S3 Ep25: Drained accounts, ransomware attacks and Linux badware

Published: March 25, 2021, 12:06 a.m.

How a social engineer ripped off a victim lured in by one of those "small outstanding fee to pay" home delivery scams. The ransomware crooks targeting networks that still haven\u2019t done their Hafnium patches. And the Linux kernel security holes that lay there undiscovered for 15 years.

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Related articles that we refer to in the show:
\nhttps://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/beware-the-dhl-delivery-message
\nhttps://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/watch-out-scummy-scammers
\nhttps://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/s3-ep12-a-chat-with-social-engineering-hacker-rachel-tobac
\nhttps://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/blackkingdom-ransomware
\nhttps://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/serious-security-webshells-explained
\nhttps://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/naked-security-live-hafnium-explained
\nhttps://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/serious-security-the-linux-kernel-bugs

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With Kimberly Truong, Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin.

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Original music by Edith Mudge

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