Episode 02: Ransomware Leaks, Contact Tracing and Verizon DBIR - a podcast by TJ Nel, Ryan Hays

US President target of hackers

In a press conference in May The White House Press Secretary held up the check being donated from the president's salary which held his account number and the routing number of an account within Citibank. This has placed a large target on the bank as they now have ties with the administration and government accounts. Hackers will be targeting them similar to how the REvil group is targeting Trump with the release of information collected during the hack of a law firm said to contain information about the president. 

• https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/499268-trump-routing-number-bank-revealed-coronavirus-response


• https://twitter.com/ransomleaks/status/1261105634159800321

Contact Tracing Apps and Jailbroken Phones

Governments around the world have started encouraging citizens to install tracking application to hopefully get an idea of the spread of the virus. It’s gone as far as Apple and Google baking this into the operating system of the devices. Tracking applications present huge security concerns and risks to everyone. We should all be looking at these to ensure personal safety is being maintained while using them. 

• https://www.unc0ver.dev

Increased Unemployment Fraud

With the world under its current situation, Brian Krebs has been reporting on increased unemployment fraud along with Microsoft report huge upticks of malicious documents related to COVID-19. With the world in crisis and working from home everyone's guard is down so scammers and malicious attackers will be taking advantage of this. 

• https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/05/riding-the-state-unemployment-fraud-wave/


• https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/microsoft-warns-of-massive-covid19/

Verizon DBIR

The Verizon Databreach Investigation Report was released and covers the current attack surfaces being exploited at least during 2019 but a majority of these will continue on into 2020. 

• https://enterprise.verizon.com/resources/reports/dbir/

Upcoming Events

• https://www.sans.org/event/hackfest-ranges-summit-2020 SANs Hackfest


• https://www.securitysummits.com/event/enterprise-lockdown/ Enterprise Lockdown 6/25


• https://securecon.streameventlive.com/login SecureCon 6/16-18


• https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bsides-greenville-2020-tickets-84602497347 BSides Greenville 6/13


• https://www.womenhackerz.com/whackzcon-2020 WomenHackerz Con 6/6-7


• https://2020.pass-the-salt.org Pass the Salt 6/29

Intro/Outro Music Credits
Something Elated (Broke For Free: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Broke_For_Free/Something_EP/Broke_For_Free_-_Something_EP_-_05_Something_Elated) / CC BY 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/

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