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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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CISA and its partners warn of threats to water and wastewater treatment facilities. The curious case of Missouri teachers’ Social Security Numbers.

Episode Date: October 15, 2021

A CISA-issued Joint Advisory warns of threats and vulnerabilities at water and wastewater treatment facilities. CISA issues twenty-two other industria...

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Notes from the underground: data breach extortion and a criminal market shuts down. International cooperation against ransomware. Cyber risk and higher education.

Episode Date: October 14, 2021

Data breach extortion seems to be an emerging criminal trend. Notes on a darknet market’s retirement. Verizon advises Visible users to look to their c...

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Cyber Espionage, again. Patched SolarWinds yet? Patch Tuesday. The international conference on ransomware has begun. Booter customers get a warning. A disgruntled insider alters aircraft records.

Episode Date: October 13, 2021

A Chinese-speaking APT is distributing the MysterySnail RAT in what appears to be a cyberespionage campaign. Some users still haven’t patched vulnerab...

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Espionage by password spraying, and espionage via peanut butter sandwich. Ransomware and DDoS warnings. Two journalists get the Nobel Peace Prize

Episode Date: October 12, 2021

Teheran is running password spraying attacks (especially on Thursdays and Sundays). More on the renewed popularity of DDoS attacks. NCSC warns British...

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Extra: Let's talk about Facebook's research. [Caveat]

Episode Date: October 11, 2021

Our guest is author and journalist Steven Levy. He’s editor-at-large at Wired and his most recent book is "Facebook: The Inside Story. Steven offers h...

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Brandon Karpf: A sailor of the 21st century. [Transitioning service member] [Career Notes]

Episode Date: October 10, 2021

Lieutenant in the US Navy and Skillbridge Fellow at the CyberWire, Brandon Karpf, knew he wanted to join the military at a young age. He achieved that...

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Taking a closer look at UNC1151. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: October 9, 2021

Matt Stafford, Senior Threat Intelligence Researcher, from Prevailion joins Dave to talk about their work on "Diving Deep into UNC1151’s Infrastructur...

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Fancy Bear’s snuffling at Gmail credentials. FIN12’s threat to healthcare, and BlackMatter’s threat to agriculture. REvil tries to reestablish itself in the underworld. Twitch update. Sachkov is charged.

Episode Date: October 8, 2021

Google warns fourteen-thousand Gmail users that Fancy Bear has probably been after their passwords. FIN12, a fast-running ransomware group, is after h...

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Espionage, mostly cyber but also physical. DDoS in the Philippines. TSA regulations for rail and airline cybersecurity are coming. US DoJ promises civil action for cyber failures. Twitch update. And NFTs.

Episode Date: October 7, 2021

Cyberespionage seems undeterred by stern warnings. DDoS hits the Philippine Senate. The US Department of Homeland Security intends to issue cybersecur...

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Twitch is breached. MalKamak: a newly described Iranian threat actor. Chinese cyberespionage against India. SafeMoon phishbait. The ransomware threat. What counts as compromise.

Episode Date: October 6, 2021

Twitch is breached. A newly discovered Iranian threat group is described. A Chinese cyberespionage campaign in India proceeds by phishing. SafeMoon al...

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Facebook’s back up, and the outage was due to an error, not an attack. A look at AvosLocker and Atom Silo ransomware. The case of the Kyiv ransomware gangsters. Thoughts on the Pandora Papers.

Episode Date: October 5, 2021

Facebook restores service after dealing with an accidental BGP configuration issue. There’s now a data auction site for AvosLocker ransomware. Atom Si...

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Privacy and the Pandora Papers. Flubot’s scare tactics. Exploiting an account recovery system. Conti warns victims not to talk to the press. An international meeting on cybercrime? A ransomware bust.

Episode Date: October 4, 2021

The Pandora Papers leak erstwhile private financial transactions by the rich and well-connected (and it’s 150 mainstream news organizations who cooper...

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Cloud configuration security: Breaking the endless cycle. [CyberWire-X]

Episode Date: October 3, 2021

Moving to the cloud creates a tremendous opportunity to get security right and reduce the risk of data breach. But most cloud security initiatives get...

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Pattie Dillon: Take the leap. [Anti-fraud] [Career Notes]

Episode Date: October 3, 2021

Product Manager in Anti-Fraud Solutions at SpyCloud, Pattie Dillon shares her journey from raising her family to specializing in the anti-fraud space....

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IoT security and the need for randomness. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: October 2, 2021

Dan Petro, Lead Researcher, and Allan Cecil, Security Consultant, from Bishop Fox join Dave to share their research "You're Doing IoT RNG," that they...

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Phishing for those who fear Pegasus. ChamelGang APT active against multiple countries. Problems with a ransomware decryptor. Controversial proofs-of-concept. And a death blamed on ransomware.

Episode Date: October 1, 2021

A malware campaign offers bogus protection against Pegasus surveillance. A new APT, ChamelGang, is found active against targets in at least ten countr...

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GriftHorse’s premium service scams. Facebook open sources a static analysis tool. Update on the Group-IB affair. What the Familiar Four are up to. Counting ransomware strains.

Episode Date: September 30, 2021

GriftHorse will subscribe afflicted Android users to premium services they never knew they’d signed up for (and wouldn’t want if they did). Facebook r...

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DDoS is on an upward trend, and it’s being used for extortion. A payroll provider recovers from an unspecified cyberattack. Russia charges Group-IB CEO with treason. NSA, CISA, advise on using VPNs.

Episode Date: September 29, 2021

Distributed denial-of-service attacks have been making a comeback, and many of them represent criminal extortion attempts. A major British payroll pro...

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Homecomings, happy and not so happy. A backdoor for espionage, a Trojan for cybercrime. DDoS techniques, those iPhone zero-days, and indictments. And one guilty plea.

Episode Date: September 28, 2021

The triumphant homecoming of Huawei’s CFO. Microsoft describes the FoggyWeb backdoor, a significant cyberespionage tool. Kaspersky looks at the Bloody...

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The EU ask Russia to knock it off, and specifically to stop with the GhostWriter. Zoombombing in Cambodia. Conti is back; Colossus is a new entrant in the ransomware field. Meng returns to China.

Episode Date: September 27, 2021

The EU publicly blames Russia for GhostWriter, and counsels Moscow to amend its ways. Finland’s security services warn of foreign cyberespionage and i...

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