CyberWire Daily

Episodes

• Mr. Assange’s courthouse future(s). Dragonblood Wi-Fi vulnerabilities. Tax fraud and identity theft dark web souks.

  Apr 12, 2019

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• Julian Assange is out of the embassy and in custody. Pyongyang’s HOPLIGHT. Operations SneakyPastes. Incident response planning blues. High school jam.

  Apr 11, 2019

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• The Triton actor seems to be back. Project TajMahal is after diplomatic secrets. California’s motor-voter program and a DMV hack.

  Apr 10, 2019

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• GossipGirl, the supra threat actor. LockerGoga’s destructive functionality. More hacking allegations out of Caracas. Revolutionary Guard now a designated terrorist group. Creepy crime.

  Apr 9, 2019

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• US DHS Secretary Nielsen resigns. Credential stuffing campaigns. Cryptojacking disrupts a business. A duty of care, online. Tax season scams.

  Apr 8, 2019

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• Lessons learned from Ukraine elections. [Research Saturday]

  Apr 6, 2019

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• Crooks use Facebook, too. Congress asks FEMA for an explanation. Card skimmers in Mexico.

  Apr 5, 2019

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• Keeping Winnti out of the goods while keeping an eye on them. GlitchPOS malware. What do apps want? Third-party Facebook data exposure. Digital hygiene. A scareware scam.

  Apr 4, 2019

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• For OceanLotus, a picture is worth a thousand words (or at least a few lines of loader code). Georgia Tech breached. Mounties raid offices associated with Orcus RAT.

  Apr 3, 2019

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• Ransomware deletes dupes. Exodus scandal grows in Italy. Election reports from Ukraine and Israel.

  Apr 2, 2019

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• Patch Magento soon. Toyota hacked again. Exodus spyware hits app stores. Moscow seeks to corral VPN providers. Facebook wants regulation. Swatting sentence. Phishing tackle in Nigeria.

  Apr 1, 2019

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• Alarming vulnerabilities in automotive security systems. [Research Saturday]

  Mar 30, 2019

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• Russian information operations, and lessons on election security from the Near Abroad. Magneto proof-of-concept exploit. Huawei, security, and bugs. Training AI. Labor market news.

  Mar 29, 2019

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• Gustuff is out and after Android devices. Microsoft takes down Phosphorus. Elfin is working for Tehran. Russian cyber troops come to help Venezuela’s Chavistas. Guilty plea expected in Martin case.

  Mar 28, 2019

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• State cyber-espionage. Influence operations and coordinated inauthenticity. Add Lucky Elephant to the menagerie. ASUS supply chain updates. Notes on Norsk Hydro’s recovery. Reactions to the Mueller Report.

  Mar 27, 2019

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• More on ASUS supply chain backdoor. FEMA data mishandling. LockerGoga ransomware. Mueller report responses.

  Mar 26, 2019

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• Mueller finds no evidence of Russia collusion. ISIS no longer holds any ground. LockerGoga hits chemical plants. FEMA fumbles PII. Cyber 9/12. PewDiePie versus T-Series.

  Mar 25, 2019

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• Ryuk ransomware relationship revelations. [Research Saturday]

  Mar 23, 2019

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• Finland’s data protection authority investigates suspicious smartphone activity. GitHub repos are leaking keys. Cardiac devices can be hacked.

  Mar 22, 2019

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• Russian APTs target EU governments. FIN7 is back. Google and Facebook scammed.

  Mar 21, 2019

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