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Chrome extensions steal browser data. A business email compromise attack is under investigation in Kentucky. Belarusian Cyber Partisans claim to have a complete Belarusian passport database. Organizing a cyber militia. CISA releases twelve ICS security advisories. Our guest is Asaf Kochan of Sentra on overemphasizing “the big one.” Carole Theriault cautions against getting ahead of yourself in the...

Cyberespionage around the South China Sea. Oktapus and the Twilio compromise. Montenegro works to recover from a Russian cyber offensive. A big Russian streaming platform sustains a data leak. Ann Johnson of the Afternoon Cyber Tea podcast speaks with Dave DeWalt of NightDragon and Jay Leek of both Syn Ventures and Clear Sky Security about cyber capital investment. Mr. Security Answer Person John...

Russian cyber operations in Southeastern Europe. The challenge of containing the cyber phases of a hybrid war. Russian and Chinese cyber activity in Latin America. Greenwashing influence operations. Rick Howard looks at risk probabilities. Dinah Davis from Arctic Wolf looks at ransomware payment myths. And an Iranian threat actor exploits Log4j vulnerabilities against Israeli targets. For links to...

David Nosibor, Product Lead for SafeCyber at UL Solutions, started his career in a unique way by not letting himself be pigeonholed. Within his company, David was able to grow to the position he is in now and says that his position feels like a lot of roles tied into one. He says that on any given day he is tackling all sorts of elements, such as marketing, operations, working with the engineering...

Nick Ascoli from ForeTrace in a partnership with PIXM sits down with Dave to provide insight on their team's work on "Phishing tactics: how a threat actor stole 1 million credentials in 4 months." During routine analysis, researchers discovered the connection between the pages using PIXM’s deep html analysis feature, which enabled them to view and analyze the underlying code on the pages after the...

Palo Alto describes the Black Basta ransomware-as-a-service operation. Okta on Scatter Swine, the threat actor that compromised Twilio. Microsoft describes Nobelium's new approach to establishing persistence. Russia's war against Ukraine has induced stresses in the cyber underworld. LastPass discloses a security incident. Josh Ray from Accenture on cyber crime and the cost-of-living crisis. Our ow...

Ukrainian and Russian cyber operations at six months. Oktapus criminal campaign compromises 9931 accounts in more than 130 organizations. Exotic Lily and Bumblebee Loader. Insights derived from DNS traffic. Chris Novak from Verizon on DHS Cyber Safety Review Board's report on the Log4j investigation that Verizon conducted. Dave Bittner sits down with our guest Dr. Scott Crowder, CTO and VP, Quantu...

A medical center near Paris comes under ransomware attack, and refuses to pay up. Lessons for the fifth domain from six months of hybrid war. Deepfake scams appear to have arrived. Deepen Desai from Zscaler with introduction to our audience. Dave Bittner sits down with Gil Hoffer, CTO and Co-founder of Salto to discuss “Who Hacked Slack?.” And Threat actors prepare to exploit Hikvision camera vuln...

Iranian APT data extraction tool described. LockBit gang comes under DDoS. Twitter whistleblower security claims made public. Poland and Ukraine conclude cybersecurity agreement. Greek national natural gas supplier under criminal cyberattack. Update to the Joint Alert on Zimbra exploitation. Addition to CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. Johannes Ullrich from SANS on Control Plane vs....

Bogus DDoS protection pages distribute malware. Estonia deals with DDoS attacks. Roskomnadzor's Internet panopticon. Rick Howard on the RSA Security Breach of 2011 and the Equifax breach of 2017. Caleb Barlow on what does a recession mean for cyber security venture capital and what is the impact of this on the industry? And data-tampering attacks are regarded as a growing risk. For links to all of...

Roya Gordon, a Security Research Evangelist at ICS cybersecurity firm Nozomi Networks, started her career as an intelligence specialist in the U.S. Navy. After her time serving, Roya spent time as a Control Systems Cybersecurity Analyst at the Idaho National Laboratory and then took the role of Cyber Threat Intelligence Manager at Accenture. She shares her story after the NSA accepted her and then...

Dick O'Brien from Symantec, a part of Broadcom Software, joins Dave to discuss how the cyber-criminal operation, Clipminer Botnet, makes operators behind it at least $1.7 million. Symantec's research says "The malware being used, tracked as Trojan. Clipminer, has a number of similarities to another crypto-mining Trojan called KryptoCibule, suggesting it may be a copycat or evolution of that threat...

Killnet claims a DDoS campaign against Estonia. The head of GCHQ calls Russian cyber operations a failure. US Cyber Command concludes its "hunt forward" mission in cooperation with Croatia. A criminal gang targets the travel and hospitality sectors. Thomas Pace of NetRise shares insights on firmware vulnerabilities. Daniel Floyd from BlackCloak on Quantifying the Business Need for Digital Executiv...

BlackByte is back. Iran suspected of cyber operations against four Israeli sectors. A look at wipers as a tool in hybrid war. A Russian cyber ops scorecard. Josh Ray from Accenture on how dark web actors are focusing on VPNs. Our guest is Corey Nachreiner from WatchGuard with findings of their latest Internet Security Report. Cyber war clauses coming to cyber insurance policies. For links to all o...

A DDoS attack against a Ukrainian nuclear power provider. The US Army draws some lessons from the cyber phases of Russia's hybrid war. Vulnerabilities in Zimbra are undergoing widespread exploitation. Reports of new Lazarus Group activity. CISA releases eight ICS security advisories. Carole Theriault looks at scammers and cryptocurrencies. Our guest is Jennifer Reed from Aviatrix on the changing l...

CISA and the Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center, or MS-ISAC are publishing this joint Cybersecurity Advisory in response to active exploitation of multiple Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures against Zimbra Collaboration Suite, an enterprise cloud-hosted collaboration software and email platform. AA22-228A Alert, Technical Details, and Mitigations Volexity’s Mass Exploitation of (U...

Microsoft identifies and disrupts Russian cyberespionage activity. An update on RedAlpha. An evil PLC proof-of-concept shows how programmable logic controllers could be "weaponized." Ben Yelin has an update on right to repair. Our guest is Arthur Lozinski of Oomnitza with a look at attack surface management maturity. And the Cl0p gang hits an English water utility (but tries to extort the wrong on...

Shuckworm maintains its focus on Ukrainian targets. Killnet's DDoS and dubious proof-of-work. Iron Tiger's supply chain campaign. TikTok and national security. Dinah Davis from Arctic Wolf shares insights on Dark Utilities. Rick Howard digs into identity management. And an arrest in the case of the Tornado Cash crypto mixer. For links to all of today's stories check out our CyberWire daily news br...

Christian Lees, CTO at Resecurity, shares his story and insight on coming into the cybersecurity world. He considers himself a late bloomer because he did not go to college until he was 23. He wasn’t sure of what he wanted to do, and a family friend gave him a computer and the rest was history, he says. He fell in love with computers and started working at different companies trying to get ahead....

Cybercriminals are motivated by one simple incentive - money. Their favorite tools are bots to leverage sophistication, scalability, and ease of use. The effect is the creation of the underground bot ecosystem. This community allows threat actors to work together and continually improve their tactics. They sell bypasses for rule-based anti-bot solutions to other less technical fraudsters. In this...

Ashley Taylor from SANS.edu, joins Dave to discuss fake job ads and methods to proactively detect these scams. The research shares how job seekers are under attack, with scammers posing as fake job recruiters to steal information from people who are interested in the job posting. The brands being impersonated as are at risk of losing credibility to their brand identity. The research shares exactly...

The optempo of the war's cyber phase, and Ukraine’s response. Organizing and equipping hacktivists. Joint warning on Zeppelin ransomware. Update on the DoNot Team, APT-C-35. Rewards for Justice offers $10 million for information on Conti operators. Rob Boyce from Accenture shares insights from BlackHat. Caleb Barlow ponders closing the skills gap while shifting to remote work. And, hey, Mr. Target...

Zeppelin ransomware functions as a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS), and since 2019, actors have used this malware to target a wide range of businesses and critical infrastructure organizations. Actors use remote desktop protocol (RDP), SonicWall firewall vulnerabilities, and phishing campaigns to gain initial access to victim networks and then deploy Zeppelin ransomware to encrypt victims’ files. A...

KillMilk says his crew downed Lockheed Martin's website. Industroyer2, and what became of it. CISA releases its election cybersecurity toolkit. Post-incident disruption at Britain’s NHS. Carl Wright of AttackIQ shares strategies for CISOs to successfully prepare for the next attack. Dr. Christopher Pierson from Blackcloak joins us from Black Hat. And Cisco seems to have thwarted a security inciden...

Patch notes, and the risks associated with failure to patch. Finland's parliament comes under cyberattack. Killnet says there will be blood, but they may just be grandstanding for the home crowd. Cyberattacks against a UK firm that's criticized Russia's war. We’re joined by FBI Cyber Division AD Bryan Vorndran and Adam Hickey, deputy assistant attorney general for the National Security Division wi...