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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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Iran says it stopped a cyber espionage campaign by China’s APT27. India closes the Internet in two states. Ransomware in Louisiana and New Jersey. National Security Letters.

Episode Date: December 16, 2019

Iran says it’s foiled a cyber espionage campaign mounted by APT27, a Chinese threat group. The Indian government responds to protests over a citizensh...

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Capturing the flag at NXTWORK 2019 [Special Editions]

Episode Date: December 15, 2019

Capture the Flag competitions are an increasingly popular and valuable way for both cyber security students and seasoned professionals to test their s...

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WAV files carry malicious data payloads. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: December 14, 2019

Researchers at BlackBerry Cylance have been tracking ordinary WAV audio files being used to carry hidden malicious data used by threat actors. Eric M...

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Phishing for credentials. Compromised Telegram accounts. Lateral movement. Crypto Wars updates. Data retention compliance. Iago did it for the lulz.

Episode Date: December 13, 2019

Parties unknown are phishing for government credentials in at least eight countries. Some other parties unknown are compromising Telegram accounts in...

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False flags and attack kit hijacking. Maze ransomware in Pensacola. China’s own OS. Crypto Wars update. TrickBot phishing. And Krampus spoils Christmas.

Episode Date: December 12, 2019

Flying false flags, and borrowing someone else’s attack tools as the mast you use to run them up. The Pensacola cyber attack has been identified as in...

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Hacking in Iran? The Lazarus Group hires Trickbot. Election influence ops. Cryptowars updata. Ransomware in municipal and tribal governments. Patch Tuesday notes. Do it for State.

Episode Date: December 11, 2019

Iran says it’s stopped a cyber attack, and that an insider was responsible for a major paycard exposure. Trickbot is now working for the Lazarus Group...

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Pensacola under cyberattack. Notes on ransomware. The US Justice Department IG report on Crossfire Hurricane. Who let the bots out?

Episode Date: December 10, 2019

The city of Pensacola is hit hard by an unspecified cyberattack. Ryuk ransomware decryptors may cause data loss. A new variant of Snatch ransomware ev...

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Ocean Lotus versus car manufacturers. Ransomware versus dental practices. $5 million reward offered in Dridex case. Information operations and the UK’s general election.

Episode Date: December 9, 2019

Ocean Lotus puts down more roots in automobile manufacturing. Ransomware hits dentists’ IT providers as well as a Rhode Island town. The US is offerin...

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Targeting routers to hit gaming servers. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: December 7, 2019

Researchers at Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 recently published research outlining attacks on home and small-business routers, taking advantage of known...

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Facebook sues over ad fraud. Tampering with VPN connections. Russian disinformation in Lithuania.

Episode Date: December 6, 2019

Facebook sues a company for ad fraud. Unix-based VPN traffic is vulnerable to tampering. Russian disinformation in Lithuania. Apple explains why new i...

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Data center ransomware. Third-party breach hits telco customers. Buran and Buer on the black market. The Great Canon opens fire. Russia trolls Lithuania. Big bad BEC.

Episode Date: December 5, 2019

Data center operator CyrusOne sustains a ransomware attack. Another third-party breach involves a database inadvertently left exposed on an unprotecte...

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Lazarus Group interested in thorium reactors? Disinformation by phishing. ZeroCleare wiper in the wild. NATO addresses cyber conflict. NotPetya litigation. Black market takedown.

Episode Date: December 4, 2019

North Korea’s Lazarus Group may have been looking for Indian reactor design information. A possible case of Russian influence operations, served up by...

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Secondary Infektion may be back, and interested in UK elections. Quantum Dragon. FaceApp risks. PyXie RAT in the wild. An Ethereum developer is charged with helping North Korea evade sanctions.

Episode Date: December 3, 2019

Someone believes, or would like others to believe, that Britain’s National Health Service is for sale to the US. There’s no word on whether the US has...

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ANSSI considering retaliation for ransomware attack. MixCloud breached. Imminent Monitor shut down.

Episode Date: December 2, 2019

France might go on the offensive against ransomware attackers. The UK’s NCSC has been helping an unnamed nuclear power company recover from a cyberatt...

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Peter W. Singer author of LikeWar [Special Editions]

Episode Date: November 30, 2019

In this CyberWire special edition, an extended version of our conversation from earlier this year with Peter W. Singer. We spoke not long after the pu...

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John Maeda author of How to Speak Machine [Special Editions]

Episode Date: November 29, 2019

In this CyberWire special edition, a conversation with John Maeda. He’s a Graphic designer, visual artist, and computer scientist, and former Presiden...

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Phishing, cryptojacking, and commodity malware. New supply chain security measures. And have you heard about this Black Friday thing?

Episode Date: November 27, 2019

A Fullz House for Thanksgiving. Google finds that nation-state phishing continues at its customary high levels. DeathRansom, the low-end ransomware th...

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Potentially malicious SDKs draw cease-and-desist letters. Nursing homes get ransom demands. A look back at the Sony Pictures hack. CISA offers advice on safe online shopping.

Episode Date: November 26, 2019

Twitter and Facebook warn of potentially malicious software development kits being used by app developers to, potentially, harvest and monetize users’...

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Arrest by algorithm. Dangers of data enrichment. Golden Falcon in Kazakhstan. FCC vs. Huawei and ZTE. Internet sovereignty. Chuckling Squad popped for Twitter caper. Other crime and punishment.

Episode Date: November 25, 2019

A defection and a leak expose Chinese espionage and social control operations. Data aggregation and enrichment seem to underlie a big inadvertent data...

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Mustang Panda leverages Windows shortcut files. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: November 23, 2019

Researchers at Anomali have been tracking China-based threat group, Mustang Panda, believing them to be responsible for attacks making clever use of W...

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