CyberWire Daily
The daily cybersecurity news and analysis industry leaders depend on. Published each weekday, the program also includes interviews with a wide spectrum of experts from industry, academia, and research organizations all over the world.
Episodes
October 13, 2024 • 7 mins
Enjoy this special encore episode, where we are joined by a High Performance Computing Systems Administrator at Brigham Young University. Billy Wilson tells his cybersecurity career story translating language skills to technical skills. According to Billy's employer, moving to a technical position at his alma mater occurred because Billy showed this potential and a thirst for learning. He is currently pursuing his master's degree f...
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October 12, 2024 • 28 mins
In this episode, Trevor Hilligoss, VP of SpyCloud Labs, discusses the increasing threat of ransomware, emphasizing the role of infostealer malware in facilitating these attacks. He draws from SpyCloud's 2024 Malware and Ransomware Defense Report, highlighting how compromised identity data from infostealers creates opportunities for ransomware operators.
With 75% of organizations experiencing multiple ransomware attacks in the past...
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October 11, 2024 • 35 mins
A Colorado health system’s patient portal has been compromised. Malicious uploads to open-source repositories surge over the past year. Octo2 malware targets Android devices. A critical vulnerability in Veeam Backup & Replication software is being exploited. The U.S. and U.K. team up for kids online safety. The European Council adopts the Cyber Resilience Act. New York State adopts new cyber regulations for hospitals. The FBI creat...
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October 10, 2024 • 34 mins
The Internet Archive gets breached and DDoSed. Dutch police arrest the alleged proprietors of an illicit online market. Fidelity Investments confirms a data breach. Marriott settles for $52 million over a multi-year data breach. Critical updates from Mozilla, FortiNet, Palo Alto Networks, VMWare, and Apple. Mongolian Skimmer targets Magento installations. On our Industry Voices segment, we speak with Ben April, Chief Technology Off...
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October 9, 2024 • 36 mins
Hackers target Russia’s court information system. Patch Tuesday rundown. GoldenJackal targets government and diplomatic entities in Europe, the Middle East, and South Asia.Cybercriminals are exploiting Florida’s disaster relief efforts. Australia introduced its first standalone cybersecurity law. CISA and the FBI issue guidance against Iranian threat actors. Mamba 2FA targets Microsoft 365 accounts. Casio reports a data breach. On ...
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October 9, 2024 • 50 mins
In preparation for the US 2024 Presidential Election, Rick Howard, N2K CyberWire’s Chief Analyst and Senior Fellow, discusses recent international propaganda efforts in the form of nation state interference and influence operations as well as domestic campaigns designed to split the target country into opposing camps. Guests include Nina Jankowicz, Co-Founder and CEO of the The American Sunlight Project and Scott Small, Director of...
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October 8, 2024 • 34 mins
Western authorities I.D. a key member of Evil Corp. A major U.S. water utility suffers a cyberattack. ODNI warns of influence campaigns targeting presidential and congressional races. A California deepfakes law gets blocked. Europol leads a global effort against human trafficking. Trinity ransomware targets the healthcare industry. Qualcomm patches a critical zero-day in its DSP service. ADT discloses a breach of encrypted employee...
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October 7, 2024 • 34 mins
Chinese hackers breach U.S. telecom wiretap systems. A third-party debt collection provider exposes sensitive information of Comcast customers. Homeland Security’s cybercrime division chronicles their success. Google removes Kaspersky antivirus from the Play store. Ukrainian hackers take down Russian TV and Radio channels. A crypto-thief pleads guilty to wire fraud and money laundering. A pig-butchering victim gets his money back. ...
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October 7, 2024 • 18 mins
Rick Howard, N2K CyberWire’s Chief Analyst and Senior Fellow, has a free-wheeling conversation with Merritt Baer, Reco AI’s CISO, about how infosec professionals should think about AI, Machine Learning, and Large Language Models (LLMs).
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Enjoy this encore episode where we are joined by Co-founder and socio-technical lead at Cygenta, Dr. Jessica Barker, as she shares her story from childhood career aspirations of becoming a farmer to her accidental pivot to working in cybersecurity. With a PhD in civic design, Jessica looked at the creation of social and civic places until she was approached by a cybersecurity consultancy interested in the human side of cybersecurit...
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October 5, 2024 • 22 mins
Joshua Miller from Proofpoint is discussing their work on "Best Laid Plans: TA453 Targets Religious Figure with Fake Podcast Invite Delivering New BlackSmith Malware Toolset." Proofpoint identified Iranian threat actor TA453 targeting a prominent Jewish figure with a fake podcast interview invitation, using a benign email to build trust before sending a malicious link.
The attack attempted to deliver new malware called BlackSmith,...
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October 4, 2024 • 38 mins
Interpol arrests eight in an international cybercrime crackdown. A MedusaLocker variant targets financial organizations. Cloudflare mitigates a record DDoS attempt. Insights from the Counter Ransomware Initiative summit. Fin7 uses deepnudes as a lure for malware. Researchers discovered critical vulnerabilities in DrayTek routers. CISA issues urgent alerts for products from Synacor and Ivanti. A former election official gets nine ye...
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October 3, 2024 • 42 mins
In this episode, Dmitri Alperovitch discusses his book World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century with host Ben Yelin. Alperovitch highlights the rising tensions between the U.S. and China, focusing on Taiwan as a critical flashpoint that could ignite a new Cold War. He shares insights on the strategies America must adopt to maintain its status as the world’s leading superpower while add...
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October 2, 2024 • 33 mins
Rick Howard, N2K CyberWire’s Chief Analyst and Senior Fellow, discusses personal defensive measures that an average citizen, regardless of political philosophy, can take in order to not succumb to propaganda.
References:
David Ehl, 2024. Why Meta is now banning Russian propaganda [News]. Deutsche Welle.
Jeff Berman, Renée DiResta, 2023. Disinformation & How To Combat It [Interview]. Youtube.
Niha Masih, 2024. Meta bans Russian st...
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October 1, 2024 • 36 mins
A global news agency suffers a cyberattack. CISA and the FBI provide guidance on cross site scripting attacks. A Texas health system diverts patients following a ransomware attack. Western Digital patches a critical vulnerability in network attached storage devices. California passes a law protecting domestic abuse survivors from being tracked. Verizon and PlayStation each suffer outages. CISA responds to critiques from the OIG. T-...
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September 30, 2024 • 31 mins
A critical vulnerability has been discovered in the NVIDIA Container Toolkit. Representatives from around the world are meeting in Washington to address ransomware. The Pentagon shoots down the notion of a separate cyber service. A genetic testing company leaves sensitive information in an unsecured folder. A public accounting firm breach affects 127,000 individuals. The DOJ charges a British national with hacking U.S. companies. ...
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September 30, 2024 • 18 mins
Rick Howard, N2K CyberWire’s Chief Analyst and Senior Fellow, turns over hosting responsibilities to Rick Doten, the VP of Information Security at Centene and one of the original contributors to the N2K CyberWire Hash Table. He makes the case to invigorate the automation first principle cybersecurity strategy. In this case, he is specifically addressing remediation automation.
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September 29, 2024 • 37 mins
In this 2-part special edition series, guest Steve Blank, co-founder of the Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation at Stanford University, speaks with N2K's Brandon Karpf about national security and the dilemma of technology disruption.
Listen to part 1 here.
In this series, Steve Blank, a renowned expert in national security innovation, explores the critical challenges facing the U.S. Department of Defense in a rap...
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September 28, 2024 • 6 mins
Enjoy this encore episode where we are joined by the Chief strategy officer and chief security officer for Netskope, Jason Clark, shares his journey as he challenges the status quo and works to expand diversity in cybersecurity. Jason started his career by breaking the mold and heading to the Air Force rather than his family legacy of Army service. Following his military service, he became a CISO for the New York Times at age 26 an...
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September 28, 2024 • 17 mins
We are joined by Yves Younan, Senior Manager, Talos Vulnerability Discovery and Research from Cisco, discussing their work on "How multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft apps for macOS pave the way to stealing permissions." Cisco Talos has uncovered eight vulnerabilities in Microsoft applications for macOS that could allow attackers to exploit the system's permission model by injecting malicious libraries.
By leveraging permissions...
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