Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the week in news, including a critical flaw patched by OpenSSH, the curious tale behind a Silverlight zero day, and how to turn a hacked webcam into a backdoor.
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the week in news, including a critical flaw patched by OpenSSH, the curious tale behind a Silverlight zero day, and how to turn a hacked webcam into a backdoor.
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Music by Chris Gonsalves
Researchers have spotted notable code overlap between the Sunburst backdoor and a known Turla weapon.
The phones of 36 journalists were infected by four APTs, possibly linked to Saudi Arabia or the UAE.
Examining the backdoor’s DNS communications led researchers to find a government agency and a big U.S. telco that were flagged for further exploitation in the spy campaign.
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