Encrypted Chat To Twitter, Reddit, GitHub (Threatpost)
2017-05-25 18:43

A recently released extension for Chrome, developed by the public key crypto database Keybase, brought end-to-end encrypted messaging to several apps this week.

A Windows XP bug makes it possible to recover files encrypted by WannaCry (Help Net Security)
2017-05-19 17:03

In an unusual turn of events, a Windows bug has been found to work in favor of victims instead of attackers, allowing WannaCry victims that run Windows XP to decrypt the files encrypted by the...