Risky Business #621 -- Ultra professional criminal attackers ascendant

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

Adam Boileau
Adam Boileau

Technology Editor

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

  • USA imposes sanctions over SolarWinds campaign
  • Enterprise border devices being attacked everywhere by all and sundry
  • Malvertising is coming back
  • Ultra professional criminal attackers are ascendant
  • All the latest ransomware, supply chain and other infosec news

This week’s sponsor interview is with Brian Dye, CEO of Corelight. We speak to him about what he’s calling “Open NDR”. A lot of the big SOCs have settled on their preferred ways of sharing threat information, and Brian drops by to talk all about those trends.

Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing.

Risky Business #621 -- Ultra professional criminal attackers ascendant
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Show notes

White House formally blames Russian intelligence service SVR for SolarWinds hack | The Record by Recorded Future

CISA, FBI, NSA reveal five enterprise bugs exploited by Russia's APT29 group | The Record by Recorded Future

Hackers go after SonicWall email appliances with three zero-days | The Record by Recorded Future

Hackers are exploiting a Pulse Secure 0-day to breach orgs around the world | Ars Technica

New Cring ransomware deployed via unpatched Fortinet VPNs | The Record by Recorded Future

US says APTs are using Fortinet bugs to gain initial access for future attacks | The Record by Recorded Future

Nightmare week for security vendors: Now a Trend Micro bug is being exploited in the wild | The Record by Recorded Future

Password manager Passwordstate hacked to deploy malware on customer systems | The Record by Recorded Future

Codecov discloses 2.5-month-long supply chain attack | The Record by Recorded Future

Vulnerability in time-syncing software puts a ton of corporate networks at risk | The Record by Recorded Future

NSA says it found new critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server

Justice Department announces court-authorized effort to disrupt exploitation of Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities | USAO-SDTX | Department of Justice

Ransom Gangs Emailing Victim Customers for Leverage – Krebs on Security

Ransomware gang tries to extort Apple hours ahead of Spring Loaded event | The Record by Recorded Future

UnitingCare Queensland hit by cyber attack - Security - iTnews

Ransomware gang threatens to expose police informants if ransom is not paid | The Record by Recorded Future

Ransomware gang wants to short the stock price of their victims | The Record by Recorded Future

How the Kremlin provides a safe harbor for ransomware

Malvertisers hacked 120 ad servers to load malicious ads | The Record by Recorded Future

Security researcher drops Chrome and Edge exploit on Twitter | The Record by Recorded Future

Recent Chromium bug used to attack Chinese WeChat users | The Record by Recorded Future

SAP systems usually come under attack 72 hours after a patch | The Record by Recorded Future

European cops collected data from encrypted chat service for weeks prior to cocaine bust

Colombia’s cartels target Europe with cocaine, corruption and torture | Drugs trade | The Guardian

Australian firm Azimuth unlocked the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone for the FBI - The Washington Post

Signal >> Blog >> Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer from an app's perspective

Lawyer Asks For New Trial After Cellebrite Vulnerability Discovery

Cellebrite Pushes Update After Signal Owner Hacks Device

Signal Adds a Payments Feature—With a Privacy-Focused Cryptocurrency | WIRED

WhatsApp Spying Site Blames WhatsApp for Letting It Spy

Phone numbers for 533 million Facebook users leaked on hacking forum | The Record by Recorded Future

Facebook Wants to 'Normalize' the Mass Scraping of Personal Data

Palestinian Hackers Tricked Victims Into Installing iOS Spyware | WIRED

The UK Is Trying to Stop Facebook's End-to-End Encryption | WIRED

Hackers move $760 million from the 2016 Bitfinex hack | The Record by Recorded Future

'Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act' Would Ban Clearview and Warrantless Location Data Purchases

Ill-advised research on Linux kernel lands computer scientists in hot water | The Daily Swig

Researchers trick Duo 2FA into sending authentication request to attacker-controlled device | The Daily Swig

NAME:WRECK vulnerabilities impact millions of smart and industrial devices | The Record by Recorded Future

Google's Project Zero updates vulnerability disclosure rules to add patch cushion | The Record by Recorded Future

Suspected North Korean hackers set up fake company to target researchers, Google says - CyberScoop

National security: Five Eyes split demands Australia reset with New Zealand

Dan Kaminsky: Tributes pour in for security researcher who died after short illness | The Daily Swig