Risky Bulletin

Academics develop a 5G downgrade attack, ransomware hits car salvage yards across North America, multiple VPN apps share the same hardcoded password, and Bangladesh spent $190 million on hacking and surveillance tools.

An HTTP-2 vulnerability enables DDoS attacks, Russia blocks Telegram and WhatsApp voice calls, attackers abuse a zero-day in N-able servers, and the US government is adding trackers to chip shipments.

Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about a recent hack of the US courts document management system. It’s about as bad as can be, with multiple threat actors including states and possibly even drug cartels rummaging around in there, possibly for years.

They also discuss Microsoft’s involvement in an Israeli surveillance system and the head of Australia’s security organisation’s blunt warning about espionage.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Russia suspected of hacking a US Court system, researchers break the DarkBit ransomware’s encryption, a new attack can leak sensitive data from AMD processors, and a brute-force campaign targets Fortinet devices.

A security researcher scores $250,000 for a Chrome bug, WinRAR patches another zero-day, new vulnerabilities found in the Tetra communications protocol, and a researcher gains access to Microsoft’s internal network for fun… and no profit.

In this Risky Business News sponsor interview Tom Uren talks to Derek Hanson, Yubico’s Field CTO about making account recovery and onboarding for employees phishing-resistant. They also discuss the problems and opportunities of syncable passkeys.

Federal agencies told to patch a new Exchange flaw, millions of sites are vulnerable to HTTP desync attacks,

Russian companies must migrate to domestic ERP systems, Ohio’s public sector will have to approve ransom payments in public, Chanel and Cisco disclose data breaches, and a Thai hospital gets fined over the the dumbest data breach ever.

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq dissect the Belarusian Cyber Partisans hack of Russian airline Aeroflot. Despite the short-term impact, the airline will likely bounce back quite quickly. But it is still a big win for the Cyber Partisans.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

China accuses the US of new cyberattacks, a $14.5b crypto hack discovered five years later, the US National Cyber Director is named, and Lovense considers legal action over a security flaw disclosure.