Off the Record

Off the Record

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Off the Record episodes

  • Trouble in Eastern Europe
    Adam goes over the latest cyber news headlines, including attacks on Ukrainian networks, and talks to Jan Kallberg, a Research Scientist at the Army Cyber Institute at West Point, about what to expect in 2022. Stick around for a preview of The Record's new podcast, Click Here.
    20 min
  • Inside the Chinese Dark Web
    Adam talks to Insikt Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst Di Wu about the ins and outs of China’s dark web, including how the Chinese government interacts with online criminal marketplaces and how it’s different from the dark web ecosystems in countries like Russia.
    33 min
  • China’s Sprawling Cyber Espionage Campaigns
    Insikt Group researchers uncovered evidence earlier this year that links several multi-year cyber espionage campaigns to a Chinese military unit operating out of the city of Ürümqi in China’s western province of Xinjiang. Jon Condra, who leads the Strategic and Persistent Threats team at Recorded Future, explains to Adam how the People’s Liberation Army Unit 69010 has been targeting defense-related organizations in Afghanistan, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan since at least 2014.
    34 min
  • The digital Silk Road
    Adam talks to Insikt expert threat intelligence analyst Charity Wright to discuss Beijing’s roadmap to achieving its goal of becoming the world’s leading cyber superpower, which relies on building extensive and intrusive digital infrastructure in developing nations
    32 min
  • What's Russia up to?

    Levi and Adam talk about the latest cybersecurity news, including a surprise extradition that the U.S. granted Moscow, a noteworthy arrest of a cybersecurity executive in Russia, and allegations of the first death caused by ransomware. GitHub's new chief security officer Mike Hanley joins later in the episode to discuss his organization's cybersecurity expansion and much more.

    36 min
  • REvil's ransomware victims get a decryptor

    A cybersecurity firm published a universal decryption tool to help victims of the REvil ransomware gang recover encrypted files. Anonymous breached a web hosting provider and domain registrar that gave shelter to right-wing websites. And the Department of Justice fined three former NSA employees who worked as hackers-for-hire for a United Arab Emirates firm. Plus, Verizon's Alex Pinto joins to talk about the cybersecurity industry's wittiest report.

    27 min
  • Hacking for the holidays

    The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the White House warned companies about the tendency of ransomware gangs to launch attacks over weekends and national holidays. Plus, a US farm lost a whopping $9 million due to a temporary shutdown of its farming operations following a ransomware attack, and Dmitry Smilyanets joins to discuss the latest ransomware trends.

    22 min
  • A Cybercriminal Returned Stolen Money

    T-Mobile said this week that hackers breached some of its internal servers. Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange Liquid said that cybercriminals stole $94 million of crypto assets. And Poly Network, a decentralized finance platform, offered a job to a hacker who decided to return hundreds of millions of dollars they stole from the company. Plus, Bruce Liska joins to discuss his efforts to track ransomware attacks against schools, hospitals, and state and local governments.

    20 min

About Off the Record

From the publisher's feed

This is a weekly round-up of the most compelling cyber security intelligence originating from The Record and Recorded Future's research team — Insikt Group. Recorded Future is the global leader in security intelligence and every Friday we'll be highlighting the latest intelligence from criminal activity and nation state sponsored cyber campaigns to geo-political developments.