CyberWire Daily

3094 Episodes

1. State-sponsored and state-promoted cyber campaigns. A look at Royal ransomware. A new wave of BEC. Man-in-the-middle attacks rising.

   Published: 5/9/2023
2. Developments in the ransomware underworld: ALPHV, Akira, Cactus, and Royal. Some organizations remain vulnerable to problems with unpatched Go-Anywhere instances.

   Published: 5/8/2023
3. Shelley Ma: The mystery behind cybersecurity. [Response Lead] [Career Notes]

   Published: 5/7/2023
4. Phishing campaign takes the energy out of Chinese nuclear industry. [Research Saturday]

   Published: 5/6/2023
5. DPRK's Kimsuki spearphishes. A standards strategy for AI. Ransomware Task Force retrospective. KillNet's new menu. Ex Uber CSO sentenced for data breach cover-up.

   Published: 5/5/2023
6. Cyberespionage, straight out of Beijing, Teheran, and Moscow. Developments in the criminal underworld. Indictment in a dark web carder case.

   Published: 5/4/2023
7. Iran integrates influence and cyber operations. ChatGPT use and misuse. Trends in the cyber underworld. Hybrid warfare and cyber insurance war clauses.

   Published: 5/3/2023
8. From cryptostealers to CCTV exploits, from Magecart enhancements to coronation phishbait, cybercriminals have been active. (But so have law enforcement agencies.)

   Published: 5/2/2023
9. FDA warns of biomed device vulnerability. Ransomware's effects continue at US Marshals Service fugitive tracking. US DoJ shifts to disruption of cybercrime. GRU phishing. KillNet’s ask-me-anything.

   Published: 5/1/2023
10. Perry Carpenter: Turning composition into computing. [Strategy] [Career Notes]

    Published: 4/30/2023
11. HinataBot focuses on DDoS attack. [Research Saturday]

    Published: 4/29/2023
12. What’s now being traded in the C2C markets. CISA would like comments on its software self-attestation form. And in Russia’s hybrid war, are there cyber war crimes, or real hacktivists?

    Published: 4/28/2023
13. Waging lawfare against criminal infrastructure. Notes from the cyber underworld. Hybrid war, and cyber ops across the spectrum of conflict. And what do the bots want? (Hint: kicks.)

    Published: 4/27/2023
14. BellaCiao from Tehran; PingPull from Beijing: two cyberespionage tools. SLP exploitation. Ransomware as an international threat. The state of hacktivism. Digital evidence or war crimes.

    Published: 4/26/2023
15. BlackCat follows Cl0p to GoAnywhere. Mirai gets an upgrade. Deterring cyber war. Homeland Secrity’s cyber priorities. Action against DPRK cryptocrooks. What KillNet’s up to.

    Published: 4/25/2023
16. Supply-chain attack's effects spread. CISA makes new KEV entries. Bumblebee malware loader describes. Decoy Dog toolset discovered. Discord Papers were shared earlier and more widely.

    Published: 4/24/2023
17. Master Gunnery Sergeant Scott Stalker from US Space Command: goals and risks in the digital space operating environment.

    Published: 4/23/2023
18. Maria Varmazis: Combining cyber and space. [Space] [Career Notes]

    Published: 4/23/2023
19. Don't let the Elon Musk crypto giveaway scam swindle you. [Research Saturday]

    Published: 4/22/2023
20. Daggerfly swarms African telco. EvilExtractor described. Patriotic hacktivism in East Asia. Updates on Russia's hybrid war suggest that cyber warfare has some distinctive challenges.

    Published: 4/21/2023