This Week in InfoSec (11:37)

With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield

23rd February 2005: The discovery of the first mobile phone virus, Cabir, is accounced. Specifically, Cabir is a worm which infects phones running the Symbian OS. Whenever an infected phone is activated, the message “Caribe” is displayed. Infected phones also attempts to spread the virus through Bluetooth signals.

Billy Big Balls (21:51)

https://nypost.com/2022/02/24/ukrainian-women-say-russian-troops-are-flirting-with-them-on-tinder/

From Russia with lust.

Russian soldiers poised to invade Ukraine have bombarded women on the other side of the border with Tinder messages Tuesday, according to the Sun.

Dasha Synelnikova’s app lit up with matches from soldiers named Andrei, Alexander, Gregory, Michail and “Black” some 20 miles away, the report said.

“I actually live in Kyiv but changed my location settings to Kharkiv after a friend told me there were Russian troops all over Tinder,” Synelnikova, a 33-year-old video producer, told the outlet.

Many would-be paramours reportedly flirted with treachery as they gave away their military positions while forces assembled north of Kharkiv prepared for what appeared to be an imminent attack, according to Ukrainian military intelligence officials.

“One muscular guy posed up trying to look sexy in bed posing with his pistol. Another was in full Russian combat gear and others just showed off in tight stripy vests,” Synelnikova told the British paper.

Rant of the Week (28:57)

A War in Europe Is Being Documented One Social Media Post at a Time

The rest of the world watches Russia's invasion into Ukraine through the lens of Twitter and Tiktok.

Industry News (35:28)

Banking World Rocked After Leak Exposes 18,000 Credit Suisse Accounts

Teen Framed for Cybercrime Files Lawsuit

US Receives Ransomware Warning

EU Deploys Cyber Response Unit to Ukraine

Ofcom Set to Crack Down on Phone Fraud

Vishing Makes Phishing Campaigns Three-Times More Successful

Nonprofits Form Cyber Coalition

WMATA Twitter Account Hacked

Ukraine Attacked with ‘Wiper’ Malware

Tweet of the Week  (44:10)

https://twitter.com/dcuthbert/status/1496935547171835911

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