Risky Business Podcast
December 11, 2024
Risky Business #774 -- Cleo file transfer appliances under widespread attack
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On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
- Cleo file transfer products have a remote code exec, here we go again!
- Snowflake phases out password-based auth
- Chinese Sophos-exploit-dev company gets sanctioned
- Romania’s election gets rolled back after Tiktok changed the outcome
- AMD’s encrypted VM tech bamboozled by RAM with one extra address bit
- Some cool OpenWRT research
- And much, much more.
This week’s episode is sponsored by Thinkst, who love sneaky canary token traps. Jacob Torrey previews an upcoming Blackhat talk filled with interesting operating system tricks you can use to trigger canaries in your environment. You wont believe the third trick! Attackers hate him!
This episode is also available on Youtube.
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Show notes
Cleo Software Actively Being Exploited in the Wild CVE-2024-50623 | Huntress
Blue Yonder investigating data leak claim following ransomware attack | Cybersecurity Dive
Snowflake to phase out single-factor authentication by late 2025 | Cybersecurity Dive
FCC, for first time, proposes cybersecurity rules tied to wiretapping law | CyberScoop
Cloudflare’s pages.dev and workers.dev Domains Increasingly Abused for
Research Note: Meta’s Role in Romania’s 2024 Presidential Election - CheckFirst
Backdoor slipped into popular code library, drains ~$155k from digital wallets - Ars Technica
AMD’s trusted execution environment blown wide open by new BadRAM attack - Ars Technica
New dog, old tricks: DaMAgeCard attack targets memory directly thru SD card reader – PT SWARM
Telegram partners with child safety group to scan content for sexual abuse material
Apple hit with $1.2B lawsuit after killing controversial CSAM-detecting tool - Ars Technica