Srsly Risky Biz: When hacking customers is good business

PLUS: Why state-backed hackers drop ransomware

In this podcast Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about how South Korean internet regulations inadvertently encouraged a large ISP to hack their own customers to cut down on torrent traffic.

They also look at state-backed hackers behaving very badly.

Risky Business #755 -- SSH 0day! Polyfill drama! Entrust crushed!

It’s been a hell of a week…

On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:

  • Widely used polyfill javascript gets hijacked by its new owners
  • MacOS supply chain disaster bullet dodged
  • That OpenSSH remote code exec OH MY <3
  • Entrust gets its CA business kicked to the kerb by Google
  • South Korean telco intentionally viruses 600k customers
  • Microsoft continues to deeply underwhelm
  • And much, much more.

This week’s episode is sponsored by Greynoise. Founder Andrew Morris joins to talk about ways to track attackers across NAT and VPNs, as well as how you can join in the fun of running an internet-scale honeypot network.

Risky Biz News: Russia hacks TeamViewer

PLUS: Indonesia crippled by ransomware attack; Google yeets Entrust certificates; supply chain attack hits millions of sites.

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Claire Aird.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

Sponsored: Rad Security describes its concept of "verified runtime fingerprints"

Jimmy Mesta talks runtime fingerprints and Rad Security's new image catalog.

In this Risky Business News sponsor interview, Catalin Cimpanu talks with Jimmy Mesta, CTO and Co-Founder of Rad Security (formerly KSOC). Jimmy explains how Rad Security has replaced signature-based detections with a new concept the company calls “behavioral fingerprints” or “verified runtime fingerprints,” which can detect malicious activity in cloud environments using a wider set of indicators.

Risky Biz Soap Box: Why AI shouldn't really change your security controls

Material Security CEO Abhishek Agrawal on how the more things change, the more they stay the same...

This is a sponsored Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast.

Abhishek Agrawal is the CEO and co-founder of Material Security, an email security company that locks down cloud email archives. Attackers have been raiding mailspools since hacking has existed, and with those mailspools now in the cloud with services like o365 and Google Workspace, guess where the attackers are going?

Material built a product that helps you lock up your email data, to archive and redact sensitive information. The idea is to really just limit what an attacker can do with email data if they pop an account.

Abhishek joined me to talk about a few things, like how non phishing resistant MFA is basically dead, how email content is very useful to security programs, and about how the gen AI won’t really change much on the defensive control side.

Srsly Risky Biz: Why the Optus breach was dumb

PLUS: Calling time on Kaspersky

In this podcast Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about how Optus’s 2022 data breach went down and how the company had been vulnerable for years.

They also look at the US government’s ban on Kaspersky products, why it makes sense and why the ban took a long time to arrive.

Risky Business #754 -- Assange pleads guilty to espionage, walks free

PLUS: Why we think CDK Global is paying a ransom…

On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:

  • Julian Assange finally cuts a deal, pleads guilty, and goes free
  • USA to ban Kaspersky - even updates
  • Car dealer SaaS provider CDK contemplates paying a ransom
  • Intolerable healthcare ransomware attacks continue
  • We revisit Windows proximity bugs via wifi and bluetooth
  • And much, much more.

This week’s episode is sponsored by enterprise browser maker Island. Crowdstrike co-founder Dmitri Alperovitch is an investor in Island, and joins on its behalf to discuss why an enterprise browser is really starting to make sense.

Risky Business #753 – Congress and vuln researchers maul Microsoft

PLUS: What we got wrong with Apple and iCloud...

On this week’s retreat special, the entire Risky Business team is together in a tropical paradise for the first time. The team takes a break from the infinity pool to discuss the week’s security news:

  • Microsoft recalls Recall, but why did it have to be such a mess
  • And a Windows kernel wifi code-exec, really?
  • Passkeys and identity are hard
  • Scattered Spider bigwig arrested in Spain
  • The pentagon runs a deeply flawed info-op
  • Is it time E2E crypto nerds accept their place in the world?
  • And much, much more.

This week’s show is brought to you by Corelight… Corelight’s CEO Brian Dye will be along in this week’s sponsor interview to make a really compelling case for something that shouldn’t exist… which is NDR in cloud environments.

Risky Biz News: Russia wants its own CISA

PLUS: Google patches Pixel zero-day; Black Basta ransomware gang had a private Windows zero-day for three months; Ukraine arrests bot farm operators linked to smishing attacks on its soldiers.

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Claire Aird.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

Srsly Risky Biz: China's superstar hackers

PLUS: Why the JCDC should be put out to pasture

In this podcast Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about a new report that explores how China’s vulnerability discovery and research ecosystem is linked to state sponsored espionage. This research finds that a relatively small number of people are responsible for an outsize contribution to vulnerability discovery.

They also talk about difficulties at CISA’s Joint Cyber Defence Collaborative initiative and why it should be retired.

Risky Business #752 -- Apple announcements thrill and terrify at the same time

PLUS: Ex-NSA boffin Rob Joyce joins for the news

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau are joined by long-time NSA boffin Rob Joyce. Now Rob’s left the government service, he’s hobnobbing with us pundits, talking through the week’s news:

  • Apple announces a big leap for confidential cloud computing into the mass market
  • While at the same time, letting you just mosey around your iPhone from your Mac
  • Mandiant reports in about the Snowflake breach
  • Moody’s say credit ratings might consider cyber incidents
  • Microsoft fixes an Azure flaw with a… “comprehensive documentation update”
  • And much, much more.

This week’s show is sponsored by Yubico, maker of the Yubikey hardware authentication token. Jerrod Chong, Yubico’s COO and President joins to talk about the challenges of the passkey and hardware authenticator ecosystem.

Risky Biz News: Apple launches private cloud for AI workloads

PLUS: Ransomware gang goes after PHP servers; Chinese hackers breached 20k Fortinet devices; White House launches cybersecurity support for rural hospitals.

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Claire Aird.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

Between Two Nerds: The cyber Rorschach test

Lessons from Russia's cyber war

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about how the use of cyber operations in Ukraine is informative but information is incomplete. Rather than clarifying the role of cyber operations in conventional warfare there is still a lot of room for confirmation bias.

Risky Biz News: Microsoft relents on Windows 11 Recall

PLUS: Apple to add a password manager; DJI to disable flight data syncing for US drones; another stalkerware app gets hacked.

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Claire Aird.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

Sponsored: Panther on how the market is moving towards detection engineers

How Panther excels at spotting initial account compromise.

In this Risky Business News sponsor interview, Catalin Cimpanu talks with Panther Senior Engineering Manager Nicholas Hakmiller on how the IT market is adapting to the cybersecurity skill shortage by training regular software talent in detection engineering, how AI is not there yet, and how Panther excels at spotting initial account compromise.

Risky Biz News: Interpol plugs Red Notices leak

PLUS: Kaspersky says Apple didn't pay a bounty for Triangulation report; Medibank faces monumental fine; CISA gets the green light to enrich CVEs

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Claire Aird.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

Srsly Risky Biz: Russian attacks on Europe double

Does disinformation come from a position of strength or weakness?

In this podcast Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about Russia’s escalating actions in Europe in the lead up to elections and the Paris Olympics. They combine disruptive cyber elements, disinformation and real-world covert action.


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