Cybersecurity Threats and Espionage Concerns

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

• Palo Alto’s firewalls have a ../ bad day
• Sisense’s bucket full of creds gets kicked over
• United Healthcare draws the ire of congress
• FISA 702 reauthorisation finally moves forward
• Apple warns about “mercenary exploitation” but what’s the India link?
• And much, much, more

This week’s sponsor is Panther, a platform that does detection as code on massive amounts of data. Panther’s founder Jack Naglieri is this week’s sponsor guest, and we spoke with him about some common detection-as-code approaches.

Show notes

• Palo Alto Networks releases fixes for zero-day as attackers swarm VPN vulnerability
• CVE-2024-3400 PAN-OS: OS Command Injection Vulnerability in GlobalProtect
• Rapid7 Technical Analysis
• Why CISA is Warning CISOs About a Breach at Sisense – Krebs on Security
• Congress rails against UnitedHealth Group after ransomware attack | CyberScoop
• The US Government Has a Microsoft Problem | WIRED
• House GOP bridges divide to reauthorize FISA surveillance bill - The Washington Post
• Top officials again push back on ransom payment ban | Cybersecurity Dive
• Ex-White House cyber official says ransomware payment ban is a ways off | CyberScoop
• Over 500 people targeted by Pegasus spyware in Poland, officials say
• Apple drops term 'state-sponsored' attacks from its threat notification policy
• “All Your Secrets Are Belong To Us” — A Delinea Secret Server AuthN/AuthZ Bypass
• PuTTY vulnerability vuln-p521-bias
• Security engineer jailed for 3 years for $12M crypto hacks | TechCrunch
• Alleged cryptojacking scheme consumed $3.5M of stolen computing to make just $1M | Ars Technica
• Twitter’s Clumsy Pivot to X.com Is a Gift to Phishers – Krebs on Security