Risky Business #745 – Tales from the PANageddon

On this week’s show Patrick and Adam discuss the week’s security news, including:

• Palo Alto’s firewalls have a ../ bad day

• Sisense’s bucket full of creds gets kicked over

• United Healthcare draws the ire of congress

• FISA 702 reauthorisation finally moves forward

• Apple warns about “mercenary exploitation” but what’s the India link?

• And much, much, more

This week’s sponsor is Panther, a platform that does detection as code on massive amounts of data. Panther’s founder Jack Naglieri is this week’s sponsor guest, and we spoke with him about some common detection-as-code approaches.

Show notes Palo Alto Networks releases fixes for zero-day as attackers swarm VPN vulnerability CVE-2024-3400 PAN-OS: OS Command Injection Vulnerability in GlobalProtect Rapid7 Technical Analysis Why CISA is Warning CISOs About a Breach at Sisense – Krebs on Security Congress rails against UnitedHealth Group after ransomware attack | CyberScoop The US Government Has a Microsoft Problem | WIRED House GOP bridges divide to reauthorize FISA surveillance bill - The Washington Post Top officials again push back on ransom payment ban | Cybersecurity Dive Ex-White House cyber official says ransomware payment ban is a ways off | CyberScoop Over 500 people targeted by Pegasus spyware in Poland, officials say Apple drops term 'state-sponsored' attacks from its threat notification policy “All Your Secrets Are Belong To Us” — A Delinea Secret Server AuthN/AuthZ Bypass PuTTY vulnerability vuln-p521-bias Security engineer jailed for 3 years for $12M crypto hacks | TechCrunch Alleged cryptojacking scheme consumed $3.5M of stolen computing to make just $1M | Ars Technica Twitter’s Clumsy Pivot to X.com Is a Gift to Phishers – Krebs on Security