CyberWire Daily

The ransomware clones of HellCat & Morpheus. [Research Saturday]

Jim Walter, Senior Threat Researcher on SentinelLabs research team, to discuss their work on "HellCat and Morpheus | Two Brands, One Payload as Ransomware Affiliates Drop Identical Code." Over the pas...

15 Mars 202518min

Balancing budget cuts and cybersecurity.

The White House is urging federal agencies not to lay off cybersecurity teams. Google doesn’t deny receiving a secret legal order from the UK government. Microsoft researchers identify a simple method...

14 Mars 202526min

FCC draws the line on Chinese tech threats.

The FCC looks to counter Chinese cyber threats. Turmoil at CISA. Volt Typhoon infiltrated a power utility for over 300 days. Europe takes the lead at Ukraine’s annual cyber conference. Facebook disclo...

13 Mars 202528min

Will Plankey lead CISA to victory?

The White House names their nominee for CISA’s top spot. Patch Tuesday updates. Apple issues emergency updates for a zero-day WebKit vulnerability. Researchers highlight advanced MFA-bypassing techniq...

12 Mars 202526min

X marks the hack.

X-Twitter had multiple waves of outages yesterday. Signal’s president warns against agentic AI. A new lawsuit alleges DOGE bypassed critical security safeguards. Is the Five Eyes Alliance fraying? The...

11 Mars 202530min

PHP flaw sparks global attack wave.

PHP exploits are active in the wild. Security researchers discover undocumented commands in a popular Wi-Fi and Bluetooth-enabled microcontroller. The ONCD could gain influence in this second Trump ad...

10 Mars 202530min

Peter Baumann: Adding value to data. [CEO] [Career Notes]

Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes. CEO of ActiveNav, Peter Baumann, takes us on his career journey from minor home electrical experiments to the business of data discovery. He began his career...

9 Mars 20258min

Botnet’s back, tell a friend. [Research Saturday]

This week we are joined by Silas Cutler, Principal Security Researcher at Censys, asking the important question of "Will the Real Volt Typhoon Please Stand Up?" The FBI's disruption of the KV Botnet i...

8 Mars 202519min