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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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Voting machine woes. Router exploits trouble Brazil, Bitpoint alt-coin exchange investigates theft. Facebook fined $5 billion. Power failures probably unrelated to cyberattacks. Amazon Prime phishing.

Episode Date: July 15, 2019

Upgraded voting machines may not be as secure, or as upgraded, as election officials seem to think. Criminals continue to exploit routers in Brazil. A...

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Opportunistic botnets round up vulnerable routers. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: July 13, 2019

Researchers at Netscout's ASERT Team have been tracking the growth of botnets originating in Egypt and targeting routers in South Africa. The payload...

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Buhtrap gets into the spying game. US cyber operations against Iran considered: there are both strategic and Constitutional issues. Election security. Water bills. And again with the WannaCry.

Episode Date: July 12, 2019

Buhtrap moves from financial crime to cyber espionage. There may have been as many as three distinct US cyber operations against Iran late last month....

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Magecart is getting interested in exposed databases. Agent Smith may be in your Android app store. Tracking FinSpy. A contractor gets spearphished.

Episode Date: July 11, 2019

GDPR fines and their implications. A reminder about Magecart, and some notes on its recent interest in scanning for unprotected AWS S-3 buckets. Agent...

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Zoom addresses concerns about call joining and cameras. ICS vulnerabilities addressed. Patch Tuesday notes. Tracing a disinformation campaign.

Episode Date: July 10, 2019

Zoom agrees to change what it still sort of regards as a feature and not a bug. Industrial control system vulnerabilities are reported and patched. Mi...

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Security issues with Zoom for Macs. Astaroth fileless malware reported in Brazil. GoBotKR distributed by torrent. ICO hits British Airways with a record fine. State attacks and state defenses.

Episode Date: July 9, 2019

Zoom user security appears to have been sacrificed on the altar of user experience. The fileless Astaroth Trojan is again in circulation, mostly, for...

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Another ransomware victim pays extortionists. Business email compromise. Government impostor scams. ShadowBrokers still airborne. Exploit supply chain. Silence suspected in bank heists.

Episode Date: July 8, 2019

Another ransomware victim pays up. Privilege escalation comes to ransomware. Vendor impersonation scams hit cities, and government impersonation scams...

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Warnings of Outlook exploitation, with a possible Iranian connection. GPS jamming in the Eastern Med. Satellite vulnerabilities. 505 errors. TA505’s new tactics. Content moderation updates.

Episode Date: July 3, 2019

US Cyber Command warns that an Outlook vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild. Other sources see a connection with Iran. GPS signals ar...

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US-Iranian tension expressed in cyberspace. OceanLotus and Ratsnif. Ransomware in Georgia, again. Going low-tech to protect the grid. Magecart update. Cryptowars and agency equities.

Episode Date: July 2, 2019

Tensions between the US and Iran are likely to find further expression in cyberspace. OceanLotus’s Ratsnif kit isn’t up to the threat actors normally...

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Huawei spits the hook? CISA warns about the risk of Iranian cyberattack. Power grid security. Cryptocurrency and fraud. Content moderation. Senators like Hack the Pentagon.

Episode Date: July 1, 2019

Huawei gets to buy some products from US companies, again. CISA reiterates warnings about the risk of cyberattack from Iran. Considerations about powe...

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Giving everyone a stake in the success of Open Source implementation. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: June 29, 2019

Synopsys recently published the 2019 edition of their Open Source Security and Risk Analysis (OSSRA) Report, providing an in-depth look at the state o...

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Regin in Yandex? Golang is out and busy. So is the ShadowGate crew. The ICO wants an explanation from the Metropolitan Police. Trackers in news sites. Phishing those who seek “Verification.”

Episode Date: June 28, 2019

Yandex says it was hacked with Regin spyware. The Golang cryptominer is spreading, again. And the ShadowGate ransomware crew is newly active with a da...

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Washington and Tehran confront one another in cyberspace. Dominion National investigates data incident. Facebook on info ops (and identity). Labor market notes. Skids on skids.

Episode Date: June 27, 2019

The US cyberattack against Iranian targets remains only indistinctly visible in the information fog of cyberwar. Iran’s APT33 seems to have altered it...

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Militia said to be target of US cyberattack. Myanmar shuts down networks. Spam campaign. Supply chain issues for Huawei gear. Election security. Recovering from ransomware by paying up?

Episode Date: June 26, 2019

Sources name a Shi’ite militia aligned with Iran as one target of last week’s US cyberattacks. Myanmar shuts down mobile networks in its Rakhine provi...

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Operation Soft Cell targets mobile networks. DC and Tehran trade barbs. Critical infrastructure concerns. Maryland’s Cyber Defense Initiative.

Episode Date: June 25, 2019

Operation Soft Cell was low, slow, patient, and focused, and apparently run from China. Washington and Tehran are woofing at each other, with more exc...

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Notes on a reported US cyberattack against Iran. A look at “Secondary Infektion.” And some cases of cyber stalking.

Episode Date: June 24, 2019

The US is said to have conducted cyberattacks against Iranian targets related to recent Iranian moves in the Gulf. They cyber operations are also said...

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Middleboxes may be meddling with TLS connections. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: June 22, 2019

Researchers at Cloudflare have been examining HTTPS interception, a technique that weakens security, and have developed tools to help detect it. Nick...

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US-Iranian tensions find expression in cyberspace as Refined Kitten returns. Facebook tries friction against abuse. Cryptominers in the wild. Lead generation for cyber criminals.

Episode Date: June 21, 2019

Tensions between the US and Iran over tanker attacks, nuclear ambitions, and the downing of a Global Hawk drone seem to be finding expression in cyber...

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Turla hijacks OilRig infrastructure. Bouncing Golf is no game. CISA panel recommends supply chain security reforms. AMCA driven toward bankruptcy by data breach. Florida town pays ransom.

Episode Date: June 20, 2019

Call it Waterbug or call it Turla, the Russian cyber operation has been hijacking Iran’s OilRIg cyber espionage infrastructure. Other cyber campaigns...

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BlueKeep, again. Facebook’s cryptocurrency play. Updates on alleged or suspected electrical grid hacks. Catphishing and spying. Compromised social media accounts.

Episode Date: June 19, 2019

More advice to patch BlueKeep, already. Facebook announces its planned launch of a cryptocurrency, Libra, to the accompaniment of considerable acclaim...

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