Risky Business #766 – China hacks America's lawful intercept systems

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 infosec news, including:

  • Chinese spooks all up in western telco lawful intercept
  • Jerks ruin the Internet Archive’s day
  • Microsoft drops a great report with a bad chart
  • The feds make their own crypto currency and get it pumped
  • Forti-, Palo- and Ivanti-fail
  • And much, much more.

This week’s episode is sponsored by detection-as-code vendor Panther. Casey Hill, Panther’s Director Product Management joins to discuss why the old “just bung it all in a data lake and… ???… “ approach hasn’t worked out, and what smart teams do to handle their logs.

This episode is also available on [Youtube].(https://youtu.be/86zy6DcwtbE)

Risky Business #766 – China hacks America's lawful intercept systems
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Show notes

White House forms emergency team to deal with China espionage hack - The Washington Post

DDoS attacks on Internet Archive continue after data breach impacting 31 million

Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2024

Ransomware encryption down amid surge of attacks, Microsoft says | CyberScoop

Russian court websites down after breach claimed by pro-Ukraine hackers

Ukrainian anti-corruption agency reportedly finds no violations in disclosures of top cyber official

Trump campaign turns to secure hardware after hacking incident | Reuters

FBI creates its own crypto token to nab suspects in alleged fraud scheme

District of Massachusetts | Eighteen Individuals and Entities Charged in International Operation Targeting Widespread Fraud and Manipulation in the Cryptocurrency Markets | United States Department of Justice

Critical CVE in 4 Fortinet products actively exploited | Cybersecurity Dive

Fortinet FortiGate CVE-2024-23113 - A Super Complex Vulnerability In A Super Secure Appliance In 2024

Palo Alto Expedition: From N-Day to Full Compromise

Ivanti up against another attack spree as hackers target its endpoint manager | Cybersecurity Dive

1 bug, $50,000+ in bounties, how Zendesk intentionally left a backdoor in hundreds of Fortune 500 companies · GitHub

Recently-patched Firefox bug exploited against Tor browser users

Two never-before-seen tools, from same group, infect air-gapped devices - Ars Technica

A Single Cloud Compromise Can Feed an Army of AI Sex Bots – Krebs on Security

Opinion | The Cyber Sleuth - Washington Post