Risky Business #687 -- Shady deeds in sunny places: Ransomware smashes Vanuatu, Guadeloupe

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

Adam Boileau
Adam Boileau

Technology Editor

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:

  • UK, USA ban Chinese security cameras
  • What is the Boa webserver and why is it everywhere?
  • Vanuatu, Guadeloupe smashed by ransomware
  • REvil back with more dumps despite ASD attention
  • Much, much more

This week’s sponsor guest is Jake King from Elastic Security, who joins us to talk through the company’s most recent threat report. There’s a link to the report in our show notes.

Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Mastodon if that’s your thing.

Risky Business #687 -- Shady deeds in sunny places: Ransomware smashes Vanuatu, Guadeloupe
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Show notes

British government bans Chinese surveillance cameras from sensitive locations - The Record by Recorded Future

US government bans Huawei, ZTE and Hikvision tech over ‘unacceptable’ spying fears | TechCrunch

What if Russian commercial aviation cuts too many safety corners? — Meduza

Microsoft attributes alleged Chinese attack on Indian power grid to ‘Boa’ IoT vulnerability - The Record by Recorded Future

U.S. Govt. Apps Bundled Russian Code With Ties to Mobile Malware Developer – Krebs on Security

Guadeloupe kickstarts continuity plan after wide-ranging cyberattack - The Record by Recorded Future

Vanuatu hospital staff using pen and paper after cyber attack that crippled public sector - ABC News

Extortion site used in Medibank attack goes offline after Australian gov pledges ‘offensive’ actions - The Record by Recorded Future

ThreatMon Ransomware Monitoring on Twitter:

Risky Biz News: Australia passes new privacy bill with huge data breach fines

Sandworm hacking group linked to new ransomware deployed in Ukraine - The Record by Recorded Future

UK Parliament launches inquiry into national security strategy around ransomware - The Record by Recorded Future

Canadian food giant refuses to pay ransom after gang threatens data leak - The Record by Recorded Future

Almost 1,000 suspects arrested in Interpol operation which seized over $129 million - The Record by Recorded Future

Risky Biz News: Authorities seize iSpoof in major blow to fraudsters and cybercrime groups

Espionage group using USB devices to hack targets in Southeast Asia - The Record by Recorded Future

WikiLeaks' Website Is Slowly Falling Apart

European Parliament declares Russia a terrorism sponsor, then its site goes down | Ars Technica

Hackers are spreading malware via trending TikTok challenge: report - The Record by Recorded Future

Samantha Borrego iS iNfeCtEd noT pArAnOID on Twitter:

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