Risky Biz News: Anonymous Sudan's Russia Links Are (Still) Obvious

PLUS: Iranian hackers sell access to US critical infrastructure; North Korea hacked ad platforms to deploy an Internet Explorer zero-day; hacker "USDoD" arrested in Brazil.

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: When thuggery is your cyber talent pipeline

PLUS: AI is no gift to malicious actors

In this podcast Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about the evolving relationship between Russian intelligence services and the country’s cybercriminals. The GRU’s sabotage unit, for example, has been recruiting crooks to build a destructive cyber capability. Tom suspects that GRU thugs are not so good at hands-on-keyboard operations, but excellent at coercing weedy cybercriminals to hack for the state.

They also talk about OpenAI’s report into malicious actor’s use of its models, and how Australia’s proposed cyber security law looks pretty sensible.

Risky Business #766 – China hacks America's lawful intercept systems

PLUS: Microsoft's chart crimes...

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s infosec news, including:

  • Chinese spooks all up in western telco lawful intercept
  • Jerks ruin the Internet Archive’s day
  • Microsoft drops a great report with a bad chart
  • The feds make their own crypto currency and get it pumped
  • Forti-, Palo- and Ivanti-fail
  • And much, much more.

This week’s episode is sponsored by detection-as-code vendor Panther. Casey Hill, Panther’s Director Product Management joins to discuss why the old “just bung it all in a data lake and… ???… “ approach hasn’t worked out, and what smart teams do to handle their logs.

This episode is also available on [Youtube].(https://youtu.be/86zy6DcwtbE)

Risky Biz News: Verizon call logs breached

PLUS: Firefox zero-day targeted Tor Browser users; hacked vacuums spew out slurs; hackers leak data from Pokemon gaming studio.

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.

Sponsored: Trail of Bits on post-quantum cryptography

PLUS: The shocking truth behind triple encryption

In this Risky Business News sponsored interview, Tom Uren talks to Dan Guido, CEO of Trail of Bits, about post-quantum cryptography. The pair dive into what it is, why it is needed now and how organisations are dealing with its adoption.

Srsly Risky Biz: How Telegram turbocharges organised crime

PLUS: China wants to watch the watchers

In this podcast Tom Uren and Adam Boileau talk a new UN report that spells out the role Telegram plays as a massive enabler for transnational organised crime.

They also discuss China’s hacking of US telcos to possibly target of lawful intercept equipment and a remarkably entertaining account of North Korean IT workers being employed by over a dozen cryptocurrency firms.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Risky Biz News: EU adopts new sanctions framework to cover Russia's cyber warfare and disinformation

PLUS: Largest US water utility provider hit by a cyberattack; hackers wipe servers at Russian state TV company; EU government orgs targeted with air-gap jumping malware.

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.

Between Two Nerds: The rise of cyber persistence

Learning by doing or just damn good marketing

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about ‘cyber persistence theory’. They cover what it is, why it is increasingly popular amongst America’s allies, why we think the theory is right and also cover some critiques of the theory.

They refer to the article in CyberScoop ‘America’s allies are shifting: Cyberspace is about persistence, not deterrence’ in CyberScoop.

Risky Biz News: China wiretaps US wiretapping system

PLUS: Australia provides free cyber support for small businesses; Ukraine clears Vitiuk in corruption probe.

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: Tackling election interference at warp speed

PLUS: The marriage between Evil Corp and Russian intelligence

In this podcast Tom Uren and Adam Boileau talk about how the US government’s response to Iranian election interference is proceeding at light speed. This allows other actors such as Meta to make decisions relating to interference with certainty.

They also discuss how Russian cybercrime group Evil Corp’s relationship with Russian intelligence was built on the founder’s marriage.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Risky Biz News: New EvilCorp sanctions and LockBit arrests

PLUS: NIST backlog still there; Cambodia arrests journalist who exposed scam compounds; FCC fines T-Mobile for neverending data breaches.

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.

Snake Oilers: Sandfly Security, Permiso and Wiz

Linux security, more identity security and Wiz moves on code scanning...

In this edition of Snake Oilers we hear pitches from three security vendors:

  • Sandfly Security: An agentless Linux security platform that actually sounds very cool
  • Permiso: An identity security platform founded by ex FireEye folks
  • Wiz: The cloud security giant is getting in on code security scanning

You can watch this edition of Snake Oilers on YouTube here.


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