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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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An old Facebook database handed over to skids (and it’s a big database). APTs look for vulnerable FortiOS instances. Cryptojacking in GitHub infrastructure. Risk and water utilities.

Episode Date: April 5, 2021

An old leaked database has been delivered into the hands of skids. (The news isn’t that the data are out there; it’s that the skids now have it. For f...

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Ezuri: Regenerating a different kind of target. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: April 3, 2021

Guests Fernando Martinez and Tom Hegel from AT&T Alien Labs join Dave to discuss their team's research "Malware using new Ezuri memory loader." Multip...

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Goblin Panda sighting? The attempt on Ubiquiti. More universities feel the effects of the Accellion compromise. National Supply Chain Integrity Awareness Month. Down-market phishing.

Episode Date: April 2, 2021

Goblin Panda might be out and about. Ubiquiti confirms that an extortion attempt was made, but says the attempted attack on data and source code was u...

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Holiday Bear’s tricks. Phishing for security experts. Industrial cyberespionage. Human error and failure to patch. EO on breach disclosure discussed. Malware found in game cheat codes.

Episode Date: April 1, 2021

US Cyber Command and CISA plan to publish an analysis of the malware Holiday Bear used against SolarWinds. The DPRK is again phishing for security res...

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Cyberespionage and influence operations. Reading the US State Department’s mail. Risk management and strategic complacency. Volumetric attacks. Keeping suspect hardware out.

Episode Date: March 31, 2021

Charming Kitten is back, and interested in medical researchers’ credentials. Russian services appear to have been reading some US State Department ema...

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US considers how to settle accounts with Holiday Bear. International norms in cyberspace. Ransomware continues to surge against vulnerable Exchange Servers, and other criminal trends.

Episode Date: March 30, 2021

The US Administration continues to prepare its response to Holiday Bear’s romp through the SolarWinds supply chain. Congress is asking for details on...

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Cyberespionage in Germany. Australian network knocked off the air by a cyberattack. PHP shuts backdoor. Apple fixes a browser bug. FatFace pays up. Criminal charges: espionage and fraud.

Episode Date: March 29, 2021

German politicians’ emails are under attack, and the GRU is the prime suspect. Australia’s Nine Network was knocked off the air by a cyberattack, and...

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How are we doing in the industrial sector? [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: March 27, 2021

Guest Sergio Caltagirone from Dragos joins us to take us through their 2020 ICS Cybersecurity Year in Review report. Dragos's annual ICS Year in Revie...

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Carding Mafia hacked by other criminals. Gangland extortion. Section 230 reform. Director NSA talks about cyber defense, especially foreign attacks staged domestically. Propaganda. Hacktivism.

Episode Date: March 26, 2021

Criminal-on-criminal cyber crime. Ransomware hits European and North American businesses. Big Tech goes (virtually) to Capitol Hill to talk disinforma...

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Mamba ransomware’s evolution. Facebook acts against Evil Eye. Huawei is invited into OIC-CERT. Slack Connect gets poor security and privacy reviews. An excursus on fleeceware.

Episode Date: March 25, 2021

The FBI warns organizations that Mamba ransomware is out and about in a newly evolved form. Facebook takes down a Chinese cyberespionage operation tar...

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Trends in phishbait. Ransomware exploits vulnerable Exchange Servers. Purple Fox develops worm capabilities. Attacks on industrial production. Third-party risk. What’s on your mind, crooks?

Episode Date: March 24, 2021

COVID-themed phishbait has shifted to vaccines. Notes on the ransomware exploiting vulnerable Exchange Servers. Purple Fox gets wormy. Sierra Wireless...

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Bonus Recorded Future Podcast: Correlating the COVID-19 Opportunist Money Trail

Episode Date: March 24, 2021

The CyberWire partners with Recorded Future's threat intelligence podcast and our Dave Bittner is the host. It's a weekly show that comes out each Mon...

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Updates on the state of Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerability, patching, and exploitation. Third-party breaches affect Shell and AFCEA. TikTok’s privacy. A manga site goes down.

Episode Date: March 23, 2021

Exchange Server patching is going well, they say, but they also say that patching isn’t enough. Crooks are continuing to look for unpatched instances,...

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Transportation as an espionage target. Expensive, elaborate cyber campaigns by unidentified threat actors. Infraud operators sentenced in Nevada.

Episode Date: March 22, 2021

Indian authorities warn the country’s transportation sector that it may be a target for cyberespionage. Google’s Project Zero describes an elaborate a...

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Kevin Magee: Focus on the archer. (CSO) [Career Notes]

Episode Date: March 21, 2021

Chief Security Officer of Microsoft Canada Kevin Magee shares his background as a historian and how it applies to his work in cybersecurity. Likening...

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BendyBear: difficult to detect and downloader of malicious payloads. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: March 20, 2021

Guest Jen Miller-Osborn from Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 joins us to discuss their research into BendyBear. Highly malleable, highly sophisticated and...

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Cyberespionage against Finland. Moscow’s displeasure. ICS security. Two indictments and why the PLA should stick to Buicks.

Episode Date: March 19, 2021

Helsinki blames Beijing’s APT31 for cyberespionage against Finland’s parliament. Russia withdraws its ambassador to the US, calling him home for consu...

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Radiation disinformation. CISA warns that Trickbot is surging. FBI releases Internet Crime Report, Crytpers get commodified. And notes from the underworld.

Episode Date: March 18, 2021

Disinformation about a radiation leak that wasn’t. Another warning about Trickbot. The FBI says cybercrime cost victims more than $4.2 billion last ye...

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US report on 2020 foreign election meddling is out, and Russian and Iran are prominently mentioned in dispatches. Recovering from the Hafnium and Holiday Bear campaigns.

Episode Date: March 17, 2021

The US Intelligence Community has released its report on 2020 foreign election meddling. It found no successful hacking, but a lot of clever influence...

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Cyberespionage prospects telecom companies: Operation Diànxùn. Working against exploitation of Exchange Server. And rerouting SMS messages (it cost only $16).

Episode Date: March 16, 2021

McAfee describes Operation Diànxùn, a probable Chinese collection effort directed against telecoms and 5G technology. Organizations around the world c...

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