FBI Tracks Cyberattack Code That Mirrors Ancient Roman Encryption Method
The FBI has confirmed that a recent major ransomware attack employed an encryption algorithm nearly identical to the Caesar Cipher, a substitution code used by Julius Caesar to send military secrets over 2,000 years ago. While the modern version added computational power, experts say the "cipher's core flaw"—its vulnerability to frequency analysis—remained the same, allowing the Bureau to crack the code in under 48 hours. History buffs note the irony: just as Caesar’s enemies could break his simple shift, the hackers’ reliance on a "classic" pattern unraveled their modern plot.