The Adversarial Podcast Ep. 4 - CrowdStrike Lawsuits, Overhyped Exploits, and Fake Remote Employees

Episode notes

Join former CISOs-turned-founders Jerry Perullo, Mario Duarte, and Sounil Yu as they discuss upcoming lawsuits related to the recent CrowdStrike outage, switching costs, overhyped security vulnerabilities and their effect on practitioners' responsibilities, fake employees from North Korea, the information stealers and the state of password managers, and the increasing threat of deepfakes.

Stories

• “CrowdStrike is sued by shareholders over huge software outage” - https://www.reuters.com/legal/crowdstrike-is-sued-by-shareholders-over-huge-software-outage-2024-07-31/
• “Delta CEO says CrowdStrike-Microsoft outage cost the airline $500 million” - https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/31/delta-ceo-crowdstrike-microsoft-outage-cost-the-airline-500-million.html
• “Microsoft And AWS Outages: A Wake-Up Call For Cloud Dependency“ - https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilsayegh/2024/07/31/microsoft-and-aws-outages-a-wake-up-call-for-cloud-dependency/
• “Microsoft confirms Azure, 365 outage linked to DDoS attack” - https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/microsoft-azure-365-outage-ddos/722920/
• “Millions of Devices Vulnerable to 'PKFail' Secure Boot Bypass Issue” - https://www.darkreading.com/endpoint-security/millions-of-devices-vulnerable-to-pkfail-secure-boot-bypass-issue
• “Who Knew? Domain Hijacking Is So Easy” - https://blogs.infoblox.com/threat-intelligence/who-knew-domain-hijacking-is-so-easy/
• “Security Firm Alarmed to Discover Their Remote Employee Is a North Korean Hacker” - https://futurism.com/the-byte/security-firm-remote-employee-north-korean-hacker
• “The Evolution and Rise of Stealer Malware” (Josh Lefowitz/Flashpoint) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7209733860715098114-ZgYQ / https://flashpoint.io/blog/evolution-stealer-malware/
• ‘I Need to Identify You': How One Question Saved Ferrari From a Deepfake Scam - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-26/ferrari-narrowly-dodges-deepfake-scam-simulating-deal-hungry-ceo
• “AI-Powered Deepfake Tools Becoming More Accessible Than Ever” - https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/24/g/ai-deepfake-cybercrime.html