VolkLocker Ransomware Exposed by Hard-Coded Master Key Allowing Free Decryption

Dec 15, 2025Ravie LakshmananRansomware / Cybercrime The pro-Russian hacktivist group known as CyberVolk (aka GLORIAMIST) has resurfaced with a new ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) offering called VolkLocker that suffers from implementation lapses in test artifacts, allowing users to decrypt files without paying an extortion fee. According to SentinelOne, VolkLocker (aka CyberVolk 2.x) emerged in August 2025 and…

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New WireTap Attack Extracts Intel SGX ECDSA Key via DDR4 Memory-Bus Interposer

Oct 01, 2025Ravie LakshmananEncryption / Hardware Security In yet another piece of research, academics from Georgia Institute of Technology and Purdue University have demonstrated that the security guarantees offered by Intel’s Software Guard eXtensions (SGX) can be bypassed on DDR4 systems to passively decrypt sensitive data. SGX is designed as a hardware feature in Intel…

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