Navigating Cyber Warfare and Ransomware Challenges

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

• The Salesloft breach and why OAuth soup is a problem
• The Salt Typhoon telco hackers turn out to be Chinese private sector, but state-directed
• Google says it will stand up a “disruption unit”
• Microsoft writes up a ransomware gang that’s all-in on the cloud future
• Aussie firm hot-mics its work-from-home employees’ laptops
• Youtube scam baiters help the feds take down a fraud ring

This episode is sponsored by Dropzone.AI. Founder and CEO Edward Wu joins the show to talk about how AI driven SOC tools can help smaller organisations claw their way above the “security poverty line”. A dedicated monitoring team, threat hunting and alert triage, in a company that only has a couple of part time infosec people? Yes please!

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Show notes

• The Ongoing Fallout from a Breach at AI Chatbot Maker Salesloft – Krebs on Security
• Salesloft: The Leading AI Revenue Orchestration Platform
• Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler customers impacted by supply chain attacks | Cybersecurity Dive
• The impact of the Salesloft Drift breach on Cloudflare and our customers
• China used three private companies to hack global telecoms, U.S. says
• CSA_COUNTERING_CHINA_STATE_ACTORS_COMPROMISE_OF_NETWORKS.PDF
• Google previews cyber ‘disruption unit’ as U.S. government, industry weigh going heavier on offense | CyberScoop
• Ransomware gang takedowns causing explosion of new, smaller groups | The Record from Recorded Future News
• Hundreds of Swedish municipalities impacted by suspected ransomware attack on IT supplier | The Record from Recorded Future News
• Storm-0501’s evolving techniques lead to cloud-based ransomware | Microsoft Security Blog
• The Era of AI-Generated Ransomware Has Arrived | WIRED
• Between Two Nerds: How threat actors are using AI to run wild - YouTube
• Affiliates Flock to ‘Soulless’ Scam Gambling Machine – Krebs on Security
• UK sought broad access to Apple customers’ data, court filing suggests
• ICE reactivates contract with spyware maker Paragon | TechCrunch
• WhatsApp fixes 'zero-click' bug used to hack Apple users with spyware | TechCrunch
• Safetrac turned staff laptops into covert recording devices to monitor WFH
• Risky Bulletin: YouTubers unmask and help dismantle giant Chinese scam ring - Risky Business Media