Risky Business #790 -- Bye bye Signal-gate, hello TeleMessage-gate
Risky Business
Intro
This chapter explores the unexpected use of TeleMessage, a fork of Signal, by officials, highlighting the irony concerning record-keeping capabilities. The discussion raises concerns about the app's reliability in maintaining conversation records, casting doubt on its effectiveness.
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news:
- White House’s off-brand Israeli Signal fork logs cleartext messages with hard coded creds while getting hacked (twice). Just … Wow.
- Ransomware attacks on UK retailers are linked, and Marks & Spencer has it extra bad
- After six years dormant, a Magento eCommerce platform backdoor comes to life
- The North Korean IT worker scam is truly webscale
- NSO group owes Meta $168m for hacking WhatsApp
This week’s episode is sponsored by vulnerability management wranglers, Nucleus Security. Aaron Unterberger joins to talk through the complexities of tracking vulnerabilities in cloud components - left to the source, right to the deployments, and …sideways into the sidecars?
This week’s show also features an excerpt from Pat’s interview with Senator Mark Warner - Scoot back one in your podcast feed to check out the full chat, or find it on Youtube.
This episode is available on Youtube too.
Show notes
- Mike Waltz Accidentally Reveals Obscure App the Government Is Using to Archive Signal Messages
- Despite misleading marketing, Israeli company TeleMessage, used by Trump officials, can access plaintext chat logs
- The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked
- App used by Mike Waltz suspends services after hacking claims
- Senator Demands Investigation into Trump Admin Signal Clone After 404 Media Investigation
- MG on X: "Looks like TeleMessage was probably procured and rolled out under Biden. There are public records for it. https://t.co/XCuZpi8PL3" / X
- Harrods becomes latest retailer to announce attempted cyberattack | The Record from Recorded Future News
- Co-op DragonForce cyber attack includes customer data, firm admits
- Co-op cyber attack: Staff told to keep cameras on in meetings
- Hundreds of e-commerce sites hacked in supply-chain attack - Ars Technica
- Microsoft’s new “passwordless by default” is great but comes at a cost - Ars Technica
- Windows RDP lets you log in using revoked passwords. Microsoft is OK with that. - Ars Technica
- North Korean operatives have infiltrated hundreds of Fortune 500 companies | CyberScoop
- US wants to cut off key player in Southeast Asian cybercrime industry | The Record from Recorded Future News
- Myanmar militia leader sanctioned by US over cyber scam connections | The Record from Recorded Future News
- Trump proposes major cut to CISA’s budget, citing false ‘censorship’ claims | Cybersecurity Dive
- NSA to cut up to 2,000 civilian roles as part of intel community downsizing | The Record from Recorded Future News
- NSO Group owes $168M in damages to WhatsApp over spyware infections, jury says | CyberScoop
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