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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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BEC attack pulls millions from car parts company. Wikipedia DDoS. NERC and FERC on grid hacking. Trolling Pyongyang. Mike Hammer goes to the DMV.

Episode Date: September 9, 2019

A big BEC extracts more than $37 million from a major automotive parts supplier. Wikipedia suffers a DDoS attack in Europe and the Middle East. NERC a...

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VOIP phone system harbors decade-old vulnerability. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: September 7, 2019

Researchers at McAfee's Advanced Threat Research Team recently published the results of their investigation into a popular VOIP system, where they dis...

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China hacks to track. Turning the enemy’s weapons against them? Notes from the Billington CyberSecurity Summit. Anti-trust investigations for Facebook and, probably, Google.

Episode Date: September 6, 2019

Chinese intelligence and security services have been busy in cyberspace. A third-party customer leaks data it received from Monster.com. There’s a Jok...

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Scraped data found gurgling around in an unsecured third-party database. Ransomware and election security. Spy in your pocket? (Probably not.) Guilty plea in the Satori case.

Episode Date: September 5, 2019

A database scraped from Facebook in the bad old days before last year’s reforms holds informaiton about 419 million users. The ransomware threat to el...

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Ransomware, Bitcoin, underwriters, and the bandit economy. OTA provisioning could lead to subtle phishing. Alleged spammers indicted. ZAO flashes and flickers out, for now.

Episode Date: September 4, 2019

A look at the ongoing ransomware epidemic, with some speculation about its connection to the criminal economy. Over-the-air provisioning might open An...

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Stuxnet’s story. Watering hole was designed to attract China’s Muslim minority. USBAnywhere affects some Supermicro servers. Twitter’s CEO has his Twitter stream hijacked.

Episode Date: September 3, 2019

A report on Stuxnet suggests there were at least five and probably six countries whose intelligence services cooperated in the disabling cyberattack a...

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Emotet's updated business model. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: August 31, 2019

The Emotet malware came on the scene in 2014 as a banking trojan and has since evolved in sophistication and shifted its business model. Researchers a...

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Watering hole for iPhones. Dental record service hit with ransomware. Huawei reportedly under investigation for IP theft. “erratic” faces cryptojacking charges. Farewell to a Bletchley Wren.

Episode Date: August 30, 2019

Google’s Project Zero releases information on a long-running watering-hole campaign against iPhone users. A dental record backup service is hit by ran...

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Cyberattacks and intelligence trade-offs. TrickBot’s new interests. Fancy Bear versus machine learning. Facebook looks for more ad transparency. Retadup take-down.

Episode Date: August 29, 2019

Senior US officials say the June 20th attacks on Iranian networks helped stop Tehran’s attacks on tankers in the Arabian Gulf. TrickBot seems to be go...

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LYCEUM active against Middle Eastern energy-sector targets. LinkedIn used to recruit spies. Autonomous car expert indicted. Imperva exposure. VPN software patches. AI writes.

Episode Date: August 28, 2019

LYCEUM is active against the oil and gas sector in the Middle East. Leaving government service? That nice offer from the head-hunters you got on Linke...

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Hostinger resets passwords after an intrusion. Social media fraud. Notes on RATs and ransomware. Free decryptor for Syrk. Hedge funds go bananas.

Episode Date: August 27, 2019

Hostinger resets passwords after a breach. Arkose finds that more than half the social media logins they investigated during the recent quarter were f...

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BioWatch info potentially exposed. Scammers indicted. Ukrainian cryptojacking exposed sensitive data. Social engineering notes. Boo birds and lawsuits. Data use and privacy. Low-earth orbit hack.

Episode Date: August 26, 2019

BioWatch info exposed. Patched vulnerabilities are weaponized in the wild. Romance and other scam indictments name eighty defendants. Cryptomining and...

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Gift card bots evolve and adapt. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: August 24, 2019

Researchers at Distil Networks have been tracking online bots targeting ecommerce gift card systems of major online retailers. The threat actors show...

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Google takes down YouTube influence operation. Cryptomining in a nuclear plant. Spyware in the Google Play Store.

Episode Date: August 23, 2019

Google takes down YouTube accounts spreading disinformation about Hong Kong protests. Cryptomining gear seized at a Ukrainian nuclear plant. CISA outl...

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North Korean and Chinese cyber espionage. Updates on Texas ransomware. Steam zero-day released.

Episode Date: August 22, 2019

A North Korean cyber espionage campaign targets universities, think tanks, and foreign ministries. Chinese cyber spies goes after the healthcare secto...

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China criticizes Twitter and Facebook. Silence expands internationally. A popular Ruby library was backdoored.

Episode Date: August 21, 2019

China says Twitter and Facebook are restricting its freedom of speech. The Silence criminal gang has expanded internationally. Google, Mozilla, and Ap...

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Chinese information operations on Twitter and Facebook. iOS jailbreak released. Adult websites leak information.

Episode Date: August 20, 2019

Twitter and Facebook shut down Chinese information operations. A jailbreak for the latest version of iOS is out. Facebook may have known about the “vi...

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ISIS claims Kabul massacre. Huawei gets a temporary break. Texas governments hit by ransomware. Hy-Vee warns of point-of-sale attack.

Episode Date: August 19, 2019

ISIS claims responsibility for Kabul massacre. Huawei gets another temporary reprieve. Local governments in Texas sustain ransomware attacks. Georgia...

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Detecting dating profile fraud. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: August 17, 2019

Researchers from King’s College London, University of Bristol, Boston University, and University of Melbourne recently collaborated to publish a repor...

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ECB sustains an intrusion into a third-party-hosted service. Norman quietly mines Monero. MetaMorph appears in a stealthy phishing campaign. Information operations.

Episode Date: August 16, 2019

The European Central Bank shutters a service due to a hostile intrusion. Norman quietly mines Monero. MetaMorph passes through email security filters....

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