Spearphishing from “Luhansk.” Pro-Assange hacktivism. Another undercover private eye? Pirated Game of Thrones episodes carry malware.

Spearphishing campaign against Ukraine traced to the so-called “Luhansk People’s Republic.” Anonymice threaten to rain chaos on Yorkshire if Julian Assange isn’t freed--actually, more chaos since the initial chaos was perhaps too easily overlooked. An implausible venture capitalist is asking people if they’re being paid to bad-mouth a security firm. Pirated Game of Thrones episodes carry malware. David Dufour from Webroot with survey results on AI and ML. Guest is Derek Vadala from Moody’s Investor Service on Moody’s framework for assessing cyber risk.

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

https://thecyberwire.com/issues/issues2019/April/CyberWire_2019_04_17.html 

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