A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, sentenced Maksim Silnikau to 16 years in prison on August 5 for creating and running Ransom Cartel , the ransomware-as-a-service operation he stood up in 2021.

System leaks occur when weaknesses are exploited, but what happens when a hacker can leverage clues revealed as part of day to day running?

Coinspect has identified CryptoJS.lib.WordArray.random() as the weak random number generator behind the Ill Bloom wallet drains . Introduced in the JavaScript cryptography library 12 years ago, the ...