Transatlantic Cable Podcast

This week's bumper episode contains a sit down chat with Rob Cataldo, MD of Kaspersky North-America around the recent RSA conference, as well as: > Air India data breach, > SolarWinds CEO discuss breach, > Conti attacks on first responders and health care > Much more! Tune in :)

In this bumper edition of the Transatlantic Cable, Dave and Jeff talk to Maria Namestnikova of GReAT in Russia about patching devices, plus Jeff talks to Fabio Assolini about the recent LatAM Bizarro malware. Plus: More on DarkSide + Colonial pipeline attack plus emerging stories around Babuk and the DC police.

In this bumper episode of the Transatlantic Cable, Dave and Jeff got time to sit down with Ivan Kwiatkowski and Dmitry Galov, both security researchers here at Kaspersky. to talk all things ransomware. As well as that, Dave and Jeff had time to look at some other stories, including Google's push towards 2FA, further Elon Musk scams and much more. Tune in!

Episode 200 has landed! This week, Dave & Jeff chat about a new ransomware "taskforce" which is tasked with stemming the flow of ransomware. From there, they look at issues around Google’s ad network — and why Google just can’t seem to get control over scammy ads. Following that, they briefly touch on doxing and how everybody can protect themselves from attack. To wrap up, it’s a uniquely Canadian story: Beavers managed to chew through fiber optic cables for a small village in Western Canada.

In episode 199 of the Transatlantic Cable, Dave and Jeff look at: > Researchers secure bug bounty payout to help raise funds for infant’s surgery, > Florida cops flew spy plane above press conference for Black teens killed by police, > REvil’s big Apple ransomware gambit looks to pay off, > Ransomware by the numbers: Reassessing the threat’s global impact, > Passwordstate users warned to “reset all passwords” after attackers plant malicious update Tune in!

For this week’s episode of the Kaspersky Transatlantic Cable podcast, Dave and Jeff snagged some time with Adam Dodge, CEO of EndTab, and Vladislav Tushkanov, a privacy expert here at Kaspersky, to talk about doxing. During our wide-ranging discussion, we talked about issues around doxing and why it’s a growing problem.

In episode 197 of the Transatlantic Cable, Dave and Jeff tackle: > FBI arrest man over alleged Amazon centre bomb plot > Google’s top security teams unilaterally shut down a counter-terrorism operation > Data from 500M LinkedIn users posted for sale online > 1.3M Clubhouse users’ data dumped in hacker forum for free > Average British computer criminal is young, male and not highly skilled Sound interesting? Tune in!

With Easter holidays in the UK, we gave David the day off for recording the 196th episode of the Kaspersky Transatlantic Cable podcast. Instead, I am joined by two of my colleages from our Global Research and Analyst Team (GReAT). Last week, Dmitry Bestuzhev and Fabio Assolini hosted a webinar on the threat landscape in the financial sector. During our conversation, we touch on the state of financial threats, how Covid impacted the online threats and more.

In episode 195 of the Transatlantic Cable, Dave and Jeff talk about: > Mafia fugative caught after years on run after posting cooking show on YouTube > More personal accounts have been hacked in 2020 than the past 15 years combined - are we heading to a data disaster? > The rise in extortionware > London's biggest school trust hit by ransomware, affecting over 30,000 children

In episode 194 of the Transatlantic Cable, Dave and Jeff tackle some interesting topics, including: > Cars Have Your Location. This Spy Firm Wants to Sell It to the U.S. Military > Zoom Court Videos Are Making People's Darkest Hours Go Viral > What could possibly go wrong? Sublet your home broadband to strangers who totally won't commit crimes > NHS boss's Twitter accounts hacked by PS5 scammers Sound interesting? Tune in!

In episode 193 of the Kaspersky Transatlantic Cable, Dave and Jeff look at: > Facebook debuts new features to help people find COVID-19 vaccines, > Scientists developed a clever way to detect deep fakes by analyzing light reflections in eyes > Pa. woman created ‘deepfake’ videos to force rivals off daughter’s cheer-leading squad > U.K Home Office tests web-spying powers with help of UK internet firms > Nvidia’s new beta driver unlocks RTX 3060 Ethereum cryptocurrency mining

Episode 192 of the Transatlantic Cable looks at: • Deep Fakes and the business opportunities they may hold (they're still oddly creepy however) • Google's decision to move away from 3rd party tracking cookies • Ransomware hits a bank and the attackers add doxxing to their arsenal • A chat with the new Kaspersky podcast team behind CyberWhaat! Tune in!

On this week’s episode, Dave and Jeff discuss fines, privacy, doxing and more. To kick things off, they look at a pair of stories that discuss fines levied on social networking sites. From there, they stay on the social media train and discuss a recent move from Twitter to flag false information pertaining to Covid-19 vaccines. To wrap up, they move to an interview that David did with our HR team about the future of work, the state of HR and more. Tune in!

Episode 190 of the Transatlantic Cable brings you several stories you might have missed this week, including: > A developer was streaming Clubhouse conversations directly to a website available to anyone > Devs Hack Together Their Own Clubhouse Android App > Nvidia limits crypto-mining on new graphics card > Microsoft throws Google under the bus in European news fight > Facebook reverses ban on news pages in Australia > Facebook’s Australia news ban is the best decision it’s ever made Tune i

In episode 189 of the Transatlantic Cable, Jeff and Dave look at some stories you might have missed this week. To start, a story from Threatpost, which looks at recent research that health apps are vulnerable to different forms of attack. From there, a look at iMessage, drug-deals and the police. To wrap up we look at a story about a disgruntled ex-employee who's accused of lacing a business network with ransomware and a final note on the "I'm not a cat" phenomena. Tune in!