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April 02, 2025
Risky Business Weekly (786): Oracle is lying
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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news:
- Yes, Oracle Health and Oracle Cloud did get hacked
- The fallout from Signalgate continues
- North Korean IT workers pivot to Europe
- Honeypot data suggests a storm is brewing for Palo Alto VPNs
- Canadian Anon gets arrested for hacking Texas GOP
This week’s episode is sponsored by Trail of Bits. Tjaden Hess, a Principal Security Engineer at Trail of Bits who specialises in cryptography, joins the show this week to talk about what a responsible crypto-currency exchange cold wallet setup looks like, and … contrasts that with Bybit.
Show notes:
Oracle Health breach compromises patient data at US hospitals https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/oracle-health-breach-compromises-patient-data-at-us-hospitals/
FBI probes Oracle hack tied to healthcare extortion: Report - Becker’s Hospital Review | Healthcare News & Analysis https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/cybersecurity/fbi-probes-oracle-hack-tied-to-healthcare-extortion-report/
Oracle Still Denies Breach as Researchers Persist https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/oracle-still-denies-breach-researchers-persist
Hacker linked to Oracle Cloud intrusion threatens to sell stolen data | Cybersecurity Dive https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/hacker-linked-to-oracle-cloud-intrusion-threatens-to-sell-stolen-data/743981/
SIGNAL SCANDAL: Katherine Maher, the leftist NPR CEO, is currently the Chair of the Board of Signal! WHAT ARE THE ODDS? https://t.co/jWNTeAt3Jz” / X https://x.com/OcrazioCornPop/status/1905233167272779893
Mike Waltz Is Losing Support Inside the White House - WSJ https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/mike-waltz-is-losing-support-inside-the-white-house-2b17459c
Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, officials say - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/04/01/waltz-national-security-council-signal-gmail/
Pete Hegseth, Mike Waltz, Tulsi Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online - DER SPIEGEL https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/pete-hegseth-mike-waltz-tulsi-gabbard-private-data-and-passwords-of-senior-u-s-security-officials-found-online-a-14221f90-e5c2-48e5-bc63-10b705521fb7?
Even More Venmo Accounts Tied to Trump Officials in Signal Group Chat Left Data Public | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/even-more-venmo-accounts-tied-to-trump-officials-in-signal-group-chat-left-data-public/
You Need to Use Signal’s Nickname Feature https://www.404media.co/you-need-to-use-signals-nickname-feature/
SignalGate Is Driving the Most US Downloads of Signal Ever | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/signalgate-is-driving-the-most-us-downloads-of-signal-ever/
Wickr - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickr
When Getting Phished Puts You in Mortal Danger – Krebs on Security https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/03/when-getting-phished-puts-you-in-mortal-danger/
DPRK IT Workers Expanding in Scope and Scale | Google Cloud Blog https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/dprk-it-workers-expanding-scope-scale/
How the FBI Tracked, and Froze, Millions Sent to Criminals in Massive Caesars Casino Hack https://www.404media.co/how-the-fbi-tracked-and-froze-millions-sent-to-criminals-in-massive-caesars-casino-hack/
Defense contractor to pay $4.6 million over third-party provider’s security weakness | The Record from Recorded Future News https://therecord.media/defense-contractor-to-pay-millions-over-cyber-practices
Surge in Palo Alto Networks Scanner Activity Indicates Possible Upcoming Threats https://www.greynoise.io/blog/surge-palo-alto-networks-scanner-activity
CISA warns new malware targeting Ivanti zero-day vulnerability | Cybersecurity Dive https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-warns-malware-targeting-ivanti-zero-day/743967/
Canadian hacker arrested for allegedly stealing data from Texas Republican Party | The Record from Recorded Future News https://therecord.media/canadian-hacker-arrested-texas-gop
British intel intern pleads guilty to smuggling top secret data out of protected facility | The Record from Recorded Future News https://therecord.media/british-intern-gchq-charged-smuggling