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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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FBI claws back a lot of the ransom DarkSide collected. An international dragnet uses an encrypted chat app to pull in more than 800 suspects. Navistar discloses a cyber incident.

Episode Date: June 8, 2021

The FBI seized a large portion of the funds DarkSide obtained from its extortion of Colonial Pipeline. An international sweep stings more than eight-h...

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Dark Side’s way into Colonial Pipeline networks may have been an old VPN. Summit agenda. DDoS hits German banks. Anonymous angry with Elon Musk? Alleged Trickbot coder arraigned.

Episode Date: June 7, 2021

Dark Side seems to have attacked Colonial Pipeline through an old VPN account. Washington and Moscow prepare for this month’s summit, with cyber on th...

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Dave Farrow: The guy that enabled the business. [Security leadership] [Career Notes]

Episode Date: June 6, 2021

VP of Information Security at Barracuda Dave Farrow shares how a teenage surfer fell in love with software development and made his way in the cyberse...

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Bad building blocks: a new and unusual phishing campaign. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: June 5, 2021

Guest Karl Sigler of Trustwave's SpiderLabs joins Dave Bittner to talk about their research: "Hidden Phishing at Free JavaScript Site". The research d...

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Advice on ransomware from the US National Security Council. JBS announces its recovery from the REvil attack. Cyber diplomacy (and maybe retaliation). Ransomware-themed phishbait.

Episode Date: June 4, 2021

JBS recovers from its REvil ransomware attack, and this and other apparent instances of privateering will figure among the agenda at the upcoming US-R...

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FBI fingers REvil as the gang behind the JBS ransomware. Privateering may come up at the US-Russian summit. Ransomware at regional transportation operations. Cyberespionage in Southeast Asia.

Episode Date: June 3, 2021

Evil, your name is REvil, except when it’s Sodinokibi. That’s what the Bureau says about the JBS ransomware attack, anyway. The US is expected to make...

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The big ransomware incident in the food-processing sector. US authorities seize domains used in Nobelium’s USAID impersonation campaign. Siemens addresses PLC vulnerabilities.

Episode Date: June 2, 2021

Food processing is also vulnerable to ransomware: the case of multi-national meat-provider JBS. The US and Russia are in communication about the possi...

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Saboteurs trying to look like crooks? CISA on the USAID phishing incident. US receives criticism for alleged surveillance of allies. Epsilon Red is out. No weed, just alt-coin.

Episode Date: June 1, 2021

Iran’s wiper attacks may have been posing as criminal gang capers. CISA issues an alert on the USAID Constant Contact credential compromise. European...

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Zero trust: a change in mindset. [Special Editions]

Episode Date: May 31, 2021

Guest Lenny Zeltser, CISO of Axonius, sits down with the CyberWire's CSO and Chief Analyst Rick Howard to discuss one of Rick's favorite topics, zero...

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Baan Alsinawi: Trust ourselves and be courageous. [Compliance] [Career Notes]

Episode Date: May 30, 2021

Managing Director at Cerberus Sentinel, Chief Compliance Officer and the President of TalaTek, Baan Alsinawi shares her cybersecurity journey from a t...

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Big data, big payoff for China's cybercrime underground. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: May 29, 2021

Guest Brandon Hoffman of Intel 471 joins Dave Bittner to share his team's research "How China’s cybercrime underground is making money off big data"....

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A phishing campaign poses as USAID. APTs exploit unpatched Pulse Secure and Fortinet instances. Healthcare organizations continue recovery from ransomware. A look at Criminal2Criminal markets.

Episode Date: May 28, 2021

A phishing campaign this week appears to be the work of Russia’s SVR. Chinese government threat actors continue to exploit unpatched Pulse Secure inst...

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Impersonation campaign targets China’s Uyghur minority. US DHS issues pipeline cybersecurity requirements. Recovering from ransomware. Notes on privateering.

Episode Date: May 27, 2021

Chinese-speaking operators are reported to be phishing to compromise devices belonging to Uyghurs. The US Department of Homeland Security issues pipel...

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Cybersespionage reported in Belgium. Low-sophistication attacks on OT networks. Healthcare ransomware attacks. Privateering defined. Advice for boards. And news of crime.

Episode Date: May 26, 2021

Hafnium visits Belgium. “Low-sophistication” attacks on operational technology. Updates on healthcare sector ransomware attacks in New Zealand and Ire...

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CryptoCore traced to Pyongyang. Ransomware and risk management. Gangs regroup. A would-be hacker-by-bribery is sentenced in Nevada.

Episode Date: May 25, 2021

The CryptoCore campaign that looted cryptocurrency exchanges is said to have been the work of North Korea’s Lazarus Group. Insurers are taking a hard...

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Ransomware warnings in Ireland, New Zealand, Germany, and the US. Belgium’s new cybersecurity strategy. A tipline to dime out cryptominers. Air India passenger data breach.

Episode Date: May 24, 2021

Ransomware warnings in the US, Ireland, New Zealand, and Germany--healthcare organizations are said to be at particular risk. Belgium adopts a new cyb...

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Leveraging COVID-19 themes for malicious purposes. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: May 22, 2021

Guest Joe Slowik joins us from DomainTools to discuss his team's research "COVID-19 Phishing With a Side of Cobalt Strike." Multiple adversaries, from...

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DarkSide still more-or-less dark. Updates on Colonial Pipeline and HSE ransomware attacks. CNA said to have paid $40 million in ransom. Cyber privateers and cyber mercenaries.

Episode Date: May 21, 2021

The US remains officially mum on whether it took down DarkSide, but it still looks as if the ransomware gang absconded on its own. Colonial Pipeline n...

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DarkSide: absconding, rebranding, or retiring to a life of penitence? (Probably the first two.) Israeli airstrikes said to target Hamas cyber ops centers. Apps behaving badly. Notes on phishbait.

Episode Date: May 20, 2021

Did DarkSide really see the light and shut down, with a sincere promise of reform and restitution, or is the gang just rebranding? Researchers look at...

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Updates on the Colonial Pipeline incident, and other ransomware incidents. A watering hole for water utilities. Credential harvesting, cryptojacking, and banking Trojans.

Episode Date: May 19, 2021

Colonial Pipeline corrected yesterday’s IT glitch, and its CEO explains the decision to pay the ransom. A rundown of recent ransomware activity. A wat...

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