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Risky Biz News: US charges, sanctions WazaWaka

Presented by

Catalin Cimpanu
Catalin Cimpanu

News Editor

Claire Aird
Claire Aird

Newsreader

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.

Risky Biz News: US charges, sanctions WazaWaka
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Risky Business #706 -- Why BlackBerry thinks Cuba ransomware is a Russian front

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

Adam Boileau
Adam Boileau

Technology Editor

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They cover:

  • Wazawaka charged, sanctioned
  • PlugwalkJoe extradited, pleads guilty
  • BlackBerry thinks Cuba ransomware is a front for Russian intelligence
  • Anonymous Sudan pops up in Israel
  • Microsoft’s Outlook patch fail
  • Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by Bloodhound Enterprise. Andy Robbins is this week’s sponsor guest. He talks about how graph theory could help us to uncover more lolbins.

Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Mastodon if that’s your thing.

Risky Business #706 -- Why BlackBerry thinks Cuba ransomware is a Russian front
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Between Two Nerds: The Culture of the Snake

Presented by

Tom Uren
Tom Uren

Policy & Intelligence

The Grugq
The Grugq

Independent Security Researcher

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq look at last week’s Snake malware joint cybersecurity advisory and dive into what it tells us about the FSB.

Between Two Nerds: The Culture of the Snake
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Selena Larson on how cybercriminals use threat intelligence

Presented by

Tom Uren
Tom Uren

Policy & Intelligence

In this Risky Business News sponsor interview Tom Uren asks Proofpoint’s Selena Larson about how threat actors reacted en masse after Microsoft blocked various types of macros.

Cyber criminals used a variety of different techniques to evade these blocks. In part this happened quickly because of knowledge sharing by the cyber threat intelligence community.

Selena Larson on how cybercriminals use threat intelligence
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Risky Biz News: The VMProtect source code leaks. Again.

Presented by

Catalin Cimpanu
Catalin Cimpanu

News Editor

Claire Aird
Claire Aird

Newsreader

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Claire Aird.

Risky Biz News: The VMProtect source code leaks. Again.
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Risky Biz News: Gmail to warn users on dark web password exposures

Presented by

Catalin Cimpanu
Catalin Cimpanu

News Editor

Claire Aird
Claire Aird

Newsreader

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.

Risky Biz News: Gmail to warn users on dark web password exposures
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Risky Biz News: FBI takes down Turla's Snake malware

Presented by

Catalin Cimpanu
Catalin Cimpanu

News Editor

Claire Aird
Claire Aird

Newsreader

Risky Biz News: FBI takes down Turla's Snake malware
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Risky Business #705 -- USA's Turla takedown marks a shift in tactics

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

Adam Boileau
Adam Boileau

Technology Editor

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They cover:

  • Joe Sullivan’s sentencing
  • MSI key material leak
  • Merck to be paid in NotPetya claim
  • The FBI takes down Turla’s Snake malware operation
  • Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by Gigamon. Chaim Mazal, Gigamon’s CSO, is this week’s sponsor guest. He’s talking about how the company’s gear is acting as a data source for network security products.

Risky Business #705 -- USA's Turla takedown marks a shift in tactics
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Between Two Nerds: Why cyber insurance is great in theory but not in practice

Presented by

Tom Uren
Tom Uren

Policy & Intelligence

The Grugq
The Grugq

Independent Security Researcher

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq look at how cyber insurance should theoretically improve security and examine what actually happens in practice.

Between Two Nerds: Why cyber insurance is great in theory but not in practice
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Risky Biz News: DEFCON attendees will target AI models

Presented by

Catalin Cimpanu
Catalin Cimpanu

News Editor

Claire Aird
Claire Aird

Newsreader

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.

Risky Biz News: DEFCON attendees will target AI models
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