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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 ago52 min
The Human Cost of Cyberattacks, with Critical Cyber's Pavlina Pavlova
Send us fan mail! Hello to all our Cyber Stars! This week, Selena is joined by senior threat researcher Tim Kromphardt and special guest Pavlina Pavlova, founder of Critical Cyber and a cybercrime and policy expert. Together they dig into the human side of cyberattacks and what happens to real people long after the systems come back online. Pavlina explains why she founded Critical Cyber, an organization that documents how attacks on hospitals, schools, transportation, and other vital service...
- 2 weeks ago43 min
Agent Dozier Would Like a Word (Word)
Send us fan mail! Hello to all our cyber spooks! This week, Selena is joined by senior threat researcher Tim Kromphardt and, for his first time on the show, threat intelligence analyst Aron Salzman-deis. Together they dig into the strange and surprisingly persistent world of West African fraud. Tim breaks down his latest research on scammers targeting universities. The scheme starts with fake password-reset emails and eventually lands with too-good-to-be-true campus job offers that do ...
- Oct 15, 202642 min
Germany’s Cybercrime Chief on Disrupting Cybercrime’s Biggest Adversaries
Send us fan mail! Hello to all our cyber pals! This week, Selena is joined by Carsten Meywirth, head of the Cybercrime Division at Germany’s Bundeskriminalamt (BKA), to talk about how law enforcement is taking the fight to cybercriminals and why he believes the good guys are gaining ground. With more than 40 years in policing, Carsten traces the BKA’s cybercrime work from a two-person team in the 1990s to a dedicated division of roughly 300 people (and growing). He explains how the thr...
- Sep 29, 202645 min
FOMO as an Attack Vector: How Fake Party Invites Are Hijacking Inboxes
Send us fan mail! Hello to all our cyber party pals! This week, Selena is joined by co-host Sarah Sabotka (and several very persistent, very uninvited pod crashers) to talk about a threat that's landed in a lot of listeners' personal inboxes lately: malicious event invitations. Selena and Sarah walk through what these lures actually look like — polished, Evite- or Paperless Post-style invitations for birthdays, weddings, baby showers, housewarmings, and even generic "Celebrate with Me"...
- Sep 16, 202656 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...
- Sep 3, 202654 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: ...
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