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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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Chinese, Russian, and Turkish domestic influence campaigns. Zoom’s China troubles. Honda, Enil recover from Ekans. Ransomware attacks against a city and an M&A consultancy.

Episode Date: June 12, 2020

Twitter’s transparency efforts see through accounts being run by Chinese, Russian, and Turkish actors. Zoom is working to both comply with Chinese law...

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Gamaredon ups its crazy game. Doxing during unrest. Bogus contact-tracing apps spread spyware. Thanos in the ransomware market. Crypto Wars notes. Another 419 scam.

Episode Date: June 11, 2020

The Gamaredon Group is back, and what’s their secret? Like Crazy Eddie’s, it’s volume! Doxing during times of unrest. Phoney contact-tracing apps are...

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A big Patch Tuesday. Honda ransomware update. Facebook helped the FBI with a zero-day. Cloud service outages. Breach settlements. BellTroX explains itself, sort of.

Episode Date: June 10, 2020

Notes on Patch Tuesday--it was a fairly big one this time. Honda continues its investigation of the incident it sustained over the weekend, and outsid...

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Tracking down hackers-for-hire. SNAKE ransomware bites Honda. Anti-DDoS for criminal markets. And a menu for cyber contraband.

Episode Date: June 9, 2020

Commercialized hacking-for-hire is traced to an Indian firm, but it’s probably not an isolated problem. Ransomware shuts down Honda production lines i...

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Regional rivals jostle in cyberspace. Election interference and vulnerable online voting. Phishing for a competitive advantage. Reducing dependence on foreign companies for infrastructure.

Episode Date: June 8, 2020

South and Southwest Asian regional rivalries play out in cyberspace. Election interference could move from disruptive influence operations to actual v...

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Ask more people to dance. [Career Notes]

Episode Date: June 7, 2020

Cyber analyst, Tracy Maleeff, shares her unexpected journey from the library to cybersecurity and offers advice for those both seeking to make a chang...

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Due diligence cannot be done as a one-off. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: June 6, 2020

Earlier this year, a Virgin Media database containing the personal details of 900,000 people was discovered to be unsecured and accessible online for...

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Hurricane Panda and Charming Kitten paw at, respectively, the campaigns of Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump. Lies’ bodyguard of truth. Information warfare in the Gulf.

Episode Date: June 5, 2020

It’s mostly cyberespionage today, with an admixture of influence operations. Google has warned both major US Presidential campaigns that Chinese and I...

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Nuisance-level hacktivism. Ongoing cyberespionage and cybercriminal campaigns. EU unhappy with Russia’s hacking the Bundestag. CISA has a new cybersecurity resource.

Episode Date: June 4, 2020

Nuisance-level hacktivism continues to surround US protests. The Higaisa APT is active in Southeast Asia. Goblin Panda is back, with USB-borne malware...

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Slacktivism and vandalism in a time of unrest. Ransomware operators continue to evolve. Email voting. Looking up how-to-guides to cybercrime during social isolation.

Episode Date: June 3, 2020

Protest groups sustain DDoS attacks, too. Old school denial-of-service afflicts police radio networks in Chicago: they’re being jammed with talk, musi...

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Current forms of hacktivism, misinformation, and disinformation. More recommendations from the Cyberspace Solarium. Fraud accompanies Test and Trace.

Episode Date: June 2, 2020

Unrest accompanied by misinformation, disinformation, and Anonymous theater. Booter hacktivism. Extremist inauthenticity. The Cyberspace Solarium Comm...

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Cyberattacks and hacktivism around Minnesota’s unrest. Amtrak breach. Port scanning. Some lessons from the pandemic.

Episode Date: June 1, 2020

Hacking, and more claims of hacking, surround the unrest in Minnesota. Data breach at Amtrak Guest Rewards. More companies found port scanning. Four c...

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Extending security tools to the at home workforce during the pandemic. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: May 31, 2020

In this episode of CyberWire-X, Rick Howard, the CyberWire’s Chief Analyst, interviews security thought leaders on the strategy and tactics to extend...

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Twofold snooping venture. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: May 30, 2020

Working with many different honeypot implementations, a security researcher did an experiment expanding on that setting up a simple docker image with...

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Sandworm is out and about, so patch already. Steganography used in attacks on industrial targets. An Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship. Breaches, ransomware, and lessons.

Episode Date: May 29, 2020

NSA warns that the GRU’s Sandworm outfit has been actively exploiting a known vulnerability in Exim. Someone is attacking industrial targets in Japan...

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Hackers for hire. A bulk power distribution risk? An Executive Order on social media is under consideration. COVID-19 and cybersecurity.

Episode Date: May 28, 2020

Hackers-for-hire find criminal work during the pandemic. The US Department of Energy is said to have taken possession of a Chinese-manufactured transf...

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Berserk Bear is back, and still loves that critical infrastructure honey. COVID-19 apps: good, bad, and bogus. Android issues discovered. A FIN7 arrest. Mr. Faraday’s underwear.

Episode Date: May 27, 2020

Berserk Bear is back, and snuffling around Germany’s infrastructure. Two new Android issues surface. India opens up the source code for its COVID-19 c...

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The evolution of malware, both criminal and state-run.

Episode Date: May 26, 2020

Turla tunes its tools. The commodity Trojan AnarchyGrabber is now stealing passwords. A new iOS jailbreak has been released. The UK reconsiders its de...

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Naming and shaming is the worst thing we can do. [Research Saturday]

Episode Date: May 23, 2020

In December 2019, the GOLD VILLAGE threat group that operates the Maze ransomware created a public website to name and shame victims. The threat actor...

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An election database leaks. Phishing from Firebase. Shiny Hunters sell Mathway user records. COVID-19-themed scams. On that return to the office thing...

Episode Date: May 22, 2020

Indonesia’s election database has leaked, and PII is for sale in the dark web. Phishing campaigns abuse Firebase. The Shiny Hunters are selling Mathwa...

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