Risky Business Podcast
January 18, 2023
Risky Business #691 -- LockBit and "Pablo Escobar syndrome"
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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:
- Royal Mail attack was LockBit and GCHQ will probably “bust some heads”
- CircleCI’s incident report and the problem with malwared endpoints in the Zero Trust age
- Cloudflare backs Mastodon
- Paul Nakasone: NSA did some great stuff! It was really good!
- Cisco won’t patch SMB routers sold in 2020
- Much, much more
This week’s show is brought to you by Material Security. Material co-founder Ryan Noon and Snowflake’s head of cybersecurity strategy Omer Singer are this week’s sponsor guests.
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
Royal Mail cyberattack linked to LockBit ransomware operation
Ransomware Diaries: Volume 1 | Analyst1
Ransomware attack on maritime software impacts 1,000 ships - The Record from Recorded Future News
CircleCI incident report for January 4, 2023 security incident
Researchers: Large language models will revolutionize digital propaganda campaigns
Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #218
GitHub - cloudflare/wildebeest: Wildebeest is an ActivityPub and Mastodon-compatible server
Meta sues Voyager Labs over scraping user data
A Police App Exposed Secret Details About Raids and Suspects | WIRED
ODIN Intelligence website is defaced as hackers claim breach | TechCrunch
The FBI Won't Say Whether It Hacked Dark Web ISIS Site
Fortinet says hackers exploited critical vulnerability to infect VPN customers | Ars Technica
Vulnerability with 9.8 severity in Control Web Panel is under active exploit | Ars Technica
Hundreds of SugarCRM servers infected with critical in-the-wild exploit | Ars Technica