CyberWire Daily

2656 Episodes

1. China hacks to track. Turning the enemy’s weapons against them? Notes from the Billington CyberSecurity Summit. Anti-trust investigations for Facebook and, probably, Google.

   Published: 9/6/2019
2. Scraped data found gurgling around in an unsecured third-party database. Ransomware and election security. Spy in your pocket? (Probably not.) Guilty plea in the Satori case.

   Published: 9/5/2019
3. Ransomware, Bitcoin, underwriters, and the bandit economy. OTA provisioning could lead to subtle phishing. Alleged spammers indicted. ZAO flashes and flickers out, for now.

   Published: 9/4/2019
4. Stuxnet’s story. Watering hole was designed to attract China’s Muslim minority. USBAnywhere affects some Supermicro servers. Twitter’s CEO has his Twitter stream hijacked.

   Published: 9/3/2019
5. Emotet's updated business model — Research Saturday

   Published: 8/31/2019
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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
11. Gift card bots evolve and adapt — Research Saturday

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

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

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

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

    Published: 8/20/2019
16. 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
17. Detecting dating profile fraud — Research Saturday

    Published: 8/17/2019
18. 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
19. 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
20. 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