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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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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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Masad Steals via Social Media. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: October 26, 2019

Researchers at Juniper Networks have been tracking a trojan they call Masad Stealer, which uses the Telegram instant messaging platform for part it it...

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Spearphishing the UN and NGOs. Clickware kicked out of app stores. ICS security notes. Close-reading the Turla false-flag reports. A good use for the dark web. Senators call for investigations.

Episode Date: October 25, 2019

A spearphishing campaign is found targeting humanitarian, aid, and policy organizaitons. Google and Apple remove clickfraud-infested apps from their s...

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Clouds are back after being out. Bitpaymer hits German manufacturer. Cross-plaform mobile malware. SecurityWeek’s 2019 ICS Cyber Security Conference.

Episode Date: October 24, 2019

AWS and Google Cloud are back up after early week unrelated outages. A German automation tool manufacturer discloses a ransomware infestation. Mobile...

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Criminal connections. The risky business of acquisition. Joker is back, and it’s not funny. Most dangerous celebrities. Notes from SecurityWeek’s ICS Cyber Security Conference.

Episode Date: October 23, 2019

Magecart Group 5 is linked to the Carbanak gang. Another recently acquired reservation systems brings a headache to hospitality. Another app is found...

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More coordinated inauthenticity taken down. The Westphalian system and cyber conflict. VPNs and an AV company sustain incidents. Assange and extradition.

Episode Date: October 22, 2019

Facebook takes down more coordinated inauthenticity from Iran and Russia, and announces a new transparency policy about news sources. The former NSA D...

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Not every incident is necessarily an attack. Not everything that purrs is a kitten (sometimes it’s a bear that would like you to think it’s a kitten). ICS security notes.

Episode Date: October 21, 2019

Some notes on not jumping to conclusions that incidents are cyber attacks. A false flag operation shows the difficulty of attribution: not everything...

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Hoping for SOHO security. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: October 19, 2019

Researchers at Independent Security Evaluators (ISE) recently published a report titled SOHOpelessly Broken 2.0, Security Vulnerabilities in Network A...

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Clickfraud and third-parties (both SDKs and stores). Trojanized TOR browser steals from Russian users. WiFi bugs. Sketchy jailbreak. Big Tech on free speech. Cooperation against terrorism.

Episode Date: October 18, 2019

Clickfraud arrives via a third-party SDK, and the app developers who used it say they didn’t know nuthin’. Maybe they didn’t. A Trojanized TOR browser...

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Cozy Bear never really left. Iran denies it suffered a US cyberattack. Malicious WAV files. Darknet dragnet hauls in child exploitation ring. Graboid infests Docker hosts.

Episode Date: October 17, 2019

Cozy Bear isn’t back--Cozy Bear never really left at all. Iran says the Americans are dreaming: there was no cyberattack in retaliation for Iran’s imp...

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