Risky Business Podcast

April 18, 2018

Risky Business #495 -- Russian Internet users are having a bad time

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

Adam Boileau
Adam Boileau

Technology Editor

We’re still running in a trimmed down format this week, sorry about that. Regular listeners would know we’ve been dealing with some unexpected stuff over here in the house of Business, but the good news is things have settled down and we’re actually back home after more than three weeks away. Things are looking good for a return to a full format show either next week or the week after.

But don’t worry, there’s plenty of good stuff in this week’s news segment with Mark Piper, including:

  • Russia blocking 15m cloud service IPs to shut down Telegram
  • RU router hax: Are they a big deal?
  • FBI’s “going dark” narrative questioned
  • Rob Joyce departs White House
  • ZTE in all sorts of trouble
  • AND MOAR

This week’s show is brought to you by Cylance. Jim Walter of Cylance will be along in this week’s sponsor interview to talk about a couple of things – we’ll be looking at “fileless” malware – for what it’s worth it’s a term that we both hate – and we’ll also be talking about how complete amateurs are now able to run reasonably sophisticated malware campaigns these days thanks to the badware for hire business getting even more slick.

The show notes/links are below, and you can follow Pipes or Patrick on Twitter if that’s your thing.

Risky Business #495 -- Russian Internet users are having a bad time
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Show notes

In effort to shut down Telegram, Russia blocks Amazon, Google network addresses | Ars Technica

Anatoly Rosencrantz on Twitter: "over night russian authorities are blocking about 2 000 000 IPs of Amazon and Google. Everyone thought it’s a mistake, until RKN head Zharov confirmed it is not. Tactics: to force Google and Amazon push Telegram out of their clouds by blocking basically whole cloud for Russia… https://t.co/8bZOtMENbp"

US, UK Accuse Russia of Hacking Home Routers and ISPs to Conduct MitM Attacks

Lawmakers Call FBI's 'Going Dark' Narrative 'Highly Questionable' After Motherboard Shows Cops Can Easily Hack iPhones - Motherboard

Congress wants answers on FBI's 'going dark' problem in wake of DOJ IG report

Cybersecurity adviser Rob Joyce to leave White House, return to NSA

Bolton will lead charge to replace cybersecurity coordinator, DHS secretary says

Rob Joyce on Twitter: "EU's GDPR is going to undercut a key tool for identifying malicious domains on the internet. WHOIS database will be noncompliant, or have to purge the data that makes it useful to find bad actors. @briankrebs is spot on. Cyber criminals are celebrating GDPR.… https://t.co/FfYHhERdTY"

Update: Zuckerberg Said He ‘Misspoke’ About Alerting Campaigns to Russian Hacking Attempts - Motherboard

Deleted Facebook Cybercrime Groups Had 300,000 Members — Krebs on Security

Intel to Allow Antivirus Engines to Use Integrated GPUs for Malware Scanning

Chinese Mobile Device Maker ZTE Banned From Buying U.S. Goods

Hamas-linked spyware targeting Palestinians removed from Google Play store

FTC: "Warranty Void If Removed" Stickers Are Illegal

Barclays Bank plc - ASA | CAP

NIST releases updated cybersecurity framework

Researchers Rickrolled Emergency Alert Sirens in Proof-of-Concept Hack - Motherboard

Exploitation of Drupalgeddon2 Flaw Starts After Publication of PoC Code

Yubico Delivers Passwordless Login for Enterprise Authentication on Windows 10 Devices | Yubico

The Teens Who Hacked Microsoft's Xbox Empire—And Went Too Far | WIRED

Senior Manager of Research and Development: Careers | Duo Security

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