Risky Business #705 -- USA's Turla takedown marks a shift in tactics
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They cover:
- Joe Sullivan’s sentencing
- MSI key material leak
- Merck to be paid in NotPetya claim
- The FBI takes down Turla’s Snake malware operation
- Much, much more
This week’s show is brought to you by Gigamon. Chaim Mazal, Gigamon’s CSO, is this week’s sponsor guest. He’s talking about how the company’s gear is acting as a data source for network security products.
Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Mastodon if that’s your thing.
Show notes
- Former Uber CSO avoids prison time for ransomware coverup | Cybersecurity Dive
- Merck cyber coverage upheld in NotPetya decision, seen as victory for policyholders | Cybersecurity Dive
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- Hunting Russian Intelligence “Snake” Malware | CISA
- Justice Department Announces Court-Authorized Disruption of Snake Malware Network Controlled by Russia’s Federal Security Service | OPA | Department of Justice
- Iranian state-sponsored hackers exploiting printer vulnerability
- Iran: Fake It Till You Make It - by Tom Uren
- Hacktivists Target Iran’s Foreign Ministry, Leak Trove Of Data
- New Cactus ransomware encrypts itself to evade antivirus
- White House considers ban on ransom payments, with caveats | Cybersecurity Dive
- Hamas armed wing announces suspension of bitcoin fundraising | Reuters
- FBI, Ukraine seize cryptocurrency exchanges for abetting cybercriminals
- Dallas still recovering from ransomware on eve of municipal election | Cybersecurity Dive
- Dallas restores core emergency dispatch systems | Cybersecurity Dive
- Hackers hijacked a university's emergency system to threaten students and faculty
- Organizations slow to patch GoAnywhere MFT vulnerability even after Clop ransomware attacks
- $10M Is Yours If You Can Get This Guy to Leave Russia – Krebs on Security
- Coming to DEF CON 31: Hacking AI models | CyberScoop
- Google Is Rolling Out Passkeys, the Password-Killing Tech, to All Accounts | WIRED
- US Court Rules for Corellium in Apple Copyright Case
- SafeGraph Lands US Air Force Contract After Targeting Abortion Clinics | WIRED
