Episode #204: Getting Malware onto Android Devices; Critical Shortage of Cybersecurity Talent; Ransomware 2.0 Pivots; AI Red Teaming;

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Today's Cybersecurity Briefing:

Marcel Brown:

August 10th, 1966. The first lunar orbiter, creatively named Lunar Orbiter I, is launched. Its primary mission is to photograph potential landing sites for future Apollo missions.

Edwin Kwan:

How are malicious apps getting past Google's Play Store's review process and their rigorous, potentially harmful application screening? Well, they're using a technique called versioning, which is sneaky and hard to detect.

Hillary Coover:

Amidst this year's conference, one of the most prominent and pressing topics under discussion continues to be the critical shortage of cybersecurity talent. While companies have introduced innovative recruitment techniques to broaden their cyber talent pools, the size of the pool remains constrained.

Ian Garrett:

Ransomware has had a glow up. As organizations have become increasingly resilient to traditional ransomware techniques, malicious actors have been exploiting more zero-day vulnerabilities and are also targeting the exfiltration of critical files, raising the stakes for victims and organizations alike.

Katy Craig:

Medical Secrets. Bank heist blueprints. Racial bias. What happens when red teams go after generative AI? A web of fabricated tales emerge. One even suggesting Justin Bieber's hand in Selena Gomez's grisly death. And for each transgression, a cause for celebration in this strange twist of artificial intelligence.

Hillary Coover:

From Sourced Network Productions, reporting from Las Vegas, Nevada at Black Hat, It's 5:05. I'm Hillary Coover. Today is Thursday, August 10th, 2023. Here's the full story behind today's cybersecurity and open source headlines