CyberWire Daily

3271 Episodes

1. 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
2. Suppressing Trickbot: cyber warfare and cyber lawfare. Chaining vulnerabilities. An intergovernmental call for backdoors in the aid of law enforcement.

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

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

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

   Published: 10/10/2020
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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
11. Diane M. Janosek: It's only together that we are going to rise. [Career Notes]

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

    Published: 10/3/2020
13. 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
14. 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
15. Opportunistic paydays and soft targets. Crooks use captchas and padlocks, too. Protecting against Zerologon. A microelectronics strategy.

    Published: 9/30/2020
16. Ransomware versus shipping, hospitals, and schools. Cyberattacks’ growing sophistication. An interim rule enables implementation of the US Defense Department’s CMMC program.

    Published: 9/29/2020
17. Will no one rid me of this turbulent newsletter? US court delays TikTok ban. Microsoft takes down cyberespionage operation. Huawei’s CFO gets another day in court. REvil recruits.

    Published: 9/28/2020
18. Richard Torres: Getting that level of experience is going to be crucial. [Career Notes]

    Published: 9/27/2020
19. What came first, the Golden Chickens or more_eggs? [Research Saturday]

    Published: 9/26/2020
20. Lots of coordinated inauthenticity, but a small return in influence. Confidence building in cyberspace? CISA reports finding that a Federal agency was hacked. Cyberattacks on hospitals are up.

    Published: 9/25/2020