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Episode 200: Sakura Samurai Wants To Make Hacking Groups Cool Again. And: Automating Our Way Out of PKI Chaos

In this episode of the podcast (#200), sponsored by Digicert: John Jackson, founder of the group Sakura Samurai talks to us about his quest to make hacking groups cool again. Also: we talk with Avesta Hojjati of the firm Digicert about the challenge of managing a growing population of digital certificates and how automation may be an answer.

Morpho Is A Profit-Based Hacking Group, Says Symantec

Attribution in information security attack is a difficult thing. Being able to put a particular person behind a keyboard is often the problem. However, in recent years, security companies have been doing a better job of identifying groups of individuals with similar attack methods and preferences. For example CrowdStrike has identified over seven thousand discrete groups of state-sponsored groups, criminals, and hacktivists solely by their methods of operation, their patterns of attack. A report this week from Symantec looks at one particular group they call Morpho, which they believe is not state-sponsored but nonetheless responsible for intellectual property theft for monetary gain. Symantec notes that one key difference between attacks coming from competitors and state-sponsored attackers is that competitors are likely in a better position to request the theft of specific information of economic value. They make faster use of this information than a state-sponsored group. Morpho hs a preference […]