More signal, less noise—we distill the day’s critical cyber security news into a concise daily briefing.
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WikiLeaks dumps alleged CIA obfuscation code. Attribution skeptics speculate about Russian ops (or the lack thereof). ISIS information operations manual revealed. RATs in the wild.
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2017-04-03
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Fancy Bear's phishing expeditions. Cryptowars and privacy regs in the EU. Is that really you, Dr. Niebuhr?
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2017-03-31
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Apple patched this week—how are your systems? Lastpass working on a patch for an undescribed bug (said to be complex). What IT staff actually work on. And a long talk about emerging Administration cyber policy.
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2017-03-30
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Hybrid warfare objectives and tactics. Physical threats, lost and found. Vulnerability and threat recap.
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2017-03-29
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Updates on Cozy Bear and Shamoon tradecraft. Crypto wars flare in the UK. FBI warns of attacks against FTP servers. Typosquatting, scareware, and other problems.
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2017-03-28
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Lone wolves howl to each other over WhatsApp? Industry yawns at WikiLeaks zero-days. How online gamers cheat. America's JobLink breach update. Ukrainian artillery hack notes. April 7 deadlines.
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2017-03-27
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WikiLeaks' Vault 7 "Dark Matter" docs. Information operations, Russian style and ISIS style. Job database exposed.
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2017-03-24
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Newly disclosed threats and vulnerabilities, mostly criminal. Catphishing peer review. The US may indict North Korea for the Bangladesh Bank heist.
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2017-03-23
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Laptop restrictions are for physical, not cyber reasons. Necurs is back, pumping and dumping. MajikPOS notes.
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2017-03-22
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Extortion claims. Election influence operations seem likely to continue. A Russian bank claims it's being framed by DNS spoofing. "Cyber Pearl Harbor" fears may be a distraction.
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2017-03-21
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Careless criminals, Cisco mitigations, and Vault 7 disclosure conditions. A look at the Atlantic Council's Cyber 9/12. Cabin fever and malware infections. Kirk ransomware.
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2017-03-20
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Cyberspace and "Cold War Two." Who's leaking to WikiLeaks? Wishbone breached—warn the kids. Crimeware-as-a-service. The Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act.
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2017-03-17
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Lazarus Group is back. Dun & Bradstreet loses data; so does ABTA. Patriotic cyber rioting or state influence operations. US indicts four in the Yahoo! breach.
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2017-03-16
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Influence ops, third-party apps with an appetite for permissions, and criminal competition. Google purges malicious apps from the Play Store. Advice for whistleblowers. Farewell to Becky Bace.
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2017-03-15
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Canadian government sites recover from the Apache Struts vulnerability. FireEye's M-Trends report is out, calling out greater sophistication in financial cybercrime. USAF accidentally exposes SF86s. Vault 7 update.
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2017-03-14
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Vault 7 updates—observers speculate about an inside leaker. Pre-loaded Android malware raises supply chain concerns. Ransomware in Japan. Convincing Chrome-spoofing malware. GCHQ warns UK parties to expect Russian influence operations.
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2017-03-13
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WikiLeaks, responsible disclosure, and insider threats. Playstation credentials rumored to have been compromised. Apache Struts bug being actively exploited. DPRK missile cyber security. A look at West African cybergangs.
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2017-03-10
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Vault 7 doesn't show much evidence of false flag operations. The most interesting question the WikiLeaks dump raises is, where did the material come from? RAND studies the zero-day market. The Near Abroad wishes for more US soft power.
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2017-03-09
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WikiLeaks and Vault 7
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2017-03-08
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StoneDrill succeeds Shamoon. Trojanized Android Facebook Lite. Progressive groups threatened with doxing, blackmail. WikiLeaks' Vault 7. Hacking back? Wiretapping?
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2017-03-07
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