CyberWire Daily

The Supreme Court weighs geofence warrants. Iran leans toward quieter cyber ops. Researchers unpack Fast16 sabotage malware. Microsoft tracks an Outlook outage. Snow malware moves deep inside networks. Itron reports a breach. SMS blasters hit Canada. Italy extradites an accused hacker to the U.S. Monday business brief. Our guest is Mick Coady, Field CTO of Elisity, on how hospitals can best defend...

Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes. Adam Marrè, CISO from Arctic Wolf, sits down to share his story of rising through the ranks. After 9/11 he decided he wanted to make a difference in the world, and so he chose to go into the FBI. There he learned the skills that got him to where he is today. In his time at the FBI, he was able to do what he loved, which was working with computers while gai...

This week, we are joined by Juliana Testa, Senior Security Engineer from 7AI, sharing their work on "Quish Splash - When the QR Code Is the Weapon: A Multi-Wave Phishing Campaign That Slipped Past Every Filter." A large-scale “quishing” campaign used QR codes embedded in image attachments to hide phishing URLs, allowing 28 out of 33 emails to bypass SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and Microsoft Defender and lan...

Locked Shields wraps another year. Open models challenge Mythos. CISA tracks FIRESTARTER inside a federal agency. The White House targets foreign AI model extraction. Microsoft lets admins remove Copilot. Treasury sanctions a Cambodian scam-compound senator. Breeze Cache rushes a patch. Researchers downplay OT malware hype, while NIST pushes for better OT visibility. Our guest is Eric Russo, Direc...

Researchers expose covert telecom surveillance campaigns. Lawmakers push new national privacy rules. China-linked actors hide inside compromised device networks. A ransomware forum leak reveals a criminal marketplace. GopherWhisper blends into cloud services for espionage. Attackers poison AI with hidden web prompts. Apple patches lingering notification data. macOS admin tools become attacker path...

Mythos leaks. The DOD preps a more aggressive cyber strategy. A former FBI cyber official urges homicide charges for hospital ransomware deaths. Lotus Wiper targeted the Venezuelan energy and utilities sector. Over 1,300 SharePoint servers remain unpatched against a spoofing vulnerability. The Harvester APT group deploys a new Linux version of its GoGra backdoor. A new LOTUSLITE backdoor targets I...

Anthropic’s Mythos proves irresistible despite claimed supply chain risks. Iran claims U.S. backdoors hit its networks. New Coast Guard rules target maritime OT security. A fresh NGate Android malware variant emerges. Thousands of ActiveMQ servers face active exploitation risk. CISA adds eight flaws to its KEV list. Progress patches MOVEit and LoadMaster bugs. Attackers impersonate IT staff over M...

Cloud platform Vercel confirms a data breach. Microsoft releases emergency updates to fix Windows Server restart loops. Bluesky gets DDoSed. Insurers keep close watch on an AI hiring discrimination suit. Cybersecurity workforce turnover rises. Scammers abuse Apple’s email notification system. A Scattered Spider member pleads guilty to SMS phishing and cryptocurrency theft. Monday business brief. O...

Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes. Jaya Baloo, a Chief Information Security Officer from Avast sits down to share her story, sharing how she got into the technology field at a younger age with being introduced to computers and games on her PS 24. She started off going to college for political science and after not knowing what to do after that, she got her first start in cybersecurity. Afte...

Today we are joined by Dr. Darren Williams, Founder and CEO of BlackFog, to discuss his team's work on "Steaelite RAT Enables Double Extortion Attacks from a Single Panel." A new remote access trojan, Steaelite, is being marketed on underground forums as an all-in-one platform that combines remote access, credential theft, surveillance, and ransomware deployment through a single browser-based dash...

The House extends Section 702, for now. Mythos raises fresh cyber risk concerns. CISA warns of reduced capacity. ZionSiphon targets Israeli water systems. Operation PowerOFF hits DDoS-for-hire networks. CISA flags an actively exploited ActiveMQ flaw. WordPress plugin supply chain attacks spread. China tests deep-sea cable-cutting tech. Our guest is Arvind Nithrakashyap, CTO and Co-Founder of Rubri...

NIST struggles with an NVD backlog. Cisco and Splunk ship critical patches. Researchers flag a systemic flaw in Anthropic’s MCP. ShinyHunters leak 13.5 million McGraw Hill accounts. Cargo theft goes cyber. A Tennessee hospital breach hits 337,000 patients. Two Americans are sentenced in a North Korean fake-IT-worker scheme. Our guest is Rob Allen, Chief Product Officer at ThreatLocker, describing...

Patch Tuesday. CISA directs furloughed employees back to work.  Experts warn Anthropic’s Glasswing signals a new era of AI-driven vulnerability discovery. Federal prosecutors crack down on chip smuggling. Sweden says a pro-Russian cyber group attempted to disrupt power plant operations. A fake app in Apple’s App Store drains crypto wallets. Virginia bans the sale of precise geolocation data. Our g...

France pushes digital sovereignty. Adobe rushes an Acrobat Reader patch. Booking.com confirms a targeted breach. SAP fixes a critical SQL injection bug. A sanctions-dodging fraud network resurfaces. ViperTunnel infiltrates U.S. and U.K. firms. GlassWorm spreads across developer tools. Researchers dissect Predator spyware’s kernel engine. A lawsuit challenges AI transcription in hospitals. Ted Shor...

The FBI disrupts a multi-million-dollar phishing ring. A North Korea-linked supply chain attack hits OpenAI. Developers face a Slack phishing campaign. A critical Python notebook flaw is exploited in hours. ShinyHunters target Rockstar Games. A Japanese shipping firm reports a breach. Tracking the cybersecurity winners and losers in Trump’s 2027 budget, plus a claimed cyberattack on UAE infrastruc...

Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes. Mark Logan, CEO of One Identity, sits down to share his story, explaining how he fit into different roles growing up in different companies. Mark has nearly two decades of C-Suite experience at an array of different organizations, finally landing on his current position as the CEO at One Identity. Sharing his different roles, he also gives a quote from Ste...

What does a modern cyberattack really look like from the inside? In this CyberWire-X episode, Dave Bittner speaks with John Anthony Smith, Founder and Chief Security Officer of Fenix24. This conversation takes us step by step as an attacker breaks into a target environment – probing for weaknesses, exploiting entry points, escalating privileges, and moving laterally until they reach their objectiv...

Today we are joined by Selena Larson, Threat Researcher from Proofpoint research team and co-host of Only Malware in the Building, talking about their work on "(Don't) TrustConnect: It's a RAT in an RMM hat." Proofpoint uncovered TrustConnect, a malware-as-a-service platform posing as a legitimate remote monitoring and management (RMM) tool, but actually functioning as a remote access trojan (RAT)...

The Treasury Secretary and Fed Chair summon bankers over AI concerns. A hacker claims more than 10 petabytes stolen from China’s National Supercomputing Center. Recalibrating the quantum timeline. Researchers demo prompt injection against Apple Intelligence. Payroll Pirates target Canadians. Gmail gets end-to-end encryption on mobile devices. A Chrome update fixes critical vulnerabilities. A Penns...

Iran-linked hackers signal cyberattacks will continue despite the cease-fire. Microsoft restores access after suspending open-source developer accounts. John Deere settles its right-to-repair fight. A suspected Adobe Reader zero-day surfaces. Palo Alto Networks and SonicWall patch high-severity flaws. New macOS malware targets crypto wallets. A threat cluster abuses live chat to bypass MFA. CISA o...

Federal agencies warn Iranian-linked hackers are probing U.S. critical infrastructure, while the DOJ disrupts a Russian router hijacking campaign. Cyberattacks hit Minnesota government systems and force a Massachusetts hospital to divert ambulances. Anthropic limits access to its new AI bug-hunting model, hackers leak terabytes of LAPD data, and researchers warn of a rise in AI recommendation pois...

CISA faces a $700 million budget cut. Russian and Iranian cyber cooperation raises concerns. New BPFDoor variants emerge. Cybercrime losses climb again. Researchers advance a GPU Rowhammer attack. Northern Ireland schools go offline after a breach. An alleged hacker-for-hire faces U.S. charges. And German police name the suspected REvil mastermind. Our guest is John Anthony Smith, Founder and Chie...

Fortinet releases an emergency update for a critical vulnerability. A major outage disrupts Russian banking apps. A new report highlights critical skills gaps. CyberCorp scholars struggle to secure jobs. Scammers use QR codes in fake traffic violation schemes. A proposed lawsuit accuses Perplexity of oversharing users’ AI transcripts. Cambodia outlaws scam centers. Scammers impersonate Harvard IT...

Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes. Anjali Hansen, a Senior Privacy Counselor from Noname Security shares her story as she climbed through the ranks to get to where she is today. When Anjali started, she wanted to do international law. She started working for the International Trade Commission after law school, where she was able to gain most of her experience and real world abilities. Worki...

This week, we are joined by Santiago Pontiroli, Threat Intelligence Research Lead from Acronis TRU team, discussing their work on "New year, new sector: Transparent Tribe targets India’s startup ecosystem." The Acronis Threat Research Unit uncovered a new campaign by Transparent Tribe showing the group has expanded beyond traditional government and defense targets to India’s startup ecosystem, esp...