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Homecomings, happy and not so happy. A backdoor for espionage, a Trojan for cybercrime. DDoS techniques, those iPhone zero-days, and indictments. And one guilty plea.

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The triumphant homecoming of Huawei’s CFO. Microsoft describes the FoggyWeb backdoor, a significant cyberespionage tool. Kaspersky looks at the BloodyStealer Trojan and finds it especially risky to gamers. A novel approach to distributed denial-of-service. Apple looks into those iPhone zero-days. Joe Carrigan looks at the latest offerings in passwordless authentication. Our guest is Mathieu Gorge of VigiTrust on how law enforcement and executives can work together to fight cyber threats. And a look at doings in cybercrime: the US arrests more than thirty members of the Black Axe gang, a Russian convict is deported back to face Russian justice, and a blockchain maven pleads guilty to helping Pyongyang.
For links to all of today's stories check out our CyberWire daily news briefing:
https://www.thecyberwire.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/10/187
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