DarkHotel evolves. Necurs spreads Marap. Skepticism about Australian cyber regs. Election influence ops. What the car knows.

DarkHotel is back. So is Necurs, and it's distributing a modular malware dropper. Industrial espionage follows international trade. Election meddling. The use and abuse of data.

Joe shares the story of a retiree scammed by a clever scheme. Dave describes a tech-support scam with a Russian twist. Our Catch of the Day features an adorable puppy. Guest Michael Murray from Lookout explains mobile device vulnerabilities.

Researchers from Recorded Future’s Insikt Group take us through newly discovered Chinese cyberespionage activity and other findings.

Researchers at Bitdefender have been tracking a bit of complex rootkit malware called Zacinlo that they suspect has been operating virtually undetected for over six years. Bogdan Botezatu is a senior cyber security analyst with Bitdefender, and he describes what they've found.

Foreshadow speculative execution issue. Election security. Crypto wars. More assertive US cyber policies.

Webroot's Gary Hayslip shares his thoughts on team building, recruiting talent in a competitive market, and the importance of threat intelligence.

North Korea seems to have ramped up missile production and resumed work on its nuclear program. The first reports of renewed activity along these lines appeared early in July, and just this week the US Intelligence Community said it had clear evidence that Pyongyang was back in the long-range weapons-of-mass-destruction business...

In this CyberWire special edition, we take a look at data-centric security, focusing on the security of the data itself, rather than the surrounding networks, application or servers.

The CyberWire is pleased to present the 5th Annual Women in Cyber Security Reception on Thursday, October 18, 2018, in Washington, DC.

This talk will present a novel application of a machine learning model and a corresponding tool, asm2vec, for vulnerability discovery. Treating both program disassembly as a natural language, we construct embeddings of identifiers at scale using a concept similar to word2vec, in which the output is a vector of related identifiers and their proximity.

It is a period of cyber war. In an effort to sustain commerce during these challenging times, the Galactic Trade Federation has required that the Empire retain the services of a consultancy on Kessel (a best-value provider, and only twelve parsecs away) to assess the state of their security before signing...