Cyberattackers Put the Pedal to the Medal: Podcast

Cyber-defenders have a lot on their plates: Rapid vulnerability exploitation. Ransomware-apalooza. Botnet infestations on the order never seen in the past. How can IT security teams effectively deal with the escalating volume of threats, especially as those threats become more sophisticated and...

Podcast: Ransomware Attacks Exploded in Q4 2020

Ransomware attacks continue to plague companies, with researchers from Fortinet’s Fortiguard Labs saying they saw an explosion in ransomware activity towards the end of the fourth quarter of 2020. Derek Manky According to Fortinet’s new “FortiGuard Labs Threat Report: Disruption Key Threat Trend ...

DNS Filtering: A Top Battle Front Against Malware and Phishing

Peter Lowe With the proliferation of malicious websites, domain name system DNS filtering has been adopted as an effective method for blacklisting content and blocking out suspicious webpages. Peter Lowe, security researcher with DNSFilter, talks to Cody Hackett on this week’s Threatpost Podcast...

EvilQuest: Inside A 'New Class' of Mac Malware

The new malware sample discovered this week, dubbed EvilQuest by security researchers, may be ushering in a new class of Mac malware, according to Thomas Reed, director of Mac and mobile with Malwarebytes. While EvilQuest pretends to be ransomware, in the background it’s actually using its...

Protecting Against Ransomware Attacks: A Checklist

Sometimes all it takes is a malicious email to infect an entire municipality with ransomware, freezing important city systems from water utilities or websites. That was the case with the Florida city of Riviera Beach, which paid hackers $600,000 after being hit by a ransomware attack that downed...

News Wrap: Amazon Echo Privacy, Facebook FTC Fines and Biometrics Regulation

Data privacy has been an outstanding theme this past week, and the Threatpost team discussed the biggest privacy related news. In the news wrap podcast for April 26, the team discussed the backstories behind several reports from the week, including: Facebook potentially facing Federal Trade...

Threatpost News Wrap Podcast for May 18

Threatpost editors Tom Spring, Tara Seals and Lindsey O’Donnell discuss the week’s information security news, including some interesting new malware, a Linux patch that made waves, social engineering gambits and a major banking theft from the second-largest economy in Latin America...

On GhostHook, Fireball, WannaCry, and more

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including Citizen Lab’s latest report, WannaCry hitting Honda, GhostHook, and Fireball. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapJune232017.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves Show notes: GhostHook attack bypasses Windows 10 PatchGuard Say Goodbye to SMBv1 in...

On the Google Docs Phishing Attack, Intel AMT, and Drone Security

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the Gmail/Google Docs phishing attack, the Intel AMT vulnerability, IBM’s malware-laden USB drives, and drone security. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapMay52017.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Costin Raiu on the Importance of Using YARA

Ryan Naraine talks with Costin Raiu, the Global Director of GReAT at Kaspersky Lab, about the benefits of taking the YARA training class available at SAS 2017. Listen to learn about how YARA can be used in malware hunting, data analysis and incident response activities. Download:...

Matthew Green on Crypto Advances, the BREACH Attack and Whether the Longevity of the RSA Algorithm

Dennis Fisher talks with Matthew Green of Johns Hopkins University about the crypto advances in recent years, the BREACH attack revealed at Black Hat and whether it’s time to start moving away from the RSA algorithm. Download: digitalunderground121 Subscribe to the Digital Underground podcast on...