The Security Box, podcast 172: The Q3 Payload report

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Welcome to TSB, podcast 172. This was a great podcast giving out information that might be of value to you.

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Hello folks, welcome to the Security Box, podcast 172. On this podcast, we’ve got two different morons, a look at the landscape, a few things to ponder and our topic dealing with the Q3 report on the landscape which includes QBot and other variants out there causing havoc.

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Our Things to ponder

• Our first Things to Ponder is going to be a 9 minute video that talks about a new group that assembled after Conti was dismantled. You can search for Trend Micro on Youtube and its part of their series that they recently started.
• Our second and third are going hand in hand. The first is a Scott Schober video which is very timely and I blogged a link to the video and gave my thoughts on it. The third item is going to cover the guide that’s titled Getting Link information via access technology which we talked about when we launched it in July. We also talked about it in recent times too. Check the podcast for full details.

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Our Morons

These are the morons of the podcast.

• Montana, you have got to be kidding me. We talked about this in May of this year, and now, it seems you lose. Seems like your law is unconstitutional and it questions what you’re trying to do. While we support you, you’ve really got to prove why Montana should be allowed to ban the app as just banning it doesn’t fix the overall problem. As we’ve asked, how are you going to enforce it? Here is the blog post titled Montana Loses battle to block Tiktok for now … still thinks they have a case which links to prior coverage and arguments. Have fun with this one.
• We have two Ukraine stories in recent posts, but one of these is our moron. Ukrainian gets 8 years argues that 8 years is still not enough for stealing and selling personally identifiable information on the darkweb and profiting from it. At least this suspect got caught, and we can celebrate just a little bit. The JRN did not copy his name.

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Topic: The Q3 Payload report

On this week’s program, the Q3 Payload report is going to be the topic. Looks like QBot is still at the top, even though they were dismantled. This was quite interesting. There are two different Rats that are part of the problem now, and these aren’t rodants. These are Trojans. In this terminology, Rat stands for Remote Access Trojan. Phishlabs has this article and its titled Q3 Payload Report and you should read it in full if you wish to do so. You’ll thank us later.

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