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ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuest
Want to hear what industry experts really think about the cyber threats they face? ShadowTalk is a weekly cybersecurity podcast, made by practitioners for practitioners, featuring analytical insights on the latest cybersecurity news and threat research.
Threat Intelligence Analyst John Dilgen brings extensive expertise in cyber threat intelligence and incident response, specializing in researching threats impacting ReliaQuest customers. John and his guests provide practical perspectives on the…
Episodes
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestWeekly Intelligence Summary: Ep 16
Jamie and Alex are back with Harrison this week to talk about the leak of information related to APT34 on Telegram, including victim data, personally…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestWeekly Intelligence Summary: Ep 15
This week the team discusses an unidentified threat actor that has obtained data from various personal Outlook, MSN, and Hotmail email accounts by compromising…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestWeekly Intelligence Summary: Ep 14
Christian and Jamie join Harrison for another week of ShadowTalk to discuss the FIN6 threat actor reportedly widening its range of attacks to include…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestWeekly Intelligence Summary: Ep 13
Jamie, Alex and Zuko sit down with Harrison to talk about a story that flew a little under the radar this week; Russia has allegedly been conducting a…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestWeekly Intelligence Summary: Ep 12
Christian and Jamie sit down with Harrison to talk about the compromised Asus server used to distribute backdoor malware to at least 500,000 users’ devices…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestEpisode 60: Cyber Risks and High-frequency Trading
With new research this week warning that state-sponsored cyber attacks against financial systems are on the rise, the ShadowTalk team focus on one area of the…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestWeekly Intelligence Summary: Ep 11
Harrison chats with Jamie and Alex this week on an attack on Norwegian aluminum and renewable-energy company Norsk Hydro ASA. The team also looks at threat…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestWeekly Intelligence Summary: Ep 10
Harrison sits down with Rose and Christian for a quick chat about APT40 targeting educational maritime research, as well as other highlights from this week…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestEpisode 59: Practitioner’s Guide to Email Spoofing
Senior security engineer, Simon Hall joins Rafael Amado to explain how IT teams and defenders can combat email spoofing, one of the most popular techniques…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestWeekly Intelligence Summary: Ep 9
In this week’s episode, the team looks at Fin6, who has begun regularly targeting card-not-present data on e-commerce websites. Other highlights from this week…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestWeekly Intelligence Summary: Ep 8
This week Rose and Phil join Harrison to discuss a three-stage cryptocurrency mining attack using Mimikatz and Radmin in tandem. The team also discusses the…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestWeekly Intelligence Summary: Ep 7
This week, Phil and Alex join Harrison to discuss a new malware delivery technique using the Outlook preview panel. Also, threat actor Gnosticplayers was…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestEpisode 58: A Tale of Epic Extortions
The Photon Research Team’s Rafael Amado, Richard Gold and Harrison Van Riper get together to discuss Digital Shadows’ latest research report, A Tale of Epic…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestWeekly Intelligence Summary: Ep 6
Alex and Jamie matched with Harrison in this Valentine’s week episode of ShadowTalk. We discuss why four different APT groups were observed using the same…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestWeekly Intelligence Summary: Ep 5
Alex and Jamie join Harrison to discuss how the United Arab Emirates (UAE) intelligence services compromised iPhones through the “Karma” malware. They also…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestCISO Spotlight: Security Goals and Objectives for 2019
In this episode of ShadowTalk: CISO Spotlight, Digital Shadows’ Chief Information Security Officer, Rick Holland, joins Rafael Amado to discuss his security…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestWeekly Intelligence Summary: Ep 4
This week, Alex Guirakhoo and Jamie Collier join Harrison to discuss APT39, a new Iran-linked espionage group, as well as other highlights from this week…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestWeekly Intelligence Summary: Ep 3
This week Rose, Jamie, and Alex talk with Harrison on a huge data dump called "Collection #1", containing over 770 million email addresses and passwords. The…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestWeekly Intelligence Summary: Ep 2
This week Alex and Philip join Harrison to discuss two recent, unrelated, financially motivated cyber attack campaigns involving the use of culturally specific…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestEpisode 57: Singapore Healthcare Breach
For this week’s ShadowTalk deep dive, we called in Doctor Richard Gold to discuss the major healthcare breach affecting SingHealth, Singapore’s largest group…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestWeekly Intelligence Summary: Ep 1
Harrison Van Riper hosts this week’s Intelligence Summary with guests Rose Bernard (Strategic Intelligence Manager) and Alex Guirakhoo (Strategic Intelligence…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestWeekly Intelligence Summary: Ep 0
Welcome to ShadowTalk's new track on our Weekly Intelligence Summary. Host Harrison Van Riper invites Digital Shadows' analysts to discuss the week's top…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestEpisode 56: Positive cyber security developments for 2019
Rafael Amado and Richard Gold talk cybersecurity end of year predictions, but with a twist. Rather than focus on the threats and worrying trends on the…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestEpisode 55: Tackling Phishing
Simon Hall and Richard Gold join Rafael Amado to wade in on the topic of phishing. By looking at details revealed in law enforcement indictments against nation…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestEpisode 54: Marriott Breach And 2019 Trends
Rick Holland and Harrison Van Riper join Michael Marriott to discuss the implications of the Marriott data breach, as well as a look forward to trends we might…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestEpisode 53: Threat Actors Use of Cobalt Strike & How Attacker Actions Can Inform Defenses
The dynamic duo of Dr Gold and Simon Hall join Michael Marriott to discuss our recent findings on threat actors using cracked versions of Cobalt Strike conduct…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestEpisode 52: Black Friday and Cybercrime
For this special mid-week edition of ShadowTalk, Harrison Van Riper, Jamie Collier, and Rafael Amado focus on cyber security threats over the Black Friday…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestEpisode 51: Phineas Fisher and the Hacking Team Investigation
Some called him a hero. Some called him the most dangerous man to the defense industry. In today’s ShadowTalk, Dr. Richard Gold and Harrison Van Riper join…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestEpisode 50: CISCO ASA 0-day and VirtualBox Vulnerability
Michael Marriott flies in from San Francisco to cover the big vulnerability and exploit stories of the week. The team discuss the Cisco denial- of-service…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestEpisode 49: 81,000 Hacked Facebook Accounts For Sale
In this bonus edition of ShadowTalk, Dr Richard Gold and Rafael Amado discuss the recent BBC Russian Service investigation into Facebook accounts being sold…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestEpisode 48: Tesco Bank Fraud And £16.4m FCA Fine
Two years on from the Tesco Bank fraud attacks that allowed cybercriminals to check out with £2.26m (roughly $3m) in customer funds, Dr Richard Gold and Simon…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestEpisode 47: Ransomware Surges in October, Cathay Pacific Breach, and Triton Attributed
Harrison Van Riper and Rafael Amado join Michael Marriott to discuss the latest stories from the week. This week’s podcast has a strong Guy Richie flavor, with…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestEpisode 46: Supply Chain and Third-Party Risks
Following on from last week’s conversation on how managed service providers can increase your attack surface, Simon Hall and Richard Gold join Rafael Amado to…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestEpisode 45: FASTCash Hidden Cobra, MSP Risks, Five Eyes Tooling Report
Digital Shadows CISO Rick Holland, Dr Richard Gold and Simon Hall join Rafael Amado to cover the Hidden Cobra FASTCash campaign alert issued by US authorities…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestEpisode 44: Business Email Compromise
In this week’s Shadow Talk, Rafael Amado joins Michael Marriott to discuss Digital Shadows’ latest research on Business Email Compromise. We discuss how…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestEpisode 43: Security Flaws Affect 50 Million Facebook Accounts and Equifax Fined £500,000
Rick Holland, CISO of Digital Shadows, joins Richard Gold and Michael Marriott to discuss the latest cybersecurity news. In part one, we discuss the possible…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestEpisode 42: Security Layering and Usability Trade-offs
Simon Hall and Richard Gold join Rafael Amado to focus on the trade-offs between security and usability, as well as the practice of security layering that can…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestEpisode 41: Magecart Payment Card Thefts
In this week’s ShadowTalk, Richard Gold and Simon Hall join Michael Marriott to discuss the latest spate of attacks by the threat actor known as Magecart. We…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestEpisode 40: DoJ Complaint Charges North Korean Actor For Sony Attacks, WannaCry, and More
In this week’s ShadowTalk, Richard Gold and Rafael Amado join Michael Marriott to discuss the latest Department of Justice complaint against an individual…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestEpisode 39: Credential Hygiene
Dr. Richard Gold and Simon Hall join Rafael Amado to discuss the age-old problem of credential hygiene. We’ve all heard of not reusing passwords, employing two…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestEpisode 38: Midterm meddling and threat modeling
This week it was revealed that six new domains registered by APT28, spoofing nonprofit, Senate, and Microsoft domains, have been sinkholed. With November’s US…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestEpisode 37: ATM Fraud and Cashout Operations
Digital Shadows’ Strategic Intelligence manager Rose Bernard joins Rafael Amado to discuss four separate ATM stories making headlines this week. In Part I…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestEpisode 36: FIN7 Arrests and Phishing Threats
Digital Shadows’ Rose Bernard and Simon Hall join Rafael Amado to cover the arrest of three alleged members of the FIN7 organized criminal group. The team go…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestEpisode 35: Cyber threats to ERP Applications
In this week’s episode, JP Perez-Etchegoyen, CTO of Onapsis, joins Michael Marriott to talk about the exposure of SAP and Oracle applications, the increase in…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestEpisode 34: Satori Botnet, OilRig, PowerShell Security, and the Dragonfly Campaign
Richard Gold and Rose Bernard join Michael Marriott to talked about updates to the Satori botnet, which has expanded to incorporate new IoT devices using TCP…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestEpisode 33: Digital Risk Protection
Rick Holland, CISO at Digital Shadows, discusses the latest 2018 Forrester New Wave for Digital Risk Protection. He discusses how security leaders must avoid…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestEpisode 32: MITRE ATT&CK™ Framework and the Mueller GRU Indictment
In today’s ShadowTalk, we take on the Robert Mueller indictment against 12 Russian individuals for alleged US election interference. However, rather than dwell…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestEpisode 31: Carbanak Files and Source Code Leaked?
In this week's ShadowTalk, Digital Shadows’ Russian-speaking security specialist discovered files and source code allegedly related to the Carbanak organized…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestEpisode 30: SSL Inspection and Interception: Uses, Abuses and Trade-offs
The Payment Card Industry recently passed a deadline requiring that all e-commerce sites and merchants cease supporting TLS 1.0. With this and older protocols…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestEpisode 29: Reducing Your Attack Surface: From a Firehose to a Straw
Following news that a database containing 340 million records has been publicly exposed to the internet, Richard Gold and Simon Hall join Michael Marriott to…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestEpisode 28: Diversity in Security and Women’s Network Launch
Libby Fiumara is joined by Rose Bernard and Sophie Burke to discuss the launch of Digital Shadows’ Women’s Network, challenges facing women in security, and…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestEpisode 27: Attribution: The How, The What and The Why
Simon Hall and Rich Gold join Michael Marriott to discuss the merits and perils of attribution, including the number of characteristics and variables required…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestEpisode 26: Mythbusting Vulnerabilities and Exploits
Simon Hall and Richard Gold join Rafael Amado to discuss misconceptions around vulnerabilities and exploits, other techniques for gaining code execution, and…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestEpisode 25: Combating Security Debt, Ticketfly Defacement And Data Breach
In this edition of Shadow Talk, Richard Gold joins us to discuss the issue of security debt, a term used to refer to the accumulation of security risks over…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestEpisode 24: Seize and Desist: Changes in the cybercriminal underground
Rafael Amado and Michael Marriott discuss how the criminal underground has evolved since the demise of AlphaBay and Hansa. No single marketplace has managed to…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestEpisode 23: L0pht 20 years on and combating cyber threats with military-style tactics
In today’s edition of Shadow talk, Dr Richard Gold joins us to discuss the return of the L0pht hackers. In 1998 the L0pht members delivered a cybersecurity…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestEpisode 22: VPN Filter targeting Ukraine, TRITON malware, Roaming Mantis, VBScript & Spectre vulns
In this week’s Shadow Talk, the pod unpacks the reporting on VPN Filter, a malware affecting half a million network devices. Reports have suggested that the…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestEpisode 21: eFail vulns affecting Open PGP and S-MIME, and interbank payment systems risks
In this week’s episode of Shadow Talk, Digital Shadows’ Head of Security Engineering, Dr Richard Gold, joins the pod to explain the EFAIL vulnerability…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestEpisode 20: Winnti Umbrella, DarkHotel, Office 365 Vulnerability, and Olympus Dark Web Marketplaces
In this week’s episode Shadow Talk we look at the Winnti Umbrella group, asking what this means for organizations. We discuss vulnerabilities in Microsoft…
ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuestEpisode 19: Loki Bot, LoJack, GPON Vulnerabilities, and Blackrouter Ransomware
In this week’s episode Shadow Talk, it’s a vulnerability extravaganza. We cover malicious use of legitimate software, as APT28 attributed to hijacking LoJack…