Ars Technica

Any clever way to "encrypt" password in a shell script

I know "encrypt" isn't the right description here. It's more like trying to "obfuscate" or "scramble" a password in a plaintext shell script. Say you have a UNIX shell script that does FTP to Windows ...
Houston Chronicle

How to Encrypt VBScript

You cannot protect your business's VBScript code perfectly, but you can encode it to prevent the average person from understanding it. VBScript is an older scripting language, but if your business ...
Ars Technica

Logoff Script Help needed (Encrypted Backups of Outlook, My Docs..)

I am starting to encrypt all of the backups to the tape. Currently I am using AxCrypt (free) and a logoff batch script to<BR>1. Connect to network share<BR>2. Encrypt & Compress all files in a ...
Infosecurity Magazine

FileFix Campaign Using Steganography and Multistage Payloads

A rare in-the-wild FileFix campaign has been observed by cybersecurity researchers, which hides a second-stage PowerShell ...
Bleeping Computer

Ransomware gang encrypts VMware ESXi servers with Python script

Operators of an unknown ransomware gang are using a Python script to encrypt virtual machines hosted on VMware ESXi servers. While the Python programming language is not commonly used in ransomware ...