Risky Business #708 – China's lolbin-powered adventures in US critical infrastructure

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. They cover:

  • China’s lolbin-powered intrusions into critical infrastructure
  • Trend Micro backs BlackBerry’s Cuba call
  • Anonymous Sudan shakes down Scandanavian Airlines
  • Iranian opposition party MEK publishes gargantuan leak
  • Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by Kubernetes security company KSOC. Jimmy Mesta is this week’s sponsor guest and he joins us to talk about the big security challenges in Kubernetes.

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

Risky Business #708 – China's lolbin-powered adventures in US critical infrastructure
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Show notes

Volt Typhoon targets US critical infrastructure with living-off-the-land techniques | Microsoft Security Blog

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U.S. warns China could hack infrastructure, including pipelines, rail systems | Reuters

Factbox: What is Volt Typhoon, the alleged China-backed hacking group? | Reuters

Chinese Malware Hits Systems on Guam. Is Taiwan the Real Target? - The New York Times

COSMICENERGY: New OT Malware Possibly Related To Russian Emergency Response Exercises | Mandiant

Void Rabisu’s Use of RomCom Backdoor Shows a Growing Shift in Threat Actors’ Goals

Hacker group Anonymous Sudan demands $3 million from Scandinavian Airlines

Iranian dissidents take over high-security servers of regime presidency |

Iran-linked hackers Agrius deploying new ransomware against Israeli orgs

Exclusive: Chinese hackers attacked Kenyan government as debt strains grew | Reuters

Risky Biz News: PyPI to enforce 2FA, reduce stored IP addresses

NSO spyware used in Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict, report finds

Mercenary mayhem: A technical analysis of Intellexa's PREDATOR spyware

SMS pumping fraud: take care how you configure MFA - TechHQ

Full Disclosure: Printerlogic multiple vulnerabilities

Barracuda Networks issue added to CISA vulnerability list

Barracuda patches actively exploited zero-day vulnerability in email gateways | Cybersecurity Dive

Developing: RaidForums users db leaked

Phishing Domains Tanked After Meta Sued Freenom – Krebs on Security

Broad coalition of advocacy groups urges Slack to protect users' messages from eavesdropping | CyberScoop