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

• The Salesloft breach and why OAuth soup is a problem
• The Salt Typhoon telco hackers turn out to be Chinese private sector, but state-directed
• Google says it will stand up a “disruption unit”
• Microsoft writes up a ransomware gang that’s all-in on the cloud future
• Aussie firm hot-mics its work-from-home employees’ laptops
• Youtube scam baiters help the feds take down a fraud ring

This episode is sponsored by Dropzone.AI. Founder and CEO Edward Wu joins the show to talk about how AI driven SOC tools can help smaller organisations claw their way above the “security poverty line”. A dedicated monitoring team, threat hunting and alert triage, in a company that only has a couple of part time infosec people? Yes please!

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Two YouTube channels help dismantle a Chinese scam operation, Cloudflare, Zscaler, and Palo Alto disclose Salesloft-related breaches, a ransomware attack disrupts vehicle production at Jaguar Land Rover, and we have a new record DDoS attack.

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about how cyber threat actors are using AI tools to fill in resource and skills gaps that they have.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

FEMA’s IT staff fired over an alleged breach, WhatsApp patches a zero-day, the Salesloft breach impacted more than just Salesforce, and a scammer steals $1.5 million dollars from the city of Baltimore.

In this sponsored interview Casey Ellis chats with Push Security co-founder Jacques Louw. Push’s browser plugin gives a unique level of visibility into how users interact with the web and the attacks they face. Jacques talks through what they’re seeing, and their recently published taxonomy of phishing attacks. It’s on Github for everyone to contribute to!

An npm supply chain attack uses AI to steal credentials and crypto-wallet keys, Google establishes a cyber disruption unit, a ransomware attack disrupts more than 200 Swedish municipalities, and Salt Typhoon hacks have now hit more than 80 countries.

Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about proposed legislation that would allow the President to license private sector hackers to go after cybercrime groups. The bill won’t pass, but letting hackers loose on industrial-scale scam farms actually makes sense.

They also talk about Microsoft’s blind spot regarding China. It has trusted China-based engineers with sensitive work, and is now only just realising that China’s security interests are not compatible with Microsoft’s.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

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

• Australia expels Iranian ambassador
• Hackers sabotage Iranian shipping satcoms
• APT hacker got doxxed in Phrack. Kind of. They’re probably Chinese, not DPRK?
• Trail of Bits uses image-downscaling to sneak prompts into Google Gemini
• The Com’s King Bob gets ten years in the slammer
• It’s a day that ends in -y, so of course there’s a new Citrix Netscaler RCE being used in the wild.

This week’s episode is brought to you by Corelight. Chief Strategy Officer Greg Bell talks through how they’ve been implementing AI for sifting through your network data. A model-context-protocol server that can rummage in all those packet logs for you while you keep investigating? Yes please.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

The FCC removes 1,200 voice providers from the US phone network, a cyberattack shuts down Nevada’s state government services; hackers breach Salesloft and pivot into Salesforce accounts, and Citrix patches yet another zero-day.

In this edition of Between Two Nerds, Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about how the teenage hacking groups Scattered Spider, Lapsus$ and Shiny Hunters are collaborating. They examine whether this is bad news and what will it take to slow these wrecking crews down. Plus, how teenage hackers are like goldfish.

This episode is also available on Youtube.