Ashley Sand

Phishing in the Iranian diaspora. Not your grandma and grandpa’s crytper. Malware-as-a-service. Proofs-of-concept (one is a zero-day). Apple sues NSO Group.  

An apparent cyberespionage campaign targets the Iranian diaspora. Babadeda is an emerging crypter seeing use against alt-coin and NFt speculators. RATDispenser is out in the wild, a malware-as-a-service operation. Proofs-of-concept published for Microsoft exploits. Apple sues NSO Group. Group-IB’s founder asks President Putin for clemency. Caleb Barlow on the difference between working for a company

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GoDaddy Breach Widens to tsoHost, Media Temple, 123Reg, Domain Factory, Heart Internet, and Host Europe

Yesterday GoDaddy disclosed a massive data breach impacting over 1.2 Million customers. Today, we received confirmation from GoDaddy that multiple brands that resell GoDaddy Managed WordPress were impacted. The brands impacted include: tsoHost Media Temple 123Reg Domain Factory Heart Internet Host Europe According to Dan Rice, VP of Corporate Communications at GoDaddy, “The GoDaddy brands

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Tardigrade malware infests the US biomanufacturing sector. GoDaddy suffers a significant data breach. Facebook Papers to be reviewed and released. NSO Group’s troubles.

Tardigrade malware infests the US biomanufacturing sector. GoDaddy suffers a significant data breach. A Gizmodo-led consortium will review and release the Facebook Papers. Ben Yelin on our privacy rights during emergency situations. Our guest is Ric Longenecker of Open Systems to discuss how ransomware attacks represent the number one threat for universities. And NSO Group

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GoDaddy Breached – Plaintext Passwords – 1.2M Affected

There is an update available here: GoDaddy Breach Widens to tsoHost, Media Temple, 123Reg, Domain Factory, Heart Internet, and Host Europe This morning, GoDaddy disclosed that an unknown attacker had gained unauthorized access to the system used to provision the company’s Managed WordPress sites, impacting up to 1.2 million of their WordPress customers. Note that this

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Stealing from the best? An enigma in the criminal-to-criminal market. CISA’s holiday caution. Someone’s impersonating the SEC. Three weekend cyberattacks.

The Lazarus Group seems interested in learning from, by which they mean stealing from, some of the world’s leading state-sponsored cyber operators. Void Balaur remains an enigma, but it’s not the only player in the C2C market. CISA and the FBI warn all, but especially critical infrastructure operators, to remain alert during the holidays. Some

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MK Palmore: Lead from where you stand. [CISO] [Career Notes]

Director of Google Cloud’s Office of the CISO, MK Palmore, dedicated much of his life to public service and now brings his experience working for the greater good to the private sector. A graduate of the US Naval Academy, including the Naval Academy Prep School that he calls the most impactful educational experience of his

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Using bidirectionality override characters to obscure code. [Research Saturday]

Guests Nicholas Boucher and Ross Anderson from the University of Cambridge join Dave Bittner to discuss their research, “Trojan Source: Invisible Vulnerabilities.” The researchers present a new type of attack in which source code is maliciously encoded so that it appears different to a compiler and to the human eye. This attack exploits subtleties in

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