Risky Biz News: Hackers hit Iranian steel industry

PLUS: FSB officer detained for stealing crypto from a hacker, and Russia tried to hack Ukraine's TV channels.

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

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

Risky Business #669 -- Finally, an ICS attack that made stuff explode!

Shabbat shalom, motherf---ers!

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

  • Activists who are totally not Israeli military hackers make Iranian steel mills firebally
  • Chinese APT crews use ransomware to muddy attribution
  • Attackers are now ransoming cloud access
  • Chinese APTs using building control systems for persistence and stealth
  • USA, UK and NZ govts issue PowerShell advice
  • Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by Material Security. JJ Agha, CISO at Compass, joins the show to talk about how he’s using it to make phishing triage and automation less traumatic.

Risky Business #668 -- Microsoft is hiding its Azure security problems

PLUS: Paige Thompson guilty of Capital One hack...

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

  • Paige Thompson guilty of Capital One hack
  • Microsoft is hiding serious Azure security issues
  • New Australian government lobbying for Julian Assange
  • How to ransomware documents in the cloud
  • Microsoft stops Windows 10/11 downloads in Russia
  • Belarusian cyber partisans obtain spy agency’s audio recordings
  • Much, much more

This week’s edition of the show is brought to you by Gigamon. Josh Day, Gigamon’s Director of applied threat research team, will be along in this week’s sponsor interview to talk about detecting badness on your network in encrypted traffic.

Risky Business #667 -- "Shields Up" for cyber's forever war

PLUS: A detailed discussion on the BPFdoor Linux malware…

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

  • “Shields Up” advice is now provably meaningless
  • Russia to ditch offshore comms apps like WhatsApp
  • Evil Corp’s Lockbit sanctions evasion attempt backfires
  • Binance is a cesspit of shady financial dealings
  • Apple’s passkey release foreshadows FIDO mass adoption
  • Much, much more

This week’s sponsor interview is about Elastic’s teardown on some really interesting APT linux malware called BPFdoor. Jake King and Colson Wilhoit joined the show for that interview.

Risky Biz News: BPF malware is now a thing

PLUS: Russia to block calls from spoofed numbers; macOS to block unknown USB-C devices; and a new Tesla car hack.

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

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

Risky Biz News: LockBit-Mandiant drama, explained

PLUS: New iOS security features announced at WWDC and US warns of Chinese hackers targeting telcos.

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

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.


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