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Viktoria hosts this week’s episode in London with Phillip Doherty and Adam Cook. After a quick debate around the top trending sports at the moment, the team digs into the first story of the week: Tortoiseshell Group (a newly identified threat group) has reportedly conducted some supply chain attack campaigns against 11 IT providers in Saudi Arabia. Next they look at two new malware variants that h...

It’s Harrison and Alex this week for your threat intelligence updates. The guys first dig into the NCSC’s recent threat trends report, the first of these that the NCSC has put out. It’s UK-specific, so just like we’ve shared thoughts around the FBI IC3 annual report in the past, which is heavily geared toward the US, it’s good to look across the pond as well. The team digs into 3 main areas: - Off...

In this episode, Viktoria interviews Eliza May Austin (CEO & Co-Founder of th4ts3cur1ty.company), and our own Richard Gold and James Chappell on Purple Teaming, a security assessment that combines both blue teaming and red teaming. The team discusses:- How do we make the blue and red teams collaborate better?- Is purple teaming a cost-effective measure when it comes to a less mature organizati...

Viktoria Austin is joined by Adam Cook and Phil Dohetry this week in the London office to talk about the top story this week: Metasploit Project publishes exploit for Bluekeep bug. Our Photon Research Team tested the Metasploit exploit in their lab environment and has successfully exploited an unpatched Windows 7 machine. “The exploit not only gives the attacker remote access to a target system, b...

Alex, Alec, and Harrison are in the room today discussing 3 top stories from the week. First up - a hacker deploys Ryuk ransomware against the city of New Bedford, Massachusetts, demanding $5.3 million. What was interesting, though, was that the city tried to negotiate with the attackers for a lower ransom of $400k, but the attackers didn’t want it and ended up cutting off communications. Next the...

Rick Holland and Alex Guirakhoo join Harrison Van Riper this week to talk through more Sodinokibi activity. Just yesterday, a cloud hosting provider for Digital Dental Records was hit with Sodinokibi, apparently affecting around 400 different dental providers around the US. It seems like were hearing about more and more people actually paying out these ransom demands. Do we think it’s just a repor...

Brian Neely, CIO and CISO at American Systems and Rick Holland, CISO at Digital Shadows join Harrison for a discussion around how Brian approaches cybersecurity as a defense contractor. American Systems has been delivering complex IT and engineering solutions to national priority programs since 1975 and has some interesting use cases. The group discusses:- Top cybersecurity concerns as a third par...

Charles Ragland (a brand new ShadowTalk-er!) and Christian Rencken join Harrison this week to discuss an outbreak of ransomware attacks impacting local government entities across Texas. The team also discusses some phishing attacks that are using custom 404 pages and how Google is starting to remove FTP support from Chrome. They wrap up this episode with the question of the week: Which future tech...

What practical steps should organizations and the professionals within them be thinking about in this new world? We have a special two-part series where Rick Holland, VP Intelligence and CISO at Digital Shadows, interviews Bob Anderson, CEO at Cyber Defense Labs and James Chappell, co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer at Digital Shadows. In part 2, the team looks at:- Steps you can take into yo...

Harrison is back! Alex and Christian join this week to discuss how Black Hat and DEFCON went last week, analyze the irregularities of the dark web criminal market, Nightmare, and explore the story reported by Krebs on the SEC investigation into the data leak at First American Financial Corp. Shout-out to all of our new listeners - thanks for your interest and let us know what we can do to continue...

It seems like we read about new breaches every day. What’s changing? How is exposure and the adoption of digital technology changing the breach landscape? We have a special two-part series where Rick Holland, VP Intelligence and CISO at Digital Shadows, interviews Bob Anderson, CEO at Cyber Defense Labs (https://cyberdefenselabs.com/) and James Chappell, co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer at...

Move out of the way, Harrison! We have a brand new host this week: Viktoria Austin, Strategy and Research Analyst, and Photon Research Team member. Viktoria is joined this week by Rose Bernard and Xueyin Peh in the London office. In a malspam campaign, “Sodinokibi” targeted users in Germany using a spoofed Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) email domain and a data breach-themed lure, wh...

Thinking about deploying 2FA? In this special interview, our Head of Cyber Security & IT, Craig Ellis, and our Head of Security Engineering, Dr. Richard Gold, chat with Harrison around how they implemented 2FA internally. The guys discuss proper ways to go about implementing 2FA, some of the issues with implementing 2FA, what happens when things break, and other advice they wish they were give...

Christian (@Chrencken14) and Travis (@puppyozone) sit down with Harrison (@pseudohvr) to discuss even more BlueKeep updates since last week, as a technical presentation gets uploaded to Github, inching us closer to a full-blown public PoC. the breach and subsequent release of documents from a contractor working with Russia’s FSB intelligence services, and research from the Digital Shadows team abo...

Director of Threat Intelligence at McDonald’s, Brian Hillegas, speaks with Harrison (@pseudohvr) and CISO Rick Holland (@rickhholland) about where to align your security priorities, the importance of operating cross-functionally in your organization, what the biggest threats are in the cyber landscape at the moment, and what they’re looking forward to at Black Hat and DEF CON this year. The team w...

Harrison (@pseudohvr), Alex, and Travis (@puppyozone) talk about the recent FaceApp shenanigans and why they’re actually not that shocking as some reports indicate. Researchers indicate that thousands of systems are still vulnerable to the BlueKeep RDP vulnerability. With a public proof of concept yet to be released, could this be the reason why? Finally, Harrison loves some cryptocurrency news, s...

Harrison interviews Deputy CISO at Accenture, Jason Lewkowicz, and CISO at Digital Shadows, Rick Holland. The group discusses the importance of working functionally as a security team, cyber response plans, and how to keep your security playbooks up to date. Jason also discusses how his team uses Digital Shadows SearchLight™ within their day to day processes. Heading to Black Hat and/or DefCon? Me...

Kacey (@sudosu_kacey) and Alex join Harrison (@pseudohvr) to walk through this week’s threat intelligence stories. Alex walks us through the highlight story this week: TA505 uses new tools, old tactics in global attacks. Kacey then digs into the zero-day vulnerability identified in Zoom’s macOS software. We also discuss new Magecart activity, the Sodinokibi ransomware, and what our ShadowTalk-ers...

Harrison (@pseudohvr) is joined by Digital Shadows co-founder and Data Privacy Officer, James Chappell (@jimmychappell), as well as CISO Rick Holland (@rickhholland), to discuss the news this week around Marriott’s GDPR fines. The team talks through initial thoughts and observations, what it means for global privacy and regulation, and what we can expect moving forward.  And if you have examples o...

This week Alex and Phil join Harrison to discuss Operation Soft Cell, a campaign that has been actively compromising telecommunications organizations since early 2017. Other highlights from the week include focus on a new cyber espionage campaign, known as Operation BouncingGolf, targeting Middle Eastern individuals’ mobile devices; the Russia-associated threat group “Turla”, which has demonstrate...

This week Alex and Jamie (@TheCollierJam) chat with Harrison (@pseudohvr) on a cyber-threat campaign involving the abuse of legitimate features in Google Calendar. Then they dive into other highlights from the week including the expansion of sector targeting by destructive threat group “Xenotime”, exploitation of a vulnerability affecting Exim email servers, and continued targeting of the transpor...

This week Harrison (@pseudohvr) is joined by Travis (@puppyozone) and Alec to discuss the security stories of the week including a fileless malware attack delivers cryptocurrency miner to China, a return from FIN8 with a backdoor for the hospitality industry, a popular flaw exploited in a tailored spam campaign, and MuddyWater expanding tactic repertoire in Middle Eastern attacks. Then Digital Sha...

Alex and Christian join HVR this week to discuss the Linux malware “HiddenWasp” (along with HVR’s hatred of the insect), the BlackSquid malware, and updated campaign activity from TA505 and Turla threat groups. Then, Harrison sits down with Dr. Richard Gold, head of Security Engineering at Digital Shadows, to discuss Photon Research’s most recent report Too Much Information: The Sequel. Be sure to...

Alex Guirakhoo and newcomer to the pod Travis Randall (@puppyozone) join HVR this week to discuss updates to the JasperLoader malware loader, APT28’s newly observed link shortening technique, Gnosticplayers allegedly stole information from an Australian graphics design companies, and APT10 malware loaders. After that, Richard Gold (@drshellface) and Simon Hall (@5ecur1tySi) discuss the Remote Desk...

Jamie Collier and Phil Doherty join HVR on this week’s ShadowTalk, discussing the RDP vulnerability that has everyone sweating, CVE-2019-0708. Patch those systems, because there’s a few different proof of concept exploits circulating around online. Then, the guys discuss a new MuddyWater obfuscation technique, updates to the Trickbot banking trojan, and there’s some sad MongoDB owners out there fo...