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The Effects of Strain on Data Theft
At the end of 2024, almost a year after I wrote about EternalBlue, I wrote about the group that leaked it from the NSA: the Shadow Brokers. A cybercriminology class tasked me with applying a psychological theory to a criminal group or event, and I went with the application of...
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Ransomware Creation
In contrast to other papers I’ve posted on here, this one documents the creation of a tangible product. For a C coding class, I and two peers made a strain of ransomware! Taking reference from the wonderful vx-underground and crow, we learned the basics of the Win32 API, OpenSSL, and...
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GSM Cracking
I took a course on the fundamentals of cryptography, and our final was a group paper on… anything relating to cryptography. We chose the methodology of cracking Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) traffic using rainbow tables. The paper might take the cake for most rushed undergraduate paper in existence....