Ep 1270 | 2.16.21
France’s ANSII warns of a longrunning Sandworm campaign. DPRK tried to steal COVID-19 vaccine data. Supermicro is exasperated. Static Kitten phishes in the UAE
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France finds Sandworm’s trail in a software supply chain. Microsoft is impressed by the amount of effort Russian intelligence services put into the SolarWinds campaign. Pyongyang is reported to have attempted to steal COVID-19 vaccine information. Supermicro reiterates objections to Bloomberg s report on alleged hardware supply chain compromises. Static Kitten is phishing in the UAE. Updates on the Florida water utility cybersabotage. Ben Yelin examines to what degree the FBI can access Signal app messages. Rick Howard gathers the hash table to discuss AWS. And a new executive director arrives at our state cybersecurity association.
Ep 1259 | 1.29.21
Lebanon Cedar’s wide-ranging cyberespionage campaign. Lazarus Group said to be behind the social engineering of vulnerability researchers. Solorigate spreads. Social media and the short squeeze.
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Lebanon Cedar is quietly back, and running a cyberespionage campaign through vulnerable servers. Social engineering of vulnerability researchers is now attributed to the Lazarus Group. That “SolarWinds” incident is a lot bigger than SolarWinds. Notes on social media and the short squeeze. Verizon’s Chris Novak looks at the changing landscape of ransomware payments. Our guest Professor Brian Gant from Maryville University examines cybersecurity threats facing the new U.S. administration. And the GAO thinks the US State Department should use “data and evidence.”