Risky Business #724 -- Exploitation moves away from Microsoft, Google and Apple products

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news. They cover:

• Ransomware crews target WS_FTP and Jetbrains servers

• Global energy supply shapes up as big target

• The Dossier Center drops another banger

• Indian nationalists DDoS Canadian targets

• A look at the Exim drama

• Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by Kroll Cyber. George Glass is this week’s sponsor guest.

Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Mastodon if that’s your thing.

Show notes Multiple exploits hit Progress Software’s WS_FTP Server | Cybersecurity Dive Progress Software discloses 8 vulnerabilities in one of its other file-transfer services | Cybersecurity Dive Progress Software says business impact ‘minimal’ from MOVEit attack spree | Cybersecurity Dive NEXTA on X: Гостайна по электричеству - Досье Russian flight booking system suffers ‘massive’ cyberattack Cyberattacks hit military, Parliament websites as India-based group targets Canada | CBC News NATO investigating breach, leak of internal documents | CyberScoop Chinese hackers stole emails from US State Dept in Microsoft breach, Senate staffer says | Reuters FBI warns energy sector of likely increase in targeting by Chinese, Russian hackers Cisco routers abused by China-linked hackers against US, Japan companies | Cybersecurity Dive Suspected China-based hackers target Middle Eastern telecom, Asian government North Korean hackers posed as Meta recruiter on LinkedIn | CyberScoop Lazarus luring employees with trojanized coding challenges: The case of a Spanish aerospace company Ransomware gangs destroying data, using multiple strains during attacks: FBI Critical vulnerabilities in Exim threaten over 250k email servers worldwide | Ars Technica NSA is creating a hub for AI security, Nakasone says Privacy watchdog recommends court approval for FBI searches of spy data | CyberScoop Vulnerable Arm GPU drivers under active exploitation. Patches may not be available | Ars Technica ‘Snatch’ Ransom Group Exposes Visitor IP Addresses – Krebs on Security IronNet, founded by former NSA director, shuts down and lays off staff | TechCrunch

Release date

Lydbog: 3. oktober 2023