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FBI seizes $3.6 billion in cryptocurrency, cyber attacks against Ukraine continue, and financial organizations in Taiwan targeted from 2022-02-10T14:00
In this week’s Cyber Security Brief podcast, Dick O’Brien and Alan Neville discuss how Chinese state-backed advanced persistent threat (APT) group Antlion targeted financial institutions in Taiwan ...
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Ukraine cyber attacks, law enforcement activity, and a Noberus ransomware attack from 2022-01-27T14:00
In this week’s Cyber Security Brief podcast, Dick O’Brien and Brigid O Gorman discuss the tumultuous situation in Ukraine, where cyber attacks, including destructive cyber attacks, have been aimed ...
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BadUSB attacks, a new backdoor, and how one APT group managed to infect itself with malware from 2022-01-13T14:00
Welcome to the first Cyber Security Brief of 2022! In this week’s podcast, Dick O’Brien and Brigid O Gorman chat about some of the biggest news stories of the last couple of weeks. The topics up fo...
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Log4j vulnerabilities, likely Iran-backed attacks on telecoms companies, and new Rust-based Noberus ransomware from 2021-12-16T14:00
On this week’s Cyber Security Brief podcast, Brigid O Gorman and Dick O’Brien are joined by Symantec Threat Analyst Alan Neville to discuss the vulnerabilities in Apache Log4j that made lots of hea...
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Yanluowang ransomware update, possible Conti link to Emotet, and the importance of strong passwords from 2021-12-02T14:00
On this week’s Cyber Security Brief, Brigid O Gorman and Dick O’Brien discuss the latest Symantec blog, some updated research about the Yanluowang ransomware gang, with fresh activity appearing to ...
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Attacks on critical infrastructure, ransomware arrests, and the return of Emotet? from 2021-11-18T14:00
On this week’s Cyber Security Brief, Brigid O Gorman and Dick O’Brien discuss some recent attack campaigns aimed at critical infrastructure organizations in several countries around the world, the ...
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BlackMatter updates, lots of law enforcement activity, and new SquirrelWaffle malware is one to watch from 2021-11-04T14:00
On this week’s Cyber Security Brief, Brigid O Gorman and Dick O’Brien discuss some of our recent blogs, including at least one BlackMatter ransomware affiliate using a new data exfiltration tool in...
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New research about the Yanluowang ransomware and two separate campaigns targeting victims in Asia from 2021-10-21T13:00
On this week’s Cyber Security Brief, Brigid O Gorman and Dick O’Brien discuss several new blogs that the Symantec Threat Hunter Team has published recently. Firstly, we uncovered a new ransomware t...
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Governments tackle cyber crime, ransomware arrests, and an interesting phishing campaign from 2021-10-07T13:00
On this week’s Cyber Security Brief, Brigid O Gorman and Dick O’Brien discuss how the UK and the U.S. are planning to increase their efforts to tackle cyber crime, ransomware being blamed in court ...
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A new ransomware whitepaper and some recent ransomware stories, plus new botnet is carrying out giant DDoS attacks from 2021-09-23T13:00
We are back for Season 4 after our summer break, and on this week’s Cyber Security Brief podcast Dick O’Brien and Brigid O Gorman spend a lot of time discussing the subject that also dominated the ...
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Ransomware, the rising cost of data breaches, and the U.S. points finger at China for Microsoft Exchange Server attacks from 2021-07-29T13:00
On this week’s Cyber Security Brief, we discuss some recent ransomware stories, as well as giving a sneak peek into some research we have been doing into ransomware. We also talk about recent annou...
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Kaseya ransomware supply chain attack, new SolarWinds vulnerability, and the rising cost of cyber insurance from 2021-07-15T13:00
On this week’s Cyber Security Brief, Gavin O’Gorman joins us to discuss the Kaseya ransomware supply chain attack that occurred over the July 4 holiday weekend in the U.S. The REvil/Sodinokibi rans...
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Ransomware attackers using virtual machines, over-60s lost $1 billion online in 2020, and the EU launches a new cyber security unit from 2021-07-01T13:00
On this week’s Cyber Security Brief podcast, Dick O’Brien fills us in on the latest research we have published on our blog about how a growing number of ransomware attackers are using virtual machi...
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Ransomware, takedowns, and political promises to tackle cyber crime from 2021-06-17T13:00
In this week’s Cyber Security Brief podcast, Dick O’Brien and Brigid O Gorman discuss some of the biggest cyber security stories of the last two weeks. Ransomware has once again dominated the news ...
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In-depth look at the ransomware attack on Ireland’s national health service, as major meat producer JBS also hit with ransomware from 2021-06-03T13:00
On this week’s Cyber Security Brief podcast, Dick O’Brien and Brigid O’Gorman are joined by Symantec threat researcher Gavin O’Gorman to discuss the Conti ransomware attack on Ireland’s national he...
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Colonial Pipeline attack, Darkside ransomware gang, and crypto mining makes a comeback from 2021-05-20T13:30
In this week’s Cyber Security Brief, Dick O’Brien and Brigid O’Gorman discuss the implications of the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack and the activities of the group behind it, Darkside. We als...
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MFA causes headaches for attackers, and a look at living off the land activity from 2021-05-06T13:00
On this week’s Cyber Security Brief podcast, Brigid O Gorman and Dick O’Brien discuss some research we have recently been working on at Symantec. First, we discuss a blog we published this week, wh...
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Pulse Secure VPN zero-day, SolarWinds and Exchange Server developments, and spies approach UK employees on social media from 2021-04-22T13:00
On this week’s Cyber Security Brief, Alan Neville joins Brigid O Gorman and Dick O’Brien to discuss the recent discovery of a zero-day vulnerability in popular VPN product Pulse Secure. We also dis...
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Facebook data leak, cyber attack aimed at EU institutions, and cyber criminals use a call center to spread malware from 2021-04-08T13:35:56
On this week’s Cyber Security Brief, Brigid O Gorman and Dick O’Brien discuss the big Facebook data leak that has made headlines around the world this week, as well as a cyber attack aimed at Europ...
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Ransomware attackers leverage the Microsoft Exchange Server vulns, WeLeakInfo users hit by data breach, and ransomware payments increase from 2021-03-25T14:00
On this week’s Cyber Security Brief podcast, Brigid O Gorman and Dick O’Brien discuss how ransomware attackers are now attempting to leverage the vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server. We al...
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All you need to know about the Microsoft Exchange Server attacks, and some SolarWinds developments from 2021-03-11T14:00
On this week’s Cyber Security Brief podcast, Brigid O Gorman and Dick O’Brien are joined by Symantec threat researcher Alan Neville to discuss the biggest cyber security story of the last couple of...
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Accellion product vulns, Equation group tool copied by Chinese APT, and software supply chain attacks in France from 2021-02-25T14:00
On this week’s Cyber Security Brief podcast, Dick O’Brien and Brigid O’Gorman discuss some of the biggest cyber security stories of the last few weeks. Among the stories up for discussion are the b...
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Emotet takedown, water plant cyber attack, and a SolarWinds update from 2021-02-11T14:00
On this week’s Cyber Security Brief podcast, Dick O’Brien and Brigid O’Gorman round up some of the biggest cyber security stories of the last two weeks. We bring you the latest developments in the ...
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Raindrop: How the additional tool was discovered in SolarWinds investigation from 2021-01-28T14:00
Old threats and new feature in this week’s Cyber Security Brief podcast. Dick O’Brien and Gavin O’Gorman discuss the latest developments in the SolarWinds hack investigation, including how Symantec...
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The latest on the SolarWinds hack, a lot of ransomware activity, and healthcare hit hard by cyber attacks from 2021-01-14T14:00
On this week’s Cyber Security Brief, the first of 2021, Dick O’Brien brings us a comprehensive update about some of the developments in the SolarWinds hack story, with a lot having happened since o...
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Sunburst: Everything we know about the supply chain attack targeting SolarWinds users from 2020-12-17T14:00
In this week’s Cyber Security Brief, the last one of 2020, find out all you need to know about the biggest news story of the week - the Sunburst supply chain attack targeting customers of software ...
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Cyber predictions for 2021, botnets turn to ransomware, and the Gootkit infostealer reemerges from 2020-12-03T14:00
On this week’s Cyber Security Brief podcast, we discuss what card skimmers are up to during the busiest shopping time of the year, while also bringing some good news about how EU authorities preven...
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New research about attacks on Japan-linked companies, and APT groups target COVID-19 vaccine makers from 2020-11-19T14:00
In this week’s Cyber Security Brief, Dick O’Brien and Brigid O’Gorman talk about some of the biggest cyber security stories of the last couple of weeks. There are multiple stories about APT groups ...
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Maze 'retires' while Ryuk ramps up activity, U.S. election, and the UK ICO hands down a historically large fine from 2020-11-05T14:00
In this week’s Cyber Security Brief, Dick O’Brien and Brigid O’Gorman talk about some of the biggest cyber security stories of the last couple of weeks. Of course, this week’s U.S. Presidential Ele...
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Trickbot disruption, newly released Seedworm research, and some noteworthy indictments from 2020-10-22T13:00
On this week’s Cyber Security Brief, Dick O’Brien and Brigid O’Gorman are joined by Symantec threat researchers Vikram Thakur and Alan Neville. Vikram discusses Symantec’s role in the cross-industr...
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Round up: Financial sector threats, North Korean actors, WastedLocker and more from 2020-10-08T13:00
We are back! Welcome to Season 3 of the Cyber Security Brief podcast, recording now from home. We will be with you every fortnight going forward and we are delighted to be back to tell you all abou...
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Round-up: A whole host of vulnerabilities, and the hackers hacking other hackers from 2020-03-12T14:00
In this week's Cyber Security Brief podcast, Brigid O'Gorman and Dick O'Brien discuss some of the biggest infosec news stories of the last week, including, new vulnerabilities in Intel chips, and t...
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Round-up: Ransomware criminals continue to innovate, and BEC scammers hit a high-profile victim from 2020-03-05T14:00
On this week’s Cyber Security Brief, we bring you a round-up of some of the biggest cyber security stories of the last 7 days. Among the topics up for discussion are the latest innovations of ranso...
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Special Edition: The RSA Conference 2020 from 2020-02-27T14:00
Candid Wueest and Dick O’Brien join the Cyber Security Brief from the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week. Both Candid and Dick were presenting at RSA this week–Dick on the topic of targeted ...
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Focus On: Pegasus spyware from 2020-02-20T14:00
This week’s Cyber Security Brief is part of our regular Attack Group of the Month series, though this time around it’s more like Tool of the Month, as we take a closer look at Pegasus. Pegasus is a...
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Spotlight On: The healthcare cyber threat landscape from 2020-02-13T12:33:50
In this week’s Cyber Security Brief, we discuss the various cyber security concerns facing the healthcare sector. Ransomware attacks are now one of the biggest challenges facing organizations in th...
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Round-up: Traffic jams, increasing defenses, and shortening the Google Chrome‘patch gap’ from 2020-02-06T14:00
In this week’s edition of the Cyber Security Brief, Brigid O’Gorman, Candid Wueest and Dick O’Brien discuss the U.S. Department of Defense’s new cyber security framework for its contractors, how ea...
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Round-up: Ransomware, vulnerabilities, and eavesdropping from 2020-01-30T13:42:04
In this week’s Cyber Security Brief, Candid Wueest and Brigid O’Gorman bring you a round-up of the biggest cyber security news stories of the last week. We discuss the Shlayer malware, the publicat...
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Spotlight On: Software vulnerabilities and patch management from 2020-01-23T13:55
On this week’s Cyber Security Brief, we discuss a timely issue–the importance of patching software vulnerabilities and the necessity for organizations to have good patch management. We decided to c...
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Spotlight On: Living off the land from 2020-01-16T14:00
On this week’s Cyber Security Brief, we discuss“living off the land”, where attackers use legitimate tools on your device or network for malicious purposes. Dick O’Brien is joined by Candid Wueest,...
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Spotlight On: Iranian cyber espionage activity from 2020-01-09T14:00
On this week’s Cyber Security Brief, we decide to take a look at an issue that is very topical at the moment–Iranian cyber espionage activity. Dick O’Brien and Gavin O’Gorman discuss some past camp...
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Cyber Security Brief’s Review of the Year from 2019-12-19T14:00
This week’s episode of the Cyber Security Brief is the last one of 2019, so we are taking a look back at some of the big stories of the year in the world of infosec. Brigid O’Gorman, Dick O’Brien a...
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Spotlight On: Targeted ransomware–a major trend in 2019 from 2019-12-12T14:00
On this week’s Cyber Security Brief, we turn the spotlight onto targeted ransomware–one of the most active threats we observed in 2019. Targeted ransomware has seen huge growth since the start of 2...
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Attack Group of the Month: Shamoon–targeting the Middle East with disk-wiping malware from 2019-12-05T14:00
On this week’s Cyber Security Brief podcast we are introducing a new feature–Attack Group of the Month. Every month we will bring in one of our expert threat researchers for a deep dive into the hi...
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Spotlight On: BEC scams–an expensive threat from 2019-11-28T14:00
On this week’s Cyber Security Brief, Dick O’Brien, Candid Wueest and Brigid O’Gorman focus on business email compromise (BEC) scams, which are a major issue for enterprises and organizations. The F...
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Holiday shopping special: Scams to watch out for this Black Friday and Cyber Monday from 2019-11-21T14:00
On this week’s Symantec Cyber Security Brief, we bring you a holiday shopping cyber security special in advance of Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and the holiday shopping period in general. We discuss...
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Privacy concerns, election campaign worries, and phish-y meeting invites from 2019-11-14T14:00
On this week’s Symantec Cyber Security Brief, Dick O’Brien is joined by Brigid O’Gorman and Candid Wueest to discuss some of the big cyber security stories of the last week. This week, Ubiquiti cus...
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Lasers, Bluekeep, and BEC scammers continue to cash in from 2019-11-07T14:00
On this week’s Cyber Security Brief, Dick O’Brien is joined by Candid Wueest and Brigid O’Gorman to discuss the biggest cyber security news stories of the week. On this episode, we chat about how l...
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Fancy Bear attack campaign, ransomware hits Johannesburg again, and malware hijacks Discord client from 2019-10-31T14:00
In this week’s Cyber Security Brief, Dick O’Brien is joined by Candid Wueest and Brigid O’Gorman to discuss the biggest infosec stories of the week. This week we discuss Fancy Bear’s campaign again...
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A second supply chain attack attempt against CCleaner, voice-controlled home assistants spying on owners, and dodgy mobile biometric authentication from 2019-10-24T11:03:40
In this week's Cyber Security Brief, Dick O'Brien and Candid Wueest discuss some of the biggest cyber security stories of the past week. Topics this week include a second supply chain attack attemp...
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An iTunes and iCloud zero-day, ATM malware, and the Sudo vulnerability from 2019-10-17T13:00
In this week’s Cyber Security Brief, Dick O’Brien is joined by Candid Wueest and Brigid O’Gorman to discuss the biggest cyber security stories of the week. In the mix this week, a zero-day in the W...
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Deepfakes, disinformation, and the former NATO bunker housing a bulletproof hosting service from 2019-10-03T13:00
In this week’s Cyber Security Brief, Dick O’Brien, Candid Wueest and Brigid O’Gorman discuss the high cost of ransomware, and the emergence of disinformation-as-a-service on underground markets. We...
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Tortoiseshell APT group, vBulletin zero-day, and Facebook suspends thousands of apps from 2019-09-26T13:00
We’re back! The Cyber Security Brief returns for season 2. In our first episode, Dick O’Brien is joined by Brigid O’Gorman and Gavin O’Gorman (no relation) to discuss our recent research into Torto...
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Cloud security, telecoms companies compromised, and can someone else access your Nest camera? from 2019-06-27T09:50:04
In this week’s Cyber Security Brief, it’s episode 52, and the last one before we take a short summer break–we will be back with you in August, with more essential stories and trends from the world ...
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Waterbug,“smart”TVs, and BEC scam hits Canadian city from 2019-06-20T11:22:47
In this week’s Cyber Security Brief podcast, we discuss the drama that ensued when Samsung tweeted about scanning their smart TVs for malware, a city in Canada lost CA$500,000 to a BEC scam, and th...
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Bug bounties, bad passwords, and Radiohead from 2019-06-13T10:52:46
On this week’s Cyber Security Brief, it's episode 50! We discuss the EU’s bug bounty program, bad password security practice, and why“secure”websites are becomingly increasingly untrustworthy. We a...
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Twitterbots, ransomware retirements, and email mishaps from 2019-06-06T13:08:10
On this week’s Cyber Security Brief, we chat about our report looking into the Internet Research Agency's disinformation campaign targeting the 2016 US presidential election. We also talk about the...
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Tube users’data to be collected, Baltimore ransomware attack continues to cause problems, and the latest on the BlueKeep vulnerability from 2019-05-30T10:26
On this week’s Cyber Security Brief podcast, Candid Wueest and Dick O’Brien discuss Transport for London’s plans to start collecting data about the customers using its Wi-Fi, and what that might me...
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BlueKeep bug, ransomware“recovery”, and the dismantling of the GozNym network from 2019-05-23T13:00
In this week’s Cyber Security Brief podcast, we discuss the government employee who was charged with using his work IT systems to mine cryptocurrency, how Google is scanning your emails to collect ...
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GDPR Special: The Impact of the Regulation One Year On from 2019-05-15T11:22:11
In this week’s Cyber Security Brief podcast, we mark the one-year anniversary of the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation–more commonly known as GDPR. To mark the introduction of ...
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Buckeye’s use of Equation group tools pre Shadow Brokers leak, IoT security, and targeted ransomware from 2019-05-09T11:22:46
On this week’s Cyber Security Brief podcast, we discuss our newly-released research into the Buckeye espionage group, and its use of Equation group tools prior to the Shadow Brokers leak. Dick O’Br...
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Beapy cryptojacking worm, Emotet’s new hiding technique, and set-top box dangers from 2019-05-02T13:22:34
On this week’s Cyber Security Brief podcast, we discuss our recently published research into the Beapy cryptojacking worm, which is using the EternalBlue exploit to spread, and is primarily impacti...
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Interview: Martijn Grooten, Editor, Virus Bulletin from 2019-04-24T14:13:33
On this week’s Cyber Security Brief podcast, we are joined by Martijn Grooten, editor of Virus Bulletin. We discuss Martijn’s career and how he ended up in his role at Virus Bulletin, as well as th...
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Symantec’s role in Bayrob convictions, Silk Road 2.0 founder jailed, and who’s listening to your Alexa recordings? from 2019-04-18T11:18:27
On this week’s Cyber Security Brief, we discuss the conviction of two members of the Bayrob gang–and the role Symantec played in their capture and conviction. Also, the founder of Silk Road 2.0 is ...
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Hotel booking privacy, dark marketplace selling your digital fingerprint, and Mar-a-Lago intruder update from 2019-04-11T13:00
On this week’s Cyber Security Brief podcast, we discuss our new research into the privacy of your hotel booking details, and how we found that two in three hotel websites leak guest booking details...
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Malware sneaked onto Trump property, Albany ransomware attack, and Tesla tricked from 2019-04-04T11:41:44
On this week’s Cyber Security Brief, we discuss the strange story of the Chinese woman who was apprehended after attempting to sneak into President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort with a malware-i...
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Elfin research, ASUS software supply chain attack, insider threats, and mobile security from 2019-03-28T14:00
On this week’s Cyber Security Brief podcast, we discuss our new research into the Elfin espionage group, which we have seen targeting multiple organisations in Saudi Arabia and the U.S. We also tal...
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Interview: Neil Jenkins, Chief Analytic Officer, Cyber Threat Alliance from 2019-03-21T12:59:42
In today’s Cyber Security Brief, Dick O’Brien is joined by Neil Jenkins, the Chief Analytic Officer at the Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA). The CTA brings together various vendors in the cyber security...
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Highlights from RSA Conference 2019 from 2019-03-14T14:58:53
In this week's Cyber Security Brief, we chat about some of the highlights from this year's RSA conference including zero trust security, tackling fake news, the impending 5G network, IoT security, ...
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ISTR Special: Enterprise from 2019-03-07T14:43:50
This week’s Cyber Security Brief is the second of two special episodes delving into the findings of Symantec’s Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR). The ISTR uses Symantec’s broad intelligence so...
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ISTR Special: Consumers from 2019-02-28T13:45
This week’s Cyber Security Brief is the first of two special episodes delving into the findings of Symantec’s Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR). The ISTR uses Symantec’s broad intelligence sou...
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Google backtracks, Apple gets sued, and Australia a victim of state-sponsored cyber attack from 2019-02-21T12:38:46
In this week’s Cyber Security Brief podcast, we recap Google’s decision to backtrack on proposed changes to its Chrome web browser that would have rendered many ad blocking extensions inoperable. W...
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Stolen data for sale, Mac malware, and container vulnerabilities from 2019-02-14T11:27:07
In this week’s Cyber Security Brief, we chat about a slew of stolen online account data found for sale on the dark web, malware targeting Macs, and container vulnerabilities. Also this week, we loo...
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Insecure IoT devices, password breach checks, and misleading phone apps from 2019-02-07T14:00
In this week’s Cyber Security Brief, we discuss a bad week for cryptocurrencies, the new Google Chrome extension that will let you know if your password has been breached, why parents should be war...
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Japan to hack civilians’IoT devices, Apple Facetime bug, and an evolution in BEC scams from 2019-01-31T13:59:53
In this week’s Symantec Cyber Security Brief we discuss authorities' pursuit of Webstresser users, Japan allowing officials to hack civilians’IoT devices in an attempt to improve security, and the ...
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Attacks on financial institutions in Africa, dodgy free mobile VPN apps, and Facebook shutters multiple“inauthentic”accounts from 2019-01-24T14:00
On this week’s Cyber Security Brief podcast, Symantec threat researcher Stephen Doherty joins us to discuss our recently published research into a wave of attacks against financial institutions in ...
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Ukrainians indicted, cash for Tesla hacks, and cryptocurrency exchanges breached from 2019-01-17T14:00
In this week’s Cyber Security Brief, we discuss the indictment of two Ukrainian nationals for their role in a conspiracy to hack into the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) computer systems...
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German data leak, untrustworthy IoT devices, and PewDiePie hackers go quiet from 2019-01-10T14:00
Welcome to the first Cyber Security Brief podcast of 2019! On this week’s episode we discuss the fact that most people don’t trust their internet of things devices, but also aren’t that willing to ...
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What Were the Top 5 Cyber Security Stories of 2018? from 2018-12-20T14:58:53
In the final Cyber Security Brief podcast of 2018, we take a look back at the year that has gone by in cyber security, and count down the top 5 biggest cyber security stories of 2018. Listen to fin...
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Money mule arrests, grandparent scams, and new research into the Seedworm group from 2018-12-13T13:31:26
On this week’s Cyber Security Brief podcast, money is a big theme! We discuss a series of heists on banks in Eastern Europe that sound like something out of a Hollywood movie, a rise in the money l...
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SamSam developments, an AI gaffe, and some massive data breaches from 2018-12-06T14:00
In this week’s Cyber Security Brief, we discuss the latest developments in the SamSam ransomware, with two of the people reportedly behind the ransomware having been recently indicted. Dick O’Brien...
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Operation Eversion, Magecart, and the UK parliament takes on Facebook from 2018-11-29T14:00
On this week’s Cyber Security Brief, we discuss Symantec’s role in an FBI takedown of ad-fraud infrastructure dubbed Operation Eversion. We also discuss the latest developments in the Facebook/Camb...
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Special Report: Conficker’s 10th anniversary from 2018-11-22T14:00
On this week’s episode of the Cyber Security Brief, Brigid O Gorman is joined by Candid Wueest to discuss the infamous Conficker worm, which marks its 10th anniversary this week. This worm first ap...
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Formjacking, lots of vulnerabilities get patched, and a BEC scam costs a cinema company millions from 2018-11-15T14:00
In this week’s Cyber Security Brief podcast, Dick O’Brien, Candid Wueest and Brigid O Gorman discuss new research into formjacking and the Megecart group; a subsidiary of French movie chain Pathe l...
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Lazarus ATM attacks, Inception Framework uses new backdoor, and small businesses’cyber risk from 2018-11-08T14:14:40
In this week’s Cyber Security Brief podcast we discuss the FASTCash attacks, in which the Lazarus group has been emptying ATMs, and highlight the research we have published into this activity. We a...
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SamSam ransomware, Midterms 2018, new Emotet activity, and Docker APIs exploited for cryptojacking from 2018-11-01T14:00
In this week’s Cyber Security Brief podcast we discuss our newly-published research into the SamSam ransomware, exposed Docker APIs being used for cryptojacking, and some new activity from the Emot...
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Super Micro spy chip story contradictions, Russian woman indicted in U.S. for conspiring to interfere in U.S. elections, and Twitter tackles disinformation campaigns from 2018-10-25T13:00
In this week’s Cyber Security Brief podcast, we discuss the claims and counter claims related to the Bloomberg Businessweek story published at the start of October that alleged Chinese spies had in...
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Special Report: What is it Really Like to Work in Cyber Security? from 2018-10-18T13:00
Something a little different this week as we take a behind-the-scenes look at life in Symantec. Dick O’Brien chats to three Symantec engineers working in different parts of the company, and at diff...
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Gallmaker research, Navionics breach, and Fitbit data used by cops in murder investigation from 2018-10-11T13:00
In this week’s Cyber Security Brief, Dick O’Brien is joined by Symantec threat researchers Jon DiMaggio and Candid Wueest to discuss the big cyber security stories of the last week. We talk about S...
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APT28 activity, cryptojacking research, and Face ID used to access criminal suspect’s phone from 2018-10-04T14:00
In this week’s Symantec Cyber Security Brief we discuss two of our recently-published pieces of research. First, we are joined by Threat Analyst Stephen Doherty to discuss the recent activity of AP...
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Formjacking research, WordPress plugins cause problems, the dangers of plaintext password storage, and the Mojave zero day from 2018-09-27T13:00
In this week’s Symantec Cyber Security Brief, we discuss recent research Symantec has published on formjacking, as well as the formjacking attacks that have been carried out by the Magecart group. ...
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Xbash threat, TripAdvisor fake review clampdown, blockchain casinos targeted, and who is behind DDoS attacks on UK unis? from 2018-09-20T13:00
On this week’s podcast Dick O’Brien is joined by threat researchers Candid Wueest and Brigid O Gorman to discuss the biggest cyber security stories of the week. We take a look at the newly-discover...
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Deep Dive: Symantec Takes on Software Supply Chain Attacks from 2018-09-13T13:00
Dick O’Brien is joined by Symantec product manager Arvind Rao and architect Haik Mesropian to discuss their work, and what they are doing to combat software supply chain attacks, the products they ...
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One billion dollars in Bitcoin on the move, data breaches, Mastercard and Google’s info-sharing deal, and MikroTik developments from 2018-09-06T13:00
In this week’s podcast we discuss how insiders are often the ones to blame for data breaches, and how often data breaches are caused by human error more often than malicious attackers. We look at t...
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Andromeda botnet, DNC“hack”, a new Windows zero day, and dark web developments from 2018-08-30T13:00
On this week’s podcast we discuss the DNC“hack”that wasn’t, developments on dark web marketplaces, and the release of a Windows zero day on Twitter. We also discuss the Andromeda botnet, following ...
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How much do your mobile apps really know about you? Is your charging cable safe? And is end-to-end encryption under threat? from 2018-08-23T13:00
This week, Dick O’Brien is joined by Symantec threat researcher Gillian Cleary, who discusses her recent research into the 100 most popular mobile apps, and how much information they are really gat...
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Special Report: Financial Threats from 2018-08-16T13:00
This week we bring you a special podcast taking an in-depth look at the financial threats cyber crime landscape. Brigid O’Gorman is joined by Symantec threat analysts Stephen Doherty and Eric Chien...
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“Security through obscurity”, Snapchat's source code leak, MikroTik coin mining campaign, and Symantec talks machine learning at Black Hat from 2018-08-09T14:42:30
In this week’s cyber security news round-up, we chat about Threat Intel’s Liam O’Murchu’s Black Hat presentation: How To Use Machine Learning to Discover New Targeted Attacks. We also discuss the S...
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Coin mining in games, SIM hijacking, connected car vulnerabilities, and attacks on the software supply chain within the supply chain from 2018-08-02T13:00
Welcome to your weekly cyber security news round-up. This week we discuss the simple-seeming game that was exploiting users’CPU to mine cryptocurrency. We look at the story of prisoners in the U.S....
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Leafminer research, data breaches, credential stuffing, and IoT security fails from 2018-07-26T13:00
In this week’s round-up of all things cyber security we discuss newly-released research from Symantec detailing the activity of Leafminer, a threat actor carrying out campaigns that target organisa...
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Powershell risks, extortion scams that threaten embarrassment, Twitter clamps down on dodgy accounts, and the financial impact of data breaches from 2018-07-19T13:34:53
This week we look back at the week that was in cyber security. Dick O’Brien is joined by threat researchers Candid Wueest and Brigid O Gorman to discuss the latest research Symantec has just publis...
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Special Report: Software Update Supply Chain Attacks from 2018-07-12T13:30
In this week’s podcast, we discuss software supply chain attacks, a subject we wrote about in this year’s ISTR. Software supply chain attacks increased by 200 percent between 2016 and 2017, with at...
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Mid-year review: Some of the biggest stories of 2018 so far, including VPNFilter, Orangeworm, and Meltdown and Spectre from 2018-07-05T11:19:12
In this week’s podcast we take a look back at the first six months of the year, and review some of the biggest cyber security stories. We discuss VPNFilter, a router malware that, unusually, is abl...
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Ticketmaster breach, insider attacks, the issue of legacy systems in businesses, and is encrypted ransomware a new trend? from 2018-06-28T16:35:54
In this week’s essential cyber security news round-up, we discuss the recent data breach at Ticketmaster, and also look at encrypted ransomware and wonder whether it's set to become a new trend. Al...
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New Symantec research on the Thrip cyber espionage group, BEC scammers, and coinminers in court in Japan from 2018-06-21T15:29:56
We discuss a major law enforcement operation against Business Email Compromise (BEC) scammers, an interesting court case in Japan regarding the legality of browser-based coinmining, and we also tal...
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New Symantec research on the Thrip cyber espionage group, BEC scammers, and coinminers in court in Japan from 2018-06-21T15:29:56
We discuss a major law enforcement operation against Business Email Compromise (BEC) scammers, an interesting court case in Japan regarding the legality of browser-based coinmining, and we also tal...
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New Symantec research on the Thrip cyber espionage group, BEC scammers, and coinminers in court in Japan from 2018-06-21T15:29:56
We discuss a major law enforcement operation against Business Email Compromise (BEC) scammers, an interesting court case in Japan regarding the legality of browser-based coinmining, and we also tal...
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