CyberWire Daily

2656 Episodes

1. Influence operations and cyber probes of presidential campaigns. TrickBot’s recovery. Remote learning woes. Port facilities in Iran reported to have been targeted in cyberattacks.

   Published: 10/19/2020
2. Rosa Smothers: Secure the planet. [Career Notes]

   Published: 10/18/2020
3. Intentionally not drawing attention. [Research Saturday]

   Published: 10/17/2020
4. Misdirection and redirection. Content moderation, influence operations, and Section 230. Money-laundering gang taken down. And no wolves in Nova Scotia.

   Published: 10/16/2020
5. Disinformation, foreign and domestic. Content moderation, always harder than it seems. US Cyber Command’s defend forward doctrine.

   Published: 10/15/2020
6. Cyber conflict and cyberespionage. Social engineering as a turnstile business. Inside a social engineering campaign. A warning about fraudulent unemployment claims.

   Published: 10/14/2020
7. Suppressing Trickbot: cyber warfare and cyber lawfare. Chaining vulnerabilities. An intergovernmental call for backdoors in the aid of law enforcement.

   Published: 10/13/2020
8. Rigging the game. [Caveat]

   Published: 10/12/2020
9. Geoff White: Suddenly all of the pieces start to line up. [Career Notes]

   Published: 10/11/2020
10. It's still possible to find ways to break out. [Research Saturday]

    Published: 10/10/2020
11. A Parliamentary report alleges active Huawei cooperation with Chinese intelligence. Coordinated inauthenticity, mostly focused on domestic opinion. Guilty pleas from former eBayers.

    Published: 10/9/2020
12. Bahamut’s hackers-for-hire. SlothfulMedia looks made-in-China. Domains run by IRGC seized. Phishbait uses current events as chum. Who dunnit? Not us, or rather, prove it, says Moscow.

    Published: 10/8/2020
13. Cyber conflict in the Caucasus. Zerologon exploited in the wild. Emotet rising. The Four Horsemen of Silicon Valley. Alt-coin regulation. DDoS in Honolulu.

    Published: 10/7/2020
14. New, Mirai-based threat in the wild. PLA told to steer clear of US election stories. Big data in small spreadsheets. John McAfee arrested. A hackable marital (or something) aid.

    Published: 10/6/2020
15. Maritime shipping hacks remind observers of NotPetya. Spyware through the firmware. New ransomware strain. Huawei in Europe. Go ahead, Lefty, give ‘em your fingerprints.

    Published: 10/5/2020
16. Diane M. Janosek: It's only together that we are going to rise. [Career Notes]

    Published: 10/4/2020
17. Smaug: Ransomware-as-a-service drag(s)on. [Research Saturday]

    Published: 10/3/2020
18. CISA and Cyber Command describe a new RAT. Emotet spams Team Blue. Spyware campaigns described. Maritime sector hacks. And another reason not to pay the ransom.

    Published: 10/2/2020
19. Ransomware incidents: worse than feared. And some of them pose a threat to patient safety. A Fancy Bear sighting? Glitch suspends trading in Tokyo.

    Published: 10/1/2020
20. Opportunistic paydays and soft targets. Crooks use captchas and padlocks, too. Protecting against Zerologon. A microelectronics strategy.

    Published: 9/30/2020