In today's podcast we hear more about
possible other instances of fraudulent messaging in the
SWIFT financial transfer network. We
discuss an active Android ransomware campaign that appears to be
using old Hacking Team exploits. US DNI Clapper thinks the
acceleration of encryption, post-Snowden, really hasn't been a very
good thing, and calls for a balance b ... Show More
Yesterday
DataTribe's Cyber Innovation Day: Cyber: The Wake of Tech Innovation. [Special Edition]
On this Special Edition podcast, we share a panel from DataTribe's Cyber Innovation Day 2025, "Cyber: The Wake of Tech Innovation."
The podcast tech host panel included Dave Bittner, host of CyberWire Daily podcast, Maria Varmazis, host of T-Minus Space Daily podcast, and Danie ... Show More
47m 53s
Nov 22
Two RMMs walk into a phish… [Research Saturday]
Alex Berninger, Senior Manager of Intelligence at Red Canary, and Mike Wylie, Director, Threat Hunting at Zscaler, join to discuss four phishing lures in campaigns dropping RMM tools. Red Canary and Zscaler uncovered phishing campaigns delivering legitimate remote monitoring and ... Show More
24 m
Mar 2023
How A Satellite Hack Became a Cybersecurity Wakeup Call
People around the world rely on satellites for their internet connections, credit card transactions–and even to keep track of time. Last year, a suspected Russian-led satellite hack exposed how vulnerable they are to security breaches, from individual hackers seeking to pilfer i ... Show More
31m 54s
Feb 2021
Nicole Perlroth, "This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
For years, cybersecurity experts have debated whether cyber-weapons represent a destabilizing new military technology or merely the newest tool in the spies’ arsenal. In This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends (Bloomsbury, 2021), Nicole Perlroth makes a compelling case that cyber ... Show More
58m 4s
Apr 2020
NSO Employee Abused Phone Hacking Tech to Target a Love Interest
Back in 2013, between the many revelations on mass surveillance abuses by the NSA coming from the trove of Snowden leaks, Americans also learned agents at the signals intelligence agency were snooping on their love interests. Dubbed LOVEINT (a play on ‘Love-Intelligence,’ apparen ... Show More
28m 57s
Jul 2023
Charl van der Walt on Cyber Extortion
<p>What are the latest trends in the ransomware-as-a-service ecosystem? Since at least May 27, the CL0P ransomware gang has been exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability to exfiltrate data from financial services organizations, energy corporations, government agencies, and e ... Show More
53m 46s