November 08, 2022

Risky Business #684 -- DoJ seizes 50,000 stolen bitcoins from popcorn tin

1 hour 2 minutes

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:

DoJ seizes 50k bitcoin stolen from Silk Road, charges thief

Australian health insurer Medibank refuses to pay ransom, data leaked

Inside Qatar’s $386m world cup espionage operation

EU Parliament report into spyware lands

SolarWinds settles shareholder lawsuit, faces SEC enforcement action

Much, much more

This week’s sponsor guest is Andrew Morris from Greynoise Intelligence.

Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing.

Show notes

DOJ says it seized billions in Bitcoin stolen by hacker from Silk Road darknet marketplace - The Record by Recorded Future

U.S. Attorney Announces Historic $3.36 Billion Cryptocurrency Seizure And Conviction In Connection With Silk Road Dark Web Fraud | USAO-SDNY | Department of Justice

Medibank says it will not pay ransom in hack that impacted 9.7 million customers - The Record by Recorded Future

Names, addresses, birthdays posted to dark web by hackers after Medibank ransom deadline passes - ABC News

‘Project Merciless’: how Qatar spied on the world of football in Switzerland - SWI swissinfo.ch

How Qatar hacked the World Cup — The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (en-GB)

FBI probing ex-CIA officer's spying for World Cup host Qatar - The Washington Post

EU governments accused of using spyware ‘to cover up corruption and criminal activity’ - The Record by Recorded Future

Press conference on draft findings of EP spyware inquiry | News | European Parliament

SolarWinds says it’s facing SEC ‘enforcement action’ over 2020 hack | TechCrunch

Microsoft accuses China of abusing vulnerability disclosure requirements - The Record by Recorded Future

工业和信息化部国家互联网信息办公室公安部关于印发网络产品安全漏洞管理规定的通知-中共中央网络安全和信息化委员会办公室

Insurance giant settles NotPetya lawsuit, signaling cyber insurance shakeup

Could a ‘digital Red Cross emblem’ protect hospitals from cyber warfare? - The Record by Recorded Future

TrustCor Systems verifies web addresses, but its address is a UPS Store - The Washington Post

Cyber incident at Boeing subsidiary causes flight planning disruptions - The Record by Recorded Future

FIN7 cybercrime cartel tied to Black Basta ransomware operation: report - The Record by Recorded Future

More than 100 election jurisdictions waiting on federal cyber help, sources say

$28 million stolen from cryptocurrency platform Deribit - The Record by Recorded Future

Nigerian scammer sentenced to 11 years in US prison - The Record by Recorded Future

Hackers get into Dropbox developer accounts on GitHub, access 130 code repositories and more - The Record by Recorded Future

Urlscan.io API unwittingly leaks sensitive URLs, data | The Daily Swig

The Most Vulnerable Place on the Internet | WIRED

So long and thanks for all the bits - NCSC.GOV.UK

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