April 28, 2022

This story about cables cut in France is going to be interesting to follow.

Lots of attack in Ukraine, apparently.

Oh boy…

Mandiant report linking the SolarWinds hack to APT29.

https://www.mandiant.com/resources/unc2452-merged-into-apt29

Lots of Russian cyber activity linked to Ukraine, but more specifically linked to military actions. Here’s the report:

https://query.prod.cms.rt.microsoft.com/cms/api/am/binary/RE4Vwwd

Learn you some mobile phone security.

POC exploit for VMWare something. It fits in a tweet. Those are always cool.

Couple of things here. Firstly, great thread. Secondly, the concept of stupid proofing equipment and tools to ensure that bad users can’t do the wrong thing… that’s powerful. It’s partially what mobile phones do to security. So many attack vectors don’t exist because they’re impossible within the constraints of the device.

Report that he mentions is here

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/ADA259704

News these days can be a little bit too psychedelic sometimes

There’s a cyber war on. No, the other one.

More Turla.

A mention of the value of the satellite comms takedown which keeps being dismissed by many cyberwar analysts.

Here’s the videos from Enigma 2022

Awesome, if true.

https://www.wired.com/story/north-korean-phone-jailbreakers/

A valid point.

For what it’s worth, this exists. Not the sort of thing that floats my boat, but I’d remiss to ignore it.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/04/28/fact-sheet-united-states-and-60-global-partners-launch-declaration-for-the-future-of-the-internet/