In this week’s edition of Risky Business Dmitri Alperovitch and Adam Boileau join Patrick Gray to talk through the week’s news, including:

EXCLUSIVE: A Scattered Spider-style crew is hijacking DNS MX entries and compromising enterprises within minutes
The SVG format brings the all horrors of HTML+JS to image files, and attackers have noticed
Brian Krebs eats a 6.3Tbps DDoS … ‘cause that’s how you demo your packet cannon
Law enforcement takes out Lumma Stealer, Qakbot, Danabot and some dark web drug traffickers
Iranian behind 2019 Baltimore ransomware mysteriously appears in North Carolina and pleads guilty
CISA’s leadership is fleeing in droves, even though the US needs them more than ever.

This week’s episode is sponsored by Thinkst Canary. Long time friend of the show Haroon Meer joins and talks through where he feels the industry is at, having just returned home from the AI-fueled hype at this year’s RSA conference.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Show notes

Risky Business #793 -- Scattered Spider is hijacking MX records

Risky Business

Risky Business #793 -- Scattered Spider is hijacking MX records