CyberWire Daily

3271 Episodes

1. Prime Minister Johnson tells Parliament about the National Cyber Force. Vietnam squeezes Facebook. Chinese cyberespionage. SEO poisoning. Printing ransom notes. CISA leadership.

   Published: 11/20/2020
2. Haunted virtual meetings. AWS APIs share vulnerabilities. US Intelligence Community conducts a post mortem on 2020 foreign election interference. Meet the future (a lot like the present, only moreso).

   Published: 11/19/2020
3. Dream a FunnyDream of me. US CISA Director dismissed. Facebook, Twitter CEOs virtually visit the US Senate. Huawei CFO extradition update. Bad passwords.

   Published: 11/18/2020
4. Hidden Cobra’s new tricks. Notes from the criminal underground. Draft EU data transfer regulations. And the coming ape-man disinformation.

   Published: 11/17/2020
5. Cyberespionage and international norms of conduct in cyberspace. DarkSide establishes storage options for its affiliates. TroubleGrabber in Discord. Unapplied patches.

   Published: 11/16/2020
6. Malek Ben Salem: Taking those challenges. [R&D] [Career Notes]

   Published: 11/15/2020
7. That first CVE was a fun find, for sure. [Research Saturday]

   Published: 11/14/2020
8. CISA offers its assessment (high) of US election security. An alleged GRU front media group is fingered. Notes on cybercrime, and one cheap proof-of-concept.

   Published: 11/13/2020
9. An overview of threat actors, two proofs of concept, and an IoT botnet bothers the cloud. Patch Tuesday notes. And control yourself, sir.

   Published: 11/12/2020
10. shadow IT (noun) [Word Notes]

    Published: 11/11/2020
11. remote access Trojan or RAT (noun) [Word Notes]

    Published: 11/11/2020
12. A look at what’s up in some of the criminal markets. The continued resilience of TrickBot. What you can buy for $155,000.

    Published: 11/10/2020
13. Supply chain security. New cyberespionage from OceanLotus. Data breaches expose customer information. And GCHQ has had quite enough of this vaccine nonsense, thank you very much.

    Published: 11/9/2020
14. Richard Clarke: From presidential inspiration to cybersecurity policy pioneer. [Policy] [Career Notes]

    Published: 11/8/2020
15. PoetRAT: a complete lack of operational security. [Research Saturday]

    Published: 11/7/2020
16. IRGC domains taken down. A look at 2021’s threatscape. Russia says its didn’t do anything (others see Bears.) Forfeiture of Silk Road’s hitherto unaccounted for billion-plus dollars.

    Published: 11/6/2020
17. CISA’s happy but still wary. Election-themed criminal malspam. New ransomware goes after VMs. Why it makes no sense to trust extortionists.

    Published: 11/5/2020
18. US elections: CISA calls security success, but reminds all that it’s not over yet. Notes from the cyber underground. Two more indictments in cyberstalking case.

    Published: 11/4/2020
19. Election security updates from CISA. Maze says it’s out of business (and never really existed). Edward Snowden wants dual Russian-US citizenship. A botmaster goes up river.

    Published: 11/3/2020
20. Another look at North Korean cyberespionage. Phishing with Google Docs. How Iran obtained US voter information. Election security enters its endgame.

    Published: 11/2/2020