CyberWire Daily

3271 Episodo

1. Oxford lab studying the COVID-19 virus is hacked. Zoom impersonation campaign. Senators would’ve liked to have heard from Amazon about Solorigate. NSA likes zero trust. NIST IoT guidelines.

   Publicado: 26/2/2021
2. PLA spyware keeps Tibetans under surveillance. Cyber conflict between Ukraine and Russia, some conventionally criminal, other state-directed. US Executive Order addresses supply chain resilience.

   Publicado: 25/2/2021
3. Accellion FTA compromise spreads. Ocean Lotus is back. LazyScripter seems to represent a new threat group. Notes from the SolarWinds hearings. New ICS threat actors.

   Publicado: 24/2/2021
4. DDoS in hybrid war. Accellion compromise attributed. Initial access brokers. Agile C2 for botnets. US Senate’s SolarWinds hearing. US DHS cyber strategy. Shiny new phishbait.

   Publicado: 23/2/2021
5. Facebook takes down Myanmar military page. Chinese cyberespionage and cloned Equation Group tools. Supply chain compromises. Threat trends.

   Publicado: 22/2/2021
6. Billy Wilson: Translating language skills to technical skills. [HPC] [Career Notes]

   Publicado: 21/2/2021
7. Attackers (ab)using Google Chrome. [Research Saturday]

   Publicado: 20/2/2021
8. Mopping up Solorigate. Tehran’s Lightning and Thunder in Amsterdam. The view from Talinn. Malware designed for Apple’s new chips. Lessons from the ice, and how hackers broke bad.

   Publicado: 19/2/2021
9. The WatchDog Monero cryptojacking operation. “A criminal syndicate with a flag.” US Senator asks FBI, EPA for a report on water system cybersecurity. Cybercrooks placed on notice.

   Publicado: 18/2/2021
10. US warns of DPRK threat to cryptocurrency holders, and indicts four on conspiracy charges. Centreon says Sandworm affected unsupported open-source tools. Big Hack skepticism. Patch notes.

    Publicado: 17/2/2021
11. France’s ANSII warns of a longrunning Sandworm campaign. DPRK tried to steal COVID-19 vaccine data. Supermicro is exasperated. Static Kitten phishes in the UAE

    Publicado: 16/2/2021
12. Hank Thomas and Mike Doniger, getting the specs on the cyber SPAC. [update]

    Publicado: 16/2/2021
13. Hank Thomas and Mike Doniger, getting the specs on the cyber SPAC. [Special Edition Update]

    Publicado: 15/2/2021
14. Dr. Jessica Barker: Cybersecurity has a huge people element to it. [Socio-technical] [Career Notes]

    Publicado: 14/2/2021
15. Using the human body as a wire-like communication channel. [Research Saturday]

    Publicado: 13/2/2021
16. Alleged hardware backdoors, again. Selling game source code. ICS security, especially with respect to water utility cybersabotage. Don’t be the hacker’s valentine.

    Publicado: 12/2/2021
17. Spyware in the Subcontinent. Notes on cyber fraud, cyber theft, and ransomware. The US gets a chief to lead response to Solorigate. Updates on the Florida water system cybersabotage.

    Publicado: 11/2/2021
18. Paying for the bomb the 21st century way. Domestic Kitten’s international romp. Malware versus gamers. Patch Tuesday notes. An update on the Oldsmar water system cyber sabotage.

    Publicado: 10/2/2021
19. Almost too much lye in the water, down Florida-way. BlackTech’s new malware strain. Huawei says it’s OK if the White House calls.

    Publicado: 9/2/2021
20. A junta shuts down a nation’s data networks. Lessons from multi-domain ops against ISIS? SilentFade returns. Iran’s surveillance actors. Data breaches large and small. Company towns returning?

    Publicado: 8/2/2021