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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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