Risky Business #825 -- Palo Alto Networks blames it on the boogie
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On this week’s show, Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James WIlson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover: Palo Alto threat researchers want to attribute to China, but management says shush An increasing proportion of ransomware is data extortion. Is this good? Cambodia says it’s going to dismantle scam compounds CISA sufferers through yet another shutdown Google Gemini’s training secrets are being systematically harvested to improve other LLMs Academics assess SaaS password managers’ resilience against a malicious server This episode is sponsored by SSO-firewall integration vendor…
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- AttackRansomwareMalware that encrypts an organisation's systems and demands payment, often after stealing data to leak.
- AttackData extortionStealing data and threatening to publish it unless the victim pays.
- TechnologyLLM · Large language modelAn AI model trained on huge amounts of text to understand and generate language, such as ChatGPT or Claude.
- ConceptCISA · Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security AgencyThe US government's cybersecurity agency, which issues alerts and runs the KEV catalog.