Cybersecurity researchers at Avast release a decryption tool for BianLian ransomware, which has hit victims in the US, UK, Australia, and more. Written by Danny Palmer, Senior Writer Jan. 18, 2023 ...

The project ended up taking three weeks due to unforeseen complexities, and the researcher spent $1,200 on GPU resources to crack the encryption key, but eventually, he succeeded.

The OpenSSL project has fixed a pair of vulnerabilities, CVE-2021-3711 and CVE-2021-3712 with release 1.1.11l. The first is a possible buffer overflow caused by a naive length calculation function.