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In today's podcast, we hear that North Korea has gone big with GhostSecret. Meanwhile, Pyongyang's elite tries to cover its online tracks. PyRoMine uses EternalRomance to disable security systems enroute to cryptomining. Russia enagages in video disinformation about Syrian nerve agent attacks. A complicated alt-coin heist may be misdirection for something bigger. Huawei may be in trouble over Iran...

In today's podcast, we hear that Ukraine's Energy Ministry is under ransomware attack. Kaspersky finds infrastructure belonging to Energetic Bear. Lots of anonymous Twitter accounts pop up in East Asia. Orangeworm is after something in healthcare networks, but whether it's IP or PII is unclear. Disclosure and patch notes. Kaspersky may be the subject of US sanctions. A hacker in the Yahoo! breach...

ISIS returns to its grim inspiration. China's APT10 collects against Japan. An Internet Explorer zero-day is reported undergoing exploitation in the wild. Twitter won't sell Kaspersky any more ads, but doesn't have any specific explanation for why not. For its part Kaspersky says it's going to donate its Twitter advertising budget to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Bad but expected news about...

Researchers with Arbor Networks ASERT team have been tracking a malware campaign targeting commercial manufacturing, and have uncovered various samples dating back to at least 2016. Richard Hummel is Threat Intelligence Manager for Arbor Networks' ASERT Team, and he takes us through what they've discovered. https://www.arbornetworks.com/blog/asert/innaput-actors-utilize-remote-access-trojan-since-...

In today's podcast, we take look back at RSA as the big security conference wraps up. Tension between Russia and the West continues to manifest itself in apparent staging attacks and information operations. ISIS in its diaspora returns to recruiting and inspiration. A business email compromise campaign afflicts the maritime shipping sector. Atlanta still struggles to recover from SamSam rasomware....

In today's podcast we have some RSA notes: an industry-led cyber Geneva Convention, threats and deterrence, and addressing a labor shortage. New Zealand joins Australia, the UK, and the US in warning that someone's exploiting vulnerable routers. Moscow demands to see the evidence that this someone is Russia. Trustjacking afflicts iOS users. Stresspaint Trojan is out in the wild, posing as an innoc...

Reconnaissance and staging in cyberspace, with Five Eye warnings to Russia. Privacy class action suit complains of Facebook facial recognition. Australia joins the ranks of ZTE sceptics. Cyberwarfare discussed at RSA: retaliation, deterrence, renunciation, and a private sector push for international norms. Attention tax procrastinators: the IRS says it was hit by a glitch, and not hacked. Zulfikar...

In today's podcast we hear that Western governments attribute a large-scale campaign against poorly secured connected devices to Russia. Battlespace preparation is suspected. No new US sanctions against Russia, yet, but the matter remains under consideration. ZTE falls under the same cloud as Huawei. Desert Scorpion spyware ejected from Google Play. And there's a winner in RSA's Innovation Sandbox...

In today's podcast, we note that RSA has opened with ten rising stars in its annual Innovation Sandbox. US, British, and French coordinated strikes against Syrian chemical warfare targets prompt Russian information ops and warnings from Britain that the UK will retaliate against any cyberattacks against infrastructure. Charges are filed against an alleged Reveton ransomware money launderer. Emily...

Researchers at Cylance recently uncovered the malicious use of a core router in a campaign aimed at critical infrastructure around the world.  Kevin Levelli is Director of Threat Intelligence at Cylance, and he takes us through what they've discovered.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast, we hear that, while the operators behind Operation Parliament pretend to be nothing but a bunch of skids, they're anything but. EITest gets taken down. Facebook this week faced questions about privacy and ideological bias. Most observers think these questions were largely ducked. Estonia's Annual Report on security is worth reading no matter where you live. And an accused swatt...

In today's podcast we hear that Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg has finished testifying on Capitol Hill, denying that Facebook sells data or that it knew what those people at Cambridge were up to with the data they obtained. Supply chain cyber threats to satellites. North Korean destructive malware may be back. Early bird code injection. GCHQ takes on ISIS in cyberspace. Germany attributes 2017 net...

Today we're following all things Facebook—it's four o'clock: do you know where your data are? We're betting no. Neither side of the aisle seems content with the answers Mr. Zuckerberg gave to the Senate panel. He's speaking before a House panel today. Patch Tuesday notes. Cyber tensions continue to rise as kinetic and chemical tensions rise between Russia and the West. Justin Harvey from Accenture...

In today's podcast, we hear that Facebook begins facing the Congressional music today.  What are the rules for online research, professors? Experts say they're worried about weaponized IoT hacks. Hoods exploiting Cisco switch vulnerability in unpatched systems. Named threat groups and bugs as insider misdirection. As relations between Russia and the West worsen, some in Moscow call an end to Peter...

In today's podcast we hear about the curious case of hacktivists who may be slugging for Uncle Sam. Maybe. Britain's NCSC warns of battlespace preparation for a campaign against critical infrastructure. Facebook prepares for its appearance on Capitol Hill. Facebook also cancels a plan to share anonymized medical data for research purposes. Atlanta continues to recover from SamSam. And some good ne...

In their recently published paper, "Crypto Crumple Zones: Enabling Limited Access Without Mass Surveillance," coauthors Charles Wright and Mayank Varia make their case for an alternative approach to the encryption debate, one based on economics as a limiting factor on government overreach and surveillance.  Crypto Crumple Zones: Enabling Limited Access Without Mass Surveillance Learn more about yo...

In today's podcast we hear that a breach in several companies' consumer-facing systems is attributed to a third-party chat vendor. Crooks are tampering with chipped debit cards. Ocean Lotus is back, with a MacOS backdoor. A Mirai variant was used against banks earlier this year. Energetic Bear may be exploiting misconfigured switches. Microsoft looks into Office 360 outages. Russia warns Britain a...

In today's podcast we hear that Facebook's troubles are getting worse: more people's data were scraped, deleted videos were archived by Facebook, and so on. Appthority finds a more general problem with ad-supported apps: they're all hungry for data. Sino-American trade disputes are thought likely to find expression in cyber espionage. China's more interested in confidential financials than in IP....

In today's podcast, we hear that Facebook has kicked some Russian trolls out from under its bridge. Why? Because they're Russian trolls, that's why. Facebook CEO Zuckerberg will testify about data security before a House panel next Wednesday. Privacy for the Old World, but maybe not as much for the new. The YouTube shooting may have been motivated by anger over the platform's policies. European ai...

In today's podcast, we hear that the Magento e-commerce platform has brute forced. A new Android Trojan steals messaging info. njRAT gets an update, and some new and trendy criminal functionality. Notes on the Panera Bread data breach. A major US natural gas pipeline operator has its customer billing and scheduling system hacked, which reminds observers of threats to infrastructure. Russia thinks...

In today's podcast we hear about Saks and hacks, Lord and Taylor and JokerStash: a department store data breach. Atlanta still can't get fully back on its feet after SamSam. An Indian power utility's billing data are held for ransom. More SWIFT fraud reported—this round seems to have been unsuccessful. Russia gets doxed. Facebook on who really cares for you. Threats to avionics and undersea cables...

FlawedAMMYY is a newly discovered remote access trojan (RAT) that’s been used in malicious email campaigns, as far back as 2016. Ryan Kalember is Senior Vice President of Cyber Security Strategy at Proofpoint, and he takes us through their research.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast, we hear that Under Armour's MyFItnessPal app has sustained a data breach. Boeing's WannaCry incident is minor, but a timely warning that this particular threat hasn't vanished. The Lazarus Group is showing fresh signs of activity against its usual targets. Questions about the security of India's Aadhaar circulate. Baltimore and Atlanta incidents show the ransomware threat to ci...

In today's podcast, we hear that Russia has retaliated against the US with diplomatic expulsions and at least one consulate closure. Potential cyber operations remain a matter of concern. Julian Assange no longer has Internet access in his room at Ecuador's embassy. WannaCry hits a Boeing plant, but Boeing is resilient enough to work through the infection. A new keylogger pretends to be Kaspersky...

In today's podcast, we hear that tensions continue to rise between Russia and other, mostly Western, countries as the number of nations taking diplomatic measures to protest the Salisbury attack exceeds twenty-five. Western governments are on alert for Russian cyber operations as well as diplomatic reprisals. A new bug, BranchScope, is found affecting Intel processors. The Facebook data scandal co...