A new phishing campaign is exploiting the increasing interest of security community members towards Flipper Zero to steal their personal information and cryptocurrency.

Source: Ongoing Flipper Zero phishing attacks target infosec community

“Factoring integers with sublinear resources on a superconducting quantum processor”

Abstract: Shor’s algorithm has seriously challenged information security based on public key cryptosystems. However, to break the widely used RSA-2048 scheme, one needs millions of physical qubits, which is far beyond current technical capabilities. Here, we report a universal quantum algorithm for integer factorization by combining the classical lattice reduction with a quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA). The number of qubits required is O(logN/loglogN ), which is sublinear in the bit length of the integer N , making it the most qubit-saving factorization algorithm to date. We demonstrate the algorithm experimentally by factoring integers up to 48 bits with 10 superconducting qubits, the largest integer factored on a quantum device. We estimate that a quantum circuit with 372 physical qubits and a depth of thousands is necessary to challenge RSA-2048 using our algorithm. Our study shows great promise in expediting the application of current noisy quantum computers, and paves the way to factor large integers of realistic cryptographic significance.

Source: Breaking RSA with a Quantum Computer – Schneier on Security

Linux Malware: The Truth About This Growing Threat [Updated] – If you’ve been keeping up with security news, you may have noticed that it seems as if there have

Source: Linux Malware: The Truth About This Growing Threat [Updated] | Linu…

Cyber attacks, rather than natural catastrophes, will become “uninsurable” as the disruption from hacks continues to grow.

Source: Cyber attacks set to become ‘uninsurable’, says Zurich chief – SWI swissinfo.ch