Seriously Risky Business Newsletter
January 19, 2023
LockBit Is Ripe for Disruption
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Policy & Intelligence
Risky Business publishes sponsored product demos to YouTube. They're a great way for you to save the time and hassle of trying to actually get useful information out of security vendors. You can subscribe to our product demo page on YouTube here.
In our latest demo, Brett Winterford and Harish Chakravarthy demonstrate to host Patrick Grey how Okta can be used for passwordless authentication. These phishing resistant authentication flows — even if they are not rolled out to all users — can also be used as a high-quality signal of phishing attempts that can be used to trigger automated follow-on actions.
Russian cyber security firms have found that hackers have used the fear of "moblisation", i.e. conscription into Russia's war effort, to steal Telegram credentials in a successful large-scale campaign. The lure used was a link to a site that purportedly contained the list of people who could be drafted into the Russian army to fight in Ukraine this February.