Risky Business #627 -- USG claws back Colonial pipeline ransom money

<p>On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:</p> <ul> <li>US Government claws back Colonial ransom bitcoin. We don’t think the FBI acted alone.</li> <li>Meet an0m, the cute little app for planning crimes that drinks milkshakes.</li> <li>Ransomware stuff, duh.</li> <li>Trickbot developer arrested in Florida</li> <li>Supreme court upends CFAA “exceed authorised access” element</li> <li>Much, much more</li> </ul> <p>This week’s show is brought to you by Datadog. Michael Yamnitsky will be along in this week’s sponsor interview to talk about cloud security posture management. DataDog is launching a product in that space, so we’ll be hearing about the types of issues CSPM products can help to unearth.</p> <p>If you book a demo of their product they’ll send you a free Datadog tee-shirt. The link is in the show notes.</p> <p>Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow <a href="https://twitter.com/riskybusiness">Patrick</a> or <a href="https://twitter.com/metlstorm">Adam</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"> <dl> <dt><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/u-s-recovers-millions-pipeline-ransom-because-hackers-mistake-n1269889">Feds recover millions from pipeline ransom hackers, hint at U.S. internet tactic</a></dt> <dd></dd> <dt><a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-us-give-ransomware-hacks-similar-priority-terrorism-official-says-2021-06-03/">Exclusive: U.S. to give ransomware hacks similar priority as terrorism | Reuters</a></dt> <dd>