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Episode Synopsis
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news:
Cyber firms agree to deconflict and cross-reference hacker group names
Russian nuclear facility blueprints gathered from public procurement websites
Someone audio deepfaked the White House Chief of Staff, but for the dumbest reasons
Germany identifies the Trickbot kingpin
Google spots China’s MSS using Calendar events for malware C2
Meta apps abuse localhost listeners to track web sessions.
This week’s episode is sponsored by automation vendor Tines. Its Field CISO, Matt Muller, joins the show to discuss an open letter penned by JP Morgan Chase’s CISO that pleads with Software as a Service suppliers to try to suck less at security.
This episode is also available on Youtube.
Show notes
'Forest Blizzard' vs 'Fancy Bear' - cyber companies hope to untangle weird hacker nicknames | Reuters
Ukraine's Massive Drone Attack Was Powered by Open Source Software
Massive security breach: Russian nuclear facilities exposed online
How a Spyware App Compromised Assad’s Army - New Lines Magazine
Exclusive | Federal Authorities Probe Effort to Impersonate White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles - WSJ
Malaysian home minister’s WhatsApp hacked, used to scam contacts | The Record from Recorded Future News
U.S. Sanctions Cloud Provider ‘Funnull’ as Top Source of ‘Pig Butchering’ Scams – Krebs on Security
Top counter antivirus service disrupted in global takedown | CyberScoop
Cops in Germany Claim They’ve ID’d the Mysterious Trickbot Ransomware Kingpin | WIRED
Australian ransomware victims now must tell the government if they pay up | The Record from Recorded Future News
Google: China-backed hackers hiding malware in calendar events | Cybersecurity Dive
Coinbase breach linked to customer data leak in India, sources say | Reuters
US military IT specialist arrested for allegedly trying to leak secrets to foreign government | The Record from Recorded Future News
NSO appeals WhatsApp decision, says it can’t pay $168 million in ‘unlawful’ damages | The Record from Recorded Future News
ConnectWise says nation-state attack targeted multiple ScreenConnect customers | The Record from Recorded Future News
Google Online Security Blog: Sustaining Digital Certificate Security - Upcoming Changes to the Chrome Root Store
Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers - Ars Technica
An Open Letter to Third-Party Suppliers
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