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Andy Greenberg on the Sandworm Indictments. [Interview Selects]

This interview from November 6th, 2020 originally aired as a shortened version on the CyberWire Daily Podcast. In this extended interview, Rick Howard speaks with Andy Greenberg on the Sandworm Indict...

1 Jan 202117min

Encore: Selena Larson: The Green Goldfish and cyber threat intelligence. [Analyst] (Career Notes]

Cyber threat intelligence analyst Selena Larson takes us on her career journey from being a journalist to making the switch to industrial security. As a child who wrote a book about a green goldfish w...

27 Dec 20207min

Encore: Seedworm digs Middle East intelligence. [Research Saturday]

Researchers at Symantec have been tracking Seedworm, a cyber espionage group targeting the Middle East as well as Europe and North America. The threat group targets government agencies, oil & gas faci...

26 Dec 202018min

Encore: Separating fools from money. [Hacking Humans]

Dave shares a story of airport penetration testing with high degree of yuck-factor. Joe explores research on protecting passwords from social engineering. The catch-of-the-day comes courtesy of Graham...

25 Dec 202030min

Encore: Technology that allows cops to track your phone. [Caveat]

Dave has an update on Baltimore’s spyplane, Ben describes concerns over violations by the FBI, CIA, NSA of FISA court rules, and later in the show our conversation with Kim Zetter on her recent articl...

24 Dec 202049min

Cozy Bear: quiet and patient. Counting the costs of cyberespionage. Iranian influence campaign sought to inspire post-US-election violence.

Cozy Bear lived up to its reputation for quiet patience. Counting the cost of the SVR cyberespionage campaign. What do intelligence services do with all the data they collect? An Iranian influence cam...

23 Dec 202026min

Bear tracks all over the US Government’s networks. Pandas and Kittens and Bears, oh my... Emotet’s back. Spyware litigation. A few predictions.

The US continues to count the cost of the SVR’s successful cyberespionage campaign. Attribution, and why it’s the TTPs and not the org chart that matters. Emotet makes an unhappy holiday return. It se...

22 Dec 202027min

Sunburst looks worse: bad Bears in US networks, and that’s not just right at all. “Evil mobile emulator farm.” Report: Pegasus used against journalists.

Cozy Bear’s big sweep through US networks gets bigger, longer, more carefully prepared, and worse in every way. IBM uncovers a big, conventionally criminal “evil mobile emulator farm,” and that’s no g...

21 Dec 202025min