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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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A look back at Patch Tuesday. Classic games on Android serve malware. Cryptocurrency speculation. Info ops updates. Phony hitmen. Guilty pleas in Mirai case.

Episode Date: December 13, 2017

In today's podcast we hear a reminder about yesterday's Patch Tuesday. Classic Android games are serving malware. Crytpocurrency speculative fever con...

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Catphishing for spies. Banking Trojans. Spider ransomware. CoinHive comes to Starbucks. SEC stops another ICO. BrickerBot retired?

Episode Date: December 12, 2017

In today's podcast, we hear that Berlin says Beijing's been catphishing, and that Beijing says no way. Banking Trojans in Google Play look for Polish...

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Al Qaeda tries its hand at inspiration. MoneyTaker cyber bank robbers. Dark web database holds a billion credentials. Bitcoin speculation and Bitcoin fraud.

Episode Date: December 11, 2017

In today's podcast, we hear that al Qaeda is working on ISIS-style inspiration. The MoneyTaker gang has been raiding banks quietly for about a year an...

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Stealthy Zberp Banking Trojan. {Research Saturday]

Episode Date: December 9, 2017

Zberp is a stealthy banking trojan with an unconventional process injection technique. A hybrid of the ZeusVM and Carberp malware, Zberp uses a variet...

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Iranian reconnaissance of critical infrastructure? Leaky banking apps. Microsoft's emergency patch. Ghosts of the Caliphate threaten, but have yet to deliver. New horizons in biometrics.

Episode Date: December 8, 2017

In today's podcast we learn that FireEye is warning of patient reconnaissance on the part of the (probably) Iranian APT34. The Electronic Ghosts of th...

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Hamas calls for intifada; hacktivism expected. Ethiopian government surveillance ops. Crime and cryptocurrency. Keylogger in the wild. Fixes to MacOS, Android app development tools. Uber hack and bug bounties.

Episode Date: December 7, 2017

In today's podcast we consider warnings of a hacktivist intifada as the US prepares to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital. How Ethiopia's surveil...

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Satori botnet is awake (and it's not engaged in enlightenment). State-sponsored spyware campaigns. ISIS threatens cyberattacks.

Episode Date: December 6, 2017

In today's podcast, we learn that the Satori botnet flashed into existence yesterday with 280,000 bots. Is there a router zero-day out there? Insecure...

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Andromeda takedown (with an arrest in Belarus). Mirai is back; Reaper still threatens. PayPal phishing. Tech support scam evolves. Cryptowars notes. SEC goes after an ICO.

Episode Date: December 5, 2017

In today's podcast, we hear how an international police operation took down Andromeda, and possibly the criminal mastermind known as Ar3s. Mirai is ba...

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Nghia Hoang Pho charged with mishandling classified NSA material. A review of other recent leaks. Kaspersky under fire in the UK. More Uber executives depart.

Episode Date: December 4, 2017

In today's podcast, we hear about an NSA employee who was charged Friday with "willful retention of national defense information." This appears to be...

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Staying ahead of Fast Flux Networks. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: December 2, 2017

Bad actors are using Fast Flux Networks with quickly-changing IP addresses and domain names to help hide their activities. Or Katz, Principal Lead Sec...

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Flynn pleads guilty in Mueller probe. Misconfigured AWS S3 buckets, again. Election trolling and spy versus oligarch. Black Friday fraud down. Crime and punishment.

Episode Date: December 1, 2017

In today's podcast, we hear that former National Security Advisor Flynn pleads guilty to lying to the FBI. Another misconfigured AWS account is found....

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Breaches, extortion, and insider threats. Credit bureaus and GDPR. HP addresses spyware allegations. When is a snack bag more than a snack bag?

Episode Date: November 30, 2017

In today's podcast we learn that British shipping giant Clarksons was breached but refuses to pay hackers extortion. The US House may be reaching cons...

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Building your cyber security career. [Special Edition]

Episode Date: November 30, 2017

In this CyberWire special edition, we take a closer look at finding your career in cyber security. Just how important is that degree? Does it make sen...

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Another misconfigured AWS S3 bucket, this one with US Army INSCOM files. Apple fixes a major issue in MacOS. Influence ops and autarky. Boyusec disbanded.

Episode Date: November 29, 2017

In today's podcast we hear that another misconfigured AWS S3 bucket has turned up. This one holds sensitive US Army files. Apple fixes a big flaw in t...

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Who's the third man in the Shadow Brokers leaks? ISIS diaspora means more ISIS online. Monero miner identified. Tizi backdoored apps booted from Google Play. Scarab ransomware. M&A notes. Indictments in IP theft.

Episode Date: November 28, 2017

In today's podcast we hear rumors that the third-man in the Shadow Brokers leak might soon become publicly known. ISIS enters its diaspora phase. Mone...

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Breach disclosure: fast and slow. Mirai's minor comeback. Anti-ISIS Hacktivsts strike Amaq. North Koreans studying blockchain. Alleged Game of Thrones hacker indicted.

Episode Date: November 27, 2017

In today's podcast, we hear that image-sharing service Imgur disclosed a data breach. It happened sometime ago, but they were quick to get the word ou...

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Waiting for Terdot, a sneaky banking Trojan. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: November 25, 2017

The Terdot Banker Trojan is a descendant of the Zeus family of malware, and has evolved to feature serious espionage capabilities. It can compromise t...

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The Right to Be Forgotten with Yale Law School's Tiffany Li

Episode Date: November 22, 2017

Our guest today is Tiffany Li. She’s an attorney and Resident Fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project. She's an expert on privacy, int...

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Cyberspace in Peace and War author Martin C. Libicki

Episode Date: November 21, 2017

Today's show features an extended interview with Martin C. Libicki. He holds the Maryellen and Richard Keyser chair of cybersecurity studies at the U....

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PwC Principal Jocelyn Aqua on Earning Consumer Trust and Business

Episode Date: November 20, 2017

Our guest today is Jocelyn Aqua. She’s a principal at PwC, where her specialty is regulatory privacy and cybersecurity. Our conversation centers on a...

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