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Welcome to the security box, podcast 185. We have several things in Erata that we'll read, one coming in just before I was supposed to leave although that trip got postponed. While that thing we'll read is a week old, its still valuable. We also put in the Facebook thing I saw prior which might get people to chuckle. Our topic today is one dealing with Russia, and another Wiper Malware. The article we take from is from CyberNews, and we also blogged the thing. We'll have news, notes and more.

While I still seem to be a week behind, I'm going to sites on my own to find things of value so I can try to keep up.

In my perusal of Mastodon, I found this, and thought it should be posted. Here are common vector attacks behind data breaches is the blog post, where Diva on Breaches takes us through 7 different items in her post.

This is also in our show notes and will be read out for those who listen but do not read the blog on a regular. Thanks Devanand for continuing to share the knowledge we can share. We recently read one of her recent posts in a prior podcast.

Knowledge is power!

Our blog post New Malware, AcidPour has a link to the Cybernews article. As usual, we'll take some of the paragraphs to aid in the discussion.If you just want the article without going to the blog, no problem. Russia unleashes dangerous new wiper is the article.

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Welcome to the Security Box, podcast 184. On this edition of the podcast, we're going to talk about PixPirate. Its an Android application known as a Trojan. It is hard to detect, and its hard to get rid of. Besides this, we'll cover the news, notes and and questions and answers that we may need to take care of.

This time, we're talking about a piece of malware known as a trojan. The article comes from Bleeping Computer and is titled PixPirate Android malware uses new tactic to hide on phones. If you want to read my pick apart on this, this is the blog post that'll let you do that. Its titled: PixPirate uses new tactic to hide on phone.

What do you think of the topic? Have you heard of it before?

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After a week off, we're back with another podcast. We hope you enjoy!

Hello everyone, welcome to the Security Box, podcast 183. On this program, we're going to catch you up on the landscape from the last couple of weeks. We've also got an update on what's going on with our favorite topic called Pig Butchering. Of course we'll take your comments as well and of course those questions. Thanks so much for listening!

Pig Butchering is not necessarily going anywhere, but there have been some studies and money recovered. The article US moves to recover $2.3 million from “pig butchers” on Binance is the latest article we've seen on the topic.

Of course, we had a topic but seemed to have lost it, but that's what happens some times. This article will be taken apart to help the discussion and of course comments and questions are welcome.

As a side note, we can probably tie this in to Phishing as a whole, as the deployment of the beginning of how this works is an email, text, or other platform of communication. What are your thoughts on that? We even talk about it as part of Throwback Saturdaynight for the 16th in our first segment.

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Hello folks, welcome to the security box, podcast 182. On this podcast, besides the news and notes of the week, we're going to learn about a new potential threat by a new potential actor called Savvy Seahorse. If you've read the blog, you'll already know, but if you only listen to the podcast, this is going to change the way malware is delivered. Of course we'll see what our participants want to talk about as well.

The article comes to us by our newest partner, Cybernews. Its titled Threat actor uses Facebook to lure victims, sends cash to Russia and covers Savvy Seahorse. This is going to be something we'll need to track, and we'll explain it all.

Let's just say that it uses the Cname aspect of domain hosting. Stay tuned!

If you want to read our blog post on it, Here is that post titled Savvy Seahorse uses facebook for investment scams.

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Hello everyone, welcome to the Security Box, podcast 181. In Q4 of 2023, Phishlabs is reporting that a record of phishing sites impersonate social media to target victims. Question for the listener, what do you think you should look for when you get communication that talks about social media before you click, tap, double tap or press enter on a keyboard? We'll have the news and landscape as well as your comments and concerns. We hope you enjoy the show!

There are other smaller news items, but these might be the bigger ones. If yours isn't on this list, what fancies you? Contact me through jaredrimer.net and let me know. You can also send things to ponder files which can be played as well.

Record Number of Phishing Sites Impersonate Social Media to Target Victims in Q4 comes to us from Phishlabs this week. Let us know what you think good, bad or indifferent.

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Hello everyone, welcome to the security box, podcast 180. On this podcast, Phishlabs will guide us through something I don't think we have ever seen. It talks about a service that is a web host service, but it is a completely different type of web host. They didn't classify it as bulletproof hosting, but something called phishing as a service. Two different companies are mentioned. Besides that, we've got news, notes, the landscape and your thoughts. Thanks so much for listening!

The big news it seems that is coming out this week is talking about Lockbit. Looks like their infrastructure has been taken over by all kinds of law enforcement partners from all around the world. While we don't intend to give you an exhaustive list, here is some of the coverage we know about.

This week, we're going to talk about Phishing as a service. It is a new concept, and you can probably say it is similar to Ransomware as a service. This week's article is titled Phishing-as-a-Service Profile: LabHost Threat Actor Group and it covers two different hosts. This, will get interesting.

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Hello folks, welcome to the security box. This is program 179. This time, we'll venture off the path a bit and talk a little bit about romance scams. Instead of using the article as a guide, we'll talk about it in more general terms. Did you know that Valentines Day is one of the biggest times for this type of scam? Besides that, we'll have news, notes and the landscape as we always do. Thanks for listening and make it a great day!

With Valentines coming, romance scams are going to be on the rise. With Valentines Day coming, its time for the romance scams in full force is a blog post leading to the article we'll use for this discussion although we won't use it like we normally do. We'll use it as a starting point.

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Hello everyone! Welcome to the security box, podcast 178. On this podcast, we're going to talk about the landscape, the news, and the crazy. We are also going to talk about the threats of Social Engineering as well. We give you the best blog posts of the week as well. We hope you enjoy the program, and make it a great day!

Today, Lastpass will lead the discussion with Unraveling the Threats of Social Engineering which was a great find. I don't know about you guys, but we need to be on guard and ready as much as we can. We can all be phished, scammed and Cory Doctorow's article is linked to Even the Best can be Scammed, check this article out which I wrote in my response to the article. So since we can all be targets, it starts with knowing what to look for by reading Lastpass's article and learning what we could do differently and learning by the other true story.

If you'd like to support our efforts on what this podcast is doing, you can feel free to donate to the network, subscribing to the security box discussion list or sending us a note through contact information throughout the podcast. You can also find contact details on our blog page found here. Thanks so much for listening, reading and learning! We can't do this alone.

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For full show notes including things talked about, please see the blog.

Welcome to podcast 177 of the Security Box. On this podcast, we seem to be on a password discussion, as lots of articles have come out in regards to the subject. Our topic even will include talking about passwords. We'll also have things to ponder, possibly some morons, and a great time as always!

These notes are annotated for RSS. Full notes on the blog.

Mercedes, its your turn. Apparently, you had something open on your Github account. The thing is, you're not the first car company to have issues, although you never said that there wasn't a problem, you did fix it with Github assisting as well. A password is mistakenly published, source code, blueprints and more once at risk is the blog post where you can read more about this one. Good job, guys!

Microsoft, you aught to be ashamed of yourself. You decided to give a test account admin privelages, then let the account go to legacy status. Then, because its an administrative account, someone finds it and abuses your systems. Great job! Ars Technica has the complete details. In major gaffe, hacked Microsoft test account was assigned admin privileges is the article.

We haven't blogged this at the time of these notes, but this is a good topic. The Perils of Employee Password Reuse comes to us from Lastpass and Amber Steel. Let us know what you think.

If you'd like to support our efforts on what this podcast is doing, you can feel free to donate to the network, subscribing to the security box discussion list or sending us a note through contact information throughout the podcast. You can also find contact details on our blog page found here. Thanks so much for listening, reading and learning! We can't do this alone.

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