Risky Business Podcast
September 01, 2021
Risky Business #636 -- Victims are shunning data extortion payments
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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss recent security news, including:
- More info on the Belarusian Cyber Patriots
- How infosec overhyped election security risks
- Is data ransoming dying?
- All about the Azure Cosmos DB drama
- Much, much more…
In this week’s sponsor interview Airlock Digital’s Daniel Schell and David Cottingham join the show to talk about EDR bypasses. They are a thing.
Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing.
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Show notes
Belarusian hackers are turning the country's surveillance state against it | MIT Technology Review
Trump conspiracies strain election cybersecurity experts
T-Mobile CEO apologizes after hacker stole millions of users' personal information
Bangkok Air confirms passenger PII leak after ransomware attack - The Record by Recorded Future
Hackers steal $29 million from crypto-platform Cream Finance - The Record by Recorded Future
Australia's 'hacking' Bill passes the Senate after House made 60 amendments | ZDNet
DHS urges Microsoft customers to update Azure to avoid security flaw
Microsoft Azure vulnerability exposed thousands of cloud databases
FBI warns that Hive ransomware hackers are calling victims by phone
A Dark Web Murder-For-Hire Scammer Became An FBI Informant
A Bad Solar Storm Could Cause an 'Internet Apocalypse' | WIRED
Trial & Error in Kuwait - CyberScoop
How Data Brokers Sell Access to the Backbone of the Internet
Man Robbed of 16 Bitcoin Sues Young Thieves’ Parents – Krebs on Security