Bite Sized Cyber Crime

Bite Sized Cyber Crime

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Bite Sized Cyber Crime episodes

  • UK To Ban Public Sector from Paying Ransomware

    The UK recently proposed the banning of public sector organizations from paying ransomware ransoms, in an effort to discourage cybercriminals from targeting them. How may this end up working out though?

    Sources: https://pastebin.com/37jGGd9X

    8 min
  • CISA Opens Thorium Tool to Public

    CISA has developed many interesting and powerful tools over the year for cybersecurity, but recently they made one of malware analysis and automation open source and available for the public to use. Thorium. Let's talk about what this tool can do.

    Sources: https://pastebin.com/zhmAvguE

    7 min
  • Inside a North Korean Laptop Farm Scheme

    An Arizona woman was arrested for running a North Korean IT worker laptop farm out of her home, and this gave us a little look into the strange world of how these threat actors are able to infiltrate US organizations.

    Sources: https://pastebin.com/qvrWirYa

    6 min
  • New FIDO MFA Downgrade Attack Exploited

    FIDO is the passwordless authentication set of protocols of the future, however that doesn't mean it's perfect and as cyber defenders attack, so do attackers. This novel exploit isn't a flaw within FIDO exploit but does threaten improperly implemented versions of it.

    Sources: https://pastebin.com/fmUZEBAM

    7 min
  • PerfektBlue Vulnerabilities Impacts Vehicle Bluetooth

    With cars becoming just another type of computer, and having rather complicated implementations, vulnerabilities in one system are major. A recent series of vulnerabilities discovered in OpenSynergy's BlueSDK could prove dangerous.

    Sources: https://pastebin.com/5JHAyuAV

    7 min
  • Ransomware Negociator Received Payments from Ransomware Groups

    Ransomware negotiators may be called in to save some financial burden on organizations suffering from one of the worst cyberattacks they can. However, they seem like the natural people for ransomware groups to corrupt, and allegedly one such group did corrupt one such person.

     

    Sources: https://pastebin.com/fANnhtTj

    8 min
  • Brother Printers Affected by Unpatchable Critical Vulnerability

    Printers are the bane of many's existence, but they may have just gotten worse for security professionals. Rapid7 discovered 8 new vulnerabilities mostly impacting Brother branded printers, one of which cannot be patched by the vendor and leaks the admin password of the device.

    Sources: https://pastebin.com/vNDbrwsU

    7 min
  • Were 16 Billion Passwords Just Leaked?

    News has hit the mainstream media that all your passwords have been leaked yet again, in a massive password leak including Google, Meta, and Apple. But how much of that sensationalized story is true?

    Sources: https://pastebin.com/Xi1MPpFg

    8 min
  • I Got Scammed

    And it could happen to you too. On this week's episode of Bite Size Cyber Crime I detail an actual scam I fell for and emphasize that anyone can be a victim of a scam anywhere on the internet.

    8 min
  • Malwareception: SakuraRAT is a Backdoor to Trick Script Kiddies

    Malware is everywhere, even inside of other malware. One tool advertising itself as an advanced remote access trojan ended up being much more, a backdoor infecting novice hackers. This was not just a one off, however, and lead to the discovery of a massive backdoored malware campaign infecting other hackers and gaming cheaters.

    Sources: https://pastebin.com/C4DG6LTw

    7 min

About Bite Sized Cyber Crime

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A podcast with short episodes that discuss cyber crime cases, security problems, and infamous malware. I make my episodes quick and easy to understand so you get the story without the filler and too much technical jargon.