Podcast appearances and mentions of chad seaman

This week our guests are, Larry Cashdollar, Chad Seaman and Allen West from Akamai Technologies, and they are discussing their research on "Uncovering HinataBot: A Deep Dive into a Go-Based Threat." The team discovered a new Go-based, DDoS-focused botnet. They found it was named after the popular anime show "Naruto," they are calling it "HinataBot" In the research it says "HinataBot was seen being distributed during the first three months of 2023 and is actively being updated by the authors/operators." Akamai was able to get a deep look into the malware works by using a combination of reverse engineering the malware and imitating the command and control (C2) server. The research can be found here: Uncovering HinataBot: A Deep Dive into a Go-Based Threat

This week our guests are, Larry Cashdollar, Chad Seaman and Allen West from Akamai Technologies, and they are discussing their research on "Uncovering HinataBot: A Deep Dive into a Go-Based Threat." The team discovered a new Go-based, DDoS-focused botnet. They found it was named after the popular anime show "Naruto," they are calling it "HinataBot" In the research it says "HinataBot was seen being distributed during the first three months of 2023 and is actively being updated by the authors/operators." Akamai was able to get a deep look into the malware works by using a combination of reverse engineering the malware and imitating the command and control (C2) server. The research can be found here: Uncovering HinataBot: A Deep Dive into a Go-Based Threat

Chad Seaman, Team Lead at Akamai SIRT joins Dave to discuss their research about a record-breaking DDoS Attack. The research says "A new reflection/amplification distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) vector with a record-breaking potential amplification ratio of 4,294,967,296:1 has been abused by attackers in the wild to launch multiple high-impact DDoS attacks." Starting in mid-February 2022, security researchers, network operators, and security vendors noticed a spike in DDoS attacks. Researchers started to investigate the spike and determined that the devices that were being abused to launch these attacks are MiCollab and MiVoice Business Express collaboration systems. The research goes into how you can help mitigate the attacks and how Mitel has now released patched software. The research can be found here: CVE-2022-26143: TP240PhoneHome Reflection/Amplification DDoS Attack Vector

Chad Seaman, Team Lead at Akamai SIRT joins Dave to discuss their research about a record-breaking DDoS Attack. The research says "A new reflection/amplification distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) vector with a record-breaking potential amplification ratio of 4,294,967,296:1 has been abused by attackers in the wild to launch multiple high-impact DDoS attacks." Starting in mid-February 2022, security researchers, network operators, and security vendors noticed a spike in DDoS attacks. Researchers started to investigate the spike and determined that the devices that were being abused to launch these attacks are MiCollab and MiVoice Business Express collaboration systems. The research goes into how you can help mitigate the attacks and how Mitel has now released patched software. The research can be found here: CVE-2022-26143: TP240PhoneHome Reflection/Amplification DDoS Attack Vector

Last podcast of 2018 sounds alot like the previous podcast: China charges, lots of breaches, and social media mishaps galore.  We have our nerdiest interview of the year as well, where we talk to Chad Seaman from Akamai about some router vulnerability research he recently published.  We also talk about Hootie and the Blowfish. Find another podcast that can talk about both, we'll wait. 

Last podcast of 2018 sounds alot like the previous podcast: China charges, lots of breaches, and social media mishaps galore.    We have our nerdiest interview of the year as well, where we talk to Chad Seaman from Akamai about some router vulnerability research he recently published.  We also talk about Hootie and the Blowfish. Find another podcast that can talk about both, we'll wait. 

In this episode of the Collective Intelligence podcast recorded at Black Hat, Chad Seaman, senior engineer on the security intelligence response team at Akamai, explains the importance of collaboration and sharing of threat intelligence, even among companies that compete for the same customers.

Researchers at Akamai recently published a white paper titled UPnProxy: Blackhat proxies via NAT Injections. In it, they describe vulnerabilities with Universal Plug and Play capabilities in home routers, and how malicious actors could take advantage of them.  Chad Seaman is a senior CERT engineer at Akamai, and he's our guide.  The CyberWire's Research Saturday is presented by the Hewlett Foundation Cyber Initiative. Thanks to our sponsor Enveil, closing the last gap in data security.

Flashpoint Editorial Director Mike Mimoso talks to Chad Seaman and Lisa Beegle of the security intelligence response team at Akamai about the recent and record-setting memcached DDoS attacks. The attacks leveraged memcached servers that were exposed to the internet and topped out at well more than a terabyte of traffic used to take down targets. The volume of traffic used in these attacks are the highest seen in publicly reported attacks and Chad and Lisa were among the first to investigate and report on them.