Mike Mimoso, Chris Brook, and Tom Spring, discuss the week in news, including a first hand account of an online casino getting hit by ransomware, Brazil shutting down WhatsApp, and attackers mining an ADP portal for W-2s.
Mike Mimoso, Chris Brook, and Threatpost’s newest reporter, Tom Spring, discuss the week in news, including a first hand account of an online casino’s experience with a Teslacrypt infection, Brazil shutting down WhatsApp, and attackers mining an ADP portal for W-2s.
Download: Threatpost_News_Wrap_May_6_2016.mp3
Music by Chris Gonsalves
A researcher scraped and archived public Parler posts before the conservative social networking service was taken down by Amazon, Apple and Google.
Researchers have spotted notable code overlap between the Sunburst backdoor and a known Turla weapon.
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