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Nitrogen ransomware is so broken even the crooks can't unlock your files

Gang walks away with nothing, victims are left with irreparable hypervisors Cybersecurity experts usually advise victims against paying ransomware crooks, but that advice goes double for those who ...

New Amaranth Dragon cyberespionage group exploits WinRAR flaw

A new threat actor called Amaranth Dragon, linked to APT41 state-sponsored Chinese operations, exploited the CVE-2025-8088 ...

7 apps I use to lock down, encrypt, and store my private files - and most are free

VeraCrypt is a free, open-source disk encryption software that is available for Linux, MacOS, and Windows. With VeraCrypt, you create a virtual encrypted disk on your internal drive that can then be ...
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How McStumble Saves My Sanity While I Try to Become Productive

Tired of using numerous productivity tool apps? See how McStumble combines numerous tools in one easy to use website for free.
GitHub

st2o1/Csharp-Encrypt-Decrypt-Files

Old Program I've found in my folders, I've created it while learning System.Security.Cryptography in C#. Capable of Encrypting and Decrypting files using the AES algorithm.
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I use this clever workaround to lock files and folders on my PC

I did not download a file locker. I repurposed a tool I already had.
IEEE

File Encryption-Decryption using Java

Abstract: Data has been the most valued asset of any industry throughout the course of time. And with the advent of the Internet and virtual platforms, data exchange via text files or media files has ...
GitHub

Python script to decrypt aoe2campaign.gpv files, and two methods of extracting the AES keys to do so.

Currently as of AoE2DE update: Update 158041, only Memory Dump script 2 is working (titled Dump gpv keys, iv [Method 2] and dump decrypted campaigns ) Update 130746, only Memory Dump script 1 is ...