On today’s MSP Dispatch, we’re unpacking the recently discovered bug in Progress’s MOVEit FTP software, the rise of AI “Sextortion,” and the upcoming price hike on Reddit’s API and the controversy and fallout that’s resulted.
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Story Links:
- Mass Exploitation of Zero-Day Bug in MOVEit File Transfer Underway
- https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/mass-exploitation-0-day-bug-imoveit-file-transfer-underway
- Sextortionists Are Making AI Nudes From Your Social Media Images
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/sextortionists-are-making-ai-nudes-from-your-social-media-images/
- Reddit Insists on Being “Fairly Paid” Amid API Price Protest plans, Layoffs
- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/reddit-insists-on-being-fairly-paid-amid-api-price-protest-plans-layoffs/
Notable Mentions:
- 60K+ Android Apps Have Delivered Adware Undetected for Months
- https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/60k-android-apps-adware-undetected-months
- Microsoft Preps $425M Payment for LinkedIn GDPR Violations
- https://www.darkreading.com/endpoint/microsoft-425m-payment-linkedin-gdpr-violations
- Easily Exploitable Microsoft Visual Studio Bug Opens Developers to Takeover
- https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/researchers-warn-of-easily-exploitable-spoofing-bug-in-visual-studio
- Cisco Fixes AnyConnect Bug Giving Windows SYSTEM Privileges
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisco-fixes-anyconnect-bug-giving-windows-system-privileges/
AI Roundup:
- Runway’s Powerful Gen-2 Text-to-Video Tool Now Available to Everyone for Free
- https://www.tomshardware.com/news/runway-gen-2-text-to-video-available-to-all
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0:00 Teaser
0:56 Intro Banter
4:36 Mass Exploitation of Zero-Day Bug in MOVEit File Transfer Underway
10:13 Sextortionists Are Making AI Nudes From Your Social Media Images
15:34 Reddit Insists on Being “Fairly Paid” Amid API Price Protest plans, Layoffs
21:48 60K+ Android Apps Have Delivered Adware Undetected for Months
22:53 Microsoft Preps $425M Payment for LinkedIn GDPR Violations
23:50 Easily Exploitable Microsoft Visual Studio Bug Opens Developers to Takeover
24:52 Cisco Fixes AnyConnect Bug Giving Windows SYSTEM Privileges
25:52 AI Roundup: Runway’s Powerful Gen-2 Text-to-Video Tool Now Available to Everyone for Free
27:52 Community Events
29:18 Sign-off
32:16 Outtakes