Risky Business Podcast
February 26, 2025
Risky Business #781 -- How Bybit oopsied $1.4bn
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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news:
- North Korea pulls off a 1.5 billion dollar crypto heist
- Apple pulls Advanced Data Protection from the UK
- Black Basta ransomware gang’s internal chats leak
- Russians snoop on Signal with QR codes
- And Myanmar ships thousands of freed scam compound workers to Thailand
Regular guest Lina Lau joins to discuss her work reading Chinese incident response reports on WeChat, and how that has people thinking that … she outed the NSA?
This week’s episode is sponsored by Airlock Digital, and allow-listing tragics Daniel Schell and David Cottingham are along with an amusing tale of using Windows’ own allow-listing software to block EDR from loading.
This episode is also available on Youtube.
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Show notes
CertiK - Bybit Incident Technical Analysis
Sanctions: Iranians Flock to Crypto; Int'l Actions Target Russia - Chainalysis
Swedish authorities seek backdoor to encrypted messaging apps | The Record from Recorded Future News
Leaked chat logs expose inner workings of secretive ransomware group - Ars Technica
Meta Sues Alleged Violent Extortionist For Holding Instagram Accounts Hostage
Weathering the storm: In the midst of a Typhoon
Director-General's Annual Threat Assessment 2025 | ASIO
An inside look at NSA (Equation Group) TTPs from China’s lense