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A Lapsus$ hacker is sentenced to hospital detention. Online ads and phishing drain crypto wallets. Cyberespionage continues. LockBit and ALPHV say they want to form a ransomware cartel. The 8220 gang's cryptojacking. DarkGate RAT's propagation. The evolution of Bandook. A prominent title insurance company takes systems offline. Rick Howard speaks with guests John Goodman & Amanda Satterwhite of Ac...

German officials take down a dark web market. Google patched zero-day. Terrapin attack targets SSL. A look at payment fraud. Agent Tesla is spreading through an old vulnerability. An iPhone thief explains his techniques. Ukrainian reprisals for Russia's Kyivstar attack. Israeli officials warn of data wipers. Rick Howard speaks with Scott Roberts of Interpress about Driving Intelligence with MITRE...

Interpol leads cybercrime take downs. ALPHV/Blackcat is in a “tug of Tor” with the FBI.  The Senate confirms a new leader for Cyber Command and NSA. Rite Aid is banned from using facial recognition. CISA prepares a new approach to information sharing. Remote encryption of ransomware. CitrixBleed is exploited to access customer data. An update on the Kyivstar cyberattack. The Tallinn Mechanism soli...

The FBI takes down ALPHV/BlackCat. Comcast reveals breach of nearly 36 million Xfinity customers. Microsoft and Cyberspace Solarium Commission release water sector security report. Malware increasingly uses public infrastructure. Iran's Seedworm and its telco targets. QR code scams. Feds release joint analysis of 2022 election integrity. Joint advisory on Play ransomware group. In today’s Mr Secur...

A US mortgage company reveals major data breach. Updates from CISA. NSA provides guidance on SBOMs. MongoDB warns customers of a breach. BlackCat/ALPHV is still a market leader, but feeling competitive pressure. Reassessing the effects of Log4shell. The International Committee of the Red Cross calls for restraint in cyber warfare. Ransomware hits a cancer center. Ann Johnson, host of Microsoft Sec...

Oren Koren, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer from Veriti sits down to share his amazing story. Before entering the vendor side of the cyber world, Oren served for 14 years in the Israeli 8200 unit where he led a variety of cybersecurity activities and researches that eventually earned him four 8200-unit cyber innovation awards. When he left the Israel Defense Forces, he joined Check Point Soft...

Host of the CyberWire Daily podcast segment Threat Vector, David Moulton sits down with Mike "Siko" Sikorski from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 to discuss their research on "Fighting Ursa Aka APT28: Illuminating a Covert Campaign." Unit 42 just published new threat intelligence on Fighting Ursa (aka APT28), a group associated with Russia's military intelligence, on how they are exploiting a Microsoft...

Google boosts Maps privacy, a court shields password disclosure, feds foil a massive scam operation, Iran-Israel cyber tensions escalate, Idaho National Labs reports a significant data breach, a security engineer's cybercrime confession.  N2K’s Rick Howard reports from the recent MITRE ATT&CK con, speaking with Blake Strom of Microsoft about 10 years of the MITRE ATT&CK Framework. And Brian Krebs'...

Microsoft takes down the Storm-1152 cybercrime operation. “GambleForce” is a newly discovered threat actor.  The SVR exploits a JetBrains TeamCity vulnerability. US Postal Service impersonation. Malicious ads associated with Zoom. An update on the cyberattack against Kyivstar. Apache issues a Struts 2 security advisory. The FCC adopts new data breach rules.  In our latest Threat Vector segment, Da...

The UK faces a looming threat of a catastrophic ransomware attack. The Senate confirms a new National Cyber Director. The rivalry between malware groups BatLoader and FakeBat. BazarCall phishing attack and its unusual use of Google Forms. A serious vulnerability threatens K-12 student data. Spiderman game developer Insomniac Games becomes the latest ransomware victim. Today’s guest is Tim Starks f...

A cyberattack on Ukraine's largest telecom operator. Ukraine's GUR claims a hit on Russia's tax service, while the fate of the ALPHV/BlackCat group remains shrouded in mystery. The Air Force disciplines members over a classified documents breach, and Apple releases urgent security updates. From Spain, a significant arrest in the Kelvin Security hacking group. On today’s Industry Voices segment, my...

China allegedly targets US critical infrastructure, while a small Irish village goes without water due to an Iranian CyberAv3ngers attack. The EU sets a global precedent with new AI regulations. Unraveling the latest maneuvers of the Lazarus Group. The Sandman APT's links to Chinese cyber threats. "5Ghoul" vulnerabilities represent  a new challenge in telecom security. The deceptive dangers of the...

Cyber analyst, Tracy Maleeff, shares her unexpected journey from the library to cybersecurity and offers advice for those both seeking to make a change and those doing the hiring. It's not just about the invitation, it's more than that. Our thanks to Tracy for sharing her story with us.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You can learn more about AWS in Orbit at space.n2k.com/aws. Baptiste Tripard is the Chief Marketing Officer at Alteia. Aiga Stokenberga is the Senior Transport Economist at the World Bank. We explore how Alteia and the World Bank are leveraging AWS's cloud, AI, and space capabilities to monitor critical road networks at scale to support large scale infrastructure investments. From road networks to...

Dana Behling, researcher from Carbon Black, sharing their work on "Hunting Vulnerable Kernel Drivers." The Carbon Black Threat Analysis Unit (TAU) discovered 34 unique vulnerable drivers, six of which allow kernel memory access, accepting firmware access. TAU reported the issues to the vendors whose drivers had valid signatures at the time of discovery, but only two vendors fixed the vulnerabiliti...

Legal action against Star Blizzard's FSB operators. A critical Bluetooth vulnerability has been discovered. How the GRU faked celebrity videos in its Doppelgänger campaign. The persistence of Log4j vulnerabilities. Lack of encryption as a contributor to data loss. Supply chain breaches plague the energy sector. Our guest is Allan Liska, creator of a new comic book featuring the adventures of Johnn...

Unpacking LogoFAIL's threat to Windows and Linux. The US DHS's new healthcare cybersecurity strategy, and dual Russian influence campaigns. A look at supply chain risks, increased bot activity in retail, Meta's end-to-end encryption in Messenger and Android's Autospill vulnerability. On today’s Industry Voices segment, we welcome Todd Thorsen, CISO from CrashPlan, with insights on data resiliency....

Governments target push notification metadata. Dissecting the latest GRU cyber activities. A look at  Russia's AI-powered Doppelgänger influence campaigns, and how cyber warfare is evolving beyond the battlefield. We've got updates on the Adobe ColdFusion vulnerability, the expanding 23andMe data breach, and insights into the financial impacts of ransomware. Our guest is Camille Stewart Gloster, D...

The UK Government's denial of a cyber incident at Sellafield. There’s been a surge in Iranian cyberattacks on US infrastructure. Misuse of Apple's lockdown mode, the mysterious AeroBlade's activities in aerospace, and a clever "Disney+" scam. Plus The latest application security trends, and a new cybersecurity futures study. In our Industry Voices segment, On today’s Industry Voices segment, we we...

The US and Israel attribute attacks on PLCs to Iran. Agent Raccoon backdoors organizations on three continents. XDSpy is reported to be phishing the Russian defense sector. Trends in digital banking fraud. Repojacking Go module repositories. Ann Johnson from Afternoon Cyber Tea speaks with Lynn Dohm, executive director of WiCyS, about the power of diverse perspectives. And when it comes to securit...

Bernard Brantley, CISO from Corelight sits down to share his inspiring career path with others. Bernard started at the very bottom of the tech stack, and shares how he was extremely unclear about what it was that he wanted to do in life and how he was going to get there. Ultimately he reached a point now where he has the self confidence and an incredible level of success that allows him to be auth...

Ryan from Bishop Fox joins to describe their work on "Building an Exploit for FortiGate Vulnerability CVE-2023-27997." After Lexfo published details of a pre-authentication remote code injection vulnerability in the Fortinet SSL VPN, Bishop Fox worked up a proof of concept demo. This research share how they were able to create that proof-of-concept exploit, step by step. The researchers state "Our...

Senator Wyden blocks the Senate vote on the new NSA and Cyber Command lead. GPS interference is attributed to Iran. Meta identifies and removes Chinese and Russian accounts and groups for coordinated inauthenticity. The EU Council president proposes ‘European cyber force’ with ‘offensive capabilities’. Twisted Spider is observed conducting new ransomware campaigns. Staples sustains a cyberattack....

Reports of a Critical Vulnerability in ownCloud. Sites serving bogus McAfee virus alerts. Japan’s space agency reports a breach. Okta revises the impact of their recent breach. Cryptomixer gets taken down in an international law enforcement operation. "SugarGh0st" RAT prospects targets in Uzbekistan and South Korea. NATO cyber exercise runs against the background of Russia's hybrid war.  On today’...