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Feb 2022
26m 58s

Update on Russian cyber ops and disinfor...

N2K Networks
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Primitive Bear is snuffling around Ukraine, and Russia may be preparing deepfake video to lend legitimacy to its claims with respect to its neighbor. European ports and other logistical installations are under attack by ransomware, apparently uncoordinated criminal activity. Daniel Prince from Lancaster University on safeguarding IoT in Healthcare. Our guest is Chris Wysopal of Veracode with research on increases in automation and componentization in software development. And a Chinese APT is said to be exploiting a Zimbra webmail cross-site-scripting zero-day, so users beware.


For links to all of today's stories check out our CyberWire daily news briefing:

https://thecyberwire.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/11/24

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