The Evolution of Hashing Algorithms: From MD5 to Modern Day

The Evolution of Hashing Algorithms: From MD5 to Modern Day

Hashing algorithms have come a long way! This blog post takes you on a journey through the evolution of hashing, from early examples like MD5 to the modern SHA family and beyond ...
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Pig Butchering at Heart of Bank Failure — CEO Gets 24 Years in Jail

Oink, oink, FAIL—you’re in jail: Kansas bank chief exec Shan Hanes stole money from investors, a church and others to buy cryptocurrency to feed a scam ...
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Phishing Threat Actor Leverages AI to Target Multiple Crypto Brands

| | AI, Crypto, cyber, GenAI, Phishing
A crypto phishing campaign has been identified in which a threat actor employs AI-generated content to create 17,000 phishing lure sites impersonating more than 30 major cryptocurrency brands, including Coinbase, Crypto.com, Metamask ...
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Breaking Bitlocker

It was only a matter of time before someone did this. Bitlocker is Microsoft’s technique for encrypting a desktop, laptop, or other MS Windows device. We encrypt the device to protect the ...

3 Malicious PyPI Packages Hide CoinMiner on Linux Devices

In a recent cybersecurity revelation, the Python Package Index (PyPI) has fallen victim to the infiltration of three malicious packages: modularseven, driftme, and catme. These packages, although now removed, managed to amass ...
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Crypto Scams

| | Crypto
Crypto Scams: How Arkose MatchKey Bankrupted the Efforts of a Russian Hacker “My partners and I lost time and money while Arkose Labs introduced new precautions on Twitter.” – anonymous spammer In ...

The Quantum Computer Bogeyman

| | Crypto, quantum, security
Peter Gutmann of the University of Aukland recently published a parable “On the Heffalump Threat.” He pokes fun at the R&D cottage industry trying to achieve a practical quantum computer and at ...
Scams Lost US $10 BILLION in 2022 — Crypto Fraud Grows Fast

Scams Lost US $10 BILLION in 2022 — Crypto Fraud Grows Fast

Ben is disappointed: FBI reports huge rise in cryptocurrency investment scams. Why am I not surprised? ...
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