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Decipher Podcast: Change Healthcare Attack Fallout

Decipher editors Dennis Fisher and Lindsey O'Donnell-Welch talk about the BlackCat ransomware attack on Change Healthcare that has crippled the company and affected the ability of thousands of health care providers, pharmacies, and hospitals to get paid and submit claims.

Podcast, Ransomware

VMware Fixes Critical ESXi, Workstation and Fusion Flaws

Two of the more severe flaws could each allow attackers with local administrative privileges on virtual machines to execute code as the virtual machine's VMX process running on the host.

Vmware

Memory Safe: Daniel Cuthbert

Daniel Cuthbert, global head of cybersecurity research at Banco Santander, joins Dennis Fisher to talk about getting his first computer, a ZX Spectrum that he still owns(!), finding his way into hacking through IRC, his passion for photography, and his surprising alternate career path.

Podcast

New Malware Variant Deployed in ScreenConnect Flaw Exploits

“The list of threat actors utilizing the ScreenConnect vulnerability CVE-2024-1709 for initial access is growing," researchers say.

Malware

U.S. Sanctions Makers of Predator Spyware

The Department of the Treasury has sanctioned five entities and two people associated with the sale of the Predator spyware.

Government