Risky Business #674 -- "Free money" exploit spawns $150m blockchain feeding frenzy

<p>On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:</p> <ul> <li>Taiwan tensions fail to conjure the cyber apocalypse</li> <li>Crypto bridge exploit results in $150m feeding frenzy</li> <li>Chainalysis evidence to be challenged in court</li> <li>Post-quantum NIST candidate algorithm gets smoked</li> <li>DSIRF’s Russia links</li> <li>Much, much more</li> </ul> <p>This week’s sponsor interview is with Jerrod Chong from Yubico. He’s joining the show to talk about why consumer-focussed implementations of Webauthn like Apple’s Passkeys aren’t a great enterprise solution.</p> <p>Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow <a href="https://twitter.com/riskybusiness">Patrick</a> or <a href="https://twitter.com/metlstorm">Adam</a> on Twitter if that’s your thing.</p> <div class="panel panel-default"> <div class="panel-heading"> <h3 class="panel-title">Show notes</h3> </div> <div class="panel-body"> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/taiwanese-websites-hit-ddos-attacks-pelosi-begins-visit-rcna41144 ">Taiwanese websites hit with DDoS attacks as Pelosi begins visit </a></li> <li><a href="https://therecord.media/frenzied-mob-steals-more-than-156-million-from-crypto-platform-nomad/ ">&#39;Frenzied mob&#39; steals more than $156 million from crypto platform Nomad - The Record by Recorded Future </a></li> <li><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/bitcoin-fog-roman-sterlingov-blockchain-analysis/ ">Bitcoin Fog Case Could Put Cryptocurrency Tracing on Trial | WIRED </a></li> <li><a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/08/sike-once-a-post-quantum-encryption-contender-is-koed-in-nist-smackdown/ ">