TrickBot’s new tricks. Poisoning the ad supply chain. Clouds get schooled. Novel phishing tackle, but stale bait. Cyberwar powers. Election interference. FaceApp fears. Bad macro suspect arrested.

TrickBot gets some new tricks, and they’re being called Trickbooster. Poisoning the advertising supply chain. Hessian schools will shy away from American cloud services. A novel phishing campaign is technically savvy but gives itself away with broken English phishbait. Congress would like to see Presidential cyberwar instructions. Microsoft warns of foreign attacks on elections. FaceApp looks suspicious. And a suspect is collared in a malicious macro case. Jonathan Katz from UMD on random number issues in YubiKeys. Carole Theriault speaks with Michael Madon from MimeCast on email imposter scams.

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

https://thecyberwire.com/issues/issues2019/July/CyberWire_2019_07_18.html 

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