Warnings about Emotet and BlueKeep. Crooks test their stolen cards before the holiday shopping season. Amazon fixes Ring. Chinese security gear allegedly sold as made-in-USA.

Warnings and advice about Emotet and BlueKeep, both being actively used or exploited in the wild. Two new carding bots are in circulation against e-commerce sites. Expect more of this as criminals test stolen credentials in advance of the holiday shopping season. Amazon fixes a security flaw in its Ring doorbell. A Long Island company is charged with selling bad Chinese security systems as good made-in-USA articles. Michael Sechrist from BAH on preventing supply chain attacks. Guest is Andy Greenberg, senior writer at Wired an author of the book Sandworm — A new era of cyberwar and the hunt for the Kremlin’s most dangerous hackers.

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

https://thecyberwire.com/issues/issues2019/November/CyberWire_2019_11_08.html 

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