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PamStealer Uses Fake Maccy Sites and PAM Checks to Steal Mac Login Passwords

Jamf says the Rust-based PamStealer targets Apple Silicon Macs, steals browser, wallet, Keychain, and clipboard data, and persists.

Newly discovered PamStealer isn’t your typical macOS malware

Researchers have found a never-before-seen piece of macOS malware that combines a series of clever tradecraft to infect Macs ...
Design-Reuse

Embedded Security explained: Cryptographic Hash Functions

Cryptographic hash functions are a key building block in embedded security. They take input data of any size and convert it into a fixed-length value, called a hash or message digest. This hash acts ...
Microsoft

Code injection attacks using publicly disclosed ASP.NET machine keys

In December 2024, Microsoft Threat Intelligence observed limited activity by an unattributed threat actor using a publicly available, static ASP.NET machine key to inject malicious code and deliver ...
IEEE

Low area FPGA and ASIC implementations of the hash function “Blue Midnight Wish-256”

Abstract: Hash functions are widely used in information security and cryptography. They are used in countless applications such as message authentication codes (MAC), Digital Signatures (DS) and ...
CSOonline

MD5 attack puts RADIUS networks everywhere at risk

A design flaw in the decades-old RADIUS authentication protocol allows attackers to take over network devices from a man-in-the-middle position by exploiting MD5 hash collisions. The “secure enough” ...
Frontiers

On time-memory trade-offs for password hashing schemes

A password hashing algorithm is a cryptographic method that transforms passwords into a secure and irreversible format. It is used not only for authentication purposes but also for key derivation ...