Podcasts

The Kaleidoscope ad fraud network infects 2.5 million devices a month, Germany seizes the eXch crypto-mixing service, the US takes down the Anyproxy botnet, and Chrome will use on-device AI to detect tech support scams.

In this Risky Bulletin sponsor interview James Pope, Director of Technical Enablement, talks to Tom Uren about his experience running networks and security centres at Black Hat conferences around the world. Pope talks about the challenges of running a SOC at a hacker conference, how conference networks around the world have a different character and talks about all the weird and wonderful security snafus he has found.

France says Russia’s influence operations are achieving results, Crowdstrike lays off 5% of its staff, a hacker dumps LockBit’s ransomware database, and a ransomware attack slows production at a major US medical device maker.

In this edition of the Wide World of Cyber podcast Patrick Gray talks to SentinelOne’s Steve Stone and Alex Stamos about how foreign adversaries are targeting security vendors, including them.

From North Korean IT workers to Chinese supply chain attacks, SentinelOne and its competitors are constantly fending off sophisticated hacking campaigns.

This edition of the Wide World of Cyber was recorded in front of a live audience in San Francisco, with Patrick attending via Zoom.

The Wide World of Cyber podcast series is a wholly sponsored co-production between SentinelOne and Risky Business Media.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about how the US is planning to take the gloves off in cyberspace and conduct much more aggressive offensive cyber operations. US responses to cyber espionage have not been very aggressive to date, but Tom is not convinced that cyber punches are required, so much as blows that really hurt.

The pair also discuss TeleMessage, the Signal clone the Trump cabinet has been using. The app managed to sidestep certification and assessment processes and ended up being used by various agencies in the US government. And the White House. It’s a mystery how this happened.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

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

• White House’s off-brand Israeli Signal fork logs cleartext messages with hard coded creds while getting hacked (twice). Just … Wow.
• Ransomware attacks on UK retailers are linked, and Marks & Spencer has it extra bad
• After six years dormant, a Magento eCommerce platform backdoor comes to life
• The North Korean IT worker scam is truly webscale
• NSO group owes Meta $168m for hacking WhatsApp

This week’s episode is sponsored by vulnerability management wranglers, Nucleus Security. Aaron Unterberger joins to talk through the complexities of tracking vulnerabilities in cloud components - left to the source, right to the deployments, and …sideways into the sidecars?

This week’s show also features an excerpt from Pat’s interview with Senator Mark Warner - Scoot back one in your podcast feed to check out the full chat, or find it on Youtube.

This episode is available on Youtube too.

NSO Group ordered to pay Meta $167 million dollars, the White House tells N-S-A to cut 8% of its civilian staff, the US sanctions a Myanmar militia group leader for cyber scams, and one of the Nomad Bridge hackers gets arrested in Israel.

In this extended interview the Vice Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senator Mark Warner, joins Risky Business host Patrick Gray to talk about:

• The latest developments in the Signalgate scandal
• Why America needs to be more aggressive in responding to Volt Typhoon
• How tariffs are affecting American alliances
• Why the Five Eyes alliance is sacrosanct

This episode is available on Youtube

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about an in-depth report on a Ukrainian hacking control panel. The panel shows how the Ukrainian group thinks about hacking operations and the pair discuss why the report exists and what it achieves.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

The Trump admin’s Signal clone gets hacked, a six-year-old backdoor comes to life to hijack online stores, a Phishing kingpin identified as a 24-year-old Chinese man, and Ireland fines TikTok for transferring EU user data to China.