Srsly Risky Biz: Chinese Illegal Gambling's Worldwide Tentacles

PLUS: Narrowly focussing on CrowdStrike a mistake

In this podcast Tom Uren and Patrick Gray discuss the wild story of a Chinese illegal gambling operation that involves human trafficking, shell companies, money laundering, hundreds of thousands of websites and sponsorship of European football teams.

They also talk about why a potential CSRB review of CrowdStrike’s disaster should focus… not on CrowdStrike, but instead on the legacy practice of security vendors having kernel-level access to Windows.

Finally, Tom is happy that the FTC is going to investigate ‘surveillance pricing’.

Risky Business #756 -- Move fast and break everything

Crowdstrike is apparently not a big believer in testing…

The Risky Biz main show returns from a break to the traditional internet-melting mess that happens whenever Patrick Gray takes a holiday. Pat and Adam Boileau talk through the week’s security news, including:

  • Oh Crowdstrike, no, oh no, honey, no
  • AT&T stored call records on Snowflake and you’ll never guess what happened next
  • Squarespace buys Google Domains and makes a hash of it
  • Some but not all of the SECs case against Solarwinds gets thrown out
  • Pity the incident responders digging through a terabyte of Disney Slack dumps
  • Internet Explorer rises from the grave, and it wants SHELLS RAAAAARGH SSHHEEELLLS
  • And much, much more.

This week’s show is brought to you by Sublime Security, a flexible and modern email security platform. If you’re sick of using a black box email security solution, Sublime is a terrific option for you.

Sponsored: Socket CEO Feross Aboukhadijeh on how tracking vulnerabilities isn't enough for open source repositories

Tracking the untrackable

In this Risky Business News sponsored interview, Tom Uren talks to Feross Aboukhadijeh, CEO and Founder of Socket about how open source repositories are riddled with horrible software. Feross explains why it makes a difference if a package is vulnerable, malicious or just unwanted and how current transparency mechanisms such as CVEs and the NVD just aren’t suitable for the challenge of open source repositories.

Risky Biz News: Trickbot dev arrested in Moscow

PLUS: Indian crypto exchange hacked for $230 million; UK wants mandatory ransomware reporting; new Port Shadow attack on VPNs.

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Claire Aird.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

Srsly Risky Biz: World vs China cyber security reporting duel

PLUS: Why US Fedgov security is full of holes

In this podcast Tom Uren and Adam Boileau talk about how countries are using cyber security reports and advisories to win friends and influence people; why having gaping holes in US federal government security is situation normal; and efforts to make up for the disappearance of Twitter’s trust and safety team.

Risky Biz Soap Box: Mike Wiacek on lazy mode threat hunting

How "NDR, but for files" makes life so much easier...

This Soap Box edition of the show is with Mike Wiacek, the CEO and Founder of Stairwell.

Stairwell is a platform that creates something similar to an NDR, but for file analysis instead of network traffic. The idea is you get a copy of every unique file in your environment to the Stairwell platform, via a file forwarding agent. You get an inventory that lists where these files exist in your environment, at what times, and from there you can start doing analysis.

If you find a dodgy file you can do all the usual malware analysis type stuff, but you can also do things like immediately find out where else that file is in your organisation, or even where else it was. From there you can identify other files that are similar – variants of those files – and search for those. And you can unpack all this very, very quickly.

This is the type of tool that EDR companies use internally to do threat hunting, but it’s just for you and your org – you can drive it. And as you’ll hear, the idea of a transparent, customisable and programmable security stack is something that’s on-trend at the moment. Mike lays out the case that doing this sort of file analysis in your organisation makes a whole lot of sense.

Risky Biz News: Kasperksy winds down US business

PLUS: Ukraine detains fraud groups stealing from dead soldiers; SSD accuses Sonicwall of hiding a security flaw; Konfety gang creates an alternate reality for its mobile ad fraud.

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Claire Aird.

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Sponsored: runZero on keeping up with CISA's KEV list

And how SSH is a shambles

In this Risky Business News sponsored interview, Tom Uren talks to Rob King, Director of Security Research at runZero, about keeping up with the stream of vulnerabilities in the KEV list and OT devices and runZero’s research into the SSH protocol.

Risky Biz News: AT&T discloses massive hack

PLUS: Squarespace DNS hijack spree hits crypto sites; Russia plans to ban YouTube later this year; major hacking spree hits Magento stores.

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Claire Aird.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

Risky Biz News: Apple warns iPhone users of new spyware attacks

PLUS: BLOODSEC hackers detained in the Philippines; South Africa agency lost $16.6 million in 10 years to hacks; NATO to establish new cyber center.

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Claire Aird.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

Wide World of Cyber: State directed cybercrime

Patrick Gray explore the relationship between cybercrime and the state...

In this podcast Alex Stamos, Chris Krebs and Patrick Gray discuss the relationship between cybercrime and the state, which is often more complicated than it should be.

While the US Government and its allies fight the scourge of ransomware, other governments are using it to either raise revenue or irritate their foes. North Korea sees ransomware as a money spinner, while the Kremlin enjoys poking the west in the eye with it.

Join us for a breakdown of the relationships between governments who should know better and the worst types of people on the planet.

Risky Biz News: US takes down RT's Twitter bot farm

PLUS: Ukrainian APT hacked Russian elevators; Avast secretly developed a DoNeX ransomware decrypter months ago; Adobe Reader zero-day patch coming in August.

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Claire Aird.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.


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