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The five most recent listings on the leak site of the CL0P ransomware group have two things in common. One, and most obviously, they are being extorted. And two, they’ve deployed Accellion file transfer appliances to send large files in their recent past.

Recent attacks by SVR against US targets have mostly been written up under the moniker of the “SolarWinds campaign”. In our view, that’s inaccurate. The defining characteristic of this campaign wasn’t the SolarWinds supply chain stuff, it was the abuse of Microsoft cloud services.

My understanding of how contemporary cloud services work isn’t actually as good as it should be. And that got me thinking – if my understanding isn’t that great, then there’s probably a lot of other people out there who don’t quite grok this stuff, particularly on the policy side. So, I set out to prepare a primer on Microsoft cloud security.

Our guest in this podcast is Dirk-Jan Mollema. He works at Fox-IT in the Netherlands and is one of their core researchers on Azure AD and Active Directory Security. What you’re about to listen to, essentially, is me picking his brain so I can wrap my own head around this stuff. The hope is that some of you will learn along with me!

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

• The latest on the attempted Florida water poisoning incident
• How to abuse Google Sync services for great victory
• Why Signal’s TLS proxies for Iranians are probably a bad idea
• OG username brokers targeted by social media legal army
• Much, much more

This week’s sponsor interview is with Dan Guido of Trail of Bits. They’ve released an enterprise version of their iVerify tool. It’s a security tool for iOS (an Android version is in beta) that lets organisations monitor things like patch levels and passcode compliance without actually requiring the installation of MDM profiles. It’s an enterprise mobile security tool for orgs that don’t need or want full MDM.

Somebody used a simple remote access tool to pump up the supply of chemicals into the water supply to a small town in Florida. Was it Florida Man or Iranian APT? Either is possible, but one would be a curiosity, the other an international incident.

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

• Emotet is… gone?
• Accellion FTAs were owned everywhere, not just in ANZ
• US courts air-gap sensitive filings in wake of Holiday Bear attacks
• iOS 14 brings iMessage security improvements
• Much, much more

Proofpoint’s Sherrod DeGrippo is this week’s sponsor guest. She joins the show to talk about Emotet’s demise, Trickbot’s survival, BEC, ransomware and more.

These Soap Box editions of the show are wholly sponsored, which means everyone you hear in one of these editions, paid to be here.

This edition of the show is brought to you by Material Security. Basically what they do is lock up your cloud-based email. They use Google and Microsoft’s APIs to redact sensitive information from your mail spool – or even redact entire messages from your spool, like, say, anything over a month old – and then kick you up to an auth challenge when you want to access that mail.

It’s a product that recognises that email isn’t just a vector – often it’s an attacker’s target.

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

• DPRK offers free 0day to researchers, with a pretty significant catch
• SonicWall gets owned because it runs SonicWall gear. Big mistake.
• Chinese trains didn’t stop running because Flash died :(
• Dominion to sue Rudy Giuliani for $1.3bn over insecurity claims
• The sudo bug. Lol.

This week’s show is brought to you by Cmd Security, the Linux security company. Its focus has traditionally been on restricting the type of bash commands users can enter. It’s like a control plane for Linux systems. But some of its customers manage their Linux endpoints through different, non-bash entry points. So they’ve added some features to their product to deal with that, which has also resulted in them having an IDR capability. It’s all pretty sensible stuff though, and Cmd co-founder and CEO Jake King will be along to talk us through all of that.

On this week’s show Dmitri Alperovitch, Sherrod DeGrippo and Joe Slowik join host Patrick Gray to talk through the week’s news:

• MalwareBytes the latest victim in the increasingly poorly-named “SolarWinds campaign”
• FireEye issues helpful guidance, tools, to help orgs detect “golden SAML” and related techniques
• Rob Joyce, Anne Neuberger, Michael Sulmeyer all get promoted! Wooo!
• Much, much more

Joe Slowik and Katie Nickels are guest co-hosts in this week’s edition of the show. They join Patrick Gray to talk about:

• Mimecast having some stolen certificate, errr, “problems”
• The confusing reports about JetBrains
• Analysis of the malware used in the SolarWinds campaign
• Australian man arrested in Germany and charged with running DarkMarket
• The Great Deplatforming of 2021

These Soap Box editions of the show are wholly sponsored. If that’s not your thing and you’re looking for the weekly news edition of the show, just scroll one show back in your feed.

This soap box edition is brought to you by AttackIQ. They make a Breach and Attack Simulation platform that’s designed to test the effectiveness of your security controls by simulating bad things in your environment.

Carl Wright and Jonathan Reiber are joining us in this edition of the show. These days he’s AttackIQ’s senior director of cybersecurity and strategy but he previously served as a former Chief Strategy Officer for Cyber Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

They joined the show to talk through their work in mapping NIST 800-53 to the MITRE ATT&CK framework. Enjoy!