CyberWire Daily

2656 Episodes

1. Recovery from network congestion. GandCrab to close. BlackSquid drops XMRig. BlueKeep patching lags. Crypto for criminals trial. Antitrust investigation of Google. “Persistence of Chaos” sold.

   Published: 6/3/2019
2. Blockchain bandits plunder weak wallets — Research Saturday

   Published: 6/1/2019
3. Malicious misdirection. Found on the subway. A summary of file exposure. Turla’s back, and as clever as ever. ICRC proposes rules of cyberwar. Baltimore ransomware update.

   Published: 5/30/2019
4. Special Counsel Mueller speaks about his investigation of Russian influence in the 2016 US presidential campaign. Iranian coordinated inauthenticity. BlueKeep, Pegasus updates.

   Published: 5/29/2019
5. Sensitive mortgage documents left exposed online. Someone’s scanning for BlueKeep RDP issues. Huawei updates. The case of Baltimore City’s ransomware.

   Published: 5/28/2019
6. A fresh look at GOSSIPGIRL and the Supra Threat Actors — Research Saturday

   Published: 5/25/2019
7. Stone Panda update. A new strain of Mirai. Bogus cryptocurrency apps are trending in Google Play. Mr. Assange is charged under the Espionage Act. Info ops. Law firms as phishbait.

   Published: 5/24/2019
8. NATO and UK to Russia: hands off elections and infrastructure. More trouble for Huawei, and maybe for others. Notes from the Cyber Investing Summit. Equifax downgraded over 2017 breach. Is it art?

   Published: 5/23/2019
9. Fancy Bear fingered, again. Warnings for travelers. Political parties get a cybersecurity grade. Updates on US restrictions on Chinese companies.

   Published: 5/22/2019
10. BlackWater snoops through the Middle East. TeamViewer hacked. Android app behaving badly. A misconfigured database with scraped Instagram data. Ransomware notes. Huawei updates.

    Published: 5/21/2019
11. Huawei agonistes. Hacktivism is way down. New EU sanctions regime. Facebook goes after more coordinated inauthenticity. Salesforce still fixing its fix. OGuser hacked.

    Published: 5/20/2019
12. Elfin APT group targets Middle East energy sector — Research Saturday

    Published: 5/18/2019
13. Slack closes a vulnerability. Email tracking in a court martial. Restrictions on doing business with Huawei come into place. A case of responsible disclosure.

    Published: 5/17/2019
14. US Executive Order aimed at China, and Huawei. Hunting backdoors in Dutch networks. Spyware proliferation. Cipher stunting. Titan key spoofing. Meaconing warning. Exposed PII in Russia.

    Published: 5/16/2019
15. Sharing espionage tools and infrastructure. Speculative execution flaws found in Intel chips. A big Patch Tuesday. CrowdStrike’s IPO. WhatsApp exploitation. Cyber Solarium. Ransomware in Baltimore.

    Published: 5/15/2019
16. Russians hacked two Florida counties. Fxmsp targets named. WhatsApp patches spyware-enabling flaws. Breach costs. Cisco patches routers. Endless Mayfly’s endless hogwash.

    Published: 5/14/2019
17. Security companies allegedly hacked by Fxmsp remain unidentified. SharePoint bug exploited in the wild. G7 preps major cyber exercise. Anthem hack motive? Amnesty takes NSO Group to court.

    Published: 5/13/2019
18. Steganography enables sophisticated OceanLotus payloads — Research Saturday

    Published: 5/11/2019
19. Breaches at AV companies? Pyongyang’s ElectricFish. Symantec’s CEO steps down. Calls to break up Facebook and regulate the pieces. US Federal indictments for leaks and breaches. Verizon DBIR reviewed.

    Published: 5/10/2019
20. Someone is after Tehran’s hackers. GitLab misconfiguration. AI’s attack potential. Amazon pursues hackers who defrauded sellers. DeepDotWeb indictments. Evil Clippy. Lunch hacks in San Mateo.

    Published: 5/9/2019