Lazarus, which has since tapped the Sinbad.io and Blender.io crypto-mixing services to launder proceeds from the Atomic Wallet, Axie Infinity, and Horizon Bridge attacks, may have been looking to conceal transactions with the recent use of Tornado Cash.
We don't cover a lot of stories in this week's episode, but we go deep on a few important ones. I'm biased, but I think it's a good one, especially having Darwin's input and encyclopedic knowledge available to us.
Also in this week's news:
Homomorphic encryption pops up again!
Microsoft Security Copilot has a release date!
Sudo for Windows
Micro...
BleepingComputer reports that mounting sanctions against various bitcoin mixing services have prompted North Korean hacking collective Lazarus Group to transition to the YoMix bitcoin mixer for its money laundering activities.
Legacy systems are riddled with outdated and unreliable cryptographic standards. So much so that recent proprietary research found 61 percent of the traffic was unencrypted, and up to 80% of encrypted network traffic has some defeatable flaw in its encryption
No longer can enterprises take their cryptography for granted, rarely evaluated or checke...
Dr. Diffie is a pioneer of public-key cryptography and was VP of Information Security and Cryptography at ICANN. He is author of "Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption".