Risky Business Podcast
February 15, 2023
Risky Business #695 -- North Korea is ransomwaring hospitals, Russia to make "patriotic" hacking legal
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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:
- North Korea is ransomwaring hospitals with homegrown and Russian strains
- Russia proposes law greenlighting “patriotic hacks”
- It’s 702 renewal time… again
- CISA releases ESXiArgs recovery script (yay!)
- UK mulls crimephone ban
- Much, much more
This week’s show is brought to you by Thinkst Canary. Haroon Meer is this week’s sponsor guest and joins us to talk about Thinkst’s latest release: the credit card canary.
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Show notes
Risky Biz News: US and UK sanction seven Trickbot members
Risky Biz News: Russia wants to absolve patriotic hackers from any criminal liability
The FBI’s Most Controversial Surveillance Tool Is Under Threat | WIRED
Meet the Creator of North Korea’s Favorite Crypto Privacy Service | WIRED
decrypt your crypted files in ESXi servers affected by CVE-2020-3992 / CryptoLocker attack
Tonga is the latest Pacific Island nation hit with ransomware - The Record from Recorded Future News
UK Proposes Making the Sale and Possession of Encrypted Phones Illegal
Russian cybersecurity expert convicted of charges in $90M hack-to-trade case | CyberScoop
Deepfake 'news anchors' appear in pro-China footage on social media, research group says - ABC News
This week’s Reddit breach shows company’s security is (still) woefully inadequate | Ars Technica
Mysterious leak of Booking.com reservation data is being used to scam customers | Ars Technica
DOM XSS vulnerability in Gartner Peer Insights widget patched | The Daily Swig
Dota 2 Under Attack: How a V8 Bug Was Exploited in the Game - Avast Threat Labs
OAuth ‘masterclass’ crowned top web hacking technique of 2022 | The Daily Swig
New XSS Hunter host Truffle Security faces privacy backlash | The Daily Swig
A year after outcry, IRS still doesn't offer taxpayers alternative to ID.me | CyberScoop