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Denmark recruits hackers for offensive cyber operations, CISA tells agencies to remove old edge devices, Coinbase has another insider breach, and Microsoft appoints a new security chief.

Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about Google’s cyber disruption unit taking aim at the IPIDEA residential proxy network. The network was a cybercrime enabler that was used by hundreds of threat actors for crime and espionage. More of this kind of disruption please.

They also discuss SpaceX’s rapid action to stop the Russian military using Starlink terminals to guide drones deep into Ukrainian territory.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

The Plone CMS stops a supply-chain attack, French cops raid the X Paris office; the number of malicious OpenClaw skills grows, and a Chinese APT hacked Notepad++ servers.

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss the recent Russian attack on Polish electricity infrastructure.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

ICE tracking app blames a recent hack on a government agent, Microsoft will disable NTLM in the next release of Windows, Poland bans Chinese cars from military bases, and Ivanti patches two new zero-days.

In this sponsored interview, Casey Ellis chats to Edward Wu, founder of Dropzone AI about a recent Vanderbilt University report that reveals that foreign adversaries’ resources are growing. Edward says AI capabilities are critical to the future of cyber defence, because the west can’t hire itself out of the shortfall.

Hackers breach eScan antivirus and distribute a backdoor, Google takes down the IPIDEA proxy botnet, most GDPR fines remain uncollected, and the Poland wiper attack hit 30 locations.

Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about the Pall Mall Process, an international effort to reign in abusive spyware. Tom thinks the US has already stumbled into a viable carrots and sticks style strategy that will shape the industry more than coming up with standards will.

The pair also discuss news that Chinese Salt Typhoon hackers compromised the calls of senior UK officials in Downing Street. The UK has extensive telecommunications security regulations and the incident makes us wonder what that legislation is actually good for.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

A cyberattack has crippled cars in Russia, Microsoft patches an Office zero-day, WhatsApp rolls out an account lockdown feature, and a handful of Chrome extensions steal ChatGPT auth tokens.

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss how getting pinged hurts state hackers by introducing uncertainty. Publishing technical reports on the hack can actually improve the situation by removing uncertainty about how attackers were detected.

This episode is also available on Youtube.