On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:

• Apple frustrates law enforcement with iOS auto-reboot
• CISA says most KEV vulnerabilities in 2023 were first used as zero days
• Russians roll incident response on some sweet Linux spookware
• Regular users can create mailboxes in M365?
• Tor tracks down the source of its joe-job abuse complaints
• And much, much more.

This week’s feature guest is former FBI agent Chris Tarbell, who arrested Silk Road operator Ross Ulbricht way back in 2013. As suggestions swirl that an incoming Trump administration might release Ulbricht, Chris talks about the reality of the Dread Pirate Roberts.

This episode is sponsored by software supply chain security firm Socket.dev. Founder Feross Aboukhadijeh thinks that we need a CVE-like catalogue for supply-chain attacks, and he makes a solid argument.

The show is also available on Youtube.

• Jason Koebler: "New: We’ve confirmed Apple quietly introduced a feature in the new iOS that is preventing cops from hacking iPhones that they have confiscated as evidence. Apple really did say ACAB www.404media.co/apple-quietl..." — Bluesky
• Apple Quietly Introduced iPhone Reboot Code Which is Locking Out Cops
• Exclusive | U.S. Agency Warns Employees About Phone Use Amid Ongoing China Hack - WSJ
• Surge in exploits of zero-day vulnerabilities is ‘new normal’ warns Five Eyes alliance
• The Elusive GoblinRAT: How a Linux Backdoor Infiltrated Government Infrastructures
• Microsoft Bookings – Facilitating Impersonation | Cyberis Limited
• TrustedSec | EKUwu: Not just another AD CS ESC
• Russia’s internet watchdog blocks thousands of websites that use Cloudflare's privacy service
• Defending the Tor network: Mitigating IP spoofing against Tor | The Tor Project
• Law enforcement operation takes down 22,000 malicious IP addresses worldwide - Ars Technica
• Press Conference - Parliament House, Canberra | Prime Minister of Australia
• DHS nominee Kristi Noem stood alone for rejecting department cyber grants to state, local governments | CyberScoop
• Patrick Gray: "Allies will feel comfortable until these guys get fired in their first 100 days for opposing Trump’s proposed annexation of Iceland or something. People have forgotten… Trump is out of his gourd" — Bluesky

In this edition of the Risky Business Soap Box we’re talking all about email security with Sublime Security co-founder Josh Kamdjou.

Email security is one of the oldest product categories in security, but as you’ll hear, Josh thinks the incumbents are just doing it wrong. He joins Risky Business host Patrick Gray for this interview about Sublime’s origin story and its new approach to email security.

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:

• Sophos drops implants on Chinese firewall exploit devs
• Microsoft workshops better just-in-time Windows admin privileges
• Snowflake hacker arrested in Canada
• Okta has a fun, but not very impactful auth-bypass bug
• Russians bring dumb-but-smart RDP client attacks
• And much, much more.

Special guest Sophos CISO Ross McKerchar joined us to talk about its “hacking back” campaign. The full interview is available on Youtube for those who want to really live vicariously through Sophos doing what every vendor probably wants to do.

This week’s episode is sponsored by attack surface mapping vendor runZero. Founder and CEO HD Moore joins to talk about marrying up the outside and inside views of your network.

You can also watch this episode on Youtube

• Okta AD/LDAP Delegated Authentication - Username Above 52 Characters Security Advisory
• Does bcrypt have a maximum password length? - Information Security Stack Exchange
• Local Administrator Protection | Privilege Protection
• Inside Sophos' 5-Year War With the Chinese Hackers Hijacking Its Devices | WIRED
• A Deeper Look at FortiJump (FortiManager CVE-2024-47575) | Bishop Fox
• Man Arrested for Snowflake Hacking Spree Faces US Extradition | WIRED
• Google uses large language model to discover real-world vulnerability
• GreyNoise Intelligence Discovers Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in Live Streaming Cameras with the Help of AI
• Thousands of hacked TP-Link routers used in yearslong account takeover attacks - Ars Technica
• CISA warns of foreign threat group launching spearphishing campaign using malicious RDP files | Cybersecurity Dive
• Chinese state-backed hackers breached 20 Canadian government networks over four years, agency warns
• India-Canada row: Canadian officials confess to leaking 'intel' against India to Washington Post - India Today
• Amid diplomatic row, Canada names India in ‘cyberthreat adversary’ list, accuses it of ‘likely spying’ | World News - The Indian Express
• The Untold Story of Trump's Failed Attempt to Overthrow Venezuela's President | WIRED
• Risky Biz News: The mystery at Mango Park
• North Korean hackers seen collaborating with Play ransomware group, researchers say

In this Soap Box edition of the podcast Patrick Gray chats with Thinkst Canary founder Haroon Meer about his “decade of deception”, including:

• A history of Thinkst Canary including a recap of what they actually do
• A look at why they’re still really the only major player in the deception game
• A look at what companies like Microsoft are doing with deception
• Why security startups should have conference booths

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:

• SEC fines tech firms for downplaying the Solarwinds hacks
• Anonymous Sudan still looks and quacks like a Russian duck
• Apple proposes max 10 day TLS certificate life
• Oopsie! Microsoft loses a bunch of cloud logs
• Veeam and Fortinet are bad and should feel bad
• North Koreans are good (at hacking)
• And much, much more.

This week’s episode is sponsored by Proofpoint. Chief Strategy Officer Ryan Kalember joins to talk about their work keeping up with prolific threat actor SocGholish.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

• Four cyber companies fined for SolarWinds disclosure failures
• U.S. charges Sudanese men with running powerful cyberattack-for-hire gang
• Hacker Charged With Seeking to Kill Using Cyberattacks on Hospitals | WIRED
• Risky Biz News: Anonymous Sudan's Russia Links Are (Still) Obvious
• Microsoft confirms partial loss of security log data on multiple platforms | Cybersecurity Dive
• Risky Biz News: Apple wants to reduce the lifespan of TLS certificates to 10 days
• Encrypted Chat App ‘Session’ Leaves Australia After Visit From Police
• Crypto platform Radiant Capital says $50 million in digital coins stolen following account compromises
• North Korean hackers use newly discovered Linux malware to raid ATMs - Ars Technica
• Brazil Arrests ‘USDoD,’ Hacker in FBI Infragard Breach – Krebs on Security
• Here’s how SIM swap in alleged bitcoin pump-and-dump scheme worked - Ars Technica
• Critical Veeam CVE actively exploited in ransomware attacks | Cybersecurity Dive
• FortiGate admins report active exploitation 0-day. Vendor isn’t talking. - Ars Technica
• Hackers reportedly impersonate cyber firm ESET to target organizations in Israel
• The latest in North Korea’s fake IT worker scheme: Extorting the employers

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s infosec news, including:

• Chinese spooks all up in western telco lawful intercept
• Jerks ruin the Internet Archive’s day
• Microsoft drops a great report with a bad chart
• The feds make their own crypto currency and get it pumped
• Forti-, Palo- and Ivanti-fail
• And much, much more.

This week’s episode is sponsored by detection-as-code vendor Panther. Casey Hill, Panther’s Director Product Management joins to discuss why the old “just bung it all in a data lake and… ???… “ approach hasn’t worked out, and what smart teams do to handle their logs.

This episode is also available on [Youtube].(https://youtu.be/86zy6DcwtbE)

• White House forms emergency team to deal with China espionage hack - The Washington Post
• DDoS attacks on Internet Archive continue after data breach impacting 31 million
• Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2024
• Ransomware encryption down amid surge of attacks, Microsoft says | CyberScoop
• Russian court websites down after breach claimed by pro-Ukraine hackers
• Ukrainian anti-corruption agency reportedly finds no violations in disclosures of top cyber official
• Trump campaign turns to secure hardware after hacking incident | Reuters
• FBI creates its own crypto token to nab suspects in alleged fraud scheme
• District of Massachusetts | Eighteen Individuals and Entities Charged in International Operation Targeting Widespread Fraud and Manipulation in the Cryptocurrency Markets | United States Department of Justice
• Critical CVE in 4 Fortinet products actively exploited | Cybersecurity Dive
• Fortinet FortiGate CVE-2024-23113 - A Super Complex Vulnerability In A Super Secure Appliance In 2024
• Palo Alto Expedition: From N-Day to Full Compromise
• Ivanti up against another attack spree as hackers target its endpoint manager | Cybersecurity Dive
• 1 bug, $50,000+ in bounties, how Zendesk intentionally left a backdoor in hundreds of Fortune 500 companies · GitHub
• Recently-patched Firefox bug exploited against Tor browser users
• Two never-before-seen tools, from same group, infect air-gapped devices - Ars Technica
• A Single Cloud Compromise Can Feed an Army of AI Sex Bots – Krebs on Security
• Opinion | The Cyber Sleuth - Washington Post

In this edition of Snake Oilers we hear pitches from three security vendors:

• Sandfly Security: An agentless Linux security platform that actually sounds very cool
• Permiso: An identity security platform founded by ex FireEye folks
• Wiz: The cloud security giant is getting in on code security scanning

You can watch this edition of Snake Oilers on YouTube here.