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The FBI warns of online file converters that distribute malware, China backdoors Juniper router, a wave of ransomware hits Taiwan, and North Korean spyware slips into the Play Store.
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Tom Uren and Patrick Gray discuss how X is actively engaging in political interference outside the US. The risks mirror those of TikTok. American legislators moved against TikTok because it could potentially be a powerful tool for the Chinese government to interfere with American political discourse. X is a realised threat, not a potential one, so we expect that foreign governments will start to consider a ban.
They also explore why mass firing of probationary employees in NSA and intelligence agencies is particularly damaging.
This episode is also available on Youtube.
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A Pro Palestinian group claims credit for the X DDoS, CISA gets a new director as DOGE fires its red teams, and Asian scam compounds keep growing.
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In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about what Europe should do given that US security guarantees are evaporating. Should Europe grow its cyber capabilities, what it would get out of it and how should it go about doing it?
This episode is also available on Youtube.
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Mobile browsers patch a passkey phishing vector, researchers find undocumented commands in a common IoT chip, the US government cuts election security funding, and a hacker steals – and then returns – funds from DeFi platform 1inch.
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In this Risky Business News sponsor interview, Catalin Cimpanu talks with Andrew Morris, founder of security firm GreyNoise. Andrew talks about the major trends in mass internet scanning and exploitation, as per GreyNoise’s yearly threat report.
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The US indicts the i-Soon and APT27 hackers, the BADBOX botnet gets disrupted again,authorities seize the Garantex crypto exchange, and the FBI arrests hackers who stole Taylor Swift concert tickets.
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In this podcast Tom Uren and Patrick Gray discuss how Starlink is providing an internet lifeline for scam compounds that have had their internet access cut by Thai authorities. Starlink has a very poor track record dealing with unauthorised use, but it is time for the company to develop the processes to keep on top of these problems.
They also discuss how President Trump’s actions that favour Russia will make Five Eyes partners take stock, particularly when it comes to HUMINT intelligence sharing.
Finally they examine the did-it-happen-or-not stand-down of US Cyber Command’s Russian operations.
This episode is also available on Youtube.
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Researchers turn any Bluetooth device into an AirTag tracker, VMware patches three ESXi zero-days, France debates encryption backdoors, and a fifth of the stolen Bybit funds are now untraceable.
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In this Risky Business Talks interview we invited Will Thomas to talk about the recent leak of internal chats from the Black Basta ransomware group. Will is a SANS Instructor, co-author of the SANS FOR589 course, and the co-founder of a community research project for CTI analysts called Curated Intelligence. Will walks us through the Black Basta leak and uses the group’s attack on US healthcare provider Ascension to break down how the gang operated.
Show notes Risky Bulletin: BlackBasta implodes, internal chats leak online BlackBasta’s internal chats just got exposed BlackBasta Chat Logs BlackBastaGPT BlackBasta Leaks: Lessons from the Ascension Health attack Inside the Black Basta Leak: How Ransomware Operators Gain Access -
In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq take a deep dive into incident response reports from Chinese cybersecurity firms that attribute the hack of one of the country’s top seven defence universities to the US National Security Agency. These reports were collated and translated into English by the security researcher known as Inversecos (https://x.com/inversecos).
This episode is also available on Youtube.
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The Trump administration stops treating Russian hackers as a threat, Meta seeks a permanent NSO injunction, new Cellebrite zero-days come to light, and big name Russian cyber criminals get … home detention.
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In this Risky Business News sponsor interview, Catalin Cimpanu talks with Toni de la Fuente, founder and CEO of cloud security firm Prowler. Toni talks about his company’s latest effort, the Open Cloud Security Movement, an initiative to get more cloud security vendors to open-source their core projects.
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Cellebrite bans Serbia from using its products, Chinese hackers breached the Belgian security service, the Republican National Committee hid a Chinese hack and Microsoft removes malicious extensions from the VSCode Marketplace.
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Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about the White House apparently considering kicking Canada out of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance to apply pressure on the country. It’s a terrible idea and even thinking about it undermines the strength of the alliance.
They also discuss Sweden’s proposed legislation that would order apps like WhatsApp and Signal to store messages so they could be provided under warrant to authorities. The story is a vignette of the ongoing encryption debate, but we think apps like Signal will leave the country rather than comply.
Finally, they talk about how the illicit cryptocurrency ecosystem is evolving in response to government action such as takedowns and sanctions.
This episode is also available on Youtube.
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Signal threatens to leave Sweden over backdoor request, the EU sanctions a North Korean general linked to two APTs, Australia bans Kaspersky products on government systems and Google will use QR codes for Gmail authentication.
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In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom, Uren and The Grugq examine the fundamental principles of network exploitation as described in Matthew Monte’s ‘Network Attacks and Exploitation: A Framework’ book using recent hacks as case studies.
This episode is also available on Youtube.
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North Korean hackers steal one and a half billion dollars from Bybit, Apple disables iCloud backup encryption in the UK, stream-jacking hits the e-sports world and Palau faces its third ransomware attack in six years.
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In this Risky Business News sponsor interview, Catalin Cimpanu talks with Aaron Attarzadeh, Enterprise Security Engineer at Nucleus. Aaron goes into new concepts for the vulnerability management scene, such as asset correlation and asset linking.
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The BlackBasta ransomware group implodes, Russian military hackers target Signal with QR codes, Microsoft patches a Power Pages zero-day, and Meta sues a man who hacked accounts and extorted users.
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