CyberWire Daily

Episodes

• Emotet's updated business model. [Research Saturday]

  Aug 31, 2019

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• Watering hole for iPhones. Dental record service hit with ransomware. Huawei reportedly under investigation for IP theft. “erratic” faces cryptojacking charges. Farewell to a Bletchley Wren.

  Aug 30, 2019

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• Cyberattacks and intelligence trade-offs. TrickBot’s new interests. Fancy Bear versus machine learning. Facebook looks for more ad transparency. Retadup take-down.

  Aug 29, 2019

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• LYCEUM active against Middle Eastern energy-sector targets. LinkedIn used to recruit spies. Autonomous car expert indicted. Imperva exposure. VPN software patches. AI writes.

  Aug 28, 2019

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• Hostinger resets passwords after an intrusion. Social media fraud. Notes on RATs and ransomware. Free decryptor for Syrk. Hedge funds go bananas.

  Aug 27, 2019

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• BioWatch info potentially exposed. Scammers indicted. Ukrainian cryptojacking exposed sensitive data. Social engineering notes. Boo birds and lawsuits. Data use and privacy. Low-earth orbit hack.

  Aug 26, 2019

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• Gift card bots evolve and adapt. [Research Saturday]

  Aug 24, 2019

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• Google takes down YouTube influence operation. Cryptomining in a nuclear plant. Spyware in the Google Play Store.

  Aug 23, 2019

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• North Korean and Chinese cyber espionage. Updates on Texas ransomware. Steam zero-day released.

  Aug 22, 2019

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• China criticizes Twitter and Facebook. Silence expands internationally. A popular Ruby library was backdoored.

  Aug 21, 2019

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• Chinese information operations on Twitter and Facebook. iOS jailbreak released. Adult websites leak information.

  Aug 20, 2019

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• ISIS claims Kabul massacre. Huawei gets a temporary break. Texas governments hit by ransomware. Hy-Vee warns of point-of-sale attack.

  Aug 19, 2019

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• Detecting dating profile fraud. [Research Saturday]

  Aug 17, 2019

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• ECB sustains an intrusion into a third-party-hosted service. Norman quietly mines Monero. MetaMorph appears in a stealthy phishing campaign. Information operations.

  Aug 16, 2019

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• Huawei accused of abetting domestic surveillance in Africa. Cyber gangs adapt and evolve. Prosecutors indicate they’ll add charges to “erratic.” Bluetana detects card skimmers.

  Aug 15, 2019

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• Hacking the Czech Foreign Ministry. Microsoft patches new wormable bugs. More controversial human review of AI. Insecure links, exposed databases, and a California vanity plate.

  Aug 14, 2019

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• UN Security Council looks at North Korean cybercrime. Notes on PsiXBot and BITTER APT. The state of spearphishing. Election security. A final look back at Black Hat and Def Con.

  Aug 13, 2019

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• A look back at Black Hat and Def Con. Sometimes failures that look like accidents are accidents. Russia wants better content suppression from Google. Notes on intelligence services.

  Aug 12, 2019

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• Unpacking the Malvertising Ecosystem. [Research Saturday]

  Aug 10, 2019

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• Voting machine security. Airliner firmware. Attribution and deterrence in cyberwar. Monitoring social media. Broadcom buys Symantec’s enterprise security business. Policing, privacy, and an IoT OS.

  Aug 9, 2019

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