Risky Business Podcast
February 09, 2022
Risky Business #654 -- FBI arrests deeply annoying cryptocurrency influencers
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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:
- A spate of ransomware attacks on European energy and transport
- Russian authorities extend cybercrime crackdown
- Irritating influencers arrested for laundering 2016 Bitfinex hack proceeds
- IRS abandons ID.me trial
- Microsoft disables macros by default, disables MSIX protocol handler
- Much, much more
This week’s show is brought to you by ExtraHop.
Extrahop’s Ted Driggs is this week’s sponsor guest – he was on the show about a year ago talking about how we should really start thinking about putting together software bills of behaviours as well as bills of material. Ted is back to tell us how that effort is progressing. As you’ll hear, a lot of the behavioural data on software already exists, but it’s being hoarded by different vendors.
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
Ransomware spree hitting European oil, transport companies
Weeks after a ransomware attack, some workers still worry about paychecks
Russian government continues crackdown on cybercriminals
Woman Who Allegedly Laundered $1B in Bitcoin Was Cringe YouTube Rapper
NetWalker ransomware affiliate sentenced to seven years in prison - The Record by Recorded Future
IRS abandons plans to use third-party facial recognition
DHS assembles Cyber Safety Review Board to imitate fed agency that studies aviation accidents
Senate lawmakers try again on cyber incident reporting legislation - The Record by Recorded Future
Google Cloud adds new cryptomining threat detection capability - The Record by Recorded Future
News Corp. says Wall Street Journal, New York Post were targeted by hackers
Palestinian hacking group evolving with new malware, researchers say
State Department sounds alarm over Red Cross breach
State Department offers $10M for information on Iranian election interference
Iran's national TV stream hacked for the second time in a week - The Record by Recorded Future
The Apache Log4j team talks about the Log4Shell patching process - The Record by Recorded Future
npm enrolls Top 100 package maintainers into mandatory 2FA - The Record by Recorded Future
Target open-sources its web skimmer detector - The Record by Recorded Future
North Korea Hacked Him. So He Took Down Its Internet | WIRED