Ewind adware infesting Android third-party app stores. Influence operations. Russian state use of organized crime. Finspy a payload in Word zero-day exploits.
In today's podcast we hear about how Ewind adware infests cloned apps in the Android ecosystem. Influence operations rise to prominence amid increased Russian and Islamist activity against Western tar...
13 Apr 201715min
Patch Tuesday notes. Cyber threats to healthcare, New Helsinki information operations center forming. Updates on WikiLeaks and the ShadowBrokers
In today's podcast, we discuss April's Patch Tuesday, with news and tasks for Windows, Adobe, and SAP admins. Cyber threats to healthcare include ransomware, breaches, and device hacking. NATO and non...
12 Apr 201714min
Women in Cybersecurity 2017: A CyberWire Special Edition [Special Edition]
The 2017 Women in Cybersecurity conference was held in Tucson Arizona, and the CyberWire was on hand to cover the event. We spoke with a variety of cyber security professionals, at different stages of...
12 Apr 201725min
Word zero-day spreading Dridex. Password reuse bites Amazon third-party sellers. Mirai now mines Bitcoin. WikiLeaks, the ShadowBrokers, and war in Syria. Cyber first use. Crypto wars in Europe. APT10 in India. Penn State prof takes Gödel Prize
In today's podcast, we hear about how a Word zero-day is spreading the Dridex banking Trojan. Amazon third-party sellers bitten by reused passwords. IBM catches Mirai mining Bitcoins. Symantec discern...
11 Apr 201715min
Information operations respond to kinetic strikes. Dallas emergency sirens hacked. Alleged spam king arrested. Okta files its IPO.
In today's podcast, we hear that US strikes against Syrian targets and harsh words for Assad are followed by apparent Russian information operations as bilateral tensions mount. Both WikiLeaks and the...
10 Apr 201716min
APT10's Operation TradeSecret. BrickerBot may be vigilante PDoS. Amnesia and Sathurbot exploit known vulnerabilities in, respectively, DVRs and WordPress. Ransomware, surveillance, and info ops updates.
In today's podcast, we hear about how Operation TradeSecret collected intelligence on US trade policy during the run-up to the Sino-American summit at Mar a Lago. BrickerBot is out, a PDoS campaign th...
7 Apr 201721min
Operations TradeSecret and Cloudhopper attributed to APT10. Third party risks. Lazarus Group update. US investigation of Russian influence operations and US surveillance allegations proceeds.
In today's podcast we hear about Operation TradeSecret, which joins Operation Cloudhopper: both appear to be facets of a Chinese cyberespionage campaign. 20,000 loan applications are exposed by a thir...
6 Apr 201716min
Operation Cloudhopper. Chrysaor spyware. Microsoft to upgrade Office security. Notes from SeaAirSpace. High school hacking.
In today's podcast, we hear about how Operation Cloudhopper gets to its espionage targets via their cloud and managed service providers. Details are out on the Android version of the Pegasus spyware. ...
5 Apr 201716min
