Ransomware old and ransomware new, but can you distinguish it from a wiper? Influence operations hearings on Capitol Hill.
In today's podcast, we hear about ONI ansomware in Japan that may prove to be a wiper. Ukraine blames NotPetya operators Black Energy for BadRabbit. Pyongyang feels London is picking on it. Fishing Fa...
1 Nov 201719min
A BadRabbit and Reaper update. EU and cyberwar. DPRK denies WannaCry responsibility. China's cyber espionage shifts. Oracle emergency patch. Buganizer wide open. Influence ops. Heathrow security.
In today's podcast, we hear about the state of BadRabbit and Reaper. The EU drafts a diplomatic framework for self-defense in cyberspace. Pyongyang denies UK attribution of WannaCry to North Korea. Th...
31 Okt 201714min
Reaper looks like a criminal booter on the Chinese black market. BadRabbit shows some moves. Catch-All malicious Chrome extension. Android currency miners in Google Play. Indictments in Russia probe.
In today's podcast, we hear that the Reaper botnet is still quiet, and looking like a booter-for-hire. BadRabbit shows some odd stealth, and some interesting strategic selectivity. A malicious Chrome ...
30 Okt 201714min
Tracking a Trojan: KHRAT. [Research Saturday]
The moniker KHRAT came about because of the identification of a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) with command and control infrastructure found in Cambodia (KH). In the most recent episode of the CyberWire's...
28 Okt 201719min
BadRabbit ransomware and Reaper botnet updates. SATCOM bugs. ICS cybersecurity notes. Moscow's free commercial speech piety. Anonymous is back.
In today's podcast, we hear that BadRabbit, still quiet, looks like a TeleBots product. Reaper is still locked and loaded, but is also still quiet. Maritime SATCOM system found to be buggy, and the wo...
27 Okt 201722min
Dogs that haven't barked. Surveillance authority reauthorization advances in the US Senate. Notes on ICS cybersecurity.
In today's podcast, we hear that there's still no sign of the Reaper botnet doing anything. An update on BadRabbit—which for some reason seems to have hopped quietly away from its infrastructure. Othe...
26 Okt 201719min
BadRabbit hopping though Eastern and Central Europe, and Southwest Asia. DUHK risks. Kaspersky on how a laptop was backdoored. Notes from Atlanta's ICS Cybersecurity Conference.
In today's podcast, we hear about BadRabbit, a new strain of ransomware that's hopped out of Petya's hutch. The Lazarus Group is said to have taken control of some servers in India. DUHK [duck] warnin...
25 Okt 201719min
Reaper botnet update, Election hacking in Kenya, Czech Republic. M&A notes. APT28's phishing. Kaspersky's offer of code review. FBI shots in the crypto wars.
In today's podcast, we learn that Hurricane Reaper, the big IoT botnet, remains a digital tropical depression, but plenty of people are warning everyone to stock up on the cyber equivalents of flashli...
24 Okt 201719min
