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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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Espionage phishing in unfamiliar places. OT vulnerabilities. LemonDuck’s rising fortunes. Data exposure. Kubernetes advice from NSA and CISA. Meng Wanzhou’s extradition.

Episode Date: August 4, 2021

APT31 casts its net into some waters that aren’t yet phished out. Vulnerabilities in the NicheStack TCP/IP stack are reported. LemonDuck may be outgro...

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Apparent ransomware disrupts Italian vaccine scheduling system. Cyberespionage compromised Southeast Asian telcos. RAT and phishing in the wild. Cybercriminals explain themselves.

Episode Date: August 3, 2021

An apparent ransomware attack hits Italy’s online vaccine-scheduling service. A Chinese cyberespionage campaign hits Southeast Asian telcos enroute to...

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SVR was reading the US Attorneys’ emails. Deliveries still lag as South African ports reopen. EA hackers dump game source code. Another look at criminal markets. And Mr. Hushpuppi cops a plea.

Episode Date: August 2, 2021

SVR may have compromised twenty-seven US Attorneys’ offices. Ransomware disruptions of a physical supply chain continue as South African ports reopen....

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Behavioral transparency – the patterns within. [CyberWire-X]

Episode Date: August 1, 2021

President Biden's Cyber Executive Order includes provision for a software bill of materials in government contracts. It's a critical and necessary fir...

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Andrew Hammond: Understanding the plot. [Historian and Curator] [Career Notes]

Episode Date: August 1, 2021

Historian and Curator at the International Spy Museum. Dr. Andrew Hammond, shares how he came to share the history of espionage and intelligence as a...

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China's influence grows through Digital Silk Road Initiative. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: July 31, 2021

Guest Charity Wright, Cyber Threat Intelligence Expert in Recorded Future's Insikt Group, joins Dave to discuss her research "China’s Digital Colonial...

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Multiple Cozy Bear sightings (at least the bear tracks). Spyware in a Chinese employee benefits app. Phishing campaigns. DoppelPaymer rebrands. And ignore that bot--it hasn’t been watching you surf.

Episode Date: July 30, 2021

Cozy Bear’s active command-and-control servers are found, and people conclude that Moscow’s not too worried about American retaliation after all. Spyw...

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Public Wi-Fi advice from NSA. South African ports recover from ransomware. Iranian rail incident was a wiper attack. Developments in the criminal-to-criminal market. Intercept vendors under scrutiny.

Episode Date: July 29, 2021

Advice on WiFi security from NSA. South African ports are recovering from their ransomware attack. The attack on Iranian railroads was a wiper, of unk...

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US ICS Cybersecurity Initiative formalized. Developments in the ransomware world. Addressing known vulnerabilities. Caucasus coinmining crackdown. A long-running IRGC catphishing campaign.

Episode Date: July 28, 2021

US formally establishes its Industrial Control System Cybersecurity Initiative. Shooting wars in cyberspace. Developments in the ransomware criminal s...

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South African ports invoke force majeure over cyberattack. Documents indicate Iranian interest in control systems attacks. Dark web wanted ads. Cyber diplomacy. Lousy cafeteria food?

Episode Date: July 27, 2021

Transnet declares force majeure over cyberattack on South African port management. The IRGC apparently is Googling a bunch of stuff about gas stations...

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The source of Kaseya’s REvil key remains unknown. Cyber incident disrupts port operations at Cape Town and Durban. Updates on the Pegasus Project. And a guilty plea in a swatting case.

Episode Date: July 26, 2021

Kaseya isn’t saying where it got its REvil decryptor. Transportation services disrupted at two major South African ports by an unspecified cyber incid...

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Is enhanced hardware security the answer to ransomware? [CyberWire-X]

Episode Date: July 25, 2021

With the recent onslaught of ransomware attacks across healthcare institutions, critical infrastructure, and the public sector, it's clear that ransom...

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Ingrid Toppelberg: Knowing how to take risks will pay off. [Cybersecurity education] [Career Notes]

Episode Date: July 25, 2021

Chief Product Officer at Cybint Solutions, Ingrid Toppelberg, shares her journey from consulting to bootcamp coach and cybersecurity education. As a y...

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Free malware with cracked software. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: July 24, 2021

Guest Christopher Budd, Senior Global Threat Communications Manager at Avast, joins Dave to talk about some research his team did when they looked int...

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Cyber threats to, and around, the Olympic Games. Kaseya got a decryptor, from somewhere…. NSO says it’s not responsible for Pegasus misuse. US cyber policy toward China. Fraud Family busted.

Episode Date: July 23, 2021

The Olympics are underway, and the authorities are on the alert for cyberattacks. Kaseya has a decryptor for the REvil ransomware, but it hasn’t said...

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Extortion is the motive in the Saudi Aramco incident. Updates on the Pegasus Project. Chinese cyberespionage and Beijing’s tu quoque. FIN7 resurfaces, and a post-mortem on Egregor.

Episode Date: July 22, 2021

It’s extortion after all at Saudi Aramco. Controversy and investigation over alleged misuse of NSO Group’s Pegasus intercept tool continues. Warning o...

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Historical threats to industrial control systems inform current security practices. Ransomware privateering and side-hustling. Updates on the Pegasus Project.

Episode Date: July 21, 2021

CISA warns of threats to industrial control systems, profusely illustrated with examples from recent history. Ransomware can be operated either in the...

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APT side hustles and evidence of espionage. NSO replies to the Pegasus Project, and AWS removes NSO from its CloudFront CDM. Other data breaches and ransomware incidents.

Episode Date: July 20, 2021

The US says China contracted with criminals to carry out cyberespionage campaigns. Norway says China was behind an attack on its parliamentary email s...

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Microsoft Exchange Server hacks officially attributed to China. Indictment in industrial espionage case. Entities List expands. Abuse of NSO Group’s Pegasus tool reported.

Episode Date: July 19, 2021

Allied governments formally attribute exploitation of Microsoft Exchange Server to China’s Ministry of State Security. A US Federal indictment names f...

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Peter Baumann: Adding value to data. [CEO] [Career Notes]

Episode Date: July 18, 2021

CEO of ActiveNav, Peter Baumann, takes us on his career journey from minor home electrical experiments to the business of data discovery. He began his...

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