In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They talk about:

• LockBit has been taken down by law enforcement
• Some mega-juicy leaks out of Chinese offsec/APT contractor I-SOON
• GRU gets its Moobot network shutdown
• Signal adding usernames is… complicated
• Much, much more

In this week’s sponsor interview Devicie’s Tom Plant joins the show to talk about problems orgs run into when it comes to Windows policies. There’s an expectation out there that Windows policies are set and forget, but sadly, this is not so.

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq examine Russian cyber doctrine and how it was applied in the early days of its invasion of Ukraine. They mention this Human Rights Watch report which examined how international humanitarian law was applied in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

The need to properly secure Entra ID tenants has been made pretty obvious this year thanks to a large-scale attack on them by Russia’s SVR intelligence agency. In this interview Andy Robbins from SpecterOps, the maker of Bloodhound Enterprise, talks through how he thinks those attacks actually went down, about how if you’re an o365 customer you’re using Entra ID whether you like it or not, and about how you can lock down your Entra ID tenant.

In this Risky Business News sponsored interview, Tom Uren talks to Rob King, runZero’s Director of security research. The pair talk about the world of Operational Technology protocols and how Rob dissects these protocols to be sure that active discovery of OT devices is safe.

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 click here.

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 click here.

In this podcast Patrick Gray and Tom Uren talk about what to do about commercial spyware. A new Google TAG report is a great primer on the ecosystem.

They also talk about Ukraine’s shift in cyber strategy. It is now carrying out and publicising that it is launching destructive cyber operations.

Finally, they look at all the reasons why banning ransomware payments is a bad idea.

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 click here.

In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They talk about:

• Somehow there are still more Ivanti and Fortinet exploits
• Volt Typhoon have been at it for years
• Starlink in Ukraine gets complicated
• Canadians hate poor Flipper
• Much, much more…

In this week’s sponsor interview Feross Aboukhadijeh from Socket joins the show to talk about the sheer volume of malicious packages being committed to code repositories and why older SCA tools aren’t well equipped to deal with them.

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about why military doctrine in authoritarian states has an emphasis on cyber and information supremacy.

In this Soap Box interview Greynoise founder and absolute legend Andrew Morris joins the show to talk about:

• Why Greynoise hasn’t seen a substantial drop off in Volt Typhoon’s network of compromised routers after the US Government’s takedown action
• How vendors are using Greynoise as an early warning system to identify exploitation of their products
• How he’s using large language models to reverse exploitation attempts into actual exploits

It truly is a great conversation, we hope you enjoy it!

In this Risky Business News sponsored interview, Tom Uren talks to Proofpoint Senior Threat Researcher Greg Lesnewich. Greg explains how a North Korean group is using DMARC spoofing in its efforts to gather strategic intelligence.

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 click here.

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 click here.

In this podcast Adam Boileau and Tom Uren talk about how the US has kicked off a campaign to combat Volt Typhoon, a PRC group that is positioning itself in US critical infrastructure to be able to disrupt it in the event of conflict.

They also discuss how changing attacker behaviour has led to CISA’s emergency directive to disconnect Ivanti Connect Secure devices.

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 click here.

In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They talk about:

• Thought eels were slippery? Check out AnyDesk’s PR!
• Why Microsoft’s 365 is a nightmare to secure
• Cloudflare’s needlessly hostile blog post
• US Government introduces “Disneyland ban” for spyware peddlers
• Much, much more…

This week’s feature guest is Eric Goldstein, the executive assistant director for cybersecurity at CISA. He’s joining the show to talk about CISA’s demand that US government agencies unplug their Ivanti appliances. He also chimes in on why the US government is so rattled by Volt Typhoon and addresses a recent report from Politico that claims CISA’s Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative is a bit of a shambles.

This week’s sponsor guest is Dan Guido from Trail of Bits. He joins us to talk about their new Testing Handbook. Trail of Bits does a bunch of audit work and they’ve committed to trying to make bug discovery a one time thing – if you find that bug once, you shouldn’t have to manually find it on another client engagement. Semgrep for the win!

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about what up and coming countries should expect from a cyber command and whether they should invest in them.

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 click here.

In this Risky Business News sponsor interview Tom Uren talks to Haroon Meer of Thinkst Canary. They discuss how network attackers win, how their tactics have changed over time and what this means for network defenders.