CyberWire Daily

From Tehran to the Apple II.

Israel claims a strike on Iran’s cyber warfare headquarters. The Trump administration releases a new national cyber strategy. DHS shakes up its IT and cybersecurity leadership. Velvet Tempest uses Cl...

9 Mar 30min

Cyber without borders: Reporters notebook. [Special Edition]

In this special Reporter’s Notebook, Maria Varmazis⁠⁠⁠⁠, host here at N2K CyberWire, takes listeners behind the scenes of our three-part series on Cyber Coalition 2025 in Tallinn, Estonia. After explo...

9 Mar 23min

Anna Belak: Acquiring skills to make you into a unicorn. [Thought Leadership] [Career Notes]

Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes. Anna Belak, Director of Thought Leadership at Sysdig, shares her story from physics to cyber. Anna explains how she went into college with the thinking of g...

8 Mar 10min

The scareware rabbit hole. [Research Saturday]

This week we are joined by Marcelle Lee, cybersecurity consultant and researcher, discussing "CTI tradecraft: Investigating a mobile scareware campaign." She details how a routine click on a Google Ne...

7 Mar 27min

Iran is muddying the waters.

Iran’s MuddyWater breaches multiple U.S. organizations. The FBI probes a breach of wiretap management systems. A China-linked threat actor targets South American telecoms. Cisco patches critical firew...

6 Mar 33min

Unit 42's Iran Threat Brief: What We're Seeing [Threat Vector]

Unit 42 is tracking more than 60 active hacktivist groups and Iran-linked threat actors right now. What are they actually doing, what should you believe, and what should you do about it? In this epis...

5 Mar 33min

The internet joins the war.

Hacktivist activity surges in the Middle East. Defense tech firms distance themselves from Claude. International law enforcement take down the Leakbase cybercrime forum. A pair of Cisco SD-WAN vulnera...

5 Mar 31min

When zero-days escape the lab.

A suspected U.S. exploit kit shows up in global iOS attacks. Facebook goes down briefly worldwide. A critical help-desk flaw enables remote code execution. Juniper PTX routers face a major bug. LastPa...

4 Mar 27min