Show Notes
Police in ten countries have dismantled the KillSec ransomware gang, with an arrest in the UK. The lesson for UK organisations is less about the teenage suspect than about the exposed storage and edge devices that let the group in. Plus an exploited FortiMail flaw and AI agents probing government sites.
More from Decrypted: The UK Cyber Briefing
A critical flaw in the Collabora server bundled with Nextcloud was exploited from 10 September, but the advisory only appeared on 14 October. Plus Microsoft's account of AI agents in the ConnectWise attacks, and the UK's undersea cable sabotage proposals.
Developer platform Railway says an intruder may have read customers' decrypted secrets and has told everyone to rotate them. We cover what it said, the Secure by Design lesson, an exploited Arista SD-WAN flaw and the UK's undersea cable proposals.
A poisoned LiteLLM release stole credentials after attackers pointed a genuine, signed publishing workflow at a lookalike repository. The Secure by Design lesson is about fixed inputs and single powerful tokens. Also: Arista's exploited SD-WAN flaw, OpenAI's agents and Railway's secrets scare.
Yesterday's PHP story has become an outage: 32 UK government services were unavailable on Thursday as officials applied patches. Plus a hijacked LiteLLM release and the role AI played in finding the PHP flaws.
The National Crime Agency and US and German agencies have published how SafePay, a ransomware gang with at least 600 victims, breaks in and operates. The Secure by Design lessons are old and cheap. Also: Plex2Shell and Google's AI vulnerability tally.