Risky Business Podcast
November 30, 2022
Risky Business #687 -- Shady deeds in sunny places: Ransomware smashes Vanuatu, Guadeloupe
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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.
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Show notes
US government bans Huawei, ZTE and Hikvision tech over ‘unacceptable’ spying fears | TechCrunch
What if Russian commercial aviation cuts too many safety corners? — Meduza
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
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
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