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Android vulnerability exploited in the wild. Careless spycraft. The Eye on the Nile. A new Chinese threat actor. A spoiling attack in the CryptoWars. Take election interference, please.

Episode Date: October 4, 2019

Project Zero warns that a use-after-free vulnerability in widely used Android devices is being exploited in the wild. Uzbekistan’s National Security S...

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A new threat group, Avivore, is called out in the Airbus hack. Ransomware and VPN exploit warnings. EU tells Facebook to take down some content, everywhere. Spearphishing ANU. SandCat’s bad opsec.

Episode Date: October 3, 2019

Who’s been hacking aerospace firms? Context Security suggests it’s a new Chinese threat actor, “Avivore.” The FBI issues a ransomware alert. The NCSC...

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RATs, ransomware, payloads, and unsecured data: a look at the cybercriminal underground.

Episode Date: October 2, 2019

Sobinokibi ransomware looks more like the child of GandCrab, and McAfee has some thoughts on how ransomware-as-a-service operates. FakeUpdates are bac...

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Piling on sanctions. The disinformation-as-a-service black market. Technological sovereignty through R&D investment? Ransomware continues to rise. NSA’s new Cybersecurity Directorate.

Episode Date: October 1, 2019

The oligarch behind the St. Petersburg troll farm is sanctioned, again. Recorded Future looks at disinformation and finds there’s a functioning privat...

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Industrial firms disclose cyber incidents. US DHS to check airliner cybersecurity. RCMP security case update. Bulletproof host taken down. Gnosticplayers. Royal phish.

Episode Date: September 30, 2019

Rheinmetall and DCC have disclosed sustaining cyber attacks. The US Government is looking at airliner cyber vulnerabilities. SimJacker is real, but re...

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Focusing on Autumn Aperture. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: September 28, 2019

Researchers at Prevalion have been tracking a malware campaign making use of antiquated file formats and social engineering to target specific groups....

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Supply chain hacks versus Airbus. Phishing around Google Cloud. Masad Clipper and Stealer on the criminal-to-criminal market. Quick zero-day exploitation. DoorDash hack. Inside JTF Ares.

Episode Date: September 27, 2019

The Airbus supply chain is reported to be under attack, possibly by Chinese industrial espionage operators. Phishing campaigns impersonate Google Clou...

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Lazarus Group in India. Suspected Chinese APT uses fake Narrator. Fleeceware. DNI testimony. TalkTalk hacker charged in US. Yahoo breach compensation. Chameleon spam campaign.

Episode Date: September 26, 2019

North Korea’s Lazarus Group is active against targets in India. A “suspected Chinese advanced persistent threat group” is exploiting a Windows accessi...

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Notes on Tortoiseshell. Fancy Bear snuffles around embassies and foreign ministries. Poison Carp targets Tibetan groups. GandCrab unretires. And Chameleon’s curious spam.

Episode Date: September 25, 2019

Tortoiseshell is trolling for military veterans. There’s been a fresh Fancy Bear sighting. The transcript of a conversation between the US and Ukraini...

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Utility phishing. Google wins on the right to be forgotten. Transatlantic data transfer. Responsible state behavior in cyberspace. Huawei and 5G. Permanent Record, temporarily phishbait.

Episode Date: September 24, 2019

APT10 has been phishing in US utilities. Google wins a big round over the EU’s right to be forgotten. European courts are also considering binding con...

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YouTube account hijacking. Facebook finds more apps misusing data. Cyber deterrence in the Gulf region. Huawei’s CFO continues to fight extradition from Canada to the US. Pentesting blues.

Episode Date: September 23, 2019

YouTube creators in the “car community” get their accounts hijacked over the weekend. Facebook finds tens of thousands of apps behaving badly with res...

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Leaky guest networks and covert channels. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: September 21, 2019

Many users of inexpensive internet routers use guest network functionality to help secure their home networks. Researchers at Ben Gurion University ha...

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Coordinated inauthenticity in five countries draws action from Twitter. Cryptomining continues. Huawei fights its ban in US Federal court. Notes from CISA’s Cybersecurity Summit.

Episode Date: September 20, 2019

Twitter details actions against coordinated inauthenticity in Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Ecuador, Spain, and China. Tension with Iran remain hig...

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Notes from the CISA Summit. New DDoS vector reported. Medical images exposed online. Huawei and US sanctions. Engaging ISIS in cyberspace.

Episode Date: September 19, 2019

A quick look at CISA’s National Cybersecurity Summit. A big new distributed denial-of-service vector is reported. Medical servers leave patient inform...

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Tortoiseshell threat-actor active in the Middle East. Simjacker less dangerous than thought? Decentralizing cyber attack. The Ortis affair. Mr. Snowden’s book deal.

Episode Date: September 18, 2019

A newly discovered threat actor, “Tortoiseshell,” has been active against targets in the Middle East. The Simjacker vulnerability may not be as widely...

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More updates on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police counterintelligence case. Australian elections and China’s interests. ISIS howls to the lone wolves. Ed Snowden would prefer Paris to Moscow.

Episode Date: September 17, 2019

More notes on the RCMP espionage scandal. The CSE’s preliminary assessment sounds serious indeed, and Canadian intelligence services are trying to ide...

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Espionage and counter-espionage in at least three of the FIve Eyes. New sanctions against North Korea. Password managers and flashlights.

Episode Date: September 16, 2019

Spy versus spy, in America, Canada, and Australia, with special guest stars from the Russian and Chinese services. The US Treasury Department issues m...

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Bluetooth blues: KNOB attack explained. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: September 14, 2019

A team of researchers have published a report titled, "KNOB Attack. Key Negotiation of Bluetooth Attack: Breaking Bluetooth Security." The report outl...

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CRASHOVERRIDE tried to be worse than it was. InnfiRAT scouts for wallets. Simjacker exploited in the Middle East. SINET 16 are out. Pentesting scope. Back up your files, Mayor.

Episode Date: September 13, 2019

The Ukrainian electrical grid hack seems, on further review, to have been designed to do far more damage than it actually accomplished. InnfiRAT is sc...

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The StingRays that were n DC. Old-school file formats and attack code. Ransomware becomes spyware. Joker apps ejected from the Play store. Multifaceted deterrence. Advice on BEC.

Episode Date: September 12, 2019

DC StingRays alleged to be Israeli devices. North Korea is slipping malware past defenses by putting it into old, obscure file formats. Ryuk ransomwar...

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