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Aug 2018
19m 25s

RASPITE noses around the US power grid. ...

N2K Networks
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In today's podcast, we hear that Cisco plans to buy Duo Security. Dragos warns of the RASPITE adversary actor. Russia's Sandworm group is phishing people connected with a Swiss chemical forensics lab. How influence operations can be a no-lose proposition. A cryptojacking campaign is discovered and stopped. Malspam is using gifs to carry a keylogger payload. And Facebook CSO Alex Stamos has fixed a date for his departure for Stanford. Robert M. Lee from Dragos with thoughts on categorizing threat actors. Guest is Wendi Whitmore from IBM with their 2018 Cost of a Data Breach study. 

For links to all of today's stories check out our CyberWire daily news brief:
https://thecyberwire.com/issues/issues2018/August/CyberWire_2018_08_02.html

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