This episode sponsored by Okta.On this week’s show Patrick and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:
- ORIGINAL: Ransomware insurance payouts are looking pretty unsustainable
- Trump lawyer calls for Chris Krebs’ execution
- Hunger relief charity loses $1m to BEC
- Supreme court weighs CFAA
- Much, much more!
This week’s sponsor interview is with Marc Rogers, Okta’s Executive Director of Cybersecurity. Marc is also heavily involved with the CTI League, a group of infosec professionals who banded together early this year to try to do some good. They’re cyber do gooders! They’ve chalked up some wins and helped out a bunch of organisations, and in the process Marc and his compadres have also been well positioned to observe changes in the ransomware landscape. He joins us in this week’s sponsor interview to talk through that.
Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing.
Show notes
- Ransom payouts spell trouble for insurers - Risky Business
- Patients of a Vermont Hospital Are Left ‘in the Dark’ After a Cyberattack - The New York Times
- It's hard to keep a big botnet down: TrickBot sputters back toward full health
- (4) Chris Bing on Twitter: "It's insane for a lawyer of the President to casually mention that a former government official should be killed. And then doubly insane to see no broad condemnation from republican lawmakers." / Twitter
- Researchers Find Powerful Cellphone Location Surveillance in Europe, Middle East, Australia
- Microsoft links Vietnamese state hackers to crypto-mining malware campaign | ZDNet
- MacOS backdoor appears to be update of tool previously used by Vietnam-linked group
- Philly hunger relief group Philabundance lost nearly $1 million in cyberattack
- FBI warns of email forwarding rules being abused in recent hacks | ZDNet
- Three members of TMT cybercrime group arrested in Nigeria | ZDNet
- Supreme Court considers scope of federal anti-hacking law in biggest cyber case to date
- Google security researcher banned from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare after ‘reverse engineering networking code’ | The Daily Swig
- Getting Banned for Security Research | nedwill’s security blog
- Bug Allowed Hackers to Get Anyone’s Email Address on Xbox Live
- Malicious npm packages caught installing remote access trojans | ZDNet
- Drupal inherits critical file archiving library flaw | The Daily Swig
- 2FA bypass discovered in web hosting software cPanel | ZDNet
- Microsoft removes 18 malicious Edge extensions for injecting ads into web pages | ZDNet
- Global Volunteer Cyberthreat Community-CERT | CTI League
