Ranked #1
No more Iranian cyberattacks since the minor weekend vandalism, but the US Government advises all to look to their defenses. Fancy Bear is the usual suspect in Austria. A guilty plea by an insider threat.
No more Iranian cyberattacks since the minor weekend vandalism, but the US Government advises all to look to their defenses. Fancy Bear is the usual suspect in Austria. A guilty plea by an insider threat.
The kittens haven’t scratched much so far, but the US Government and others are warning organizations to be alert to the... Read more
7 Jan 2020
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22mins
Ranked #2
Ransomware deletes dupes. Exodus scandal grows in Italy. Election reports from Ukraine and Israel.
Ransomware deletes dupes. Exodus scandal grows in Italy. Election reports from Ukraine and Israel.
In today’s podcast, we hear that a ransomware strain deletes duplicates. But you know that just keeping a duplicate on t... Read more
2 Apr 2019
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22mins
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Ranked #3
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.
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.
In today’s podcast, we hear that OceanLotus, a.k.a. Cobalt Kitty, a.k.a. APT32, is out and about and using a steganograp... Read more
3 Apr 2019
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22mins
Ranked #4
SWIFT fraud (behind a wiper). Coinrail ICO robbery. Chinese espionage. G7 agrees to a coordinated response to hostile cyber operations. Malwaretech faces new charges.
SWIFT fraud (behind a wiper). Coinrail ICO robbery. Chinese espionage. G7 agrees to a coordinated response to hostile cyber operations. Malwaretech faces new charges.
In today's podcast, we hear about more SWIFT fraud, with a wiper attack as misdirection. Cryptocurrency exchange looted ... Read more
11 Jun 2018
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18mins
Ranked #5
Operation Sharpshooter. Meng makes bail. Sino-American cyber tensions. Leadership crises in the UK and France. Congress doesn’t lay a glove on Google. 2018’s bad password practices.
Operation Sharpshooter. Meng makes bail. Sino-American cyber tensions. Leadership crises in the UK and France. Congress doesn’t lay a glove on Google. 2018’s bad password practices.
In today’s podcast, we hear some of McAfee’s description of Operation Sharpshooter, an ambitious cyber reconnaissance ca... Read more
12 Dec 2018
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21mins
Ranked #6
Microsoft patches a vulnerability NSA disclosed. Fronting for APT40 in Hainan. Fancy Bear pawed at Burisma. The NSA Pensacola shooting and the debate over encryption.
Microsoft patches a vulnerability NSA disclosed. Fronting for APT40 in Hainan. Fancy Bear pawed at Burisma. The NSA Pensacola shooting and the debate over encryption.
NSA discloses a vulnerability to Microsoft so it can be patched quickly. Intrusion Truth describes thirteen front compan... Read more
14 Jan 2020
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22mins
Ranked #7
Winnti Umbrella Chinese threat group. [Research Saturday]
Winnti Umbrella Chinese threat group. [Research Saturday]
Researchers from ProtectWise's 401TRG team recently published research linking a variety of new and previously reported ... Read more
9 Jun 2018
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23mins
Ranked #8
Huawei will play in UK infrastructure, at least a little. Citizen Lab on KINGDOM, a Pegasus operator. Avast and sale of user data. Happy Data Privacy Day.
Huawei will play in UK infrastructure, at least a little. Citizen Lab on KINGDOM, a Pegasus operator. Avast and sale of user data. Happy Data Privacy Day.
Britain decides to let Huawei into its 5G infrastructure, just a little bit, anyway. Citizen Lab reports on its investig... Read more
28 Jan 2020
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22mins
Ranked #9
Internecine phishing in the Palestinian Territories. What could Iran do in cyberspace? US Census 2020 and cybersecurity. Mobile voting. How to make bigger money in sextortion.
Internecine phishing in the Palestinian Territories. What could Iran do in cyberspace? US Census 2020 and cybersecurity. Mobile voting. How to make bigger money in sextortion.
Researchers report phishing campaigns underway in the Palestinian Territories. They appear to be a Hamas-linked effort t... Read more
13 Feb 2020
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21mins
Ranked #10
SEC, DoJ, issue civil and criminal complaints against EDGAR hackers. Lazarus Group in Chile? Iran’s Ashiyane Forum. Cryptomix ransomware. Money laundering through Fortnite. Fake WaPo edition.
SEC, DoJ, issue civil and criminal complaints against EDGAR hackers. Lazarus Group in Chile? Iran’s Ashiyane Forum. Cryptomix ransomware. Money laundering through Fortnite. Fake WaPo edition.
In today’s podcast, we hear that the SEC and the Department of Justice are going after EDGAR hackers for securities frau... Read more
16 Jan 2019
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22mins
Ranked #11
Updates on US-Iranian tensions, and especially on hacktivism and possible power grid battlespace preparation. Researchers complain of preinstalled malware said to be in discount Android phones.
Updates on US-Iranian tensions, and especially on hacktivism and possible power grid battlespace preparation. Researchers complain of preinstalled malware said to be in discount Android phones.
Amid indications that both Iran and the US would prefer to back away from open war, concerns about Iranian power grid ba... Read more
10 Jan 2020
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26mins
Ranked #12
Eric Haseltine on his book, "The Spy in Moscow Station." [Special Editions]
Eric Haseltine on his book, "The Spy in Moscow Station." [Special Editions]
On this Special Edition, our extended conversation with Eric Haseltine on his book "The Spy in Moscow Station." The book... Read more
2 Feb 2020
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30mins
Ranked #13
Clever breaches demonstrate IoT security gaps. [Research Saturday]
Clever breaches demonstrate IoT security gaps. [Research Saturday]
Some of our favorite and most trusted IoT devices help make us feel secure in our homes. From garage door openers to the... Read more
18 Jan 2020
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23mins
Ranked #14
Regulation in the U.S. [CyberWire-X}
Regulation in the U.S. [CyberWire-X}
In this premier episode of our new, four-part series, called “Ground Truth or Consequences: the challenges and opportuni... Read more
13 Nov 2018
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28mins
Ranked #15
Tracking one of China's hidden hacking groups. [Research Saturday]
Tracking one of China's hidden hacking groups. [Research Saturday]
Operation Wocao (我操, “Wǒ cāo”, is a Chinese curse word) is the name that Fox-IT uses to describe the hacking activities... Read more
1 Feb 2020
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19mins
Ranked #16
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.
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.
In today’s podcast we hear that a young banking Trojan gains criminal marketshare in the Android ecosystem. Microsoft l... Read more
28 Mar 2019
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21mins
Ranked #17
Luring IoT botnets to the honeypot. [Research Saturday]
Luring IoT botnets to the honeypot. [Research Saturday]
Researchers from Netscout's ASERT team have been making use of honeypots to gather information on rapidly evolving IoT b... Read more
19 Jan 2019
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21mins
Ranked #18
Chinese supply-chain hack story gets vanishingly thin. Twitter downs pro-Saudi bots. SEO poisoning. OceanLotus evolves. Ransomware notes.
Chinese supply-chain hack story gets vanishingly thin. Twitter downs pro-Saudi bots. SEO poisoning. OceanLotus evolves. Ransomware notes.
In today's podcast, we hear that no one but Bloomberg seems to retain much faith in Bloomberg's story about Chinese supp... Read more
19 Oct 2018
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25mins
Ranked #19
PupyRAT is back. So is the Konni Group. Twitter storm over claims that MBS hacked Jeff Bezos. Anti-disinformaiton laws considered. Canada is ready to impose costs on cyber attackers.
PupyRAT is back. So is the Konni Group. Twitter storm over claims that MBS hacked Jeff Bezos. Anti-disinformaiton laws considered. Canada is ready to impose costs on cyber attackers.
PupyRAT was found in a European energy organization: it may be associated with Iranian threat actors. Another threat act... Read more
24 Jan 2020
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21mins
Ranked #20
A Jira vulnerability that’s leaking data in the public cloud. [Research Saturday]
A Jira vulnerability that’s leaking data in the public cloud. [Research Saturday]
Unit 42 (the Palo Alto Networks threat intelligence team) released new research on a Jira vulnerability that’s leaking d... Read more
2 Jan 2020
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16mins