Risky Business #718 -- Chaos and carnage, business as usual

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:

(NOTE: This podcast was initially pushed out into the Risky Business News podcast feed in error. Sorry about that!)

  • US Government warnings to private space sector on cyber risk
  • Ukrainian hackers dump the inbox of Russian Duma deputy chair
  • Absentee voting in Ecuador’s election disrupted by DDoS attack
  • South Korea warns of Chinese “spy chips”
  • Much, much more!

This week’s show is brought to you by Airlock Digital. Its co-founders Daniel Schell and David Cottingham join this week’s show to talk about Powershell Constrained Language mode.

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

Risky Business #718 -- Chaos and carnage, business as usual
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Show notes

Risky Biz News: US warns space sector of hacks, spying, IP theft, and sabotage

Safeguarding the US Space Industry - DocumentCloud

Ukrainian hackers claim to leak emails of Russian parliament deputy chief

Feature Interview: How Sandworm prepared Ukraine for a cyber war - Risky Business

British intelligence is tipping off ransomware targets to disrupt attacks

Ecuador’s national election agency says cyberattacks caused absentee voting issues

Chinese-made 'spy chip' found in Korean state-run weather agency system : r/korea

[단독]중국산 기상장비에 ‘스파이칩’ 첫 발견 | 채널A 뉴스

Legitimate software tainted in attacks on Hong Kong organizations, report says

Chinese hackers accused of targeting Southeast Asian gambling sector

Risky Biz News: PowerShell's official package repo is a supply chain mess

Zoom’s AI terms overhaul sets stage for broader data use scrutiny | Cybersecurity Dive

Fifty minutes to hack ChatGPT: Inside the DEF CON competition to break AI | CyberScoop

Ivanti: Customers ‘impacted’ by new zero-day vulnerability

CISA, experts warn of Citrix vulnerabilities being exploited by hackers

Zero Networks Connect - Zero Networks | Contain The Next Breach

Australia’s .au domain administrator denies data breach after ransomware posting

Hackers are increasingly hiding within services such as Slack and Trello to deploy malware | CyberScoop

‘Extreme’ user abuse leads AnonFiles operators to shut down hosting service

Millions stolen from crypto platforms Exactly Protocol and Harbor Protocol

Windows feature that resets system clocks based on random data is wreaking havoc | Ars Technica

Did a Journalist Violate Hacking Law to Leak Fox News Clips? The Government Thinks He Did.