Dark Web trading post compromised. Ransomware updates. Reactions to Risk Based Security's 2016 breach report. International cyber conflict notes, and a treason case in Russia.
In today's podcast, Dark Web trading post AlphaBay looks buggy, and leaky. Some not-so-bad news on ransomware (and bravo to those Gateway City librarians). Risk Based Security's 2016 breach report say...
26 Jan 201716min
Cleaning ransomware out of the Play Store (but snakes still get into the walled garden, so watch your apps). Vigilantes, vulnerabilities, and industry news.
In today's podcast we hear about Russia's arrest of a Kaspersky Lab threat researcher (charges are said to be unrelated to Kaspersky). Charger ransomware is detected and ejected from the Play Store. M...
25 Jan 201716min
Shamoon and Greenbug. HummingWhale purged from Play Store. Apple patches across its product line. Leadership changes at CIA, GCHQ. Lloyds Bank incident update. Honor among thieves? Nope.
In today's podcast, we discuss a report from Symantec that Shamoon may be connected to Greenbug. Google is purging HummingWhale malware from the Play Store. Apple issues a major set of patches across ...
24 Jan 201713min
Fake news tweets (from hijackers, not opinion-makers). Ransomware. New Android Trojans. Closing in on Mirai's master?
In today's podcast we discuss some fake tweets from hijacked news accounts around the time of the US Presidential transition—OurMine seems to have some at least tangential involvement. BankBot Android...
23 Jan 201716min
Carbanak gets trickier and more ambitious. Ransomware updates. It's beginning to look a lot like 1949 (at least from Moscow).
In today's podcast, we hear about how the Carbank cyber gang is getting trickier and more ambitious. In other cybercrime news, ransomware takes off after more databases. There's a new ransomware-as-a-...
20 Jan 201721min
France braces for election hacking. Ukrainian utility says December blackouts were hacker-induced. Finding "Fruitfly." Tracking Mirai's master.
France prepares for election hacking. Ukrenergo [yook-REN-air-go] acknowledges its electrical service was hacked. Malwarebytes reports on Fruitfly, malware swarming about biomedical research facilitie...
19 Jan 201716min
Carbanak gang is back. GhostAdmin works on data theft. Trolling security researchers. M&A notes. Pardons, commutations, and extraditions.
Carbanak is back, and in the cloud. GhostAdmin quietly assembles a few good bots. Malware writers troll security researchers on VirusTotal. Oracle issues a big patch; Apple is said to be preparing a s...
18 Jan 201715min
Election influence and election security. Threats to power grids. Ransomware and phishing updates. Loyalty program risks.
In today's podcast we hear warnings that electrical utilities should regard hacks of Ukraine's power grid as a wake-up call (the squirrel threat notwithstanding). Various nations work to shore up thei...
17 Jan 201715min
