Newsweek

NSA Says Russia Used ‘Brute Force’ Methods to Guess Passwords, Gain Access to Gov. Agencies

Intelligence agencies in the U.S. and Britain released findings on Thursday detailing how Russian operatives used "brute force" to gain entry into government cloud services used by hundreds of ...
tom's Hardware on MSN

Akira ransomware can be cracked with sixteen RTX 4090 GPUs in around ten hours — new counterattack breaks encryption

The dreaded Akira ransomware attack has had another hole blown through its hull. Blogger Tinyhack has discovered a new ...
Android Authority

Bluetooth 4.2 and newer can be brute-force attacked, putting billions of devices at risk

A French research team with EURECOM has discovered a scary Bluetooth security flaw. Using a brute-force attack, a man-in-the-middle (MitM) operator could spoof two connected devices using Bluetooth ...
techtimes

Chinese Researchers Reveal How Brute-Force Techniques Can Bypass Android Phones

Chinese researchers from Tencent Labs and Zhejiang University have uncovered a new method of attack that can bypass user authentication on modern smartphones by brute-forcing fingerprints, ...
ZDNet

Kaspersky: RDP brute-force attacks have gone up since start of COVID-19

Cyber-security firm Kaspersky says the number of brute-force attacks targeting RDP endpoints rose sharply since the onset of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. According to a report published today, ...