Decipher Security Podcast

In this week's Source Code podcast, Decipher looks at a novice, sophisticated malware loader and a new tactic being used by the BlackCat ransomware to speed up its encryption process.

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Don Smith of the Secureworks CTU joins Dennis Fisher to discuss the effects of the Conti leaks, the ransomware landscape, and how law enforcement and researchers are countering attackers' ploys. 

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Topping this week's Source Code podcast, Lenovo released security updates addressing vulnerabilities related to Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware drivers in its products. Also, the U.S. government warned of recent Lazarus APT campaigns  and the BlackCat ransomware-as-a-service. Finally, Decipher this week talked to Justine Bone, CEO of MedSec, about the challenges of securing medical devices.

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Justine Bone, CEO of MedSec, discusses the security threats that hospitals and healthcare providers face, and the challenges of securing medical devices. 

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Martin Roesch, CEO of Netography and creator of Snort and former CEO of Sourcefire, joins Dennis Fisher to talk about why he decided to come out of retirement and what the big challenges are for security right now.

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Welcome back to Source Code, Decipher’s weekly news podcast with input from our sources. In this week’s podcast, a Ukrainian man was sentenced to five years in jail this week for his work with the financially motivated FIN7 cybercrime group, which researchers with Mandiant in an analysis revealed continues to evolve its tactics for initial access, first-stage malware delivery and more. Also this week, Meta announced it disrupted two separate cyberespionage groups from Iran that were using a variety of tactics on its platforms to target academics, activists, journalists and other victims. 

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Tazin Khan, founder of Cyber Collective, joins Dennis Fisher to talk about the ethos behind the group's work and the challenges of educating people about the safest ways to use technology.

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Topping the news in this week's Source Code podcast were several security warnings and alerts from the U.S. government, including a phishing attack that targeted U.S. election officials, and attacks on UPS devices. Also this week, researchers warned of an IcedID malware attack leveraging compromised Microsoft Exchange servers to send phishing emails.

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Caitlin Condon, vulnerability research manager at Rapid7, talks about the rise of “widespread threats,” how the time to exploitation by attackers has shifted, and what that means for security teams.

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Welcome back to Source Code, Decipher’s weekly news podcast with input from our sources. In this week’s podcast, security experts discuss Lapsus$, a group that made big claims this week that it hacked both Okta and Microsoft. Both Okta and Microsoft confirmed the hacks.

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