Researchers have discovered a vulnerability in Cryptsetup, which is used to encrypt disks in Linux systems, that can lead to an attacker gaining a root shell. The actual flaw lies in the scripts ...

How to Encrypt VBScript. You cannot protect your business's VBScript code perfectly, but you can encode it to prevent the average person from understanding it. VBScript is an older scripting ...

Threat researchers discovered the first AI-powered ransomware, called PromptLock, that uses Lua scripts to steal and encrypt ...

I know "encrypt" isn't the right description here. It's more like trying to "obfuscate" or "scramble" a password in a plaintext shell script. Say you have a UNIX shell script that does FTP to ...

Operators of an unknown ransomware gang are using a Python script to encrypt virtual machines hosted on VMware ESXi servers.

ESET Research discovers PromptLock, a new type of ransomware using GenAI to execute attacks.The malware runs a locally ...

By harnessing quantum dots and inventive protocols, researchers have cracked a decades-old challenge in quantum encryption, showing secure communication can work without perfect hardware.