This episode sponsored by Greynoise.On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:
- DoJ seizes 50k bitcoin stolen from Silk Road, charges thief
- Australian health insurer Medibank refuses to pay ransom, data leaked
- Inside Qatar’s $386m world cup espionage operation
- EU Parliament report into spyware lands
- SolarWinds settles shareholder lawsuit, faces SEC enforcement action
- Much, much more
This week’s sponsor guest is Andrew Morris from Greynoise Intelligence.
Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing.
Show notes
- DOJ says it seized billions in Bitcoin stolen by hacker from Silk Road darknet marketplace - The Record by Recorded Future
- U.S. Attorney Announces Historic $3.36 Billion Cryptocurrency Seizure And Conviction In Connection With Silk Road Dark Web Fraud | USAO-SDNY | Department of Justice
- Medibank says it will not pay ransom in hack that impacted 9.7 million customers - The Record by Recorded Future
- Names, addresses, birthdays posted to dark web by hackers after Medibank ransom deadline passes - ABC News
- ‘Project Merciless’: how Qatar spied on the world of football in Switzerland - SWI swissinfo.ch
- How Qatar hacked the World Cup — The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (en-GB)
- FBI probing ex-CIA officer's spying for World Cup host Qatar - The Washington Post
- EU governments accused of using spyware ‘to cover up corruption and criminal activity’ - The Record by Recorded Future
- Press conference on draft findings of EP spyware inquiry | News | European Parliament
- SolarWinds says it’s facing SEC ‘enforcement action’ over 2020 hack | TechCrunch
- Microsoft accuses China of abusing vulnerability disclosure requirements - The Record by Recorded Future
- 工业和信息化部国家互联网信息办公室公安部关于印发网络产品安全漏洞管理规定的通知-中共中央网络安全和信息化委员会办公室
- Insurance giant settles NotPetya lawsuit, signaling cyber insurance shakeup
- Could a ‘digital Red Cross emblem’ protect hospitals from cyber warfare? - The Record by Recorded Future
- TrustCor Systems verifies web addresses, but its address is a UPS Store - The Washington Post
- Cyber incident at Boeing subsidiary causes flight planning disruptions - The Record by Recorded Future
- FIN7 cybercrime cartel tied to Black Basta ransomware operation: report - The Record by Recorded Future
- More than 100 election jurisdictions waiting on federal cyber help, sources say
- $28 million stolen from cryptocurrency platform Deribit - The Record by Recorded Future
- Nigerian scammer sentenced to 11 years in US prison - The Record by Recorded Future
- Hackers get into Dropbox developer accounts on GitHub, access 130 code repositories and more - The Record by Recorded Future
- Urlscan.io API unwittingly leaks sensitive URLs, data | The Daily Swig
- The Most Vulnerable Place on the Internet | WIRED
- So long and thanks for all the bits - NCSC.GOV.UK
