Risky Business Podcast
January 25, 2023
Risky Business #692 -- Google search results spew malware, phishing sites
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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:
- Google’s search results have become a malware-riddled sh*tshow
- Ransomware payment values dropped by 40% YoY in 2022
- Kraken takes over Solaris the old school way
- Grand Theft Auto RCE is wreaking havoc
- ManageEngine customers are all getting owned
- So you know, pretty much business as usual
This week’s show is brought to you by Kroll.
Jim Hung co-leads the special projects and applied research team at Kroll and joins us to talk about the big changes happening in the incident response discipline.
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
Risky Biz News: Google Search and Ads have a major malware problem
Hackers push malware via Google search ads for VLC, 7-Zip, CCleaner
A Sneaky Ad Scam Tore Through 11 Million Phones | WIRED
Risky Biz News: Crypto-crime volumes went down in 2022, ransomware payments too
International Counter Ransomware Task Force kicks off - The Record from Recorded Future News
Risky Biz News: Dark web mega-hack as Kraken takes over Solaris
Congressman ‘coming for answers’ after ‘no-fly list’ hack - The Record from Recorded Future News
Hackers Demand $10M From Riot Games to Stop Leak of ‘League of Legends’ Source Code
New T-Mobile Breach Affects 37 Million Accounts – Krebs on Security
More than 4,400 Sophos firewall servers remain vulnerable to critical exploits | Ars Technica
CVE-2022-47966: Rapid7 Observed Exploitation of Critical ManageEngine Vulnerability | Rapid7 Blog
AWS patches bypass bug in CloudTrail API monitoring tool | The Daily Swig
Git security audit reveals critical overflow bugs | The Daily Swig
U.S. arrests Bitzlato cofounder, alleges $700 mln of illicit funds processed | Reuters