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C2-as-a-service with APTs as the customers. Cyberespionage activity by Indian APTs. Gamers under attack. StarLink limits Ukrainian access to its systems. The EU levies new sanctions against “digital information manipulation.” Ukraine's Security Service takes down money-laundering exchanges. Ben Yelin unpacks fediverse security risks. Our guests are Mike Marty, CEO of The Retired Investigators Guil...

The US issues a National Cyber Workforce and Education strategy. Hunting Chinese malware staged in US networks. CISA warns of Barracuda backdoor. WikiLoader malware is discovered. P2Pinfect is a malware botnet targeting publicly-accessible Redis servers. Johannes Ullrich from SANS describes attacks against YouTube content creators. Rick Howard previews his conversation with AWS Ciso CJ Moses. And...

Morgan Adamski from the National Security Agency (NSA) sits down to talk about her path to getting into cybersecurity. Remembering back to when she was a kid, she recalls using old technology to chat with friends online, that's where it all began for Morgan. She shares how in high school she fell in love with the concept of debating and being on a team. During her high school career, 9/11 occurred...

Ashlee Benge from ReversingLabs discussing their research titled "Operation Brainleeches: Malicious npm packages fuel supply chain and phishing attacks." Researchers recently discovered over a dozen malicious packages published to the npm open source repository. These packages are targeting Microsoft 365 users and appear to target application end users while also supporting email phishing campaign...

A joint warning on IDOR vulnerabilities. IcedID’s BackConnect protocol evolves over one year. Cl0p claims to have accessed data from another Big Four accounting firm. Ransomware victims increased significantly in 2023. Cyberattacks support influence operations. Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology Anne Neuberger joins us to discuss the Biden Administration's recent cy...

The Mirai botnet afflicts Tomcat. CardioComm services are downed by cyberattack. Uptycs calls infostealers “organization killers" as related security incidents double in a year. Legacy third-party risk management practices meet with dissatisfaction. Cyber skill gaps reported in the UK's workforce. Our guest is George Prichici of OPSWAT with a look at a Microsoft Teams vulnerability. Our new Threat...

FraudGPT is a chatbot with malign intent. Stealer logs in the C2C market. Signs in the blockchain that some Conti alumni are working with the Akira gang. Tim Starks from Washington Post's Cybersecurity 202 on the White House’s new National Cyber Director nominee. Maria Varmazis speaks with David Luber, Deputy Director of NSA's Cybersecurity Directorate, on space systems as critical infrastructure....

A zero-day attack of undetermined origin targets government offices in Norway. Russia accuses the US of cyber aggression. Data breaches exact a rising cost. 74% of survey respondents say their company would pay ransom to recover stolen or encrypted data. Executives and security teams differ in their perception of cyber threat readiness. Mr. Security Answer Person John Pescatore looks at risk metri...

North Korea's increasingly supple cyber offensives. A look at Cl0p. The NetSupport RAT's fake update vectors. HotRat is a Trojan that accompanies illegally pirated software and games. Crackable radio encryption standard: a bug or a feature? Chris Novak from Verizon discusses ransomware through the lens of the DBIR. Carole Theriault describes a ransomware attack that hit close to home. And an alleg...

Don Welch, Chief Information Officer from New York University sits down to share his exciting start into his cyber career. Much like many other people who started in this industry, Don went into the military, which is where it all started for him. He was told he needed to take two specialties, and so along with mechanical engineering, he decided to go into computer science as well. After taking hi...

With the relentless advancements in technology and a workforce more digitally-enabled than ever before, businesses today face an unprecedented challenge of protecting their sensitive information from cybercriminals. Infostealer malware, often disguised as innocuous files or hidden within legitimate-looking emails, stealthily infiltrate employee and contractor devices – managed and unmanaged – exfi...

Joshua Miller from Proofpoint joins Dave to discuss findings on "Welcome to New York: Exploring TA453's Foray into LNKs and Mac Malware." In mid May, TA453, also known as Charming Kitten, APT42, Mint Sandstorm, and Yellow Garuda, was found sending a benign conversation lure masquerading as a senior fellow with the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) to the public media contact for a nuclear sec...

The Lazarus Group targets developers. Threat actors target the banking sector with fake LinkedIn profiles and open source supply chain attacks. Vulnerabilities reported in OpenMeetings. HTML smuggling is sold in the C2C market. Johannes Ullrich from SANS describes attacks against niche web apps. Our guest is Damir Brecic of Inversion6 discussing the privacy and security concerns of Meta's new Thre...

Sophos analyzes malvertising through purchased Google Ads. The MOVEit vulnerability is remediated faster than most. The DeliveryCheck backdoor is used against Ukrainian targets. SORM is under stress. Ukrainian police roll up another bot farm working in support of Russian influence operations. AJ Nash from ZeroFox provides insights on the White House cybersecurity labeling program. David Moulton fr...

Vulnerabilities are identified and patched in Citrix Netscaler products and Adobe Coldfusion. The banking sector should be monitoring the dark web for leaked credentials and insider threats. Spyware vendors are added to the US Entity List. WhatsApp accounts may be at risk. Verizon’s Chris Novak shares insights on Log4j from this year’s DBIR. Our guest is Candid Wüest of Acronis discussing the find...

The US Federal government issues voluntary security guidelines. Possible privilege escalation within Google Cloud. An APT compromises JumpCloud. FIN8 reworks its Sardonic backdoor and continues its shift to ransomware. Ben Yelin looks at privacy legislation coming out of Massachusetts. Our guest is Alastair Parr of Prevalent discussing GDPR and third party risk. And some noteworthy Russian cyber c...

WormGPT is a new AI threat. TeamTNT seems to be back. Chinese intelligence services actively pursue British MPs. Gamaredon's quick info theft. Russia’s FSB bans Apple devices. The troll farmers of the Internet Research Agency may not yet be down for the count. Anonymous Sudan claims a "demonstration" attack against PayPal, with more to come. Carole Theriault looks at popular email lures. My conver...

Jennifer Addie, COO and CWO from VentureScope and MACH37 Cyber Accelerator sits down to share her incredible story, bringing creativity into the cyber community. Growing up Jennifer always loved the human side of things, and learning that she had a knack for computers helped her to realize what type of field she wanted to pursue as an adult. She started working jobs dealing in programming, databas...

Michael Clark from Sysdig joins with Dave to discuss their research on SCARLETEEL 2.0: Fargate, Kubernetes, and Crypto. New research from Sysdig threat researchers found that the group continues to thrive with improved tactics. Most recently, they gained access to AWS Fargate, a more sophisticated environment to breach, thanks to their upgraded attack tools. The research states "In their most rece...

Developments in the case of China's cyberespionage against government Exchange users. Industrial controller vulnerabilities pose a risk to critical infrastructure. USB attacks have risen three-fold in the first half of 2023. CISA adds two vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. Ghostwriter's continued activity focuses on Poland and Ukraine. Hacktivist auxiliaries swap DDoS...

CISA and the FBI issue a joint Cybersecurity Advisory on exploitation of Microsoft Exchange Online. Implementing the US National Cybersecurity Strategy. FortiGuard discovers a new LokiBot campaign. Training code turns out to be malicious in a new proof-of-concept attack discovered on GitHub. Russia resumes its pursuit of a "sovereign Internet." The GRU's offensive cyber tactics. Chris Novak from V...

A Chinese threat actor hits US organizations with a Microsoft cloud exploit. Open source tools allow threat actors to exploit a loophole in Microsoft's kernel driver authentication procedures. A RomCom update. Beamer phishbait, email extortion attacks and digital blackmail. A new report concludes companies allowing personal employee devices onto their network are opening themselves to attack. Tim...

NATO considers Article 5 in cyberspace, while Cyberattacks conducted in the Russian interest target the NATO summit. Anonymous Sudan remains a nuisance-level irritant. Cl0p's surprising use of MOVEit exploits. Asylum Ambuscade is a case study in privateering. There are reports of a breach at Razer. An indictment in a cyber incident at a California water treatment facility. Genesis Market's fire sa...

New phishing campaigns afflict users of Microsoft 365 and Adobe. An analysis of Big Head ransomware. Multichain reports a crypto heist with over $100 million stolen. CISA makes an addition to the Known Exploited Vulnerability Catalog. Progress Software issues additional MOVEit patches. The FBI’s Deputy Assistant Director for Cyber Cynthia Kaiser joins us with examples of the agency’s technical dis...

Eric Tillman, Chief Intelligence Officer at N2K Networks sits down and shares his incredibly creative journey. Eric loved being creative from a young age. When he started to think about a career he wanted to incorporate his love of creativity into his love for tech and turn it into an intelligence career. Eric started by joining the Navy, which set him on this path to work in cyber where he shared...