ConversingLabs Podcast

Emotet is one of the most prolific pieces of malware on the Internet. What started as software designed to hijack online banking sessions is now a Swiss Army Knife of ill intent, including features for botnets, spam distribution and malicious downloads.  Even worse, Emotet has been embraced by one of the Internet’s most dangerous groups: Conti (aka Wizard Spider), the Russia-based ransomware outfi...

The Conti ransomware group —a.k.a. Wizard Spider; a.k.a. TrickBot; a.k.a Ryuk—is one of the most prolific ransomware gangs around. It is believed to have been active, in various incarnations, since about 2016. Just in the last year, Conti is believed to be responsible for high profile attacks, including the city government in Tulsa, Oklahoma and Ireland's Health Executive service in May, 2021. Eve...

Even before Russian tanks began rolling across Ukraine’s borders on February 24, the cyber war on the country had begun. In the days before the kinetic war began, a string of attacks battered Ukrainian government, defense and civil society websites and networks. Among them: massive denial of service attacks and targeted malware attacks. In this episode of ConversingLabs, host Paul Roberts speaks w...