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Dawn Cappelli, OT CERT Director at Dragos, sits down to share what she has learned after her 25+ year career in the industry. She recalls wanting to have been a rockstar when she grew up, now she refers to herself as the fairy godmother of security. She shares some of the amazing things she got to work on throughout her career, including working with the Secret Service when the Olympics came to Sa...

Willy R. Vasquez from The University of Texas at Austin discussing research on "The Most Dangerous Codec in the World - Finding and Exploiting Vulnerabilities in H.264 Decoders." Researchers are looking at the marvel that is modern video encoding standards such as H.264 for vulnerabilities and ultimately hidden security risks. The research states "We introduce and evaluate H26FORGE, domain-specifi...

Section 230 survives SCOTUS. Lemon Group's pre-infected devices. The IRS is sending cyber attachés to four countries in a new pilot program. A Wisconsin man is charged with stealing DraftKings credentials. Russian hacktivists conduct DDoS attacks against Polish news outlets. An update on RedStinger. Grayson Milbourne from OpenText Cybersecurity discusses IoT and the price we pay for convenience. O...

Business email compromise (BEC) exploits legitimate services. A hacktivist ransomware group demands charity donations for encrypted files. Trends and threats in API protection. The effects of hacktivism on Russia's war against Ukraine. Executive digital protection. Deepen Desai of Zscaler explains security risks in OneNote. Our guest is Ajay Bhatia of Veritas Technologies with advice for onboardin...

FBI, CISA, and the Australian Cyber Security Centre are releasing this joint Cybersecurity Advisory to disseminate known BianLian ransomware and data extortion group IOCs and TTPs identified through FBI and ACSC investigations as of March 2023. AA23-136A Alert, Technical Details, and Mitigations AA23-136A.STIX_.xml Stopransomware.gov, a whole-of-government approach with one central location for U....

Cyber agencies warn of BianLian ransomware. There’s a new gang using leaked Baduk-based ransomware. Chinese government-linked threat actors target TP-link routers with custom malware. ChatGPT-themed fleeceware is showing up in online stores. Ukraine is now a member of NATO's Cyber Centre. Tim Starks from the Washington Post shares insights on section 702 renewal. Our guest is Ismael Valenzuela fro...

In today’s world, conventional cyber thinking remains largely focused on perimeter-centric security controls designed to govern how identities and endpoints utilize networks to access applications and data that organizations possess internally. Against this backdrop, a group of innovators and security thought leaders are exploring a new frontier and asking the question: shouldn’t there be a standa...

DDoS "carpet bombing." Lancefly infests Asian targets. Cyber insurance trends. Infostealers in the C2C market. A Russian espionage service is masquerading as a criminal gang. KillNet’s running a psyop radio station of questionable quality. Joe Carrigan describes baiting fraudsters with fake crypto. Our guest is Gemma Moore of Cyberis talking about how red teaming can upskill detection and response...

Discord sees a third-party data breach. Black Basta conducts a ransomware attack against technology company ABB. Intrusion Truth returns to dox APT41. Anonymous Sudan looks like a Russian front operation. Attribution and motivation of "RedStinger" remain murky. CISA summarizes Russian cyber offensives. Remote code execution exploits Ruckus in the wild. Our guest is Dave Russell from Veeam with ins...

Steve Benton, Vice President at Anomali Threat Research & GM Belfast, sits down to share his story as a cybersecurity expert with a surplus of strategic leadership experience across cyber and physical security rooted in substantial operational directorship and accountability. Steve shares his beginnings, where he wanted to grow up to be a rockstar, slowly moving into the world of tech with his fir...

Aleksandar Milenkoski and Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade from SentinelOne's SentinelLabs join Dave to discuss their research "Operation Tainted Love | Chinese APTs Target Telcos in New Attacks." Researchers found initial phases of attacks against telecommunication providers in the Middle East in Q1 in 2023. The research states "We assess that this activity represents an evolution of tooling associated...

FBI and CISA are releasing this joint Cybersecurity Advisory in response to the active exploitation of CVE-2023-27350. This vulnerability occurs in certain versions of PaperCut NG and PaperCut MF, software applications that help organizations manage printing services, and enables an unauthenticated actor to execute malicious code remotely without credentials.  AA23-131A Alert, Technical Details, a...

Babuk source code provides criminal inspiration. CISA and FBI release a joint report on PaperCut. There are more bad bots out there than anyone would like. Phishing-as-a-service tools in the C2C market. CISA’s Eric Goldstein advocates the adoption of strong controls, defensible networks and coordination of strategic cyber risks. Our cyberwire producer Liz Irvin speaks with Crystle-Day Villanueva,...

A Ransomware report highlights targeting and classification. Phishing remains a major threat. Cisco addresses an expired certificate issue. LockBit and Medusa hit school districts with ransomware. US and Canadian cyber units wrap up a hunt-forward mission in Latvia. Ben Yelin on NYPD surveillance. Our CyberWire producer Liz Irvin interviews Damien Lewke, a graduate student at MIT. And an unknown t...

The Snake implant is considered the most sophisticated cyber espionage tool designed and used by Center 16 of Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB, for long-term intelligence collection on sensitive targets. AA23-129A Alert, Technical Details, and Mitigations For more information on FSB and Russian state-sponsored cyber activity, please see the joint advisory Russian State-Sponsored and Crimi...

The Five Eyes disrupt Russia’s FSB Snake cyberespionage infrastructure. Shifting gears: from DDoS to cryptojacking. Trends in ransomware. Our guest is Steve Benton from Anomali with insights on potential industry headwinds. Ann Johnson from Afternoon Cyber Tea speaks with Roland Cloutier about risk and resilience in the modern era. And yesterday’s Patch Tuesday is now in the books, including a wor...

An analysis of Royal ransomware. PaperCut vulnerability detection methods can be bypassed. Man-in-the-middle phishing attacks are on the rise. A new wave of BEC attacks from an unexpected source. Thomas Etheridge from CrowdStrike, has the latest threat landscape trends. Our guest is Dan Amiga of Island with insights on the enterprise browser category. And a look into recent Russian cyberattacks ag...

ALPHV claims responsibility for a cyberattack on Constellation Software. A new Akira ransomware campaign spreads. CACTUS is a new ransomware leveraging VPNs to infiltrate its target. Many organizations are still vulnerable to the Go-Anywhere MFT vulnerability. Russian hacktivists interfere with the French Senate's website. Keith Mularski from EY, details their "State of the Hack" report. Emily Aus...

Shelley Ma, Incident Response Lead at Coalition sits down to share her story, starting all the way back when she was a kid and fell in love with playing the game "NeoPets" that ended up paving the way for her future in cybersecurity. After starting this journey, she shares how she became intrigued with crime and mystery shows, which ultimately spawned an interest in forensic science. She ended up...

Ryan Robinson from Intezer to discuss his team's work on "Phishing Campaign Targets Chinese Nuclear Energy Industry." The research team discovered activity targeting the nuclear energy industry in China. Researchers attributed the activity to Bitter APT, a South Asian APT that is known to target the energy, manufacturing and government sectors, mainly in Pakistan, China, Bangladesh, and Saudi Arab...

Kimsuki has a new reconnaissance tool. The Biden administration shares plans for AI. Reports on the ransomware taskforce report. KillNet recommits to turning a profit. Deepen Desai from Zscaler has the latest stats on Phishing. Our guest is Karen Worstell from VMware with a conversation about inclusivity. And the former CSO at Uber is sentenced. For links to all of today's stories check out our Cy...

An APT41 subgroup uses new techniques to bypass security products. Iranian cyberespionage group MuddyWater is using Managed Service Provider tools. Wipers reappear in Ukrainian networks. Meta observes and disrupts the new NodeStealer malware campaign. The City of Dallas is moderately affected by a ransomware attack. My conversation with Karin Voodla, part of the US State Department’s Cyber fellows...

Iran integrates influence and cyber operations. ChatGPT use and misuse. Phishing reports increased significantly so far in 2023, while HTML attacks double. An update on the Discord Papers. Cyberstrikes against civilian targets. My conversation with our own Simone Petrella on emerging cyber workforce strategies. Tim Starks from the Washington Post joins me with reflections on the RSA conference. An...

LOBSHOT is a cryptowallet stealer abusing Google Ads. Coronation phishbait. A known CCTV vulnerability is currently being exploited. T-Mobile discloses another, smaller data breach. New Magecart exploits. Preliminary lessons from cyber operations during Russia's war. Rob Boyce from Accenture shares insights from RSA Conference. Our special guest is NSA Director of Cybersecurity Rob Joyce. And Euro...

The FDA warns of a vulnerability affecting biomedical devices. Ransomware's effects continue to trouble the US Marshals Service. The US Justice Department shifts how it deals with large scale cybercrime. Fresh phish from the GRU. Caleb Barlow looks at unicorns and zombiecorns. Our guest Manoj Sharma from Symantec explains the differences between Zero Trust and SASE. And KillNet runs an ask-me-anyt...