{"id":2948,"date":"2025-03-31T00:04:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T00:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/31\/weekly-update-445\/"},"modified":"2025-03-31T00:04:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T00:04:41","slug":"weekly-update-445","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/31\/weekly-update-445\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Update 445"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Weekly Update 445<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.troyhunt.com\/content\/images\/2025\/03\/Splash-Template-3.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Weekly Update 445\"><\/p>\n<p>Well, this certainly isn&#8217;t what I expected to be talking about this week! But I think the fact it was someone most people didn&#8217;t expect to be on the receiving end of an attack like this makes it all the more consumable. I saw a lot of &#8220;if it can happen to Troy, it can happen to anyone&#8221; sort of commentary and whilst it feels a bit of obnoxious for me to be saying it that way, I appreciate the sentiment and the awareness it drives. It sucked, but I&#8217;m going to make <em>damn<\/em> sure we get a lot of mileage out of this incident as an industry. I&#8217;ve no doubt whatsoever this is a net-positive event that will do way more good than harm. On that note, stay tuned for the promised &#8220;Passkeys for Normal People&#8221; blog post, I hope to be talking about that in next week&#8217;s video (travel schedule permitting). For now, here&#8217;s the full rundown of how I got phished:<\/p>\n<p><!--kg-card-begin: html--><\/p>\n<div>\n<div style=\"width: 170px; display: inline-block; margin-right: 3px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/au\/podcast\/troy-hunts-weekly-update-podcast\/id1176454699?ref=troy-hunt\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.troyhunt.com\/content\/images\/2018\/05\/Listen-on-Apple-Podcasts.svg\" alt=\"Weekly Update 445\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 175px; display: inline-block; margin-right: 3px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL7LAAxaabizMAXnJe0s3xjQ30q12EVmjt&amp;ref=troyhunt.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.troyhunt.com\/content\/images\/2024\/09\/Watch-and-Listen-on-YouTube.svg\" alt=\"Weekly Update 445\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 118px; display: inline-block; margin-right: 3px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/7jMtKFohdrw6qmz8AkLqit?ref=troy-hunt\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.troyhunt.com\/content\/images\/2019\/10\/spotify.svg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt=\"Weekly Update 445\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 120px; display: inline-block;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/troy-hunt-weekly-update\/playlists\/podcast.rss?ref=troy-hunt\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.troyhunt.com\/content\/images\/2018\/07\/Download-via-RSS.svg\" alt=\"Weekly Update 445\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YKed0HxbsIY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--kg-card-end: html--><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"references\">References<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/browserguard?utm_source=troyhunt&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=bgreco\" rel=\"noopener\">Sponsored by:\u00a0Malwarebytes Browser Guard blocks phishing, ads, scams, and trackers for safer, faster browsing<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.troyhunt.com\/a-sneaky-phish-just-grabbed-my-mailchimp-mailing-list\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\">I obviously didn&#8217;t like being on the receiving end of this, but I reckon 34 minutes from pwned to public disclosure is a new record<\/a> \ud83d\ude0a (this is what I&#8217;m going to be driving organisations towards in many future data breach cases)<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/blog\/news\/2025\/03\/security-expert-troy-hunt-hit-by-phishing-attack?ref=troyhunt.com\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Despite me falling for something I should have spotted, the public response and press had been outstandingly positive<\/a> (that&#8217;s a piece from this week&#8217;s sponsor, I felt their writeup summed things up nicely)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Troy Hunt<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.troyhunt.com\/weekly-update-445\/\">Go to troyhunt<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekly Update 445 Well, this certainly isn&#8217;t what I expected to be talking about this week! But I think the fact it was someone most people didn&#8217;t expect to be on the receiving end of an attack like this makes it all the more consumable. I saw a lot of &#8220;if it can happen to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,135],"tags":[856,461,153],"class_list":["post-2948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-troyhunttroyhunt","category-weekly-update","tag-but","tag-week","tag-weekly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}