Risky Business is a weekly information security podcast featuring news and in-depth interviews with industry luminaries. Launched in February 2007, Risky Business is a must-listen digest for information security pros. With a running time of approximately 50-60 minutes, Risky Business is pacy; a security podcast without the waffle.
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Snake Oilers: Authentik, Dropzone and SlashID
In this edition of Snake Oilers Patrick Gray gets pitches from three cybersecurity companies: Authentik, an open source identity provider that a lot of large organisations are deploying on prem as an alternative to cloud-based IDPs Dropzone AI, an LLM-based agent that can do the work of a Tier 1 SOC analyst SlashID, an identity security company that can crunch your logs to find attackers You can watch this edition of Snake Oilers on YouTube here. Show notes Welcome | authentik Dropzone AI: Reinforce your SOC with AI Analysts The identity stack to protect users and non-human identities | SlashID
Risky Business #762 -- Brazil nukes X, Iranian APTs deploy ransomware
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the weeks security news, including: Brazil’s supreme court bans X-formerly-Twitter, Iranian cyber teams cooperate with ransomware crews While North Koreans wield chrome-windows 0-day Yubikey cloning attack is impressive, but doesn’t have us binning our keys quite yet The White House is coming for your unsigned BGP announcements And much, much more. This week’s episode is sponsored by Okta, and specifically their Identity Security Posture Management product. Okta recently acquired Spera Security, and co-founder Ariel Kadyshevitch joins to talk through the messy reality of modern identity. Pat even gets the giggles at how terrible everything is! You can also watch this episode on Youtube. Show notes Brazil X ban: Top court judges uphold block of Musk's platform Iran-based Cyber Actors Enabling Ransomware Attacks on US Organizations | CISA Malicious North Korean packages appear again in open source code repository North Korean threat actor Citrine Sleet exploiting Chromium zero-day | Microsoft Security Blog SEC.gov | SEC Charges Transfer Agent Equiniti Trust Co. with Failing to Protect Client Funds Against Cyber Intrusions Chinese ‘Spamouflage’ operatives are mimicking disillusioned Americans online Researchers uncover ‘SlowTempest’ espionage campaign within China City of Columbus sues man after he discloses severity of ransomware attack | Ars Technica Bypassing airport security via SQL injection Cyberattack hits agency responsible for London’s transport network German air traffic control agency confirms cyberattack, says operations unaffected White House calls attention to ‘hard problem’ of securing internet traffic routing Cambodian scam giant handled $49 billion in crypto transactions since 2021, researchers say YubiKeys are vulnerable to cloning attacks thanks to newly discovered side channel | Ars Technica CrowdStrike takes a revenue hit as global IT outage reckoning lingers | Cybersecurity Dive Owners of 1-Time Passcode Theft Service Plead Guilty – Krebs on Security
Risky Business #761 – Telegram v frogs. Fight!
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discusses the week’s security news, including: Telegram founder’s arrest in France Volt Typhoon 0days some SD-WAN gear Russia frets about Ukraine all up in Kursk’s webcams Cybercriminals social engineer payment card NFC relay attacks in the wild The slow burn of Active Directory name collisions And much, much more. This week’s episode is sponsored by Nucleus Security. Aaron Unterberger joins to discuss how vulnerability management starts out easy, but gets serious very quickly. You can also watch this week’s show on Youtube. Show notes Pavel Durov: Telegram CEO's arrest part of larger investigation Keep Pavel Durov LOCKED UP Internet mogul Kim Dotcom to be extradited to the US, NZ justice minister says New 0-Day Attacks Linked to China’s ‘Volt Typhoon’ – Krebs on Security Oil industry giant Halliburton confirms 'issue' following reported cyberattack Seattle airport confronts 4th day of cyberattack outages | Cybersecurity Dive Russia calls for restrictions on surveillance cameras, dating apps in cities under attack from Ukraine In a Kyiv hangar, Ukraine launches a cyber range for everyone U.S. military, on Tinder, says to swipe left on Iran-backed militants - The Washington Post CISA officials credit Microsoft security log expansion for improved threat visibility | Cybersecurity Dive Suspect in $14 billion cryptocurrency pyramid scheme extradited to China Android malware used to steal ATM info from customers at three European banks Novel technique allows malicious apps to escape iOS and Android guardrails | Ars Technica Local Networks Go Global When Domain Names Collide – Krebs on Security Attack tool update impairs Windows computers SonicWall pushes patch for critical vulnerability in SonicOS platform | CyberScoop “YOLO” is not a valid hash construction
Feature interview: ASIO Director General Mike Burgess on encryption and access
Mike Burgess is the director general of ASIO. But the thing about Mike is he’s actually a cybersecurity guy. He joined ASD, Australia’s NSA, back in 1995 when it was still the Defence Signals Directorate. He was there for 18 years before he bounced out to the private sector for a while to work as the CISO for Australia’s largest telco, Telstra. In 2017 he returned to ASD to run it, and in 2019 he was appointed director general of ASIO. Back in April, Burgess made a series of comments on the topic of encrypted messaging during a Press Club speech in Canberra. Our right to privacy, he said, is not absolute, and he implied that if certain providers didn’t start helping Australian authorities out a little more, he’d use some of the provisions in Australia’s Assistance and Access bill to force them to provide access to certain content. So I reached out to organise this interview to get some more detail from him about exactly what sort of cooperation he’s seeking and why.
Risky Business #760 – Microsoft to make MFA mandatory
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news including: Microsoft did a good thing! Soon all Azure admins will require MFA The three billion row National Public Data breach mess, courtesy Florida Man US govt confirms that it was Iran that hacked the Trump campaign Is TP-Link the next Huawei, or just not very good at computers? Major Chinese RFID card maker has hardcoded backdoors And much, much more. This week’s episode is sponsored by Specter Ops, makers of Bloodhound Enterprise. VP of Products Justin Kohler joins to talk about how they’ve joined their on-prem AD and cloud Entra attack path graphs, so you can map out that juicy, real-world attack surface. Show notes Announcing mandatory multi-factor authentication for Azure sign-in | Microsoft Azure Blog phishing resistant mfa - Google Search Microsoft will require MFA for all Azure users NationalPublicData.com Hack Exposes a Nation’s Data – Krebs on Security National Public Data Published Its Own Passwords – Krebs on Security Bloomberg Law How the government's proposed 'Trust Exchange' digital ID scheme would work - ABC News German Cyber Agency Wants Changes in Microsoft, CrowdStrike Products After Tech Outage - WSJ Joint ODNI, FBI, and CISA Statement on Iranian Election Influence Efforts — FBI Crypto firm says hacker locked all employees out of Google products for four days ZachXBT on X: "Seven hours ago a suspicious transfer was made from a potential victim for 4064 BTC ($238M)" / X Bitcoin News Today: $238 Million Bitcoin Heist Linked to Genesis Global Trading Routers from China-based TP-Link a national security threat, US lawmakers claim Hardware backdoors found in Chinese smart cards Unmasking Styx Stealer: How a Hacker's Slip Led to an Intelligence Treasure Trove - Check Point Research Hardware backdoors found in Chinese smart cards Man who hacked Hawaii state registry to forge his own death certificate sentenced to 81 months
Wide World of Cyber: 2024 election interference, the media and Iran's hack and leak
In this conversation Risky Business host Patrick Gray speaks with SentinelOne’s Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos about what sort of cyber enabled interference we can expect in the 2024 US presidential race. Alex was the CISO at Facebook during the 2016 election, and Chris Krebs was responsible for US election security as the director of CISA in 2020. Watch the video version of this episode on Youtube.
Risky Business #759 – Why Iran's hack and leak will amount to naught
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news and recap the best research presented at Black Hat and DEF CON in Las Vegas last week. They cover: Iran tries an election hack’n’leak like its still 2016 Crowdstrike takes home the Pwnie for Epic Fail at DEF CON UK healthcare SaaS faces six million pound fine for lack of MFA US circuit courts disagree on geofence warrants Our roundup of juicy Blackhat/DEF CON research And much, much more. This week’s episode is sponsored by Trail of Bits. CEO Dan Guido is fresh back from the DARPA AI Cyber Challenge at DEF CON, where the Trail of Bits team moved through into the finals. Dan talks through the challenge of finding, reporting and fixing bugs with AI systems. You can also watch this week’s show on Youtube. Show notes Trump campaign points finger at Iranian hackers for documents leak FBI says it's investigating efforts to hack Trump and Biden-Harris campaigns Iranian hackers ramping up US election interference, Microsoft warns State Dept puts $10 million bounty on IRGC-CEC hackers CrowdStrike snafu was a ‘dress rehearsal’ for critical infrastructure disruptions, CISA director says | Cybersecurity Dive Dominic White 👾 on X: "CrowdStrike accepting the @PwnieAwards for “most epic fail” at @defcon. Class act. https://t.co/e7IgYosHAE" / X Russia's Kursk region suffers 'massive' DDoS attack amid Ukraine offensive Elon Musk on X: "@markpinc Yeah" / X Progress Software says SEC declines to pursue action related to MOVEit exploitation spree | Cybersecurity Dive NHS software supplier Advanced faces £6m fine over ransomware attack failings Security bugs in ransomware leak sites helped save six companies from paying hefty ransoms | TechCrunch 5th Circuit rules geofence warrants illegal in win for phone users’ privacy | Ars Technica Customs and Border Protection agents need a warrant to search your phone - The Verge Hackers could spy on cell phone users by abusing 5G baseband flaws, researchers say | TechCrunch ‘Sinkclose’ Flaw in Hundreds of Millions of AMD Chips Allows Deep, Virtually Unfixable Infections | WIRED Downgrade Attacks Using Windows Updates | SafeBreach Listen to the whispers: web timing attacks that actually work | PortSwigger Research Bucket Monopoly: Breaching AWS Accounts Through Shadow Resources Confusion Attacks: Exploiting Hidden Semantic Ambiguity in Apache HTTP Server! | DEVCORE Trail of Bits Advances to AIxCC Finals | Trail of Bits Blog
Soap Box: Making security tech more people friendly
In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the show we talk to Proofpoint’s Chief Strategy Officer Ryan Kalember about making security tech more people centric. We often talk about how we can use signals from users to drive some of our security tech. But what about using our security tech to drive user behaviour? Ryan thinks there are some opportunities here, particularly around identity security.
Risky Business #758 – Crowdstrike's postmortem underwhelms
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including: Crowdstrike talks loud in its postmortem, but says very little Digicert fears the CA-Browser Forum, gets lawsuit from a customer Dmitri Alperovitch joins the show to talk about the Russian prisoner swap Cloudflare continues to harbour scum and villainy Professional ransomware crew … is an improvement? And much, much more. This week’s episode is sponsored by Thinkst Canary. Marko Slaviero joins to discuss the unfashionable choice they made in hosting their platform one-VM-per-customer. Show notes CrowdStrike investors file class action suit following global IT outage | Cybersecurity Dive CrowdStrike rebukes Delta’s negligence claims in fiery letter | Cybersecurity Dive Channel-File-291-Incident-Root-Cause-Analysis-08.06.2024.pdf Sparks fly when lawyers meet a certificate revocation crt.sh | Alegeus U.S. releases Russian hackers in Evan Gershkovich prisoner swap U.S. Trades Cybercriminals to Russia in Prisoner Swap – Krebs on Security Who are the two major hackers Russia just received in a prisoner swap? | Ars Technica Hackers remotely wipe 13,000 students’ iPads and Chromebooks after breaching safety software Mobile Guardian Device Management Application to be removed | MOE Ford wants patent for tech allowing cars to surveil and report speeding drivers I'm Sorry, Dave, You're Speeding | WIRED Cloudflare once again comes under pressure for enabling abusive sites | Ars Technica Low-Drama ‘Dark Angels’ Reap Record Ransoms – Krebs on Security Bumble and Hinge allowed stalkers to pinpoint users’ locations down to 2 meters, researchers say | TechCrunch Unfashionably secure: why we use isolated VMs – Thinkst Thoughts Defending AI Model Files from Unauthorized Access with Canaries | NVIDIA Technical Blog
Risky Business #757 – The ClownStrike cleanup continues
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including: The insurance industry’s reaction to CrowdStrike’s mess Google’s Workspace email validation flaw and its consequences for OAuth’d applications Is the VMWare ESX group membership feature a CVE or an FYI? Secureboot continues to under-deliver North Korea’s revenue neutral intelligence services And much, much more This episode is sponsored by allowlisting software vendor Airlock Digital. Airlock uses a kernel driver on Windows, so Chief Executive David Cottingham joined to discuss what the CrowdStrike kernel driver bug drama means for security vendors. This episode is also available on Youtube. If you want to ruin the magic of radio and see the faces behind the show, well, now you can! Show notes Business interruption claims will drive insurance losses linked to CrowdStrike IT disruption | Cybersecurity Dive Delta hires David Boies to seek damages from CrowdStrike, Microsoft CrowdStrike disruption direct losses to reach $5.4B for Fortune 500, study finds | Cybersecurity Dive (1145) Why CrowdStrike's Baffling BSOD Disaster Was Avoidable - YouTube CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage | TechCrunch Crooks Bypassed Google’s Email Verification to Create Workspace Accounts, Access 3rd-Party Services – Krebs on Security Hackers exploit VMware vulnerability that gives them hypervisor admin | Ars Technica Microsoft calls out apparent ESXi vulnerability that some researchers say is a ‘nothing burger’ | CyberScoop AMI Platform Key leak undermines Secure Boot on 800+ PC models Chrome will now prompt some users to send passwords for suspicious files | Ars Technica Google Online Security Blog: Improving the security of Chrome cookies on Windows A Senate Bill Would Radically Improve Voting Machine Security | WIRED U.S. told Philippines it made ‘missteps’ in secret anti-vax propaganda effort | Reuters Cyber firm KnowBe4 hired a fake IT worker from North Korea | CyberScoop North Korean hacker used hospital ransomware attacks to fund espionage | CyberScoop North Korea Cyber Group Conducts Global Espionage Campaign to Advance Regime’s Military and Nuclear Programs North Korean hacking group makes waves to gain Mandiant, FBI spotlight | CyberScoop ServiceNow spots sales opportunities post-CrowdStrike outage | Cybersecurity Dive Chaining Three Bugs to Access All Your ServiceNow Data Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management Conference (CySCRM) 2024 | Conference | PNNL
Wide World of Cyber: Why we should show CrowdStrike no mercy
In this episode of Wide World of Cyber, Risky Business host Patrick Gray discusses the recent CrowdStrike incident and its implications for security software that operates in kernel space with Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos of SentinelOne, a CrowdStrike Competitor. The conversation also delves into Microsoft’s role in this whole disaster and the potential changes it could make to its operating system to prevent similar incidents in the future. A video version of this episode is also available on Youtube!
Risky Business #756 -- Move fast and break everything
The Risky Biz main show returns from a break to the traditional internet-melting mess that happens whenever Patrick Gray takes a holiday. Pat and Adam Boileau talk through the week’s security news, including: Oh Crowdstrike, no, oh no, honey, no AT&T stored call records on Snowflake and you’ll never guess what happened next Squarespace buys Google Domains and makes a hash of it Some but not all of the SECs case against Solarwinds gets thrown out Pity the incident responders digging through a terabyte of Disney Slack dumps Internet Explorer rises from the grave, and it wants SHELLS RAAAAARGH SSHHEEELLLS And much, much more. This week’s show is brought to you by Sublime Security, a flexible and modern email security platform. If you’re sick of using a black box email security solution, Sublime is a terrific option for you. Show notes Risky Biz News: CrowdStrike faulty update affects 8.5 million Windows systems Low-level cybercriminals are pouncing on CrowdStrike-connected outage | CyberScoop CrowdStrike says flawed update was live for 78 minutes | Cybersecurity Dive Crooks Steal Phone, SMS Records for Nearly All AT&T Customers – Krebs on Security Researchers: Weak Security Defaults Enabled Squarespace Domains Hijacks – Krebs on Security Teenage suspect in MGM Resorts hack arrested in Britain Majority of SEC civil fraud case against SolarWinds dismissed, but core remains | Cybersecurity Dive How Russia-Linked Malware Cut Heat to 600 Ukrainian Buildings in Deep Winter | WIRED Kaspersky Lab Closing U.S. Division; Laying Off Workers Hackers Claim to Have Leaked 1.1 TB of Disney Slack Messages | WIRED Wallets tied to CDK ransom group received $25 million two days after attack | CyberScoop UnitedHealth’s cyberattack response costs to surpass $2.3B this year | Cybersecurity Dive Ransomware ecosystem fragmenting under law enforcement pressure and distrust Threat actors exploited Windows 0-day for more than a year before Microsoft fixed it | Ars Technica
Risky Biz Soap Box: Mike Wiacek on lazy mode threat hunting
This Soap Box edition of the show is with Mike Wiacek, the CEO and Founder of Stairwell. Stairwell is a platform that creates something similar to an NDR, but for file analysis instead of network traffic. The idea is you get a copy of every unique file in your environment to the Stairwell platform, via a file forwarding agent. You get an inventory that lists where these files exist in your environment, at what times, and from there you can start doing analysis. If you find a dodgy file you can do all the usual malware analysis type stuff, but you can also do things like immediately find out where else that file is in your organisation, or even where else it was. From there you can identify other files that are similar – variants of those files – and search for those. And you can unpack all this very, very quickly. This is the type of tool that EDR companies use internally to do threat hunting, but it’s just for you and your org – you can drive it. And as you’ll hear, the idea of a transparent, customisable and programmable security stack is something that’s on-trend at the moment. Mike lays out the case that doing this sort of file analysis in your organisation makes a whole lot of sense.
Wide World of Cyber: State directed cybercrime
In this podcast Alex Stamos, Chris Krebs and Patrick Gray discuss the relationship between cybercrime and the state, which is often more complicated than it should be. While the US Government and its allies fight the scourge of ransomware, other governments are using it to either raise revenue or irritate their foes. North Korea sees ransomware as a money spinner, while the Kremlin enjoys poking the west in the eye with it. Join us for a breakdown of the relationships between governments who should know better and the worst types of people on the planet.
Risky Business #755 -- SSH 0day! Polyfill drama! Entrust crushed!
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including: Widely used polyfill javascript gets hijacked by its new owners MacOS supply chain disaster bullet dodged That OpenSSH remote code exec OH MY <3 Entrust gets its CA business kicked to the kerb by Google South Korean telco intentionally viruses 600k customers Microsoft continues to deeply underwhelm And much, much more. This week’s episode is sponsored by Greynoise. Founder Andrew Morris joins to talk about ways to track attackers across NAT and VPNs, as well as how you can join in the fun of running an internet-scale honeypot network. Show notes Polyfill, Cloudflare trade barbs after reports of supply chain attack threatening 100k websites 3 million iOS and macOS apps were exposed to potent supply-chain attacks regreSSHion: RCE in OpenSSH's server, on glibc-based Linux systems (CVE-2024-6387) Google Online Security Blog: Sustaining Digital Certificate Security - Entrust Certificate Distrust TeamViewer: Hackers copied employee directory data and encrypted passwords South Korean telecom company attacks customers with malware — over 600,000 torrent users report missing files, strange folders, and disabled PCs | Tom's Hardware CDK eyes service restoration for all car dealers by Fourth of July ‘I don’t see it happening’: CISA chief dismisses ban on ransomware payments Patelco Credit Union ransomware attack halts banking services for nearly half a million members LockBit claims cyberattack on Croatia’s largest hospital Inside a Violent Gang's Ruthless Crypto-Stealing Home Invasion Spree Suspected Chinese gov’t hackers used ransomware as cover in attacks on Brazil presidency, Indian health org Nearly 4,000 arrested in global police crackdown on online scam networks USD 257 million seized in global police crackdown against online scams Microsoft alerts additional customers of state-linked threat group attacks Midnight Blizzard Microsoft Email Data Sharing Request: Legit? : r/Office365 Polish Parliament strips official of immunity, clearing path for prosecution in spyware scandal Stolen credentials could unmask thousands of darknet child abuse website users WA man set up fake free wifi at Australian airports and on flights to steal people’s data, police allege Bytecode Breakdown: Unraveling Factorio's Lua Security Flaws iOS 17 lockdown mode blocking CarPlay? : r/ios