Risky Business Podcast
April 10, 2024
Risky Business #744 -- Ransomware upstarts jostle in Lockbit's absence
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On this week’s show Patrick and Adam discuss the week’s security news, including:
- Ransomware: down but not out
- Zero day prices on the rise…
- … and what it means for enterprise software
- Geopolitical conflict comes to computers in Palau
- Ukraine cyber chief Illia Vitiuk suspended
- More x86 microarchitectural bad times
- And much much more
Proofpoint’s chief strategy officer Ryan Kalember is this week’s sponsor guest. He takes aim at some recent vendor trends, like security companies describing themselves as “platforms”.
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Show notes
CyberCX_Report_DFIR 2023 Year in Review_Online.pdf
Price of zero-day exploits rises as companies harden products against hackers | TechCrunch
Mandiant spots advanced exploit activity in Ivanti devices | Cybersecurity Dive
ALPHV steps up laundering of Change Healthcare ransom payments | CyberScoop
Extortion group threatens to sell Change Healthcare data | CyberScoop
Attempted hack on NYC continues wave of cyberattacks against municipal governments
Missouri county declares state of emergency amid suspected ransomware attack | Ars Technica
Medusa cybercrime gang takes credit for another attack on US municipality
Omni Hotels & Resorts hit by cyberattack | Cybersecurity Dive
Targus says cyberattack is causing operational outage | TechCrunch
German database company Genios confirms ransomware attack
Researchers discover new ransomware gang ‘Muliaka’ attacking Russian businesses
‘An attack on the reputation of Palau’: officials question who was really behind ransomware incident
'They’re lying': Palau denies claims by ransomware gang over recent cyberattack
Ukrainian security service’s cyber chief suspended following media investigation
House hurtles toward showdown over expiring surveillance tools | CyberScoop
D-Link tells customers to sunset actively exploited storage devices | Cybersecurity Dive
A Vigilante Hacker Took Down North Korea’s Internet. Now He’s Taking Off His Mask | WIRED
Linux Kernel Patched For Branch History Injection "BHI" Intel CPU Vulnerability - Phoronix
Ransomware gang’s new extortion trick? Calling the front desk | TechCrunch
Evolving Threat Landscape: A Deep Dive into Multichannel Attacks Targeting Retailers | Proofpoint US