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