Lev Chistyakov

PBKDF2 – History, Usage, and Future – Teaching Aide

GitHub link to the website code: https://github.com/Benedict-Kpaduwa/PBKDF2-Project/ Storing and transmitting information securely, as well as ensuring its integrity, authenticity, and confidentiality are some of the most important problems faced within a field of cryptography. There are all kinds of encrypting, hashing and signing algorithms, all relying on some secret password. One of the biggest problems …

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SlopAds Campaign – 224 Malicious Apps Found in Google Play Store

What Happened? Security researchers from HUMAN’s Satori Threat Intelligence team were able to discover a massive ad fraud campaign that was being distributes through over 200 mobile apps available in Google Play Store. They named the whole campaign “SlopAds”, to signify the mass-production of malicious apps and the use of generative AI throughout the campaign. …

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