The UN Security Council will take up Russia’s hybrid war against Ukraine as Western powers prepare sanctions. Other ransomware and social engineering campaigns.
The US takes Russia to the UN Security Council over its threat to Ukraine, and, while Russian forces remain in assembly areas, a campaign of cyberattack and influence operations continues. Western pow...
31 Jan 202227min
Helen Patton: A platform to talk about security. [CISO] [Career Notes]
Advisory CISO at Cisco, Helen Patton, shares that a combination of dumb luck, hard work and serendipity that got her to where she is today. Growing up in the country in Australia, Helen notes that com...
30 Jan 20229min
Zero Trust for cloud assets: Identity authentication and authorization. [CyberWire-X]
Applying Zero Trust principles to access rights can be tricky given the volume and dynamic nature of services in the cloud. Serverless computer services, like AWS Lambda, multiply the volume of identi...
30 Jan 202234min
Use of legitimate tools possibly linked to Seedworm. [Research Saturday]
Guest Sylvester Segura from the Symantec Threat Hunter Team joins Dave to discuss their team's work on "Espionage Campaign Targets Telecoms Organizations across Middle East and Asia." Attackers most l...
29 Jan 202214min
Diplomacy and cyber warnings in the Ukraine crisis. REvil may not actually be out of business. A warning about Iranian state-directed hacking. And Data Privacy Day is observed.
Diplomatic channels remain open even as NATO and the US reject Russian demands over Ukraine. More warnings over Russian cyber operations in the hybrid conflict (Voodoo Bear is mentioned in dispatches)...
28 Jan 202227min
Updates on the hybrid war in Ukraine. Industrial espionage in Germany, conventional espionage in Western Asia. C2C markets, social engineering, and scamware.
Cyber risk continues over Ukraine as the US and NATO reject Russian demands. Emissary Panda’s industrial espionage against German industry. Fancy Bear is spotted in Western Asia. The C2C market’s init...
27 Jan 202224min
Tensions between Russia and Ukraine remain high as NATO offers Ukraine cyber, diplomatic, and other support. DDoS in the DPRK. DazzleSpy in the watering hole. TrickBot ups its game.
Tensions between Russia and Ukraine remain high as NATO offers Ukraine cyber, diplomatic, and other support. North Korea gets DDoSed. DazzleSpy hits Hong Kong dissidents drawn to a watering hole. Tric...
26 Jan 202227min
Hacktivism as irregular operations-short-of-war. A banking Trojan aims at fraudulent wire transfers. DTPacker’s two-step delivery. REvil re-forms? Ransomware and insider threats. DDoS in Andorra.
Tensions remain high as Russia assembles troops near Ukraine and NATO moves to higher states of readiness. The Belarusian Cyber Partisans claim responsibility for a ransomware attack against Belarusia...
25 Jan 202231min
