Risky Business is a weekly information security podcast featuring news and in-depth interviews with industry luminaries. Launched in February 2007, Risky Business is a must-listen digest for information security pros. With a running time of approximately 50-60 minutes, Risky Business is pacy; a security podcast without the waffle.
Risky Business #680 -- Uber, Rockstar Games hacker arrested
September 27, 2022
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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:
- Lapsus$’s Teapot arrested by UK police
- Optus hacker issues grovelling apology after feeling AFP and ASD heat
- Ukraine claims Russia is planning massive attacks on its infrastructure
- RSOCKS bot herder begs for extradition to USA
- Russians scammed when seeking military service exemptions
- Much, much more
This week’s show is sponsored by Votiro. Ravi Srinivasan, Votiro’s CEO, joins the show this week to talk about how people are using content disarm and reconstruction.
Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing.
Show notes
- British teen arrested in hacking case
- Australian cybersecurity minister lambasts Optus for ‘unprecedented' hack - The Record by Recorded Future
- CISA: Iranian hackers spent 14 months in Albanian gov’t network before launching ransomware - The Record by Recorded Future
- Iran shutters mobile networks, Instagram, WhatsApp amid protests - The Record by Recorded Future
- US Treasury carves out Iran sanctions exceptions for internet providers - The Record by Recorded Future
- Signal Is Asking People Around the World to Help Iranians Access the Encrypted App
- Shadowy Russian Cell Phone Companies Are Cropping Up in Ukraine | WIRED
- Risky Biz News: XakNet "hacktivists" linked to APT28 and Russia's GRU intelligence service
- Russia plans “massive cyberattacks” on critical infrastructure, Ukraine warns | Ars Technica
- Accused Russian RSOCKS Botmaster Arrested, Requests Extradition to U.S. – Krebs on Security
- Сбербанк предупредил о мошенничестве с продажей якобы "белых" военников - РИА Новости, 26.09.2022
- SIM Swapper Abducted, Beaten, Held for $200k Ransom – Krebs on Security
- How 3 hours of inaction from Amazon cost cryptocurrency holders $235,000 | Ars Technica
- The record-setting DDoSes keep coming, with no end in sight | Ars Technica
- International conflicts driving increased strength of DDoS attacks: report - The Record by Recorded Future
- Tarfile path traversal bug from 2007 still present in 350k open source repos | The Daily Swig