Risky Business

In this week’s edition of the show Patrick Gray and guest co-host Dmitri Alperovitch discuss: Major telco in Ukraine taken down by Russia Apple and Facebook go all in on e2ee Why 702 reauthorisation is looking a bit sketchy The USG wants your push notifications The year in review, plus some predictions for 2024 This week’s show is brought to you by Thinkst Canary. Haroon Meer, Thinkst’s founder, is this week’s sponsor guest. He joins us to talk about APT groups pivoting to living-off-the-land techniques.

In this Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast Patrick Gray talks to Island’s Bradon Rogers about security-focussed, enterprise browsers. You can use Island to do stuff like grant third parties access to corporate applications on unmanaged devices in a not insane way – that’s a huge pain point for a lot of CISOs, and something that is bringing a lot of new customers through Island’s doors. Obviously for devices you do manage, you can roll Island out as your default enterprise browser. There are a lot of security benefits to doing that.

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They cover: Iran-linked attacks on US water infrastructure Why the ownCloud bug isn’t the end of the world The D-Link 0day that… never existed? In defence of Okta Much, much more This week’s show is brought to you by Proofpoint. Ryan Kalember, Proofpoint’s EVP of Cybersecurity Strategy, is this week’s sponsor guest. Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Mastodon if that’s your thing. Show notes CISA warns of threat groups exploiting Unitronics PLCs in water treatment hacks | Cybersecurity Dive North Texas water utility the latest suspected industrial ransomware target | Cybersecurity Dive Florida water

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They cover: The Citrixbleed ransomware crisis Why the FBI hasn’t arrested Scattered Spider members DPRK is in your supply chains Microsoft has a brainwave and buys a HSM When civil war meets pig butchering Much, much more This week’s show is brought to you by Airlock Digital. David Cottingham and Daniel Schell are this week’s sponsor guests. Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Mastodon if that’s your thing. Show notes ‘Citrix Bleed’ vulnerability targeted by nation-state and criminal hackers: CISA Australian ports operator recovering after major cyber incident Minister lashes DP World hack failure

In this Soap Box podcast Patrick Gray talks to Material Security’s CEO and co-founder Abhishek Agrawal about the security problems inherent to modern productivity suites. Does it make sense that threat actors can authenticate to o365 and Workspace accounts and clean them out entirely? Years of mail, years of files? Material Security has built a product that tackles this issue. It can lock up email archives behind MFA challenges, redact PII from inboxes, better control files share via Google Drive and OneDrive, and just generally limit the damage a threat actor can inflict when they compromise a cloud productivity account. Even if you’re not interested in buying a product to tackle this, we think this one is a great listen.

On this week’s show Patrick Gray talks through the news with Chris Krebs and Dmitri Alperovitch. They discuss: The SEC enforcement action against Solarwinds’ CISO The White House AI Executive Order CitrixBleed exploitation goes wide How Kaspersky captured some (likely) Five Eyes iOS 0day Elon Musk’s Gaza Strip adventures Much, much more This week’s show is brought to you by Greynoise. Andrew Morris, Greynoise’s founder and CEO, is this week’s sponsor guest. He talks about how Greynoise is using large language models to help them analyse massive quantities of malicious internet traffic. Show notes comp-pr2023-227.pdf Biden signs executive order to oversee and invest in AI tech Risky Biz News: CitrixBleed vulnerability goes from ba

In this edition of the Soap Box we hear from Mike Wiacek and Eric Foster from Stairwell. Stairwell makes a product that collects and analyses every executable file in your environment. You deploy file collectors to your systems and they forward all new files to Stairwell for manual and automated analysis. You can do a lot of really cool analysis once you have all that stuff in the same place. But as you’ll hear, Stairwell is broadening out the use cases for its platform. You don’t want to forward files from every system? You don’t have to. It’s still very useful as an analysis platform. It’s sort of like VirusTotal, but private and with a bunch more bells and whistles. There’s also a bunch of sharing tools in the platform, which gives it a “social network for CTI nerds” flavour.

On this week’s show Patrick Gray talks through the news with Dmitri Alperovitch, NSA Cybersecurity director Rob Joyce and NSA CCC director Morgan Adamski. They discuss: The Okta breach 40-50k feral Ciscos Why the http/2 protocol flaw is a real headache The Ragnar Locker takedown What the NSA CCC has been thinking about This week’s show is brought to you by Socket. Socket’s founder Feross Aboukhadijeh joins us this week to talk about their actually-not-crazy use of large language models in their product. Show notes Hackers Stole Access Tokens from Okta’s Support Unit – Krebs on Security Almost 42K Cisco IOS XE devices exploited, no patch available | Cybersecurity Dive Critical Atlassian Confluence CVE under exploit by prolific state-l

Patrick Gray speaks to Yubico’s Jerrod Chong about how organisations can better verify the identities of users when performing MFA resets. In other words, how to not get MGM’d. He also talks about the chain-of-trust issues inherent to synchronisable passkey implementations.

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Lina Lau discuss the week’s security news. They cover: Microsoft has killed VBScript Google to make passkeys the new default sign-in method MGM losses to exceed $100m Clorox has a bad quarter Why a bug in cURL could be really bad news Much, much more This week’s show is brought to you by KSOC. Jimmy Mesta, KSOC’s co-founder and CTO, is this week’s sponsor guest. He talks to us about how we can start applying real, actual IAM to Kubernetes environments. Show notes Deprecated features in the Windows client - What's new in Windows | Microsoft Learn Google Makes Passkeys Default, Stepping Up Its Push to Kill Passwords | WIRED AWS kicks off cloud race to mandate MFA by default | Cybersecurity

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They cover: Ransomware crews target WS_FTP and Jetbrains servers Global energy supply shapes up as big target The Dossier Center drops another banger Indian nationalists DDoS Canadian targets A look at the Exim drama Much, much more This week’s show is brought to you by Kroll Cyber. George Glass is this week’s sponsor guest. Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Mastodon if that’s your thing. Show notes Multiple exploits hit Progress Software’s WS_FTP Server | Cybersecurity Dive Progress Software discloses 8 vulnerabilities in one of its other file-transfer services | Cybersecurity Dive Progress Soft

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Dmitri Alperovitch discuss the week’s security news. They cover: How western youths are working with Russian ransomware crews Russia has changed its targeting in Ukraine A massive breach of historical Russian flight information is god’s gift to OSINT orgs Cisco buys Splunk for $28bn Much, much more This week’s show is brought to you by Panther. Its field CISO Ken Westin is this week’s sponsor guest. Links to everything that we discussed are below. Show notes MGM Resorts says hotel, casino operations back up and running | Cybersecurity Dive MGM Resorts warns customers of fraud as it faces class action lawsuits | Cybersecurity Dive mgmkirwan - DocumentCloud Cross-Tenant Im

In this edition of Snake Oilers you’ll hear product pitches from: Sublime Security: e-mail security for people who want to tune their detections Vulncheck: Provides vulnerability intelligence to governments, large enterprises and vendors Devicie: Manage your devices with Intune without pulling your hair out Show notes sublime.security VulnCheck - Outpace Adversaries Cloud-native device management platform | Devicie

On this week’s show Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and Lina Lau discuss the week’s security news. They cover: Microsoft’s 38TB oopsie MGM’s Okta compromised, was this what Okta was warning us about? Why we need a cyber knife fight Google Authenticator sync abused in the wild Much, much more This week’s show is brought to you by Push Security. Co-founder Adam Bateman is this week’s sponsor guest. Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Mastodon if that’s your thing. Show notes Microsoft AI researchers exposed sensitive signing keys, internal messages | CyberScoop Wiz on X: "

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They cover: How Storm-0558 stole Microsoft’s signing key Cisco 0day being used by ransomware crews We were right about Elon stumbling into the Ukraine war Someone’s amazing image library 0day just got crushed Much, much more! This week’s show is brought to you by Nucleus Security. Co-founder Scott Kuffer is this week’s sponsor guest. Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Mastodon if that’s your thing. Show notes Results of Major Technical Investigations for Storm-0558 Key Acquisition | MSRC Blog | Microsoft Security Response Center Microsoft reveals how hackers stole its email signing key… kind of | TechCrunch

In this edition of Snake Oilers you’ll hear product pitches from: ConductorOne: PAM, account cycle management and access auditing for cloud and SaaS accounts Bloodhound Enterprise: Enumerate attack paths in your environment and shut them down Zero Networks: Agentless, heavily automated microsegmentation and a VPN product that won’t get you insta-owned Show notes ConductorOne - Identity security & access control Home - BloodHound Enterprise Microsegmentation in a Matter of Minutes | Zero Networks

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They cover: Why everyone should pay attention to some recent attacks on Okta customers Why third party comms apps are risky af Why are Russian espionage opps using Tor for C2? Surveillance firms abuse Fiji Telco Digicel’s SS7 access Much, much more! This week’s show is brought to you by Gigamon. Mark Jow, Gigamon’s EMEA Technical Director is this week’s sponsor guest. Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Mastodon if that’s your thing. Show notes Cross-Tenant Impersonation: Prevention and Detection | Okta Security BadBazaar espionage tool targets Android users via trojanized Signal and Telegram apps NC

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They cover: The FBI takes down Qakbot, steals operators’ bitcoins ha ha Danish hosting provider completely destroyed in ransomware attack Sophisticated Russian cyber attack on Polish trains. Well. Not really. Microsoft revokes cert then revokes its revocation Much, much more! This week’s show is brought to you by Proofpoint. Ryan Kalember, Proofpoint’s EVP of cybersecurity strategy Ryan Kalember is this week’s sponsor guest. Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Mastodon if that’s your thing. Show notes US says it and partners have taken down notorious 'Qakbot' hacking network | Reuters Danish cloud host says customers

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They cover: (NOTE: This podcast was initially pushed out into the Risky Business News podcast feed in error. Sorry about that!) US Government warnings to private space sector on cyber risk Ukrainian hackers dump the inbox of Russian Duma deputy chair Absentee voting in Ecuador’s election disrupted by DDoS attack South Korea warns of Chinese “spy chips” Much, much more! This week’s show is brought to you by Airlock Digital. Its co-founders Daniel Schell and David Cottingham join this week’s show to talk about Powershell Constrained Language mode. Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Mastodon if that’s your thing. Show notes Risky Biz News: US warns spac

In this joint Risky Business and Geopolitics Decanted feature interview, Patrick Gray and Dmitri Alperovitch talk to Illia Vitiuk, the Head of the Department of Cyber and Information Security of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) about the cyber dimension to Russia’s invasion. From turning off Ukraine’s power grid with a cyber attack in 2015 to the Viasat hack in 2022, Russia’s intelligence services are world renowned for executing creative destructive cyber campaigns. Despite this, after a year and a half of Russia waging war on Ukraine its power grid is up, its telcos are functioning and its banks are still processing transactions. How has Ukraine been able to withstand Russia’s onslaught in the cyber domain? Vitiuk joins us to reveal insights into how Russian intelligence services are operating in Ukraine, and how the SBU is countering them.