Risky Business Podcast
November 17, 2021
Risky Business #645 -- How Israel used NSO to make friends in low places
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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:
- Watering hole attacks are getting much better
- How Israel’s government used NSO to strengthen its diplomatic ties
- Randori sat on some PAN 0day. This is fine.
- Facebook outs state-backed ops
- FBi has unfortunate incident with its mail boxes
- Much, much more
This week’s sponsor interview is with HD Moore. He’s the founder of Rumble, the network asset discovery scanner, and he’s joining us to talk about some new tricks he’s added to the product, like integrations with cloud service APIs and external discovery products like Censys.
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
British news website was hacked to control readers' computers, report says
Strategic web compromises in the Middle East with a pinch of Candiru | WeLiveSecurity
Analyzing a watering hole campaign using macOS exploits
Hacker sends spam to 100,000 from FBI email address
Booking.com was reportedly hacked by a US intel agency but never told customers | Ars Technica
‘Ghostwriter’ Looks Like a Purely Russian Op—Except It's Not | WIRED
Emotet botnet returns after law enforcement mass-uninstall operation - The Record by Recorded Future
Canadian health systems recovering from breach that forced thousands of appointment cancellations
CERT-PL employees rally around politically-dismissed chief - The Record by Recorded Future
Researchers wait 12 months to report vulnerability with 9.8 out of 10 severity rating | Ars Technica
DDR4 memory protections are broken wide open by new Rowhammer technique | Ars Technica
New secret-spilling hole in Intel CPUs sends company patching (again) | Ars Technica
GoCD bug chain provides second springboard for supply chain attacks | The Daily Swig
Hundreds of WordPress sites defaced in fake ransomware attacks - The Record by Recorded Future