A 36-year-old Ukrainian national was sentenced to prison in the US for his role in Nefilim ransomware attacks. The man, Artem Aleksandrovych Stryzhak, who had been living in Barcelona, was arrested in Spain in June 2024 and extradited to the… Read More "Ukrainian Hive and Nefilim Ransomware Affiliate Gets 70 Months in US Prison"
High-Severity Flaws Exploited in Three Days as Ransomware Dominates Q3: Rapid7
High-severity flaws are exploited faster; ransomware remains the dominant threat; the US is the world’s most targeted country, and attacks increasingly involve the use of AI (but largely manually rather than autonomously). Rapid7’s threat analysis for Q3, 2026 adds color… Read More "High-Severity Flaws Exploited in Three Days as Ransomware Dominates Q3: Rapid7"
Overview of Cryptographic Attacks
Cryptographic attacks are methods or techniques by which an intruder exploits the cryptographic system’s weakness to derive the plaintext from the ciphertext, recover the encryption keys, or violate the integrity of the data. Understanding cryptographic attacks is important in the… Read More "Overview of Cryptographic Attacks"