BadRabbit hopping though Eastern and Central Europe, and Southwest Asia. DUHK risks. Kaspersky on how a laptop was backdoored. Notes from Atlanta's ICS Cybersecurity Conference.
In today's podcast, we hear about BadRabbit, a new strain of ransomware that's hopped out of Petya's hutch. The Lazarus Group is said to have taken control of some servers in India. DUHK [duck] warnin...
25 Loka 201719min
Reaper botnet update, Election hacking in Kenya, Czech Republic. M&A notes. APT28's phishing. Kaspersky's offer of code review. FBI shots in the crypto wars.
In today's podcast, we learn that Hurricane Reaper, the big IoT botnet, remains a digital tropical depression, but plenty of people are warning everyone to stock up on the cyber equivalents of flashli...
24 Loka 201719min
Reaper botnet looming, but not yet landed. CyCon phishing. How to troll for influence.
In today's podcast, we share some notes on active malware campaigns, and a warning to be on the lookout for the Reaper botnet, which hasn't yet realized its disruptive potential. Kaspersky opens its s...
23 Loka 201715min
WireX BotNet with Justin Paine from Cloudflare. [Research Saturday]
In August 2017, multiple Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and content providers were subject to significant attacks from a botnet dubbed WireX. (The botnet is named for an anagram for one of the delim...
21 Loka 201726min
IoT DDoS hurricane forming? Sofacy exploits patched Flash bug. NotPetya continues to impose costs. Snooping with mobile app ads.
In today's podcast we hear that an IoT botnet hurricane may be forming among IP cameras. (IP cameras are to DDoS what the West African coast is to Atlantic tropical depressions.) Sofacy rushes to expl...
20 Loka 201723min
Leviathan group exploits patched .NET flaw. North Korean cyber ops. Russian suspicions. Cutlet Maker ATM malware, Sockbot Minecraft malware. Ransomware and backups.
In today's podcast, we hear about how a cyber espionage campaign exploits a recently patched .NET vulnerability as Leviathan phishes with torpedo recovery programs. What does Pyongyang want in cybersp...
19 Loka 201716min
DPRK returns to bank robbery. Ransomware updates. Patches from Oracle, Lenovo, BlackBerry. Criminal coin miners.
In today's podcast we hear that the Lazarus Group is back at it with SWIFT. Maniber ransomware hits South Korea. Researchers cast the first KRACK-related stone at IEEE. Oracle, BlackBerry, and Lenovo ...
18 Loka 201718min
Panama Papers assassination? Black Oasis exploits Flash Player. DPRK hacked TV show. Patching KRACK and ROCA. WikiLeaks prepping something? DHS BOD 18-01. SCOTUS to rule on data warrants.
In today's podcast, we hear about the assassination of a reporter who covered the Panama Papers. The Black Oasis threat group is found distributing FinFisher by exploitation of a bug in Flash Player. ...
17 Loka 201719min
