On the Evolution of Ransomware

Good article on the evolution of ransomware: Though some researchers say that the scale and severity of ransomware attacks crossed a bright line in 2020, others describe this year as simply the next step in a gradual and, unfortunately, predictable devolution. After years spent honing their...

libarchive: Memory allocate error with symbolic links in cpio archives

A vulnerability was found in libarchive. A specially crafted cpio archive containing a symbolic link to a ridiculously large target path can cause memory allocation to fail, resulting in any attempt to view or extract the archive crashing...