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In this Risky Business News sponsor interview, Catalin Cimpanu talks with Proofpoint senior threat intelligence analyst Selena Larson about the rise of Attacker-in-the-Middle phishing and ClickFix social engineering campaigns.

 
 
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 Security Brief: ClickFix Social Engineering Technique Floods Threat Landscape

Risky Biz News: Members of US Congress targeted by phishing op

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about how states have very different approaches to controlling cyber operations.

At the very beginning they refer to this Microsoft Threat Intelligence post.

 
 
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 Frequent freeloader part I: Secret Blizzard compromising Storm-0156 infrastructure for espionage

Between Two Nerds: Why the US is so uptight about cyber operations

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Claire Aird.

You can find the newsletter version of this podcast here.

 
 
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 Risky Biz News: Improperly patched Cleo bug exploited in the wild

Risky Biz News: Improperly patched Cleo bug exploited in the wild

In this podcast Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about the US Federal Communications Commission effort to get US telcos to lift their security game and compares it to UK and Australian efforts. The US is very late to the game, and improving security is a huge job.

They also talk about Chinese cyber actors continuing to pointlessly sow chaos and how an influence campaign in Romania is an absolute disaster for TikTok.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Srsly Risky Biz: FCC demands telcos improve security

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Claire Aird.

 
 
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 Risky Bulletin: Germany's BSI sinkhole BADBOX malware traffic

Risky Bulletin: Germany's BSI sinkhole BADBOX malware

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Claire Aird.

 
 
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 Risky Bulletin: Secret ransomware campaign targeted DrayTek routers for a year

Risky Bulletin: Secret ransomware campaign targeted DrayTek routers for a year

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about the evolution of Russian cyber operations during its invasion of Ukraine.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

 
 
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Between Two Nerds: The evolution of Russia's cyber operations in Ukraine

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Claire Aird.

 
 
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 Risky Bulletin: CISA sent 2,100+ pre-ransomware alerts this year

Risky Bulletin: Cl0p returns

In this podcast Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about the likelihood that the incoming Trump administration will end the ‘dual-hat’ arrangement where a single officer leads both US Cyber Command and the National Security Agency. This would result in Cyber Command outranking NSA and could prioritise cyber disruption operations over intelligence collection. That would be a bad outcome.

They also talk about how changes to SEC disclosure rules have led to an outpouring of corporate drivel and how WhatsApp became an everything app.

This episode is also availble on Youtube.

 
 
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Srsly Risky Biz: Why two hats are better than two heads

In this Risky Bulletin sponsor interview Matt Muller, field CISO of Tines, explains how governments are using carrots and sticks to improve the security of enterprise software. Matt discusses CISA’s ‘Secure by Design’ pledge and the UK NCSC’s effort to quantify ‘unforgivable bugs’

 
 
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Sponsored: Using carrots and sticks to get more secure software

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