Risky Business #653 -- REvil arrests: Sometimes a banana is just a banana

<p>On this week’s show Patrick Gray, Tom Uren and Joe Slowik discuss the week’s security news, including:</p> <ul> <li>Why China’s Olympics app is probably not spyware</li> <li>New DDoS record set at 3.47Tbps</li> <li>USG goes all in on Zero Trust</li> <li>Dmitry Medvedev makes all the right noises on ransomware cooperation</li> <li>Iranian APT crew dabbles in ransomware</li> <li>German fuel distribution ransomwared</li> <li>The latest on NSO</li> <li>Much, much more</li> </ul> <p>This week’s show is brought to you by Google Cloud. Anton Chuvakin, the head of security solution strategy at Google Cloud will be along in this week’s sponsor interview to talk about why SIEM vendors – including Google Cloud – are gobbling up SOAR platforms in acquisitions.</p> <p>Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow <a href="https://twitter.com/riskybusiness">Patrick</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/tomatospy">Tom</a> or <a href="https://twitter.com/jfslowik">Joe</a>on Twitter if that’s your thing.</p> <div class="panel panel-default"> <div class="panel-heading"> <h3 class="panel-title">Show notes</h3> </div> <div class="panel-body"> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/24/should-athletes-be-worried-about-flaws-in-chinas-olympics-app">The surveillance concerns around China’s Winter Olympics app – explained | Surveillance | The Guardian</a></li> <li><a href="https://citizenlab.ca/2022/01/cross-country-exposure-analysis-my2022-olympics-app/">Cross-Country Exposure: Analysis of the MY2022 Olympics App - The Citizen Lab</a></li> <li><a href="https://zetter.substack.com/p/wiper-in-ukraine-used-code-repurposed">Wiper in Ukraine Used Code Repurposed From WhiteBlackCrypt Ransomware<