Hello, welcome to the Friday, January 3rd, 2020 edition of the Sansonet Stormsendors Stormcast. My name is Johannes Ulrich,

and then I'm recording from Jacksonville, Florida. As I mentioned in my last podcast in January,

we are going to do again the Raspberry Pi Challenge if you find any

inaccuracy in any of the podcasts drop me a message and you'll be entered into a

drawing for a Raspberry Pi this does in particular include me using 2019 instead of

2020 of course pretty sure I did it correct just about include me using 2019 instead of 2020.

Of course, pretty sure I did it correct just about 30 seconds ago.

XIV came across some interesting new ransomware and virus total.

It appears to be sort of a prototype at this point.

It's not completely functional, but what's sort of different

about it is that the ransomware actually uses Node.js. Node.js, of course, is a JavaScript

interpreter at its core, and the actual ransomware as a result is written in JavaScript.

Of course, this just follows sort of the general trend in software development using JavaScript for everything, so why not for ransomware as well.

Well, and usually I don't really mention a lot of the sort of point of sales credit card breaches

because, well, usually not a lot of new about them.

But we have a little bit interesting one with the Landry's restaurant chain.

At first, this looks like, well, any other sort of restaurant point of sales breach, Malver infected the point of sale system and then whenever a Vader

or Vatris did swipe a credit card, a copy of the information was sent to the bad guys.

What differentiates this preach from some of the other preaches is that at first it looks sort of

like Landreys did some of the things that should prevent

this kind of breach in that for their credit card terminals they did use end-to-end

encryption.

...