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Breaking Badness

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Where timely and relevant security meets puns and witty banter. Our goal is to keep defenders apprised of pertinent news and trends in under forty-five minutes.
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Episodes

185. BECeize the Day

Episode 185 of Breaking Badness is here! This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss Brian Krebs’ article on thread hijacking along with the latest alert from CISA that affects XZ Utils.

Apr 03, 202447 min

184. Saflok It Down

This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Austin Northcutt discuss threat actors using DDP sites for phishing, credential harvesting, and more along with Wired’s reporting of how researchers discovered how to open 3 million hotel keycard locks

Mar 27, 202451 min

183. BlackCat’s Out of the Bag

Episode 183 of Breaking Badness is here! This week Kali Fencl, Ian Campbell, and Austin Northcutt do a deep dive on the AlphV/BlackCat ransomware gang.

Mar 20, 202447 min

182. Call to ARMs

Episode 182 of Breaking Badness is here! This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss Palo Alto’s latest findings on Bifrost along with the rise of laid off tech workers turning to cybercrime.

Mar 13, 202451 min

181. Say My CNAME, Say My CNAME

Episode 181 of Breaking Badness is here! This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss CISA’s caution against a hacked VPN getaway along with Guardio Security’s discovery of a large subdomain hacking campaign.

Mar 06, 202444 min

180. I-Sooner or Later

This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss China’s involvement with I-Soon along with DNSSEC and the #KeyTrap vulnerability

Feb 28, 202448 min

179. Scamily Matters

Episode 179 of Breaking Badness is here! This week Kali Fencl, Kelly Molloy, and Ian Campbell discuss Cory Doctorow’s recent blog post about his experience getting scammed along with the decade-long issue of email sent to .ml addresses rather than .mil ones.

Feb 21, 202447 min

178. Volt Typhoon Lagoon

Episode 178 of Breaking Badness is here! This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss the US disabling of Volt Typhoon along with AnyDesk’s recent cyberattack.

Feb 14, 202449 min

[Special Report] Ransomware and Mortgage Brokers

In the latest episode of Breaking Badness, Kali Fencl, Austin Northcutt, and Yelisey Bohuslavskiy discuss a string of mortgage brokers who have been hit with ransomware over the past several months. What are the targeting patterns? Who are the victims?

Feb 07, 20241 hr 3 min

Breaking Badness Book Club #3

This week on the Breaking Badness podcast, Allan Liska and Jon DiMaggio join Kali Fencl to discuss Jon’s book, The Art of Cyberwarfare, along with other favorite cybersecurity picks!

Jan 31, 20241 hr 31 min

177. Just Around the COLDRIVER Bend

This week it’s all about targeting expansions! Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss threat actors COLDRIVER expanding their targeting along with Mint Sandstorm.

Jan 24, 202449 min

Breaking Badness Book Club Episode #2

We’re coming back with another iteration of our Book Club on the Breaking Badness podcast! Kali Fencl, Ian Campbell, and Daniel Schwalbe discuss their top cybersecurity book picks along with books outside the industry.

Jan 17, 202446 min

176. A Tale of OAuth2 Cities

This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss a new method of hacking compromising Google accounts along with findings from Operation Triangulation.

Jan 10, 202455 min

The Best of 2023

This week we're taking a look back at 2023! We're reminiscing about the guests we spoke with and counting down to the top episode...and the top puns!

Jan 03, 202446 min

2024 Infosec Predictions

It’s been a big year in infosec/cybersecurity, but we could say that almost every year. We did a similar discussion last year if you’d like to check that out, and we wanted to follow up on those predictions along with sharing some new ones for 2024.

Dec 27, 202355 min

175. BazarCall of the Wild

Episode 175 of Breaking Badness is here! This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Ian Campbell discuss bad actors using shell companies in Wyoming for global attacks along with BazarCall attacks leveraging Google Forms.

Dec 20, 202353 min

[Special Report] Father Phishmas, Give Us The Money

A special Phishmas episode of Breaking Badness is here! We’re talking with @nullcookies about the recent phishing attacks targeting the United States Postal Service, its implications, and possible mitigations. Listen here:

Dec 13, 202355 min

174. Pick Your DNS Cache Poison

This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss a recent attack on a municipal water authority along with Timo Longin and SEC Consult’s latest research on DNS cache poisoning

Dec 06, 202351 min

Breaking Badness Book Club #1

Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, Taylor Wilkes-Pierce, and Sean McNee discuss their favorite #cybersecurity books! Listen and learn what we’ve enjoyed and what we’ve found helpful in our careers along with non-industry books we’re currently enjoying.

Nov 29, 202353 min

Special Report - Quadrant Security [Re-Release]

We're taking this opportunity to share how grateful we are for the guests and discussions we've had this past year on Breaking Badness. One of which is our conversation with Champ Clark III and Steven Drenning-Blalock from Quadrant Security on how they thwarted the Black Basta ransomware gang. If you didn't have a chance to listen when we initially released this episode, now's a great time to catch up!

Nov 22, 20231 hr 1 min

173. How To Eat Fried Sandworms

This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss a private industry notification from the FBI along with Mandiant’s findings from a #Sandworm attack targeting Ukraine.

Nov 15, 202347 min

172. SolarWinds of Change

This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss the SEC charges against SolarWinds and its CISO along with the 0-day exploitation impacting NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway appliances.

Nov 08, 202355 min

171. The Fancy Bear Necessities

This week on Breaking Badness, Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss the latest accusations against Fancy Bear along with a look at 404 Media’s findings about the SIM Swapper group known as The Comm.

Nov 01, 202357 min

170. MOVEit on Up

We like to MOVEit MOVEit on Breaking Badness. This week on the pod, Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss Cisco’s zero-day vulnerability along with the latest from the Clop ransomware gang and the MOVEit file transfer software.

Oct 25, 202344 min

169. DDoSawson’s Creek

This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss curl 8.4.0 along with one of the biggest DDoSes of all time.

Oct 18, 202347 min

168. Same-Origin of the Species

This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss a previously unknown compression side channel in GPUs along with the Johnson Controls #ransomware attack.

Oct 04, 202343 min

167. IR You Feeling Lucky?

This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Ian Campbell discuss the ransom attacks against MGM and Caesars Entertainment along with Cisco’s acquisition of Splunk.

Sep 27, 202351 min

Voices From Infosec - Tony Robinson aka da_667

In this special episode of Breaking Badness, Kali Fencl and Tim Helming speak with Tony Robinson, Senior Security Researcher with the Emerging Threats team at Proofpoint. We talk about his path to #infosec, #InformationStealers, and more!

Sep 20, 202352 min

166. I’m W3LL Aware of BEC Attacks

This week Kali Fencl, Tim Helming, and Taylor Wilkes-Pierce discuss Group-IB’s findings on the hidden phishing ecosystem driving BEC attacks along with Microsoft’s follow-up on Storm-0558

Sep 13, 202350 min
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