Risky Business #636 -- Victims are shunning data extortion payments

<p>On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss recent security news, including:</p> <ul> <li>More info on the Belarusian Cyber Patriots</li> <li>How infosec overhyped election security risks</li> <li>Is data ransoming dying?</li> <li>All about the Azure Cosmos DB drama</li> <li>Much, much more…</li> </ul> <p>In this week’s sponsor interview Airlock Digital’s Daniel Schell and David Cottingham join the show to talk about EDR bypasses. They are a thing.</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.technologyreview.com/2021/08/26/1033205/belarus-cyber-partisans-lukashenko-hack-opposition/ ">Belarusian hackers are turning the country&#39;s surveillance state against it | MIT Technology Review </a></dt> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="https://therecord.media/a-new-wave-of-hacktivists-is-turning-the-surveillance-state-against-itself/ ">A new wave of Hacktivists is turning the surveillance state against itself - The Record by Recorded Future </a></dt> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/trump-conspiracies-strain-election-cybersecurity-experts-rcna1803 ">Trump conspiracies strain election cybersecurity experts </a></dt> <dd> </dd> <dt><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/t