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Your Car’s Data Might Be For Sale, a New Malware Payload Vector Using DNS, and Listener Questions
Season 1 · Episode 39

Your Car’s Data Might Be For Sale, a New Malware Payload Vector Using DNS, and Listener Questions

Hacker And The Fed

July 6, 20231h 19m

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Show Notes

This week on Hacker And The Fed your car may be collecting up to 25 GB per hour of data about you and a new malware payload vector is using DNS, what is “encryptionless ransomware”. We also answer listener questions about a variety of topics, including how to prepare for a cybersecurity career in the US government, banking security, and hack-backs.


Links from the episode:

How Your New Car Tracks You

https://www.wired.com/story/car-data-privacy-toyota-honda-ford/

 

DNS TXT Records Can Be Used by Hackers to Execute Malware

https://cybersecuritynews.com/dns-txt-records-to-execute-malware/?amp


Encryption-less ransomware: Warning issued over emerging attack method for threat actors

https://www.itpro.com/security/ransomware/encryption-less-ransomware-warning-issued-over-emerging-attack-method-for-threat-actors

 

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