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Andy Greenberg from WIRED on his book "Sandworm." [Special Editions]
In this CyberWire special edition, a conversation with Andy Greenberg, senior writer at WIRED and author of the new book "Sandworm - A New Era of CyberWar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous...
11 Nov 201928min
Monitoring the growing sophistication of PKPLUG. [Research Saturday]
Researchers from Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 have been tracking a Chinese cyber espionage group they've named PKPLUG. The group mainly targets victims in the Southeast Asia region. Ryan Olson is VP of...
9 Nov 201923min
Warnings about Emotet and BlueKeep. Crooks test their stolen cards before the holiday shopping season. Amazon fixes Ring. Chinese security gear allegedly sold as made-in-USA.
Warnings and advice about Emotet and BlueKeep, both being actively used or exploited in the wild. Two new carding bots are in circulation against e-commerce sites. Expect more of this as criminals tes...
8 Nov 201924min
US off-off-year elections go off OK, but don’t get cocky, kids. US charges three in Saudi spy case. Adware dropping apps removed from Google Play. Patch Confluence.
The US off-off-year elections seem to have gone off largely free of interference, but officials caution that major foreign influence campaigns can be expected in 2020. Three former Twitter employees a...
7 Nov 201922min
App developers had access to more Facebook Group data than intended. Election security and disinformation. DarkUniverse described. Millions lost to business email compromise.
Facebook closes a hole in Group data access. US authorities seek to reassure Congress and the public concerning the security of election infrastructure. Disinformation remains a challenge, however, as...
6 Nov 201922min
Ransomware in Spain. Pegasus in India. TikTok on the Huawei highway? Booz Allen predicts! And good dogs sniff out bad data.
Ransomware hits Spanish companies. Pegasus continues to excite controversy in India. TikTok applies for Big Tech’s good-citizen club, but has apparently so far been blackballed. Booz Allen offers nine...
5 Nov 201917min
BlueKeep is exploited for cryptojacking. Ransomware hits Canadian provincial government. Pegasus lands in India. Magecart, GandCrab updates. US Cyber Command deploys to Montenegro.
BlueKeep is being exploited in the wild, not too seriously, yet, but you should still patch. Nunavut’s government is recovering from a ransomware attack is sustained Saturday morning. The NSO Group co...
4 Nov 201916min
Insider Threats [Special Editions]
What’s an insider threat? Loosely, it’s a threat that operates from within your organization. In this CyberWire special edition, our UK correspondent Carole Theriault speaks with experts who’ll talk u...
3 Nov 201925min
