Operation Endgame: Hackers' hideouts exposed.

Operation Endgame takes down malware operations around the globe. A major botnet operator is arrested. Ticketmaster’s massive data breach is confirmed, and so is Google’s SEO algorithm leak. Journalists and activists in Europe were targeted with Pegasus spyware. Okta warns users of credential stuffing attacks. NIST hopes to clear out the NVD backlog. On our Threat Vector segment, host David Moulton speaks with Greg Jones, Chief Information Security Officer at Xavier University of Louisiana. Eric Goldstein, Executive Assistant Director for Cybersecurity at CISA, joins us to discuss software security. LightSpy surveillance malware comes to macOS. ChatGPT briefly gets a god mode.

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CyberWire Guest

Eric Goldstein, Executive Assistant Director for Cybersecurity at CISA, joins us to discuss software security.

Threat Vector

In this Threat Vector segment, host David Moulton speaks with Greg Jones, Chief Information Security Officer at Xavier University of Louisiana. Greg brings a wealth of knowledge from his military background and applies a disciplined, adaptive approach to securing one of America's most vibrant educational institutions. You can listen to David and Greg’s full discussion here. 

Selected Reading

Police seize malware loader servers, arrest four cybercriminals (Bleeping Computer)

Is Your Computer Part of ‘The Largest Botnet Ever?’ (Krebs on Security)

Ticketmaster hacked. Breach affects more than half a billion users. (Mashable)

Google confirms the leaked Search documents are real (The Verge)

Phones of journalists and activists in Europe targeted with Pegasus (CyberScoop)

Okta Warns of Credential Stuffing Attacks Targeting Cross-Origin Authentication (SecurityWeek)

NIST says NVD will be back on track by September 2024 (Help Net Security)

macOS version of elusive 'LightSpy' spyware tool discovered (Bleeping Computer)

Hacker Releases Jailbroken "Godmode" Version of ChatGPT (Futurism) 

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