Daily breach attempts target UAE, fake ransomware attack, PAN-OS vulnerability & Microsoft’s Phone Link attack / Intel Chat [#321]

Show Notes

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community.

• The cyber threat environment in the Middle East has intensified sharply following military operations involving Israel, the United States, and Iran.
• An intrusion campaign attributed with moderate confidence to the Iranian state-linked group MuddyWater was disguised as a Chaos ransomware attack, according to research from Rapid7.
• Palo Alto Networks has warned customers that a critical remote code execution vulnerability in PAN-OS is being actively exploited in the wild.
• Attackers are abusing Microsoft’s Phone Link application in a campaign that Cisco Talos says has been active since January. Report here.

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An accessible but technical podcast about cybersecurity and the people who keep the internet safe. The podcast is built as a series of segments: we will be looking back at the last couple of weeks in cybersecurity news, talking to different people in the industry about areas of their expertise, we're going to break apart some of the TTPs being used by adversaries, and we will even cover a little bit of hacker history.