The CyberWire Daily Podcast 4.12.22
Ep 1555 | 4.12.22

Cyber takes point in a hybrid war. Medical robot vulnerabilities remediated. A Cyber Civil Defense for the US? Europol leads the takedown of RaidForums.

Show Notes

GRU deploys Industroyer2 against the Ukrainian energy sector. NB65 counts coup against Roscosmos. Anonymous doxes three more Russian companies. President Putin purges the FSB’s Fifth Service. CISA warns of an exploited firewall vulnerability. Medical robots’ vulnerabilities are remediated. A Cyber Civil Defense effort in the US. Ben Yelin on newly passed cyber legislation. Our guest is Chase Snyder from ExtraHop to discuss their recent Cyber Confidence Index. And good riddance to RaidForums.

Selected reading.

Russia’s Reset (New York Times)

Russia will not pause military operation in Ukraine for peace talks (Reuters) 

Industroyer2: Industroyer reloaded | WeLiveSecurity (WeLiveSecurity)

CERT-UA warns of large-scale cyber attack on energy sector (Interfax-Ukraine)

Russia's space programme hit by western cyber attack (The Telegraph)

Anonymous Hits 3 Russian Entities, Leaks 400 GB Worth of Emails (HackRead) 

Russia’s Ukraine Propaganda Has Turned Fully Genocidal (Foreign Policy) 

Russia-Ukraine latest news: Vladimir Putin vows ‘clear and noble’ aims of Russian invasion will be achieved (The Telegraph)

CISA warns orgs of WatchGuard bug exploited by Russian state hackers (BleepingComputer)

CISA Adds Eight Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog (CISA) 

Cynerio Discovers and Discloses JekyllBot:5, a Series of Critical Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Allowing Attackers to Remotely Control Hospital Robots (Cynerio)

Craig Newmark Philanthropies Pledges $50 Million to Cyber Civil Defense (Global Cyber Alliance)