CyberWire Daily

Andy Bochman is senior grid strategist for Idaho National Lab’s National and Homeland Security directorate. Today we’re discussing the research the INL has been doing, developing new approaches to protecting mission critical systems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast, we hear that Special Counsel Mueller has secured an indictment of twelve Russian intelligence officers for hacking during the 2016 US presidential elections. Ukraine finds VPNFilter in a water treatment facility. Comment spam returns. Speculative execution issues. Mobile-device-management tool used against smartphone users in India. The US Army directly commissions two cyber operators—congratulations, First Lieutenants. Ben Yelin from UMD CHHS on California’s consumer privacy ballot measure. Guest is Martin Hellman, professor emeritus at Stanford University and known for his work on Diffie–Hellman key exchange. His new book is A New Map for Relationships: Creating True Love at Home and Peace on the Planet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast, we hear that Timehop has released more information as its breach investigation proceeds. The case will be interesting as an indicator of what GDPR enforcement will look like. Two speculative execution side-channel attacks are described (in the lab, but not yet, it's believed, in the wild). The US Senate's flesh creeps over bug disclosure practices. Someone uses a Netgear exploit to get some US technical manuals. Twitter goes to work against bogus accounts. Mike Benjamin from CenturyLink on cryptojacking. Guest is Yaniv Avidan from MinerEye on cloud GDPR compliance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast we hear reports that the Ticketmaster breach is the tip of a big software supply chain iceberg. Chinese intelligence services closely interested in Cambodia's elections. iOS crashes appear related to code designed to block displays of Taiwan's flag to users in China. Congress wants some answers on smartphone privacy from both Apple and Alphabet. Facebook's wrist is slapped in the UK. Langley Credit Union identity theft case proves not necessarily related to the OPM breach. Johannes Ullrich from SANS and the ISC Podcast on securing DNS. Guest is Ken Spinner from Varonis, cautioning that we not allow the high-profile insider threat cases distract us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast, we hear that advance fee scams run by Elon Musk impersonators are using the recently rescued boys' soccer team as phishbait. Bancor wallet robbed of crytpocurrencies. Palestinian police spearphished. BlackTech espionage group using stolen certificates to sign malware. Apple's upgrades are out—one privacy enhancement has a workaround. Microsoft is in the process of patching. And another fitness app, Polar Flow, overshares. Jonathan Katz from UMD on homomorphic encryption standards. Guests are Julie Bernard from Deloitte and John Carlson from the FS-ISAC with results from a recent FS-ISAC survey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast, we hear that if your nation's team was playing a World Cup match, you probably weren't visiting dodgy websites. Concerns mount in the UK that Russia may be readying a long-expected attack on British infrastructure and holding it until the Cup is decided. The Australian National University is hacked in an apparent espionage attempt. Data breaches at Timehop, DomainFactory, and Macy's. Russia calls for international cooperation. The Marines say it wasn't them on that dating app. Malek Ben Salem from Accenture Labs with tips on GDPR compliance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sellers of malware on Dark Web forums often use No Distribute malware scanning tools to help verify the effectiveness of their wares, while preventing legitimate virus scanning tools from adding the malware to their database. Daniel Hatheway is a Senior Security Analyst at Recorded Future, and he takes us through their recently published research, Uncover Unseen Malware Samples with No Distribute Scanners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast we hear about catphishing in Berlin and Tel Aviv: whether you're offering payment for a white paper or up-to-date futbol scores, it pays to know the right bait. Android apps may be permission hogs, but it's surprising how often the hogs hoard like misers, never really using them. The US Army pushes cyber into the brigades. How Facebook checks facts. The Thermanator knows which keys you've typed from the heat your hot hand leaves behind. Emily Wilson from Terbium Labs on their recently released white paper on fraud as a supply chain. Guest is Brian Wells from Merlin International discussing how high-performing health care organizations are addressing cyber threats. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast we hear about some catphishing in the IDF's pond. Charming Kitten uses itself as bait. Facebook and Google face scrutiny over sharing users' information with third-parties. The Pirate Bay is back after its hiatus, and it's back to cryptojacking. The European Parliament voted today to reopen debate on its controversial copyright legislation. ZTE receives some perhaps temporary, perhaps more enduring, relief from US sanctions. And confusion to the Muggalos' facial recognition software. Justin Harvey from Accenture with thoughts on quantum computing. Guest is Gadi Naveh from Check Point Software with a look at open source security tools. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast we hear that Ukraine has warned of hybrid warfare during UN counter-terrorism meetings. ProtonMail DDoS continues. Security concerns surrounding ZTE, Huawei, and China Mobile. Retail data breaches. A quiz app's backup data are accessed by unauthorized parties. FBI, FTC, and SEC sift through Facebook's answers to questions for the record. A strange set of symptoms among diplomats in China arouses suspicion of infrasound weapons. Rick Howard from Palo Alto Networks on the Cyber Threat Alliance. Guest is Vince Arneja from 5nine on secure cloud implementations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast we hear a bit about the data breach Adidas disclosed late last week. Facebook answers Congressional questions for the record and adopts a data abuse bounty program. Investigation of the Exactis data exposure incident continues, but the class action lawsuits have already begun. Algonquin College discloses a hacking incident. Tenable with hold an IPO. US-Russian summit will take up election influence ops. FireEye says North Korea is hacking Latin American banks. Joe Carrigan from JHU ISI reviewing a recent Black Hat survey of cyber security industry professionals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Researchers from Cisco Talos continue to track malware they've named VPNFilter, a multi-stage infection with multiple capabilities, targeting consumer-grade routers. Craig Williams is head of Cisco Talos Outreach, and he joins us with the details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast we hear that Ticketmaster UK's hacking incident will provide an interesting GDPR test case. Data aggregator Exactis left nearly two terabytes of personal and business information exposed on the publicly accessible Internet. NSA destroys telephone call data collected in ways it can't square with applicable law. California hastily passes a data protection law. Ave atque vale Harlon Ellison. And our condolences to the victims of the shooting at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis. Dr. Charles Clancy from VA Tech’s Hume Center, discussing his recent congressional testimony concerning supply chain security. Guest is Dr. Mansur Hasib, discussing his book Cybersecurity Leadership. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast we hear that Ukraine has warned that Russia is preparing a coordinated attack against Ukrainian financial and energy infrastructure. China appears to be stepping up surveillance of the Tibetan diaspora. Cisco's Talos unit has a free decryptor for Thanatos ransomware. Facebook's self-audit of data usage proves both more difficult and more skeleton-rattling than hoped. Norwegian consumer watchdogs find that Facebook and Google nudge users away from privacy. An alt-coin sting against drug dealers. Mike Benjamin from CenturyLink on Malspam, and how it differs from run of the mill spam. Guest is Jaime Blasco from AlienVault on the security implications of using open source tools. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast, we hear that ProtonMail was hit this morning by an Apophis Squad DDoS attack. Rancor cyberespionage campaign observed in Southeast Asia. PythonBot serves up adware and cryptojacking. WannaCry-themed protection racket is all bark and no bite. EU organizing a joint cyber incident response force. FBI and international partners make arrests in an Africa-based business email compromise racket. Reality Winner's guilty plea. Emily Wilson from Terbium labs with a story of a six-year-old dealing with identity theft. Guest is Paul Aubin from Varonis on the protection of federal systems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast, we hear warnings of Russian cyber operations from Romania and the UK. Recent attempts at developing international rules of conduct (and conflict) in cyberspace. Bronze Butler's naughty USB drives—not as scary as they sound, but a useful reminder of some sound precautions. FireEye says it never hacked back. Smart batteries may be too smart for their users' good. A new venture fund lends credibility to cryptocurrency and blockchain startups. Overwatch hacker gets jail time in Inchon. Daniel Prince from Lancaster University on cascading failures in complex systems. Guest is Vikram Thakur from Symantec on the VPNfilter router infestation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast, we hear that Taiwan continues to receive the PLA's cyber attentions. A look at what the Lazarus Group is up to. Cryptocurrency fraudsters arrested as alt-coin values have a rocky ride. Continuing US hot water for ZTE and Huawei. GDPR-themed data extortion. Business email compromise is up. So are ransomware attacks against US city governments. And when is a ransomware attack not a ransomware attack? When it's just a protection racket. Johannes Ullrich from SANS and the ISC Internet Storm Center podcast on evasive cryptocoin miners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Researchers at Check Point Research recently discovered vulnerabilities in some LG smartphone keyboards, vulnerabilities that could have been used to remotely execute code with elevated privileges, act as a keylogger and thereby compromise the users’ privacy and authentication details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast, we hear that phishing scams continue to nibble away at bank accounts and reputations: the State of Oregon is among those suffering. Avoid emails promising you leaked pictures of YouTube stars. Chinese espionage against US targets rises. US Intelligence officials worry that failure to play a long game puts the country at a disadvantage with respect to innovation. The Joint Chiefs mull electronic warfare issues. Reality Winner makes a plea agreement in her espionage case. And from ecstasy tablets to Iranian spying is a short sad road. Ben Yelin from UMD CHHS weighs in on the US Supreme Court decision on location data privacy. Guest is Taavi Kotka, former CIO of the Estonian government, discussing that nation’s innovative digital identity system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast we hear about a malicious app that will save your battery, but it will also install a backdoor, steal information, and click on a bunch of ads. A sophisticated and patient botnet, Mylobot, is observed in the wild, but it's not yet clear what it's up to. Cryptojackers exploit a known (and patched) Drupal vulnerability. Vectra finds tunnels. Google adds security metadata to Android apps. Cisco patches. The EU's proposed copyright regulations attract little love. Congress pursues ZTE and Huawei. And Tesla sues a former employee. Ryan LaSalle from Accenture, on the opening of their new Cyber Fusion Center. Guest is Ned Miller from McAfee on their “Winning the Game” report on the gamification of security training. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast, we hear that the Chinese espionage group Thrip is targeting satellite communications operators and others in the US and Southeast Asia. Zacinlo rootkit hides inside a bogus VPN. Developers are leaving Firebase apps insecure. The EU's controversial copyright regulation advances from committee. Kardon Loader malware is in beta. South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb is looted of more than $30 million. Anonymous is back with Opicarus2018. And the Bitcoin Baron goes to jail. Awais Rashid from Bristol University on why real-world experimentation is vital to cyber security. Guest is Dr. Chris Pierson from Binary Sun Cyber Risk Advisors, weighing in on the claims of sabotage at Tesla. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast we hear that the US has charged a former CIA engineer in the WikiLeaks Vault 7 case. Olympic Destroyer may be back, and preparing to hit chemical weapons investigators and arms control specialists. Updates on the Liberty Life data extortion investigation. Elon Musk says Tesla Motors has an internal saboteur. The US Senate snatches the lifeline out of ZTE's hands. A guilty plea in OPM-breach-related fraud. A possible motive in the Jeopardy champ's email hacking. David Dufour from Webroot with insights on the impact they’re seeing from GDPR. Guest is Lenny Zeltser from Minerva Labs discussing his IT and security “cheat sheets.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast we hear that Liberty Life has sustained an attempt at data extortion. In separate operations, international police agencies cooperate against Rex Mundi, Black Hand, and the remnants of Silk Road. Cyber espionage notes. North Korean hacking resumes. More clipboard hijacking afflicts cryptocurrency wallets. Security concerns tighten around ZTE and Huawei. And pulp fiction: from Russia with love, and from the Clinton Library. Malek Ben Salem from Accenture Labs on concerns over emerging technology capable of voice impersonation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Carbon Black's Chief Cybersecurity Officer Tom Kellerman shares the results of their recent report, Modern Bank Heists: Cyberattacks & Lateral Movement in the Financial Sector. For the report, they interviewed CISOs at 40 major financial institutions, revealing attack and mitigation trends. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast we hear that MysteryBot is under development and presumably being prepared for sale on the black market. Satan ransomware gets a makeover and a new name. Apple has taken measures to make iOS traffic less accessible to snooping, but lawful snoops may already have a way around that security. Kasperky will no longer work with Europol. The US Justice Department IG reports on the FBI. And a former Jeopardy champion cops a hacking plea. Robert M. Lee from Dragos, on his efforts to educate through the use of comic strips. Guest is Scott Petry from Authentic8 discussing their FAKE booth at the RSA conference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast, we hear that LuckyMouse has crept into an unnamed Central Asian house. Dixons Carphone data exposure presents complex legal and regulatory issues—it's the first big incident since GDPR came into effect. "Lazy State" is another CPU speculative execution bug. The US Congress doesn't care for ZTE, Australia's government is wary of Huawei, and the EU doesn't like Kaspersky at all. If you didn't like the end of net neutrality, wait until you get a load of the proposed EU Copyright Regulation's Article 13. More hacking expected from Pyongyang. Dr. Charles Clancy from VA Tech, discussing research on antifragile communications. Guest is Stacey Smith from CAMI on MD's legislation supporting cyber security businesses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast we hear that old news is new news when it comes to undersea cables. The Lazarus Group is still at it, against South Korean targets. BabaYaga eats other malware so it can stage WordPress spam. Patch Tuesday notes, including some products that Redmond will no longer support. Crytpojackers are still busy. One new strain of coin-mining malware uses the Eternal Romance exploit to spread. World Cup surveillance threatens visiting fans. And don't plug gifts from strangers into your USB port. Justin Harvey from Accenture with thoughts on supply chain security. Guests are Saher Naumaan and Kirsten Ward promoting RESET, BAE Systems’ Women in cyber event. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast we hear that the US Treasury Department has announced sanctions against Russian entities it says were too cyber-cozy with the FSB. Code-signing issue looks like what we have here is a failure to communicate. Android devices are being shipped with ADB enabled, and cryptojackers enter by the backdoor. A layered criminal attack posing as emails from Samsung spearphishes Russian victims. Operation WireWire reels in seventy-four business email compromise suspects. Ben Yelin from UMD CHHS on the framing of the encryption debate. Guest is Steve Schult from LogMeIn and LastPass on best practices password security. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast, we hear about more SWIFT fraud, with a wiper attack as misdirection. Cryptocurrency exchange looted of ICO tokens. Chinese espionage in Rhode Island, and a conviction in Virginia. Dropping Elephant spearphishes in think tanks. G7 agreement suggests a coordinated response to hostile cyber operations. Net neutrality expired this morning in the US. And Marcus Hutchins faces additional charges. Jonathan Katz from UMD discussing hashing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Researchers from ProtectWise's 401TRG team recently published research linking a variety of new and previously reported Chinese cyber threat groups. Tom Hegel is a Senior Threat Researcher with the 401TRG, and he joins us to share their findings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast, we hear that Adobe has patched a Flash vulnerability. InvisiMole is a discrete, selective cyber espionage tool. A Facebook glitch inadvertently changed users' default privacy settings. Leidos exits the commercial cyber market. China is back at IP theft, and some conventional cyber espionage, too. Congress wants explanations of data-sharing with Huawei and ZTE, and it wants those companies investigated as security risks. Feds Facebook friend felons. Rick Howard from Palo Alto Networks with the winners from this year’s Cyber Security Canon gala. Guest is Cory Petty from BAH, host of the BitCoin podcast, discussing blockchain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Iron Group said to use Hacking Team source code to build a backdoor. Operation Prowli both cryptojacks and sells traffic. Fancy Bear may be getting noisier. VPNFilter has a more extensive set of victim devices than previously believed. ZTE pays a billion dollar fine. CloudPets are oversharing via an unsecured server. The US Senate wants answers from both Facebook and Google about their user data sharing with Chinese companies. Daniel Prince from Lancaster University on the security of Industrial Control Systems. Guests are Kyle Lady and Olabode Anise from Duo Security covering their annual report on authentication. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast, we hear that TempTick and Turla are interested in the US-North Korean summit. That summit might not take up many cybersecurity issues. Where did North Korea get all that digital rope they want to hang the West with? It seems we competed to sell it to them, more-or-less unwittingly. Russian influence ops continue to give lies their bodyguard of truth. The FBI gets a warrant for a high-profile iCloud account. Microsoft outbid Google for GitHub—what will Redmond do with all that code? Facebook may have a complicated relationship with Shanghai. Johannes Ullrich from the ICS Stormcast podcast on deserialization. Guest is Ameesh Divatia from Baffle on GDPR and cloud data privacy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast, North Korea still seems to be leaving American IoT networks more-or-less alone, for now, however actively they're hacking elsewhere. Everything old is new again, at least with Russian EW. Cryptocurrency crime is a worry everywhere. A look at law firm hacks shows the counselors could use the help of some street-savvy hotel detectives more than a tech-savvy perimeter security solution, although that wouldn't be bad, either. Beware of letting World Cup Wi-FI be an own-goal. Apple's latest updates seem privacy friendly. Thoughts on AI, and the polygraphing of a time traveler that sounds totally legit. David Dufour from Webroot on new roles for security, and how that impacts hiring and education. Guest is John Dickson from Denim Group on securing voting infrastructure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast we hear that Microsoft is buying GitHub for $7.5 billion. VPNFilter seeks to reestablish itself. Financial Trojans are up and ransomware is down, but don't count the ransomware out, not yet. A get-decrypted-for-free card to Russian ransomware victims. The children of Mirai trouble an unhappy world. USA Really may be the latest incarnation of the Internet Research Agency, complete with rabid Florida squirrels, Wisconsin blood-suckers, and advice on Louisiana's secession. Malek Ben Salem from Accenture Labs on using keyboard biometrics to detect mental disorders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Researchers from Flashpoint recently explored ISIS' ability to distribute propaganda across the internet, and their use of major internet service providers to help them achieve persistence. Ken Wolf is a Senior Analyst at Flashpoint, and he describes what they learned. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast we hear that the Lazarus Group may be on (relative, selective) good behavior. A study suggests that if cybercrime were a country, it would have a GDP comparable to Russia's. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service warns, in the nicest way possible, that Chinese spies are out to get New Zealand. ZTE and Huawei come in for more criticism. The BND gets a court victory in Leipzig. Google's ground-truth algorithms are looking a little truthy. Joe Carrigan from JHU ISI with follow-up on listener comments from last week’s iOS vs Android discussion. Guest is Todd Inskeep from BAH with highlights from a talk he gave at RSA on NotPetya. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast we hear that Kaspersky has lost its court challenge to the US Government ban on its products, but plans to appeal. Cryptomix ransomware is out in the wild. Vulnerabilities found in SingTel routers. Chrome 67 update includes patches. The US Departments of Commerce and Homeland Security address botnets (and ask for research). The US Department of Energy plans for resiliency. Twitter takes down tweens. A packrat at CIA? Reboot your routers. Robert M. Lee from Dragos, reviewing some recently published ICS security reports. Guest is Adam Vincent from ThreatConnect on the increasing importance of threat intelligence for many organizations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today' s podcast, we hear that the US has attributed two more strains of malware to North Korea. And whether you call them Hidden Cobra or the Lazarus Group, it's the same reliable crew of Pyongyang hoods. More trouble for the ICO world as unknown but probably bad actors scan for misconfigurations in EOS blockchain nodes. Canadian banks decline to pay extortion. Joker's Stash counterfeits show there's even less honor among thieves than you may have thought. Baratov gets five years for the Yahoo! hack, and "Courvoisier" gets a solid ten-year sentence for multiple crimes. Justin Harvey from Accenture with thoughts on GDPR. Guest is Ruvi Kitov from Tufin on why automation should be in wider use than it is. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast we hear that the FBI recommends rebooting your routers against VPNFilter. Data extortion hits Canadian banks. The Cobalt Gang is back. 51% attacks fiddle with cryptocurrencies. BackSwap banking Trojan is tough to detect. Coca-Cola discloses data theft by a former employee. Courvoisier—the hacker, not the cognac, gets ten years. Facebook continues to work on its content moderation, and Papua New Guinea may block the platform for a month of study. NATO studies humor, very seriously. Ben Yelin from UMD CHHS on police attempts to use a deceased person’s fingerprints to unlock a phone. Guest is Mike Benjamin from CenturyLink on their recent threat report covering IoT and DDoS. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Researchers at Akamai recently published a white paper titled UPnProxy: Blackhat proxies via NAT Injections. In it, they describe vulnerabilities with Universal Plug and Play capabilities in home routers, and how malicious actors could take advantage of them. Chad Seaman is a senior CERT engineer at Akamai, and he's our guide. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast, we hear that the FBI's takedown of VPNFilter may have averted a major state-directed campaign. Some discount Android phones come with preloaded adware. Amazon's Echo echoed a little too much. BMW patches some potentially serious vulnerabilities in its connected cars. Cryptocurrency exchanges hit by a double-spending crook. The US Justice Department investigates crypto exchange price manipulation. New charges have been filed in the December Kansas swatting death. And GDPR is now with us. Let the lawsuits begin. Joe Carrigan from JHU ISI, comparing the security of iOS vs. Android. Guest is Mischel Kwon from MKACyber on the evolving role of SOCs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast, we hear that VPNFilter, described by Cisco's Talos research unit, looks like battlespace preparation for Fancy Bear. The FBI may have succeeded in impeding its operation. Dragos describes XENOTIME, the threat actor behind the TRISIS industrial safety system attacks, and they say we can expect them back. GDPR is coming tomorrow, and a company has found a way of letting worried CISOs sleep at night. And your right to follow theRealDonaldTrump on Twitter has now been secured by the US Federal Court for the Southern District of New York. Enjoy. Dr. Charles Clancy from the Hume Center at VA Tech, discussing how cell towers track you even when you have location services disabled (and why that’s a good thing). Guest is Erez Yalon from Checkmarx with their research on Amazon Echo eavesdropping vulnerabilities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast we hear a bit more on Variant 4—we may see more like it. Mitigations are under preparation. The Confucius threat group modifies its approach to targets. Turla adopts a two-stage infection technique. A misconfigured AWS S3 bucket exposes a California not-for-profit's clients. ZTE's lifeline may not be so strong after all: the US Administration wants significant concessions and the US Congress seems to want none of it at all. Facebook's EU testimony gets tepid reviews. And a botnet is pushing smart pills and diet supplements—not that any of you will be tempted. Daniel Prince from Lancaster University on risk management and uncertainty. Guest is Sung Cho from SEWORKS on research they did on the security of fitness apps. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today' podcast we hear about the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability that's been found in most current chipsets. GPON-based routers assembled into botnets. Comcast and TeenSafe close vulnerabilities in transmission and storage of customer data. Roaming Mantis banking Trojan acquires new functionality. Is Moscow waiting for the World Cup to conclude before going on cyberattack? How about Iran and China? Will DPRK hacking be on the summit agenda? And GDPR is coming Friday, to some information near you. Emily Wilson from Terbium Labs on the notion of fear vs. empowerment applied to security. Guest is Sam Elliott from Bomgar with a review of their 2018 Privileged Access Threat Report. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast, we hear that North Korea's Sun Team is rising in Red Dawn. Much PII, mostly out of Japan, appears in the black-market stall of a poorly reviewed vendor. The Mexican bank raid seems, the Central Bank says, to have started with a small brokerage and spread from there. Facebook and Google+ continue to be infested with jihadist inspiration. More charges for alleged Syrian Electronic Army hoods. A man gets fifteen years for, among other things, DDoSing former employers. And mobile app users? XYZ. Ben Yelin from UMD CHHS on controversy involving North Carolina police using overly broad warrants to gather location data from Google. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Researchers from Arbor Networks' ASERT Threat Intelligence Team recently published a report titled, "Lojack Becomes a Double Agent." It outlines how threat actors are altering legitimate recovery utility software and simulating its command and control servers to gain access to target machines. Richard Hummel is manager of the ASERT Threat Research Team, and he joins us to describe their work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast, we hear that a new Mirai variant is out and about: they call it "Wicked." MEWkit automates coin theft. LocationSmart was buggy and leaky. The US Senate has confirmed Gina Haspel as Director of Cetnral Intelligence. Relaxed tensions along the 38th Parallel aside, North Korea remains active against South Korea in cyberspace. There's a lot of fraud in cryptocurrency investing, and the SEC would like to help you recognize it. David Dufour from Webroot on threat trends. Guest is Heather Vescent, a futurist and author, describing how she applies her work to cyber security. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast, we hear that Al Qaeda is back, howling online toward whatever lone wolves might be within earshot. The CHRYSENE ICS threat group may be looking beyond the Arabian Gulf. AnonPlus is after US state governments—New Mexico, Idaho, and Connecticut have received the hacktivists' puzzling vandalism. What the EU will expect of you within seventy-two hours of discovering a breach. The US Congress wants answers about, among other things, ZTE and Cambridge Analytica. And an alleged DarkOverlord is nabbed in Serbia. Dr. Charles Clancy from the VA Tech’s Hume Center, discussing the skills shortage for the 5G network buildout. Guest is Ryan Barnette from Akamai on Drupalgeddon 2.0. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast we hear that a spyware campaign centered on Pakistan and thought to be the work of Pakistan's military, comes in two variants: one for Android, the other for iOS. Vietnam is said to be phishing in a compromised Phom Penh Post website. Signal patches a cross-site-scripting issue very rapidly. The US Department of Homeland Security releases its cybersecurity strategy. The Cambridge Analytica whistleblower talks to the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Senate Intelligence Committee concludes that the Russians didn't like Hilary Clinton. Investigation of Vault 7 leaks continues. Notes from the Cyber Investing Summit. And if you're so smart, how come your password is "Ninja?" Johannes Ullrich from SANS and the ISC Stormcast podcast, discusses the EFail email encryption issue. Guest is Michelle Maitland from SecureStrux on risk management framework compliance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices