Someone takes an unhealthy interest in Citizen Lab. Ukraines accuses Russia of election phishing. Russian bigshots doxed. Tension over Venezuela. Swatting indictments. National Privacy Day.

In today’s podcast, we hear about some Spy vs. Spy at Citizen Lab, but who the spies were working for isn’t clear. Ukraine’s cyber police accuse Russia of phishing for election influence. As Fortuna’s wheel turns, Russian bigwigs get doxed by transparency hacktivists. Great power tension over Venezuela bears watching in cyberspace. Alleged swatters indicted and arrested. Happy National Privacy Day. Emily Wilson from Terbium Labs on “fullz” records of children being sold on the dark web. Guest is Sean Lyngaas from CyberScoop with his insights on the DNS hijacking threat.

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

https://thecyberwire.com/issues/issues2019/January/CyberWire_2019_01_28.html

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