Top news in information security for January 2026
Hello everyone! We summarize the first month of the year with a news digest. January opened with a series of vulnerabilities in the n8n automation platform, which continue…
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On the radar: industries leading in data leaks in 2025
Recently, Russia and its organizations remain a top target for cyberattacks. Instead of targeting individual companies, attackers choose entire industries as victims.…
Installing GrapheneOS via Debian-based Linux Terminal
How to install GrapheneOS without a browser using the command line on a Debian PC or its derivatives.
"Digital Profile Online" Lives On After Transitioning from REST API to SMEV
My name is Nikita, I am a lead software engineer at the financial marketplace Vyberu.ru. This article aims to dispel the myth that the "Digital Profile is moving to offline…
Illusion of Robbery: F6 Analyzes the Activity of the "Legion Team" and Its Connection to the Cyber Group NyashTeam
During daily threat monitoring, F6's cyber intelligence department discovered a suspicious executable file that appeared to be ransomware. However, analysis revealed…
Security Week 2606: Malicious Update of eScan Antivirus
On January 20, an attack on the supply chain was recorded, affecting the Indian company MicroWorld Technologies, the developer of the eScan antivirus product. Company…
Hacking a 40-Year-Old Copy Protection Dongle
That's right - this little device stood between me and the ability to run even older software that I unearthed during my process of software archaeology.
Connecting to SMEV: Theory, Practice and Pitfalls
If you work in a bank, insurance, microfinance organization, or any other entity that needs to verify client passports, request information from the Unified State Register…
Backup of Messengers: Saving Archives
Backup includes files on disk. But the question arises: how to save information from cloud services? For example, archives of all conversations from messengers like Telegram,…
What is happening with quantum blockchain: studying patents
Decentralized blockchain and cryptocurrencies have barely found their place in the legal field when technological progress threatens them. The foundation of many blockchains'…
How we at Selectel found a vulnerability in Mailcow, or a bit about security in open source
Commercial solutions have obvious advantages: professional support, regular audits, compliance with standards, and certification. Open source is free, flexible, allows…
Internet vs CAPTCHA: is there a future for tests like “find all pictures with bicycles”?
CAPTCHAs, which are supposed to “separate” humans from bots, have become a real headache for users. Sometimes you don’t just have to pick a traffic light or a “zebra…
Concepts of Information Security
An article about modern concepts of information security: a brief history, description of the term, key principles, implementation methods.
All the intricacies of GPG signatures
Hello everyone! In this series of articles, I would like to go over the subtleties of working with GPG, which in my opinion are not sufficiently covered on the internet.…
Works even in the parking lot: how to deploy your own communication node based on Matrix Synapse, Coturn, and Element
We’ve gotten used to whispering in someone else’s house. We got “free” messengers where the walls have ears, the owner can change the locks at any moment, and our most…
Cyberthreats in the first half of 2025: analysis of attack vectors on cloud and hybrid infrastructures
Hello, tekkix! My name is Yuriy Namestnikov, I lead Cloud Security Operations at Yandex Cloud, and today we’ll discuss the results of our analysis of cyberattacks in…
Time in Cryptography
Time plays a significant role in applied cryptography. Many aspects of cryptosystem applications are directly or indirectly tied to the passage of time or to time measurements.…
How to Catch Phishers: An Overview of Technical Tools for Protecting Mail Traffic
Protection against phishing has been discussed and written about in our industry more than once, but as our experience shows, this topic remains highly relevant. Attackers…
