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In this episode of the CyberWire’s Research Saturday we are joined by Jordan Wright, Senior Research and Development Engineer at Duo Security. He’s the author of the research report, “Phish in a Barrel,” which describes his work gathering and examining thousands of phishing kits from around the web. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast, we hear that BadRabbit looks like misdirection. Fancy Bear's wish list is out, and it's very long, and very global. US prosecutors may be preparing to indict half-a-dozen Russian officials in the DNC hack. Malaysia continues to recover from a major series of data breaches. GhostWriter poses a man-in-the-middle threat to AWS users who misconfigure their accounts. And it was Halloween, but the ShadowBrokers weren't much in evidence. Perhaps they were unrecognizable in their Wonder Woman and Mighty Thor costumes? David DuFour from Webroot on recent ransomware trends.  Guests are Sherrie Caltagirone, founder and executive director of the Global Emancipation Network (GEN), and Andrew Lewman, SVP of DarkOwl. They are using the tools of cyber security to help stop human trafficking online.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast, we hear that, while the Manhattan truck-ramming terrorist claims ISIS, ISIS hasn't claimed him. Notes on conventional cybercrime, with some resurgent banking Trojans and mobile malware. Apple patches iOS against KRACK vulnerabilities. WordPress issues another fix for SQL injection bugs. US Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein takes up the pro-access banner in the crypto wars, but few from the tech sector are rallying to him. Senate hearings on Russian influence operations continue. Chris Poulin from BAH on augmenting human capabilities. Robert Knapp from CyberGhost on employers raising awareness of cyber security within their organizations.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast, we hear about ONI ansomware in Japan that may prove to be a wiper. Ukraine blames NotPetya operators Black Energy for BadRabbit. Pyongyang feels London is picking on it. Fishing Facebook in Nordic nations. Security firms sell certificate authority business. Twitter won't sell any more ads to RT or Sputnik. Johannes Ullrich from SANS Technology Institute and the ISC Stormcast podcast on honeypots. Russell Jones from Deloitte with the results from a recent medical security poll.During hearings on influence operations, Senators wonder why Facebook wasn't suspicious when people paid for their advertising in rubles.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast, we hear about the state of BadRabbit and Reaper. The EU drafts a diplomatic framework for self-defense in cyberspace. Pyongyang denies UK attribution of WannaCry to North Korea. Threat intelligence types suspect the Sino-US cyber modus vivendi might not be the unqualified success it's been taken to be. Oracle issues an emergency patch. A researcher gets an unauthorized peek at Google's Buganizer. Congress will hear testimony about influence operations in Twitter, Google, and Facebook. Rick Howard from Palo Alto Networks warns that board members might be targets. And USB sticks contain the darndest things. Plus, the Malware Mash. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast, we hear that the Reaper botnet is still quiet, and looking like a booter-for-hire. BadRabbit shows some odd stealth, and some interesting strategic selectivity. A malicious Chrome extension steals everything you put on a website. Currency miners on phones seem to be the kind of crime that doesn't pay, but that's not stopping crooks from stuffing them into Google Play. First indictments in the US probe of Russian election influence operations are out.  Emily Wilson from Terbium Labs on third party breaches, what she describes as “Not your breach, still your problem.” And a class action suit is filed over the Equifax breach. Thanks for listening to the CyberWire. One of the ways you can support what we do is by visiting our sponsors. We read Recorded Future’s free intel daily, you might find it valuable, too. If you’d like to learn more about how small nuances in how artificial intelligence and machine learning are used can make a big difference, check out E8’s white paper. Interested in the latest research in cyber security? Cylance is revolutionizing cybersecurity with products and services that proactively prevent, rather than reactively detect the execution of advanced persistent threats and malware. Learn more at cylance.com. Podcast sponsor 1-Recorded Future: http://goo.gl/wphZ1z Podcast sponsor 2- E8 Security: https://goo.gl/yBBx55 Friday sponsor- Cylance: https://goo.gl/fHR65L Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The moniker KHRAT came about because of the identification of a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) with command and control infrastructure found in Cambodia (KH). In the most recent episode of the CyberWire's Research Saturday, Ryan Olson, Director of Threat Intelligence at Palo Alto Networks, talks with us about the capabilities of KHRAT and shares details the feature set it provides to threat actors that use it.https://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2017/08/unit42-updated-khrat-malware-used-in-cambodia-attacks/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast, we hear that BadRabbit, still quiet, looks like a TeleBots product. Reaper is still locked and loaded, but is also still quiet. Maritime SATCOM system found to be buggy, and the worse news is that it's beyond its end-of-life. A look back at the annual ICS Cybersecurity Summit that wrapped yesterday in Atlanta. Moscow tells Twitter buying ads is a free speech issue. Justin Harvey from Accenture on monitoring cloud infrastructure. Guest is Michael Sulmeyer, Director of the Cyber Security Project at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Anonymous is back and poking at the Spanish government.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast, we hear that there's still no sign of the Reaper botnet doing anything. An update on BadRabbit—which for some reason seems to have hopped quietly away from its infrastructure. Other forms of more conventional ransomware, however, remain in circulation, in the wild. It looks as if Kaspersky software might have stumbled across NSA files after all. The US Senate Intelligence Committee has voted to reauthorize Section 702 surveillance authorities through the end of 2025. Ben Yelin from UMD CHHS on states' funding challenges when trying to sure up the security of their voting systems. Bob Ackerman and Dave DeWalt from AllegisCyber, on the occasion of their business announcements, discussing the investment climate for cyber security. And we have notes on ICS from Atlanta.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast, we hear about BadRabbit, a new strain of ransomware that's hopped out of Petya's hutch. The Lazarus Group is said to have taken control of some servers in India. DUHK [duck] warnings. Are industrial control system operators paying sufficient attention to Level 1 and Level 0 threats? Next May will see not only GDPR, but also NIS. Joe Carrigan from JHU reviews a list of security tips suggested by IBM. Guest is Scott Kaine, CEO of Delta Risk on cloud migration security issues.And Kapersky continues to protest its innocence of spying, and offers an explanation of what really happened with NSA leaks.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices