More signal, less noise—we distill the day’s critical cyber security news into a concise daily briefing.
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Phishing and watering hole alerts. Is DPRK stealing Bitcoin? NHS Lanarkshire ransomware identified as Bit Paymer. Onliner spambot has hundreds of millions of email addresses. St. Jude pacemaker patch.
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2017-08-30
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NIST Cybersecurity Framework - A CyberWire Special Edition
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2017-08-30
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Cyberespionage in South Asia. NHS hack confirmed as ransomare. Notes on Hancitor. WireX Android botnet taken down. Fat-fingering BGP. Topical phishbait.
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2017-08-29
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Maritime cybersecurity concerns. ExpressLane dump stirs up international trouble. IoT botnet threat addressed. Defray ransomware. Cyberattack in Scotland. Tehran's info-ops rapper.
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2017-08-28
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Clouds, crooks, cheats, and cryptocurrencies. Vault7 leaks liaisonware. Rumors about FSB officers charged with treason. FBI arrests Chinese national in OPM hack. Extremism online flows more than it ebbs.
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2017-08-25
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Cyberattacks that may not have been. Ropemaker corrupts email after delivery. Concerns about companies working for intelligence services.
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2017-08-24
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Independence day cyberattack worries in Ukraine. US Navy eliminating possibility of cyberattack on USS McCain. More malicious apps in Google Play. US state cyber regs. ISIS still works to inspire online.
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2017-08-23
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Cyber concerns about naval and maritime shipping operations. AWS S3 data exposure. Game of Thrones hack. NHS breach? Killer robots. Scareware.
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2017-08-22
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GCHQ and MalwareTech's arrest. Chinese oilfield sustains malware infestation. US Cyber Command now a UCC. Ukraine fears another cyber campaign. Turla returns. GPS spoofing. Extremism online. ICO hack.
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2017-08-21
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Ransomware updates. ShadowPad backdoor may have got into the supply chain from a Chinese APT group. Apple Secure Enclave decryption key released. Profexor and Fancy Bear. Misconfigured AWS S3 exposes voter data. Countering extremism online. FBI continues
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2017-08-18
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Email brute-forcing. Aadhaar woes. Leaked Equation Group exploits remain a problem. Hijacked Chrome extensions. Pulse wave DDoS. FBI interviews "Profexor." Extremism and vigilantism. OurMine hacks HBO Twitter, Facebook.
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2017-08-17
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NIST SP 800-53 updated. Attack on Scotland Parliament's email system. Consequences of Equation Group leaks. "Mr. Smith" and HBO. Attacks of note: Trickbot, OLE exploits, NetSarang backdoor. Extremist inspiration. BEC.
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2017-08-16
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Lazarus Group is back, phishing in English. Extremist content online. Google cleans up SonicSpy. Arrests for HBO hacking are unrelated to "Mr. Smith." Marcus Hutchins is out on. DJI drones get a security makeover. Help desk scams.
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2017-08-15
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Charlottesville hacking. Operation #LeakTheAnalyst. Dissatisfied customer calls ShadowBrokers a "ripoff." More HBO leaks. Google purging SonicSpy. Collusion attacks. Marcus Hutchins in court.
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2017-08-14
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HBO offered Mr. Smith a bug bounty, but no takers. Fancy Bear's in hotel Wi-Fi. DNC leak argument resumes. Locky and Mamba ransomware are back. ISIS on eBay. NotPetya arrest. WikiLeaks dumps more from Vault7.
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2017-08-11
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Kenyan elections, not hacked? Someone's poking into DPRK systems. DDoS in Ukraine. Pseudoransomware protection. Spyware in Play Store. HBO hack.
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2017-08-10
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Patches, passwords, wipers, and pseudoransomware. New fronts in hybrid war? KONNI, OnionDog, and Israbye.
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2017-08-09
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Power grid risks. Update on the Mandiant employee hack. "Mr. Smith" holds HBO for ransom. Shipping industry looks for GPS backup. DHL sees a NotPetya windfall. Google patches ten Android remote-code execution vulnerabilities. NIST issues a Cybersecurity W
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2017-08-08
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US Army bans DJI COTS drones. Amazon will scan AWS customers' S3 buckets for public accessibility. Recommendations for election security. Marcus Huchins pleads not guilty to Kronos-related charges.
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2017-08-07
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MalwareTech arrested over Kronos banking Trojan. "Bateleur" in the wild. Long DDoS hits Chinese telco. Russian influence operations no longer novel? FBI investigates HBO hack.
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2017-08-04
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