Risky Business

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

An analysis of the Colonial pipeline ransomware attack

More ransomware news

UK and US expose APT29’s preferred exploits (again)

IntrusionTruth drops a new post

128m Apple devices were hit by XCodeGhost

Much, much more

This week’s sponsor interview is with Aaron Parecki, a Senior Security Architect at Okta. He’s also been a spec editor and member of the oath working group at IETF for nearly 11 years, so he knows a thing or two about OAuth. He’ll be joining me after the week’s news to talk through the latest OAuth guidance the IETF is going to release.

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

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

GitHub weighs banning exploits

Ransomware galore

Belgian government crippled in DDoS attack

Intrusion Truth Twitter account suspended

More Pulsesecure victims identified

Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by ExtraHop networks, and they’ll pop along in this week’s sponsor interview to float a really, really good idea. The Biden administration EO on cybersecurity will mandate software is shipped with a so-called software bill of materials so customers will actually know what’s in their supply chain. Ben Higgins and Ted Driggs from Extrahop will join us today to argue they should also supply a bill of behaviours; data in a standardised form that will tell you things like what domains and IPs the software will connect to.

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

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

USA imposes sanctions over SolarWinds campaign

Enterprise border devices being attacked everywhere by all and sundry

Malvertising is coming back

Ultra professional criminal attackers are ascendant

All the latest ransomware, supply chain and other infosec news

This week’s sponsor interview is with Brian Dye, CEO of Corelight. We speak to him about what he’s calling “Open NDR”. A lot of the big SOCs have settled on their preferred ways of sharing threat information, and Brian drops by to talk all about those trends.

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

In this edition of Snake Oilers we’ll be hearing from three very different vendors who’ve all been doing interesting stuff.

Greynoise: An infosec startup darling, Greynoise can tell you when an attack you’ve detected is internet-wide, automated activity. Very useful for de-prioritising entire alert sets.

MergeBase: Software Composition Analisys (SCA) with two key differentiators. MergeBase says it gives users MUCH better remediation advice than competitors, and also offers a “in prod” dynamic SCA product that feeds Java app telemetry back to app/security teams. Very cool, and getting popular.

Votiro: Regular listeners would know about CDR company Votiro. They’ve spent the last little while updating their product to better deal with macro-based threats. There’s some site-specific machine learning pixie dust as well as some more generic static detections and re-writes.

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

Ubiquiti insider blows whistle on breach

Cyber insurer ransomwared

Project Zero burned a Western counterterrorism operation

Australian parliament, media, politicians all under attack

Executive Order would require vendors to notify US government of incidents

Much, much more…

This week’s sponsor guest is a special one. Metasploit creator and Rumble.run founder HD Moore will join us to talk all about his new venture, the Rumble asset discovery tool. It’s an absolutely fantastic interview, as you’d expect from HD.

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

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

REvil demands US$50m from Acer in ransomware attack

Shell added to Accellion victim list

Governments banding together to tackle ransomware

BEC theft hits $1.8bn in 2021: FBI

Exchange tyre fire is, surprisingly, almost under control

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Remediant’s Paul Lanzi will pop along in this week’s sponsor interview to talk about how they’ve integrated their PAM solution with Carbon Black. It’s an integration that is actually somewhat obvious in hindsight: if a box has been popped then some accounts have, too, so tying these things together does make sense.

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

This is a wholly sponsored podcast brought to you by Okta.

In this interview we chat with Marc Rogers, the executive director of Cybersecurity at Okta.

The question that we’re exploring in this interview is whether or not we’ve managed to move the infosec needle since the Chinese government hacked Google back during the Operation Aurora attacks of 2009.

There are some real echoes of Operation Aurora in today’s headlines, like the SVR’s Solarwinds hack and Chinese APT crews using Exchange 0day.

Google did learn from Aurora and rearchitected its whole approach to minimise the chances of that sort of things happening again. They moved to their implementation of Zero Trust, Beyondcorp, and so far that looks like a good decision.

The rest of the world has been slow to follow, and that leads us to the question: have we actually made things better since Operation Aurora hit the headlines back in 2009?

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

The latest on the Exchange tyre fire

Lawmakers in the USA have had enough of Microsoft’s ridiculous licensing tiers

White House mulls software security rating system

Joseph Cox’s SMS adventures

Things didn’t quite work out for APT6920 Arson Cats

Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by VMRay. They asked us to interview one of their customers in this week’s sponsor segment so Brad Marr, the CISO of Life Fitness, pops in to walk through his VMRay use case.

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

This podcast was made possible thanks to the support of the Hewlett Foundation’s Cyber Initiative. They’ve provided us with grant funding so we can do feature podcasts that will be of interest to people working in policy roles. The idea is educate people working in policy about issues that they’re in a position to do something about.

In this interview we spoke with Kim Grauer, the head of research at Chainalysis.

Chainalysis makes software that cryptocurrency exchanges, regulators, law enforcement and intelligence services use to get insight into what’s happening in terms of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies moving around. You would have heard us talk about their reports in the news segment of Risky Biz a few times because they have a habit of publishing really interesting insights into things like the ransomware economy.

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

All the Exchange boxes on the planet have pretty much been owned lol

See above

Someone’s hacking Russian crime forums

The Accellion scandal keeps on truckin’

Dependency confusion attacks are going berserk in the wild

Gab got owned. Again.

John McAfee is in all sorts of trouble

Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by Nucleus Security. Its director of APAC operations, Gil Azaria, joins us in this week’s sponsor interview to talk about how he became a Nucleus customer before he joined the vendor as its APAC guy.

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