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Risky Business #723 -- MGM and Caesars: Western youths are working with ransomware gangs

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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Dmitri Alperovitch discuss the week’s security news. They cover:

  • How western youths are working with Russian ransomware crews
  • Russia has changed its targeting in Ukraine
  • A massive breach of historical Russian flight information is god’s gift to OSINT orgs
  • Cisco buys Splunk for $28bn
  • Much, much more

    • This week’s show is brought to you by Panther. Its field CISO Ken Westin is this week’s sponsor guest.

    Links to everything that we discussed are below.

    Show notes
    • MGM Resorts says hotel, casino operations back up and running | Cybersecurity Dive
    • MGM Resorts warns customers of fraud as it faces class action lawsuits | Cybersecurity Dive
    • mgmkirwan - DocumentCloud
    • Cross-Tenant Impersonation: Prevention and Detection | Okta Security
    • 'Power, influence, notoriety': The Gen-Z hackers who struck MGM, Caesars | Reuters
    • Youth hacking ring at the center of cybercrime spree | CyberScoop
    • UK logistics firm blames ransomware attack for insolvency, 730 redundancies
    • Philippines state health org struggling to recover from ransomware attack
    • Bermuda’s premier attributes system outages to ‘Russia-based’ attackers
    • Russian hackers target Ukrainian government systems involved in war crimes investigations
    • (4) Oleg Shakirov on X: "Huge data breach in Russia A previously unknown group claims it stole data from Russia's major flight booking system Sirena Travel. The whole dataset includes 665 mil entries and spans 16 years; they posted a sample with 3 mil lines. I was able to verify one flight. Looks legit" / X
    • Hackers break into Russian database with data on hundreds of millions of flights
    • Canada blames border checkpoint outages on cyberattack
    • Air Canada says hackers accessed limited employee records during cyberattack
    • 3 iOS 0-days, a cellular network compromise, and HTTP used to infect an iPhone | Ars Technica
    • Yes, you have to update your Apple devices again, because spyware is bad | TechCrunch
    • GPUs from all major suppliers are vulnerable to new pixel-stealing attack | Ars Technica
    • CISA's catalog of must-patch vulnerabilities crosses the 1,000 bug mark after 2 years
    • Hong Kong crypto business Mixin says hackers stole $200 million in assets
    • Cisco to buy Splunk for $28B | Cybersecurity Dive
    • British Army general says UK now conducting ‘hunt forward’ operations
    • World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century: Alperovitch, Dmitri, Graff, Garrett M.: 9781541704091: Amazon.com: Books
    • Starlink in Ukraine: Why the Story Is Not So Simple | Geopolitics Decanted by Silverado
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