Ethereum: The great handshake

Ashley Tolbert Contributor Share on Twitter Ashley Tolbert is an information security researcher and engineer. Tarah Wheeler Contributor Share on Twitter Tarah Wheeler is an information security researcher and Belfer Center Cyber Project Fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Ethereum is the world’s most popular digital contract compiler, maintained by many but owned…

Ethereum: The great handshake

Ashley Tolbert Contributor Share on Twitter Ashley Tolbert is an information security researcher and engineer. Tarah Wheeler Contributor Share on Twitter Tarah Wheeler is an information security researcher and Belfer Center Cyber Project Fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Ethereum is the world’s most popular digital contract compiler, maintained by many but owned…

‘Lone Wolf’ Hacker Group Targeting Afghanistan and India with Commodity RATs

A new malware campaign targeting Afghanistan and India is exploiting a now-patched, 20-year-old flaw affecting Microsoft Office to deploy an array of commodity remote access trojans (RATs) that allow the adversary to gain complete control over the compromised endpoints. Cisco Talos attributed the cyber campaign to a “lone wolf” threat actor operating a Lahore-based fake…