In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Alex Stamos discuss the week’s news, as well as discussing the rise of white supremacist communities and propaganda on the Internet and what can be done about it.

News:


Norsk Hydro ransomwared
Huawei ban gets more and more political
APT40 hitting USA hard
Cyber Command’s Euro road-trip
Kremlin interference in EU elections extremely likely
US Senators seek information on breaches targeting them
Cloudflare won’t pull service from 8chan in wake of NZ attack
Beto O’Rourke was cDc member
New Mirari variant
150 million Android devices hosed by new malware
Much, much more


This week’s show is brought to you by Chronicle Security! We’ll be joined by Chronicle co-founders Shapor Naghibzadeh and Mike Wiacek. They had a tremendously successful launch at RSA and they’re going to pop in to tell us about some near future plans they have for their Backstory product.

Links to everything are below, and you can follow Patrick or Alex on Twitter if that’s your thing.





Show notes




Norsk Hydro Ransomware Attack Is `Severe' But All Too Common - Bloomberg


Antivirus scan for c97d9bbc80b573bdeeda3812f4d00e5183493dd0d5805e2508728f65977dda15 at 2019-03-19 12:37:54 UTC - VirusTotal


When Facebook Goes Down, Don't Blame Hackers | WIRED


U.S. Campaign to Ban Huawei Overseas Stumbles as Allies Resist - The New York Times


Navy, Industry Partners Are ‘Under Cyber Siege’ by Chinese Hackers, Review Asserts - WSJ


Tim Watts MP on Twitter: "In a rambling and incoherent Op-Ed today, Barnaby Joyce, our former Deputy Prime Minister make a unilateral attribution of the recent incursions into Australia’s Parliamentry IT systems. The Morrison govt has not publicly attributed these incursions. https://t.co/lvaM0mjPnS… https://t.co/btgLqCdFBo"


March for something that’s truly under threat: Western democracy


Cyber Command’s midterm election work included trips to Ukraine, Montenegro, and North Macedonia


Kremlin interference in EU vote is likely, says Estonian spy agency


Report: Tech Company In Steele Dossier May Have Been Used To Support DNC Hack


US senators want to know how many times they've been hacked | ZDNet


After The New Zealand Terror Attack, Here’s Why 8chan Won’t Be Wiped From The Web


How Right-Wing Social Media Site Gab Got Back Online | WIRED


Parliament TV and Radio - New Zealand Parliament


Facebook trolls and scammers from Kosovo are manipulating Australian users - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)


Optus, Telstra, Vodafone Block 8chan, 4chan For Christc... | 10 daily


Dutton Wants To Rehash The Video Game Violence Debate After The NZ Attack


Facebook failed to block 20% of uploaded New Zealand shooter videos | TechCrunch


Beto O’Rourke’s secret membership in America’s oldest hacking group


'Make money work for me': Sydney man charged with stealing $100,000 via phone porting


A huge trove of medical records and prescriptions found exposed | TechCrunch


New Mirai malware variant targets signage TVs and presentation systems | ZDNet


Microsoft releases Application Guard extension for Chrome and Firefox | ZDNet


North Korean diplomats in Spain: CIA implicated in attack on North Korean embassy in Madrid | In English | EL PAÍS


Dissidents behind raid on N.Korea Madrid embassy: US paper - The Local


Almost 150 million users impacted by new SimBad Android adware | ZDNet


Most Android Antivirus Apps Are Garbage | WIRED


Nasty WinRAR bug is being actively exploited to install hard-to-detect malware | Ars Technica


Proof-of-concept code published for Windows 7 zero-day | ZDNet


Malicious Counter-Strike 1.6 servers used zero-days to infect users with malware | ZDNet


“Yelp, but for MAGA” turns red over security disclosure, threatens researcher | Ars Technica


Local privilege escalation via the Windows I/O Manager: a variant finding collaboration – Security Research & Defense


iblue on Twitter: "So, that's CVE-2019-5418. Accept: ../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd (An