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CyberWire Daily

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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Malicious misdirection. Found on the subway. A summary of file exposure. Turla’s back, and as clever as ever. ICRC proposes rules of cyberwar. Baltimore ransomware update.

Episode Date: May 31, 2019

Malicious misdirection served up from unpatched WordPress sites. A big, big set of dating site records has been found exposed online--it’s in China, b...

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Special Counsel Mueller speaks about his investigation of Russian influence in the 2016 US presidential campaign. Iranian coordinated inauthenticity. BlueKeep, Pegasus updates.

Episode Date: May 29, 2019

Special Counsel Mueller makes his first public statement about the results of his investigation into influence operations surrounding the 2016 US Pres...

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Sensitive mortgage documents left exposed online. Someone’s scanning for BlueKeep RDP issues. Huawei updates. The case of Baltimore City’s ransomware.

Episode Date: May 28, 2019

First American Financial suffers a data exposure, with hundreds of millions of mortgage-related documents left open to the Internet. Someone is scanni...

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A fresh look at GOSSIPGIRL and the Supra Threat Actors. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: May 25, 2019

Chronicle researchers Juan Andres Guerrero Saade and Silas Cutler recently published research tracking the development of the Stuxnet family of malwar...

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Stone Panda update. A new strain of Mirai. Bogus cryptocurrency apps are trending in Google Play. Mr. Assange is charged under the Espionage Act. Info ops. Law firms as phishbait.

Episode Date: May 24, 2019

Stone Panda is distributing the Quasar RAT. A new strain of Mirai is out. Bitcoin prices are up, and so is the incidence of malicious cryptocurrency a...

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NATO and UK to Russia: hands off elections and infrastructure. More trouble for Huawei, and maybe for others. Notes from the Cyber Investing Summit. Equifax downgraded over 2017 breach. Is it art?

Episode Date: May 23, 2019

The UK and NATO send Moscow a pointed message about the consequences of meddling with either infrastructure or elections. More companies, including AR...

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Fancy Bear fingered, again. Warnings for travelers. Political parties get a cybersecurity grade. Updates on US restrictions on Chinese companies.

Episode Date: May 22, 2019

Fancy Bear’s latest campaign is using malware reported to Virus Total by US Cyber Command. IBM’s X-Force looks at cybersecurity for travelers, and sha...

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BlackWater snoops through the Middle East. TeamViewer hacked. Android app behaving badly. A misconfigured database with scraped Instagram data. Ransomware notes. Huawei updates.

Episode Date: May 21, 2019

BlackWater is snooping around the Middle East. It’s evasive, and it looks a lot like the more familiar MuddyWater threat actor. TeamViewer turns out t...

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Huawei agonistes. Hacktivism is way down. New EU sanctions regime. Facebook goes after more coordinated inauthenticity. Salesforce still fixing its fix. OGuser hacked.

Episode Date: May 20, 2019

Huawei is on the US Entity List, and US exporters have been quick to notice and cut the Shenzhen company off. Security concerns are now expected to sh...

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Elfin APT group targets Middle East energy sector. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: May 18, 2019

Researchers at Symantec have been tracking an espionage group known as Elfin (aka APT 33) that has targeted dozens of organizations over the past thre...

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Slack closes a vulnerability. Email tracking in a court martial. Restrictions on doing business with Huawei come into place. A case of responsible disclosure.

Episode Date: May 17, 2019

A Slack vulnerability is disclosed and fixed. And this is not as seen on TV: a real NCIS investigation is likely to occupy real JAGs for some time to...

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US Executive Order aimed at China, and Huawei. Hunting backdoors in Dutch networks. Spyware proliferation. Cipher stunting. Titan key spoofing. Meaconing warning. Exposed PII in Russia.

Episode Date: May 16, 2019

President Trump declares a state of emergency over the threat from foreign adversaries and the companies they control. (And yes, Huawei, he’s looking...

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Sharing espionage tools and infrastructure. Speculative execution flaws found in Intel chips. A big Patch Tuesday. CrowdStrike’s IPO. WhatsApp exploitation. Cyber Solarium. Ransomware in Baltimore.

Episode Date: May 15, 2019

Chinese domestic and foreign intelligence services are cooperating more closely in cyberspace. Another set of speculative execution issues is found in...

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Russians hacked two Florida counties. Fxmsp targets named. WhatsApp patches spyware-enabling flaws. Breach costs. Cisco patches routers. Endless Mayfly’s endless hogwash.

Episode Date: May 14, 2019

Russian operators breached two Florida counties’ voting systems, but without altering vote counts. Symantec, McAfee and Trend Micro are thought to be...

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Security companies allegedly hacked by Fxmsp remain unidentified. SharePoint bug exploited in the wild. G7 preps major cyber exercise. Anthem hack motive? Amnesty takes NSO Group to court.

Episode Date: May 13, 2019

Fxmsp criminals are now said to have code from a fourth security company, but none of the claimed victims have been publicly identified. A SharePoint...

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Steganography enables sophisticated OceanLotus payloads. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: May 11, 2019

Researchers at Blackberry Cylance have been tracking payload obfuscation techniques employed by OceanLotus (APT32), specifically steganography used to...

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Breaches at AV companies? Pyongyang’s ElectricFish. Symantec’s CEO steps down. Calls to break up Facebook and regulate the pieces. US Federal indictments for leaks and breaches. Verizon DBIR reviewed.

Episode Date: May 10, 2019

Fxmsp may have breached three anti-virus companies. US-CERT and CISA warn against a new North Korean malware tool being used by Hidden Cobra: they’re...

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Someone is after Tehran’s hackers. GitLab misconfiguration. AI’s attack potential. Amazon pursues hackers who defrauded sellers. DeepDotWeb indictments. Evil Clippy. Lunch hacks in San Mateo.

Episode Date: May 9, 2019

The Green Leakers release more information about Iranian cyber operators, including details about MuddyWater and the Rana Institute. A misconfigured G...

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Turla’s new backdoor. Verizon’s 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report. Bad actors seek to influence the EU. US CYBERCOM preps for 2020. Baltimore’s ransomware. Monolingual content moderation.

Episode Date: May 8, 2019

Turla is back, and with a clever backdoor called “LightNeuron.” Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Report shows that the C-suite remains a big targe...

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Reverse engineering Equation Group attack tools (and putting them to bad use). Hacking, jamming, and airstrikes. Taking down coordinated inauthenticity. How big is the dark web?

Episode Date: May 7, 2019

Buckeye seems to have reengineered some of Uncle Sam’s cyber tools, and they did it without, apparently, help from the ShadowBrokers. More on airstrik...

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