CyberWire Daily

3271 Episodes

1. Watering hole for iPhones. Dental record service hit with ransomware. Huawei reportedly under investigation for IP theft. “erratic” faces cryptojacking charges. Farewell to a Bletchley Wren.

   Published: 8/30/2019
2. Cyberattacks and intelligence trade-offs. TrickBot’s new interests. Fancy Bear versus machine learning. Facebook looks for more ad transparency. Retadup take-down.

   Published: 8/29/2019
3. LYCEUM active against Middle Eastern energy-sector targets. LinkedIn used to recruit spies. Autonomous car expert indicted. Imperva exposure. VPN software patches. AI writes.

   Published: 8/28/2019
4. Hostinger resets passwords after an intrusion. Social media fraud. Notes on RATs and ransomware. Free decryptor for Syrk. Hedge funds go bananas.

   Published: 8/27/2019
5. BioWatch info potentially exposed. Scammers indicted. Ukrainian cryptojacking exposed sensitive data. Social engineering notes. Boo birds and lawsuits. Data use and privacy. Low-earth orbit hack.

   Published: 8/26/2019
6. Gift card bots evolve and adapt — Research Saturday

   Published: 8/24/2019
7. Google takes down YouTube influence operation. Cryptomining in a nuclear plant. Spyware in the Google Play Store.

   Published: 8/23/2019
8. North Korean and Chinese cyber espionage. Updates on Texas ransomware. Steam zero-day released.

   Published: 8/22/2019
9. China criticizes Twitter and Facebook. Silence expands internationally. A popular Ruby library was backdoored.

   Published: 8/21/2019
10. Chinese information operations on Twitter and Facebook. iOS jailbreak released. Adult websites leak information.

    Published: 8/20/2019
11. ISIS claims Kabul massacre. Huawei gets a temporary break. Texas governments hit by ransomware. Hy-Vee warns of point-of-sale attack.

    Published: 8/19/2019
12. Detecting dating profile fraud — Research Saturday

    Published: 8/17/2019
13. ECB sustains an intrusion into a third-party-hosted service. Norman quietly mines Monero. MetaMorph appears in a stealthy phishing campaign. Information operations.

    Published: 8/16/2019
14. Huawei accused of abetting domestic surveillance in Africa. Cyber gangs adapt and evolve. Prosecutors indicate they’ll add charges to “erratic.” Bluetana detects card skimmers.

    Published: 8/15/2019
15. Hacking the Czech Foreign Ministry. Microsoft patches new wormable bugs. More controversial human review of AI. Insecure links, exposed databases, and a California vanity plate.

    Published: 8/14/2019
16. UN Security Council looks at North Korean cybercrime. Notes on PsiXBot and BITTER APT. The state of spearphishing. Election security. A final look back at Black Hat and Def Con.

    Published: 8/13/2019
17. A look back at Black Hat and Def Con. Sometimes failures that look like accidents are accidents. Russia wants better content suppression from Google. Notes on intelligence services.

    Published: 8/12/2019
18. Unpacking the Malvertising Ecosystem — Research Saturday

    Published: 8/10/2019
19. Voting machine security. Airliner firmware. Attribution and deterrence in cyberwar. Monitoring social media. Broadcom buys Symantec’s enterprise security business. Policing, privacy, and an IoT OS.

    Published: 8/9/2019
20. Hacking in the Gulf region. Vulnerability research into airliner avionics. Phishing and ransomware move to the cloud. EU data responsibilities. US bans five Chinese companies.

    Published: 8/8/2019