Tackling the Perennial Problem of Device Management, News, BlackHat Interviews - Jason Meller - ESW #329

Incredibly, the seemingly simple task of managing corporate-owned devices is still a struggle for most organizations in 2023. Maybe best MDM for Mac doesn't work with Windows, or the best MDM for Windows doesn't work with Mac. Maybe neither have Linux support. Perhaps they don't provide enough insight into the endpoint, or control over it. Whatever the case, security leaders never seem satisfied with their MDM solution and are always investigating new ones. Now, Kolide has stepped in with a unique approach to device management, combining the flexibility and industry support for OSQuery and built to integrate with IdP giant Okta. We discuss Kolide's entrance into the device management space and the current state of MDM - what's wrong with it, and how does Kolide propose to fix it?

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Record funding levels over the last two weeks top 2023 and the same time last year. We discuss Palo Alto's plans for the future, CISA's analysis of the LAPSUS$ hacking group, and the uselessness of Quantum Security pitches. Chrome adds the ability to alert users about malicious extensions. A great post from Thinkst has us talking about why vendors (and buyers) need to be careful about default behaviors and documentation.

You won't want to miss the excellent squirrel story - a front end for Reddit that looks like Microsoft Outlook.

During this segment, Jon will explore today’s ransomware economy players from IABS to RaaS affiliates, to money launders and now C2Ps. For the discussion, Jon will leverage Halcyon’s latest research, which demonstrates a new technique to uncover how C2Ps, like Cloudzy, are used to identify upcoming ransomware campaigns and other advanced attacks. The research revealed that Cloudzy, knowingly or not, provided services to attackers while assuming a legitimate business profile. Threat actors that leveraged Cloudzy include APT groups tied to the Chinese, Iranian, North Korean, Russian, Indian, Pakistani, and Vietnamese governments; a sanctioned Israeli spyware vendor whose tools are known to target civilians; several criminal syndicates and ransomware affiliates whose campaigns have spurred international headlines.

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to learn more about them! In this session, Snehal will discuss several real-world examples of what autonomous pentesting discovered in networks just like yours. You’ll hear more about how fast and easy it was to safely compromise some of the biggest (and smallest) networks in the world - with full domain takeover in a little more than a few hours. Learn how you can safely do the same in your own network today! 

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In this Black Hat 2023 interview, CRA’s Bill Brenner and Sophos’ John Shier discuss the company’s latest research on the Royal ransomware gang. Though Royal is a notoriously closed off group that doesn’t openly solicit affiliates from underground forums, granular similarities in the forensics of the attacks suggest all three groups are sharing either affiliates or highly specific technical details of their activities. 

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