Episode 174 - The Brexit Episode

<p>6:48 <strong>This week in InfoSec  </strong></p><p>With content liberated from the “today in infosec” twitter account and further afield</p><ol><li>15th November 1994: The earliest known example of the Good Times email hoax virus was posted to the TECH-LAW mailing list. Variants of the hoax spread for several years. In 1997, Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc) claimed responsibility for initiating the hoax..</li></ol><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1724867863725412627">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1724867863725412627</a></p><ol><li>12th November 2012: John McAfee went into hiding because his neighbor, Gregory Faull, was found dead from a gunshot. Belize police wanted him to come in for questioning, but he fled to Guatemala where he was then arrested. He was never charged, though he lost a $25 million wrongful death suit. </li></ol><p><a href="https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1723790884053938623">https://twitter.com/todayininfosec/status/1723790884053938623</a></p><p> </p><p>11:57 <strong>Rant of the Week</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/16/clorox_ciso_washes_out/">Clorox CISO flushes self after multimillion-dollar cyberattack</a></p><p>The Clorox Company's chief security officer has left her job in the wake of a corporate network breach that cost the manufacturer hundreds of millions of dollars.</p><p> </p><p> 18:15 <strong>Billy Big Balls</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/16/blackcat_ransomware_luring_corporate_targets/">BlackCat plays with malvertising traps to lure corporate victims</a></p><p>Ads for Slack and Cisco AnyConnect actually downloaded Nitrogen malware</p><p>AlphV files SEC complaint</p><p>Affiliates of ransomware gang AlphV (aka <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/22/talos-ransomware-blackcat/">BlackCat</a>) claimed to have compromised digital lending firm MeridianLink – and reportedly filed an SEC complaint against the fintech firm for failing to disclose the intrusion to the US watchdog.</p><p>Firs