
Alert: PayPal ‘New Address’ Phishing Scam
The Cyber and Fraud Centre Scotland would like to alert the public to a recent phishing scam exploiting PayPal’s “New Address” feature. How the Scam…
A recently disclosed vulnerability in the popular SSH client PuTTY (versions 0.68 to 0.80) could allow attackers to recover private encryption keys, potentially enabling them to impersonate users and access sensitive systems.
Secure Shell (SSH) is a widely used protocol for secure remote logins and data transfer. PuTTY is a popular SSH client, especially on Windows systems. Cryptographic keys are fundamental to SSH; they are used to authenticate users and servers.
Encryption relies on complex algorithms that ideally should introduce randomness. This PuTTY flaw stemmed from a deterministic method of generating a part of the signature process, resulting in predictable patterns attackers can exploit.
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