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RATs and the long game. New ransomware, Learning from other espionage services. Advance-fee scams continue to infest Twitter. Fancy Bear says it can’t be sued.

RATs and the long game. New ransomware, Learning from other espionage services. Advance-fee scams continue to infest Twitter. Fancy Bear says it can’t…

FromCyberWire Daily


RATs and the long game. New ransomware, Learning from other espionage services. Advance-fee scams continue to infest Twitter. Fancy Bear says it can’t…

FromCyberWire Daily

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Length:
20 minutes
Released:
Nov 15, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

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In today’s podcast, we hear that tRAT indicates a criminal shift to a longer game. Chinese industrial espionage copies Russian services’ tricks. Dharma ransomware evolves. Bitcoin’s price may be tanking, but Bitcoin-based advance-fee scams are still all over Twitter, with bogus big brands’ blue checks all over them. Nigeria plans to go after cyber gangs. Fancy Bear says it can’t be sued, even if it did anything. And why a password manager is better than an infernal machine. Jonathan Katz from UMD describing a side channel attack on mobile device encryption. Guest is Mike McKee from ObserveIT on nation state attacks.
For links to all of today's stories check our our CyberWire daily news brief: https://thecyberwire.com/issues/issues2018/November/CyberWire_2018_11_15.html
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Released:
Nov 15, 2018
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Podcast episode