Defensive Security Podcast Episode 351
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Defensive Security Podcast - Malware, Hacking, Cyber Security & Infosec
1h 11m
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Right, welcome to episode three hundred and fifty one of the Defensive Security Podcast. My name is Jerry Bell and joining me today, as always, is Mr Andrew Kellett.
Good afternoon or evening, sir. How are you?
Doing awesome. How are you?
I'm I'm good. I'm I'm in week beginning week three of my Sabbatical career break, whatever you want to call it. So did a little consulting last week. No. No it doesn't. But, you know, I did a little consulting last week, which was nice. And, you know, I'm hoping to do some more of that. So Yeah, it's good. Otherwise, you know, just Try not to spend too much money, 'cause That paycheck thing. Doesn't exist at the moment, but
That's the that's the uh the complete BS part of unemployment is you finally have an opportunity to do stuff that requires spending money, but you don't have the money to spend on doing stuff. Right. It's fine. It's utter baloney.
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Let's talk it.
All right, so moving into some stories. The first one comes from the register and the title here is If you don't fall for these extortionist calls, they'll show up in the With USB sticks. Kind of a new uh New. Take on ransomware. Uh th this is a uh I guess a fairly well known ransomware actor who has I guess developed some new tricks. Uh what what they're doing here is uh and and I guess their their MO is like a very fast You know, from from the the Point of initial contact. to the point that they actually demand the ransom is like sometimes a day. So it's it's a very fast operation. But they have some kind of novel takes on building rapport with their victims. And so like what they Well often does Is uh send their victims a completely benign communication.
Like uh I guess uh invoices are the one that they that they've historically done. They'll send an invoice that is like completely innocuous. It's not it doesn't have any, you know, malware attached to it. It's І сол перпис. Is to establish Contact with somebody At the victim company and give them uh pretext for making contact, you know, with either further email contact or even a voice call. So uh they're they're they're pretty adept at building rapport in somewhat you know novel ways. And one of their Their new techniques is Uh pretending to be tech support, which is becoming pretty pretty common, but they're they're kind of novel take on this is that Uh, they're calling and saying that they need to perform
uh you know, work on your computer. And Um, you know, because they're they're part of the help desk or the security team or what have you. Uh and they'll call ahead, right? And and then they'll show up at your door. With a USP stick. uh that they'll that they'll plug into a computer and it'll it'll either install uh malware or they'll literally just copy files off and then leave and then you get the ransom So pretty interesting kind of hybrid attack. I hadn't seen this before, but it makes sense. It kinda reminds me of like the old drop boxes we would You know, we all fretted about In years gone by.
Well it's certainly bold and it certainly is different than some sort of overseas Eastern Europe, China, Russia based threat actor just coming at you digitally only, to to have people actually show up physically.
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