Risky Bulletin

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss how Google just keeps on finding iOS exploit kits. Is iPhone security busted? And why are Russian state hackers after crypto?

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Google on Coruna


Google on DarkSword


iVerify on DarkSword


Lookout on DarkSword


Coruna deep dive

Russian intelligence services compromised thousands of Signal accounts, the Trivy vulnerability scanner is abused in a supply chain attack, Oracle issues an out-of-band patch for its Fusion Middleware, and the FBI takes down the Aisuru and Kimwolf botnets.



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Risky Bulletin: GitHub is starting to have a real malware problem

In this Risky Business sponsored interview, Casey Ellis chats to Fletcher Heisler, founder and CEO of open source identity provider, Authentik. They chat about Extended Identity Access Management (XIAM), the company’s new acronym that has been seven years in the making.



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A second iOS hacking framework has been found in the wild, Belgium launches its own government communications app, AWS kills S3 bucketsquatting and a cyberattack cripples car breathalyzers.



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Risky Bulletin: AWS kills bucketsquatting

Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about how successfully achieving America’s war goals could force Iran to double down on cyber power. It’s resilient to bombing and is the cheapest, quickest way for the regime to get some wins post-war.

They also discuss Meta stepping back from end-to-end encryption on Instagram’s direct messages. There is a time and place for E2EE messages, so good riddance.

Finally, they discuss the one weird trick President Trump uses to make his smartphone conversations useless for foreign intelligence services.

This episode is also available on Youtube.



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