Special Counsel Mueller speaks about his investigation of Russian influence in the 2016 US presidential campaign. Iranian coordinated inauthenticity. BlueKeep, Pegasus updates.

Special Counsel Mueller makes his first public statement about the results of his investigation into influence operations surrounding the 2016 US Presidential campaign. He says his first statement will also be his last. FireEye identifies Iranian coordinated inauthenticity in US 2018 midterm elections, and Twitter and Facebook take down the offending accounts. Notes on the BlueKeep exploit. More Pegasus infestations. Reality Winner revisited. Updates on Baltimore ransomware.  Ben Yelin from UMD CHHS reacts to allegations that NSA may have some culpability in the Baltimore ransomware incident. Guests are Julie Bernard from Deloitte and John Carlson from the FS-ISAC on the recent report, “Pursuing cybersecurity maturity at financial institutions.”

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

https://thecyberwire.com/issues/issues2019/May/CyberWire_2019_05_29.html 

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