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+Episode: 3714
+Title: HPR3714: The News with Some Guy On the Internet
+Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr3714/hpr3714.mp3
+Transcribed: 2025-10-25 04:31:52
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+This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 3,714 for Thursday, the 27th of October 2022.
+Today's show is entitled, The News with some Guy on the Internet.
+It is hosted by some guy on the Internet, and is about 10 minutes long.
+It carries a clean flag.
+The summary is Threat Analysis.
+Hello and welcome to another episode of Hacker Public Radio.
+I'm your host, some guy on the Internet.
+I'm testing out something new.
+You guys let me know if you like it, but I want to do a news show.
+And that's what this is.
+For the first segment of the show, it's what I'll call Threat Analysis.
+Our first article is going to be coming from the Hacker News.
+New Chinese malware attack, named Framework, targets, Windows, Mac OS, and Linux systems.
+It previously undocumented command and control C2 Framework, dubbed Alchemist, is likely
+being used in a while to target the three platforms.
+This thing has an interface online written in simplified Chinese.
+It can generate payloads, establish remote sessions, deploy the payloads to the remote
+machines, capture screenshots, you know, all the things you don't want to happen.
+And apparently it's written in GoLang.
+Oh no, oh no.
+Since the Alchemist is a single file based, ready to go C2 Framework, it is difficult to
+attribute.
+It's used to a single actor such as authors, APIs, or crime wave syndicates.
+The Trojan, for its part, is equipped with features typically present in backdoors of
+its kind.
+Enabling the malware to get system information, capture screenshots, run arbitrary commands,
+and download remote files among other things.
+The Alchemist C2 panel further features the ability to generate first stage payloads, including
+PowerShell and WGit code snippets for Windows and Linux, potentially allowing the attacker
+to flesh out their infestation chain to distribute the insect RAT binary.
+So it seems like they're going to be delivering this thing, usually with phishing emails, you
+know, they'll have a malicious document in there, you launch the document, it then reaches
+out, pulls down the package, infect your computer, and then your host.
+My guess is that the Alchemist C2 is also capable of gaining root access because it can also
+modify your authorized keys and your SSH folder.
+So it's going to continue the remote access even after using SSH.
+For our next headline, and this is for our U-Android users out there, hackers using
+vishing, not phishing, with a V-Vishing, to trick victims into installing Android banking
+malware.
+Good heavens, malicious actors are resorting to voice phishing, known as vishing tactics
+to duke victims into installing Android malware on their devices.
+A Dutch mobile security company said it identified a network of phishing websites targeting
+Italian online banking users that are designed to fish contact details.
+Are you guys going to love this one?
+Telephone-oriented attack delivery, known as Toad, involves calling the victims using
+previously collected information from the fraudulent websites.
+Yep, to be honest with you guys, that's the moment where I contact the Dutch security
+guys and just go and ask them what's going on over there.
+Toad, really?
+Toad.
+The caller, who's basically a fraudster, pretending to be from the bank, contacts the victim,
+informs them that, hey, I'm from the bank, you have a security issue, you should download
+the security app that we have.
+So the person, you know, downloads the security app, and then that's when the app launches
+all the malicious stuff gaining access to the financial credentials and they commit financial
+fraud this way.
+Once the victim falls for the security app malware, it then reaches out and pulls down
+a second piece of malware called SMS Spy, which enables the ability to monitor SMS messages.
+What that will do is intercept the one-time password, you know, the TLTP codes.
+Yep.
+They'll just gain access to everything once they have that.
+Yeah, so if you're an android, just look out there.
+They mentioned further on an article that there's a new wave of scams being launched on
+the Android platform through the Google Play Store.
+Another attack type is called Smashing with an S.
+Yeah, so it's pretty bad out there on the Google Play side.
+What's the next article from the hacker news once more?
+It's about OmniCell.
+They had a data breach and 6,4,000 patients were impacted by this.
+Go ahead.
+Founded in 1992, OmniCell is a leading provider in medical management solutions for hospitals,
+long-term care facilities, and retail pharmacies.
+But on May 4th of 2022, OmniCell's IT systems and third party
+cloud services were affected by ransomware attacks which may have led to data security
+concerns for employees and patients.
+While it's still early in the investigation, this appears to be a severe breach with potentially
+significant consequences for the company.
+Yeah, so the IT learned of it on May 4th, 2022, OmniCell began in a farming people on
+August 3rd, 2022.
+Yeah, if you've been visiting any hospitals or whatever lately, just go ahead and get
+yourself some of those identity monitoring programs like Life Lock or whatever it's
+available in your country because healthcare is a major target for ransomware.
+I mean, they're just getting knocked over year after year.
+Now, a little bit more details in the article talk about the OmniCell data that may have
+been exposed from the attack, which includes but is not limited to credit card information,
+financial information, social security numbers, driver's license numbers, and health insurance
+details.
+Basically, everything it takes to identify you as an individual in your nation was exposed.
+They can run around and completely pretend to be you opening up accounts and whatever
+else they need to with that information.
+Wow.
+Now, with all that said, healthcare is not the only area of our system that's under
+attack by ransomware.
+Schools, colleges, the entire education sector is also under attack by these ransomware
+attacks.
+He's an article from the Washington Post.
+How to protect schools getting whacked by ransomware?
+Ransomware gangs are taking American schools.
+So far this year, hackers have taken hostage at least 1700 schools in 27 districts.
+The massive Los Angeles unified school district is their latest target.
+Yeah, so basically ransomware hackers will deploy ransomware inside of these schools,
+their organizations, it'll lock up all of their servers, locking the administrators out,
+and in order for the administrators to gain access to their services again, they have to
+pay the ransom.
+The Department of Treasury has released guidance on paying these global criminal organizations.
+Basically, they don't want you to pay them, but I'm pretty sure that the moment the
+Department of Treasury steps out of the door, the school is going to be like, pay them.
+Also like to quote down an article, apparently they spoke to these gangs, ransomware gangs
+and asked them, you know, why are you targeting these groups?
+And the quote was very simple because we can.
+So with all the money coming into schools and them making the students carry around
+Chromebooks and tablets and all this other stuff to, you know, do their schoolwork.
+They're not maintaining any of the back and they don't have proper backups.
+That's why they're forced to pay these guys because they don't have any other way to
+get the data back or access to the data for all you young hackers out there getting ready
+to go to university or high school or whatever out there.
+Make sure you maintain your own backups.
+Don't listen to the school about just uploading to their cloud services or whatever.
+Clearly, if their work is jacked up, you want to make sure that you're able to still
+turn in your work.
+You need to be able to understand file systems, local storage and all of that other cool
+and XC stuff.
+Alrighty.
+So our next article comes from CTNet News.
+It's Verizon Alerts Prepaid Customers to Recent Security Breach.
+All right, I'm going to breeze through this one.
+Verizon's Prepaid Customers, only about 250 of them from what they put in the article
+on October 10th.
+Well, it occurred October 6th through October 10th.
+So they say the breach exposed a little bit of data, the last four of the credit card
+numbers and some of the people may have had their accounts jacked with a method call
+sim swapping.
+I, of course, being a Verizon customer, had to quickly jump on the line and figure out
+whether or not I'm good.
+Hello.
+Yes, is this Verizon?
+Yes, I'm a customer there.
+Am I good?
+I heard about the breach.
+Am I okay?
+Apparently, the breach only affected the rebate customers and not the rest of us, so I
+good.
+Okay, so that's going to conclude our news for today.
+This is just a test.
+If you guys really enjoy this, please leave a comment down below.
+Let me know what you think.
+I'll definitely do more, add some more segments into it and not just the threat analysis.
+And for now, I just wanted it to be something simple and easy for everybody to grasp.
+What's this?
+What do we have here?
+Breaking news, ladies and gentlemen, I just got breaking news.
+Oh my goodness.
+I'm so excited about this.
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