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The SAS is here — digitally, of course; it is 2020, after all. To kick off the latest iteration of the Transatlantic Cable podcast, Dave and I chat about a topic presented at the conference.
We begin with Mark Lechtik, Igor Kuznetsov, and Yury Parshin’s research on MosaicRegressor. This new malware uses a UEFI foothold to plant a second, more traditional piece of spyware on a target computer’s hard drive.
From there, we jump to the state of New Jersey, where a hospital hit with a ransomware attack paid a partial ransom.
For our third story, we head over to the world of dating apps and discuss a vulnerability in Grindr. It’s been patched, but it was pretty bad.
To close things out, we look at the misuse of Excel in the UK when it comes to COVID-19 case tracking.
If you liked the podcast, please consider subscribing or sharing with your friends. For more information on the stories that we covered, please visit the links below:
- A China-linked group repurposed Hacking Team’s stealthy spyware
- New “MosaicRegressor” UEFI bootkit malware found active in the wild
- MosaicRegressor: Lurking in the shadows of UEFI
- Join SAS@Home
- New Jersey hospital paid ransomware gang $670K to prevent data leak
- Hacking Grindr accounts with copy and paste
- Excel: Why using Microsoft’s tool caused COVID-19 results to be lost
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