NSA

On this week’s show special guest co-host Rob Joyce joins Patrick Gray and James Wilson to discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. Rob served as an advisor to Donald Trump during his first term as president and also served at NSA for 34 years. While at the agency, Joyce led Tailored Access Operations (TAO), and later became NSA’s Director of Cybersecurity. They cover: The surprisingly well done Fortibleed campaign Stolen Klue OAuth tokens lead to Salesforce data theft OpenAI wants to patch the planet runZero gets acquired by Accenture, congrats HD Moore! Much, much more! This episode is also available on YouTube. Show notes FortiBleed campaign used custom FortiGate sniffer to steal credentials | BleepingComputer FortiBleed: Fortinet device credential compromise expands into broader credential-attack guidance | unit42.paloaltonetworks.com Cybercriminals allegedly hacked tens of thousands of Fortinet firewalls used by major companies all over the world | TechCrunch Security Klue OAuth breach linked to 'Icarus' Salesforce data theft attacks | BleepingComputer Polymarket (@Polymarket) on X | X (formerly Twitter) The Korean telecom giant at the center of Anthropic’s Mythos controversy | wrd.cm Beyond Fable: Can a Local LLM Replace Cloud AI for Security Code Reviews - SRLabs Research | SRLabs OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic’s Mythos | wired.com Sponsored: Trail of Bits and OpenAI patch the planet | Risky Bulletin Intel agencies: Frontier AI models will reshape cybersecurity faster than expected | cyberscoop.com Embedding Forbidden Text in Spyware to Discourage AI Analysis | Schneier on Security A new unpatchable flaw in Apple chips opens the door to an iPhone jailbreak | TechCrunch Security USB worm spreads crypto-stealing malware via Windows shortcut files | BleepingComputer Android verification is coming: Google confirms timeline and supported app stores | Ars Technica California water utility probes breach claim by Iran-linked actor | Cybersecurity Dive Suspected cyberattack triggers false emergency alerts across parts of Brazil | The Record Tesco moving 40,000 server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's "abusive conduct" | Ars Technica Trump directs federal agencies to protect US data from quantum threats | therecord.media Accenture shells out $4.18B on three companies in big industrial cybersecurity push | cyberscoop.com

Rob Joyce

Former Director of Cybersecurity

NSANational Security Agency

In this special documentary episode, Patrick Gray and Amberleigh Jack take a historical dive into hacking in the 1980s. Through the words of those that were there, they discuss life on the ARPANET, the 414s hacking group, the Morris Worm, the vibe inside the NSA and a parallel hunt for German hackers happening at a similar time to Cliff Stoll’s famous Cuckoo’s Egg story. This podcast features the memories of: Jon Callas, former principal software engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation Mark Rasch, Morris Worm prosecutor Timothy Winslow, former 414 hacker Greg Chartrand, author of Cracking the Cuckoos Egg and Tony Sager, former NSA How the World Got Owned is produced in partnership with SentinelOne. Show notes 1988 Federal sentencing guidelines manual Computer Intruder is put on probation and fined $10,000 | The New York Times Computer Intruder is found guilty | The New York Times United States of America, Appellee, v. Robert Tappan Morris, Defendant-appellant, 928 F.2d 504 (2d Cir. 1991) The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage | Clifford Stoll Cracking the Cuckoo’s Egg: The Untold Story of tracking and finding Karl Koch aka Hagbard of the Chaos Computer Club | Greg Chartrand Computer Buffs Tapped NASA Files | The New York Times Young Computer Bandits Byte off More than They Could Chew | The Washington Post ‘Hacker’ is used by Mainstream Media, September 5, 1983 | EDN Neal Patrick to testify before congressional committee Wargames official trailer, 1983 CBS News Segment on Robert Morris Computer Hacker The Fall of the Berlin Wall | Sky News I Hacked a Nuclear Facility in the 1980’s. You’re Welcome | CNN

Jon Callas

Former Principal Software Engineer

Digital Equipment Corporation

Mark Rasch

Attorney / Morris Worm Prosecutor

Timothy Winslow

Former Hacker (414s)

Greg Chartrand

Author

Tony Sager

Former NSA Official

NSA

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and special guest Rob Joyce discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: Secret Service raids a SIM farm in New York MI6 launches a dark web portal Are the 2023 Scattered Spider kids finally getting their comeuppance? Production halt continues for Jaguar Land Rover GitHub tightens its security after Shai-Hulud worm This week’s episode is sponsored by Sublime Security. In this week’s sponsor interview, Sublime founder and CEO Josh Kamdjou joins host Patrick Gray to chat about the pros and cons of using agentic AI in an email security platform. This episode is also available on YouTube Show notes U.S. Secret Service disrupts telecom network that threatened NYC during U.N. General Assembly MI6 launches darkweb portal to recruit foreign spies | The Record from Recorded Future News One Token to rule them all - obtaining Global Admin in every Entra ID tenant via Actor tokens | dirkjanm.io Github npm changes Flights across Europe delayed after cyberattack targets third-party vendor | Cybersecurity Dive Major European airports work to restore services after cyberattack on check-in systems | The Record from Recorded Future News When “Goodbye” isn’t the end: Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters hack on | DataBreaches.Net UK arrests 2 more alleged Scattered Spider hackers over London transit system breach | Cybersecurity Dive Alleged Scattered Spider member turns self in to Las Vegas police | The Record from Recorded Future News Las Vegas police arrest minor accused of high-profile 2023 casino attacks | CyberScoop DOJ: Scattered Spider took $115 million in ransoms, breached a US court system | The Record from Recorded Future News vx-underground on X: "Scattered Spider ransoms company for 964BTC - wtf_thats_alot.jpeg - Document says "Cost of BTC at time was $36M" - $36M / 964BTC = $37.5K - BTC value was $37.5K in November, 2023 - Google "Ransomware, November, 2023" - omfg.exe https://t.co/uv2EzbL5HT" | X JLR ‘cyber shockwave ripping through UK industry’ as supplier share price plummets by 55% | The Record from Recorded Future News Jaguar Land Rover to extend production pause into October following cyberattack | Cybersecurity Dive New plan would give Congress another 18 months to revisit Section 702 surveillance powers | The Record from Recorded Future News AI-powered vulnerability detection will make things worse, not better, former US cyber official warns | Cybersecurity Dive

Rob Joyce

Former Director of Cybersecurity

NSA

Josh Kamdjou

Founder and CEO

Sublime Security

On this week’s show Patrick Gray talks to former NSA Cybersecurity Director Rob Joyce about Donald Trump’s unprecedented, unwarranted and completely bonkers political persecution of Chris Krebs and his employer SentinelOne. They also talk through the week’s cybersecurity news, covering: Mitre’s stewardship of the CVE database gets its funding DOGE’d The US signs on to the Pall Mall anti-spyware agreement China tries to play the nationstate cyber-attribution game, but comedically badly Hackers run their malware inside the Windows sandbox, for security against EDR This week’s episode is sponsored by open source identity provider Authentik. CEO Fletcher Heisler joins to talk through the increasing sprawl of the identity ecosystem. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes Cybersecurity industry falls silent as Trump turns ire on SentinelOne | Reuters U.S. cyber defenders shaken by Trump's attack on their former boss Trump Revenge Tour Targets Cyber Leaders, Elections – Krebs on Security Wyden to block Trump's CISA nominee until agency releases report on telecoms’ ‘negligent cybersecurity’ | The Record from Recorded Future News Gabbard sets up DOGE-style team to cut costs, uncover intel ‘weaponization’ MITRE Warns CVE Program Faces Disruption Amid US Funding Uncertainty US to sign Pall Mall pact aimed at countering spyware abuses | The Record from Recorded Future News Court document reveals locations of WhatsApp victims targeted by NSO spyware | TechCrunch Spyware Maker NSO Group Is Paving a Path Back Into Trump’s America | WIRED NCSC shares technical details of spyware targeting Uyghur, Tibetan and Taiwanese groups | The Record from Recorded Future News Risky Bulletin: Chinese APT abuses Windows Sandbox to go invisible on infected hosts China escalates cyber fight with U.S., names alleged NSA hackers Researcher uncovers dozens of sketchy Chrome extensions with 4 million installs - Ars Technica China-based SMS Phishing Triad Pivots to Banks – Krebs on Security Risky Bulletin: CA/B Forum approves 47-days TLS certs Ransomware in het mkb: Cybercriminelen verhogen losgeld bij cyberverzekering 4chan Is Down Following What Looks to Be a Major Hack Spurred By Meme War

Rob Joyce

Former Director of Cybersecurity

NSA

Fletcher Heisler

CEO

Authentik Security

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news with special guest Rob Joyce, a Former Special Assistant to the US President and Director of Cybersecurity for NSA. They talk through: A realistic bluetooth-proximity phishing attack against Passkeys A very patient ransomware actor encrypts an entire enterprise with a puny linux webcam processor The ESP32 backdoor that is neither a door nor at the back The X DDoS that Elon said was Ukraine is claimed by pro-Palestinian hacktivists Years later, LastPass hackers are still emptying crypto-wallets …and it turns out North Korea nailed {Safe}Wallet with a malicious docker image. Nice! Rob Joyce recently testified to the US House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, and he explains why DOGE kicking probationary employees to the curb is “devastating” for the national security staff pipeline. This week’s episode is sponsored by SpecterOps, makers of the BloodHound identity attack path mapping tool. Chief Product Officer Justin Kohler and Principal Security Researcher Lee Chagolla-Christensen discuss their pragmatic approach to disabling NTLM authentication in Active Directory using BloodHound’s insight. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes CVE-2024-9956 - PassKey Account Takeover in All Mobile Browsers | Tobia Righi - Security Researcher Feds Link $150M Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks – Krebs on Security Camera off: Akira deploys ransomware via webcam Tarlogic detects a hidden feature in the mass-market ESP32 chip that could infect millions of IoT devices Alleged Co-Founder of Garantex Arrested in India – Krebs on Security 37K+ VMware ESXi instances vulnerable to critical zero-day | Cybersecurity Dive Apple patches 0-day exploited in “extremely sophisticated attack” - Ars Technica What Really Happened With the DDoS Attacks That Took Down X | WIRED Eleven11bot estimates revised downward as researchers point to Mirai variant | Cybersecurity Dive Previously unidentified botnet infects unpatched TP-Link Archer home routers | The Record from Recorded Future News Safe.eth on X: "Investigation Updates and Community Call to Action" / X How to verify Safe{Wallet} transactions on a hardware wallet | Safe{Wallet} Help Center and Support. US charges Chinese nationals in cyberattacks on Treasury, dissidents and more | The Record from Recorded Future News Former top NSA cyber official: Probationary firings ‘devastating’ to cyber, national security | CyberScoop U.S. pauses intelligence sharing with Ukraine used to target Russian forces - The Washington Post

Rob Joyce

Former Director of Cybersecurity

NSA