#84 - Intel Chat: Push notification surveillance, a RAT, a critical Bluetooth flaw & 5Ghoul

Show Notes

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some cutting-edge intel coming out of LimaCharlie's community Slack channel.

• Unidentified governments are surveilling smartphone users via their apps' push notifications, as reported by a US senator on December 6th.
• Cyber.wtf reporting on an interesting piece of malware that turned out to be a RAT written in C#.
• Israel’s critical infrastructure is under threat from an Iranian proxy hacking group operating out of Lebanon.
• Hacker News is reporting on a critical Bluetooth security flaw that could be exploited by threat actors to take control of Android, Linux, MacOS and iOS devices.
• A collection of security flaws in the firmware implementation of 5G mobile network modems from major chipset vendors such as MediaTek and Qualcomm impact USB and IoT modems as well as hundreds of smartphone models running Android and iOS.

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What is The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast?

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.