REvil operators arrested and indicted. China says a foreign intelligence service accessed passenger travel records. Suspected Emissary Panda campaign.
REvil operators arrested and indicted. China says a foreign intelligence service accessed passenger travel records. Suspected Emissary Panda campaign. Conti (sort of) apologizes. Caleb Barlow thinks i...
8 Marras 202124min
Jamil Jaffer: You should run towards risk. [Strategy] [Career Notes]
Senior Vice President for Strategy, Partnerships, and Corporate Development at IronNet Cybersecurity, Jamil Jaffer, shares how his interest in technology brought him full circle. Always a tech guy, Ja...
7 Marras 20216min
An incident response reveals itself as GhostShell tool, ShellClient. [Research Saturday]
Guest Mor Levi, Vice President of Cyber Practices from Cybereason, joins Dave Bittner to discuss her team's work on "Operation GhostShell - Novel RAT Targets Global Aerospace and Telecoms Firms." In J...
6 Marras 202118min
$10 million reward for DarkSide info. BlackMatter members expected to resurface. Ukraine outlines Russia’s FSB cyber ops. Persistent engagement as deterrence. Arrest in Crossfire Hurricane inquiry.
The US offers a reward of up to ten million dollars for information leading to the identification or location of the leaders of the DarkSide ransomware gang. Researchers expect BlackMatter’s nominally...
5 Marras 202126min
Britain’s Labour Party sustains a “data incident.” CERT-FR describes a new affiliate gang, Lockean. US, Russian intelligence chiefs discuss cybersecurity. Gas is flowing in Iran again. Start-ups honored.
Britain’s Labour Party is affected by a ransomware incident a third-party provider sustained. ANSSI identifies a new ransomware affiliate gang, “Lockean.” Notes on how and why BlackMatter and REvil we...
4 Marras 202125min
Ransomware gangs talk about retiring, and about deception. High-level Russo-American talks. US sanctions four spyware vendors. CISA tells US agencies to patch known, exploited vulnerbalities.
The BlackMatter ransomware gang says that it’s retiring under pressure from the authorities. The spokesman for the Groove group says his gang doesn’t exist--he was just playing the media. Quiet, high-...
3 Marras 202123min
Trojan Source--a threat to the software supply chain. Ransomware goes to influence operations school. Triple extortion? Criminal target selection.
Researchers describe Trojan Source, a hard-to-detect threat to the software supply chain. A ransomware gang takes a page from the information operator’s book. From double extortion to triple extortion...
2 Marras 202127min
Iranian officials blame the US and Israel for gas station cyber sabotage. A new direction for NSO? Cyber extortion, Minecraft phishing, and sugar daddies looking for sugar babies (sez they).
Iran hasn’t finished investigating its gas station cyber sabotage, but Tehran is pretty sure the Great and Lesser Satans are behind it. NSO Group says it’s going in a new, nicer direction. The Conti g...
1 Marras 202123min
