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- Risky Biz Soapbox: Enterprise Yubikeys can now be pre-registered
In this interview Patrick Gray talks to Yubico’s COO and President Jerrod Chong about a new Yubikey feature: pre-registration.
You can now ship pre-registered Yubikeys to your staff so you don’t need to rely on your staff to enrol them. They’ve achieved this with really slick Okta and Entra ID integrations.
Jerrod also talks about a recent trip to Singapore and concerns he has about the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure in the energy sector.
30 min - Risky Business #773 -- Cybercriminals are dropping like flies in Russia
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
- The FTC decides its time to take another look at Microsoft
- Exxon’s opponents targeted by hackers
- Russian hackers keep getting sentenced and it confuses us
- The Feds recommend Signal, because throwing hackers out of telcos ain’t gonna happen
- A South Korean set-top-box manufacturer shipped a DDoS client for corpo-combat
- And much, much more.
This week’s sponsor interview with Vijit Nair from Corelight. We talk to him about doing detection in cloud environments, and how the varied nature of cloud systems makes the old ways - network monitoring - useful in new and interesting ways.
If you’re in Sydney, Pat is recording a live episode of the Wide World of Cyber with Chris Krebs on 5 December. There might still be tickets left!
This episode is also available on Youtube.
Show notes- SentinelOne: Risky Business LIVE
- FTC opens Microsoft antitrust investigation | AP News
- Exclusive: Exxon lobbyist investigated over hack-and-leak of environmentalist emails, sources say | Reuters
- Costa Rica state energy company calls in US experts to help with ransomware attack | The Record from Recorded Future News
- Blue Yonder Security Rating, Vendor Risk Report, and Data Breaches
- ENGlobal IT systems impacted by ransomware attack | Cybersecurity Dive
- Ransomware suspect Wazawaka reportedly arrested by Russia | The Record from Recorded Future News
- Russia delivers historic life sentence to suspected founder of darknet marketplace | The Record from Recorded Future News
- Vodka maker Stoli says August ransomware attack contributed to bankruptcy filing | The Record from Recorded Future News
- Hacker in Snowflake Extortions May Be a U.S. Soldier – Krebs on Security
- Uganda confirms cyberattack on central bank but minimizes extent of breach | The Record from Recorded Future News
- Press Release: HOME > Announcements/News > Announcements > Press Release
- U.S. officials urge Americans to use encrypted apps amid cyberattack
- With Threats to Encryption Looming, Signal’s Meredith Whittaker Says ‘We’re Not Changing’ | WIRED
- Japanese crypto service shuts down after theft of bitcoin worth $308 million | The Record from Recorded Future News
- He Got Banned From X. Now He Wants to Help You Escape, Too | WIRED
- cyberundergroundfeed on X: "🚨 Pro-Russian Group Allegedly Hacks #Australia #Melbourne Sewage System 🚨 Hackers claim to have compromised the Riversdale sewage pumping station in #Melbourne, #Australia, switching it to manual control and placing it in emergency mode."
- Pump station fears rebuffed - New Zealand News - NZ Herald
- NZ Navy ship runs aground off Samoa, catches fire and sinks
58 min - Risky Business #772 -- Salt Typhoon is truly a national security disaster
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
- A ransomware attack has crippled US supply chain software provider Blue Yonder
- Russian spies hack nearby wifi to get to their targets, but that doesn’t seem surprising?
- Salt Typhoon’s attacks on telcos are hard to solve and big on impact
- China’s surveillance state workers sell their access at home
- Palo Alto is bad and should feel bad
- And much, much more.
In this week’s sponsor interview Patrick Gray chats with Matt Muller from Tines about Gartner’s “spicy take” that the SOAR category is dead. SOAR is dead! Long live SOAR!
This episode is also available on Youtube.
Show notes- Retailers struggle after ransomware attack on supply chain tech provider Blue Yonder | The Record from Recorded Future News
- Customer Update
- Russian Spies Jumped From One Network to Another Via Wi-Fi in an Unprecedented Hack | WIRED
- China’s Salt Typhoon hackers target telecom firms in Southeast Asia with new malware | The Record from Recorded Future News
- Emerging Details of Chinese Hack Leave U.S. Officials Increasingly Concerned
- Top senator calls Salt Typhoon “worst telecom hack in our nation’s history” - The Washington Post
- Privacy-focused mobile phone launches for high-risk individuals | CyberScoop
- China’s Surveillance State Is Selling Citizen Data as a Side Hustle | WIRED
- Former Verizon employee gets four-year sentence for sharing cyber secrets with Chinese government | The Record from Recorded Future News
- Surveillance Legislation (Confirmation of Application) Bill 2024 – Parliament of Australia
- ParlInfo - BILLS : Surveillance Legislation (Confirmation of Application) Bill 2024 : Second Reading
- ParlInfo - Surveillance Legislation (Confirmation of Application) Bill 2024
- ParlInfo - Surveillance Legislation (Confirmation of Application) Bill 2024
- Chris Bing: "Regarding the reported hack of the Gaetz-ethics committee report, the file storage platform (FileShare) that held the document said they weren't hacked. But rather: "this file was shared anonymously which allowed anyone to download. This was not a breach"" — Bluesky
- Tether Has Become a Massive Money Laundering Tool for Mexican Drug Traffickers, Feds Say
- Palo Alto Networks boasts as customers coalesce on its platforms | Cybersecurity Dive
- Palo Alto Networks pushes back as Shadowserver spots 2K of its firewalls exploited | Cybersecurity Dive
- RSF investigation: the Indian cyber-security giant silencing media outlets worldwide | RSF
- Patrick Gray (@patrick.risky.biz) — Bluesky
- metlstorm (@metlstorm.risky.biz) — Bluesky
- Catalin Cimpanu (@campuscodi.risky.biz) — Bluesky
- Tom Uren (@tom.risky.biz) — Bluesky
1 hr 2 min - Risky Business #771 -- Palo Alto's firewall 0days are very, very stupid
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
- Microsoft introduces some sensible sounding post-Crowdstrike changes
- Palo Alto patches hella-stupid bugs in its firewall management webapp
- CISA head Jen Easterly to depart as Trump arrives
- AI grandma tarpits phone scammers in family-tech-support hell
- Academic research supports your gut-reaction; phishing training doesn’t work
- And much, much more.
This week’s episode is sponsored by Greynoise. The always excitable Andrew Morris joins to remind us that the edge-device vulnerabilities Pat and Adam complain about on the show are in fact actually even worse than we make them out to be. Andrew also tells us about a zero-day Greynoise’ AI system truffle-pigged out of their data set.
This episode is also available on Youtube.
Show notes- Windows security and resiliency: Protecting your business | Windows Experience Blog
- Microsoft revamps how it will disclose vulnerabilities | Cybersecurity Dive
- NIST says exploited vulnerability backlog cleared but end-of-year goal for full list unlikely
- Pots and Pans, AKA an SSLVPN - Palo Alto PAN-OS CVE-2024-0012 and CVE-2024-9474
- Palo Alto Networks customers grapple with another actively exploited zero-day | Cybersecurity Dive
- Unpatched zero-days in Fortinet and Palo Alto Networks software
- Palo Alto Networks’ customer migration tool hit by trio of CVE exploits | Cybersecurity Dive
- Readout of President Joe Biden’s Meeting with President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China | The White House
- Easterly to step down from CISA director role on Inauguration Day | Cybersecurity Dive
- Top White House cyber official urges Trump to focus on ransomware, China
- Ransomware gang Akira leaks unprecedented number of victims’ data in one day
- Hacker Is Said to Have Gained Access to File With Damaging Testimony About Gaetz
- 1,400 Pegasus spyware infections detailed in WhatsApp’s lawsuit filings
- NSO Group admits cutting off 10 customers because they abused its Pegasus spyware, say unsealed court documents | TechCrunch
- Ransomware gang Akira leaks unprecedented number of victims’ data in one day
- Ohio man behind Helix cryptocurrency mixer gets 3-year sentence
- O2 unveils Daisy, the AI granny wasting scammers’ time - Virgin Media O2
- Understanding the Efficacy of Phishing Training in Practice
- Bunnings facial recognition cameras breach Privacy Act, retailer to challenge ruling | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site
- Nudity, punches in newly released Bunnings CCTV as company found to breach Privacy Act | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site
- Bitfinex Hack Launderer Heather 'Razzlekhan' Morgan Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison
1 hr 2 min - Risky Business #770 -- A Russian IR guy discovers extremely cool spookware
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
- Apple frustrates law enforcement with iOS auto-reboot
- CISA says most KEV vulnerabilities in 2023 were first used as zero days
- Russians roll incident response on some sweet Linux spookware
- Regular users can create mailboxes in M365?
- Tor tracks down the source of its joe-job abuse complaints
- And much, much more.
This week’s feature guest is former FBI agent Chris Tarbell, who arrested Silk Road operator Ross Ulbricht way back in 2013. As suggestions swirl that an incoming Trump administration might release Ulbricht, Chris talks about the reality of the Dread Pirate Roberts.
This episode is sponsored by software supply chain security firm Socket.dev. Founder Feross Aboukhadijeh thinks that we need a CVE-like catalogue for supply-chain attacks, and he makes a solid argument.
The show is also available on Youtube.
Show notes- Jason Koebler: "New: We’ve confirmed Apple quietly introduced a feature in the new iOS that is preventing cops from hacking iPhones that they have confiscated as evidence. Apple really did say ACAB www.404media.co/apple-quietl..." — Bluesky
- Apple Quietly Introduced iPhone Reboot Code Which is Locking Out Cops
- Exclusive | U.S. Agency Warns Employees About Phone Use Amid Ongoing China Hack - WSJ
- Surge in exploits of zero-day vulnerabilities is ‘new normal’ warns Five Eyes alliance
- The Elusive GoblinRAT: How a Linux Backdoor Infiltrated Government Infrastructures
- Microsoft Bookings – Facilitating Impersonation | Cyberis Limited
- TrustedSec | EKUwu: Not just another AD CS ESC
- Russia’s internet watchdog blocks thousands of websites that use Cloudflare's privacy service
- Defending the Tor network: Mitigating IP spoofing against Tor | The Tor Project
- Law enforcement operation takes down 22,000 malicious IP addresses worldwide - Ars Technica
- Press Conference - Parliament House, Canberra | Prime Minister of Australia
- DHS nominee Kristi Noem stood alone for rejecting department cyber grants to state, local governments | CyberScoop
- Patrick Gray: "Allies will feel comfortable until these guys get fired in their first 100 days for opposing Trump’s proposed annexation of Iceland or something. People have forgotten… Trump is out of his gourd" — Bluesky
1 hr 4 min - Risky Biz Soap Box: Why black box email security is dead
In this edition of the Risky Business Soap Box we’re talking all about email security with Sublime Security co-founder Josh Kamdjou.
Email security is one of the oldest product categories in security, but as you’ll hear, Josh thinks the incumbents are just doing it wrong. He joins Risky Business host Patrick Gray for this interview about Sublime’s origin story and its new approach to email security.
37 min - Risky Business #769 -- Sophos drops implants on Chinese exploit devs
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
- Sophos drops implants on Chinese firewall exploit devs
- Microsoft workshops better just-in-time Windows admin privileges
- Snowflake hacker arrested in Canada
- Okta has a fun, but not very impactful auth-bypass bug
- Russians bring dumb-but-smart RDP client attacks
- And much, much more.
Special guest Sophos CISO Ross McKerchar joined us to talk about its “hacking back” campaign. The full interview is
available on Youtube for those who want to really live vicariously through Sophos doing what every vendor probably wants to do.This week’s episode is sponsored by attack surface mapping vendor runZero. Founder and CEO HD Moore joins to talk about marrying up the outside and inside views of your network.
You can also watch this episode on Youtube
Show notes- Okta AD/LDAP Delegated Authentication - Username Above 52 Characters Security Advisory
- Does bcrypt have a maximum password length? - Information Security Stack Exchange
- Local Administrator Protection | Privilege Protection
- Inside Sophos' 5-Year War With the Chinese Hackers Hijacking Its Devices | WIRED
- A Deeper Look at FortiJump (FortiManager CVE-2024-47575) | Bishop Fox
- Man Arrested for Snowflake Hacking Spree Faces US Extradition | WIRED
- Google uses large language model to discover real-world vulnerability
- GreyNoise Intelligence Discovers Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in Live Streaming Cameras with the Help of AI
- Thousands of hacked TP-Link routers used in yearslong account takeover attacks - Ars Technica
- CISA warns of foreign threat group launching spearphishing campaign using malicious RDP files | Cybersecurity Dive
- Chinese state-backed hackers breached 20 Canadian government networks over four years, agency warns
- India-Canada row: Canadian officials confess to leaking 'intel' against India to Washington Post - India Today
- Amid diplomatic row, Canada names India in ‘cyberthreat adversary’ list, accuses it of ‘likely spying’ | World News - The Indian Express
- The Untold Story of Trump's Failed Attempt to Overthrow Venezuela's President | WIRED
- Risky Biz News: The mystery at Mango Park
- North Korean hackers seen collaborating with Play ransomware group, researchers say
57 min - Risky Business #768 -- CSRB will investigate China's Wiretap Hacks
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
- CSRB to investigate China’s telco-wiretapping hacks
- Euro law enforcement takes down the Redline infostealer
- Someone steals Fed crypto… and then tries to quietly sneak it back in
- Russia sentences REvil guys to … jail? Really?
- Apple private cloud compute gets a proper bug bounty program
- And much, much more.
This week’s episode is sponsored by Material Security, who help navigate the mess of cloud productivity data security. Daniel Ayala - Chief Security and Trust Officer at Dotmatics - is a Material customer, and joins Pat and Material Security’s Rajan Kapoor to talk about how to wrangle securing data that ends up in corporate cloud email and file stores.
This episode is also available on Youtube.
Show notes- Apple 10 day certificates
- Chinese hackers said to have collected audio of American calls
- U.S. Panel to Probe Cyber Failures in Massive Chinese Hack of Telecoms
- How a series of opsec failures led US authorities to the alleged developer of the Redline password-stealing malware
- Operation Magnus
- Hacker Returns $19.3 Million to Drained US Government Crypto Wallet
- Meet ZachXBT, the Masked Vigilante Tracking Down Billions in Crypto Scams and Thefts | WIRED
- Radar systems in Iran breached prior to Israel's Saturday counter-strike - report
- Delta sues CrowdStrike after widespread IT outage that caused thousands of cancellations
- Tens of thousands of taxpayer accounts hacked as CRA repeatedly paid out millions in bogus refunds
- Microsoft CEO asked board to cut pay in connection with security overhaul | Cybersecurity Dive
- Four REvil members sentenced to more than four years in prison
- Russia says it might build its own Linux community after removal of several kernel maintainers
- Nigerian court drops charges against detained Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan
- Apple will pay security researchers up to $1 million to hack its private AI cloud | TechCrunch
- SonicWall firewalls the common access point in spreading ransomware campaign | Cybersecurity Dive
- Fortinet zero-day attack spree hits at least 50 customers | Cybersecurity Dive
- Cisco warns actively exploited CVE can lead to DoS attacks against VPN services | Cybersecurity Dive
- Chinese influence operation targets US down-ballot races, Microsoft says | Reuters
- Exclusive: Accused Iranian hackers successfully peddle stolen Trump emails | Reuters
- Viral video of ripped-up Pennsylvania ballots is fake and Russian-made, intelligence agencies say
- Product Demo: Securing M365 and Google Workspace with Material Security
52 min - Risky Biz Soap Box: Thinkst Canary's decade of deception
In this Soap Box edition of the podcast Patrick Gray chats with Thinkst Canary founder Haroon Meer about his “decade of deception”, including:
- A history of Thinkst Canary including a recap of what they actually do
- A look at why they’re still really the only major player in the deception game
- A look at what companies like Microsoft are doing with deception
- Why security startups should have conference booths
38 min - Risky Business #767 – SEC fines Check Point, Mimecast, Avaya and Unisys over hacks
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
- SEC fines tech firms for downplaying the Solarwinds hacks
- Anonymous Sudan still looks and quacks like a Russian duck
- Apple proposes max 10 day TLS certificate life
- Oopsie! Microsoft loses a bunch of cloud logs
- Veeam and Fortinet are bad and should feel bad
- North Koreans are good (at hacking)
- And much, much more.
This week’s episode is sponsored by Proofpoint. Chief Strategy Officer Ryan Kalember joins to talk about their work keeping up with prolific threat actor SocGholish.
This episode is also available on Youtube.
Show notes- Four cyber companies fined for SolarWinds disclosure failures
- U.S. charges Sudanese men with running powerful cyberattack-for-hire gang
- Hacker Charged With Seeking to Kill Using Cyberattacks on Hospitals | WIRED
- Risky Biz News: Anonymous Sudan's Russia Links Are (Still) Obvious
- Microsoft confirms partial loss of security log data on multiple platforms | Cybersecurity Dive
- Risky Biz News: Apple wants to reduce the lifespan of TLS certificates to 10 days
- Encrypted Chat App ‘Session’ Leaves Australia After Visit From Police
- Crypto platform Radiant Capital says $50 million in digital coins stolen following account compromises
- North Korean hackers use newly discovered Linux malware to raid ATMs - Ars Technica
- Brazil Arrests ‘USDoD,’ Hacker in FBI Infragard Breach – Krebs on Security
- Here’s how SIM swap in alleged bitcoin pump-and-dump scheme worked - Ars Technica
- Critical Veeam CVE actively exploited in ransomware attacks | Cybersecurity Dive
- FortiGate admins report active exploitation 0-day. Vendor isn’t talking. - Ars Technica
- Hackers reportedly impersonate cyber firm ESET to target organizations in Israel
- The latest in North Korea’s fake IT worker scheme: Extorting the employers
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