On the Wire Podcast: Black Hat Preview

In the latest edition of the On the Wire podcast, Dennis Fisher talks with Ronnie Tokazowski of Flashpoint about his research into business email compromise campaigns, especially a new one that originated in West Africa. The new campaign uses rigged PDF files that come from trusted senders to push victims to malicious sites, starting a…

Dennis Fisher speaks with Mike Mimoso of Threatpost about the arrest of security researcher Marcus Hutchins in connection with the Kronos banking trojan, the effect that the incident could have on the cooperation between researchers and law enforcement, and what else may come out of the AlphaBay dark wen market takedown. Music by Chris Gonsalves and…

Black Hat 2017 was an adventure, as it always is, and to help make sense of it all, Dennis Fisher sat down with friends from across the security community for a long conversation. The discussion with Robert Hansen, Jessy Irwin, Jennifer Leggio of Flashpoint, Mike Mimoso of Threatpost, Patrick Gray of Risky Business, and Fahmida…