Risky Business #663 -- Israel cracks down on spyware exports

<p>On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:</p> <ul> <li>Israel Ministry of Defence is denying a lot of spyware export licences</li> <li>Private detective in New York pleads guilty over BellTroX shenanigans</li> <li>Scammers enrol stolen credit cards into Apple Pay</li> <li>The Blackcat ransomware crew is very active right now</li> <li>VirusTotal shells lol</li> <li>Much, much more</li> </ul> <p>This week’s sponsor interview is with Okta’s Brett Winterford, who talks in detail about the company’s brush with the Lapsus$ hacking crew. It’s unusual for a sponsor interview to be a must listen, but here we are.</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"> <ul> <li><a href="https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-tighter-export-controls-strangling-israels-cyberattack-sector-1001410066">Export controls strangling Israel&#39;s cyberattack industry - Globes</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-charged-global-hacker-for-hire-scheme-pleads-guilty-2022-04-20/">Israeli charged in global hacker-for-hire scheme pleads guilty | Reuters</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7ngxm/apple-pay-fraud-spending-sprees-2fa-bots">Criminals Abuse Apple Pay in Spending Sprees</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/21/1050747/cybercriminals-zero-day-hacks/">Wealthy cybercriminals are using