The FBI and MI-5 warn of Chinese industrial espionage. Revelations of Trickbot's privateering role. Russian influence operations target France, Germany, Poland, and Turkey. Chinese APTs target Russian organizations in a cyberespionage effort. Robert M. Lee from Dragos on CISA expanding the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative. Ben Yelin speaks with Matt Kent from Public Citizen about the American Innovation and Online Choice Act. And who would guess it, but NFT scams are pestering Ukraine. For link...
Jul 07, 2022•32 min•Season 6Ep. 1614
The FBI, CISA, and the Department of the Treasury are releasing this joint Cybersecurity Advisory to provide information on Maui ransomware, which has been used by North Korean state-sponsored cyber actors since at least May 2021 to target Healthcare and Public Health Sector organizations. AA22-187A Alert, Technical Details, and Mitigations Stairwell Threat Report: Maui Ransomware North Korea Cyber Threat Overview and Advisories Updated Advisory on Potential Sanctions Risks for Facilitating Rans...
Jul 06, 2022•3 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Quantum computing and security standards. Notes on the cyber phases of a hybrid war, and how depressingly conventional cybercrime persists in wartime. Pyongyang operators are using Maui ransomware against healthcare targets. Malek Ben Salem from Accenture looks at the security risks of GPS. Our guest is Brian Kenyon of Island to discuss enterprise browser security. Shanghai's big data exposure. For links to all of today's stories check out our CyberWire daily news briefing: https://thecyberwire....
Jul 06, 2022•30 min•Season 6Ep. 1613
Cyberattack hits a Ukrainian energy provider. NCSC updates its guidance on preparing for a long-term Russian cyber campaign. Royal Army accounts are hijacked. A hacktivist group claims to have hit Iranian sites. A very very large database of PII is for sale on the dark web. Chase Snyder from ExtraHop has a look back at WannaCry, 5 years on. Ben Yelin examines the constitutionality of keyword search warrants. And a rogue employee makes off with bug reports. For links to all of today's stories che...
Jul 05, 2022•30 min•Season 6Ep. 1612
In this episode, Marc and Patrick Morley, former CEO of Carbon Black, get nostalgic as they discuss Patrick's journey of coming up through the start up scene in the 90s—from working with VCs to taking companies public—and compare it to running cyber companies today. Along with the early career experience that helped form Patrick's leadership philosophy, he shares his experience of becoming CEO of Bit9, seeing the company through a breach, acquiring Carbon Black, bring the company public and late...
Jul 04, 2022•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 2
Larry Cashdollar from Akamai, joins Dave to discuss their research on a DDoS campaign claiming to be REvil. The research shares that Akamai's team was notified last week of an attack on one of their hospitality customers that they called "Layer 7" by a group claiming to be associated with REvil. In the research, they dive into the attack, as well as comparing it to other similar attacks that have been made by the group. The research states "The attacks so far target a site by sending a wave of H...
Jul 02, 2022•15 min•Season 5Ep. 239
An update on the DDoS attack against Norway. NATO's resolutions on cyber security. North Korea seems to be behind the Harmony cryptocurrency heist. MedusaLocker warninga. Microsoft sees improvements in a gang's technique. Google blocks underworld domains. The Israeli-Iranian conflict in cyberspace. Chris Novak from Verizon with his take on this year’s DBIR. Our guest is Jason Clark of Netskope on the dynamic challenges of a remote workforce.And Now among the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted: one Crypto Que...
Jul 01, 2022•29 min•Season 6Ep. 1611
CISA, the FBI, the Department of the Treasury, and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network are releasing this alert to provide information on MedusaLocker ransomware. Observed as recently as May 2022, MedusaLocker actors predominantly rely on vulnerabilities in Remote Desktop Protocol to access victims’ networks. AA22-181A Alert, Technical Details, and Mitigations Stop Ransomware CISA Ransomware Guide CISA No-cost Ransomware Services All organizations should report incidents and anomalous activ...
Jun 30, 2022•3 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Killnet hits Norwegian websites. Hacktivists are tied to Russia's government. Amunet as a case study in C2C market differentiation. C2C commodification extends to script kiddies. Andrea Little Limbago from Interos examines borderless data. Rick Howard speaks with Cody Chamberlain from NetSPI on Breach Communication. Roscosmos publishes locations of Western defense facilities…and subsequently says it sustained a DDoS attack. For links to all of today's stories check out our CyberWire daily news b...
Jun 30, 2022•30 min•Season 6Ep. 1610
NATO's response to Killnet's cyberattacks on Lithuania. Influence operations in the interest of national market share. SOHO routers are under attack. YTStealer is out and active in the wild. RansomHouse hits AMD. CISA releases six ICS security advisories. The most dangerous software weaknesses. Betsy Carmelite from Booz Allen Hamilton takes a look back at Biden’s executive order on cyber. Our guest is Philippe Humeau of CrowdSec on taking a collaborative approach to security. And a guilty plea i...
Jun 29, 2022•29 min•Season 6Ep. 1609
Distributed denial-of-service attacks against Lithuania. Dark Crystal RAT described. Iranian steel mill suspends production due to cyberattack. Bumblebee rising. CISA adds to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. Music pirate sites brought down by US and Brazilian authorities. Joe Carrigan looks at Apple’s private access tokens. Mister Security Answer Person John Pescatore drops some sboms. And where do Russian intelligence officers go after they’ve been PNGed? For links to all of today's...
Jun 28, 2022•28 min•Season 6Ep. 1608
Lithuania sustains a major DDoS attack. Lessons from NotPetya. Conti's brand appears to have gone into hiding. Online extortion now tends to skip the ransomware proper. Josh Ray from Accenture on how social engineering is evolving for underground threat actors. Rick Howard looks at Chaos Engineering. US financial institutions conduct a coordinated cybersecurity exercise. For links to all of today's stories check out our CyberWire daily news briefing: https://thecyberwire.com/newsletters/daily-br...
Jun 27, 2022•24 min•Season 6Ep. 1607
Richard Melick, Director of Threat Reporting for Zimperium, talks about his journey, from working in the military to moving up to the big screens. He shares that he's been in the business of solving unique cybersecurity problems for so long that he has found his own path that works very well for him. He says, "if I go to a unique problem and try to solve it, I find that I'm solving it the same way that I would've solved it five years ago, because I found my pattern." Richard reflects on his time...
Jun 26, 2022•8 min•Season 3Ep. 106
Alan Neville, a Threat Intelligence Analyst from Symantec Broadcom, joins Dave to discuss their research "Lazarus Targets Chemical Sector." Symantec has observed the North Korea-linked threat group known as Lazarus conducting an espionage campaign targeting organizations operating within the chemical sector. The campaign appears to be a continuation of the group's activity called Operation Dream Job, which Symantec first came across in August of 2020. The research states "evidence includes file ...
Jun 25, 2022•21 min•Season 5Ep. 238
Lithuania's NKSC warns of increased DDoS threat. Limited Russian success in the cyber phases of its hybrid war. Another warning of spyware in use against targets in Italy and Kazakhstan. Hey, critical infrastructure operators: CISA’s got tabletop exercises for you. Kevin Magee from Microsoft has advice for recent grads. A look back the year since Colonial Pipeline with Padraic O'Reilly of CyberSaint. And sometimes ransomware is just a spy’s way of saying, “nothing up my sleeve…” For links to all...
Jun 24, 2022•28 min•Season 6Ep. 1606
CISA and the US Coast Guard Cyber Command are releasing this joint Cybersecurity Advisory to warn network defenders that cyber threat actors, including state-sponsored APT actors, have continued to exploit CVE-2021-44228 (Log4Shell) in VMware Horizon and Unified Access Gateway servers to obtain initial access to organizations that did not apply available patches or workarounds. AA22-174A Alert, Technical Details, and Mitigations Malware Analysis Report 10382254-1 stix Malware Analysis Report 103...
Jun 24, 2022•3 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Reviewing Russian cyber campaigns in the war against Ukraine, and the complexity of Ukraine's IT Army. ICEFALL advice and reactions. Carole Theriault looks at Hollywood’s relationship with VPNs. Podcast partner Robert M. Lee from Dragos provides a rundown on Pipedream. And CISA updates its Cloud Security Technical Reference Architecture. For links to all of today's stories check out our CyberWire daily news briefing: https://thecyberwire.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/11/120 Selected reading. [B...
Jun 23, 2022•28 min•Season 6Ep. 1605
Fancy Bear sighted in Ukrainian in-boxes. Why Russian cyberattacks against Ukraine have fallen short of expectations. ToddyCat APT is active in European and Asian networks. ICEFALL ICS vulnerabilities described. CISA issues ICS vulnerability advisories. Europol makes nine collars. Andrea Little Limbago from Interos on The global state of data protection and sharing. Rick Howard speaks with Michelangelo Sidagni from NopSec on the Future of Vulnerability Management. We are shocked, shocked, to hea...
Jun 22, 2022•29 min•Season 6Ep. 1604
A Cyberattack is suspected of causing false alarms in Israel. Risk surface assessments. Renewed warning of the potential security risks of fitness apps. Cyber options may grow more attractive to Russia as kinetic operations stall. DDoS in St. Petersburg. Ben Yeling details a Senate bill restricting the sale of location data. Our guest is Jon Check from Raytheon's Intelligence and Space Division discussing the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition. A conviction in the Capital One hacking ...
Jun 21, 2022•29 min•Season 6Ep. 1603
As we break to observe the Juneteenth holiday, our team thought you might like to try a sample of a CyberWire Pro podcast called Interview Selects. These podcasts are a series of extended interviews, exclusives, and a curated selection of our most engaging and informative interviews over the years, featuring cyber security professionals, journalists, authors and industry insiders. In this extended interview, Dave Bittner speaks with FBI Cyber Section Chief David Ring at RSAC discussing FBI cyber...
Jun 20, 2022•16 min
Lauren Van Wazer, Vice President, Global Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs for Akamai Technologies, shares her story as she followed her own North Star and landed where she is today. She describes her career path, highlighting how she went from working at AT&T to being able to work in the White House. She shares how she is a coach and a leader to the team she works with now, saying "my view is I've got their back, if they make a mistake, it's my mistake, and if they do well, they've done well...
Jun 19, 2022•7 min•Season 3Ep. 105
Edward Wu, senior principal data scientist at ExtraHop, joins Dave to discuss the company's research, "A Technical Analysis of How Spring4Shell Works." ExtraHop first noticed chatter from social media in March of 2022 on a new remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability and immediately started tracking the issue. In the research, it describes how the exploit works and breaks down how the ExtraHop team came to identify the Spring4Shell vulnerability. The research describes the severity of the vulne...
Jun 18, 2022•22 min•Season 5Ep. 237
Malibot is an info stealer masquerading as a coin miner. "Hermit" spyware is being used by nation-state security services. Fabricated evidence is planted in Indian computers. The US takes down a criminal botnet. The British Home Secretary signs the Assange extradition order. We wind up our series of RSA Conference interviews with David London from the Chertoff group and Hugh Njemanze from Anomali. And putting the Service into service learning. For links to all of today's stories check out our Cy...
Jun 17, 2022•30 min•Season 6Ep. 1602
Interpol coordinates international enforcement action against scammers. A new version of IceXLoader is observed. Exploiting versioning limits to render files inaccessible. Reflections on the first large-scale hybrid war. Kelly Shortridge from Fastly on why behavioral science and economics matters for InfoSec. Patrick Orzechowski from DeepWatch on Russian IoCs and critical infrastructure. And the possibility of cyber escalation in Russia’s hybrid war against Ukraine. For links to all of today's s...
Jun 16, 2022•28 min•Season 6Ep. 1601
The Hertzbleed side-channel issue affects Intel and AMD processors. An Iranian spearphishing campaign prospected former Israeli officials. Patch Tuesday notes. A look at software bills of materials. Russia routes occupied Ukraine's Internet traffic through Russia. Intercepts in the hybrid war: the odd and the ugly. Deepen Desai from ZScaler joins us with the latest numbers on ransomware. Rob Boyce from Accenture Security looks at cyber invisibility. And, finally, criminal wannabes and criminal p...
Jun 15, 2022•29 min•Season 6Ep. 1600
Dealing with the GRU's exploitation of the Follina vulnerabilities. SeaFlower uses stolen seed phrases to rifle cryptocurrency wallets. Ukraine moves sensitive data abroad. Anonymous claims to have hacked Russia's drone suppliers and to have hit sensitive targets in Belarus. Rick Howard reports on an NSA briefing at the RSA Conference. Our guest is Ricardo Amper from Incode with a look at biometrics in sports stadiums. And the effects of war on the cyber underworld. For links to all of today's s...
Jun 14, 2022•26 min•Season 6Ep. 1599
A Chinese APT deploys a new cyberespionage tool. Hacktivism roils India after a politician's remarks about the Prophet. Ukraine reports a "massive" spam campaign against the country's media organizations. A Russian court fines Wikimedia for "disinformation." From the NSA’s Cybersecurity Collaboration Center our guests are Morgan Adamski and Josh Zaritsky. Rick Howard sets the cyber sand table on Colonial Pipeline. And the Martians haven’t landed, and the Right Honorable Mr. Johnson is still PM. ...
Jun 13, 2022•26 min•Season 6Ep. 1598
Deepen Desai, Global Chief Information Security Officer at Zscaler, shares his story as a doctor that treats computer viruses. He describes how he got into the security field and his work with Zscaler. He says what it's like learning and growing in this field and shares great advice for people who are up and coming in the field. Deepen describes working with an incredible team and how much joy it brings him to see his team learning and growing beyond their roles working with him. He says he want...
Jun 12, 2022•8 min•Season 2Ep. 104
Danny Adamitis from Lumen's Black Lotus Labs, joins Dave to discuss new developments in the WSL attack surface. Since September 2021, Black Lotus Labs have been monitoring malware repositories as a part of their proactive threat hunting process. Danny shares how researchers discovered a series of suspicious ELF files compiled for Debian Linux . The research states how the team identified a series of samples that target the WSL environment, were uploaded every two to three weeks and that they sta...
Jun 11, 2022•22 min•Season 5Ep. 236
Looking at Russia's hybrid war as a cautionary example. Russia warns, again, that it will meet cyberattacks with appropriate retaliation. (China says "us too.") NSA and FBI warn of nation-state cyber threats. SentinelOne finds a Chinese APT that's been operating, quietly, for a decade. "Unpatchable" vulnerability in Apple chips reported. We’ve got more interviews from RSA Conference, including the FBI’s Cyber Section Chief David Ring, ExtraHop’s CEO, Patrick Dennis. And the overhead projector sa...
Jun 10, 2022•31 min•Season 6Ep. 1597
