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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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Ransomware attacks in Mexico and Germany. Wipers in criminal service. Supervising Siri and Alexa. Mass shooters find inspiration and online expression.

Episode Date: August 5, 2019

A Mexican publisher is hit with an extortion demand. Ransomware increasingly carries a destructive, wiper component: Germany is dealing with a virulen...

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Package manager repository malware detection. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: August 3, 2019

Researchers at Reversing Labs have been tracking malware hidden in software package manager repositories, and it's use as a supply chain attack vector...

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Spearphishing utility companies. Bellingcat as gadfly, and target. Facebook takes down more coordinated inauthenticity. Card skimming. Tech regulation. Random acts of cruelty.

Episode Date: August 2, 2019

LookBack malware used in spearphishing campaigns against US utilities. Phishing Bellingcat. Facebook takes down two campaigns of coordinated inauthent...

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Capital One investigation update. Don’t give up on the cloud. Exposed databases and backdoors. Cybercrime as high-stakes poker. Phishing the financials. Bots on holiday.

Episode Date: August 1, 2019

Investigators pursue the possibility that the alleged Capital One hacker might have hit other companies’ data. An exposed ElastiSearch database, now s...

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Capital One breach update. CISA warns of avionics CAN bus vulnerabilities. More attacks on local Louisiana governments. Change at the SEC. Cyber summer school for NATO, EU diplomats.

Episode Date: July 31, 2019

Capital One takes a market hit from its data loss. Observers see the incident as a reminder that cloud users need to pay attention to their configurat...

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Capital One sustains a major data breach. Phishing in LinkedIn. VxWorks patches and mitigations. Brute-forcing NAS credentials. LAPD doxed?

Episode Date: July 30, 2019

Capital One sustains a major data breach affecting 106 million customers, and a suspect is in custody, thanks largely to her incautious online boastin...

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Bears sniff at Bellingcat. Magecart in spoofed domains. MyDoom is still active. Shipboard malware was Emotet. Hutchins sentenced. Digital assistants have big ears. Taxes owed on alt-coin gains.

Episode Date: July 29, 2019

Bellingcat gets a look-in from the Bears. Magecart card-skimming code found in bogus domains. The MyDoom worm remains active in the wild, fifteen year...

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Cult of the Dead Cow author Joseph Menn extended interview. [Special Editions]

Episode Date: July 28, 2019

Our guest today is Joseph Menn. He’s a longtime investigative reporter on technology issues, currently working for Reuters in San Francisco. He’s the...

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Day to day app fraud in the Google Play store. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: July 27, 2019

Researchers at bot mitigation firm White Ops have been tracking fraudulent apps in the Google Play store. These apps often imitate legitimate apps, ev...

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Winnti and other Chinese espionage activity. Volume I of the US Senate report on election meddling is out. Ransomware from Sabine, Louisiana, to Johannesburg, South Africa.

Episode Date: July 26, 2019

Winnti and other Chinese threats have been active against German and French targets. The US Senate Intelligence Committee has issued the first volume...

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News about Russian and Chinese government threat actors. Powerful crimeware active in Brazil. BlueKeep really needs to be patched. Messenger Kids issues. Dispatches from the cryptowars.

Episode Date: July 25, 2019

Did you know that Fancy Bear has taken to wearing a Monokle? A new Chinese cyber espionage campaign is identified. Intrusion Truth tracks APT17 to Jin...

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Lancaster University breached. Kazakhstan is testing out HTTPS interception. The UK postpones its decision on Huawei’s 5G gear. The FTC is requiring Facebook to set up a privacy committee.

Episode Date: July 24, 2019

In today’s podcast, we hear that Lancaster University has suffered a data breach. A reportedly critical vulnerability in VLC Media Player may have alr...

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Venezuela blames power failure on exotic sabotage, again. Huawei may have built North Korea’s 3G wireless networks. Were record privacy fines high enough? Logic bombing the customer.

Episode Date: July 23, 2019

Venezuela’s government says the country’s massive blackout is the work of sabotage by foreign actors (read, the Yanquis) who took down the grid with a...

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FSB contractor hacked. Pegasus now able to rummage clouds? Iranian cyber ops spike. Fraudulent student profiles. Judgement in Equifax FTC case. NSA hoarder gets nine years.

Episode Date: July 22, 2019

A contractor for Russia’s FSB security agency was apparently breached. NSO Group says its Pegasus software can now obtain access to private messages h...

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The Fifth Domain coauthor Richard A. Clarke. [Special Editions]

Episode Date: July 21, 2019

Our guest today is Richard A. Clarke, former National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection and Counter-terrorism for the United States....

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Nansh0u not your normal cryptominer. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: July 20, 2019

Researchers at Guardicore Labs have been tracking an unusual cryptominer that seems to be based in China and is targeting Windows MS-SQL and phpMyAdmi...

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Following K3chang. Bulgaria’s tax agency breach. An alternative currency gets some incipient regulatory scrutiny. Why towns are hit with ransomware. A hair-care hack.

Episode Date: July 19, 2019

K3chang is out, about, and more evasive than ever. Data breached at Bulgaria’s National Revenue Agency has turned up online in at least one hacker for...

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TrickBot’s new tricks. Poisoning the ad supply chain. Clouds get schooled. Novel phishing tackle, but stale bait. Cyberwar powers. Election interference. FaceApp fears. Bad macro suspect arrested.

Episode Date: July 18, 2019

TrickBot gets some new tricks, and they’re being called Trickbooster. Poisoning the advertising supply chain. Hessian schools will shy away from Ameri...

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Telco data breach. Firmware supply chain problems. Hacking BLE. Census security. Continuity of operations. Decryptor for GandCrab, NSPM 13. Bulgaria’s tax hack.

Episode Date: July 17, 2019

Sprint warns of data breach. Eclypsium announces discovery of server firmware supply chain problems. Bluetooth Low Energy may be less secure than thou...

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GandCrab hoods may be back with new ransomware. Video-on issues. Broadcom-Symantec talks are off, for now. Treason or just business? Robo-calls. A decryptor for Ims0rry ransomware.

Episode Date: July 16, 2019

The retirement of GandCrab’s hoods may have been exaggerated. Video conferencing tools RingCentral and Zhumu may have picked up Zoom’s issues in the t...

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