CyberWire Daily

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

July 3, 2025 32 mins
Sudo patch your Linux systems. Cisco has removed a critical backdoor account that gave remote attackers root privileges. The Hunters International ransomware group rebrands and closes up shop. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) notifies 103,000 people that their personal data was compromised. NimDoor is a sophisticated North Korean cyber campaign targeting macOS. Researchers uncover a massive phishing campaign usi...
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French authorities report multiple entities targeted by access brokers. A ransomware group extorts a German hunger charity. AT&T combats SIM swapping and account takeover attacks. A Missouri physician group suffers a cyber attack. Qantas doesn’t crash, but their computers do. Researchers uncover multiple critical vulnerabilities in Agorum Core Open. A student loan administrator in Virginia gets hit by the Akira ransomware group. Th...
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The Feds shut down a covert North Korean IT operation. Google releases an emergency update to fix a new Chrome zero-day. A major U.S. trade show and event marketing firm suffers a data breach. NetScaler patches a pair of critical vulnerabilities. A sophisticated cyber attack targets The Hague. An Iran-linked hacking group threatens to release emails allegedly stolen from aides to President Trump. A ransomware attack exposes sensiti...
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CISA warns organizations of potential cyber threats from Iranian state-sponsored actors.Scattered Spider targets aviation and transportation. Workforce cuts at the State Department raise concerns about weakened cyber diplomacy. Canada bans Chinese security camera vendor Hikvision over national security concerns.Cisco Talos reports a rise in cybercriminals abusing Large Language Models. MacOS malware Poseidon Stealer rebrands.Resear...
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Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes. Senior Vice President for Strategy, Partnerships, and Corporate Development at IronNet Cybersecurity, Jamil Jaffer, shares how his interest in technology brought him full circle. Always a tech guy, Jamil paid he way through college doing computer support. Jamil went to law school and worked in various jobs in Washington DC including a stint in the newly-created National Security division ...
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This week we are joined by Kyle Lefton, Security Researcher from Akamai, who is diving into their work on "Two Botnets, One Flaw - Mirai Spreads Through Wazuh Vulnerability." Akamai researchers have observed active exploitation of CVE-2025-24016, a critical RCE vulnerability in Wazuh, by two Mirai-based botnets. The campaigns highlight how quickly attackers are adapting proof-of-concept exploits to spread malware, underscoring th...
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June 27, 2025 37 mins
Hawaiian Airlines reports a cybersecurity incident. Microsoft updates its Windows Resiliency Initiative after the 2024 CrowdStrike crash. CitrixBleed 2 is under active exploitation in the wild. Researchers disclose a critical vulnerability in Open VSX. Malware uses prompt injection to evade AI analysis. A new report claims Cambodia turns a blind eye to scam compounds. Senators propose a ban on AI tools from foreign adversaries. An ...
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June 26, 2025 35 mins
Patches, patches and more patches.A patient death has been linked to the 2023 ransomware attack on an NHS IT provider. U.S. authorities indict the man known online as “IntelBroker”. A suspected cyberattack disrupts Columbia University’s computer systems. A major license plate reader company restricts cross-state data access after reports revealed misuse of its network by police agencies. Our guest is Andy Boyd, former Director of C...
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June 25, 2025 32 mins
Cybercriminals target financial institutions across Africa using open-source tools. Threat actors are using a technique called Authenticode stuffing to abuse ConnectWise remote access software. A fake version of SonicWall’s NetExtender VPN app steals users’ credentials. CISA and the NSA publish a guide urging the adoption of Memory Safe Languages. Researchers identify multiple security vulnerabilities affecting Brother printers. Fa...
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Cybersecurity warnings about possible Iranian retaliation have surged. A potential act of sabotage disrupts the NATO Summit in The Hague. Canadian cybersecurity officials discover Salt Typhoon breached a major telecom provider. The U.S. House bans WhatsApp from all government devices. APT28 uses Signal chats in phishing campaigns targeting Ukrainian government entities. A China-linked APT has built a covert network of over 1,000 co...
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June 23, 2025 36 mins
US warns of heightened risk of Iranian cyberattacks. Cyber warfare has become central to Israel and Iran’s strategies. Oxford City Council discloses data breach. Europe aiming for digital sovereignty. Michigan hospital network says data belonging to 740,000 was stolen by ransomware gang. RapperBot pivoting to attack DVRs. A picture worth a thousand wallets. New Zealand’s public sector bolsters cyber defenses. On our Industry Voices...
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Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes. Jadee Hanson, CIO and CISO at Code 42, started her technology journey thanks to the help of a teacher in high school. She began college studying computer science and ended with a degree in computer information systems as it had more of the business side. Working in the private sector for companies such as Deloitte, Target and Code 42, Jadee gained experience and specialized in insider ris...
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Dustin Childs, Head of Threat Awareness at Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative, joins to discuss their work on "ZDI-23-1527 and ZDI-23-1528: The Potential Impact of Overly Permissive SAS Tokens on PC Manager Supply Chains." The research explores two critical vulnerabilities (ZDI-23-1527 and ZDI-23-1528) that could have enabled attackers to hijack the Microsoft PC Manager supply chain via overly permissive SAS tokens in WinGet and offic...
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June 20, 2025 31 mins
An historic data breach that wasn’t. Aflac says it stopped a ransomware attack. Cloudflare thwarts a record breaking DDoS attack. Mocha Manakin combines clever social engineering with custom-built malware. The Godfather Android trojan uses a sophisticated virtualization technique to hijack banking and crypto apps. A British expert on Russian information warfare is targeted in a sophisticated spear phishing campaign. A federal judge...
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We put together an open conversation between our podcast hosts, CyberWire Daily's Dave Bittner, T-Minus Space Daily’s Maria Varmazis, and CISO Perspectives podcast’s Kim Jones. Their conversation goes deeper than just the historical significance of Juneteenth, diving into candid conversations on allyship, representation, and the enduring value of diversity in the cybersecurity and space fields. Grab your coffee and join us in the r...
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June 18, 2025 28 mins
Viasat confirms it was breached by Salt Typhoon. Microsoft’s June 2025 security update giveth, and Microsoft’s June 2025 security update taketh away. Local privilege escalation flaws grant root access on major Linux distributions. BeyondTrust patches a critical remote code execution flaw. SMS low cost routing exposes users to serious risks. Erie Insurance says their ongoing outage isn’t ransomware. Backups are no good if you can’t ...
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June 17, 2025 33 mins
A House oversight committee requests DOGE documents from Microsoft. Predatory Sparrow claims a cyberattack on an Iranian bank. Microsoft says data that happens in Europe will stay in Europe. A complex malware campaign is using heavily obfuscated Visual Basic files to deploy RATs. A widely used CMS platform suffers potential RCE bugs.  North Korea’s Kimsuky targets academic institutions using password-protected research documents. A...
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International law enforcement takes down a darknet drug marketplace. The Washington Post is investigating a cyberattack targeting several journalists' email accounts. Anubis ransomware adds destructive capabilities. The GrayAlpha threat group uses fake browser update pages to deliver advanced malware. Researchers uncover a stealthy malware campaign that hides a malicious payload in a JPEG image. Tenable patches three high-severity ...
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Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes. Distinguished Cloud Strategist at Lacework, Mark Nunnikhoven, has gone from taking technology to its limits for his own understanding to providing clarity about security for others. Mark fell in love with his Commodore 128 and once he realized he could bend the machine to his will, it set him on the path to technology. While he had some bumps in the road, dropping out of high school and no...
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This week, Dave is joined by ⁠Ziv Karliner⁠, ⁠Pillar Security⁠’s Co-Founder and CTO, sharing details on their work on "New Vulnerability in GitHub Copilot and Cursor: How Hackers Can Weaponize Code Agents." Vibe Coding - where developers use AI assistants like GitHub Copilot and Cursor to generate code almost instantly - has become central to how enterprises build software today. But while it’s turbo-charging development, it’s also...
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