Podcasts

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

• Anthropic says a Chinese APT orchestrated attacks using its AI
• It’s a day ending in -y, so of course there are shamefully bad Fortinet exploits in the wild
• Turns out slashing CISA was a bad idea, now it’s time for a hiring spree
• Researchers brute force entire phone number space against Whatsapp contact discovery API
• DOJ figures out how to make SpaceX turn off scam compounds’ Starlink service

This week’s episode is sponsored by Mastercard. Senior Vice President of Mastercard Cybersecurity Urooj Burney joins to talk about how the roles of fraud and cyber teams in the financial sector are starting to converge. Mastercard also recently acquired Recorded Future, and Urooj talks about how they aim to integrate cyber threat intelligence into the financial world.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about the strategic “logic” of Russian wiper attacks on the Ukrainian grain sector.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Europol takes down servers behind three malware operations, the US sanctions another Burmese military group linked to scam compounds, Google backs down from mandatory Android developer registration, and Checkout-dot-com donates its ransom to cybercrime researchers instead of paying hackers.

Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about a new Reuters’ report that reveals how Meta is knowingly raking in cash from scam advertisements. It’s around $16 billion worth, and in documents Meta calculates that it outweighs the costs of possible regulatory action.

They also discuss recent state-backed supply chain attacks that have, so far, remained targeted and responsible. Finally they look at the UK’s decision to stop sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug boats in the Caribbean.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

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

• The KK Park scam compound in Myanmar gets blasted with actual dynamite
• China sentences more scammers TO DEATH
• While Singapore is opting to lash them with the cane
• Chinese security firm KnownSec leaks a bunch of documents
• Necromancy continues on NSO Group, with a Trump associate in charge
• OWASP freshens up the Top 10, you won’t believe what’s number three!

This week’s episode is sponsored by Thinkst Canary. Big bird Haroon Meer joins and, as usual, makes a good point. If you’re going to trust a vendor to do something risky like put a box on your network, they have an obligation to explain how they make that safe. Thinkst has a /security page that does exactly that. So why do we let Palo Alto and Fortinet get away with “trust me, bro”?

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Internal data leaks from another Chinese security firm, a US Congressional Budget Office breach has not been contained, the Cyber infosharing act likely to be extended until January, and we have a new OWASP Top 10.

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss how cyber criminals and even state actors are being dumb about using AI.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Myanmar starts demolishing the KK Park scam compound, the US Congressional Budget Office gets hacked by a foreign APT, Chrome will remove risky X-S-L-T support, and scammers in Singapore will get the cane.

In this sponsored interview Casey Ellis chats to Toni de la Fuente, founder and CEO of Prowler, an open source platform for cloud security. They chat about how and why Prowler selectively applies AI to ensure it adds value rather than just because they can.

Payment service provider executives arrested over a credit card fraud ring, Meta makes a fortune showing scam ads, South Korean telco KT tried to hide a second breach and five more scammers are sentenced to death in China.