Risky Business Podcast
May 04, 2022
Risky Business #664 -- The Spanish Prime Minister got Pegasus'd
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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:
- Spanish PM’s phone infected by Pegasus
- Microsoft drops Ukraine research report
- We can’t make heads or tails out of the FBI’s transparency report
- France hit with coordinated fibre sabotage campaign
- Why Musk’s algorithm pledge is meaningless
- Much, much more
This week’s sponsor interview is with ExtraHop Networks’ CEO Patrick Dennis. He’s joining us this week to talk about how you can turn “Shield’s Up!” advice into something actionable.
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
Spyware attack targeted Spanish prime minister’s phone - The Record by Recorded Future
Over 200 Spanish mobile numbers ‘possible targets of Pegasus spyware’ | Spain | The Guardian
Russia’s hackers and military went after the same targets in Ukraine, Microsoft says
Russia Is Being Hacked at an Unprecedented Scale | WIRED
2022_ASTR_for_CY2020_FINAL.pdf
How the French fiber optic cable attacks accentuate critical infrastructure vulnerabilities
Who tried to hack Hawaii’s undersea cable? - The Record by Recorded Future
Nauru police emails leaked to protest against Australia's offshore detention
Fighting Fake EDRs With ‘Credit Ratings’ for Police – Krebs on Security
Twitter may have given user's private data to a ransomware hacker, who then ran a researcher offline
Musk's plans to make Twitter's algorithms public raises disinformation conundrum
Elon Musk’s Plan to Open Source the Twitter Algorithm Won’t Solve Anything | WIRED
Kronos cyber attack sparks lawsuits against employers | BenefitsPRO
German wind farm operator confirms cybersecurity incident - The Record by Recorded Future
German library service struggling to recover from ransomware attack - The Record by Recorded Future
Trinidad’s largest supermarket chain crippled by cyberattack - The Record by Recorded Future
NC Prohibits Gov Entities from Paying Hacker Cybersecurity Ransoms
Widespread Exploitation of VMware Workspace ONE Access CVE-2022-22954 | Rapid7 Blog
Microsoft finds Linux desktop flaw that gives root to untrusted users | Ars Technica
More than $13 million stolen from DeFi platform Deus Finance - The Record by Recorded Future
Crypto Hackers Stole More Than $370 Million In April Alone