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Sandworm deploys Tor nodes on hacked networks, the UK drops military training for cyber staff, Salt Typhoon’s hacking spree continues, and Russian APTs adopt device code phishing.

 
 
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Risky Bulletin: Sandworm deploys Tor nodes on hacked networks

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about the United State’s Vulnerabilities Equities Program, which balances the need for intelligence collection with the need to protect the public. The government recently revealed that in 2023 it released 39 vulnerabilities, but what does this really tell us?

This episode is also available on Youtube.

 
 
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 The unclassified VEP appendix
 
 Kim Zetter's Zero Day substack

Between Two Nerds: Is 39 vulnerabilities a lot?

VC giant Insight Partners gets social engineered, OpenSSH patches an attacker-in-the-middle bug, Ecuador’s parliament hit by cyberattacks, and a Monero zero-day awaits a patch.

 
 
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Risky Bulletin: Insight Partners discloses security breach

In this podcast Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about the idea of launching a retaliatory campaign to hack Chinese telcos in response to Salt Typhoon’s targeting of US ones. US Senator Mark Warner floated the idea as a way to persuade the Chinese government to pull back Salt Typhoon, but we think that kind of campaign has merit regardless.

They also discuss how Samoa’s CERT calling out APT40 is a big deal. It’s striking to see a small country of 200,000 people calling out Chinese hacking.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

 
 
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Srsly Risky Biz: Why America needs its own Salt Typhoon

The BlackBasta ransomware group implodes, Russian military hackers target Signal with QR codes, Microsoft patches a Power Pages zero-day, and Meta sues a man who hacked accounts and extorted users.

 
 
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Risky Bulletin: BlackBasta implodes, internal chats leak online

In this Risky Business News sponsor interview, Catalin Cimpanu talks with Aaron Attarzadeh, Enterprise Security Engineer at Nucleus. Aaron goes into new concepts for the vulnerability management scene, such as asset correlation and asset linking.

 
 
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Risky Bulletin: North Korean hackers steal $1.5 billion from Bybit

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom, Uren and The Grugq examine the fundamental principles of network exploitation as described in Matthew Monte’s ‘Network Attacks and Exploitation: A Framework’ book using recent hacks as case studies.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

 
 
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 Network Attacks and Exploitation: A Framework
 
 Google's Signal hacking report
 
 Device code phishing

Between Two Nerds: Hacking's first principles

Signal threatens to leave Sweden over backdoor request, the EU sanctions a North Korean general linked to two APTs, Australia bans Kaspersky products on government systems and Google will use QR codes for Gmail authentication.

 
 
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Risky Bulletin: Signal threatens to leave Sweden over backdoor request

Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about the White House apparently considering kicking Canada out of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance to apply pressure on the country. It’s a terrible idea and even thinking about it undermines the strength of the alliance.

They also discuss Sweden’s proposed legislation that would order apps like WhatsApp and Signal to store messages so they could be provided under warrant to authorities. The story is a vignette of the ongoing encryption debate, but we think apps like Signal will leave the country rather than comply.

Finally, they talk about how the illicit cryptocurrency ecosystem is evolving in response to government action such as takedowns and sanctions.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

 
 
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Srsly Risky Biz: Canada's expulsion from Five Eyes would be a disaster

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss whether cyber operations can be ‘strategic’, that is, can they affect the fate of nations.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

 
 
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Between Two Nerds: The fate of nations

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