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The daily cybersecurity news and analysis industry leaders depend on. Published each weekday, the program also includes interviews with a wide spectrum of experts from industry, academia, and research organizations all over the world.

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Belgium’s MoD suffers Log4shell attack. A man-in-the-middle concept. APT activity. Five Russians face US charges (one’s in custody). Fortunes of coin-mining. Holiday greetings from CISA and the FBI.

Episode Date: December 21, 2021

Belgium’s Ministry of Defense comes under attack via Log4j vulnerabilities. A cellular handover, man-in-the-middle exploit is described by researchers...

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Log4j: new exploitation, new mitigations, new risk assessments. Service interruptions, Space Force’s capture-the-flag, and official interventions.

Episode Date: December 20, 2021

Updates on Log4j vulnerabilities: new exploitation, new mitigations, new risk assessments, some good advice from the NCSC, and from Betsy Carmelite an...

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Ed Amoroso: Security shouldn't be the main dish. [Computer Science] [Career Notes]

Episode Date: December 19, 2021

Chief Executive Officer and Founder of TAG Cyber, Ed Amoroso, shares how he learned on the job and grew his career. In his words, Ed "went from my dad...

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Discovering ChaosDB, a critical vulnerability in the CosmosDB. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: December 18, 2021

Guests Sagi Tzadik and Nir Ohfeld of cloud security company Wiz join Dave to discuss their research "ChaosDB: How we hacked thousands of Azure custome...

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Log4j updates, with a side of Fancy Bear. Roots of Huawei’s career as a security risk. Tropic Trooper is back. Meta boots “cyber mercenaries.” Other cyberespionage incidents.

Episode Date: December 17, 2021

It seems that Fancy Bear may be interested in Log4shell after all. CISA issues Emergency Directive 22-02, which addressed Log4j. Huawei’s reputation a...

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Log4Shell exploited by criminals and intelligence services. Private sector offensive cyber capabilities. Noberus ransomware used in double-extortion attacks. Squid Game phishbait.

Episode Date: December 16, 2021

Log4Shell is exploited by criminals and intelligence services. Private sector offensive cyber capabilities are on par with nation-states. Noberus rans...

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Log4j and Log4shell updates. Cyberespionage and C2C market developments. Patch Tuesday notes. And how do you pronounce that, anyway?.

Episode Date: December 15, 2021

A second vulnerability is found and fixed in Log4j as both criminals and nation-state intelligence services increase their exploitation of Log4shell....

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Log4Shell updates. Payroll provider disrupted by ransomware. Companies supporting surveillance distance themselves from the business. Cybercrime and IRL punishment.

Episode Date: December 14, 2021

An update on the Log4shell, and how it’s being exploited in the wild. A ransomware attack disrupts a cloud-based business service provider. NSO Group...

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Updates on Log4shell, now being exploited in the wild. India PM’s Twitter account is hijacked. Extortion at Brazil’s Ministry of Health and Volvo. Phishing sites’ lifespan. Sentence passed.

Episode Date: December 13, 2021

The Log4shell vulnerability is trouble, and its remediation isn’t going to be quick or easy. In India, Prime Minister Modi’s Twitter account was hijac...

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Hannah Kenney: Focused on people. [Risk] [Career Notes]

Episode Date: December 12, 2021

Manager in BARR Advisory's Cyber Risk Advisory Practice, Hannah Kenney, shares her journey from never considering technology as a career to having it...

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FIN7 repositioning focus into ransomware. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: December 11, 2021

Guest Ilya Volovik, Team Lead of Cyber Intelligence at Gemini Advisory, discusses his team's work on "FIN7 Recruits Talent For Push Into Ransomware."...

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Cyberespionage in Southeast Asia. Two young extortion gangs make their bones. Bot-herders like MikroTik devices. Log4Shell zero-day exploited in the wild. Update on the Assange case.

Episode Date: December 10, 2021

Cyberespionage in support of Belt and Road, and of Beijing’s claims in the South China Sea. Karakurt ransomware skips the encryption and goes right to...

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Ransomware gangs, paycard skimmers, and Grinchbots. Russia blocks Tor, and the US Senate holds hearings on social media and its arguably malign influence on youth.

Episode Date: December 9, 2021

Conti continues, undeterred. Magecart skimmers are infesting WooCommerce instances. Users are finding url redirection attacks difficult to detect. A q...

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AWS resolves service issues. A summit stand-off. Dark web chatter, and arbitrage courts in the C2C world. Looking for stolen or lost alt-coin.

Episode Date: December 8, 2021

Amazon resolves its Tuesday outage as observers wonder about cloud risks. A stand-off at the Russo-American summit, but chatter in the dark web sugges...

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The Russo-US summit is expected to take up tension over Ukraine and tensions in cyberspace. Microsoft disrupts APT15. Google disrupts Glupteba. Satoshi Nakamoto is...out there still?

Episode Date: December 7, 2021

Notes on today’s Russo-America summit. Microsoft seizes websites used by the Chinese threat actor Nickel. Google takes technical and legal action agai...

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Hot wallets hacked. Pegasus found in US State Department personnel’s phones. Cozy Bear update. Cybersecurity on the Russo-US summit agenda. US Cyber Command says it’s imposing costs.

Episode Date: December 6, 2021

Cryptocurrency exchange loses almost $200 million as two hot wallets are compromised. Phones belonging to US State Department personnel concerned with...

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Rediscover trust in cybersecurity: A women in cybersecurity podcast. [Special edition]

Episode Date: December 5, 2021

It's important for employees to be brought into the fold as security's allies, rather than as its adversaries. For cybersecurity teams that operate wi...

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Ryan Kovar: Everyday, assume compromise. [Strategy] [Career Notes]

Episode Date: December 5, 2021

Distinguished Security Strategist at Splunk, Ryan Kovar, shares his journey that started in the US Navy and how it contributed to his leadership in li...

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Getting in and getting out with SnapMC. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: December 4, 2021

Guest Christo Butcher of NCC Group's Research and Intelligence Fusion Team discusses their research into a cybercriminal group they dubbed SnapMC. For...

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Espionage phishbait in South and Southwest Asia. A utility recovers from a cyber incident. GAO tells the US Congress cyber strategy is wanting. Investigations, Moscow and Missouri style.

Episode Date: December 3, 2021

SideCopy, a Pakistani APT, is phishing for information in both India and Afghanistan. A Colorado electrical utility continues to recover from a cyber...

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