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Episode 44: Nitesh Surana and Jaromir Horejsi, Trend Micro, FIRSTCON24 Speakers
FIRST Impressions Podcast
English - June 14, 2024 00:00 - 1 ByteBusiness News Tech News Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this episode of the First Impressions podcast, hosts Chris John Riley and Martin McKay interview Nitesh Surana and Jaromir Horejsi of Trend Micro to discuss their upcoming talk at the FIRST conference. Their session will explain how they discovered threat actors abusing GitHub's cloud-based development environment, Codespaces, to build and test infostealers. While Codespaces itself is secure, its features can be abused. In this episode, they recommend developers that use such services be aware of potential abuse tactics and share the goal of their FIRSTCON talk is to raise awareness and provide clarity on how cloud providers can improve incident response and quickly shut down reported abuse.