CyberWire Daily

Episodes

• Advanced adware with nation-state tactics. [Research Saturday]

  Feb 3, 2018

  Not summarized yet

• JenX botnet and DDoS-for-hire. RoK CERT warns of Flash Player zero-day. Cryptocurrency mining and scamming. ICS security trends. Twitter cleared in terror trial. The Nunes Memo is out.

  Feb 2, 2018

  Not summarized yet

• ISIS war on families. Cryptomining botnets. The weaponization of Spectre and Meltdown. Phishig with bogus emails spoofing Google, Microsoft. Apps that know too much.

  Feb 1, 2018

  Not summarized yet

• Phishing campaign targets Israeli scientists. Low-level contract phishing in China's hinterlands? Apps with privacy flaws. Cisco patches ASA products. Cryptocurrency speculation and fraud.

  Jan 31, 2018

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• Netherlands financial sector recovers from DDoS. Lizard Squad, Mirai, and coin mining. IOTA wallets emptied. Snooper's Charter loses in court. US House may release surveillance memos. Strava OPSEC.

  Jan 30, 2018

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• Coincheck cryptocurrency heist. ICO phishing. Jackpotting comes to America. Dridex and FriedEx. Transduction attack threat to IoT sensors. Jihadist steganography. Oversharing with Strava?

  Jan 29, 2018

  Not summarized yet

• Targeting Olympic organizations. [Research Saturday]

  Jan 27, 2018

  Not summarized yet

• Lebal's layered approach to infection. Crytominers are becoming a big problem. Tracking influence ops. Dutch intelligence spotted Cozy Bear early. Exploiting password recovery.

  Jan 26, 2018

  Not summarized yet

• 2018 forecast [Special Editions]

  Jan 26, 2018

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• Patriotic hacktivism. HNS botnet spreads P2P. Electron vulnerabilities found, mitigated, Criminals target ICOs. Ransomware-as-a-service. Cryptowars. Fancy Bear doxes luge.

  Jan 25, 2018

  Not summarized yet

• Satori variants. Hacking in Anatolia. Lazarus Group improves its tradecraft. Tindr vulnerabilties. UK's new office to combat disinformation. Pirated pdfs hold malware.

  Jan 24, 2018

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• ISIS messaging. Intel will roll out new Spectre/Meltdown patches. Identities for sale on the dark web. IDN spoofing. SpriteCoin ransomware, with a malware chaser. Three Sonic games may be trouble.

  Jan 23, 2018

  Not summarized yet

• Evrial and the Clipboard threat. SamSam ransomware recovery. Olympic hacking? Russian bots. Crime and punishment. Speculated origins of Bitcoin.

  Jan 22, 2018

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• Fancy Bear Duping Doping Domains. [Research Saturday]

  Jan 20, 2018

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• AllScripts works to remediate ransomware in medical apps. Group 123 hits ROK targets. Triton/Trisis zero-day. Dark Caracal espionage op. Section 702 renewed. GhostTeam ejected from Play Store.

  Jan 19, 2018

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• Big healthcare data breach. False civil defense alerts. Davos will take up cyber next week (among other topics). Exobot on the block. Satori in your wallet? Ponzi scheme or pump-and-dump?

  Jan 18, 2018

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• Section 702 update. Kaspersky reports on Skygofree—dangerous Android spyware. Recorded Future on DPRK spearphishing. Healthcare hacks. Bogus patches. VR game could expose users.

  Jan 17, 2018

  Not summarized yet

• New Mirai variant forming. Meltdown and Spectre remediation updates. Notes on Russian hacking. Charges in swatting death.

  Jan 16, 2018

  Not summarized yet

• Shake Your MoneyTaker. [Research Saturday]

  Jan 13, 2018

  Not summarized yet

• Spectre and Meltdown patches may be messy, but not as performance-killing as feared. AMT exploit. Mobile ICS apps. Monero mining. Badness in the Play Store. Huawei ban? Droning while drunk.

  Jan 12, 2018

  Not summarized yet