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Risky Business #688 -- APT41 pickpockets Uncle Sam
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including: Samsung, LG Android signing keys pinched LastPass gets owned again APT41 steal covid relief money Amnesty International hacked in Canada Much, much more This week’s show is brought to you by Airlock Digital. Its CEO and CTO join host Patrick Gray this week to talk about admin to kernel as a security boundary, and the limitations of kernel driver blocklists. Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Mastodon if that’s your thing. Show notes Risky Biz News: Samsung, MediaTek, and other Android platform certs were leaked and used to sign malware Leaked Android Platform Certificates Create Risks for Users | Rapid7 Blog 100 - Platform certificates used to sign malware - apvi Hackers accessed LastPass customer details using information stolen in August hack - The Record by Recorded Future Hackers linked to Chinese government stole millions in Covid benefits, Secret Service says Amnesty International breach linked to Chinese government, investigation finds - The Record by Recorded Future Iranian espionage campaign targets journalists, diplomats, activists, says Human Rights Watch - The Record by Recorded Future New details on commercial spyware vendor Variston ‘The world should be prepared’ — Microsoft issues warning about Russian cyberattacks over winter - The Record by Recorded Future Never-before-seen malware is nuking data in Russia’s courts and mayors’ offices | Ars Technica ChatGPT shows promise of using AI to write malware - CyberScoop DHS cyber safety board to probe Lapsus$ hacks - The Record by Recorded Future Kris Nóva: "We are currently investigating…" - Hachyderm.io Hive Social turns off servers after researchers warn hackers can access all data | Ars Technica Spam is drowning out Twitter posts about Covid protests in China French hospital complex suspends operations, transfers patients after ransomware attack - The Record by Recorded Future Rackspace Confirms Ransomware Attack as It Tries to Determine If Data Was Stolen | SecurityWeek.Com Guatemala's Foreign Ministry investigating ransomware attack - The Record by Recorded Future Ransomware attacks: Privacy Commissioner plans investigation as Justice, Health hit - NZ Herald UK introducing mandatory cyber incident reporting for managed service providers - The Record by Recorded Future Florida Man Sentenced To 18 Months For Theft Of Over $20 Million In SIM Swap Scheme | USAO-SDNY | Department of Justice Binance freezes $3 million worth of crypto stolen in Ankr hack - The Record by Recorded Future Play app with 100K downloads booted for forwarding texts to developer server | Ars Technica Go SAML library vulnerable to authentication bypass | The Daily Swig Okta and Phishing Resistant Authentication - YouTube
Risky Business #687 -- Shady deeds in sunny places: Ransomware smashes Vanuatu, Guadeloupe
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including: UK, USA ban Chinese security cameras What is the Boa webserver and why is it everywhere? Vanuatu, Guadeloupe smashed by ransomware REvil back with more dumps despite ASD attention Much, much more This week’s sponsor guest is Jake King from Elastic Security, who joins us to talk through the company’s most recent threat report. There’s a link to the report in our show notes. Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Mastodon if that’s your thing. Show notes British government bans Chinese surveillance cameras from sensitive locations - The Record by Recorded Future US government bans Huawei, ZTE and Hikvision tech over ‘unacceptable’ spying fears | TechCrunch What if Russian commercial aviation cuts too many safety corners? — Meduza Microsoft attributes alleged Chinese attack on Indian power grid to ‘Boa’ IoT vulnerability - The Record by Recorded Future U.S. Govt. Apps Bundled Russian Code With Ties to Mobile Malware Developer – Krebs on Security Guadeloupe kickstarts continuity plan after wide-ranging cyberattack - The Record by Recorded Future Vanuatu hospital staff using pen and paper after cyber attack that crippled public sector - ABC News Extortion site used in Medibank attack goes offline after Australian gov pledges ‘offensive’ actions - The Record by Recorded Future ThreatMon Ransomware Monitoring on Twitter: Risky Biz News: Australia passes new privacy bill with huge data breach fines Sandworm hacking group linked to new ransomware deployed in Ukraine - The Record by Recorded Future UK Parliament launches inquiry into national security strategy around ransomware - The Record by Recorded Future Canadian food giant refuses to pay ransom after gang threatens data leak - The Record by Recorded Future Almost 1,000 suspects arrested in Interpol operation which seized over $129 million - The Record by Recorded Future Risky Biz News: Authorities seize iSpoof in major blow to fraudsters and cybercrime groups Espionage group using USB devices to hack targets in Southeast Asia - The Record by Recorded Future WikiLeaks' Website Is Slowly Falling Apart European Parliament declares Russia a terrorism sponsor, then its site goes down | Ars Technica Hackers are spreading malware via trending TikTok challenge: report - The Record by Recorded Future Samantha Borrego iS iNfeCtEd noT pArAnOID on Twitter: elastic-global-threat-report-vol-1-2022.pdf
Risky Business #687 -- Shady deeds in sunny places: Ransomware smashes Vanuatu, Guadeloupe
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including: UK, USA ban Chinese security cameras What is the Boa webserver and why is it everywhere? Vanuatu, Guadeloupe smashed by ransomware REvil back with more dumps despite ASD attention Much, much more This week’s sponsor guest is Jake King from Elastic Security, who joins us to talk through the company’s most recent threat report. There’s a link to the report in our show notes. Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Mastodon if that’s your thing. Show notes British government bans Chinese surveillance cameras from sensitive locations - The Record by Recorded Future US government bans Huawei, ZTE and Hikvision tech over ‘unacceptable’ spying fears | TechCrunch What if Russian commercial aviation cuts too many safety corners? — Meduza Microsoft attributes alleged Chinese attack on Indian power grid to ‘Boa’ IoT vulnerability - The Record by Recorded Future U.S. Govt. Apps Bundled Russian Code With Ties to Mobile Malware Developer – Krebs on Security Guadeloupe kickstarts continuity plan after wide-ranging cyberattack - The Record by Recorded Future Vanuatu hospital staff using pen and paper after cyber attack that crippled public sector - ABC News Extortion site used in Medibank attack goes offline after Australian gov pledges ‘offensive’ actions - The Record by Recorded Future ThreatMon Ransomware Monitoring on Twitter: Risky Biz News: Australia passes new privacy bill with huge data breach fines Sandworm hacking group linked to new ransomware deployed in Ukraine - The Record by Recorded Future UK Parliament launches inquiry into national security strategy around ransomware - The Record by Recorded Future Canadian food giant refuses to pay ransom after gang threatens data leak - The Record by Recorded Future Almost 1,000 suspects arrested in Interpol operation which seized over $129 million - The Record by Recorded Future Risky Biz News: Authorities seize iSpoof in major blow to fraudsters and cybercrime groups Espionage group using USB devices to hack targets in Southeast Asia - The Record by Recorded Future WikiLeaks' Website Is Slowly Falling Apart European Parliament declares Russia a terrorism sponsor, then its site goes down | Ars Technica Hackers are spreading malware via trending TikTok challenge: report - The Record by Recorded Future Samantha Borrego iS iNfeCtEd noT pArAnOID on Twitter: elastic-global-threat-report-vol-1-2022.pdf
Risky Business #686 -- White House to move on spyware industry
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including: Half of all UK COBRA meetings are ransomware related Ransomware biggest risk to US port security White House to move on spyware industry EU to launch its own Starlink equivalent Much, much more AttackIQ’s Jonathan Reiber will be joining us in this week’s sponsor interview to talk about how companies and their boards are really moving towards outcomes-based security programs. Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing. Show notes Ransomware incidents now make up majority of British government’s crisis management COBRA meetings - The Record by Recorded Future DHS Secretary: Cyberattacks are the most significant threat to port infrastructure - The Record by Recorded Future Michigan school districts reopen after three-day closure due to ransomware attack - The Record by Recorded Future Microsoft: Royal ransomware group using Google Ads in campaign - The Record by Recorded Future Researchers Quietly Cracked Zeppelin Ransomware Keys – Krebs on Security Risky Biz News: Cyber Partisans hack and disrupt Kremlin censor US, Estonian authorities arrest two over $575 million cryptocurrency fraud - The Record by Recorded Future New FTX CEO details 'complete failure of corporate controls' at crypto platform OpenSSL Usage in UEFI Firmware Exposes Weakness in SBOMs EU reaches agreement on new satellite constellation - The Record by Recorded Future Ukraine’s Engineers Dodged Russian Mines To Get Kherson Back Online–With A Little Help From Elon Musk’s Satellites Senate Democrats call on FTC to investigate Twitter's data security 11.17.22 - FTC - Twitter Letter Twitter has a lot of your data. Here's what you can do about it. Mastodon vulnerable to multiple system configuration problems | The Daily Swig System misconfiguration is the number one vulnerability, at least for Mastodon White House expected to issue executive order reining in spyware H20220930-005_Himes-Speier cc's - DocumentCloud A Leak Details Apple's Secret Dirt on Corellium, a Trusted Security Startup | WIRED Risky Biz News: Iranian state hackers breached US government agency and deployed a cryptominer, out of all things India removes ban on VLC media player after cybersecurity concerns addressed - The Record by Recorded Future Amazon addresses vulnerability affecting AWS AppSync - The Record by Recorded Future CVE-2022-41924 - RCE in Tailscale, DNS Rebinding, and You Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Affiliated Cyber Actors Exploiting Vulnerabilities for Data Extortion and Disk Encryption for Ransom Operations | CISA Impacket and Exfiltration Tool Used to Steal Sensitive Information from Defense Industrial Base Organization | CISA
Risky Business #686 -- White House to move on spyware industry
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including: Half of all UK COBRA meetings are ransomware related Ransomware biggest risk to US port security White House to move on spyware industry EU to launch its own Starlink equivalent Much, much more AttackIQ’s Jonathan Reiber will be joining us in this week’s sponsor interview to talk about how companies and their boards are really moving towards outcomes-based security programs. Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing. Show notes Ransomware incidents now make up majority of British government’s crisis management COBRA meetings - The Record by Recorded Future DHS Secretary: Cyberattacks are the most significant threat to port infrastructure - The Record by Recorded Future Michigan school districts reopen after three-day closure due to ransomware attack - The Record by Recorded Future Microsoft: Royal ransomware group using Google Ads in campaign - The Record by Recorded Future Researchers Quietly Cracked Zeppelin Ransomware Keys – Krebs on Security Risky Biz News: Cyber Partisans hack and disrupt Kremlin censor US, Estonian authorities arrest two over $575 million cryptocurrency fraud - The Record by Recorded Future New FTX CEO details 'complete failure of corporate controls' at crypto platform OpenSSL Usage in UEFI Firmware Exposes Weakness in SBOMs EU reaches agreement on new satellite constellation - The Record by Recorded Future Ukraine’s Engineers Dodged Russian Mines To Get Kherson Back Online–With A Little Help From Elon Musk’s Satellites Senate Democrats call on FTC to investigate Twitter's data security 11.17.22 - FTC - Twitter Letter Twitter has a lot of your data. Here's what you can do about it. Mastodon vulnerable to multiple system configuration problems | The Daily Swig System misconfiguration is the number one vulnerability, at least for Mastodon White House expected to issue executive order reining in spyware H20220930-005_Himes-Speier cc's - DocumentCloud A Leak Details Apple's Secret Dirt on Corellium, a Trusted Security Startup | WIRED Risky Biz News: Iranian state hackers breached US government agency and deployed a cryptominer, out of all things India removes ban on VLC media player after cybersecurity concerns addressed - The Record by Recorded Future Amazon addresses vulnerability affecting AWS AppSync - The Record by Recorded Future CVE-2022-41924 - RCE in Tailscale, DNS Rebinding, and You Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Affiliated Cyber Actors Exploiting Vulnerabilities for Data Extortion and Disk Encryption for Ransom Operations | CISA Impacket and Exfiltration Tool Used to Steal Sensitive Information from Defense Industrial Base Organization | CISA
Risky Biz Soap Box: How to get your developers invested in security
In this podcast we speak with Randall Degges who leads the Developer Relations & Community team at Snyk. He’s here to talk to us about how to get developers enthusiastic about security, how to get them to use the right tooling, and how this tooling will evolve in the future to actually help developers fix bugs in their code. Show notes The Big Fix | Snyk
Risky Biz Soap Box: How to get your developers invested in security
In this podcast we speak with Randall Degges who leads the Developer Relations & Community team at Snyk. He’s here to talk to us about how to get developers enthusiastic about security, how to get them to use the right tooling, and how this tooling will evolve in the future to actually help developers fix bugs in their code. Show notes The Big Fix | Snyk
Risky Business #685 -- Australia releases the hounds, and it might just work
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including: Australia lets ASD loose on ransomware crews, but will it work? (Tom Uren joins us to chat about this one) Twitter’s wheels haven’t fallen off yet but they sure are wobbling Hundreds of millions stolen from FTX mid implosion Security researchers start looking at Mastodon and… yeah Much, much more! This week’s show is brought to you by Gigamon. George Sandford from Gigamon pops in for this week’s sponsor interview to talk about how to successfully stand up an NDR program. Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing. Show notes Risky Biz News: Australia to hack the hackers Australia to consider banning ransomware payments - The Record by Recorded Future Two enormous cyberattacks convince Australia to 'hack the hackers' - The Washington Post Australian Federal Police say cybercriminals in Russia behind Medibank hack - The Record by Recorded Future The Hunt for the FTX Thieves Has Begun | WIRED US reissues sanctions on Tornado Cash, tying it to North Korea's nuclear weapons program - The Record by Recorded Future Twitter’s SMS Two-Factor Authentication Is Melting Down | WIRED Is it safe to use Twitter? Security fears rise after Elon Musk drives off staff Twitter’s Security And Privacy Leaders Quit Amidst Musk’s Chaotic Takeover FTC tracking developments at Twitter with 'deep concern' after CISO resigns - The Record by Recorded Future Mastodon users vulnerable to password-stealing attacks | The Daily Swig Risky Biz News: Major hack-and-leak info-op unfolding in Moldova All Day DevOps: Third of Log4j downloads still pull vulnerable version despite threat of supply chain attacks | The Daily Swig Billbug: State-sponsored Actor Targets Cert Authority, Government Agencies in Multiple Asian Countries | Symantec Enterprise Blogs Lenovo driver goof poses security risk for users of 25 notebook models | Ars Technica Cisco: InterPlanetary File System seeing ‘widespread’ abuse by hackers - The Record by Recorded Future Project Zero: A Very Powerful Clipboard: Analysis of a Samsung in-the-wild exploit chain Google Pixel screen-lock hack earns researcher $70k | The Daily Swig DJ Zavala & DMNTED - Welcome to Ukraine - YouTube
Risky Business #685 -- Australia releases the hounds, and it might just work
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including: Australia lets ASD loose on ransomware crews, but will it work? (Tom Uren joins us to chat about this one) Twitter’s wheels haven’t fallen off yet but they sure are wobbling Hundreds of millions stolen from FTX mid implosion Security researchers start looking at Mastodon and… yeah Much, much more! This week’s show is brought to you by Gigamon. George Sandford from Gigamon pops in for this week’s sponsor interview to talk about how to successfully stand up an NDR program. Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing. Show notes Risky Biz News: Australia to hack the hackers Australia to consider banning ransomware payments - The Record by Recorded Future Two enormous cyberattacks convince Australia to 'hack the hackers' - The Washington Post Australian Federal Police say cybercriminals in Russia behind Medibank hack - The Record by Recorded Future The Hunt for the FTX Thieves Has Begun | WIRED US reissues sanctions on Tornado Cash, tying it to North Korea's nuclear weapons program - The Record by Recorded Future Twitter’s SMS Two-Factor Authentication Is Melting Down | WIRED Is it safe to use Twitter? Security fears rise after Elon Musk drives off staff Twitter’s Security And Privacy Leaders Quit Amidst Musk’s Chaotic Takeover FTC tracking developments at Twitter with 'deep concern' after CISO resigns - The Record by Recorded Future Mastodon users vulnerable to password-stealing attacks | The Daily Swig Risky Biz News: Major hack-and-leak info-op unfolding in Moldova All Day DevOps: Third of Log4j downloads still pull vulnerable version despite threat of supply chain attacks | The Daily Swig Billbug: State-sponsored Actor Targets Cert Authority, Government Agencies in Multiple Asian Countries | Symantec Enterprise Blogs Lenovo driver goof poses security risk for users of 25 notebook models | Ars Technica Cisco: InterPlanetary File System seeing ‘widespread’ abuse by hackers - The Record by Recorded Future Project Zero: A Very Powerful Clipboard: Analysis of a Samsung in-the-wild exploit chain Google Pixel screen-lock hack earns researcher $70k | The Daily Swig DJ Zavala & DMNTED - Welcome to Ukraine - YouTube
Risky Business #684 -- DoJ seizes 50,000 stolen bitcoins from popcorn tin
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including: DoJ seizes 50k bitcoin stolen from Silk Road, charges thief Australian health insurer Medibank refuses to pay ransom, data leaked Inside Qatar’s $386m world cup espionage operation EU Parliament report into spyware lands SolarWinds settles shareholder lawsuit, faces SEC enforcement action Much, much more This week’s sponsor guest is Andrew Morris from Greynoise Intelligence. Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing. Show notes DOJ says it seized billions in Bitcoin stolen by hacker from Silk Road darknet marketplace - The Record by Recorded Future U.S. Attorney Announces Historic $3.36 Billion Cryptocurrency Seizure And Conviction In Connection With Silk Road Dark Web Fraud | USAO-SDNY | Department of Justice Medibank says it will not pay ransom in hack that impacted 9.7 million customers - The Record by Recorded Future Names, addresses, birthdays posted to dark web by hackers after Medibank ransom deadline passes - ABC News ‘Project Merciless’: how Qatar spied on the world of football in Switzerland - SWI swissinfo.ch How Qatar hacked the World Cup — The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (en-GB) FBI probing ex-CIA officer's spying for World Cup host Qatar - The Washington Post EU governments accused of using spyware ‘to cover up corruption and criminal activity’ - The Record by Recorded Future Press conference on draft findings of EP spyware inquiry | News | European Parliament SolarWinds says it’s facing SEC ‘enforcement action’ over 2020 hack | TechCrunch Microsoft accuses China of abusing vulnerability disclosure requirements - The Record by Recorded Future 工业和信息化部国家互联网信息办公室公安部关于印发网络产品安全漏洞管理规定的通知-中共中央网络安全和信息化委员会办公室 Insurance giant settles NotPetya lawsuit, signaling cyber insurance shakeup Could a ‘digital Red Cross emblem’ protect hospitals from cyber warfare? - The Record by Recorded Future TrustCor Systems verifies web addresses, but its address is a UPS Store - The Washington Post Cyber incident at Boeing subsidiary causes flight planning disruptions - The Record by Recorded Future FIN7 cybercrime cartel tied to Black Basta ransomware operation: report - The Record by Recorded Future More than 100 election jurisdictions waiting on federal cyber help, sources say $28 million stolen from cryptocurrency platform Deribit - The Record by Recorded Future Nigerian scammer sentenced to 11 years in US prison - The Record by Recorded Future Hackers get into Dropbox developer accounts on GitHub, access 130 code repositories and more - The Record by Recorded Future Urlscan.io API unwittingly leaks sensitive URLs, data | The Daily Swig The Most Vulnerable Place on the Internet | WIRED So long and thanks for all the bits - NCSC.GOV.UK
Risky Business #684 -- DoJ seizes 50,000 stolen bitcoins from popcorn tin
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including: DoJ seizes 50k bitcoin stolen from Silk Road, charges thief Australian health insurer Medibank refuses to pay ransom, data leaked Inside Qatar’s $386m world cup espionage operation EU Parliament report into spyware lands SolarWinds settles shareholder lawsuit, faces SEC enforcement action Much, much more This week’s sponsor guest is Andrew Morris from Greynoise Intelligence. Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing. Show notes DOJ says it seized billions in Bitcoin stolen by hacker from Silk Road darknet marketplace - The Record by Recorded Future U.S. Attorney Announces Historic $3.36 Billion Cryptocurrency Seizure And Conviction In Connection With Silk Road Dark Web Fraud | USAO-SDNY | Department of Justice Medibank says it will not pay ransom in hack that impacted 9.7 million customers - The Record by Recorded Future Names, addresses, birthdays posted to dark web by hackers after Medibank ransom deadline passes - ABC News ‘Project Merciless’: how Qatar spied on the world of football in Switzerland - SWI swissinfo.ch How Qatar hacked the World Cup — The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (en-GB) FBI probing ex-CIA officer's spying for World Cup host Qatar - The Washington Post EU governments accused of using spyware ‘to cover up corruption and criminal activity’ - The Record by Recorded Future Press conference on draft findings of EP spyware inquiry | News | European Parliament SolarWinds says it’s facing SEC ‘enforcement action’ over 2020 hack | TechCrunch Microsoft accuses China of abusing vulnerability disclosure requirements - The Record by Recorded Future 工业和信息化部国家互联网信息办公室公安部关于印发网络产品安全漏洞管理规定的通知-中共中央网络安全和信息化委员会办公室 Insurance giant settles NotPetya lawsuit, signaling cyber insurance shakeup Could a ‘digital Red Cross emblem’ protect hospitals from cyber warfare? - The Record by Recorded Future TrustCor Systems verifies web addresses, but its address is a UPS Store - The Washington Post Cyber incident at Boeing subsidiary causes flight planning disruptions - The Record by Recorded Future FIN7 cybercrime cartel tied to Black Basta ransomware operation: report - The Record by Recorded Future More than 100 election jurisdictions waiting on federal cyber help, sources say $28 million stolen from cryptocurrency platform Deribit - The Record by Recorded Future Nigerian scammer sentenced to 11 years in US prison - The Record by Recorded Future Hackers get into Dropbox developer accounts on GitHub, access 130 code repositories and more - The Record by Recorded Future Urlscan.io API unwittingly leaks sensitive URLs, data | The Daily Swig The Most Vulnerable Place on the Internet | WIRED So long and thanks for all the bits - NCSC.GOV.UK
Risky Business #683 -- OpenSSL bug is a fizzer, ASD responds to Medibank hack
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including: Twitter bluechecks face phishing barrage Australian government goes berserk on Medibank hack response Former WSJ journalist sues law firm over email hack and info op that got him fired OpenSSL bug lands with a whimper Apple macOS Ventura update breaks security tools Much, much more This week’s show is brought to you by Thinkst Canary. Marco Slaviero, Thinkst’s head of engineering, joins us this week to talk through the company’s latest release, codenamed Quokka. Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing. Show notes Twitter’s verification chaos is now a cybersecurity problem | TechCrunch Unconfirmed hack of Liz Truss’ phone prompts calls for “urgent investigation” | Ars Technica Chinese hackers are scanning state political party headquarters, FBI says - The Washington Post Former WSJ reporter says law firm used Indian hackers to sabotage his career | Reuters The source - Columbia Journalism Review Upcoming ‘critical’ OpenSSL update prompts feverish speculation | The Daily Swig OpenSSL vulnerability downgraded to ‘high’ severity | The Daily Swig Medibank says hackers had access to ‘all personal data’ belonging to all customers - The Record by Recorded Future Australia to tighten privacy laws, increase fines after series of data breaches - The Record by Recorded Future Votes in Slovakia's parliament suspended after alleged ‘cybersecurity incident’ - The Record by Recorded Future NY Post confirms hack after website, Twitter feed flooded with threats toward Biden, AOC - The Record by Recorded Future Apple MacOS Ventura Bug Breaks Third-Party Security Tools | WIRED Microsoft ties Vice Society hackers to additional ransomware strains - The Record by Recorded Future How Vice Society Got Away With a Global Ransomware Spree | WIRED FTC seeks action against Drizly — and its CEO — for cybersecurity failures - The Record by Recorded Future Critical authentication bug in Fortinet products actively exploited in the wild | The Daily Swig Google Play apps with >20M downloads depleted batteries and network bandwidth | Ars Technica Battle with Bots Prompts Mass Purge of Amazon, Apple Employee Accounts on LinkedIn – Krebs on Security Microsoft leaked 2.4TB of data belonging to sensitive customer. Critics are furious | Ars Technica Microsoft disputes report on Office 365 Message encryption issue after awarding bug bounty - The Record by Recorded Future Microsoft Office Online Server open to SSRF-to-RCE exploit | The Daily Swig Microsoft's Sociopathic Cybersecurity Pedantry Brazilian police announce arrest of alleged Lapsus$ member - The Record by Recorded Future Accused ‘Raccoon’ Malware Developer Fled Ukraine After Russian Invasion – Krebs on Security European gang that sold car hacking tools to thieves arrested - The Record by Recorded Future How a Microsoft blunder opened millions of PCs to potent malware attacks | Ars Technica
Risky Business #683 -- OpenSSL bug is a fizzer, ASD responds to Medibank hack
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including: Twitter bluechecks face phishing barrage Australian government goes berserk on Medibank hack response Former WSJ journalist sues law firm over email hack and info op that got him fired OpenSSL bug lands with a whimper Apple macOS Ventura update breaks security tools Much, much more This week’s show is brought to you by Thinkst Canary. Marco Slaviero, Thinkst’s head of engineering, joins us this week to talk through the company’s latest release, codenamed Quokka. Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing. Show notes Twitter’s verification chaos is now a cybersecurity problem | TechCrunch Unconfirmed hack of Liz Truss’ phone prompts calls for “urgent investigation” | Ars Technica Chinese hackers are scanning state political party headquarters, FBI says - The Washington Post Former WSJ reporter says law firm used Indian hackers to sabotage his career | Reuters The source - Columbia Journalism Review Upcoming ‘critical’ OpenSSL update prompts feverish speculation | The Daily Swig OpenSSL vulnerability downgraded to ‘high’ severity | The Daily Swig Medibank says hackers had access to ‘all personal data’ belonging to all customers - The Record by Recorded Future Australia to tighten privacy laws, increase fines after series of data breaches - The Record by Recorded Future Votes in Slovakia's parliament suspended after alleged ‘cybersecurity incident’ - The Record by Recorded Future NY Post confirms hack after website, Twitter feed flooded with threats toward Biden, AOC - The Record by Recorded Future Apple MacOS Ventura Bug Breaks Third-Party Security Tools | WIRED Microsoft ties Vice Society hackers to additional ransomware strains - The Record by Recorded Future How Vice Society Got Away With a Global Ransomware Spree | WIRED FTC seeks action against Drizly — and its CEO — for cybersecurity failures - The Record by Recorded Future Critical authentication bug in Fortinet products actively exploited in the wild | The Daily Swig Google Play apps with >20M downloads depleted batteries and network bandwidth | Ars Technica Battle with Bots Prompts Mass Purge of Amazon, Apple Employee Accounts on LinkedIn – Krebs on Security Microsoft leaked 2.4TB of data belonging to sensitive customer. Critics are furious | Ars Technica Microsoft disputes report on Office 365 Message encryption issue after awarding bug bounty - The Record by Recorded Future Microsoft Office Online Server open to SSRF-to-RCE exploit | The Daily Swig Microsoft's Sociopathic Cybersecurity Pedantry Brazilian police announce arrest of alleged Lapsus$ member - The Record by Recorded Future Accused ‘Raccoon’ Malware Developer Fled Ukraine After Russian Invasion – Krebs on Security European gang that sold car hacking tools to thieves arrested - The Record by Recorded Future How a Microsoft blunder opened millions of PCs to potent malware attacks | Ars Technica
Snake Oilers: Truffle Security, KSOC and Snyk
Snake Oilers isn’t our regular weekly podcast, it’s a wholly sponsored series we do at Risky.Biz where vendors come on to the show to pitch their products to you, the Risky Business listener. To be clear – everyone you hear in one of these editions, paid to be here. We’ll hear from three vendors in this edition of Snake Oilers: Truffle Security talks secrets discovery KSOC builds Kubernetes security tools Snyk has a new product to better secure Infrastructure as Code Show notes Unearth Your Secrets - Truffle Security KSOC: Kubernetes Security Operations Center Cloud Security across the SDLC with Policy as Code | Snyk
Snake Oilers: Truffle Security, KSOC and Snyk
Snake Oilers isn’t our regular weekly podcast, it’s a wholly sponsored series we do at Risky.Biz where vendors come on to the show to pitch their products to you, the Risky Business listener. To be clear – everyone you hear in one of these editions, paid to be here. We’ll hear from three vendors in this edition of Snake Oilers: Truffle Security talks secrets discovery KSOC builds Kubernetes security tools Snyk has a new product to better secure Infrastructure as Code Show notes Unearth Your Secrets - Truffle Security KSOC: Kubernetes Security Operations Center Cloud Security across the SDLC with Policy as Code | Snyk