CyberWire Daily

Simone Petrella: Fake it, until you make it. [CEO] [Career Notes]

Simone Petrella, CEO of cybersecurity training workforce firm CyberVista, spent her career in the Department of Defense as a threat intelligence analyst before founding CyberVista. She says that runni...

8 Feb 9min

The phishing kit that thinks like a human. [Research Saturday]

Piotr Wojtyla, Head of Threat Intel and Platform at Abnormal AI, is discussing their work on "InboxPrime AI: New Phishing Kit Fueling Scalable, AI-Powered Cybercrime." A new AI-powered phishing kit ca...

7 Feb 25min

Patch or pull the plug.

CISA cracks down on aging edge devices. Congress looks to sure up energy sector security. DHS facial recognition software may fall short. Romania’s national oil pipeline operator suffers a cyberattack...

6 Feb 26min

The quietest weapon in America’s loudest strike.

Cyber weapons knock out Iranian air defenses during strikes on nuclear sites. ShinyHunters dump more than a million stolen records from Harvard and Penn. Betterment confirms a breach exposing data fro...

5 Feb 31min

A softer touch on cyber.

The White House preps a major overhaul of U.S. cybersecurity policy. A key Commerce security office loses staff as regulatory guardrails weaken. Lawmakers Press AT&T and Verizon after months of silenc...

4 Feb 28min

The algorithm gets questioned.

French police raid X’s Paris offices. The Feds take over $400 million from a dark web cryptocurrency mixer. The NSA says zero-trust goes beyond authentication. Researchers warn of a multi-stage phishi...

3 Feb 26min

Wind and solar take a cyber hit.

Poland says weak security left parts of its power grid exposed. A Russian-linked hacker alliance threatens Denmark with a promised cyber offensive. Fancy Bear moves fast on a new Microsoft Office flaw...

2 Feb 25min

Richard Melick: Finding the right pattern to solve the problem. [Threat reporting] [Career Notes]

Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes. Richard Melick, Director of Threat Reporting for Zimperium, talks about his journey, from working in the military to moving up to the big screens. He shares...

1 Feb 9min