Risky Bulletin
Regular cybersecurity news updates from the Risky Business team...
Episodes
In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq dive into the motivations and actions of Predatory Sparrow, a purported hacktivist group that has been attacking Iran for the last five years and has leapt into the Iran-Israel war.
This episode is also available on Youtube.
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The White House rejects the Pentagon’s nominee for NSA & CyberCom leader, the FCC probes the US Cyber Trust Mark program, a cyberattack disrupts Russia’s animal products industry, and hackers leak data about everyone in Paraguay.
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In this Risky Bulletin sponsor interview Fletcher Heisler, CEO of Authentik, talks to Tom Uren about the inflection points that make organisations consider rationalising their Identity Providers (IdPs). The pair also discuss sovereign tech stacks and how to earn the trust of customers.
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Russian hackers abuse app-specific passwords to bypass multi-factor, the tenth Salt Typhoon victim is identified, Predatory Sparrow destroys $90 million from an Iranian crypto-exchange, and Argentina arrests a Russian disinfo gang.
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Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about a Minnesota man who used people-search services to locate, stalk and eventually murder political targets.
They also discuss purported hacktivist group Predatory Sparrow weighing in on the Iran-Israel conflict. It has attacked Iran’s financial system including a bank associated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp and also burnt USD$90 million worth of cryptoc...
An Israeli-linked hacktivist group claims attack on Iranian bank, Chrome gets a new prompt to prevent local network attacks, a Century-old German napkin company goes under following ransomware attack, and Europol takes down the Archetyp dark web market.
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In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq take a look at a new AI-powered covert influence campaign and compare it to World War 2 efforts.
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Email accounts compromised at the Washington Post, shady email provider Cock.li gets hacked, hackers steal data from a French university, and the EU invests €145 million in hospital cybersecurity.
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In this Risky Bulletin sponsor interview Michael Leland, Field CTO of Island, talks about how Island manages risks from extensions, phishing and infostealers. Even when credentials are stolen, it is still not game over and there are still ways to prevent data loss and breaches.
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Intellexa is alive and well despite US sanctions, Paragon spyware used a zero-click iMessage exploit, South Korea’s largest online bookstore gets ransomwared, and law enforcement takes down several cybercrime operations.
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Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about how a Trump executive order has scaled back the government’s cyber security ambitions. The carrots and sticks that would have been used to encourage organisations to adopt stricter security standards are gone.
They also discuss North Korea’s use of AI in its IT worker scam and the emergence of espionage-as-a-service… perhaps.
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SentinelOne dodges a Chinese APT hack, anonymous sources point to more Salt Typhoon victims, a cyberattack disrupts grocery deliveries in the US, and 140 arrested in Kazakhstan for selling citizens’ data.
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In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq take a look at the hackers of Unit 29155, Russian military intelligence’s sabotage and assassination group.
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The EU launches its own DNS service, Trump revises previous administrations’ cyber executive orders, a supply chain attack hits popular NPM packages, and mysterious iOS attacks spotted in the wild.
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In this sponsored interview, Casey Ellis interviews Push Security co-founder and Chief Product Officer Jacques Louw about how good phishing crews have gotten at evading detection.
Attackers are hiding their payloads behind legitimate bot-detection tools to stop things like email security gateways from seeing them, as well as locking up phishing pages behind OAuth challenges.
Push sees all this becau...
A hacking group goes after Salesforce data, the FBI takes down the BidenCash carding forum, China offers rewards for Taiwanese military hackers, and high risk bugs are patched in enterprise software from HPE and Infoblox.
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Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about how Operation Endgame, the multinational law enforcement effort to tackle ransomware is approaching the problem holisitically. It’s tackling the enablers of ransomware and although it won’t eliminate the crime, it’ll make it harder for criminals.
They also discuss the spyware app that helped to dismantle the Syrian regime, at least maybe a little bit, and how Russ...
A spyware app infected the Syrian Army’s soldiers before the regime collapsed, NSO appeals its WhatsApp verdict, Chrome and Qual-comm patch zero-days, and an emergency services information sharing group shuts down.
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In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq look at NSA’s take on information warfare, all the way back from 1997.
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Law enforcement agencies take down A-V-Check, four US Senators urge for the reinstatement of the Cyber Safety Review Board, Germany identifies the leader of the TrickBot gang, and an AI-vibe-coding platform leaks user data and API keys.
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