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DISCARDED: Tales from the Threat Research Trenches is a podcast for security practitioners, intelligence analysts, and threat hunters looking to learn more about the threat behaviors and attack patterns. Each episode you’ll hear real world insights from our researchers about the latest trends in malware, threat actors, TTPs, and more.
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- 4 days ago56 min
Once in a BlueMoon: Inside the Exploit Chain Four Espionage Groups Adopted in Days
Send us fan mail! Hello to all our cybernauts! This week Selena is joined by not one, not two, but three guests — Mark Kelly, Julia Paluch, and Dave Galazin — to unpack Proofpoint's latest research. Mark walks through how it started: on August 28, the China-aligned actor TA412 (aka Violet Typhoon), previously known mostly for device registration phishing, suddenly began delivering a Chrome exploit — kicking off a frantic cross-team investigation involving partners at Google and Microsoft. Wit...
- 2 weeks ago54 min
Intercepted: How Hackers Take On the Cloud
Send us fan mail! Hello to our Cyber Pals! This week, Selena hands the mic over to a recording of Proofpoint's Intercepted webinar — a monthly video series she co-hosts with Sarah Sabotka — for a deep dive into how cloud brute force attacks are quietly getting more sophisticated. Joining Sarah and webinar host Jason is Rachel Rabin, a threat researcher on Proofpoint's Cloud Threat Research Team, to unpack two spoofing techniques she's seen increasingly weaponized against Microsoft Entra...
- Aug 11, 20261h 3m
Half-Click is so Hot Right Now: How Russian and Chinese Attackers Exploit Mailservers
Send us fan mail! Hello to all our cyber stars! Host Selena Larson is joined by co-host Sarah Sabotka, along with returning guest Greg Lesnewich, Principal Threat Research Engineer, and Staff Threat Researcher Mark Kelly, for a follow-up to last episode's half-click deep dive — this time tracking how the technique is spreading beyond TA458 and TA488 into a brand-new Chinese cluster. Greg picks up where last week left off with TA488 (aka Void Blizzard, aka Laundry Bear): after going quiet in F...
- Aug 4, 202647 min
Half-Click, Full Compromise: Inside Russia's TA458 and TA488 Espionage Playbook
Send us fan mail! Hello to all our cyber roosters! Host Selena Larson is joined by co-host Sarah Sabatka and returning guest Greg Lesnewich, Principal Threat Researcher at Proofpoint, to unpack two new reports on Russian aligned espionage actors abusing “half-click” exploits, which are vulnerabilities that compromise a target the moment they open an email in a vulnerable webmail viewer, no link or attachment required. Greg breaks down the two distinct actors covered in Proofpoint's research: ...
- Jul 21, 202635 min
StealC Exposed: Tracking, Emulating, and Disrupting a Top Info Stealer
Send us fan mail! Hello to all our Cyber Pals! Host Selena Larson is joined by Golo Mühr, Malware Reverse Engineer, X-Force Threat Intelligence and Kyle Cucci (Staff Threat Researcher, Proofpoint) to break down the joint research that helped power a major Operation Endgame disruption. Coordinated by Europol, the operation hit 66 domains and 296 servers tied to StealC and its close cousin Amadey, and led to the seizure of more than 25.6 million unique credentials stolen from over 385,000...
- Jul 7, 202638 min
OMITB: Trusting the wrong package.
Send us fan mail! Hello to all our Cyber Pals! This week, we present a special replay of "Only Malware in the Building," the podcast that our host, Selena Larson, also co-hosts! Enjoy! Welcome in! You’ve entered, Only Malware in the Building. Join us each month to sip tea and solve mysteries about today’s most interesting threats. Your host is Selena Larson, Proofpoint intelligence analyst and host of their podcast DISCARDED....
- Jun 23, 202652 min
From Phishing to Court Cases: How Microsoft Fights Back Against Hackers
Send us fan mail! Hello to all our Cyber Pals! Host Selena Larson is joined by Sean Farrell, Assistant General Counsel at Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit (DCU), to pull back the curtain on how major cyber crime takedowns actually happen and how Microsoft uses civil lawsuits, criminal referrals, and global partnerships to disrupt some of the most damaging cyber crime operations in the world. They discuss: What DCU does and Sean's path from FBI to AWS to MicrosoftHow civil claims like the CFAA ...
- Jun 9, 20261h 5m
Diving Into the DBIR: Vulnerabilities, AI, and Supply Chain
Send us fan mail! Hello to all our Cyber Pals! Host Selena Larson is joined by guest host Sarah Sabotka as they chat with returning guest: Alex Pinto, Associate Director of Threat Intelligence at Verizon Business, and the architect behind the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. Alex joins hosts Selena Larson and Sarah Sabatka to break down the most important findings from this year's report — and there's a lot to unpack. From vulnerabilities overtaking credential abuse as the lea...
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