Wow, just looked over the topics of your podcast and these all sound really up my alley and interesting for sure. Will give one a listen today right after finish some work, thanks!
for more info at The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/23/camaro_dragon_usb_malware_spreads/
Malware intended to spread on USB drives is unintentionally infecting networked storage devices, according to infosec vendor Checkpoint.
The software nasty comes from a group called Camaro Dragon that Checkpoint's researchers on Thursday suggested conduct campaigns similar to those run by China's Mustang Panda and LuminousMoth attack gangs.
Checkpoint regards Camaro Dragon as most interested in Asian targets – its code includes features designed to hide it from SmadAV, an antivirus solution popular in the region.
Even so, the firm first spotted the gang's activities in Europe!
"Patient Zero in the malware infection was identified as an employee who had participated in a conference in Asia," Checkpoint's researchers wrote. "He shared his presentation with fellow attendees using his USB drive. Unfortunately, one of his colleagues had an infected computer, so his own USB drive unknowingly became infected as a result.
"Upon returning to his home hospital in Europe, the employee introduced the infected USB drive to the hospital's computer systems, which led the infection to spread."
Absolutely, very vigilant. I want nothing from the bad corps. and especially just here. Though I use some things from some of them, try to keep it minimal.
Yeah, but if they flood the fediverse with their P92 Twitter killer they’ll try to own the whole space, overwhelm it and warp it to their own ends.
Aye great read and very illuminating. We gotta protect the fediverse from corporate insidious destruction. This quote stood out to me:
And because there were far more Google talk users than "true XMPP" users, there was little room for "not caring about Google talk users". Newcomers discovering XMPP and not being Google talk users themselves had very frustrating experience because most of their contact were Google Talk users. They thought they could communicate easily with them but it was basically a degraded version of what they had while using Google talk itself. A typical XMPP roster was mainly composed of Google Talk users with a few geeks.
In 2013, Google realised that most XMPP interactions were between Google Talk users anyway. They didn’t care about respecting a protocol they were not 100% in control. So they pulled the plug and announced they would not be federated anymore. And started a long quest to create a messenger, starting with Hangout (which was followed by Allo, Duo. I lost count after that).
Aye, I might as well put the whole article in here, will do one sec. I liked the ideas as quick thoughts so was thinking they were generally worth sharing. I'm trying to think recently how AI will impact security beyond the "obvious"..
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