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Windows 10 reaches End-of-Life, CISA cyber personnel avoided last week’s layoffs, the US seizes $15 billion dollars from a cyber-scam-compound operator, and a Secure Boot bypass impacts 200,000 Framework computers.

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about how different cybercriminal groups are after insiders to provide network access.

This episode is available on Youtube.

Microsoft revamps Edge-IE-Mode after zero-day attacks, the FBI seizes the extortion site targeting Salesforce, a new round of layoffs hits CISA, and Apple doubles its bug bounty rewards.

In this Risky Business sponsored interview, Tom Uren talks to Damien Lewke, CEO and founder of Nebulock about countering adversary use of AI… with AI. They talk about how threat actors are rapidly adopting AI and what defenders should be doing in response.

The EU scraps its upcoming vote on Chat Control, Ukraine establishes a Cyber Force, CISA workers are reassigned to immigration enforcement, and two teens are arrested over the UK nursery hacks.

Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about the Clop ransomware gang. It is interesting because the group has arrived at a strategy that rinses a whole lot of enterprises at once and comes with a decent pay day, But it’s actually the least damaging kind of ransomware. Tom wonders why can’t more gangs be like Clop?

They also discuss the US government having second thoughts about ignoring foreign influence operations. Its adversaries run them all the time, so perhaps just sticking its head in the sand isn’t the best strategy.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Redis patches a remote code execution vulnerability, Oracle out-of-band-fixes a zero-day used in a recent extortion campaign, Medusa ransomware group was behind a recent Fortra zero-day, and India fixes a tax filing system flaw;

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about the 0day mass exploitation of SharePoint and Exchange. This type of widespread hacking appears to be increasingly common… but is it?

This episode is also available on YouTube.

Microsoft tells users to uninstall games affected by a Unity bug, Discord discloses a data breach, Google rolls out end-to-end encryption for Gmail, and Apple and Google block an ICE tracking app.

In this Risky Business News sponsor interview, Catalin Cimpanu talks with Ashish Malpani, Head of Product Marketing at Corelight. The discussion looks at how NDRs might evolve, such as expanding to protect inter-cloud networks and complementing EDRs.