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CyberWire Daily

The daily cybersecurity news and analysis industry leaders depend on. Published each weekday, the program also includes interviews with a wide spectrum of experts from industry, academia, and research organizations all over the world.

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Ups and downs in the cyber underworld. Enduring effects of COVID-19 in cyberspace. Safer online shopping. “Take me home, United Road, to the place I belong, to Old Trafford, to see United…”

Episode Date: November 23, 2020

Qbot is dropping Egregor ransomware, and RagnarLocker continues its recent rampage. Cryptocurrency platforms troubled by social engineering at a third...

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James Hadley: Spend time on what interests you. [CEO] [Career Notes]

Episode Date: November 22, 2020

Founder and CEO of Immersive Labs James Hadley takes us through his career path from university to cybersecurity startup. James tells us about his fir...

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Misconfigured identity and access management (IAM) is much more widespread. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: November 21, 2020

Identity and access are intrinsically connected when providing security to cloud platforms. But security is only effective when environments are prope...

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Prime Minister Johnson tells Parliament about the National Cyber Force. Vietnam squeezes Facebook. Chinese cyberespionage. SEO poisoning. Printing ransom notes. CISA leadership.

Episode Date: November 20, 2020

Her Majesty’s Government discloses the existence of a National Cyber Force. Hanoi tells Facebook to crack down on posts critical of Vietnam’s governme...

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Haunted virtual meetings. AWS APIs share vulnerabilities. US Intelligence Community conducts a post mortem on 2020 foreign election interference. Meet the future (a lot like the present, only moreso).

Episode Date: November 19, 2020

Ghosts in the virtual machines. Cloudbursts in the forecast. The US Intelligence Community is preparing a report on foreign election interference. CIS...

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Dream a FunnyDream of me. US CISA Director dismissed. Facebook, Twitter CEOs virtually visit the US Senate. Huawei CFO extradition update. Bad passwords.

Episode Date: November 18, 2020

FunnyDream? No, it’s real: a cyberespionage crew operating against Southeast Asian governments. President Trump fires US CISA Director Krebs. Twitter...

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Hidden Cobra’s new tricks. Notes from the criminal underground. Draft EU data transfer regulations. And the coming ape-man disinformation.

Episode Date: November 17, 2020

Hidden Cobra inserts Lazarus malware into security management chains. Malsmoke malvertizing doesn’t need exploit kits, anymore. Ransomware operators s...

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Cyberespionage and international norms of conduct in cyberspace. DarkSide establishes storage options for its affiliates. TroubleGrabber in Discord. Unapplied patches.

Episode Date: November 16, 2020

Nation-states continue to probe COVID-19 vaccine researchers. The Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace proposes international norms for pr...

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Malek Ben Salem: Taking those challenges. [R&D] [Career Notes]

Episode Date: November 15, 2020

Americas Security R&D Lead for Accenture Malek Ben Salem shares how she pivoted from her love of math and background in electrical engineering to a ca...

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That first CVE was a fun find, for sure. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: November 14, 2020

In the late 90s, hackers who discovered vulnerabilities would sometimes send an email to Bugtraq with details. Bugtraq was a notification system used...

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CISA offers its assessment (high) of US election security. An alleged GRU front media group is fingered. Notes on cybercrime, and one cheap proof-of-concept.

Episode Date: November 13, 2020

CISA says US elections were secure, that recounts are to be expected in tight races. (But election-themed malspam continues, of course.) A news platfo...

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An overview of threat actors, two proofs of concept, and an IoT botnet bothers the cloud. Patch Tuesday notes. And control yourself, sir.

Episode Date: November 12, 2020

BlackBerry tracks a mercenary group providing cyberespionage services. A rundown from Dragos on threat actors engaging with industrial targets. An Iot...

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shadow IT (noun) [Word Notes]

Episode Date: November 11, 2020

As we are not publishing in observance of Veterans Day, we thought you might like to check out a couple of episodes of our weekly Word Notes short for...

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remote access Trojan or RAT (noun) [Word Notes]

Episode Date: November 11, 2020

As we are not publishing in observance of Veterans Day, we thought you might like to check out a couple of episodes of our weekly Word Notes short for...

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A look at what’s up in some of the criminal markets. The continued resilience of TrickBot. What you can buy for $155,000.

Episode Date: November 10, 2020

Criminals get the news like everyone else, and online crime continues to follow current events. It’s up, it’s down, it’s up again--forget it: it’s Tri...

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Supply chain security. New cyberespionage from OceanLotus. Data breaches expose customer information. And GCHQ has had quite enough of this vaccine nonsense, thank you very much.

Episode Date: November 9, 2020

Alerts and guidelines on securing the software supply chain (and the hardware supply chain, too). OceanLotus is back with its watering holes. Two sign...

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Richard Clarke: From presidential inspiration to cybersecurity policy pioneer. [Policy] [Career Notes]

Episode Date: November 8, 2020

CEO and consultant Richard Clarke took his inspiration from President John F Kennedy and turned it into the first cybersecurity position in federal go...

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PoetRAT: a complete lack of operational security. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: November 7, 2020

Cisco Talos discovered PoetRAT earlier this year. Since then, they observed multiple new campaigns indicating a change in the actor's capabilities and...

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IRGC domains taken down. A look at 2021’s threatscape. Russia says its didn’t do anything (others see Bears.) Forfeiture of Silk Road’s hitherto unaccounted for billion-plus dollars.

Episode Date: November 6, 2020

The US Justice Department takes down twenty-seven domains being used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Booz Allen offers its take on the 20...

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CISA’s happy but still wary. Election-themed criminal malspam. New ransomware goes after VMs. Why it makes no sense to trust extortionists.

Episode Date: November 5, 2020

CISA declares a modest but satisfying victory for election security, but cautions that it’s not over yet. Criminal gangs are using election-themed phi...

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