Risky Bulletin

The EU imposes cyber sanctions, an Iranian cyber chief was killed by US-Israeli strikes, the UK fixes a major bug in its company registry, and a US man phishes celebrity athletes while on home detention… for phishing.

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss how bombing Iran changes incentives for Iranian hacker groups. Destroying other ways that Iran might project power could force it to double down on cyber capabilities.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Meta suspends Mexican cartel accounts, multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Linux AppArmour,

In this Risky Business sponsor interview, Catalin Cimpanu talks with Alex Orleans, Head of Threat Intelligence at Sublime Security, about the increase in email attacks leveraging Zoom invites and other video conferencing tools.

Authorities take down a residential proxy service, Iranian hackers wipe the network of a US medical device maker, Apple patches unsupported iOS against Coruna, and CISA asks for Cisco SD-WAN device logs.

Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about the newly released Trump Cyber Strategy for America. The ideas in it are fine and occasionally even game-changing, but many of its goals have been undercut by the administration’s actions to date.

They also discuss the Coruna exploit kit, which is now known to have leaked from a US defence contractor. Exploits are so valuable that it is unrealistic to expect they can be kept secret.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

The Senate confirms a new CyberCom and NSA chief, the US will establish an inter-agency cyber unit, the UK’s Online Crime Centre will launch in April, and the Coruna iOS hacking kit was the work of L3Harris.

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about why an internet shutdown won’t stop US cyber operations in Iran.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

US federal agencies told to crack down on scams and cybercrime, the White House releases its new Cyber Strategy, suspected Chinese hackers breach the FBI’s wiretap network, and Romania’s largest meat exporter is insolvent after a ransomware attack.

In this Risky Business sponsor interview, Marco Slaviero, CTO of Thinkst, talks to Tom Uren about how the company ensures that it is a learning organisation.

The pair discuss the company’s investment in its Thinkst Labs, how it differs from other security research labs, and how it helps grow products and people.