Risky Business News Podcast

Analysis and news podcasts published weekly

Risky Biz News: Is ransomware going after the Global South? Sure looks like it!

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 and presented by Catalin Cimpanu.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

Risky Biz News: Is ransomware going after the Global South? Sure looks like it!
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Between Two Nerds: Why some APT crews don't care about OPSEC

Presented by

Tom Uren
Tom Uren

Policy & Intelligence

The Grugq
The Grugq

Independent Security Researcher

In this podcast, Seriously Risky Business newsletter author Tom Uren and espionage connoisseur The Grugq discuss why some APT crews have zero interest in maintaining secrecy in their operations.

Between Two Nerds: Why some APT crews don't care about OPSEC
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Risky Biz News: FIRST releases TLP v2.0

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 and presented by Catalin Cimpanu.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

Risky Biz News: FIRST releases TLP v2.0
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Srsly Risky Biz #6 -- On Spyware, More Sanctions Please

Presented by

Tom Uren
Tom Uren

Policy & Intelligence

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

This podcast is a discussion between Patrick Gray and Tom Uren on the big stories affecting people in cyber policy.

It’s based on the latest Seriously Risky Business newsletter, which you can find here.

Srsly Risky Biz #6 -- On Spyware, More Sanctions Please
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Risky Biz News: Would a tax relief for SMBs improve cybersecurity postures and ransomware defenses?

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 and presented by Catalin Cimpanu.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

Risky Biz News: Would a tax relief for SMBs improve cybersecurity postures and ransomware defenses?
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Risky Biz News: Confluence servers under attack due to hardcoded password

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 and presented by Catalin Cimpanu.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

Risky Biz News: Confluence servers under attack due to hardcoded password
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Srsly Risky Biz #5 -- US DNI will monitor the commercial spyware industry

Presented by

Tom Uren
Tom Uren

Policy & Intelligence

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

This podcast is a discussion between Patrick Gray and Tom Uren on the big stories affecting people in cyber policy.

It’s based on the latest Seriously Risky Business newsletter, which you can find here.

Srsly Risky Biz #5 -- US DNI will monitor the commercial spyware industry
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Risky Biz News: Microsoft puts the limelight on another spyware maker—DSIRF from Austria

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 and presented by Catalin Cimpanu.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

Risky Biz News: Microsoft puts the limelight on another spyware maker—DSIRF from Austria
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Risky Biz News: Microsoft mitigates PPL exploit after four years

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 and presented by Catalin Cimpanu.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

Risky Biz News: Microsoft mitigates PPL exploit after four years
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RBTALKS2: How the Belarusian Cyber Partisans learned from real spies

Presented by

Catalin Cimpanu
Catalin Cimpanu

News Editor

Claire Aird
Claire Aird

Newsreader

Catalin Cimpanu will be back later this week with more Risky Business News podcasts, but until then we’ve got this great feature interview for you.

In this podcast interview Seriously Risky Business newsletter writer Tom Uren talks to The Grugq about the Belarusian Cyber Partisans. The group first emerged in 2019 to zero fanfare when its early campaigns fell flat. But its tactics have improved and these days it’s giving the Belarusian government some serious headaches.

They’ve disrupted railways, infiltrated intelligence agencies and stolen massive government databases and troves of Belarusian audio intercepts including Interior Ministry intercepts from foreign embassies in Belarus. But how did they evolve into an effective group?

We think it’s because they’ve independently reinvented how professional intelligence agencies do business. We talk about the Cyber Partisans and the intelligence cycle, which encompasses planning, collection, processing and exploitation, analysis and dissemination.

Grugq and Tom discuss the Cyber Partisans in relation to the intelligence cycle and how the group is not only doing collection and exploitation but has more recently invested in analysis and dissemination, turning raw intelligence into something that will have impact.

RBTALKS2: How the Belarusian Cyber Partisans learned from real spies
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