• Risky Business #787 -- Trump fires NSA director, CISA cuts inbound

  • Apr 9 2025
  • Length: 53 mins
  • Podcast

Risky Business #787 -- Trump fires NSA director, CISA cuts inbound

  • Summary

  • On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news: Oracle quietly cops to being hacked, but immediately pivots into pretending it didn’t matterNSA and CyberCom leaders fired for not being MAGA enoughUS Treasury had some dusty corners it hadn’t found China in yet, looked, found China in them…which is a great time to discuss slashing CISA’s staffingRansomware crews and bullet proof hosting providers are getting rekt, and we love itAnd Microsoft patches yet another logging 0-day being used in the wild. This episode is sponsored by Yubico, makers of Yubikey hardware authentication tokens. Yubico’s Vice President of Solutions Architecture and Alliances Derek Hanson joins to discuss how the consumer-centric passkey ecosystem has become a real challenge for enterprises. One that Yubico is actually ideally positioned to solve. Show notes Oracle privately confirms Cloud breach to customers Oracle have finally issued a written notification to customers about their cybersecurity incident. Head of NSA and US Cyber Command reportedly fired | Cybersecurity Dive Trump fires numerous National Security Council staff - The Washington Post Trump administration under scrutiny as it puts major round of CISA cuts on the table | Cybersecurity Dive Hackers Spied on US Bank Regulators’ Emails for Over a Year - Bloomberg This is how Jeffrey Goldberg got added to the Signal chat Cybercriminals are trying to loot Australian pension accounts in new campaign | The Record from Recorded Future News $500,000 stolen in Australian super fund data breach | Superannuation | The Guardian Australian regulator pulls licenses of 95 companies in effort to crack down on investment scams | The Record from Recorded Future News Everest ransomware group’s darknet site offline following defacement | The Record from Recorded Future News On March 28, 2025, a threat actor leaked internal data from Medialand, a major bulletproof hosting (BPH) provider long linked to Yalishanda (LARVA-34). There's a ransomware group named DragonForce going around hacking its rivals. After Mamona and BlackLock, the group has now hacked RansomHub The DragonForce ransomware group hacked two rivals this month CISA, experts warn of Crush file transfer attacks as ransomware gang makes threats | The Record from Recorded Future News Kill Security Campaign Targets CrushFTP Servers National Vulnerability Database | NIST Microsoft patches zero-day actively exploited in string of ransomware attacks | CyberScoop Exploitation of CLFS zero-day leads to ransomware activity | Microsoft Security Blog Is The Sofistication In The Room With Us? - X-Forwarded-For and Ivanti Connect Secure (CVE-2025-22457)
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