Symantec Cyber Security Brief Podcast

On this week’s Cyber Security Brief, Brigid O Gorman and Dick O’Brien discuss the Symantec Threat Hunter Team’s latest blog detailing a recent campaign by the Billbug espionage group, in which it targeted a certificate authority and multiple government agencies in various countries in Asia. We also discuss a new strain of ransomware called Prestige, which is being used in att

On this week’s Cyber Security Brief, Brigid O Gorman and Dick O’Brien discuss two recent Symantec blogs, including one detailing the new Exbyte data exfiltration tool, which is being used by at least one affiliate of the BlackByte ransomware gang. We also discuss our blog about a group called Cranefly, which is using a new dropper and malware, as well as a novel method of readi

On this week’s Cyber Security Brief, Brigid O Gorman and Dick O’Brien are joined by Symantec threat researcher Kevin Sovey to discuss a blog we recently published about the Budworm espionage group targeting organizations in the U.S. We also discuss another blog we published this week about the Spyder Loader malware being deployed on the machines of government agencies in Hong K

On this week’s Cyber Security Brief podcast, Brigid O Gorman and Dick O’Brien discuss a recent blog we published on the Witchetty (aka LookingFrog) espionage group, which has been progressively updating its toolset, using new malware in attacks on targets in the Middle East and Africa, including a new tool that employs steganography. We also discuss the recently discovered Micr

On this week’s Cyber Security Brief podcast, Brigid O Gorman and Dick O’Brien are joined by Symantec threat researcher Alan Neville to discuss some of the recent blogs that the Symantec Threat Hunter team has published. We discuss a new wave of espionage activity targeting Asian governments by attackers who were formerly associated with the ShadowPad malware but who appear to h

The Cyber Security Brief is back after its summer break! In this episode, Brigid O Gorman and Dick O’Brien cover some of the stories you might have missed while we were off air. Dick discusses a recent Symantec blog that looks at the implications of poor security practices in the mobile software supply chain, and how this can lead to the exposure of an alarming amount of data. Br

In this week’s Cyber Security Brief, Dick O’Brien and Brigid O Gorman are joined by Symantec threat researcher Chris Kiefer to discuss our latest blog about the Bumblebee loader. We discuss this new malware’s place on the cyber crime landscape, its capabilities, and how it is being leveraged by ransomware actors. We also discuss the appearance of new versions of both Raccoon

In this week’s Cyber Security Brief, Brigid O Gorman and Dick O’Brien discuss how Russian espionage actors are exploiting the Follina vulnerability, the release of the latest version of Metasploit, and a new phishing campaign that’s been underway on Facebook. We also discuss ransomware extensively, including what authorities were able to find when they took down the Netwalker

On this week’s Cyber Security Brief, Brigid O Gorman and Dick O’Brien discuss the recently discovered Follina vulnerability in Microsoft Office, as well as some recent ransomware stories. One thing we talk about is the apparent break up of the Conti ransomware gang, with evidence pointing to the group folding itself into other ransomware gangs, including Hive, which carried out

In this week’s Cyber Security Brief, Dick O’Brien and Brigid O Gorman discuss the recent in-depth whitepaper the Symantec Threat Hunter team produced about Chinese cyber-espionage activity, which details the most active groups operating out of that country at the moment, as well as the tactics, tools, and procedures they leverage, the custom malware they use, and who their vict