In the past few months there has been a dramatic increase in cryptocurrency prices. In fact, the crypto market value topped $2 trillion for the first time in history and bitcoin, the largest form of digital currency, hit a record high of more than $61,000, rallying over 100% … Read More
DC Police Alleged Victim of Double-Extortion Ransomware Attack
Another day, another breach. Although, this time, the victim is the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington D.C. and the breach was induced by double-extortion ransomware … [Read More...]
2021 World Password Day: How Many Will Be Stolen This Year?
You know what they say about passwords… You’re only one weak password away from a breach. Despite the increasing sophistication of hacker technologies and tools, the easiest … [Read More...]
What Is Same-Origin Policy?
This week on the podcast, we mourn a Dan Kaminsky, a well-loved hacker responsible for identifying one of the biggest vulnerabilities in the history of the internet. Then, we … [Read More...]
Cellebrite Good Times
This week on the podcast, we cover Signal CEO Moxie Marlinspike's analysis of a phone forensic analysis tool made by the grey-hat hacking organization Cellebrite. Before that though, we cover another solved mystery from the SolarWinds Orion saga. … [Read More...]
China’s Explicitly Biased Face Recognition Model
According to an article by Techdirt, the Chinese government has created "Uyghur alarms" by an explicitly biased face recognition service which they are using. China … [Read More...]
Judge Rules FBI Can Hack Into Exchange Servers
(Updated 04/22/2021 to include court order) For the last few months, we have seen Exchange Servers fall to vulnerabilities from the HAFNIUN attacks. Even after … [Read More...]
Deobfuscating a Dropper for a ZLoader Trojan Variant
On March 18th, 2021, the DNSWatch Tailored Analysis Team received an email from an internal WatchGuard employee who deemed the email as suspicious. The initial email included an attachment with the title Attachment_57904. A DNSWatch Analyst performed an initial assessment of … [Read More...]
On A Tuesday
This week on the podcast we cover a couple of major events from April's Patch Tuesday including four new remote code execution vulnerabilities in Exchange Server and some … [Read More...]
Combating Disinformation with Nina Jankowicz Rewind
This week on the podcast, we go back to one of our favorite episodes from last year near the start of the pandemic where we sat down with security expert Nina Jankowicz to … [Read More...]
