Risky Business

Risky Business is a weekly information security podcast featuring news and in-depth interviews with industry luminaries. Launched in February 2007, Risky Business is a must-listen digest for information security pros. With a running time of approximately 50-60 minutes, Risky Business is pacy; a security podcast without the waffle.

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Risky Business #674 -- "Free money" exploit spawns $150m blockchain feeding frenzy


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

  • Taiwan tensions fail to conjure the cyber apocalypse
  • Crypto bridge exploit results in $150m feeding frenzy
  • Chainalysis evidence to be challenged in court
  • Post-quantum NIST candidate algorithm gets smoked
  • DSIRF’s Russia links
  • Much, much more

This week’s sponsor interview is with Jerrod Chong from Yubico. He’s joining the show to talk about why consumer-focussed implementations of Webauthn like Apple’s Passkeys aren’t a great enterprise solution.

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

Show notes
  • Taiwanese websites hit with DDoS attacks as Pelosi begins visit
  • 'Frenzied mob' steals more than $156 million from crypto platform Nomad - The Record by Recorded Future
  • Bitcoin Fog Case Could Put Cryptocurrency Tracing on Trial | WIRED
  • Post-quantum encryption contender is taken out by single-core PC and 1 hour | Ars Technica
  • Federal court system suffered previously undisclosed breach, congressional committee says
  • Australian police charge man with developing spyware used by more than 14,500 people - The Record by Recorded Future
  • Risky Biz News: Microsoft puts the limelight on another spyware maker—DSIRF from Austria
  • Eavesdropping probe finds Israeli police exceeded authority | AP News
  • Hacker use of Microsoft macros plummeted after default block: report - The Record by Recorded Future
  • On security researcher's newsletter, exposing cybercriminals behind ransomware
  • Luxembourg energy companies struggling with alleged ransomware attack, data breach - The Record by Recorded Future
  • At least 34 healthcare orgs affected by alleged ransomware attack on OneTouchPoint - The Record by Recorded Future
  • American Dental Association says April cyberattack involved ransomware - The Record by Recorded Future
  • Ransomware group demands £500,000 from British schools, citing cyber insurance policy - The Record by Recorded Future
  • Hackers stole passwords for accessing 140,000 payment terminals | TechCrunch
  • Experts warn of hacker claiming access to 50 U.S. companies through breached MSP - The Record by Recorded Future
  • German prosecutors issue warrant for Russian government hacker over energy sector attacks - The Record by Recorded Future
  • The commercial satellite boom is leaving space vulnerable to hackers - The Record by Recorded Future
  • Report to Congress of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission - U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission - Google Books
  • Spanish police arrest two accused of hacking radioactivity alert system - The Record by Recorded Future


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 August 3, 2022  n/a