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Warnings about the DPRK’s Kimsuky Group. Election security in the US during the endgame. Section 220 and Big Tech. Another guilty plea in the eBay-related cyberstalking case.

Episode Date: October 28, 2020

US authorities warn that North Korea’s Kimsuky APT is out and about and bent on espionage, with a little cryptojacking on the side. As the US election...

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Election phishing, without hook, but with line and sinker? Data breaches, and the importance of prompt disclosure. Misplaced hacktivist sympathy.

Episode Date: October 27, 2020

EI-ISAC reports a curious election-related phishing campaign, widespread, but indifferently coordinated and without an obvious motive. Nitro discloses...

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Russian research institute sanctioned for its role in Triton/Trisis. Coordinated inauthenticity in Myanmar. Clean Network program update. Major data breach in Finland.

Episode Date: October 26, 2020

The US Treasury Department sanctions a Russian research institute for its role in the Triton/Trisis ICS malware attacks. Coordinated inauthenticity wi...

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Sal Aurigemma: How things work. [Education] [Career Notes]

Episode Date: October 25, 2020

Associate Professor of Computer Information Systems at the University of Tulsa Sal Aurigemma shares how his interest in how things worked shaped his c...

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Just saying there are attacks is not enough. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: October 24, 2020

Ben-Gurion University researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence technique that will protect medical devices from malicious operating in...

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Energetic Bear’s battlespace preparation. Selling voter and consumer personal data. GRU, Qods Force sanctioned. How they knew that Iran dunnit.

Episode Date: October 23, 2020

Energetic Bear is back, and maybe getting ready to go berserk in a network near you, Mr. and Mrs. United States. Someone’s selling publicly available...

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Recent email threats to US voters appear to be an Iranian operation. Notes on cyberespionage and influence operations. Hold the “blatant Russophobia,” TASS?

Episode Date: October 22, 2020

Emailed election threats to US voters are identified as an Iranian influence operation, disruptive, and so more in the Russian style. Both Iran and Ru...

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TrickBot’s return is interrupted. Election rumor control. Supply chain security. Securing the Olympics. NSS Labs closes down.

Episode Date: October 21, 2020

TrickBot came back, but so did its nemesis from Redmond--Microsoft and its partners have taken down most of the new infrastructure the gang reestablis...

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International cyberespionage: China and Russia versus the Five Eyes and others. Google faces an anti-trust suit. Abandonware.

Episode Date: October 20, 2020

America’s NSA reviews twenty-five vulnerabilities under active exploitation by Chinese intelligence services. The UK’s NCSC accuses the GRU of more in...

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Influence operations and cyber probes of presidential campaigns. TrickBot’s recovery. Remote learning woes. Port facilities in Iran reported to have been targeted in cyberattacks.

Episode Date: October 19, 2020

Updates on influence ops and campaign hacking show that the opposition has its troubles, too. TrickBot operators seem to have returned to business. Sc...

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Rosa Smothers: Secure the planet. [Career Notes]

Episode Date: October 18, 2020

Senior VP of Cyber Operations at KnowBe4, Rosa Smothers, talks about her career as an early cybersecurity professional in what she describes as the Wi...

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Intentionally not drawing attention. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: October 17, 2020

Bitdefender researchers recently uncovered a sophisticated APT-style attack targeting an international architectural and video production company. The...

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Misdirection and redirection. Content moderation, influence operations, and Section 230. Money-laundering gang taken down. And no wolves in Nova Scotia.

Episode Date: October 16, 2020

Phishing through redirector domains. Content moderation, influence operations, and Section 230. A Twitter outage is due to an error, not an attack. QQ...

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Disinformation, foreign and domestic. Content moderation, always harder than it seems. US Cyber Command’s defend forward doctrine.

Episode Date: October 15, 2020

Tehran says this week’s cyberattacks are under investigation. Silent Librarian returns to campus for academic year 2020-2021. Crooks are posing as nat...

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Cyber conflict and cyberespionage. Social engineering as a turnstile business. Inside a social engineering campaign. A warning about fraudulent unemployment claims.

Episode Date: October 14, 2020

Reports of cyberattacks against Iranian government and, possibly, economic targets, are circulating, but details are sparse. Norway accuses Russia of...

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Suppressing Trickbot: cyber warfare and cyber lawfare. Chaining vulnerabilities. An intergovernmental call for backdoors in the aid of law enforcement.

Episode Date: October 13, 2020

Trickbot gets hit by both US Cyber Command and an industry team led by Microsoft. CISA and the FBI warn that an unnamed threat actor is chaining vulne...

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Rigging the game. [Caveat]

Episode Date: October 12, 2020

Ben describes a decades-long global espionage campaign alleged to have been carried out by the CIA and NSA, Dave shares a story about the feds using c...

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Geoff White: Suddenly all of the pieces start to line up. [Career Notes]

Episode Date: October 11, 2020

Investigative journalist and author Geoff White talks about tracing a line through the dots of his career covering technology. Geoff shares that he ha...

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It's still possible to find ways to break out. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: October 10, 2020

Containers offer speed, performance, and portability, but do they actually contain? While they try their best, the shared kernel is a disturbing attac...

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A Parliamentary report alleges active Huawei cooperation with Chinese intelligence. Coordinated inauthenticity, mostly focused on domestic opinion. Guilty pleas from former eBayers.

Episode Date: October 9, 2020

A Parliamentary committee issues a scathing report on Huawei’s connection to the Chinese government and the Communist Party of China. Facebook takes d...

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