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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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Disney+ credentials hacked. Kudankulam reassurance. Chinese, Iranian documents leak. Iran and Venezuela restrict Internet access. Russia proposes Internet control treaty. Hacktivist notes.

Episode Date: November 18, 2019

Disney+ credentials already on sale in the black market souks. India reassures nuclear power partners that the Kudankulam incident didn’t compromise s...

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Sodinokibi aka REvil connections to GandCrab. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: November 16, 2019

Researchers at McAfee's Advanced Threat Research Team have been analyzing Sodinokibi ransomware as a service, also known as REvil. John Fokker is head...

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Pemex ransomware update. Spearphishing with spoofed government phishbait. Trojan two-fer. AntiFrigus ransomware avoids C-drive files. BLE bug. DataTribe’s annual Challenge.

Episode Date: November 15, 2019

Pemex has recovered from the ransomware attack it sustained...or has it? TA2101 is spoofing German, Italian, and US government agencies in its phishin...

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PureLocker ransomware. APT33 update. Hong Kong and information war, in the courts and on PornHub. Facebook content takedowns. Alleged criminals prepare to face the court.

Episode Date: November 14, 2019

PureLocker is a new ransomware strain available in the black market. APT33 is showing a surge of activity. Lawfare and information operations in and a...

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NAM hacked during US-China trade tensions. DDoS against British political parties. Pemex recovers from ransomware. Project Nightingale gets US Federal scrutiny. Patch notes.

Episode Date: November 13, 2019

National Association of Manufacturers hacked during Sino-American trade negotiations (and tensions). Ineffectual DDoS attacks hit both of the UK’s lar...

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Labour Party reports a cyberattack. What the Lazarus Group is up to. Platinum adds a quiet backdoor. Buran competes on price. PCI DSS compliance falling. Ahoy, Yantar.

Episode Date: November 12, 2019

The UK’s Labour Party says it was hacked, but unsuccessfully. The Lazarus Group seems to be back out and about, and apparently interested in India. Th...

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Andy Greenberg from WIRED on his book "Sandworm." [Special Editions]

Episode Date: November 11, 2019

In this CyberWire special edition, a conversation with Andy Greenberg, senior writer at WIRED and author of the new book "Sandworm - A New Era of Cybe...

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Monitoring the growing sophistication of PKPLUG. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: November 9, 2019

Researchers from Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 have been tracking a Chinese cyber espionage group they've named PKPLUG. The group mainly targets victims...

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Warnings about Emotet and BlueKeep. Crooks test their stolen cards before the holiday shopping season. Amazon fixes Ring. Chinese security gear allegedly sold as made-in-USA.

Episode Date: November 8, 2019

Warnings and advice about Emotet and BlueKeep, both being actively used or exploited in the wild. Two new carding bots are in circulation against e-co...

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US off-off-year elections go off OK, but don’t get cocky, kids. US charges three in Saudi spy case. Adware dropping apps removed from Google Play. Patch Confluence.

Episode Date: November 7, 2019

The US off-off-year elections seem to have gone off largely free of interference, but officials caution that major foreign influence campaigns can be...

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App developers had access to more Facebook Group data than intended. Election security and disinformation. DarkUniverse described. Millions lost to business email compromise.

Episode Date: November 6, 2019

Facebook closes a hole in Group data access. US authorities seek to reassure Congress and the public concerning the security of election infrastructur...

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Ransomware in Spain. Pegasus in India. TikTok on the Huawei highway? Booz Allen predicts! And good dogs sniff out bad data.

Episode Date: November 5, 2019

Ransomware hits Spanish companies. Pegasus continues to excite controversy in India. TikTok applies for Big Tech’s good-citizen club, but has apparent...

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BlueKeep is exploited for cryptojacking. Ransomware hits Canadian provincial government. Pegasus lands in India. Magecart, GandCrab updates. US Cyber Command deploys to Montenegro.

Episode Date: November 4, 2019

BlueKeep is being exploited in the wild, not too seriously, yet, but you should still patch. Nunavut’s government is recovering from a ransomware atta...

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Insider Threats [Special Editions]

Episode Date: November 3, 2019

What’s an insider threat? Loosely, it’s a threat that operates from within your organization. In this CyberWire special edition, our UK correspondent...

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Usable security is a delicate balance. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: November 2, 2019

Until recently, usability was often an afterthought when developing security tools. These days there's growing realization that usability is a fundame...

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Cyber espionage. Russia tries Web autarky. The US will investigate TikTok. A bad keyboard app is out of Google Play but still in circulation. Crime comes to e-sports. Happy hundredth, GCHQ.

Episode Date: November 1, 2019

FireEye warns of Messagetap malware and its spying on SMS. NSO Group’s Pegasus troubles seem to be expanding. Russia prepares to disconnect its Intern...

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Malware in nuclear plant business system, but not in control systems. Facebook versus inauthenticity and spyware. Twitter refuses political ads. NIST wants comments. Cyber risk a factor in credit ratings.

Episode Date: October 31, 2019

The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant confirms it had malware in a business system, but that control systems were unaffected. Franchising coordinated ina...

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WhatsApp sues NSO Group over Pegasus distribution. Georgia continues its recovery, as does Johannesburg. Facebook stops more inauthentic action. A Bed, Bath, and Beyond breach.

Episode Date: October 30, 2019

WhatsApp sues NSO Group for spreading Pegasus intercept software through WhatsApp’s service. Georgia continues its recovery from the large website def...

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Fancy Bear paws at anti-doping agencies. Johannesburg says no to the Shadow Kill Hackers. Adwind jRAT’s new misdirection. US FCC versus Huawei, ZTE. Georgia hacked.

Episode Date: October 29, 2019

Fancy Bear is pawing at anti-doping agencies, again, suggesting more to come for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Johannesburg has declined to pay the Shadow...

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Actionable intelligence, and the difficulty of cutting through noise. Extortion hits Johannesburg. Criminal-to-criminal markets. Who’s more vulnerable to phishing, the old or the young?

Episode Date: October 28, 2019

Actionable intelligence, culling signal from noise, and the online resilience of threat groups. Ransomware hits a legal case management system. The ci...

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