Reddit sees bad luck as a BlackCat attack crosses their path. The C2C market is more mystical nowadays. Hacktivist auxiliaries and false flags in the hybrid war.

Reddit sees bad luck as a BlackCat attack cro...

Up next

Lauren Van Wazer: You have to be your own North Star. [CISSP] [Career Notes]

Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes. Lauren Van Wazer, Vice President, Global Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs for Akamai Technologies, shares her story as she followed her own North Star and landed where she is today. She describes her career path, highlighting how she ...  Show more

Caught in the funnel. [Research Saturday]

Today we have Andrew Northern, Principal Security Researcher at Censys, discussing "From Evasion to Evidence: Exploiting the Funneling Behavior of Injects". This research explains how modern web malware campaigns use multi-stage JavaScript injections, redirects, and fake CAPTCHAs ...  Show more

Recommended Episodes

Charl van der Walt on Cyber Extortion
The Lawfare Podcast

What are the latest trends in the ransomware-as-a-service ecosystem? Since at least May 27, the CL0P ransomware gang has been exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability to exfiltrate data from financial services organizations, energy corporations, government agencies, and e ...

  Show more

Nicole Perlroth, "This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
New Books in Technology

For years, cybersecurity experts have debated whether cyber-weapons represent a destabilizing new military technology or merely the newest tool in the spies’ arsenal. In This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends (Bloomsbury, 2021), Nicole Perlroth makes a compelling case that cyber ...  Show more

A hacking group called Hive has been hacked by the US authorities
World Business Report

The hackers have been hacked - a prolific international ransomware operation has been shut down by US, German and Dutch officials. The criminal network, Hive, is said to have targeted over 1,500 victims worldwide in the past 18 months and extorted over $100 million. FBI director ...  Show more

How A Satellite Hack Became a Cybersecurity Wakeup Call
Big Take

People around the world rely on satellites for their internet connections, credit card transactions–and even to keep track of time.  Last year, a suspected Russian-led satellite hack exposed how vulnerable they are to security breaches, from individual hackers seeking to pilfer i ...  Show more