Radiation disinformation. CISA warns that Trickbot is surging. FBI releases Internet Crime Report, Crytpers get commodified. And notes from the underworld.
Disinformation about a radiation leak that wasn’t. Another warning about Trickbot. The FBI says cybercrime cost victims more than $4.2 billion last year. Investigation and remediation of the SolarWind...
18 Mar 202124min
US report on 2020 foreign election meddling is out, and Russian and Iran are prominently mentioned in dispatches. Recovering from the Hafnium and Holiday Bear campaigns.
The US Intelligence Community has released its report on 2020 foreign election meddling. It found no successful hacking, but a lot of clever influence operations. Ukraine says it stopped a significant...
17 Mar 202124min
Cyberespionage prospects telecom companies: Operation Diànxùn. Working against exploitation of Exchange Server. And rerouting SMS messages (it cost only $16).
McAfee describes Operation Diànxùn, a probable Chinese collection effort directed against telecoms and 5G technology. Organizations around the world continue to work to thwart exploitation of Exchange...
16 Mar 202124min
Looking for leaks in the Microsoft Exchange Server exploitation. International cyber conflict. Sky Global executives indicted in the US. Scammer demands £1000 pounds to go on do-not-call list.
Microsoft is looking for a possible leak behind the spread of Exchange Server exploits, and hackers piggyback on webshells placed by other threat actors. The US Government continues to mull how to res...
15 Mar 202125min
Dinah Davis: Building your network. [R&D] [Career Notes]
Coming from her love of math, VP of R&D at Arctic Wolf Networks Dinah Davis shares how she arrived in the cybersecurity industry after finding her niche. Dinah recalls how at a time of indecision, a c...
14 Mar 20216min
SolarWinds, SUNBURST, and supply chain security. [CyberWire-X]
The SolarWinds Orion SUNBURST exploit forced organizations to determine whether and to what extent they’d been compromised. It’s not enough to eject the intruders and their malware from the networks. ...
14 Mar 202134min
Keeping data confidential with fully homomorphic encryption. [Research Saturday]
Guest Dr. Rosario Cammarota from Intel Labs joins us to discuss confidential computing. Confidential computing provides a secure platform for multiple parties to combine, analyze and learn from sensit...
13 Mar 202123min
Ransomware enters vulnerable Exchange Servers through the backdoor. REvil is out and active. SolarWinds and control systems. Molson Coors responds to a cyber incident.
Microsoft warns that ransomware operators are exploiting vulnerable Exchange Servers. Threat actors continue to look for unpatched instances of Exchange Server. Johannes Ullrich joins us with his thou...
12 Mar 202124min
