Risky Business #794 -- Psychic Panda outgunned by Fluffy Lizard and UNC56728242

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news:

• Cyber firms agree to deconflict and cross-reference hacker group names
• Russian nuclear facility blueprints gathered from public procurement websites
• Someone audio deepfaked the White House Chief of Staff, but for the dumbest reasons
• Germany identifies the Trickbot kingpin
• Google spots China’s MSS using Calendar events for malware C2
• Meta apps abuse localhost listeners to track web sessions.

This week’s episode is sponsored by automation vendor Tines. Its Field CISO, Matt Muller, joins the show to discuss an open letter penned by JP Morgan Chase’s CISO that pleads with Software as a Service suppliers to try to suck less at security.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Show notes

• 'Forest Blizzard' vs 'Fancy Bear' - cyber companies hope to untangle weird hacker nicknames | Reuters
• Ukraine's Massive Drone Attack Was Powered by Open Source Software
• Massive security breach: Russian nuclear facilities exposed online
• How a Spyware App Compromised Assad’s Army - New Lines Magazine
• Exclusive | Federal Authorities Probe Effort to Impersonate White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles - WSJ
• Malaysian home minister’s WhatsApp hacked, used to scam contacts | The Record from Recorded Future News
• U.S. Sanctions Cloud Provider ‘Funnull’ as Top Source of ‘Pig Butchering’ Scams – Krebs on Security
• Top counter antivirus service disrupted in global takedown | CyberScoop
• Cops in Germany Claim They’ve ID’d the Mysterious Trickbot Ransomware Kingpin | WIRED
• Australian ransomware victims now must tell the government if they pay up | The Record from Recorded Future News
• Google: China-backed hackers hiding malware in calendar events | Cybersecurity Dive
• Coinbase breach linked to customer data leak in India, sources say | Reuters
• US military IT specialist arrested for allegedly trying to leak secrets to foreign government | The Record from Recorded Future News
• NSO appeals WhatsApp decision, says it can’t pay $168 million in ‘unlawful’ damages | The Record from Recorded Future News
• ConnectWise says nation-state attack targeted multiple ScreenConnect customers | The Record from Recorded Future News
• Google Online Security Blog: Sustaining Digital Certificate Security - Upcoming Changes to the Chrome Root Store
• Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers - Ars Technica
• An Open Letter to Third-Party Suppliers