Risky Business #766 – China hacks America's lawful intercept systems

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s infosec news, including:

• Chinese spooks all up in western telco lawful intercept

• Jerks ruin the Internet Archive’s day

• Microsoft drops a great report with a bad chart

• The feds make their own crypto currency and get it pumped

• Forti-, Palo- and Ivanti-fail

• And much, much more.

This week’s episode is sponsored by detection-as-code vendor Panther. Casey Hill, Panther’s Director Product Management joins to discuss why the old “just bung it all in a data lake and… ???… “ approach hasn’t worked out, and what smart teams do to handle their logs.

This episode is also available on [Youtube].(https://youtu.be/86zy6DcwtbE)

Show notes White House forms emergency team to deal with China espionage hack - The Washington Post DDoS attacks on Internet Archive continue after data breach impacting 31 million Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2024 Ransomware encryption down amid surge of attacks, Microsoft says | CyberScoop Russian court websites down after breach claimed by pro-Ukraine hackers Ukrainian anti-corruption agency reportedly finds no violations in disclosures of top cyber official Trump campaign turns to secure hardware after hacking incident | Reuters FBI creates its own crypto token to nab suspects in alleged fraud scheme District of Massachusetts | Eighteen Individuals and Entities Charged in International Operation Targeting Widespread Fraud and Manipulation in the Cryptocurrency Markets | United States Department of Justice Critical CVE in 4 Fortinet products actively exploited | Cybersecurity Dive Fortinet FortiGate CVE-2024-23113 - A Super Complex Vulnerability In A Super Secure Appliance In 2024 Palo Alto Expedition: From N-Day to Full Compromise Ivanti up against another attack spree as hackers target its endpoint manager | Cybersecurity Dive 1 bug, $50,000+ in bounties, how Zendesk intentionally left a backdoor in hundreds of Fortune 500 companies · GitHub Recently-patched Firefox bug exploited against Tor browser users Two never-before-seen tools, from same group, infect air-gapped devices - Ars Technica A Single Cloud Compromise Can Feed an Army of AI Sex Bots – Krebs on Security Opinion | The Cyber Sleuth - Washington Post