Huawei legal and security updates. A shift to personalized spam in attacks on retailers. “Hollywood hacks” in Eastern European banks.

In today’s podcast we hear that Huawei’s CFO remains in Canadian custody, perhaps facing extradition to the US. All Five Eyes have now expressed strong reservations about Huawei on security grounds. They’ve been joined in this by Japan and the European Union. Proofpoint sees a shift in cybercrime toward more carefully targeted and thoughtful social engineering. Kaspersky describes “DarkVishnaya,” a criminal campaign using surreptitiously planted hardware to loot Eastern European banks. Justin Harvey from Accenture discussing what should be in your incident response “go bag.” Guest is New York Times national security correspondent David E. Sanger, discussing his latest book The Perfect Weapon.

For links to all of today's stories check our our CyberWire daily news brief:
https://thecyberwire.com/issues/issues2018/November/CyberWire_2018_12_07.html

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