#143 - Intel Chat: Blast-RADIUS, Chrome, AT&T, Kaspersky & Crowdstrike

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some cutting-edge intel coming out of LimaCharlie's community Slack channel.

• Blast-RADIUS is a vulnerability in the RADIUS protocol that allows a man-in-the-middle attacker to forge valid protocol accept messages in response to failed authentication requests.
• The blog post on Syntax-Err0r details a technique for silently installing a Chrome extension to maintain persistence, bypassing typical detection methods.
• American telecom service provider AT&T has confirmed that threat actors managed to access data belonging to "nearly all" of its wireless customers as well as customers of mobile virtual network operators using AT&T's wireless network.
• The U.S. Department of Commerce added Kaspersky to its Entity List, barring U.S. businesses from engaging with the company due to national security concerns related to the Russian government's influence over Kaspersky's operations.
• On July 19th Crowdstrike distributed a faulty update to its Falcon sensors that caused widespread problems with computers running Microsoft Windows. As a result, roughly 8.5 million systems crashed, bringing up the feared blue screen of death, in what is being called the largest IT outage in history (+outage 1-month ago, +outage 3-months ago).