An overview of threat actors, two proofs of concept, and an IoT botnet bothers the cloud. Patch Tuesday notes. And control yourself, sir.

BlackBerry tracks a mercenary group providing cyberespionage services. A rundown from Dragos on threat actors engaging with industrial targets. An Iot botnet is active in the cloud. A research team offers a new proof-of-concept for DNS cache poisoning, and another group of researchers demonstrates a novel power side-channel attack. Patch Tuesday notes. Joe Carrigan wonders if you’re likely to get your money’s worth when paying baddies. Our guest is Michael Daniel from the CTA on the merging fields of cybersecurity and information operations. And a pro-tip: you do know that they can usually see you on Zoom, right?

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

https://www.thecyberwire.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/9/219

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