Proof of concept exploit code has been released by Akamai researchers for a critical Windows CryptoAPI vulnerability discovered by the NSA and U.K.'s NCSC allowing MD5-collision certificate spoofing.

The CryptoAPI allows developers to secure their Windows apps cryptographically, but a bug in the API allows malicious actors to sign certificates in a way that tricks Windows into believing they ...

In 2022, the National Security Agency, in conjunction with the U.K’s National Cyber Security Centre, reported a critical vulnerability in the Windows CryptoAPI to Microsoft.While this was ...

But CryptoAPI can also bring potentially critical security flaws to the aforementioned Windows platform, making identity and certificate spoofing easier.

Proof-of-concept exploit code is now available for the Windows CryptoAPI spoofing vulnerability tracked as CVE-2020-0601 and reported by the National Security Agency (NSA), just two days after ...

I'm trying to implement decryption of data in a .Net app that was encrypted via Win32 CryptoAPI (wincrypt). A lot of it has been hit or miss for me, since I'm a native C/C++ dev that gets to play ...

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-0601, impacts the Windows CryptoAPI, a core component of the Windows operating system that handles cryptographic operations.

Sources tell KrebsOnSecurity that Microsoft Corp. is slated to release a software update on Tuesday to fix an extraordinarily serious security vulnerability in a core cryptographic component ...

145 thoughts on “ Cryptic Rumblings Ahead of First 2020 Patch Tuesday ” KFritz January 14, 2020. As of this moment, a “January 2020” search of the Microsoft Update Catalog shows only 4 ...

Even before Microsoft itself disclosed the details of CVE-2020-0601, a Windows CryptoAPI spoofing vulnerability, the NSA had confirmed the importance of both the flaw and the fix.

The Windows 10 CryptoAPI vulnerability reported by the NSA gets named "curveball" Three days is a long time in cybersecurity. It was only three days ago that I wrote an article "New Windows 10 ...