CyberWire Daily

Episodes

• NSA breach announced today (occurred in 2015, discovered in 2016) may be final nail in Kaspersky Lab's coffin.

  Oct 5, 2017

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• No insight yet into Las Vegas gunman's motive as ISIS inspiration generally discounted. Yahoo! breach affected 3, not 1, billion user accounts. Equifax updates.

  Oct 4, 2017

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• Fake news and information operations with no obvious solution. Equifax update. US Cyber Command vs. DPRK

  Oct 3, 2017

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• Bots, sockpuppets, and trolls. Facebook talks to Congress. Some suggest China hacked Equifax. DPRK gets more Internet. ISIS inspiration. Section 702 authority in doubt.

  Oct 2, 2017

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• APT 33: FireEye's John Hultquist on an Iranian Cyber Espionage Group. [Research Saturday]

  Sep 30, 2017

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• Whole Foods breached. Illusion gap and Windows Defender. Exposed AWS S3 buckets. Equifax incident response. Reality Winner proceedings.

  Sep 29, 2017

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• Deloitte and Equifax under the microscope. Congress grills the SEC. Credential theft trends.

  Sep 28, 2017

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• Comments on the Deloitte breach. SEC Commissioner talks to the Senate. Sonic breached. Vulnerable stock-trading apps. Russian influence operations shift their focus.

  Sep 27, 2017

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• Equifax C-suite retirements continue. Deloitte still has little to say about its breach. Mac OS zero-day goes unpatched. Russian influence operations.

  Sep 26, 2017

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• Deloitte hacked. Verizon AWS S3 exposure. Phantom Squad's protection racket. Nuclear tension expected to spawn cyberattacks. Updates on CCleaner backdoor and FinFisher distro. Carlos Danger goes to jail.

  Sep 25, 2017

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• Pacifier APT : Bitdefender's Liviu Arsene describes a sophisticated, multifaceted malware campaign. [Research Saturday]

  Sep 23, 2017

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• Hacks shake confidence in financial system. FinFisher using MitM. CCleaner backdoor had specific targets in mind? US Forces Korea debunks bogus NEO warning. Locky masters like Game of Thrones. nRansomware asks for a different kind of payout.

  Sep 22, 2017

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• EDGAR hack enabled illicit stock trades? Equifax tweets phishing url to troubled inquirers. Kaspersky ban clarified.

  Sep 21, 2017

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• German election update: nichts neues. Equifax breach. Viacom dodges a bad bucket. Like Sandworm, but from Tehran. Less than fully successful criminals.

  Sep 20, 2017

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• Russia Spy Files from WikiLeaks. Disinformation and influence operations. Equifax sustained a breach in March. Software supply chain issues.

  Sep 19, 2017

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• Russian dogs not yet barking in German elections. ISIS is doing a lot of howling at lone wolves. Equifax updates. CCleaner found unclean. OurMine hacks Vevo to avenge its honor.

  Sep 18, 2017

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• Cobian RAT: Zscaler’s Deepen Desai describes some clever malware. [Research Saturday]

  Sep 16, 2017

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• Equifax agonistes. Kaspersky denies his company's a security risk. Political database for sale found exposed. Trolling the DCI.

  Sep 15, 2017

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• Binding Operational Directive 17-01 hits Kaspersky. Point-of-sale malware found in some ElastiSearch servers. BlueBorne proves widespread. Equifax breach updates, industry notes, a look at the Billington Summit.

  Sep 14, 2017

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• North Korea turns to cryptocurrency theft. Equifax breach gets worse. Patch Tuesday. Duma says US election hacked

  Sep 13, 2017

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