In this bonus edition of ShadowTalk, Dr Richard Gold and Rafael Amado discuss the recent BBC Russian Service investigation into Facebook accounts being sold online. As reported on Friday, at least 81,000 accounts with private messages were being advertised online. Digital Shadows assisted the BBC with its investigation. Richard and Rafael outline what we know so far, as well as answering some of the key questions raised by this story. For more, see our recent blog available at https://www.digitalshadows.com/blog-and-research/81000-hacked-facebook-accounts-for-sale-5-things-to-know/.
Like what you hear?
Rate us on iTunes!
Most Recent Articles
Kacey, Charles, Alex, and Harrison host this week’s threat intelligence update from Dallas. We kick off with vulnerabilities from the week. This includes both the NSA CVE and Citrix CVE. The team...
Viktoria hosts this week and introduces the episode bringing Sammy on to provide some regional insight and context around the Iranian cyber threat and discusses whether a cyber response is likely.
Rick Holland (CISO at Digital Shadows) joins Harrison to share his thoughts on the Iranian cyber threat and what it means for cyber defenders. What should security practitioners be concerned...
CISO Rick Holland joins our ShadowTalk hosts (Viktoria, Alex, and Harrison) for our holiday special! This week the team covers: - Ring Doorbell security - New Orleans victim of Ryuk Ransomware -...
Alex, Harrison, Kacey, and Charles chat this week on some dark web and cybercriminal updates, data leakage stories that have hit the news, plus a GDPR story where an ISP was hit with a €9.6...
New cybercrime research we put out on the Modern Cybercriminal Forum and how the rise of alternative technologies hasn’t spelled the end of forums, which seem to be prospering against all odds.
Adam Cook and Viktoria Austin talk through the security and threat intelligence stories of this week including an update around Phineas Fisher, where the hacker offered up to $100k in what they...
Dallas is sound effects and all this week with Kacey, Charles, Alex, and Harrison. The team discusses their recent OSINT workshop at BSidesDFW and how you can access the training materials, plus...
This week the London team looks at the following stories: - BlueKeep Exploit Could Rapidly Spread - Megacortex Ransomware Changes Windows Passwords - Japanese Media Company Nikkei - $29 million...
Adam Cook, Philip Doherty, and Viktoria Austin host this week’s ShadowTalk update around an unsecured Elasticsearch database exposing account information of aboutt 7.5 million Adobe Creative Cloud...
The team first looks at Avast, which encountered a cyber espionage attempt. Then NordVPN announced that a hacker had breached servers used by NordVPN. And finally Dr. Richard Gold put out a new blog t
Adam Cook, Philip Doherty, and Xueyin Peh join Viktoria Austin for a special ShadowTalk episode around the Singapore Cyber Threat Landscape. The team looks at the heightened threat level for...
Kacey, Charles, Harrison, and Alex kick off this week’s episode talking about our Fall Dallas team event (an amateur version of Chopped). Then we dig into the hot topics of the week.
We’re back in London this week! Viktoria chats with Adam Cook, Philip Doherty, and Josh Poole on this week’s top stories. - APT35 Targets Email of US political figures & prominent Iranians -...
Director of Security Engineering, Richard Gold, joins Viktoria Austin in this special episode of ShadowTalk to look at the attacker goals, their TTPs, and map this to the Mitre PRE-ATT&CK and...
Coming to you from London this week, Jamie Collier, Philip Doherty, and Josh Poole join Viktoria Austin for our weekly threat intelligence updates. The team kicks off with a discussion around the...
The team digs into the first story of the week: Tortoiseshell Group (a newly identified threat group) has reportedly conducted some supply chain attack campaigns against 11 IT providers in Saudi Arabi
It’s Harrison and Alex this week for your threat intelligence updates. The guys first dig into the NCSC’s recent threat trends report, the first of these that the NCSC has put out. It’s...
In this episode, Viktoria interviews Eliza May Austin (CEO & Co-Founder of th4ts3cur1ty.company), and our own Richard Gold and James Chappell on Purple Teaming.
